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Success in a clothing construction course and self esteem in a women's penal institution

Creator:: Hall, Terry Lynn
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to examine self-perceived success as experienced in a learning environment, and its association with self esteem. The relationships between pretreatment-self esteem, posttreatment-self esteem, and perceived success experienced in a five-week clothing construction course were investigated. Measures of perceived sewing ability, perceived success, and course...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: in a women's penal institution AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF TERRY LYNN HALL for the degree of

Internship experience with the Consortium for International Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (CIFAD) : Its formation and establishment

Creator:: Morrill, Lynn E.
Abstract:: This report is an overview of my experience working with the Consortium for International Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (CIFAD), administered from an office within Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. CIFAD is a non-profit organization comprised of five U.S. universities: the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB), University of Hawaii...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
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Full Text:: Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (CIFAD): Its Formation and Establishment. by Lynn E. Morrill

Multiple use resource allocation : an empirical analysis of selected forest resources

Creator:: Baker, John J
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: OF Ronald A. Oliveira Forested watersheds are classical examples of multiple use natural resource

An application of transfer function and econometric procedures to employment impact analysis: Grant County, Oregon

Creator:: Lin, Tsae-yun Daphne
Abstract:: This study centered upon two objectives. First, to demonstrate and apply a statistical method, the transfer function, and to test its usefulness in regional economic modeling and regional impact ana1ysis; and second, to obtain a better understanding of the causal relationships among total employment, government employment, lumber and wood products...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : GRANT COUNTY, OREGON Abstract approved: Ronald A. Oliveira This study centered upon two objectives

An investigation of vegetation : hydrology interactions in watershed 1 at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest

Creator:: Bredensteiner, Kim C.
Abstract:: For management purposes, it would be useful to be able to predict streamflow response to forest practices in small, unmonitored basins. The primary objective of this study is to investigate the influence of early successional vegetation on summer streamflow levels. The long-term data records from watershed 1 at the H.J....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract Approved: Ronald P. Neilson For management purposes, it would be useful to be able to predict

Relationship between residual chlorine and coliform density in water distribution systems

Creator:: Coene, Ronald Francis
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Ronald Francis Coene for the

Parental warmth, non-authoritarianism and approval of sex-typed behaviors and children's sex role acquisition

Creator:: Rudloff, Paula M.
Abstract:: This study examined the relative contribution of parental warmth, non-authoritarianism, and approval of sex-typed behavior to children's sex role knowledge and preference. Subjects were 45 married couples, and their 25 male and 20 female preschool children. Parental attitudes toward child-rearing and sex role behavior were assessed with the Parent Attitude...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: relative desire to adhere to these sex role standards (Brown, 1956b; Lynn, 1959). The third aspect of sex

Historic attempts to cope with level variability of Great Salt Lake, Utah: a case study in social and environmental relationships

Creator:: Richards, Paul C.
Abstract:: The Great Salt Lake is typical of Great Basin and other arid land saline lakes in morphological and chemical characteristics. As with other terminal lakes, the level of Great Salt Lake is determined by the variable weather patterns that are typical of arid and semi-arid regions. Because of it's flat,...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: . 1988. A grasshopper in every pot. Natural History; 7-89, pp. 22-25. Morrisette, Peter Mahoney. 1987

Geographic Information System (GIS) resource inventories: the Marys River Project

Creator:: Chapman, Shannen S.
Abstract:: The Greenbelt Land Trust (GLT) (a grass-roots conservation group in Oregon) is interested in a conservation plan for the Marys River Corridor. To facilitate this effort, a resource inventory was required and a Geographic Information System (GIS) data base used to compile the inventory (called the Marys River Project (MRP))....
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: 5.43 Ronald & Sandra Lamar 1630 SW Allen St., Corvallis 22 23 125 03D 1500 5.18 Lee C. Harman, end

Design criteria for a surface coal mine reclamation plan in northwest Colorado

Creator:: Marston, Richard Alan
Abstract:: The surface mining of coal has accelerated in northwest Colorado to the point where public pressure plus impending state and federal regulations dictate the need for comprehensive reclamation plans. A large coal company operating in Moffat County has solicited recommendations concerning soils, hydrogeology, geomorphology, aesthetics, wildlife, vegetation, microclimatology, and legal...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: type of encouragement which will not cease to help me smile in future days. To Dave and Lynn, Bruce

A MOSFET integrated circuit shift register

Creator:: Chen, David Wei
Abstract:: This paper is concerned with the design of a 21-bit metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) integrated circuit static shift register. This circuit consists of three separate 1, 4, and 16-bit static shift registers constructed on a single monolithic chip, each with independent input and output terminals. Type D flip-flops are used...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Semiconductor Products and Solid State Technology 9(3):23-29. 1966. 10. Lynn, D. C. and D. Hamilton. Analysis

Internship Report : NOAA/MESA

Creator:: Baker, Katherine S.
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Captain Lynn Hein, USCG designated as the Federal On-Scene Coordinator. The subject for discussion was

Group activities to help children in their adjustments

Creator:: Young, Mary Elizabeth
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A method for programming maintenance on paved forest roads

Creator:: Chastain, Edward Oran
Abstract:: The development of a pavement management system for low-volume roads is a difficult task. There are many interrelated activities that must be considered, such as planning, design, construction, maintenance, and pavement evaluation. This paper addresses the evaluation and maintenance components of a pavement management system for low-volume roadways and provides...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Body awareness as related to clothing interest of college men and women

Creator:: Paeth, Linda Kirk
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to explore relationships between clothing interest and body awareness, between clothing interest and selected demographic variables for college men and women, and between body awareness and selected demographic variables for college men and women. To assess these relationships two measures were used. Body awareness,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , according to Mahoney and Finch (1976:257). Individuals carefully choose and rehearse the words or actions

Defining micro-habitat relationships for juvenile black rockfish, Sebastes melanops

Creator:: Mann, Marion E.
Abstract:: The functioning of marine habitats needs to be understood in the context of the ecological relationships and associations between organisms and the physical and biogenic environment they inhabit. Thus, it becomes important to explore and define habitat features which contribute to these relationships and which are important in the life...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Investigations (CalCOFI) Report 34:133–139. Andrews, A.H., Coredes, E.E., Mahoney, M.M., Munk, K., Coale, K.H

Web buckling failure of built-up girders with rectangular holes

Creator:: Cato, Stuart Leslie
Abstract:: This thesis investigated the methods of failure in the webs of built up girders. The beams had rectangular holes five and one-half inches wide and seven and one-half inches high with rounded corners in a web fourteen inches deep between flanges. The longitudinal position of the hole edge varied from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ). 2. Beedle, Lynn S. et al. Structural steel design. New York, Ronald Press:- ress 1964. 819 p. 3

A comparison of the prevalence of infectious gastrointestinal disease and the quality of individual, surface source water systems in Lincoln County, Oregon

Creator:: Nauman, Hal Eugene
Abstract:: This study was a comparison of the prevalence of infectious gastrointestinal disease and the quality of construction of individual, surface source water systems in Lincoln County, Oregon. Two measurement instruments were developed for this study. An objective instrument was developed to determine if the water systems observed in the study...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Relationship between the similarity of food preferences among parents and children and parental attitudes

Creator:: Dean, Ailene Deanna
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between the similarity of food preferences among parents and children, and parent attitudes. Thirty-five children of preschool ages and their parents served as subjects for this study. All children were enrolled in preschool programs established by the = Family Life...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: parent and the sex of the child has received relatively little attention. Recently, however, Lynn (1962

An exploratory study of family role structures and cognitive complexity

Creator:: Stone, Nancy T. J.
Abstract:: The purposes of this study were to explore the relationship of cognitive complexity to norms and sanctions for the traditional family roles; to investigate intergenerational relationships involving roles and cognitive structures and to estimate the reliability of the questions from the Washington Role Inventory regarding norms and sanctions for the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Farm and community-level impacts of irrigation water supply reductions : a case study of Malheur County, Oregon

Creator:: Wyse, Barbara J.
Abstract:: Agricultural water supplies are becoming increasingly uncertain in the western United States due to rising demand from competing water users, environmental restrictions on surface water withdrawals due to water quality and endangered species concerns, and, potentially, climate-induced hydrological changes. Since many rural areas in the West depend economically upon irrigated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to answer my endless questions: Ray Dunten, Lynn Jensen, Ron Jones, Barbara Kulhman, Lance Phillips

Application of linear programming techniques to ration formulation for lambs and steers

Creator:: Macy, Gregg Harlan
Abstract:: The object of this study was to analyze the application of linear programming techniques to ration formulation for feedlot lambs and steers. Three rations for feeder lambs were designed to study the application of linear programming techniques under varying ration constraints. Rations studied were as follows: iso-caloric rations with three...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: discussions of the subject matter. I appreciate the time Lynn Scheurman spent in acquainting me with the

A fast algorithm for determining the primitivity of an n x n nonnegative matrix

Creator:: Leegard, Amanda D.
Abstract:: Nonnegative matrices have a myriad of applications in the biological, social, and physical genres. Of particular importance are the primitive matrices. A nonnegative matrix, M, is primitive exactly when there is a positive integer, k, such that M[superscript k] has only positive entries; that is, all the entries in M[superscript...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: :3,251-280. [CLR9OI Cormen, Thomas H., Leiserson, Charles E., and Rivest, Ronald L. (1990). Introduction

Resource conflicts and expansion opportunities of ski areas in Oregon and Washington

Creator:: Gilbert, Kirby Wayne
Abstract:: The ski areas of Oregon and Washington are similar in many [respects], especially in that they are predominately local day areas and are located on United States Forest Service lands. The demand for more ski facilities is apparent yet the number of new areas opening has decreased over the years....
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: ., RONALD M. WALTERS, FRED L. HENLEY, "Winter Soorts Site Base Area Study" U.S.D.A. Forest Service PNW

An assessment of vocational agricultural cooperative work experience programs in Oregon high schools

Creator:: Eslinger, Michael Ray
Abstract:: Cooperative work experience in agricultural education is one form of supervised occupational experience that provides the student in agriculture with practical application of skills and knowledge in one of the many agricultural occupations. Cooperative work experience students are placed with employers in agribusiness service, processing, or in distribution for work...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: was developed and revised. Rod Juranek and Lynn Reagan, vocational agricultural instructors, and

Initial Designs for Improving Conversations for People Using Speech Synthesizers

Creator:: Nguyen, Duy M.
Abstract:: This thesis aims to determine the impact that Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices have on social interactions, and then improves the AAC user experience through a user focus design process. AAC devices enable people who cannot speak to communicate with others. Unfortunately, they are tedious to use and make...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Bending property enhancement of wood strand composite using viscoelastic thermal compression

Creator:: Rathi, Vardan M.
Abstract:: The fundamental intent of the study was to develop an innovative wood-strand composite for use in structural applications. Plantation grown, low density, hybrid poplar was used in the study which was found to be appropriate for the underlying Viscoelastic Thermal Compression (VTC) process. Wood modified by this process has high...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Interrelationships among characteristics of body form and milk production in dairy cattle

Creator:: Ufford, Glen Raymond
Abstract:: Evaluations of body form and measures of milk production were recorded for 188 Holstein lactations and 77 Jersey lactations in the Oregon State University Dairy Herds. Components of body form included general appearance, dairy character, body capacity, and mammary system and 34 sub-components of these four traits plus body weight...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Chakraborty and Ronald E. Lind for their assistance and council. Their help is deeply appre- ciated, as is

Resource planning for a rare metals corporation using mixed integer goal programming and resource planning and management system

Creator:: Barneson, John
Abstract:: A system's analysis study utilizing Resource Planning and Management System network methodology, integer programming, and goal programming is presented. The integrated approach is developed and applied to the rare metals production process of the Oregon Metallurgical Corporation (OREMET). As defined by OREMET management, optimization of the production process required the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Perception of clothing clues by five-, nine-, and thirteen-year-olds

Creator:: Butzer, Peggy A.
Abstract:: The significance of dress in a first encounter situation has been demonstrated empirically: clothing serves as a vehicle for communicating information from one person to another. Thus, it is influential in affecting the formation of first impressions. This study was undertaken to explore the elements of dress that are most...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Multi-objective planning design for land use and urban performance

Creator:: Robinson, Irl Dale, Jr.
Abstract:: An analytical tool to assist municipal planners in evaluating alternative planning strategies is proposed. Schlager's Land Use Plan Design Model provides the linear formulation of the problem, Goal Programming is used to create alternatives, and Brown and Kirby's Measures of Urban Performance serve to evaluate the alternatives. Resource Planning and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Evaluation of Urban Performance by Albert Brown and Ronald F. Kirby (1971) for PRC Systems Sciences Company

Mitigating cyanobacterial harmful algae blooms : the role of plant humics

Creator:: Theis, Susan A. F.
Abstract:: Cyanobacterial harmful algae blooms (cyanoHABs) are a growing concern worldwide due to damage of ecosystems and threats to human health. Previous research indicates that plant humics from aquatic and wetland vascular plants are effective inhibitors of cyanobacterial metabolism and growth and may be useful as control agents for mitigating cyanoHABs....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Music appreciation and theory courses in Class B high schools of Oregon

Creator:: Peterson, Wilbur John
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The effects of the herbicides Diquat and Dichlobenil on pond invertebrates

Creator:: Wilson, Dennis Carl
Abstract:: The acute toxicity of Diquat (1:1-ethylene-2:2' dipyridylium dibromide) and Dichlobenil (2, 6-dichlorobenzonitrile) to six selected pond invertebrates was determined using the median tolerance limit estimation method. Diquat was more toxic to the amphipod, Hyalella azeteca than to the aquatic insects Callibaetis, Limnephilus, Enallagma, Libellula, and Tendipedidae. The addition of mud...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and Mr. Lynn Goodwin for their assistance in establishment of the field plots and their help in col

Exopolysaccharide biosynthesis by a natural lactococcal ropy isolate

Creator:: Knoshaug, Eric P.
Abstract:: The genes coding for the expression of a ropy exopolysaccharide responsible for commercially desirable textural and rhealogical traits in fermented milk products by a natural lactococcal ropy isolate were sought. Using a transposon mutagenesis vector, pGh9:ISS1, three mutants lacking expression of the ropy exopolysaccharide were isolated. One of the mutants...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Jolliffe, and Lynn Wyatt, for their tireless efforts in keeping the labs and department running smoothly

The effectiveness of the Special Farm Use Assessment Program in Jefferson County, Oregon - a comparative study

Creator:: Hunter, Steven Robert
Abstract:: Oregon's Special Farm Use Assessment program is investigated in this paper for its effectiveness in preserving farmland from urban sprawl. Basic research for this study was conducted in Jefferson County, a rural central Oregon county. Data from a similar study conducted in Washington County, an urbanizing northern Willamette Valley county,...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: partners, Jonathan Klein and Lynn Johnson, were in their own ways a driving force in helping me to

Properties of marginal aggregates treated with asphalt emulsion

Creator:: Evans, Gary L.
Abstract:: The purpose of this report is to address the problem of supplying construction aggregates to Oregon's coastal areas that are currently, or will in the near future, be deficient of good quality materials. This is done primarily by studying methods of utilizing marginal aggregates that are abundantly available in the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: emulsion AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Gary Lynn Evans for the degree of Master of Science in Civil

The influence of aging dams and geography on the distribution of dam removals in the United States

Creator:: Ashley, Sara
Abstract:: Over 470 dams have been removed in the United States, and a significant increase in dam removals has occurred since the early 1990s. The aging of dams is often cited as the primary factor influencing removals; as dams surpass their functional life span, safety hazards, economic costs, and environmental concerns...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Some socio-economic factors associated with clothing purchasing habits of a selected group of women 60 years of age and over

Creator:: Burnett, Marialyce
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to identity clothing purchasing habits of women 60 years of age and over. Data for this study were obtained from a questionnaire administered to 94 women, 60 years of age and over, living in Portland, Corvallis, and Eugene, Oregon. The sample was analyzed on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Assessment of changes in self concept, marital role expectation, and behavioral understanding in high school family life students

Creator:: Hutchins, Nancy Gigoux
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to assess change in self concept, marital role expectation, and behavioral understanding in high school students enrolled in a family life course. The subjects were two groups of high school students from an only senior high school in a school district. The experimental group...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Estimating the value of irrigation water transferred to instream flow : A case study of Umatilla County, Oregon

Creator:: Ugrinska, Monika P.
Abstract:: Agricultural water supplies are becoming increasingly uncertain in the western United States due to elevated demands from competing water users, environmental restrictions on surface water withdrawals as a result of the establishment of the Endangered Species Act in 1973, and potential climatic changes. Since many rural communities in the West...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Effects of Stage 0 treatment on spring Chinook juveniles within South Fork McKenzie River in Oregon

Creator:: Hahn, Aleah
Abstract:: Low-tech habitat restoration techniques, including Stage 0 treatments, are increasingly applied but often lack robust evaluation of their effects. In 2018, one kilometer of the South Fork McKenzie (SFMK) River, OR was modified to the Stage 0 condition for the benefit of ESA-listed Chinook by raising the incised channel to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Kwakiutl version of the Chilkat blanket on Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Creator:: Horn, Mona Jean
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to have begun with the Tsimshian Indian and passed to the Tlingits. The Chilkat division in Lynn

Economic and environmental evaluation of alternative farming systems for row crop and dairy farms in Northern Malheur County

Creator:: Vermilyea, Kathy Jo
Abstract:: Malheur County is located in the southeast corner of Oregon and consists of about 64 million acres of which 260,000 acres is irrigated. Groundwater contamination has been found in a 115,000 acre area in Northeastern Malheur County. The main source of the groundwater contamination is agricultural practices. The overall objective...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A characterization of seasonal pools in Central Oregon's high desert

Creator:: Dlugolecki, Laura
Abstract:: Seasonal wetlands in arid and semi-arid lands provide an important source of surface water in otherwise dry lands. Central Oregon's high desert, located in the Northern Great Basin (NGB) is dotted with hundreds of seasonal pools, locally called playas. The playas hold water or snow during parts of winter and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Supplemental Feeder Use by Free-Living Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) in a Mediterranean Climate

Creator:: Lajoie, Janel L.
Abstract:: The majority of households in the U.S., Great Britain, and Australia feed wild birds, and 53 million people in the U.S. spent more than $5 billion on bird food and feeding accessories in 2016. Given the massive scale over which it occurs, purposeful feeding of wild birds has the potential...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: support of the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program for non-traditional students, and

Fuel Treatment Longevity in the Blue Mountains of Oregon

Creator:: Morici, Kat
Abstract:: Wildland fires are an increasingly extensive, expensive, and frequent occurrence in dry forests of the western United States. Fuel reduction treatments are designed to reduce extreme fire behavior, promote resilient forest structure, and facilitate fire control efforts. Although there is widespread recognition that repeated treatments are needed to maintain desired...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . doi:10.1071/WF07024. Holle, Ronald L., Kenneth L. Cummins, and William A. Brooks. 2016. “Seasonal

Evaluation of color change in textiles by middle-aged women

Creator:: Handorf, Linda Lee
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to assess reactions to and opinions about color and color performance by women ages 45 to 54 years. Hypotheses were developed to test relationships and differences between both perception and acceptance of color change and: 1) the three primary colors, 2) the two methods...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Distribution and variation of Armillariella mellea clones in relation to vegetative cover and severity of root rot in Ponderosa pine

Creator:: Cooley, Sally Joan
Abstract:: Root rot due to Armillariella mellea (Vahl. ex Fr.) Karst. is unusually severe in ponderosa pine near Glenwood, Washington. Isolate relations, clonal variability, vegetation patterns, and climate were examined in relation to severity of disease in this area. Ninety-one isolates from 70 infection centers were examined. Pairings of neighboring isolates...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: damage (Dance & Lynn, 1963 in Singh, 1978; Hintikka, 1974) are some of the conditions reported to

The economic impact of nonearnings exports on residentiary sectors for rural Oregon counties, 1979-1984

Creator:: McLeod, Donald M.
Abstract:: From 1979 through 1984 the economic bases of rural Oregon counties have undergone structural change. Nonwage income, especially transfer payments, has played an important role in these changes. Demographic changes in rural counties have contributed to the growth in unearned income. The economic structure of rural Oregon counties was estimated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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