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  • Cooperation and small to medium sized enterprises in Oregon's forest product industry

    Creator:
    Brown, Nicole A.
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    This thesis examines perceptions of cooperation among small to medium sized enterprises (SME) in western Oregon's forest products industry. Recent changes in the industry, such as corporate consolidation, global marketing, and government regulations have created an environment in which many SMEs find it difficult to stay competitive. Cooperation among SMEs...
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    short term need for positive quarterly-reports outweighs a long term vision. Small and medium sized

  • Nepantla Collaboration : Strategic Support for LGBTQ Populations

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    Davidove, Addison E.
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    In this thesis, I deconstruct strategies of support for the LGBTQ youth of my home community,the Inland Empire. I call on Foucauldian understandings of discourse, knowledge, and power to analyze the existing support networks for LGBTQ youth in the Inland Empire. Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories of Nepantla and Nepantlera, and AnaLouise...
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    Nepantla Collaboration: Strategic Support for LGBTQ Populations by Addison E. Davidove A

  • Cooperative product development between researchers and commercial fishermen to find applications for ocean condition forecasting technology

    Creator:
    Duncan, Colin
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    This is a case study of the cooperative development of an ocean condition forecasting tool by Oregon commercial fishermen, Oregon State University (OSU) scientists, and OSU student software engineers. Ocean condition forecasting models developed by OSU scientists were used to create an online tool to assist decision-making for fishermen. This...
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    and Commercial Fishermen to Find Applications for Ocean Condition Forecasting Technology

  • Level of physical activity and duration of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity among youth with visual impairment

    Creator:
    Kindinger, Kerstin
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    Physical activity is increasingly recognized as a maj or component contributing to the promotion of a healthy lifestyle. Evidence exists that a physically active behavior is carried over from childhood to adolescents and possibly to adulthood. Limited research about the physical activity behavior of students with visual impairment is available,...
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    offered me a teaching assistantship during my first year at OSU that later opened the door to a graduate

  • Reversible Covalent Immobilization of Desferrioxamine B (DFOB) on Aminated Polystyrene Beads for Citrate-Bound Fe(III) Chelation

    Creator:
    Touma, Jad G.
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    The immobilization of chelators to solid supports has recently gained renewed interest due to the increasing biomedical and environmental applications made possible by these molecules’ ability to bind Fe(III) and other metal ions. The uses of immobilized chelators have expanded to include the treatment of metal overload in serum, the...
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    solutions were prepared at a physiological pH level of 7.4. A citrate: iron ratio of 100:1 was chosen for

  • Whitman and technology: a modern romance

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    Turner, David N.
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    Walt Whitman looked to the natural world, which he considered an original example of divine creation, for insights into the methods and patterns of the Creative Force; the poet then intuited connections between these divine natural patterns and human existence and spirituality. Convinced of the divinity of the human body,...
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    technological advance. For these reasons, Whitman addressed technology in his poetry to a greater extent

  • Strategic investments in agricultural industries and Oregon's economic development

    Creator:
    Koong, Dennis T
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    This research is concerned with the current debate among Oregonians on how to improve the standard of living and accelerate economic development in Oregon. The main question is what economic activities make Oregon, and regions within Oregon grow? To find out where Oregon's economic strength and weaknesses lie, first we...
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    relative to other industries locally, nationally, and internationally. To provide a guideline for Oregon

  • A preliminary study for task management environment external validation: correlation between continuous, discrete and mixed scenarios

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    Vasquez Aguirre, Carlos Andres
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    Concurrent Task Management (CTM) can be defined as the process that human operators of complex systems perform to allocate their attention among multiple, simultaneous tasks. A challenge of CTM research is to create an experimental environment which is complex enough to model a real world multitasking situation. Also, this system...
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    , for his advice about the university life at OSU and for sharing with me his experiences here at

  • Evaluation of alternative information signs in Oregon

    Creator:
    Neill, Justin Michael
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    The number of international inbound tourists to the United States has risen steadily. To serve these and other tourists best, traffic signs need to communicate information correctly across a potential language barrier. Of particular interest is the traffic sign intended to communicate directions to Tourist Information centers. While the general...
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    presentations for the Tourist Information sign in a transportation context as well as alternative contexts is

  • The Value of New Technology : View Toward Reassessment

    Creator:
    White, Stephen J.
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    Abraham Heschel wrote that a philosopher's primary task was not merely to describe and judge the modes and facts of actual human behavior, but also to examine and understand the meaninq of those descriptions and judgements of modes and facts (Bella, 1978). Our values are critically tied to our structures...
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    Science internship for the Office of Technology Transfer at Oregon State University, in 1989, it occurred