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  • Toward Automated Decision-Making in Power Systems Wide-Area Protection

    Creator:
    Meier, Richard John
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    In recent years there have been many improvements in the reliability of critical infrastructure systems. Despite these improvements and despite targeted efforts to improve the operation and control of the electric grid, the power systems industry has seen relatively small advances in this regard. For instance, today's power system is...
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    Decision-Making in Power Systems Wide-Area Protection by Richard John Meier A THESIS submitted to

  • Quality driven collaborative decision making for product development under the influence of trustworthiness

    Creator:
    Meier, Stefan
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    The focus of this study is the effective prioritization of customer requirements in collaborative product development. The CR priorities are often retrieved by questioning and interviewing targeted customers. But the targeted customer might not always be easily questioned, because they might not always be obvious or clearly known. If customers...
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    Decision Making for Product Development Under the Influence of Trustworthiness by Stefan Meier A

  • Using GIS to illustrate the geospatial and socio-ecological intersection between climate change, energy production, and sustainable fisheries management in Oregon

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    Cohn, Leanne A.
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    There could be a geospatial and socio-ecological intersection between climate change, energy production, and sustainable fisheries management in the United States. Marine renewable energy generation efforts are currently being planned, studied, and initially implemented in the country as a response to climate change. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is...
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    advisor, Dr. Chris Harvey, who responded to my initial emails when I was looking for a major professor

  • Deepening: Place Relationship in the Valley of Lake Creek, Oregon

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    McCumber, Elisabeth Carol Harvey
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    This is an IRB-exempt thesis exploring place relationship in the valley of Lake Creek, Oregon, at Triangle Lake. An interdisciplinary ethnography of place, it involves a synthesis of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic literature; an analysis of nineteenth-century Coos, Alseya (Alsea), and Kalapuya myth-texts from Native oral tradition; a history of...
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    relationship in the face of a rapidly changing world. © Copyright by Elisabeth Carol Harvey McCumber

  • Empowerment or a 'citizenship project'? : microcredit with education in Cuzco, Peru

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    Kearney, Emily Q.
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    Microfinance, or the technique of lending small amounts of money to the world's poor for productive activities, has emerged as a dominant approach to poverty alleviation among international development organizations. However, consensus does not yet exist as to the best mechanism for delivery of loans. While most organizations simply offer...
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    Anthropology presented on May 20, 2008. Title: Empowerment or a ‘Citizenship Project’?: Microcredit with

  • Commodification in an Ersu Tibetan village of Sichuan, China

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    Schmitt, Edwin Anton
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    This ethnographic research aims to discover the implications of the commodification of production processes amongst the Ersu Tibetans of Sichuan, China. This thesis examines the commodification of Ersu agriculture and ethnic identity in the historical context of both China and the world-system. Ethnohistorical and ethnoecological methodologies are utilized to answer...
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    the Ersu arrived at a commodified mode of production, what has been commodified and why, and how

  • Management Applications of Remotely Sensed Dynamic Seascapes: Two Case Studies

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    Klajbor, Willem C.
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    Dynamic seascapes, which are classified using a combination of remotely sensed data and model output, represent a potential tool for dynamic ecosystem-based management in marine systems. This work explores the utility of seascape classification in the context of marine resource management by examining two case studies: one involving biological relationships...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Maria T. Kavanaugh Dynamic seascapes, which are classified using a combination of remotely

  • Ecology of Columbian black-tailed deer fawns in western Oregon

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    Pamplin, Nathan P.
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    Little is known about Columbian black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) because of their elusive nature and the logistical difficulty of studying them in densely forested and mountainous terrain. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has identified fawn survival as an important gap in the current knowledge of demography and...
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    Black-Tailed Deer Fawns in Western Oregon. A II Abstract approved Signature redacted for privacy

  • Anything You Can Do: The Effect of Observed Model Perseverance on Students' Persistence in an Unrelated Task

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    Stone, Arianna M.
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    Task persistence has been associated with task mastery in many different realms of learning, and is thought to be evoked particularly through the observation of positive models; however, the capability of such exposures to transfer across domains is not currently well-understood. The present study sought to examine the effect of...
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    Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Regan A. R. Gurung

  • Determining the Impacts of Dormant Pruning Methods and Nitrogen Fertilization on Vitis vinifera 'Pinot noir' Bud Fruitfulness and Yield

    Creator:
    Ulmer, Miranda R.
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    The majority of grapes grown in Oregon are produced in Western Oregon’s Willamette Valley, where two-thirds of the acreage is planted to Pinot noir. The production of Pinot noir in the Willamette Valley comes at a high cost, and growers are seeking ways to increase profits while maintaining quality fruit...
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    : _________________________________________________________ Patricia A. Skinkis The majority of grapes grown in Oregon are produced