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  • A Style Analysis of Army Doctrine Publications

    Creator:
    Frier, Don
    Abstract:
    This project performs a style analysis of three sentences from three military manuals written across an 80 year time-period. I first discuss the history of style within academic discourse and how it has impacted the study of style within the field of writing and rhetoric. Using this background, I then...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Doctrine Publications. Abstract approved

  • Oregon’s Non-Consumptive Recreational Ocean User Community : Understanding an Ocean Stakeholder

    Creator:
    Eardley, Christopher S. and Conway, Flaxen D. L.
    Abstract:
    Oregon is in the midst of major changes to the way it manages use of the ocean off its shores. Consideration for all stakeholder groups will contribute to defensible decisions regarding the use of ocean and coastal resources. This relies on an understanding of the various stakeholders in ocean resources,...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    Oregon Sea Grant Corvallis, OR ORESU-S-11-001 © 2011 by Oregon State University. This publication may

  • Pasture Production and Lamb Growth from Dryland Hill Pastures in Western Oregon

    Creator:
    Gultekin, Yunus
    Abstract:
    Pasture legumes that persist under challenging agro-ecological conditions are crucial to ensure high lamb growth rates in dryland pastures. Pasture and lamb production from white clover (TF-Whc), birdsfoot trefoil (TF-Bft), balansa clover (TF-Bc) and subterranean clover (TF-Sc) planted with tall fescue either as binary mixtures or as a diverse combination...
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    Masters Thesis
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    and Lamb Growth from Dryland Hill Pastures in Western Oregon Abstract approved

  • Exceeding the standards: The benefits of place-based environmental education in schools

    Creator:
    Miller, Rebecca W.
    Abstract:
    There is a growing body of research that describes the benefits of place-based environmental education (EE) within the schools, including improved competencies, better interpersonal skills, decreased gaps in social divides, increased pupil engagement in learning, increased community awareness, and increased environmental stewardship. Though the benefits are many, few schools utilize...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    Submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the

  • Vegetation Community Data to Inform Climate-Adaptation Management; Gardiner, New York

    Creator:
    Randazzo, Andrew
    Abstract:
    Climate change represents an increasing threat to northeastern temperate forests. Nearly all forest communities have been affected by climate change and require climate-adaptation management (Jandl et al. 2018). Climate-adaptation management (CAM) promotes the viability of forested systems and the ecosystem services they provide under current and future climatic conditions (Bolte...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    shrub-savannah and woodland (Edinger et al. 2014). Pitch pine (Pinus rigida) is the dominant species

  • Meeting the Night : The Science and Mystery of an Endangered Habitat

    Creator:
    Sisson, Jill
    Abstract:
    Night is an extraordinary resource. Unlike air, water, or soil, nighttime is a spatio-temporal phenomenon, which leads to many crucial roles. It provides refuge to wildlife species, triggers hormonal and behavioral responses among a wide variety of organisms, and serves as an essential migratory backdrop for species that navigate by...
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    Capstone Project
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    visiting Portland, Oregon, I had a chance to see colorful holiday lights sparkling from a parade of boats

  • Is Cover Type Use by Dabbling Ducks at Bald Knob National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas, Related to Energy Availability?

    Creator:
    Kreisler, Skye E.
    Abstract:
    Managers of U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Bald Knob National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge) in central Arkansas want to provide sufficient habitat resources to meet its population objectives for wintering waterfowl. Nutrient reserves acquired during the wintering period appear to support spring migration and subsequent reproductive success for some species,...
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    Capstone Project
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    A literature review and case study submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment

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

    Creator:
    Bruno, Mark P.
    Abstract:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational