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  • Vox comm: product development and program management

    Creator:
    Braunworth, Daniel W.
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    Vox comm is a digital wireless, voice-operated personal communicator developed as an electrical engineering Senior Design project. It is designed to provide a method for hassle-free, short-range communication. The product platform boasts of low power and small size for a host of usage models. This thesis details the product design...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Management. Abstract approved: _____________________________________________ David Hackleman Vox

  • Biodiesel in Oregon : an agricultural perspective

    Creator:
    Lahmann, Emily Loren
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    Biodiesel is a renewable, non-toxic, and biodegradable diesel fuel made from agricultural feedstocks. With a vibrant agricultural industry, Oregon is positioned to play an important role in the future of this energy source. Limiting factors to widespread biodiesel production include low value of biodiesel feedstock crops, lack of infrastructure, lagging...
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    . Abstract approved: _________________________________________________ David Hackleman

  • Determination of flavin-containing monooxygenase mRNA levels in mouse lung and liver

    Creator:
    Lo, Pachida C.
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    We are developing a flavin-containing (Fmo) knock-out mouse for Fmo2 that will be utilized to elucidate the role of active human FMO isoform 2 (FMO2.1) in xenobiotic metabolism and toxicity. Since FMO2 is primarily expressed in lung this will provide information on how 27% of African-Americans and 5% of Hispanics...
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    Honors College Thesis

  • The effect of transverse shifts on the LIGO interferometer (simulation study)

    Creator:
    Fettig, Doug J.
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    The LIGO interferometers have reached their designed sensitivity level which is greater than any other interferometer ever built. At this point, it is important to have a proper understanding of small perturbations that might still exist (until now these issues did not come to the forefront because other more critical...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Interferometer. Abstract approved: ____________________________________________ David McIntyre The LIGO

  • Asperger’s Syndrome: research and personal insight into characteristics and intervention techniques

    Creator:
    Rinaldi, David Brian
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    Through examination of empirical evidence on individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome and related Pervasive Developmental Disorders, the author attempts to provide an overview of the social deficiencies associated with these disorders. Points of primary concern are the social deficiencies in developing competence in experience-sharing and demonstrating empathy, especially in how they...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    THESIS OF David Brian Rinaldi, Jr. for the degree of Honor’s Baccalaureate of Science in Computer

  • Hispanic and farmworker health : a community health survey of Hood River County, Oregon.

    Creator:
    Carne, David Michael
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    Hispanics in Hood River County, Oregon account for roughly 25% of the population, with many employed in agriculture. A community health survey was carried out in Hood River County during the winter months of 2001 with the purpose of evaluating the health conditions, needs, and barriers to access of needed...
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    ; Latino, 2002; Mills, 2001; Riedel, 1998). Studies in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s show that in

  • Experiments into plasma physics

    Creator:
    Smith, Christopher S.
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    Our research was focused mainly on the field of plasma physics and the creation of plasmas in a laboratory environment. We first began our project with the goal to develop a tabletop Tokamak, a doughnut shaped device that magnetically confines plasmas at pressures greater than one atmosphere. After researching this...
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    Christopher S. Smith for the degree of Honors Baccalaureate of Science in Physics presented on June 6th, 2006

  • The utility of playfulness in terms of innovation and productivity for business and a life of learning

    Creator:
    Adams, Jason S.
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    The purpose of this project was to investigate play and our cultural assumptions as to its usefulness or lack there of. The concepts of hard work versus hard play were explored in order to discover when human beings are operating at their best. In terms of innovation and productivity in...
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    get paid to play for a living,” when s/he is captivated by their vocation. As noted earlier in our

  • It takes a village to manage the 21st century reference department

    Creator:
    McMillen, Paula S. and Rielly, Loretta
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    Reference services at Oregon State University’s Valley Library have undergone several reoganizations in response to institutional changes, shifting service needs and patron demands. Part of this history includes training for and functioning in team-based management. We have now evolved to a management model which utilizes workgroups and an advisory and...
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    character in this unfolding drama with ambiguity playing a supporting role. David Lewis and others remark on

  • A bibliotherapy evaluation tool: grounding counselors in the therapeutic use of literature

    Creator:
    Pehrsson, Dale Elizabeth and McMillen, Paula S.
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    Discusses the development and evolution of the Bibliotherapy Evaluation Tool to help graduate counseling students use literature in therapy ethically and appropriately. A survey of bibliotherapeutic practice in the helping professions is provided. Graduate students showed greater knowledge of and comfort with bibliotherapy after exposure to a teaching module and...
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    professions.’ In the early 1900’s the American Library Association was active in establishing libraries for