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  • A Report on the Goat Industries of Oregon

    Creator:
    Lamphere, Charlotte A.
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    Goats were the first livestock species to be domesticated by humans and continue to function as a key source of protein and economic value for many communities. In the sixteenth century, Spanish colonists brought goats to the Americas. Unlike other nations, the United States did not maintain a significant market...
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    A Report on the Goat Industries of Oregon by Charlotte

  • A Method to Effectively Measure Sustainability in Non-Profit Organizations

    Creator:
    Vanlue, Mary Elizabeth
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    With the growing importance of sustainability, organizations in the non-profit sector need a way to measure, track, improve, and report their sustainability. Through research in current literature and a survey of practices within local non-profits, it is shown these organizations need a simple, flexible process with stakeholder participation to measure...
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    , track, improve, and report their sustainability. Through research in current literature and a survey

  • So You’re Hosting a Conference: A Conference Planning Guide, NACURH Adventures in Conference Undertakings and a Resource Handbook A Qualitative Investigation and Analysis of NACURH, Inc. Regional Conferences

    Creator:
    Cheung, Cameo M.
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    Each conference hosted by a NACURH, Inc. affiliated school publishes a conference wrap-up report detailing the conference hosting process and the conference itself. As a resource, these reports are intended for future conference staffs, to share the lessons learned by the last conference staff. They contain pointers to and evaluations...
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    were noted from each report. For the purposes of this research, no distinction was made between

  • Sustainable US Federal Water Policy Recommendations

    Creator:
    Kusanto, Nicholas Christopher
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    Climate change, population growth, aging infrastructure, poor water management, and aquifer depletion are reducing US water supply. Increasing water scarcity will lead to an inability to support agriculture, industry, energy, and municipal demand that will negatively affect US economic growth and national security. Traditional water policy measures of expanding supply...
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    . Traditional water policy measures of expanding supply through infrastructure are no longer feasible in the

  • The Bold and the Beautiful

    Creator:
    Kinser, Riley W.
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    This study looks at whether two physical characteristics, physical attractiveness and perceived competence, have an impact on student analysts finding large discrepancies between current price and target price. Equity reports published online by undergraduate and MBA students involved in student investment clubs and portfolio management classes are combined with pictures...
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    tend to trade more often than women similar to Barber and Odean (2001) but there was no correlation

  • Writing A Detailed Introduction to String Theory

    Creator:
    Svesko, Andrew M.
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    String theory, one of the more popular approaches to quantizing gravity, is a highly complex theory, involving high level mathematics and physics. But the basic ideas of string theory are not inaccessible, even to the undergraduate. This document acts as report to my thesis project, the writing of A Detailed...
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    . This document acts as report to my thesis project, the writing of A Detailed Introduction to String

  • Comparative Studies of Batch and Continuous Processes for the Synthesis of Copper Nanoparticles

    Creator:
    Ramsing, Patrick E.
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    The cross over from batch nanoparticle synthesis to continuous synthesis processes is crucial to the commercialization of these materials. This project reports comparative studies of batch and continuous synthese of copper nanoparticles by the polyol method. Continuous synthesis of copper nanoparticles was done utilizing a stainless steel micro-mixer that yielded...
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    of analytical grade and no further purification of reagents. Solution 1 was prepared by mixing 1.0

  • An Evaluation of Staffing Needs at the Health Clinic in Maunatlala, Botswana

    Creator:
    Bedge, Sonya S.
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    As part of the Botswana Global Learning Internship Program, a qualitative study was conducted regarding the current staffing conditions at the local village health clinic in Maunatlala, Botswana. This was a month-long project conducted over the summer of 2018. Students from Oregon State University lived in the village of Maunatlala...
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    report included recommendations for increasing staffing, creating more opportunities for nurses, and

  • Measuring inhibitory control in preschool children : A multi-method perspective

    Creator:
    Alley, Zoe M.
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    Inhibitory control, a salient component of self-regulation, predicts child academic and social competency into the college years. Typical measures of self-regulation (including teacher report, direct assessment, and observation) focus on inhibitory control and are each susceptible to unique flaws. The current study examined whether informant bias or differential contextual environments...
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    gender differences only in teacher report; for example Suchodoletz and colleagues (2013) reported no

  • Social Determinants to Real FreedomsAn Empirical Development of the Capabilities Approach

    Creator:
    Trujillo, Michael A.
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    In the Capabilities Approach literature “capabilities” are the real freedoms individuals possess to achieve certain “functionings,” which are the doings and beings that constitute a good life. I argue that this approach requires, or at least can benefit from, an account of the psychosocial mechanisms involved in capability limitation. The...
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    recommendations made in the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health report and recommend policies to