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Analysis of energy conversion systems, including material and global warming aspects

Creator:: Zhang, Mingyuan
Abstract:: With the rapid increase of the world energy demand and consumption, the method and techniques to analyze, improve and optimize energy conversion systems have to deal not only with direct fuel exergy (energy) consumption, but also with other resources, which have associated exergy consumptions, and with environmental impacts, such as...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Analysis of energy conversion systems, including material and

Assessment of tourism's social impacts in Oregon coast communities using contingent valuation, value-attitude, and expectancy value models

Creator:: Lindberg, Kreg
Abstract:: Tourism development has expanded in Oregon coast communities and in rural communities elsewhere in the nation. This expansion has brought economic gains, but has also brought social costs. The identification and management of tourism's actual and perceived social impacts has received significant attention. This dissertation presents two approaches that extend...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A syntactical analysis of modern Japanese thought patterns as reflected in characteristics of the Japanese language

Creator:: Tsuboya, Yoko
Abstract:: This study had two purposes. The first purpose was to determine whether certain aspects of the Japanese language were reflected in examples of the Japanese cultural construct of contemporary essays. The second purpose was to show how these aspects of the Japanese language reflect the intuitive, non-logical nature of Japanese...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: found that the Japanese essays had a much stronger situational and natural aspect than the English

A field study of a social cognition training program for deaf adults in vocational rehabilitation

Creator:: Blankenship, Jonathan Charles
Abstract:: The study was designed to assess the efficacy of Lou and Charlson's (1991) social cognition training program for deaf adults. Sixteen deaf adult subjects who were vocational rehabilitation clients, and who had been identified as experiencing difficulties in social functioning, were assigned to receive a eight-week training program designed to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: A field study of a social cognition training program for

Factors influencing individual attitudes toward environmental health communications

Creator:: Lenz, Holly Hanson
Abstract:: The likelihood of achieving an effective environmental health communications program increases with a knowledge of the target audience's attitudes toward their environmental health concerns, source credibility, preferred channels of communication, and desire to participate in environmental issues. With this in mind, the purpose of this study was threefold: 1) to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , the purpose of this study was threefold: 1) to examine selected personal and social variables that

Social influences on physical activity in minority women

Creator:: Eyler, Amy A.
Abstract:: Background: Decades of research indicate that physical activity is an important behavior for health promotion and disease prevention. Despite dissemination of these research findings, many American adults are sedentary. The rates for sedentary behavior vary by race/ethnicity and gender. Women and adults from minority groups are most likely to be...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Social influences on physical activity in minority women

A policy preference analysis of the Tunisian wheat sector

Creator:: Boughanmi, Houcine
Abstract:: Governments in less developed countries have recognized in recent years the need to liberalize economic policies in order to increase efficiency in agricultural commodity markets. In an attempt to help decision makers assess alternative choices, most policy studies, however, have focused on the efficiency norm criterion without much consideration for...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: derive social weights reflecting the distributional goals of the policy-making process. The bootstrap

Origins of the old-growth forest conflict (1971-1989) : a new model for resource allocation

Creator:: Wilson, Mark Shelton
Abstract:: The old-growth forest conflict is part of the evolving debate over how to use the federal public lands. This study documents the origins and development of the old-growth issue through 1989. The controversy began in the early 1970s when scientists initiated studies of old-growth forests and northern spotted owls, and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The relationship between social contact and comfort with social interaction among student ethnic groups at Oregon State University

Creator:: Adams, Susan Elizabeth, 1952-
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of social interaction and social distance or comfort among five undergraduate ethnic groups (African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, Caucasian Americans, and Hispanic Americans) at Oregon State University. Another purpose was to explore the correlation between the level of social...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: primarily with social policy problems, and the Bogardus Social Distance Scale. Social Distance Scale

A policy preference function analysis of the forest sector in the Cote d'Ivoire

Creator:: Yapi, Atse
Abstract:: The main objective of this study was to offer an alternative methodology for forest sector modeling in developing economies. To this effect, a policy preference function was developed and estimated using data from the forest sector of the Cote d'Ivoire. The justification for this alternative framework for forest sector analysis...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . 1993 Title: A Policy Preference Function Analysis of the Forest Sector in the COted'Ivoire J. Douglas

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Analysis of energy conversion systems, including material and global warming aspects

Assessment of tourism's social impacts in Oregon coast communities using contingent valuation, value-attitude, and expectancy value models

A syntactical analysis of modern Japanese thought patterns as reflected in characteristics of the Japanese language

A field study of a social cognition training program for deaf adults in vocational rehabilitation

Factors influencing individual attitudes toward environmental health communications

Social influences on physical activity in minority women

A policy preference analysis of the Tunisian wheat sector

Origins of the old-growth forest conflict (1971-1989) : a new model for resource allocation

The relationship between social contact and comfort with social interaction among student ethnic groups at Oregon State University

A policy preference function analysis of the forest sector in the Cote d'Ivoire

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