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An Interview with Cass R. Sunstein: Author of The World According to Star Wars
No full textThe guest editors of special issue 12, Jason W. Ellis and Sean Scanlan, interview Cass R. Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard, where he is founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy. He is the author of many books, including the bestseller Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler). His 2016 book The World According to Star Wars attempts to understand the Star Wars universe in ten chapters through the lenses of Sunstein’s academic interests, namely: culture, sociology, psychology, behavioral science, and political science. The book is both personal and theoretical, practical and academic. It takes accurate measure of the genesis of the movies, the movies themselves, and briefly, but trenchantly, it examines concepts such as reputational cascades and speculates on what Star Wars can teach viewers about constitutional disputes
Geologic map of the Dufur area, Wasco County, Oregon
No full textReport -- Plate 1 -- Plate 2 -- Plate 3.Jason D. McClaughry, Heather H. Herinckx, Clark A. Niewendorp, Carlie J.M. Azzopardi, and Joshua A. Hackett.Title from PDF cover (viewed on May 19, 2021).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Oregon Commerce and Compliance Division safety action plan, final report
No full textby Jason C. Anderson (Ph.D., Research Associate, Portland State University) and Sal Hernandez (Ph.D., Associate Professor, Oregon State University) and Doug Hedlund (MBA, Hedlund Consulting, LLC) for Oregon Department of Transportation Commerce and Compliance Division.Title from PDF cover (viewed on February 10, 2021).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (page 39).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Internal curing of concrete bridge decks
No full textsubmitted by Jason H. Ideker, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Oregon State University ; for Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), Research Unit.Title from PDF title page (viewed on April 8, 2020)."SPR 711."Covers OCLC #1149151366.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Inclues bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Strategies to increase the service life of existing bridge decks
No full textsubmitted by Burkan Isgor, Jason Ideker, David Trejo, Oregon State University ; for Oregon Department of Transportation, Research Unit.Title from PDF title page (viewed on April 10, 2020)."SPR 780."Covers OCLC #1149991467.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
C-H activation involving three- and four-coordinate iridium(I) pincer complexes
No full textThis thesis is organized around two themes: (1) C-H activation catalysis involving in situ generated three-coordinate iridium-pincer complexes as applied toward the dehydrogenation and metathesis of alkanes and (2) understanding and expanding the reactivity of four-coordinate (pincer)Ir(CO) complexes toward the oxidative addition of C-H bonds. In the first half of this thesis, we describe the preparation of a novel class of pincer complex that is comprised of both phosphine and phosphinite moieties, representing a “hybrid” of the previously reported bis-phosphine (PCP) and bis-phosphinite (POCOP) parent species. The catalytic activity of (tBu4PCOP)Ir toward the transfer and acceptorless dehydrogenation of linear and cyclic alkanes was examined and compared to the activities of (tBu4PCP)Ir and (tBu4POCOP)Ir, generally exhibiting intermediate activity. (tBu4PCOP)Ir and other hybrid (PCOP)Ir complexes were applied to alkane metathesis using a molybdenum alkylidene co-catalyst and found to exhibit far greater activity toward n-hexane metathesis compared to either parent catalyst. The resting state of (tBu4PCOP)Ir in alkane metathesis was found to be mixture of the dissimilar resting states exhibited by the parent catalysts, suggesting an ability to effectively catalyze the respective slow steps associated with the (tBu4PCP)Ir and (tBu4POCOP)Ir routes. In the latter half of the thesis, we explore the unprecedented oxidative addition of C-H bonds to four-coordinate (pincer)Ir(CO) complexes. Employing a unique acid-catalyzed route, the net oxidative addition of phenylacetylene to square planar (tBu4PCP)Ir(CO) was observed to yield exclusively the trans six-coordinate C-H addition product, (tBu4PCP)Ir(CO)(H)(CCPh); detailed mechanistic and theoretical studies indicate that this rare transformation occurs by generating a protonated intermediate that undergoes electrophilic attack of PhCCH with subsequent deprotonation of the alkyne C-H bond in the rate-determining step. Although this acid-catalyzed reaction was observed to occur only with alkynes, the reverse reaction (acid-catalyzed reductive elimination) was found to occur for both alkyl and aryl substrates, suggesting that the acid-catalyzed oxidative addition of Csp3-H and Csp2-H bonds might be kinetically possible but thermodynamically unfavored. Preliminary experimental and theoretical explorations of the factors favoring the thermodynamics of addition support a strategy of utilizing less sterically hindered (pincer)Ir(CO) complexes bearing relatively strong σ-donating ligands trans to the carbonyl ligand.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Jason D. Hackenber
Applying linguistics in the conservation of the social and cultural context of underdocumented languages
No full textTo describe the grammar of a language is a difficult task. It requires specialized training in several formal subfields of linguistics. The type of resulting documents on specific languages are valuable for a number of reasons. For example, they are often used in language conservation to build teaching materials for a language, and can facilitate research into the social and cultural context of the language. Within the field of language documentation, the roles of producing language pedagogy materials and describing language in its social and cultural context have been recognized (Franchetto 2006, Hill 2006), but, the goal of fields like linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics, that is, to understand the internal dynamics of social organization, hence to some degree applied linguistics also, is missed by the bulk of grammatical description and language documentation due to the tacit and widespread assumption that language is componential. Indeed language can be seen as componential, but this view is inherently too limited to be reconciled with understanding language as culture. Therefore, the primary challenge is to integrate the available methods and techniques from the relevant fields to unveil and portray linguistic phenomena accurately in the practice of describing a language as a socioculturally embedded phenomenon and to make those materials relevant to teaching the language.
The research presented in the four sections of this talk compare the componential grammar model (e.g., Author 2014, Thieberger 200X) and the ethnography of communication/interactional model (Duranti 2009) and how they pair up with traditional language pedagogy (Kramsch 2002) and ethnologically informed modes of transmitting knowledge (Philips 1970, Wilson 2012), in an effort to identify specific ways to combine the best of the available models. Section 1 reviews the pros and cons of the traditional descriptive approach and the socio-culturally informed approach. Section 2 outlines the crucial role of social and cultural relevance in, not only, how languages are taught and maintained, but also what material constitutes the curriculum. Section 3 examines the nearly inevitable role of multi-lingualism in language conservation. Section 4 makes recommendations about how to expand the theoretical and analytic horizons of language documentation and applied linguistics to center on a view of language that is more than grammar and an interest in speakers as merely organisms that produce linguistic forms.
References:
Author. 2014. A Grammar of X.
Duranti, Alessandro (ed.). 2009. Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader. Second edition. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.
Franchetto, Bruna. 2006. Ethnography in language documentation. In Jost Gippert, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, and Ulrike Mosel Essentials of Language Documentation, 113–128. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Hill, Jane. 2006. The ethnography of language and language documentation. In Jost Gippert, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, and Ulrike Mosel Essentials of Language Documentation, 183–212. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Kramsch, Claire (ed.). 2002. Language Acquisition and Language Socialization: Ecological Perspectives. New York: Continuum.
Philips, Susan U. 1970. Participant structures and Communicative Competence: Warm
Springs Children in Community and Classroom. In J. E. Alatis (ed.) Bilingualism and Language Contact: Anthropological, Linguistics, Psychological and Social Aspects _ Acquisition of Rules for Appropriate Speech Usage. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
Thieberger, Nicholas. 2004. Topics in the grammar and documentation of South Efate, an Oceanic language of Central Vanuatu. PhD diss., Melbourne: Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne.
Wilson, William H. 2012. Hawaiian language revitalization. In Language in Hawai‘i
and the Pacific. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Linguistics 100 Course Reader, ed. by Hiroko Sato and Jake Terrell, 118–29. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i
The State of the Economy and the Problem of Poverty: Implications for the Success or Failure of Welfare Reform
No full textThis paper uses an historical perspective to examine the labor market prospects and the macroeconomic setting facing mothers with dependent children who were (or would have been) enrolled in the old AFDC program, now that their welfare status will be handled by the new state programs in the wake of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, passed by Congress in 1996. The new law mandates the end to entitlements to cash payments for these women and their families and requires that they become self-supporting after the time limits for the cash payments are reached—a maximum of five years. Effectively, job holding is to replace welfare assistance as the main means of self-support. This paper documents the historical record of three trends that, given the new welfare laws, will largely determine the future poverty status of the affected women: wage growth, women’s labor force participation, and single-parent families (which reflect trends in marital breakups and in out-of-wedlock births). Since 1959, the first year for the modern series of poverty statistics, both women’s labor force participation and female headship of families have increased, the latter increasing poverty rates and the former, by itself, reducing poverty rates. The paper argues that wage growth is central to reducing poverty, especially now that government income support programs have been drastically reduced. The favorable economic record in the United States from 1959 to 1973, when wages and family incomes grew, is contrasted with the period from 1973 to 1997, when wages stopped growing and the growth in family incomes was slow. Given the difficulty in reversing demographic trends, macroeconomic economic growth appears necessary and effective to reduce poverty.
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4-H beef project [1993]
No full textFacts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalogThis publication is adapted from 4-H Beef Project, originally prepared by Dean Frischknecht, Extension animal scientist emeritus; Guy Reynolds, Extension veterinarian emeritus; and Duane P. Johnson, Extension specialist, 4-H and Youth Development.
Portions of the fitting and showing section are reproduced with the permission of the Angus Joumai, 3201 Frederick, St. Joseph, Missouri, 64501.
Portions of the "Career Opportunity" section and the "Environment and Resource Use" section are adapted from the Wyoming 4-H Beef Manual, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming; Dr. Doug Hixon, author.
Portions of "Beef—a Food Product" are adapted from the Kansas 4-H Beef Curriculum, Cooperative Extension Service, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas; Jason K. Apple, author.
References to the publication. Cattle Producer's Library, can be found in your Extension office under the title Cow-Calf Management Guide—Cattle Producer's Library, Moscow: University of Idaho, Cooperative Extension Service.
Illustrations in the equipment and facilities section are reproduced with permission from Midwest Plan Service, Ames, Iowa 50011-3080, Beef Housing and Equipment Handbook, MWPS 6, 4th edition. 1987
Geologic assessment of potential cable landing sites along the Oregon coast
No full textReport -- Plate 1. Detailed geology and other factors related to the suitability of potential cable landing sites in the Gold Beach area, southern Oregon -- Plate 2. Detailed geology and other factors related to the suitability of potential cable landing sites in the Rockaway Beach area, northern Oregon.by Reed J. Burgette, Eduardo F. Guerrero, Jonathan C. Allan, Fletcher E. O'Brien, Jason D. McClaughry, Lowell H. Anthony, Robert W. Hairston-Porter, and Jon J. Franczyk.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
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