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  • Factors in the Selection of Home Birth : A Comparative Study of Birthing Alternatives in Western Oregon

    Creator:
    Fuhr-Dunn, Susan D.
    Abstract:
    Increasing demand for home birth has created an upheaval in the American medical profession and, is a controversial political and legal issue as well. This research, utilizing ethnographic, historical, and survey data analyzes contemporary home birth. A review of the so called "medicalization" of childbirth is presented noting that the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    83 women who had recently given birth in a tri-county area of western Oregon where the home birth

  • The natural history of public works development

    Creator:
    Robertson, Robert A.
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    A case study of the Eugene Water and Electric Board's planning for the Minto Hydroelectric is examined in terms of social movement theory. It is hypothesized that public works projects have a significant likeness to a social movement and they conform in their essential ingredients to social movement explanations. The...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Eugene Water and Electric Board's planning for the Minto Hydroelectric is examined in terms of social

  • The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Student-Athlete College Experience

    Creator:
    Jackman, Callan
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    The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life for populations all over the world. One population that has been uniquely impacted by the pandemic is the student-athlete population. Over the last two years, universities took safety precautions by first sending students home and moving teaching and learning to a remote format and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    health continues to be a pressing issue in student-athletes and the long-term impact of the COVID-19

  • Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

    Creator:
    Bruno, Mark P.
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    This study is an ethnographic investigation of residential turnover, organizational memory, and the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational turnover, memory, and persistence is reviewed and integrated with scholarship on intentional communities and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis....
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    the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational

  • Employee theft : a study of the major sociological, economic and business causal theories

    Creator:
    Voit, Irene Elaine
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    Although employee theft is claimed by many authors to be a significant problem in America with corrosive and damaging effects upon business and society, very little research has been done to establish the causes of such behavior. The purpose of this thesis was to identify, discuss, and critically evaluate theories...
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    SOCIOLOGICAL, ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS CAUSAL THEORIES by Irene Elaine Voit A THESIS submitted to Oregon