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  • The Ibis, journal of the British Ornithologists' Union : a pre-synthesis portrait

    Creator:
    Johnson, Kristin Renee
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    In 1959 the British Ornithological journal, The Ibis, published a centenary commemorative volume on the history of ornithology in Britain. Over the previous few decades, the contributors to this volume had helped focus the attention of ornithologists on the methods, priorities, and problems of modem biology, specifically the theory ofevolution...
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    ornithologists had founded a journal in 1853.1 The first volume of the B.o.u.'s journal, The Ibis, appeared in

  • Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

    Creator:
    Jolly, J. Christopher
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    The public controversy over possible health hazards from radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing began in 1954, shortly after a thermonuclear test by the United States spread fallout world wide. In the dissertation, I address two of the fundamental questions of the fallout controversy: Was there a threshold of radiation...
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    Protection NEJM New England Journal of Medicine NYOO New York Operations Office WHO World Health

  • The light within us : Quaker women in science

    Creator:
    McCabe, Leslie N.
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    This thesis explores the role of Quaker women in science in an attempt to arrive at some understanding of what motivated Quaker women in nineteenth century America to go into the sciences. George Fox founded the Society of Friends in the mid-seventeenth century in England and the Quaker theology centered...
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    Master of Arts in History of Science presented on June 28. 2004. Title: The Light Within Us: Quaker Women

  • How women negotiate family responsibilities and personal health

    Creator:
    Ourada, Verna E. Zehner
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    Women’s health affects women and society as a whole. In addition to paid employment, women provide unpaid labor as they care for their families, their homes, and ailing relatives. Only by staying healthy can women provide care to their families. Using a feminist perspective, this study examined how women manage...
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    of their family members and their own health needs. Such women are vulnerable to failing when

  • Nature in chains : the effects of Thomas Jefferson’s rectangular survey on a Pacific Northwest landscape

    Creator:
    Schweickert, Tina K.
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    Understanding the impact of humans on the environment has long been a topic of scholarly interest and debate. As environmental problems mount, accounts of historic ecological conditions and the factors of change become increasingly useful. This study considers competing schools of interpretation about human impacts on ecological landscapes and develops...
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    historical themes on the relationship between worldviews and the health of natural ecosystems.7 The thesis

  • Factors influencing the outcomes of public health legislation in the 2001 Oregon legislature

    Creator:
    Wise, Kendra J.
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    Legislation can be an effective public health tool, and understanding the factors that influence legislative outcomes is advantageous for public health practitioners who propose and advocate for legislation. The literature indicates that the issues of personal freedoms, the presence or absence of strong coalition leadership, and political conditions and ideology...
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    Master of Science in Public Health presented on April 16, 2004 Title: Factors Influencing the Outcomes of

  • National health insurance in Taiwan : welfare analysis and hospital competition

    Creator:
    Chen, Wen-Yi
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    This dissertation consists of three essays that evaluate various types of health care policies from the social welfare perspective. Chapter 1 introduces the main ideas and framework of this dissertation. Chapter 2 evaluates the new co-payment policy, enacted on July 15, 2005 under Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI). We show...
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    policies on the choice of health care under Taiwan s NHI. The pricing-out effect and welfare effect are

  • Sustainable construction safety and health rating system

    Creator:
    Rajendran, Sathyanarayanan
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    The main objective of this research study is to incorporate construction worker safety and health into sustainable design and construction practices. This can be fulfilled by the development of an innovative construction worker safety and health planning tool, called Sustainable Construction Safety and Health (SCSH) Rating System that will: •...
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    4.10 SCSH Rating System s Fourteen Categories and its Number of Safety and Health Elements (Round One

  • The effect of a mail-mediated intervention on exercise behavior

    Creator:
    Levy, Susan S.
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    Self-determination theory suggests that social contexts that promote a sense of autonomy, competence, and relatedness will increase internalization of behavioral regulation and lead to more self-determined forms of motivation, the prototype of which is intrinsic motivation. A positive relationship between internalization of exercise behavior regulation and actual levels of exercise...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Susan S. Levy for the degree

  • On the Conflation of the Concepts of Medicine and Health

    Creator:
    Tuten, Mavis I.
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    The concepts of medicine and health are becoming conflated. This can be seen in the language of medicine and health: medicine is discussed in terms of health and health in terms of medicine. A review of literature by medicine and health scholars gives evidence of the conflation and of its...
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    March 6, 2003. Title: On the Conflation of the Concepts of Medicine and Health Abstract approved Lani