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  • 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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    influenced by the needs of the United States security state.19 Health and human rights claims of both

  • Characterizing Community Forests in the United States

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    Hajjar, Reem, McGinley, Kathleen, Charnley, Susan, Frey, Gregory E., Hovis, Meredith, Cubbage, Frederick W., Schelhas, John, and Kornhauser, Kailey
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    Research on community forests, primarily governed and managed by local forest users, in the United States is limited, despite their growth in numbers over the past decade. We conducted a survey to inventory CFs in the U.S., and better understand their ownership and governance structures, management objectives, benefits, and financing....
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    . Cubbage5, John Schelhas7, Kailey Kornhauser1,8 1Oregon State University, Department of Forest

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

    Creator:
    Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
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    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....
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    citizens inside and outside of the United States. Guiding Dunn were his beliefs in socialism, democracy

  • Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

    Creator:
    Jolly, J. Christopher
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    From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...
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    of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the

  • Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

    Creator:
    Ellis, Erik
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    This dissertation focuses on the life of Dixy Lee Ray as it examines important developments in marine biology and biological oceanography during the mid twentieth century. In addition, Ray's key involvement in the public understanding of science movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a larger social and cultural context...
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    . Marine Biology, and the Public Understanding of Science in the United States (1930-1970) Abstract

  • A Microeconomic Analysis of Wildfire Suppression Programs in the Western United States

    Creator:
    Rossi, David J.
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    This dissertation studies the microeconomics of forest fire suppression programs. It starts with an inquiry into the causes of increasing shares of public land management budgets devoted to wildland fire suppression in lieu of hazardous fuel reduction or other pre-fire risk mitigation programs. The first two chapters consider competing economic...
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    aDepartment of Applied Economics. Oregon State University. Corvallis, OR. bDepartment of Forest Engineering

  • Identifying Opportunities for Collaboration in Resilience-Based Management: Coordinating Rancher and Land Manager Incentives

    Creator:
    Maher, Anna T.
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    Resilience-based management in rangelands implies maintaining desirable ecological states and avoiding thresholds to less desirable ones; however, the efficacy of resilience-based management depends upon several driving forces. These forces include management by those who depend upon rangelands for their livelihoods, the current state of ecological health of rangelands, and changing...
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    management by those who depend upon rangelands for their livelihoods, the current state of ecological

  • Forestry

    Creator:
    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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    improve yield. By 1891, the United States had established publicly owned forest reserves. In 1900, the

  • Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

    Creator:
    McHugh, Kathleen M.
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    Across from the Memorial Union on Oregon State University’s campus sits Milam Hall, the former site of the Department of Home Economics. The building is named for Ava Milam Clark, the dean of home economics for thirty-three years, from 1917 to 1950. I aim to understand Ava Milam’s early career...
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    Marjorie M. Brown, Philosophical Studies of Home Economics in the United States: Our Practical-Intellectual

  • Essays in applied economics

    Creator:
    Nag, Sharmistha
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    My dissertation concerns two separate issues. The first issue is examined in Essay One, and the second issue is examined in Essays Two and Three. The first essay develops an economic model of the determination of the rental rate of leased farmland in the United States. Particular attention is placed...
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    the rental rate of leased farmland in the United States. Particular attention is placed on the