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Three essays on food security, food assistance, and migration

Creator:: Lewin, Paul A.
Abstract:: This dissertation's three essays explore the determinants of food insecurity for rural farm households, the influence of rainfall variability and long-run changes in rainfall levels on the migration decisions of working-age household heads, and the distributional impacts in core and periphery regions of food assistance to households in the hinterland....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : ____________________________________________________ Bruce A. Weber This dissertation’s three essays explore the determinants of food insecurity

Tax and budget policy in Oregon : a computable general equilibrium perspectives

Creator:: Waters, Edward C
Abstract:: In November 1990, Oregon voters approved Ballot Measure 5, placing an ultimate ceiling on local property tax rates of 1.5% of market value (excluding specific levies for capital expenditure). Any resulting shortfalls in local education revenues are to be made up by transfers from state funds, at the expense of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: high income households were examined. Abstract approved: Bruce A. Weber Redacted for Privacy

Out-migration, income and poverty in nonmetropolitan America

Creator:: Marre, Alexander
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Abstract approved: Bruce A. Weber Why do rural households leave for urban places? And how does

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:: mention is due to Bruce A. Weber, my Major Advisor, under whose guid- ance the research for this

Boundary Dynamics of a Transformative Learning Network : Improving Connection at the Interface of Science and Society

Creator:: Risien, Julie
Abstract:: Transformative learning networks are a specific type of loose network with geographically distributed members and member organizations. They hold particular promise for transformation when both top-down and bottom-up processes have failed to support desired systems-level change. The aim of this dissertation is to build knowledge about the social-interactional processes, roles,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : _____________________________________________________________________ Bruce E. Goldstein Edward P. Weber Transformative learning networks are a

Assessing the Adaptive Governance Capacity of Western Water Communities

Creator:: Pakenham Stevenson, Anna
Abstract:: One of the greatest challenges in the West is the sustainable management of limited water resources. In recognition of localized responses to natural resource challenges, there has been considerable work in the area of adaptive capacity and collaborative governance to help understand a community’s capacity to manage change. This study...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Edward P. Weber One of the greatest challenges in the West is the sustainable management of limited

Interrenal and metabolic responses to stress and their modifying factors in juvenile salmonid fishes

Creator:: Barton, Bruce Alexander
Abstract:: Genetic, ontogenetic, and environmental factors modified characteristic interrenal and glycemic responses to stress in juvenile salmonid fishes. During continuous confinement stress, plasma cortisol rose more quickly in chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, acclimated to high rather than medium or low temperatures; hyperglycemia following either acute or chronic stress was also highest...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Bruce Alexander Barton for the

Measurement of child care arrangement stability : a review and case study using Oregon child care subsidy data

Creator:: Weber, Roberta B., 1944-
Abstract:: Child care stability affects child and family outcomes. Stability reflects the time dimension of a child care arrangement. Although stability does not guarantee positive outcomes, instability appears to decrease the likelihood of achieving them. Some level of stability is a necessary, although not sufficient, characteristic of care that meets children's...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Roberta B. Weber for the

Cardiac output and respiratory measurements in the rainbow trout and their application to the study of blood and water flow limitations on chemical flux at the gill

Creator:: Schmieder, Patricia K. (Patricia Kathleen)
Abstract:: A method has been developed for the continuous automated monitoring of cardiac output in adult rainbow trout. Average cardiac output measured under control conditions and varied environmental conditions of hypoxia and post-hypoxia was significantly higher (P≤ 0.05) in male than female trout. The cardiac output of trout in spawning condition...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: mentors, Dr. Lavern Weber and Dr. James McKim III, whose encouragement, kindness, and knowledge made it

Sublethal effects of estuarine carbaryl applications on juvenile English sole (Pleuronectes vetulus)

Creator:: Pozarycki, Scott V.
Abstract:: The pesticide carbaryl is applied annually to tidelands in Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor, WA to control populations of burrowing shrimp which modify sediments making the habitat unsuitable for oyster culture. Fish trapped on sprayed mudflats are often killed, but little is known about effects on fish present in subtidal...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: J. Weber The pesticide carbaryl is applied annually to tidelands in Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor

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Three essays on food security, food assistance, and migration

Tax and budget policy in Oregon : a computable general equilibrium perspectives

Out-migration, income and poverty in nonmetropolitan America

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

Boundary Dynamics of a Transformative Learning Network : Improving Connection at the Interface of Science and Society

Assessing the Adaptive Governance Capacity of Western Water Communities

Interrenal and metabolic responses to stress and their modifying factors in juvenile salmonid fishes

Measurement of child care arrangement stability : a review and case study using Oregon child care subsidy data

Cardiac output and respiratory measurements in the rainbow trout and their application to the study of blood and water flow limitations on chemical flux at the gill

Sublethal effects of estuarine carbaryl applications on juvenile English sole (Pleuronectes vetulus)

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