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  • Development of a Strain Gage Program for the Measurement of Strain on Prototypic, Plate-type, High Performance Research Reactor Fuels under Flow Testing

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    Weiss, Aaron W.
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    A large, multi-year experimental program has been conducted to develop a strain gaging program for application to the flow testing of prototypic, plate-type fuel for high performance research reactors. This test program has resulted in the selection of appropriate strain gage construction, adhesives, and protective coatings to allow the acquisition...
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    Masters Thesis
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    of the Generic Test Plate Assembly (GTPA) within the Oregon State University (OSU) Hydro-Mechanical

  • Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

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    Bruno, Mark P.
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    This study is an ethnographic investigation of residential turnover, organizational memory, and the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational turnover, memory, and persistence is reviewed and integrated with scholarship on intentional communities and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis....
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    scope of utopian communities. (Kanter 1972, viii) More recent scholars have extended this metaphor to

  • Meeting the Night : The Science and Mystery of an Endangered Habitat

    Creator:
    Sisson, Jill
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    Night is an extraordinary resource. Unlike air, water, or soil, nighttime is a spatio-temporal phenomenon, which leads to many crucial roles. It provides refuge to wildlife species, triggers hormonal and behavioral responses among a wide variety of organisms, and serves as an essential migratory backdrop for species that navigate by...
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    Capstone Project
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    woven homes. I waited for weeks and months, through winter and most of spring. Mostly, the cocoon

  • Exceeding the standards: The benefits of place-based environmental education in schools

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    Miller, Rebecca W.
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    There is a growing body of research that describes the benefits of place-based environmental education (EE) within the schools, including improved competencies, better interpersonal skills, decreased gaps in social divides, increased pupil engagement in learning, increased community awareness, and increased environmental stewardship. Though the benefits are many, few schools utilize...
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    (2018) studied two third-grade classes over ten weeks. Half of the lessons were taught outside in a