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The role of the city manager in policy making : a study of differences in the conception of actual and perception of ideal policy making roles of the city manager by elected mayors and appointed managers in small California council-manager municipalities

Creator:: Feldman, Steven, 1954-
Abstract:: In recent years, the role of the City Manager in municipal policy making has been the focus of considerable attention and debate in both the academic and local government arenas. The purpose of this study was to determine the differences in views of elected mayors and appointed managers with regard...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Steven Feldman for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education presented on

A Critical Public Health Analysis of Drug Dependency Among Iranian Women

Creator:: Shakibnia-Shirazi, Maysa
Abstract:: According to the United Nations, Iran has one of the highest percentages of drug addicts in the world, with anywhere between three and four million addicts addicted to heroin or crystal meth in a population of 80 million. At least 700,000 of these addicts are women, whom make up ten...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: :_____________________________________________________ Cynthia Mojica According to the United Nations, Iran has one of the highest percentages

Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

Creator:: Jameson, Sara
Abstract:: Mike Rose researcher, professor, scholar, and author of numerous articles and books including the literacy memoir - Lives on the Boundary - has been active in the field of education and composition for over 30 years. This thesis looks back at the development of the discipline of composition studies to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Master of Arts in English presented on April 28, 2004. Title: Mike Rose: Composing a Reading of

Signatures in the Subsurface - Big & Small Data Approaches for the Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Geologic Properties & Uncertainty Reduction

Creator:: Rose, Kelly Kathleen
Abstract:: Despite more than two centuries of exploration, including more than six million deep wellbores with depths exceeding 40,000 feet in some parts of the world, our ability to constrain subsurface processes and properties remains limited. Characteristics of the subsurface vary and can be analyzed on a variety of spatial scales....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Kathleen Rose for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Geology presented on June 10, 2016. Title

Quantifying the impacts of riparian cattle grazing at Soap Creek Ranch near Corvallis, Oregon

Creator:: McArthur, Cynthia
Abstract:: A documented case history of riparian grazing at Oregon State University's Soap Creek Ranch was conducted from 1999 to 2001. Impacts of four different riparian grazing treatments were evaluated. Emphasis was placed on investigating the relationship between riparian cattle use and water quality. Through a series of carefully designed and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Cynthia McArthur for the degree of

Seasonal floodplain wetlands as fish habitat in Oregon and Washington

Creator:: Baker, Cynthia F.
Abstract:: To begin to understand freshwater seasonal floodplain fish communities in the context of human alteration of the physical system, species introductions and wetland restoration efforts, I studied fish assemblages in fifteen seasonal floodplain wetlands within four geographic regions (coastal, upper Columbia River estuary, Puget Sound and eastern Oregon/Washington) in the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Cynthia F. Baker for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Fisheries

A shoreline survey of on-site systems in the Tillamook Bay Watershed, Tillamook County, Oregon

Creator:: Gaines, Cynthia K.
Abstract:: Tillamook Bay is used for recreational activities such as swimming and diving, as well as recreational clam harvesting. The bay is also used for one of Tillamook's most prominent industries, oyster harvesting. Bacterial contamination of Tillamook Bay has been a recognized problem since 1962. There are a number of known...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Cynthia K. Gaines for the degree

Elevation, thermal environment, and stream temperatures on headwater streams in northeastern Oregon

Creator:: Meays, Cynthia L.
Abstract:: A case study examining the relationship between stream temperatures and the thermal environment through which streams flow was conducted on the headwaters of 4 tributaries of the Burnt River (Barney, Elk, Greenhorn, and Stevens Creeks) in northeastern Oregon during July through August 1998 and 1999. Barney Creek and Stevens Creek...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Cynthia L. Meays for the degree of

Shifting Rural Quantification Towards Study of Health Disparities: Applications in Statistical and Spatial Analysis of Rural Colorectal Cancer

Creator:: Buchalter, Robert Blake
Abstract:: Quantitative measurement of the urban-rural continuum for examination of U.S. rural health disparities is a relatively new research area, where only a handful of studies have investigated health disparities using quantitative rural measures and even fewer have attempted to integrate health variables within said measures. Most U.S. rural health disparity...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: dissertation. Dr. Perry Hystad and Dr. Cynthia Mojica each made substantial contributions to the review of

Competing Roles of Sea Level Rise and Sediment Supply on Sediment Accretion and Carbon Burial in Tidal Wetlands; Northern Oregon, USA

Creator:: Peck, Erin K.
Abstract:: Quantification of contemporary sediment and carbon accumulation within Oregon tidal saline wetlands will: (1) fill a critical knowledge gap, and (2) naturally test without complicating variables whether sea level rise or sediment supply primarily control wetland growth. Here we measure vertical accretion rates and carbon burial rates in three Oregon...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: processing samples for organic carbon analysis and for advice throughout this procedure. Cynthia Sellinger

ScholarsArchive@OSU

The role of the city manager in policy making : a study of differences in the conception of actual and perception of ideal policy making roles of the city manager by elected mayors and appointed managers in small California council-manager municipalities

A Critical Public Health Analysis of Drug Dependency Among Iranian Women

Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

Signatures in the Subsurface - Big & Small Data Approaches for the Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Geologic Properties & Uncertainty Reduction

Quantifying the impacts of riparian cattle grazing at Soap Creek Ranch near Corvallis, Oregon

Seasonal floodplain wetlands as fish habitat in Oregon and Washington

A shoreline survey of on-site systems in the Tillamook Bay Watershed, Tillamook County, Oregon

Elevation, thermal environment, and stream temperatures on headwater streams in northeastern Oregon

Shifting Rural Quantification Towards Study of Health Disparities: Applications in Statistical and Spatial Analysis of Rural Colorectal Cancer

Competing Roles of Sea Level Rise and Sediment Supply on Sediment Accretion and Carbon Burial in Tidal Wetlands; Northern Oregon, USA

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