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  • Job Strain in Toddler Teachers : Associations with Classroom Quality

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    Henry, Adrienne J. L.
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    This study examined four occupational health risks that contribute to job strain, the experience of infectious disease, musculoskeletal strain, job dissatisfaction, and depressive symptoms, for toddler teachers as predictors of classroom quality. Both the physical and social settings of early care and education (ECE) are influential in shaping children’s early...
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    this environment. Yet, quality improvement initiatives focus on improving teaching practices to

  • Elements of the Preschool Outdoor Play Environment : Associations with Children’s Physical Activity

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    Hoke, Kelly L.
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    Preschool outdoor play environments (OPEs) are unique spaces that, when carefully designed, can encourage child-initiated play resulting in jumping, chasing, and exploration of materials and natural spaces (Moore, 1996). Specifically, elements of the OPE can facilitate movement and increase physical activity (Baek et al., 2015) through engaged, child-initiated play. Children...
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    children. Yet, the research suggests that isolated aspects of the environment, such as grassy open spaces

  • Occupant satisfaction in a LEED registered building

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    Anderson, Amy A.
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    The purpose of this study was to look at occupant satisfaction with Kelley Engineering Center, a LEED registered building. Results from a post-occupancy evaluation of Kelley conducted in spring 2006 were compared to those from a pre-occupancy survey of occupants in non-green buildings disseminated in spring 2005. The results showed...
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    Master of Science in Design and Human Environment presented on May 19, 2006 Title: Occupant Satisfaction

  • Perceptions of residential grab bars among community dwelling seniors

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    Thrall, Patti L.
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    Despite the perceived importance of grab bars to facilitate aging-in-place and healthy aging, many community-dwelling older adults do not have them installed. The aim of this study was to investigate predictors of grab bar installation among well-educated community dwelling seniors. Data was collected quantitatively through an electronic survey of Oregon...
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    -determined environment (Keenan, 2010). This trend has enormous impact on the housing industry (National

  • University alumni's purchase of university licensed merchandise : exploring the reasoning behind purchase decisions

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    Kopczenski, Aleece D.
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    Generating annual revenue of over $4 billion dollars (The Collegiate Licensing Company, n.d.), the collegiate licensing presents a potential market that both apparel companies and universities can benefit from. While the collegiate licensing business is expected to increase financial resources for the participating universities and textiles and apparel companies, little...
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    degree of Master of Science in Design and Human Environment presented on April 27, 2011. Title

  • Identification of Asian garments in small museums

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    Kondo, Alison E.
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    The frequent misidentification of Asian garments in small museum collections indicated the need for a garment identification system specifically for use in differentiating the various forms of Asian clothing. The decision tree system proposed in this thesis is intended to provide an instrument to distinguish the clothing styles of Japan,...
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    , 1990; 3 Fairserveis, 1971; Gluckman & Takeda, 1992; Ishimura & Maruyama, 1988; Kyoto National

  • Inshopping in rural communities : consumers' and retailers' perceptions

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    Mullis, Katy L.
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    The ever changing nature of the retail industry, and the additional challenges of doing business in a rural area, mean that retailers in rural communities face a unique situation that makes them especially vulnerable to outshopping by rural consumers. Therefore the purpose of this study was to investigate factors which...
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    Environment presented on May 22, 2008. Title: Inshopping In Rural Communities: Consumers’ and Retailers

  • Comparison of total dose to individuals from temperate and arid environments

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    Elmore, Brockway F., II
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    This paper analyzes the decision-making process utilized in temperate environments for building nuclear facilities and whether it was going to be applicable to nuclear facilities built in arid environments. To answer this question, the total dose to individuals from arid and temperate environments were compared using RESRAD-OFFSITE and changing the...
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    environment), ingestion pathways (meat, plants, fish, and milk), consumption per capita data (averaged over

  • Light and the behavior of pelagic animals during night and crepuscular periods

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    Wisdom, Daniel W.
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    Light plays an important role in ecological processes in the ocean both day and night. While relatively inexpensive, off the shelf instruments are available to measure Photosynthetically Active Radiation or PAR during the day, efforts to quantify light levels at night have proven more difficult. The goal of this work...
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    , 2003. US Commission on Ocean Policy, 2004; National Research Council, 1999; West Coast Governor‟s

  • A novel linear generator for wave energy applications

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    Ernst, Steven George
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    With the increasing effort to identify alternative methods of energy generation, extraction of ocean energy has gathered a large interest. Research and industry have begun considering wave energy as the next new alternative energy. The unique challenges of ocean energy requires a wave energy converter to be both robust and...
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    energy has gathered a large interest. Research and industry have begun considering wave energy as the