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  • Early Childhood Teachers’ Relationships with Families When Children Experience Adversity

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    Lewis, Hillary R., Lipscomb, Shannon T., Hatfield, Bridget E., Jäderholm, Christina M., and Tominey, Shauna L.
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    Quality relationships among families and teachers in early care and education (ECE) hold promise to nurture resilience among children impacted by adversity. However, little is known about how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) may also affect the interactions between families and teachers. This study uses quantitative survey data from families (N...
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    College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University 1500 SW Jefferson Ave, Corvallis

  • Forestry

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    Avery, Bonnie E.
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    A broad definition of forestry would include the study of trees, forests, and the habitat they provide as well as their use by people. Modern, "science-based" forestry began in the nineteenth century when Europeans looked for specialists who could address questions on wood supply and extraction both at home and...
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    . Formerly (until 1999): Journal of Forest Engineering. [ISSN: 1494-2119] 1989. s-a. USD 155 domestic; USD

  • Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

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    Jolly, J. Christopher
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    The public controversy over possible health hazards from radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing began in 1954, shortly after a thermonuclear test by the United States spread fallout world wide. In the dissertation, I address two of the fundamental questions of the fallout controversy: Was there a threshold of radiation...
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    Dissertation
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    Protection NEJM New England Journal of Medicine NYOO New York Operations Office WHO World Health

  • The light within us : Quaker women in science

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    McCabe, Leslie N.
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    This thesis explores the role of Quaker women in science in an attempt to arrive at some understanding of what motivated Quaker women in nineteenth century America to go into the sciences. George Fox founded the Society of Friends in the mid-seventeenth century in England and the Quaker theology centered...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Master of Arts in History of Science presented on June 28. 2004. Title: The Light Within Us: Quaker Women

  • Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

    Creator:
    Richards, Linda Marie
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    The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
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    Dissertation
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    . Trust in the ability of scientific experts to provide radiation health safety was central to the

  • Manufactured science - the attorneys' handmaiden : the influence of industry in occupational disease research during the twentieth century

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    Biegel, Craig A.
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    Since the early twentieth century, manufacturers of toxic products have attempted to discredit research linking their product with disease. At the same time they have manufactured their own science designed to minimize risks associated with their products. Much of this activity has been conducted by or through corporate attorneys, endeavors...
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  • Empathy, Person and Community: the Foundation of the Sciences in the Phenomenology of Edith Stein

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    Lovestone, Lauren R.
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    During the first decades of the twentieth century different attempts were made to unify the diversifying and specializing sciences. One of these attempts manifested as the History of Science. Established in 1913 with the academic journal Isis, its first article written by George Sarton clarified that the field was created...
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    Masters Thesis
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    History of Science. Established in 1913 with the academic journal Isis, its first article written by

  • How women negotiate family responsibilities and personal health

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    Ourada, Verna E. Zehner
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    Women’s health affects women and society as a whole. In addition to paid employment, women provide unpaid labor as they care for their families, their homes, and ailing relatives. Only by staying healthy can women provide care to their families. Using a feminist perspective, this study examined how women manage...
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    Masters Thesis
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    of their family members and their own health needs. Such women are vulnerable to failing when

  • Nature in chains : the effects of Thomas Jefferson’s rectangular survey on a Pacific Northwest landscape

    Creator:
    Schweickert, Tina K.
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    Understanding the impact of humans on the environment has long been a topic of scholarly interest and debate. As environmental problems mount, accounts of historic ecological conditions and the factors of change become increasingly useful. This study considers competing schools of interpretation about human impacts on ecological landscapes and develops...
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    Masters Thesis
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    historical themes on the relationship between worldviews and the health of natural ecosystems.7 The thesis

  • Factors influencing the outcomes of public health legislation in the 2001 Oregon legislature

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    Wise, Kendra J.
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    Legislation can be an effective public health tool, and understanding the factors that influence legislative outcomes is advantageous for public health practitioners who propose and advocate for legislation. The literature indicates that the issues of personal freedoms, the presence or absence of strong coalition leadership, and political conditions and ideology...
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    Master of Science in Public Health presented on April 16, 2004 Title: Factors Influencing the Outcomes of