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An evaluation of the use of menu risk assessment as a tool in food service protection programs

Creator:: Gray, Lori A.
Abstract:: Despite the increase in information on the causes of foodborne disease, outbreaks continue to be a major preventable public health problem. Current food service establishment inspection programs, however, are not designed to assess the potential of risk for foodborne disease and do not focus prevention efforts where food service problems...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: J. Tinsley, Dr. Chunhuei Chi, and Mrs. Leslie Davis Burns. I wish to express my thanks to Ms. Toby

Identifying the relevance of "family forest" wood product origin and environmental certification for Oregon consumers, and specifiers and industrial customers

Creator:: Hamner, Rebecca A.
Abstract:: The wood products industry is influenced heavily by family ownership along the entire value chain. Although family ownership affects each link of the wood products value chain, there has been little research into the importance of products originating from family forestland. Specific attributes of products, such as origin or environmental...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Dr. Mark Needham, Dr. Jeff Morrell, and Dr. Leslie Burns. I acknowledge the Department of

Dynamic linkages of personality and health : the effect of traits and states in predicting health-goal progress

Creator:: Choun, Soyoung
Abstract:: Optimal aging is strongly related to personality factors along with health-behavior habits. Personality has played a key role in understanding the interactions between human behavior and the environment and as a vital predictor in determining health outcomes of individuals. Although previous studies have found links between personality traits and health,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: guidance since the very beginning of my graduate program. I really appreciate Dr. Leslie Burns for her

"Pretty and patriotic" : women's consumption of apparel during World War II

Creator:: Mower, Jennifer M.
Abstract:: The War Production Board issued limitation order 85 in April 1942 in order to conserve fabric and manpower needed for the war effort. The L-85 order froze the silhouette so no major style changes in women's wear would occur during the war. It is clear that on the one hand...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Honored values and valued objects : the Society for Creative Anachronism

Creator:: Turner, Althea L.
Abstract:: In this dissertation, I posited the need to understand how an invented community (the Society for Creative Anachronism) constructs symbolic meaning in material objects and value systems. Using ethnographic methods, I focused on the Knights and their regalia as this is the most widely accepted material symbolism. People go to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Fashion media's role in the debate on millinery and bird protection in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Creator:: Scarborough, Amy D.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to explore the possible relationship among fashion media, the social responsibility agenda of the Audubon Society, and the use of birds in millinery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Both the content analysis method and the historic method were used to gain...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Dr. Leslie Davis Burns, Dr. Kathy Mullet, Dr. Marilyn Read, and Dr. Barb Lachenbruch. Your

Interactive video communication technology and successful aging in place : applying the selective optimization with compensation model

Creator:: Yamamoto, Toshiko
Abstract:: This study utilized the theoretical framework of selective optimization with compensation (SOC) (Baltes, 1987; Baltes & Baltes, 1990) to interpret older adults' definitions about successful aging in place. Factors contributing to successful aging in place, including the importance of social interaction and perceptions of the usefulness of interactive video communication...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Atiya Mahmood, Dr. Leslie D. Burns, and Dr. Samuel Chan, for their continual commitment, support, and

Inshopping in rural communities : consumers' and retailers' perceptions

Creator:: Mullis, Katy L.
Abstract:: The ever changing nature of the retail industry, and the additional challenges of doing business in a rural area, mean that retailers in rural communities face a unique situation that makes them especially vulnerable to outshopping by rural consumers. Therefore the purpose of this study was to investigate factors which...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: invaluable encouragement and motivation throughout the process. Thank you to my committee, Dr. Leslie

Harvesting hunger : measuring food insecurity and hope in Oregon's Mexican agriculture and seafood workers

Creator:: Reeder, Julie A.
Abstract:: Food Insecurity exists whenever the availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or the ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways is limited or uncertain (LSRO, 1990). Factors that increase a household's risk for food insecurity include being low income and not being able to access formal and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Non-industrial textile production as optimal experience : applicability of the Flow Theory to clothing and textiles subject matter

Creator:: Blood, Janet
Abstract:: The purpose of this research study was to test a psychological theory of motivation called the Flow Theory by Csikszentmihalyi as it relates to non-industrial textile production activities. In using the Flow Theory, researchers attempt to explain why individuals continue participation with a specific activity; namely that the activity induces...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

ScholarsArchive@OSU

An evaluation of the use of menu risk assessment as a tool in food service protection programs

Identifying the relevance of "family forest" wood product origin and environmental certification for Oregon consumers, and specifiers and industrial customers

Dynamic linkages of personality and health : the effect of traits and states in predicting health-goal progress

"Pretty and patriotic" : women's consumption of apparel during World War II

Honored values and valued objects : the Society for Creative Anachronism

Fashion media's role in the debate on millinery and bird protection in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Interactive video communication technology and successful aging in place : applying the selective optimization with compensation model

Inshopping in rural communities : consumers' and retailers' perceptions

Harvesting hunger : measuring food insecurity and hope in Oregon's Mexican agriculture and seafood workers

Non-industrial textile production as optimal experience : applicability of the Flow Theory to clothing and textiles subject matter

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