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  • Institutional Path Dependence in NASA’s Human Spaceflight Program: A Case Study of Technological Evolution and Persistence

    Creator:
    Waddell, Trevor W.
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    Despite extensive research on the historical and technical aspects of national space policy, little has attempted to understand the links between technological evolution in NASA’s spaceflight program in relation to its administrative, political and economic context. This essay explores these connections in the development and evolution of core systems in...
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    ) that had notably housed the ex- German rocket team led by Werner von Braun (NASA, 1966; McDougall

  • 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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    . This thesis presents an historic case study of the Minto Hydroelectric Project proposed by the Eugene

  • Shape transformation using compactly supported radial basis functions

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    Park, Byungsoo
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    Shape transformation is a technique for gradually changing one geometric shape to another. A recent approach presents the use of thin-plate radial basis functions as opposed to traditional "blobby sphere" implicit functions. Without the explicit evaluation of he energy function, this approach combined the two traditional steps into one by...
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    traditional steps into one by using the calculus of variation. However, this method has the disadvantage

  • Harmful Cyanobacteria Blooms, Lake Management, and Stakeholder Engagement at Lone Lake in Island County, WA

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    Colston, Matthew
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    Lone Lake is an approximately ninety acre lake in Langley, WA on Whidbey Island. Since 2008, Lone Lake has experienced a number of harmful cyanobacterial blooms (cyanoHABs). Since 2016, however, the intensity of these cyanoHABs have impacted both ecosystem functions and human activities in the watershed. In June of 2020,...
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    Resource and Aneta Hupfauer (PhD), my colleague. Both enabled this project during our work together, and

  • The Va : Traditional Culture and Modernization of a Minority Nationality in China

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    Chiang, Hung-i and Jiang, Hongyi
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    The Va nationality, despite its small population compared to other nationalities in China, has preserved most of its traditions largely due to limits placed by historical circumstances and geographical isolation. To non-Chinese anthropologists, the Va people still remain unknown, as there is little or no information about them in English...
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    this gap by presenting an ethnographic description of the Va, giving them a place in the world

  • Leaving the Closet : Coming Experiences of Queer Chicanas and Latinas and Their Representation in Television

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    Crocker, Melissa R.
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    In the contemporary United States, the process of "coming out of the closet," or public disclosure of one's non-normative sexual orientation or gender identity, is ongoing and performative. Particularly within the context of dominant contemporary U.S. society, popular media favors a hegemonic set of defining characteristics, which thereby forces the...
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    immigration status was outside the scope of this project, it is important to mention here because it may

  • Extensive Resource Subsidies by Salmon-Supported Bears to Granivores

    Creator:
    Shakeri, Yasaman N.
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    In salmon-rich, northern coastal environments brown bears can occur at high densities and exert wide-ranging effects on ecosystem processes. Bear consumption of seasonally available fruit may provide important seed dispersal services to plants, and by extension, influence the ecology of seed consumers such as small mammals. In this study, we...
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    master’s project was not possible without the support of many individuals that assisted with the various

  • Seafood processing byproducts in the Pacific Northwest

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    Brown, Liz
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    (a): Eliminate the discharge of pollutants into navigable waters by 1985 (this goal was unrealistic

  • The symbolic work of modern homelessness services : experiences from users

    Creator:
    Maclaren, Kaia
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    The question of “what is to be done” about the prevalence of houselessness in large US cities has become a top policy priority, Often left out of these discussions are the opinions of the unhoused about the policies that are designed to serve their needs. Most of the literature that...
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    and willingness to share their 2 This choice was permitted by the Oregon State University’s

  • We Can Work it Out: Implementation and Collaborative Governance

    Creator:
    Knobloch, Jenna
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    Collaborative governance strives to address complex environmental problems by building cooperation and consensus among stakeholders. While there are many successful examples of collaborative governance, all too frequently collaborative groups come to an agreement in the meeting room only to struggle to bring their plans to fruition. What are the factors...
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    experiences with me. Learning from you was the best part of this project. I would like to thank my advisor