Jamie Patterson is the second oldest of three daughters of Bill Albertson and Carla Albertson. Jamie currently lives outside of Lakeview but comes back to visit her parents from time to time. The interview was conducted in her parent’s kitchen. It was a noisy background in general. We had just...
Date and Time: 23 July, 9 a.m.
Jamie moved to Lakeview 14 months ago with her fiancé who works for the Forest Service. They joke about how her job at the Extension Office has been more of a career advancement for her than moving here for her fiancé’s job has...
Seafood processing is an important industry along the Oregon coast as it provides employment and seafood to coastal communities as well as to international markets. The industry has been an integral part of the identity of Coos County since the establishment of salmon canneries in the late 1800’s and has...
An interpretative philosophical framework was applied to a case study to document the particular experiences and perspectives of ten women engineering transfer students
who once attended a community college and are currently enrolled in one of two university
professional engineering programs. This study is important because women still do not...
The purpose of this observational study was to describe the frequency of coercive behavior among siblings in foster care, a diverse population at high risk for mental health impairment. We examined differences in coercion frequency at the level of the individual child (i.e. age & gender), sibling dyad (i.e. age...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the revival trends
in furniture design during the period 1959-1969, and to understand the
relationship of these adaptations to contemporary cultural objectives.
An understanding of the design characteristics from the originals to
the modern derivatives is useful for those who wish to...
This study was conducted to observe the manner in which three local
public interest organizations participated in a local, environmentallyoriented
decision process. The study period began in December, 1978,
with the passage of a revised solid waste ordinance (Ord. 78-102) for
the City of Corvallis, OR. The main forum for...
Toughened ceramics, or bridging ceramics, are being developed in an attempt
to widen the application base of traditional ceramics, which are brittle and have low
resistance to crack extension. The crack growth resistance of these extrinsically
toughened ceramics has been shown to increase with crack length, and unlike
traditional ceramics,...
The effect of ambient environment on the fatigue behavior of two Zr-Ti-Cu-Ni-Be bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) is examined in the present study. The first metallic glass, Zr₄₄Ti₁₁Ni₁₀Cu₁₀Be₂₅, was tested to establish the presence of an environmental effect in the fatigue growth curve measured in ambient air. Fatigue growth curves produced...