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Determining The Property Value Impact Of Landfills, Okwuchukwu Gerald Uba

Dissertations and Theses

The decline in property value can be due to owner's act or exogenous act from the operation of landfills. Landfill neighbors, especially home owners, perceive landfill operation to pose environmental safety problem such as ground water contamination and methane gas leakage that could affect home value.

Owners of landfills, especially those landfills that accept only dry waste (limited purpose landfill), claim that since their facilities meet the requirements of environmental regulations and the type of waste they accept could not possibly produce methane gas and leachate there is no property value impact of their facilities.

Several studies have shown that …

City Club Of Portland Report On Ballot Measure 1: The Sales Tax Initiative, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Comparative Analysis Of Resettlement Policies In Third World Countries, Abrahim Jawad Al-Khalisi

Dissertations and Theses

Settlement policy in the Third World has been stimulated by the availability of public land. This availability of public land has prompted many Third World countries to adopt policies or schemes called resettlement, transmigration, or land development. These have been presented as potential means for addressing numerous agendas held by Third World countries. Settlement policies have been used to increase agricultural production and make idle land productive. Spatial imbalances of population distribution have been addressed via settlement policies. For national security, settlement policies have been used to exploit frontier lands. Solutions to serious political problems including lack of agricultural self-sufficiency, …

Cities And Automobile Dependence: An Empirical Examination Of Density And Automobile Dependence Relationship And Their Underlying Factors, Musaad Abdullah Al-Mosaind

Dissertations and Theses

Over the last several decades, low-density development and increasing levels of automobile dependence have become two of the major problems facing many urban areas. While they have significantly improved urbanites' mobility, freedom, and social contacts, and have expanded the ranges of economic activities, they have also brought numerous problems and externalities. Mitigating their negative externalities through appropriate policies necessitates the examination of their relationship and the effect of other urban elements. This research examines the relationship between density and automobile dependence and its underlying factors within cities. It examines the effects of quantifiable factors at three levels of analysis: regional, …

The Public Persona Of Nelson R. Mandela: A Study Of U.S. Print Media Narratives, Molly Jeane Mcvey

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis examines the contribution made by the U.S. print media to the development of Nelson Mandela's public persona. The period studied is from 1985 to June, 1990. This thesis explores the following questions: 1) How did the public persona of Nelson Mandela evolve in the dominant U.S. print media; 2) How do these stories, in content and form, serve to establish Nelson Mandela as a public hero; 3) What cultural myths structure the news stories of Nelson Mandela that serve as the interpretative framework for public belief and action? Data for analysis were drawn from The New York Times, …

The Times, Trial, And Execution Of David Mclane: The Story Of An American Spying In Canada For The French In 1796-1797, Mark Allen Thorburn

Dissertations and Theses

The thesis primarily examines the 1797 trial of David McLane in Quebec City for spying, the steps taken by the British authorities to ensure a conviction, and McLane's activities in 1796 and 1797 in Vermont and Lower Canada on behalf of the French Minister to the United States, Pierre Adet. McLane did not receive a fair trial because the colonial administration in Lower Canada so thoroughly manipulated the legal system that a guilty verdict was assured. But, ironically, McLane was a guilty man, having been hired by Adet to find sympathizers who would help instigate a rebellion in the colony; …

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet November 1993, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The November 1993 Monthly packet includes the November agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held October 1993.

City Club Of Portland Report On Ballot Measure 26-1: County Charter Change Concerning Jurisdiction Over County Roads Within Cities, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Environmental And Institutional Characteristics And Academic Strategic Action Variables In Small Private Colleges, And Their Relationship To Enrollment Changes In The 1980s, Johnnie Ray Driessner

Dissertations and Theses

Small private colleges represent a unique and important element of diversity within American higher education. Their small size, heavy dependence on tuition, and limited resources, have caused them to be repeatedly identified as singularly threatened with enrollment declines. Despite these predictions the evidence indicates that most of these colleges survived the 1980s and many thrived.

This study had two major goals. The first was the characterization of institutions within the population during the 1980s with regards to environmental characteristics, institutional attributes and academic strategic actions. The second was the description of the relationships between these variables and enrollment changes in …

Meeting Notes 1993-10-14 , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet October 1993, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The October 1993 Monthly packet includes the October agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held June 1993.

Fluttering Fountains: Simplified Models, Lee W. Casperson

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Fluttering oscillations are sometimes observed in the falling sheets of water associated with dams and waterfall fountains, and a theoretical simulation of this phenomenon was recently reported. In this study approximate analytical solutions of the previous model are described and compared with the experimental and theoretical observations.

Mapping The Distribution Of Vesicular Textures On Silicic Lavas Using The Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner, Jaime Ondrusek, Philip R. Christensen, Jonathan Fink

Geology Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner (TlMS) is a potentially powerful tool for mapping detailed chemical variations in silicic lava flows which in turn could expand knowledge of pre-eruption compositional gradients and mixing processes in silicic magma bodies. However, thermal infrared image data may be greatly influenced by the range of vesicular textures which occur on silicic flows . To investigate the effect of vesicularity on TIMS imagery independent of chemical variations, we studied Little Glass Mountain at the Medicine Lake Volcano of northern California, a large rhyolitic flow of uniform composition but textural heterogeneity. The imagery was recalibrated so that …

Meeting Notes 1993-09-09 , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

Collected Working Papers, Phase 2, Portland Police Bureau/National Institute Of Justice Community Policing Assessment Project, Brian Stipak, Annette I. Jolin, Maria Clavadetscher, Susan Immer, James Marshall

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

Portland State University is one of three agencies, along with the Portland Police Bureau and the University of Oregon, working on a project funded by a grant from the National Institute of Justice, United States Department of Justice. The purpose of the grant is to develop and implement methods of measuring the performance of community policing. As the recipient of the grant, the Police Bureau has contracted with Portland State University, and also with the University of Oregon, to do some of the work for the grant. This PSU report of collected working papers was produced wider the contract between …

Portland State Magazine, Portland State University. Office Of University Communications

Portland State Magazine

PSU’s alumni magazine, published 2-3 times a year. In this issue: This physics grad can determine if a missile warhead contains nerve gas or if an egg is infected with salmonella; a PSU psychology professor is asking Portland’s gay men about their relationships, feelings, and sex lives; for the past 20 years Jame Maurer has been bringing hearing technology to Costa Rica; and more.

General Education Working Group Report Recommendations, Portland State University. General Education Working Group

University Studies Assessment Research

This report seeks to address several of the questions and concerns raised by faculty at a previous meeting and to more completely set forth the rationale for the goals of the general education program the General Education Working Group recommend.

Meeting Notes 1993-08-12 , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Certain Metrics In Measuring The Quality Of End User Documentation, Ronald Morrison

Dissertations and Theses

Traditional methods of evaluating quality in computer end user documentation have been subjective in nature, and have not been widely used in practice. Attempts to quantify quality and more narrowly define the essential features of quality have been limited -- leaving the issue of quality largely up to the writer of the user manual.

Quantifiable measures from the literature, especially Velotta (1992) and Brockman (1990), have been assembled into a set of uniformly weighted metrics for the measurement of document quality. This measure has been applied to the end user documentation of eighty-two personal computer packages. End user documentation is …

Boise Neighborhood Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35169, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Eliot Neighborhood Plan Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35169, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Irvington Neighborhood Plan Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35169, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Piedmont Neighborhood Plan Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35169, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Humboldt Neighborhood Plan Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35169, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Recommended Piedmont Neighborhood Plan, Portland (Or.). City Planning Commission

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Kenton Neighborhood Plan Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35169, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

King Neighborhood Plan Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35169, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Concordia Neighborhood Plan Action Charts: Adopted By Resolution Number 35169, Portland (Or.). Office Of The City Auditor

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Unadorned By Silence: Rereading Obedience In The Writing Of Perpetua, Dhuoda, And Hildegard Of Bingen, Rebecca Anne Walker

Dissertations and Theses

In her fourth letter to Abelard, Heloise asks the question, "Oh what will become of us obedient ones?" The question presents a paradox. By putting her question in writing, Heloise violates the code of silence imposed on medieval women. The medieval church and the literate aristocracy agreed with Sophocles and Aristotle: silence is the adornment of women. Gender roles in medieval society were unambiguous. Men, by nature, belonged in the public, political arena where they directed the affairs of the world, in part, by thinking, speaking, and writing. Obedient to male authority, a woman's natural place was in the private, …

Meeting Notes 1993-07-08 [Part B] , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.