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  • The Effect of Wear and Laundering on the Moisture Management Performance of Nomex Base Layer Garments

    Creator:
    Couvrette, Skye T.
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    Apparel has been described as a portable environment (Jintu & Tsang, 2008). This portable environment has the ability to facilitate human presence in a variety of situations, conditions, and circumstances that would otherwise be uncomfortable, harmful, or even fatal. Personal protective garments (PPGs) that provide thermal insulation from external heat...
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    by Skye T. Couvrette A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment

  • Forest restoration and fuels reduction on non-industrial private land in northwestern California

    Creator:
    Latimer, Lisa Marie
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    This thesis explores the complexity of relationships between communities and the ecosystems in which they live through a focus on forest restoration and fuels reduction on private land. As a case study, research took place in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of rural Northern California, in Humboldt and Siskiyou counties. The research...
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    and Forestry's (CDF) Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP) data. As indicated in the figure

  • Serving Amid Institutional Camouflage : The Invisibility of School Food Service Workers

    Creator:
    Byrd, Janette
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    The products, processes, and tools of school feeding programs have been examined from multiple perspectives and disciplines in an attempt to improve child nutrition outcomes, to support local and national agriculture, and increase sustainability practices. There is little qualitative research on the role, needs, and experiences of school food service...
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    . 5 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW Introduction The National School Lunch Program has

  • Walking the narrow path : narratives of migration and mental health among Saudi Arabian women at Oregon State University

    Creator:
    Gentry, Kristen Elizabeth
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    Since the inauguration of the King Abdullah-Aziz Foreign Scholarship Program in 2005, the number of Saudi university students in the United States has increased exponentially, and an unprecedented amount of Saudi women are seeking international degrees. The absence of scholarly research within these women’s home and host countries highlights the...
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    Oregon State University Abstract approved: David A. McMurray Since the inauguration of

  • LGBTQ Latinx Student Activist and Leaders in the State of Oregon: A Preliminary Study

    Creator:
    Zayas, Minerva
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    In 2016, the Oregon Community Foundation reported that twelve percent of Latinx folks graduated with their bachelor’s and/or master’s degree compared to the 31 percent of White counterparts (Latinos in Oregon Report, 2016). While Latinx students continue to be the largest minority in the United States, Latinx students enroll in...
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    /socialscience/degrees-programs/chicano/​). At the University of Oregon, the Ethnic Studies program offers a

  • A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out : Negotiations of Poverty and Class Among Low-Income Oregonians

    Creator:
    Montañez, Morgan
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    The Linn and Benton County Gleaner network has helped the low-income families of urban and rural Oregon reclaim moral, social and cultural capital that is lost in the act of being poor in America. Rather than participating solely in government safety nets, these people reject “hand-outs” in favor of exchanging...
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    program programs (backpack programs, for example) regionally. In the case of the Gleaners the Oregon

  • What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

    Creator:
    Anderson, Jessica
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    The purpose of this thesis is to understand the experiences that Nahua children, in rural Mexico, have as they attend schools that are primarily influenced by formal Western education in relation to their own ways of learning and knowing. This research took place over the course of three months within...
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    to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for

  • Life in railroad logging camps of the Shevlin-Hixon Company, 1916-1950

    Creator:
    Gregory, Ronald L.
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    Remnants of railroad logging camps, and their associated features, are perhaps some of the most common archaeological resources found on public lands in the Pacific Northwest. Many camps have already been located, their cultural materials inventoried, and networks of logging railroad grades mapped. Yet, despite these efforts, little can be...
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    Company of Bend, Oregon, from the company's inception in 1916 until it ceased operations in 1950

  • Falling Into Place: Relational Perspectives on the US Creative Residency Field

    Creator:
    Baker, Jay A.
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    Falling Into Place: Relational Perspectives on the US Creative Residency Field is an Environmental Arts & Humanities thesis built around a research project called Creative Residencies and Expanded Senses of Community: Interviews With Artists & Residency Leaders. It’s an extended meditation on arts residencies via research, interviews, and experiential learning,...
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    Corvallis, Oregon. Brenna found work at the university, and I applied for the program. I started graduate

  • Computer and internet usage in rural clubs : are members digitally divided?

    Creator:
    Cassell, Christopher J.
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    Lower rates of computer adoption and usage in rural areas has been called a "digital divide." This work explores the current state of connectivity within a rural town of the Pacific Northwest with a quantitative and qualitative overview of computer usage and access within civic and activity clubs, ranging from...
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    ensures consensus among club members by including non-users; 2) creative capacity-building to support