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The Hanford Laboratories and the growth of environmental research in the Pacific Northwest, 1943 to 1965

Creator:: Ellis, D. Erik
Abstract:: The scientific endeavors that took place at Hanford Engineer Works, beginning in World War II and continuing thereafter, are often overlooked in the literature on the Manhattan Project, the Atomic Energy Commission, and in regional histories. To historians of science, Hanford is described as an industrial facility that illustrates the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and the Growth of Environmental Research in the Pacific Northwest. 1943 to 1965. Abstract approved

Essays on nursery labor, sales contracts, and price discovery

Creator:: Li, Cheng
Abstract:: Oregon's nursery and greenhouse industry has ranked the first in the State's agricultural for 18 years. The majority of nursery sales from the Pacific Northwest come from Oregon. Due to data limitations, empirical study of the Oregon nursery industry is rare. The present dissertation consists of three essays that analyze...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: producers’ and retailers’ choices of, and reactions to, various contract 3 types in the Oregon

Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

Creator:: Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
Abstract:: L. C. Dunn (1893-1974) spent most of his scientific career conducting research in developmental genetics as a member of the Zoology Department at Columbia University in the City of New York. He had an accomplished scientific career researching mutations in mice, which earned him respect from other geneticists and scientists....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Mary Jo Nye L. C. Dunn (1893-1974) spent most of his scientific career conducting research

Cooperation and Coordination Between Interdependent Organizations : Job Training Partnership Agencies and Oregon Employment Division Local Offices

Creator:: Bober, Pete
Abstract:: The Oregon Employment Division (ES) and Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) funded agencies frequently provide employment and training services to the same populations, resulting in increased demands to coordinate the two systems efforts and avoid duplications of service. This study examined coordination between local ES offices and JTPA agencies in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Employment Program Sue Hankins Oregon Employment Division, Albany Office TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION

Public trust / private interest : practical and philosophical issues for community colleges and their contract education programs

Creator:: Lindstrom, Eric L.
Abstract:: Community colleges are being pressured to increase their direct support of the economic development agendas of their communities, their states, and even the nation. These pressures develop both externally and internally, and are exacerbated when increased demands for access to community college education must be met with chronically flat-lined or...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: issues for community colleges and their contract education programs AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF

Evaluating climate change induced coastal flood impacts to San Diego Bay Naval Infrastructure - a hybrid statistical dynamical modeling approach

Creator:: Anderson, Tyler P.
Abstract:: This study utilizes probabilistic surrogate modeling techniques around San Diego Bay with an emphasis on naval infrastructure and operations to evaluate the impact of five global mean sea level rise scenarios (GMSLR). Spatially continuous total water levels (TWLs) are combined with a digital elevation model (DEM) of the region to...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: around San Diego Bay with an emphasis on naval infrastructure and operations to evaluate the impact of

Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Oney, Celia E.
Abstract:: People involved in a nuclear activity, whether they are developing it, benefiting from it, or opposing it, see inherent connections between various aspects of nuclear science and technology. This thesis investigates three nuclear sites: a university research reactor, a dual-purpose reactor that produced plutonium for the U.S. military and electricity...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: development of the region.5 Less has been written about the role of research reactors in the development

It's in the blood : the varieties of Linus Pauling's work on hemoglobin and sickle cell anemia

Creator:: Gormlet, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
Abstract:: Linus Pauling incorporated hemoglobin and a disease of the blood, sickle cell anemia, into many of his researches between the mid-1930s and mid-1970s. In the early 1930s Pauling became interested in organic chemistry and named hemoglobin as one of the first biochemical substances that he planned to analyze. In 1935...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: promotion of Vitamin C, to name a few. Undisputedly, Pauling was a man who had his hand in many pots. Some

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

Creator:: Richards, Linda Marie
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: details of this first UN petition invite further research. Many of the islanders would, as they feared

The Scientist’s Imagination: Cold War Politics and Nuclear Futures in Leo Szilard’s Fact and Fiction

Creator:: Dvorak, Anna Elizabeth
Abstract:: The story of Leo Szilard has not been told in its full complexity. This is especially so of the role imagination played in Szilard’s worldview. Szilard, like many other scientists in the mid-twentieth century, worked on the Manhattan Project. Like these other wartime participants, the work and relationships formed during...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: uses of this research. Szilard was extremely rational and held a large amount of faith in science

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The Hanford Laboratories and the growth of environmental research in the Pacific Northwest, 1943 to 1965

Essays on nursery labor, sales contracts, and price discovery

Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

Cooperation and Coordination Between Interdependent Organizations : Job Training Partnership Agencies and Oregon Employment Division Local Offices

Public trust / private interest : practical and philosophical issues for community colleges and their contract education programs

Evaluating climate change induced coastal flood impacts to San Diego Bay Naval Infrastructure - a hybrid statistical dynamical modeling approach

Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

It's in the blood : the varieties of Linus Pauling's work on hemoglobin and sickle cell anemia

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

The Scientist’s Imagination: Cold War Politics and Nuclear Futures in Leo Szilard’s Fact and Fiction

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