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  • About good work

    Creator:
    Lee, Wei-Tau
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    This research is an effort to explore the nature of good work, a concept that describes work that is beneficial to the physical, psychological, and social dimensions of its stakeholders, including and especially the worker. This effort is divided into four distinct parts. First, the construct of good work is...
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    , Dr. Koenig, Dr. Kaplan, and Dr. Pavol, offered a diverse body of knowledge that helped the research

  • The Narrative of Environmentalism in Kuwait

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    Husain, Abdullah M.
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    Kuwait has undergone dramatic political and economic transformations over the past century. From the rapid transition to an oil-based economy in the 1940s to the unexpected Iraqi invasion in 1990, change has been constant. While much of the focus has been on the economy and society, it is also true...
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    Professor Michael Jones for working with me for the past year on shaping up my methodological framework

  • Community Resilience to Climate Change in Rural Java, Indonesia

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    Utami, Arini Wahyu
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    Climate change increases weather unpredictability, threatens communities whose livelihoods depend on natural resources, such as rural communities. Utilizing a Community Capital Framework (Flora and Flora, 2013) and Governance of Complex Adaptive Systems (Duit and Galaz, 2008), this study concentrated on the role of cultural and political capital in supporting rural...
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    , Drs. Nancy Rosenberger, Brent Steel, Susan Capalbo, and Jonathan Kaplan, for their patient guidance

  • Essays of Land Use Changes, Open Space, and Water Pollution

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    Hagimoto, Toru
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    Land use is one of the leading factors that cause environmental degradation, such as water pollution, open space contraction and habitat loss. This dissertation consists of three essays. First paper investigates the relationship between land use and water pollution. Combining land use choice model and water pollution data, I simulate...
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    also like to thank Dr. Junjie Wu, Dr. William Jaeger, and Dr. Jonathan Kaplan for serving on my

  • Exploring urban parks: plant communities, visitor experiences, and manager perspectives in Portland, Oregon

    Creator:
    Talal, Michelle L.
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    Urban parks are biodiversity hotspots within cities and have the potential to provide a range of socio-cultural benefits for people, but may not always meet the needs and desires of park visitors. A variety of land use practices and environmental factors affect urban park biodiversity and vegetation structure, composition, and...
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    , committee members (Dr. Mary Santelmann [advisor], Dr. Jonathan Kaplan, Dr. Robert Kennedy, Dr. Vivek

  • Complicating the Rural in Oregon's Water Policymaking

    Creator:
    Freeman, Misty
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    The state of Oregon is divided in important ways along rural and urban lines, including the way people make a living, individual and group relationships with the natural world, political ideologies, and personal values. This rural-urban divide has assisted policymakers in making decisions that balance the needs of Oregonians on...
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    . Sally Duncan, and Dr. Jacob Hamblin, and Dr. Jonathan Kaplan, your willingness to take the time for

  • Environmental Remote Sensing with Unmanned Aircraft Systems

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    Burnett, Jonathan D.
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    Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUASs) equipped with optical sensors are capableof remotely sensing landscapes and wildlife at spatial and temporal resolutions that werepreviously inaccessible due to technical and budgetary limitations. Conventional remotesensing and photogrammetric workflows can be applied to the resulting high resolution imageryto facilitate new types of scientific inquiry....
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Jonathan D. Burnett for

  • Out-migration, income and poverty in nonmetropolitan America

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    Marre, Alexander
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    Why do rural households leave for urban places? And how does this decision affect their economic well-being? Rural places in the United States have higher poverty and unemployment rates and lower levels of educational attainment relative to urban places. Does leaving a rural place for a city offer a pathway...
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    interest in economics. Those not already mentioned include: Rev. Fr. Michael Crosby, O.F.M. Cap

  • Tensor Field Design and Analysis for Applications in Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization

    Creator:
    Palacios, Jonathan
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    Many applications in computer graphics and geometry processing rely on the ability to locally orient 2D and 3D entities on a surface, or inside a volume, such as the sinusoidal kernels in Gabor noise, the color and geometry textures in pattern synthesis, and the finite elements in remeshing. In these...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Jonathan Palacios for the

  • From running birds to walking robots : optimization as a unifying framework for dynamic bipedal locomotion

    Creator:
    Hubicki, Christian M.
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    Bipedal locomotion is a complex phenomenon to understand and control, making it difficult for legged robots to achieve the speed, agility, efficiency, and robustness of their animal counterparts. This thesis argues for the use of numerical optimization to investigate and implement bipedal control as it applies to biology, dynamical models,...
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    Dynamic Bipedal Locomotion Abstract approved: Jonathan W. Hurst Bipedal locomotion is a complex