The City of Newport, in Lincoln County, is undergoing change in response to shifts in
demographics and the economic base. Following a 1990 report, a comparative growth study of the region
was initiated to observe the effectiveness of Oregon's mandatory urban growth boundaries. Data was
collected for land use permits...
Due to establishment of five international organizations for tuna fisheries, tuna fishing in high seas are consequentially transformed from a time of free competition to a time of cooperative competition on the platforms created by those international organizations. The paper explores the openness, procedures of decision-making, allocation of fishing quotas...
Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) have seen an increase in popularity relative to traditional Centralized Version Control Systems (CVCS). Yet we know little on whether VCS tools meet the needs of software developers when managing software change or whether developers are benefitting from the extra power of DVCS. Without such...
Purpose This study was designed to determine and compare the work values held by tenth-grade Thai girls in Bangkok and Chiangmai, Thailand, in order to lay the groundwork for a more systematic approach to career counseling and curriculum planning in the Thai school system. Procedures D. E. Super's work values...
Noise induced hearing loss is a subject of growing
concern. Over the past 15 years, several well-documented
studies have been completed which express the relationships
between industrial noise exposure and damage to normal and
pathological ears. This research has provided knowledge of
considerable importance to developing successful hearing
conservation programs....
Two standardized land classification systems designed for use
with remote sensor data were studied comparatively. One of tile
classification systems is proposed for review and testing in U. S. 0.S.
Circular 671 (Legend I) (Anderson et al., 1972); the other is a hierarchial
legend system in use since 1968 (Legend...
The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the effectiveness
of two approaches in nutrition education instruction among culturally
diverse adolescents: the teacher-oriented lecture approach and the
student-oriented instructional design approach. The study was
designed to help culturally diverse students gain a basic
understanding of practices that promote...