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Development and decommissioning of small dams : analysis of impact and context

Creator:: Kibler, Kelly Maren
Abstract:: Management of small dams may have profound implications for the health and integrity of small rivers and freshwater diversity. Global indicators suggest future growth in the small hydropower sector, particularly in developing countries. As a renewable energy source, it is often presumed that small hydropower entails fewer and less severe...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: likelihood of detrimental dam‐removal effects. After removal of the Brownsville Dam from the Calapooia

Patterns and processes of sediment transport following sediment-filled dam removal in gravel bed rivers

Creator:: Stewart, Gregory B.
Abstract:: Dam removal is increasingly viewed as a river restoration tool because dams affect so many aspects of river hydrology, geomorphology, and ecology; but removal also has impacts. When a dam is removed, sediment accumulated over a dam’s lifetime may be transported downstream; and the timing, fate and consequences of this...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Distribution of dams over 50 years old (average dam design life) by state. Source

Agricultural export promotion and economic structure : an historical perspective

Creator:: Townsend, Terry P.
Abstract:: The United States has had a long history of promoting agricultural exports, and the return to conditions of extreme surplus in many agricultural markets in recent years has revived interest in this topic. Some products received imperial bounties during our colonial era, but the systematic collection of trade statistics for...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: PERSPECTIVE. Abstract approved: U Joim A. Edwards The United States has had a long history of promoting

The effects of large-lot zoning on the single-family housing market

Creator:: Roberts, Rebecca S.
Abstract:: This study investigated the private costs to individual households of large-lot zoning policies. The study asked whether typical zoning ordinances create shortages of small lots or small structures and, if so, what the magnitude of the resultant welfare loss is. The hypotheses were suggested by a theoretical model developed to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Enabling Act by the United States Commerce Department. This act became the model for most state zoning

Import competition and strategic group behavior

Creator:: Nam, Kiseol
Abstract:: This study provides the model that first synthesizes strategic group theory with the New Empirical Industrial Organization (NEIO) approach in the international trade analysis, and uses the annual group data (1953-1988) from the U.S. brewing industry with two strategic groups (national producers and regional producers) in the presence of growing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of

Analysis of U.S. interstate variation in changes in poverty incidence and income inequality (1969-1979)

Creator:: Tay, Winnie K.
Abstract:: In spite of the rapid economic growth of the post-war era, there has not been significant improvement in the incidence of poverty, nor in the inequality of income distribution around the world, and particularly in the developing countries. A reason for the apparent failure of the poor to benefit from...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Winnie K. Tay A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the

Exploring Student Reflections Towards an Agricultural Internship

Creator:: Henderson, Thomas M.
Abstract:: The agricultural industry across the United States is experiencing a shortage of qualified and interested young professionals who aspire to enter the agricultural sector. Internships have largely been used as an effective hands-on learning tool, exposing college students to an array of occupational skills and expectations in hopes of creating...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: industry across the United States is experiencing a shortage of qualified and interested young

Factors which differentiate United States students who wish to study in cross-cultural educational programs

Creator:: Heisler, Mary Kathryn, 1943-
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Factors which differentiate United States students who

Systems theory for minority students : a potential tool for the improvement of academic performance

Creator:: Godwin, Karen Sato
Abstract:: The study was undertaken to determine if the construct and vocabulary of systems theory are related to academic performance such that a) the understanding of either or both can predict grade-point average for college students, and b) the explicit teaching of both construct and vocabulary to minority students can improve...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the Improvement of Academic Performance by Karen Sato Godwin A THESIS submitted to Oregon State

Relationships between Piagetian cognitive development at the formal level and science background among prospective elementary school teachers

Creator:: Ehindero, Olusola Joseph
Abstract:: Results of recent studies on Piagetian cognitive development, though equivocal, showed that the architectonic of formal operational schemata is not possessed by a sizeable percentage (up to 52%) of adolescents and young adults. The purpose of the present study is two fold: (i) To assess the cognitive levels of a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: sophomore-block in education at Oregon State University. The ages of the six males and 38 females ranged

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Development and decommissioning of small dams : analysis of impact and context

Patterns and processes of sediment transport following sediment-filled dam removal in gravel bed rivers

Agricultural export promotion and economic structure : an historical perspective

The effects of large-lot zoning on the single-family housing market

Import competition and strategic group behavior

Analysis of U.S. interstate variation in changes in poverty incidence and income inequality (1969-1979)

Exploring Student Reflections Towards an Agricultural Internship

Factors which differentiate United States students who wish to study in cross-cultural educational programs

Systems theory for minority students : a potential tool for the improvement of academic performance

Relationships between Piagetian cognitive development at the formal level and science background among prospective elementary school teachers

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