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Among the suite of water resources management strategies, water banking can be a tool for water resource management in areas with high water demands or localized water scarcity. This research aims to further the understanding of water banking by conducting a review and analysis of relevant state legislation. This research...
An assessment of Oregon personal finance teachers'
beliefs and recommendations for secondary personal finance
curriculum was the major purpose of this survey. A questionnaire
based on the concepts and subconcepts in the Oregon
Personal Finance Education Guide was used for data collection.
All Oregon personal finance teachers who taught the...
The High Lava Plains province (HLP) of southeastern Oregon is a Miocene to Recent volcanic upland characterized by widespread basaltic volcanism and west-migrating rhyolitic volcanism. New ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages for HLP rhyolites demonstrate that the trend of migrating rhyolitic volcanism is robust, reflecting westward migration at a rate of -35 km/m.y....
This phenomenological inquiry explored dimensions of reflection for older adults in a developmental oriented adventure education experience. Data were gathered from emergent interviews with four individuals while participating in a multi-day, self-contained experiential education program conducted in a rugged environment, and led by a Navajo leader. Two principle research questions...
Like rural residents in other places, people in rural Oregon have expressed concern about the demographic shifts occurring in their communities. Principally they are concerned about youth leaving and not returning. This analysis uses recent Census Bureau data to describe, in detail, the demographic changes occurring in rural Oregon. Particular...
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Like rural residents in other places, people in rural Oregon have
Bcl11b (B-cell lymphoma/leukemia 11b), also known as Ctip2 (Chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter transcription factor (COUP-TF)-interacting protein 2), is a C2H2 zinc finger transcriptional regulatory protein, which is an essential protein for post-natal life in the mouse and plays crucial roles in the development, and presumably function, of several organ systems,...
The purpose of this study is to illuminate the presence
and rhetorical effect of anecdotes in President Clinton's
major health care address. It is the health care debate that
shows most clearly how Clinton tries to direct a multi-level
campaign that attempts to identify his interests (passage of
the Health...
Many studies suggest that weedy plant species are most successful when
soil nitrogen in abundant. Consequently, I used soil nitrogen manipulations to
determine if altering nitrogen would affect the establishment of both weedy and
native plant species in a western Oregon wetland prairie. In two studies, we
added carbon amendments...