In this case, the student is a senior partner in Corporate Planning Group (CPG), a strategy-consulting firm. The principals of National Systems, Inc. (the company) have retained CPG to develop a 5-year strategic marketing program to (1) strengthen current markets and (2) develop new markets for the company’s line of...
This case study describes in detail how to conduct a performance review of forest product industries. This case study uses the paper industry for illustration, but the principles and methods presented are such that you will be able to conduct a performance review in any industry.
This case study describes the challenges that con-front the German publishing industry as it attempts to implement environmentally responsible purchas-ing of paper. German consumers are considered leaders in environmental awareness, and many actively sup-port environmental organizations. This case focuses on how industry and individual companies have responded to demands from...
Although forest products marketing courses are common in forestry curricula, the set of teaching materials available to support instructors is very limited. For those wishing to use the case method, very few up-to-date marketing case studies are specific to the forest products industry. This publication provides an example of one...
In this case study, Willamette Industries, Inc. explores the potential of environmental marketing. The company conducted research to determine the views of their customer base. Based on this information and a description of the company’s external
environment, students are asked to recommend a marketing strategy.
In this case study, an Oregon softwood lumber company faces deteriorating market conditions and loss of market share for its 2 x 10 and 2 x 12 floor joists in the southern California market. The evolution of the marketplace and the growth in market share of wood I-joists are explained...
The purpose of land use planning, as conducted by the Forest Service, is to allocate land uses. The techniques employed in the current planning process fail to take location of the land allocations into account in any systematic manner. The resulting solutions may be inconsistent with planning goals; the land...
Suicide has become a national health crisis over the last twenty years in the U.S as rates have increased 35%. Rates of suicide among rural and youth (10-24 age range) populations have been shown to disproportionately contribute the most to upwards trends though, and this is especially true in Klamath...
Riparian ecosystems play numerous and essential roles related to the quality and
flow of water, and food/habitat for fish, and varieties of wildlife. Due to lateral and linear linkages throughout the landscape, these zones influence the integrity of the terrestrial as well as the entire aquatic-riverine ecosystem. Since Euro-American settlement...
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been reported to have motor skill delays and deficits. However, there have been challenges to these findings on whether these deficits are due to lack of movement skills or inaccurate assessment methods. Due to relative strengths in processing visual stimuli as opposed to...
Adapted physical activity and education (APA/APE) service-learning has received considerable attention as a training tool to prepare undergraduate students, including preservice physical education teachers, to work with people with disabilities (Hodge, 1998; Rowe & Stutts, 1987; Taliaferro et al., 2015). Much of this research focuses on demonstrating the effects of...
Acculturation, defined as the process of adopting the behaviors and beliefs of the dominant host culture, is often associated with dietary change and negative health outcomes, such as increased risk for obesity and diet-related diseases. The large and rising immigrant population in the U.S. necessitates a better understanding of the...
Major fishery investment has recently been implemented in West Africa as part of the World Bank's West Africa Regional Fisheries Program. To support this effort the New Partnership for Africa's Development funded development of a Seafood Bio-Economic Assessment Model. The model was initially developed for Ghana, but will accommodate other...
This paper describes the results of a time-study conducted
near Grand Ronde, Oregon, to determine the production
rates and total harvesting costs of a cable thinning in a
young stand. The stand had a species mix of 48 percent
western hemlock (Tsuga. heterophylla- (Raf.) Sarg.), 45 percent
Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga meuziesil...
We conducted a case study of the process for developing ZOA created by the Blue Mountains Forest Partners (BMFP), a collaborative group established in 2006 and focused on the northern portion of the Malheur National Forest in Grant County. This group was one of the first to formalize their ZOA,...
Diverse stakeholders and land management agencies are increasingly working together in “forest collaborative” groups to meet ecological, economic, and social goals on Oregon’s public lands. Many collaboratives focus on science-based ecosystem restoration. One such group is the Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project (DCFP) in central Oregon, which seeks to increase forest...
The organizational capacity of natural resource collaborative groups can be an important factor in how effective they are at meeting their goals. This brief reviews the leadership committees of five forest collaboratives working on similar issues in eastern Oregon. It is intended to help new and existing groups best utilize...
Statistics indicate that the number of dual-career couples, and
thus dual-career women, has continued to increase (Holahan & Gilbert,
1979a; Jump, 1986; Maples, 1981; Sekaran, 1983). Very little is known,
however, about how these women make their career-related decisions
(Morgan & Hock, 1984). The major purpose of the present study...
This thesis uses an anthropological approach to examine the current social status
of the young elderly in contemporary urban China and explores the problems these people
are facing. A review of literature sets up complementary theoretical frameworks for the
understanding of the interaction between changing social environment and transitional life...
The purposes of this study were to (1) identify major problems
faced by the youth who, in transition from school to work, have resorted
to anti-social behavior and are now inmates of Deuel Vocational
Institution, (2) identify the behavioral patterns of youth having employment
problems that resulted in incarceration within...
Four questions were examined concerning student
perceptions of their launching family environment,
expected family environment, family values, sexual
attitudes and behavior, and attitudes toward divorce.
A total of 383 college students from three family types
participated in this study: intact (298, 77.8%),
divorced (47, 12.3%), and remarried (38, 9.9%). The...
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Women entrepreneurs are an economic force within the American and Oregon economy. Women are starting businesses at two to five times the rate of men. There has been significant research detailing the demographics, barriers, and business management skills of women business owners. Yet, the research to date has been limited...
Distracted driving is an adverse driving behavior that is widely known to impair the safety of all roadway users and traffic flow. Despite the extensive research efforts on the prevalence and effects of distracted driving on roadway safety and performance, the number of vehicular crashes and fatalities resulting from distracted...
INTRODUCTION: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have been shown to possess relative strengths in processing visual stimuli as opposed to verbal stimuli (Tissot & Evans, 2003). Therefore, instructional strategies that use visual means and presentations are recommended over the traditional (verbal) instruction. The effectiveness of video modeling has been...
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Strategies on Motor Skill Assessments
Emmalee Cron, Layne Case & Joonkoo Yun
INTRODUCTION: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have been shown to possess relative strengths in processing visual stimuli as opposed to verbal stimuli (Tissot & Evans, 2003). Therefore, instructional strategies that use visual means and presentations are recommended over the traditional (verbal) instruction. The effectiveness of video modeling has been...
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Traditional and Video Modeling
Strategies on Motor Skill Assessments
Emmalee Cron, Layne Case & Joonkoo Yun
The purpose of this study was to describe the level to which a target work culture based on core organizational values was shared in one lumber manufacturing plant. The organization under study perceived that their culture was a source of competitive advantage and was key to their success in safety,...
The top business management educators consider case teaching to be a highly effective means for building critical decision-making skills in future managers. Although this method holds significant potential, it is not commonly used in fisheries management education and training. The Training Mangers for 21st Century Fisheries Initiative has identified development...
A model consisting of a linked series of equations is presented for estimating the future effect of various intensities of forest management on the economy of a region. The model, in conjunction with the most recent inventory of the USDA Forest Service, is then applied to data from Douglas County,...
Two companion pieces, a video documentary and written analysis, provide the
text for this exploration of how women's life stories and the mother-daughter narrative
are preserved through the transmission of inherited objects. The video documentary
reveals the lives of six diverse women who each discuss the politics of receiving and...
This paper describes the development of a course on Digital Libraries taught in Fall 2018 in the Library Management Department at the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (ULSIT). The instructor, an Associate Professor and Digital Projects Librarian at Oregon State University in the United States, received a U.S....
The focus of postcolonial studies has shifted in the last decade or so from a struggle over history, the narratives of winners and losers—as recorded by the winners and resisted by the losers—to a struggle over geography. Power inequities formerly embodied in Manichean conceptualizations (Colonizer/Colonized, Oppressor/Oppressed, Occidental/Oriental, Self/Other, First World/Third...
В 2017 году исследователи из УниБИТ присоединились к международной научной группе для проведения исследования „Компетенции в области управления научно-исследовательскими данными“, которое целит получение информации о компетентностях в области управления научно-исследовательскими данными преподавательского состава в ВУЗах. В докладе обобщены выводы проведенного в марте 2017 года базированного в сети Интернет анкетированного исследования...
In 1994, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) implemented a new audit tool developed by the US Department of Defense (DOD) called "The Environmental Assessment and Management Guide" (TEAM Guide). The TEAM Guide uses an extensive menu of checklists to determine compliance. In November 1994, the USACE Portland District...
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics published their vision of active, problem-centered instruction with a goal of conceptual understanding in 1989. Fifteen years after these reforms were proposed the changes are reflected in school policy and elementary mathematics curriculum, but only limited change has actually occurred in classroom instruction....
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to investigate the development of social norms in a fifth-grade reform-based mathematics classroom through a close examination of one teacher's actions during the first three weeks of school. This study offers insights into the following research questions: 1) How does an elementary...
The papers in this collection grew out of an organized symposium at the 1998 meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association: "Conceptual Foundations of Economic Research in Rural Studies." The symposium was organized to provide a forum for discussion of the new frameworks of rural capital and economic geography, to...
The movement to reform mathematics teaching and learning in schools began in the 1980s. After dedicating vast resources to support reform efforts since then, the transition to improve mathematics teaching and learning in schools has not occurred. In the majority of mathematics classrooms teachers still rely on traditional teaching strategies...
The climate in which communication occurs is a result of
how employees in an organization perceive and react to such
factors as rewards, support, trust, openness, decision making,
and leadership. The purpose of this case study is to identify
and describe communication climate factors in a health care
organization which...
This study was conducted to investigate the student-to-student interactions that take place in an online community college course, and how the interactions impact an online learning community. The literature review revealed three related themes: (a) the impact of the teaching/learning environment on student interaction, (b) barriers in the online environment,...
Presented here is a case study of the problem-solving behaviors of upper-division undergraduate physics majors. This study explores the role of visual representations in students' problem solving and provides a foundation for investigating how students' use of visualization changes in the upper-division physics major. Three independent studies were conducted on...
This interpretive study sought to understand how six GED graduates who
dropped out of high school came to be enrolled at a rural community college,
and what factors they perceived promoted or impeded their academic
persistence and success. Specifically the study focused on student
backgrounds, reasons for dropping out of...
Roundabouts have become an alternative for traditional intersections due to the safer operational performance. Previous research has provided crash modification factors (CMFs) as a criterion based on before-after studies as to evaluate the safety performance of roundabouts. One drawback of assessment based on crash modification factors, however, is that a...
The purpose of this descriptive case study analysis was to provide portraits of the heuristics students used and difficulties they encountered solving conditional probability problems prior to and after two-week instruction on sample space, probability, and conditional probability. Further analysis consisted of evaluating the data in relation to a previously...
For the past 100 years, the prominent instructional model for all public
education in the United States has been teacher/content centered with the intent of
covering a discrete body of knowledge in a given period of time. As the end of the
twentieth century approaches, natural, social, political, and economic...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the student personnel
services rendered at a public two-year community college. The institution
chosen for the study was Lethbridge Community College, located
in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Six hundred and one people, representing seven population groups,
were randomly selected for participation in this...
The purpose of this study is to explore through their own stories and journeys (storjourns), how lesbian leaders influence and transform dominant community college culture. Five lesbian leaders participated who held the position of Director, Associate Dean, Dean, Executive Vice President, and President/Executive Dean. This microethnographical inquiry divulges and makes...
A great deal of responsibility accompanies the
person who becomes an academic department chairperson.
However, the new department chairperson is often a temporary
occupant of the chair and will return to a
teaching faculty role within a relatively short period
of time. In addition, there are few training programs
in...
This thesis provides a comparison of advanced econometric frameworks to account for unobserved factors in crash reported data (also referred to as unobserved heterogeneity) while identifying contributing factors by roadway classification for heavy vehicle injury severity and crash rates. The presented thesis provides two manuscripts that expand the literature regarding...
This exploratory study examined the estate planning knowledge
and actions of married couples in Oregon. The specific objectives of
the study were: (1) to determine couples' estate planning knowledge
and their estate planning actions, (2) to determine if a relationship
existed between couples' estate planning knowledge and their estate
planning...
The purpose of this study was to compare and describe
test score differences on the Woodcock Psycho-Educational
Battery in Spanish (BATERIA) and the Wechsler Intelligence
Scale for Children--Revised Mexican version (WISC-RM).
Analyses were performed on the two test batteries, investigating
mean score differences on the different clusters as
a function...
The purpose of this study was to investigate one of the
effects of the SCIS program in the Corvallis Public Schools.
The investigation was based on a comparison of students
ability to construct a logical theoretical model from a
discrepant event.
The total sample consisting of 289 students, was
obtained...
This thesis explores the challenges and triumphs experienced by three students who spent the summer abroad on international internships. Through their individual stories and journals, they shared how they questioned their own values, their nationality, and the value of formal education. They also experienced changing relationships and new career aspirations...
The purpose of this phenomenological research is to deepen understanding of the interrelationship between being lesbian and community college leadership experiences, values, priorities, practices, and identity negotiation. The following outlines thematic research findings.
1. Lesbian community college administrators' have experiences in:
-- Anti-lesbian work environments that exposed them to homophobic...
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This thesis combines elements of forestry, interpersonal communication, and rhetoric to describe where residents of Coos Bay and North Bend Oregon obtain information about forests and forest uses, and how they view the credibility of that information. As a qualitative exploratory study, grounded theory methodology was used to develop theme...
This thesis examines one aspect of social change in Nepal. Contact
with the outside world since 1951 has provided a non-traditional
means of achieving access to highly valued occupations, resulting in
the formation of an emerging elite. High caste status is no longer
absolutely necessary to gain access to education,...
Student engagement in a course plays a vital role in a student’s ability to process and construct knowledge. Student engagement research has investigated how students engage in and out of the classroom on a macro scale, through observation and survey data collection of large student populations, which lack focus on...
Throughout the world, weather-related and other natural phenomena claim thousands of lives and devour billions of dollars annually in recovery efforts. Destruction of life and property in the wake of disasters is devastating, and can have a dramatic impact on families and businesses around the globe. Yet, published works specifically...
Around the globe, an array of alternative agrifood movements has emerged largely in response to the ecological and socio-economic threat caused by industrialized agricultural processes. From organic agriculture, to Slow Food, Locavore, and the Food Sovereignty movement, people around the world are reasserting their right to healthy and culturally appropriate...
This qualitative study explores the "coming out" experience of gay males raised in conservative Christian environments. Seven men with varying ethnic and racial backgrounds, between the ages of 20 and 40 years old, participated. Each was raised in a conservative, Christian environment during his formative years and each was now...
Quick Response is an umbrella term for strategies to cut lead times and to eliminate unnecessary production costs from a manufacturing plant to a consumer market. In particular, the textile and apparel industries need strategies to quickly respond to a changeable market in the international supply chain. As the industry...
This paper explores the connection between the agricultural use of neonicotinoid pesticides and the decline of wild bumblebee populations across the United States.
1. Ecologists, outdoor professionals and the public work and play in lands with complex histories. Part of decolonizing our professional and recreational practices is to expose settler colonial biases and recognize the histories of colonized lands and the peoples who have stewarded these lands for millennia prior to colonization.
2....
Background: Commercial fishing is one of the most hazardous industries in the US. The occupational fatality rate in 2014 was 80.8/100,000 full-time equivalent workers, nearly 25 times higher than the national average for all workers. The purpose of this study was to identify causes and contributing factors of fatalities to...
This study documented the historical perspective of lake fisheries in Kashmir, India, estimated the trends in fish production using the Kane’s cross impact analysis and the stakeholders’ willingness to pay (WTP) for the restoration of Schizothorax fishery in the lakes of Kashmir. The cross impacts of introduction of carps in...
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Recent national and state legislation reflect a
growing awareness of the need for comprehensive cultural
resource management programs. Various pieces of federal
legislation and Oregon's Senate Bill 100 demonstrate a
willingness of governments to provide for such programs.
The administration of local land use issues at the state
government level...
The California Fisheries Fund (CFF) launched in 2008 as a public-private initiative aimed at demonstrating how to make financial investments in a growing, sustainable commercial fishing industry. Since then, CFF has operated as a nonprofit revolving loan fund, extending 34 loans totaling more than $4.2 million.
CFF’s initial business model...
Paper describes the formation of a Center for Digital Scholarship and Services at Oregon State University Libraries with a focus on how the library accomplished digital library and scholarly communication services. The paper describes the goals of the library in this area and the organizational and staffing changes that were...
The North Unit irrigation District of Central Oregon,
a water project developed under the guidelines of the
Bureau of Reclamation, is characterized by limited water
and the need for efficient utilization and control of the
irrigation system. To manage the limited water resource,
irrigators need a timely and economical method...
Faculty-led short-term programs are the most popular type of study abroad experience for undergraduate students in the United States. The rise of the FLST model has created new challenges for institutions and faculty. This study undertakes a critical analysis of the practice of faculty-led short-term (FLST) study abroad at U.S....
Three kkeeyy variables are examined to determine their influence on
the process of community planning at Corvallis, Oregon. These are
(1) the setting of priorities, (2) organization and (3) external
reference. Interactions of goals program participants were recorded
as the community responded to comply with Oregon Senate Bill #100's
requirement...
A recent and steady increase in student participation in study-abroad programs
has caused international educators and student affairs professionals to reevaluate the
current study-abroad paradigm and redesign and implement new curricula better suited
to meet the changing needs of international education. Recent emphasis has been
placed on understanding outcomes of...
The purpose of this study was to explore and describe
the nature of local school-community human service agency
collaboration undertaken to address the needs of at-risk
youth. The study focused on the experience of four youth
services teams in two Oregon counties.
A qualitative, multiple-case study approach was used as...
The Japanese system of local management has been heralded as a successful system for managing coastal resources. Despite such general success, however, fishing cooperatives and their respective members currently face internal and external pressures from over-fishing, pollution, and life in an industrialized society. Further, the Japanese government has pushed for...
Within the U.S. there is a growing interest in the case of female adolescents being coerced into the sex industry (Bernstein, 2010; Estes & Weiner, 2001; Soderlund, 2010; Williams and Frederick, 2009). This interest, which emerged due to U.S. involvement in the international trafficking phenomena and grassroots organizing, has resulted...
The focus of this autoethnography was an in-depth analysis of the recorded experiences of a middle school math teacher's transitional development from classroom teacher, to teacher leader. The following research questions guided this study: (1) In what ways did the researcher’s view of self as a teacher leader change during...
Learning disabled students in special education
programs have not been demonstrating equal achievement
gains in reading when compared to their non-handicapped
peers.
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects
of Accelerated Learning methods in teaching reading to ten
learning disabled middle school students in southwest
Washington.
Accelerated...
The compositions and loadings of organic matter in soils and sediments from a diverse range of environments along the Fly River system were determined to investigate carbon transport and sequestration in this region. Soil horizons from highland sites representative of upland sources have organic carbon contents (%OC) that range from...
This study focused on the potential water and energy savings from implementing a revised schedule of a recirculation pump connected to a condensing gas tankless water heater located in a study home in Portland, Oregon. The existing recirculation pump activation schedule was studied for its impact on the overall water...
Thirty-four current worksite health promotion programs were
studied in order to obtain comprehensive information about various components
involved in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of existing
programs, and to acquire the necessary data to develop a theory and corresponding
hypotheses pertaining to successful worksite health promotion
programs. The case study...
Provides information about complexity of watersheds. Outlines ways to form partnerships, to develop strategies for enhancing watershed resources, and to implement enhancement projects.
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Since the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1975, a number of common problems have emerged. Primarily they involve the difficulties both experienced and created by public schools attempting to fulfill the federal mandate to provide students with disabilities an appropriate public education. The purpose of...
Published March 1992. Reviewed March 2015. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/catalog
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Nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) owners control a significant portion of forestland nationwide. Even though women own or manage NIPF lands, we know very little about how women manage forestland and what barriers women face in forest management. In addition, while there are several forestry organizations available to NIPF owners, few...
Environment, safety and health (ESH) research has a strong tradition of
conducting research in manufacturing to improve workplace ESH conditions and has
tied its management strategy and technical practices to many significant priorities:
illness and injury prevention, environmental sustainability, corporate social
responsibility, compliance with regulatory and insurance requirements, and dealing...
The purpose of this study was to determine if there
were differences between testate or intestate university
employees relative to: 1) demographic characteristics
(age, income health, marital status, education, number of
children, housing tenure, and gender), 2) planned personal
and family retirement income sources (including: savings,
individual retirement accounts, mutual...
Cooperation across ownership boundaries is critical to most conservation efforts in mixed ownership landscapes. Where owner objectives vary widely, as at public-private landownership boundaries, cooperation can be especially challenging. This research explores the opportunities and challenges for cooperative fire management among public and private forest managers in the John Day...