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Every Spring and Summer, thousands of climbers attempt to summit Mt. Rainier. Many of them stop at Camp Muir, a base camp at 10,000 feet, where they can use restrooms, camp overnight, or refill water bottles before continuing their climb. Camp...
2014-03-06 (iso8601)
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Title:
The
Influence
of
External
Focus
of
Attention
Feedback
on
ACL
Injury
Related
Landing
Biomechanics
Purpose:
To
investigate
whether
a
one-time
dose
of
external
feedback
would
result
in
immediate
changes
in
landing
biomechanics
related
to
ACL...
2014-06-02 (iso8601)
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a pervasive focus of
organizations and is regarded, alongside sustainability and financial profit, as a key
element of a triple bottom-line approach. Corporations are realizing that CSR cannot be...
2014-05-30 (iso8601)
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An experimental framework for investigation of the effects of Micro Pin Fin Arrays (MPFA) on the fuel oxidation efficiency of catalytic combustion is presented in this thesis. Complete combustion of the fuel is essential for operation at maximum...
2014-05-23 (iso8601)
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Since the Altman Z-score was published in 1968, the Z-score has been a common
way that investors predict bankruptcy and value risk. However, corporate structure
has evolved since 1968 due to changes in economic factors and financial reporting...
2014-09-29 (iso8601)
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Court cases, wills, and letters are common examples of surviving primary texts
from colonial Latin America. These documents are important to historians because they
provide a unique glimpse into the lives of ordinary people who lived hundreds of...
2014-05-30 (iso8601)
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One of the tasks that continues to prove difficult in robotics is the ability to grasp objects
of varying shapes. It is time-consuming to acquire large amounts of real-world data in
order to train accurate classifiers that can predict the success...
2014-06-02 (iso8601)
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In the beginning of her travelogue, A Motor‐Flight Through France (1908), Edith
Wharton declares that “the motor‐car has restored the romance of travel.” Many scholars
have taken this statement as an index to the book’s themes. However, my reading...
2014-08-20 (iso8601)
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The preconditioning agent poly-ICLC has recently been shown to protect against
cerebral injury in the mouse model, when administered systemically prior to ischemic
insult. However, the mechanism by which poly-ICLC provides neuroprotection is...
2014-05-13 (iso8601)
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In the Capabilities Approach literature “capabilities” are the real freedoms individuals possess to achieve certain “functionings,” which are the doings and beings that constitute a good life. I argue that this approach requires, or at least can...
2014-05-27 (iso8601)
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Purpose: Increasing enrollment numbers of multicultural students, and growing research between the relationship between student engagement and student success and retention heighten the importance of addressing student engagement in campus...
2014-05-28 (iso8601)
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In recent years, simulated laboratory experiences have become more prevalent in educational curricula. These simulations, called virtual labs, can enable learning in ways that are not limited by physical constraints. The development of virtual...
2014-05-22 (iso8601)
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Dendrimers are well-defined, polymeric nanomaterials currently being investigated for their biomedical applications. Initially, higher generation (size) dendrimers were of interest because of their drug carrying capacity. However, increased...
2014-05-22 (iso8601)
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This study outlines the challenges an entrepreneur faces when trying to innovate using
public display of music rights. Public display of music rights are the licenses an
individual or business needs to play music for a group of people larger than...
2014-04-23 (iso8601)
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The Oregon State University chapter of American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics competed in the Design/Build/Fly competition for the second time during the 2013/2014 school year. This chapter began at Oregon State in 2012 and still lacks...
2014-05-02 (iso8601)
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This study looks at whether two physical characteristics, physical attractiveness and perceived competence, have an impact on student analysts finding large discrepancies between current price and target price. Equity reports published online by...
2014-05-16 (iso8601)
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Formula Student challenges collegiate teams around the world to compete against
one another in global racing competitions. Global Formula Racing (GFR) is a
collaboration between Oregon State University and German at Duale Hochshule Baden-...
2014-05-30 (iso8601)
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Oxygenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (OPAHs) are a class of environmentally prevalent compounds with little known information on their effect in vivo. In a recent study conducted using zebrafish as a model, 38 OPAHs were screened for...
2014-05-19 (iso8601)
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Recent studies have shown that there is a significant amount of dissatisfaction and
stress associated with finances, job security, and work. There are many health related
consequences that manifest in response to this continual stress that we...
2014-05-30 (iso8601)
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Transgenic biotechnology holds enormous potential as a tool to address global food insecurity. Transgenic food crops have been shown to increase food availability and food system security by incorporating disease, pesticide and drought resistance....
2014-05-22 (iso8601)
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Many public opinion surveys indicate that patients desire an open dialogue on spirituality/religion with their physicians. What role does spirituality play in the physician/patient relationship and in what contexts do these conversations arise?...
2014-05-07 (iso8601)
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2014-05-22 (iso8601)
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One source of di culty for students in Thermodynamics courses is their unfamiliarity with
partial derivatives and the associated mathematical procedures. At Oregon State University,
a mechanical analogue of thermodynamic systems, called the...
2014-05-27 (iso8601)
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This thesis examines food insecurity in Oregon among food bank users over the
course of The Great Recession. Analyzing data from the Oregon Food Bank, this thesis
tells the story of the change that the recession brought upon low-income families....
2014-05-27 (iso8601)
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