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...
Landslide processes occurring on a hillslope in McDonald-Dunn
Forest on the eastern slope of the Oregon Coastal Range are
described in terms of type, magnitude. minimum age and site
characteristics. Debris flows and debris avalanches are the
dominant types of slope movement occurring in the study area.
Landslide events classified...
Despite the importance of fire for maintaining the health of many ecosystems, the social and economic costs of wildfires have risen sharply in recent years. Across the western United States, historical land and fire management practices combined with climate change and modern human development pressures, are contributing to increased wildfire...
Understanding how forest roads interact with hillslope hydrology by intercepting and/or rerouting storm runoff will better enable land managers to
reduce erosion related to forest roads. Watershed scale knowledge of how culvert runoff response varies across the landscape would provide valuable
information to those individuals designing and maintaining forest road...
The impact of forest roads on the hydrology of forested watersheds has long been studied. While forest roads have been reported to alter storm runoff at the road segment scale, the potential for changes to be detectable at the small watershed scale has been debated. The purpose of this study...
Climate change, wildfire, timber harvest, and land conversion alter the availability of downed wood in forests of the western United States. Numerous taxa rely on downed wood for temperature and humidity refugia, and downed wood may play a key role in enabling the persistence of climate-sensitive, low-vagility species like terrestrial...
This study explored the relationship among marital role expectations,
religiosity, and other variables including age, dating status of
subjects, living arrangement, marriage plans and parents' marriage.
Data were obtained from a sample of 460 Oregon State University
students in April, 1976. They were primarily young students, 18 - 19
years...
The purpose of this study was to assess change in self concept,
marital role expectation, and behavioral understanding in high
school students enrolled in a family life course.
The subjects were two groups of high school students from an
only senior high school in a school district. The experimental group...
