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  • Microgrids and the Transition Toward Decentralized Energy Systems in the United States: A Multi-Level Perspective

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    Ajaz, Warda
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    The last decade has seen a drastic interest in microgrids throughout the world. Even though this trend might seem to be just another technological solution in the energy sector, it is a part of a greater transition from a centralized energy system to a more decentralized one. However, unlike most...
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    the Transition Toward Decentralized Energy Systems in the United States: A Multi-Level Perspective

  • Evaluation of the intergovernmental relationships between national and state wetland regulatory agencies within wetland regulatory units

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    Taylor, Ryan W
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    Since the 1890s, American federalism has been perceived as being unique in the world by having two different levels of government operating within the same jurisdiction without influencing one another. Modern scholars call into question the validity of this basic assumption, but few have published quantitative evidence to reject its...
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    assumption of American federalism is inadequate. The United States does have two different levels of

  • The supply and demand of university agricultural biotechnology research

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    Yang, Hui
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    The objectives and characteristics of university biotechnology research, including its applicability to such industries as agriculture and food processing, arise from formal and informal linkages among university scientists, public and private-nonprofit funding sources, and industry. In the present study I develop, specify, and estimate a model of the supply and...
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    DISSERTATION submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree

  • Macro Stories: Policy Process Dynamics of Presidential Environmental Ideas

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    Peterson, Holly L.
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    Public policy narratives and stories are often referenced by the media, politicians, advocacy groups, and across many disciplines in academia. Studies of social and political narratives support the notion narrative matters, but often lack systematic design capable of producing generalizable findings. The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) has responded to this...
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    explanatory study of U.S. Presidential State of the Union Speeches over the past 73 years. These speeches

  • Essays on Public-Private Contracting

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    Gultom, Yohanna M. L.
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    In this work, I address foundational concerns at the interface of institutions, governance structure, transaction costs, and efficiency in public-private contracting. Following transaction cost economic perspective, I build and justify the theoretical models explaining that institutions may affect the economic performance of public-private contracting through the effect of transaction costs....
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    , 355-367. Winters, J. A., & Page, B. I. (2009). Oligarchy in the United States?. Perspectives on

  • Private forests, public policy : oak conservation on family forests in Oregon’s Willamette Valley

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    Fischer, Alexandra Paige
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    In the United States, many of the thorniest natural resource conflicts occur on private lands. This is especially true in the Willamette Valley of Western Oregon where the hallmark habitat type, Oregon white oak woodland and savanna, is imperiled. Almost exclusively found on private land, Oregon white oak is threatened...
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    : _____________________________________________________________________ Dr. John C. Bliss In the United States, many of the thorniest natural resource conflicts

  • International river basin management : global principles and basin practice

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    Giordano, Meredith A.
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    Transcending human-defined political and administrative boundaries, the world's transboundary freshwater resources pose particularly challenging management problems. Water resource users at all scales frequently find themselves in direct competition for this economic and life-sustaining resource, in turn creating tensions, and indeed conflict, over water supply, allocation and quality. At the international...
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  • Effect of Oregon’s Coordinated Care Organizations on Healthcare Utilization and Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes Among Low-income Women with Chronic Mental-Physical Comorbidities

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    Masoumirad, Mandana
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    Background: The number of people diagnosed with chronic physical conditions is increasing in the United States. Chronic mental illnesses are also common in the country. Low-income women and those on Medicaid bear a disproportionate burden of chronic conditions and these conditions significantly contribute to obstetric morbidity. Prioritizing preventive measures and...
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    conditions is increasing in the United States. Chronic mental illnesses are also common in the country

  • Complicating the Rural in Oregon's Water Policymaking

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    Freeman, Misty
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    The state of Oregon is divided in important ways along rural and urban lines, including the way people make a living, individual and group relationships with the natural world, political ideologies, and personal values. This rural-urban divide has assisted policymakers in making decisions that balance the needs of Oregonians on...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Denise H. Lach, Major Professor The state of Oregon is divided in important ways along

  • Higher Education Diversity Work and its Discontents: Theorizing Student Social Media Activism as Counter-hegemonic Network of Practice

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    Robertson, Rebecca
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    Diversity and inclusion represent central challenges and opportunities in the transnational field of higher education, as the number of students enrolled in higher education has expanded exponentially over the past century and universal access to tertiary education has emerged as a development imperative. Within this context, diversity has emerged as...
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    liberation. In the United States and the United Kingdom, student activists staged ‘sit-ins’ and ‘stand-ins