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  • Knowledge Appropriation and Inventive Productivity

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    Choi, Yohan
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    Innovation is critical for firm growth and survival. Thus, how much value firms create and capture from their innovative activities has been an interest of scholars. This dissertation explores three important questions on this topic to which extant literature has paid little attention. First, I examine how the external threat...
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    firm financial returns to R&D activities and that this effect is contingent upon concurrent use of

  • Predicting the Relationships between High School Characteristics and High School Community College Enrollment Rate Using the Oregon Promise.

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    Murray-Jensen, Julie
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    Background: Legislators, policy-makers, and leaders in higher education and within communities, are increasingly turning to place-based scholarships, or “promise programs”, to encourage college enrollment and address growing public concerns regarding college affordability. One such program, the Oregon Promise, was implemented across the state of Oregon in the fall of 2016....
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    application rate, (b) high school socio-economic status, (c) high school racial demographics, (d) high

  • Framing the Future: How RDA, Linked Data, and BIBFRAME Will Change the Future of Libraries

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    Sapon-White, Richard E.
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    This presentation, the lead paper at the Libraries, Information Scientists and Cybernetics in a Knowledge Economy Conference, Abeokuta, Nigeria, provides an overview of recent changes in metadata creation. Topics covered include Resource Description and Access after the 3R Project, the Resource Description Framework, BIBFRAME, the Library Reference Model, and Linked...
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    State University Science Cataloger, Virginia Tech, 1990-1996 Monographs Cataloger; Catalog Librarian

  • Monotonic and Cyclic Testing of Cross-Laminated Timber Diaphragms

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    Beairsto, Cody J.
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    Mass timber is emerging as a viable form of construction around the world in new markets for wood buildings. The entrance into these markets has driven the demand for more knowledge to enable designs alongside other structural materials such as steel and reinforced concrete. Large, in-plane tests on cross-laminated timber...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Emergent Properties of Animal Social Networks: Five Stories in Five Systems

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    Devan-Song, E. Anne
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    Animals aggregate and interact in nonuniform and nonrandom patterns, which lead to group level characteristics that have important evolutionary and ecological consequences. Network analysis provides a useful conceptual framework for linking animal interactions at all scales from dyads to communities, to populations and ecosystems. Despite exciting theoretical and applied advances...
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    , Yorktown, Virginia, USA in 2017 across the study polygon using GPS coordinates of each individual

  • A movement möbius: Intersecting dance and exercise science

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    Cardinal, Bradley J. and Cardinal, Marita K.
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    Martha Grahm reputedly said, “a dancer is an ‘athlete of God’” (Theys, 2010). Yet dance and exercise and sport science (herein referred to as exercise science) are often viewed as unique entities, sometimes dividedly so. Our contention is that dance and exercise science mutually benefit when the two disciplines are...
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    literary genius Virginia Woolf who wrote against the divisive nature of higher education in the middle of

  • A three-dimensional mapping of the ocean based on environmental data

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    Wright, Dawn J.
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    The existence, sources, distribution, circulation, and physicochemical nature of macroscale oceanic water bodies have long been a focus of oceanographic inquiry. Building on that work, this paper describes an objectively derived and globally comprehensive set of 37 distinct volumetric region units, called ecological marine units (EMUs). They are constructed on...
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    States Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, United States of America 8 2Esri, Redlands, California

  • Effects of Secondary Salinization on Three Coastal Breeding Amphibians in Oregon: Taricha granulosa, Hyliola regilla, and Rana aurora

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    Goddard, Amanda L.
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    Due to threats of secondary salinization caused by increased saltwater intrusion upstream associated with climate change, this thesis examines how salinity affects the development and oviposition site selection habits of three Oregon coastal breeding amphibians, the Roughskin Newt (Taricha granulosa), the Northern Red-legged Frog (Rana aurora) and the Pacific Treefrog...
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    tadpoles was taken on a Satorius CPA124S scale (d=0.1mg). All tadpoles were measured in each tank in the

  • The Disinformation Dozen and Media Misinformation on Science and Vaccinations

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    Mabrey, Benjamin E.
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    The COVID-19 pandemic has shed a light on the need for people to trust in medical science. With the need for 70% of Americans to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity but 30% have reported vaccine hesitancy, now more than ever do we need to redouble our efforts to ensure...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Buttar was reprimanded for marketing supplements as drugs, his “supplements” including Trans-D Tropin

  • Application of Infrared Spectroscopy for Determination of Wood Natural Durability

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    Lipeh, Shahlinney
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    Natural durability remains one of the most attractive characteristics of wood, and helps wood obtain a premium price. A worldwide shift towards the use of younger trees from intensively managed forests has created greater concerns about wood quality, especially the wood’s resistance to fungi and insects. Wood durability is assessed...
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    carvacrol concentrations at 4000 – 650 cm-1 (A), and 1800 – 650 cm-1 (B) [A=0.0%, B=0.7%, C=2.0%, D=3.5