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The Influence Of Collective Action And Policy In The Development Of Local Food Systems, Lori Porreca

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The modern global agrifood system has had significant negative impacts on consumers and producers. This has precipitated the rise of local food systems that are purported to improve the health and livelihoods of consumers and producers. High expectations have led to significant public and private resources dedicated to the development of local food systems. Despite this, there has been little systematic research exploring the social and institutional conditions that facilitate or frustrate local food system development.

Using a comparative case study approach, this study explored the ways local structural conditions, collective action, food system policies, and the political context affect …

The Impact Of The Physical Environment On The Social Integration Of Individuals With Disabilities In Community, Keith M. Christensen

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Social integration in community is especially important for individuals with disabilities well-being. Although individuals with disabilities reside within the community's physical environment, they are often marginalized in the social environment. This may be the result of individuals with disabilities residing in physical environments that negatively affect opportunities for integration in the social environment. However, there has been little investigation to understand the impact of the physical environment on the social integration of individuals with disabilities in community.

The purpose of this investigation was to (a) examine the current body of evidence concerning the impact of a community's physical environment on …

Dancing With Heretics: Essays On Orthodoxy, Questioning And Faith, Darren M. Edwards

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

While much has been written about the conflicts, supposed or actual, between logic and faith, science and religion, few accounts of the personal turmoil these conflicts can cause exist. Likewise, many of these nonfiction accounts are written from a distinctly polarized place leaning either to science or faith.

In this thesis, I mix research and history with memoir and a sense of poetry to explore my personal experience with this conflict. At its outset, I hoped for this project to capture my struggle as an orthodox member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) in dealing with …

The Utah Statesman, April 7, 2010, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Marginalia No. 27, Merrill-Cazier Library

Marginalia

Dean Clement’s Letter: “the library remains an upbeat place”

2009 Winners: Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture awards

"Outcasts United" 2010 common literature experience … Randy Williams

A Genesis … Exhibition of John Ciardi’s poems & Gabor Peterdi etchings. Notes by Rose Milovich.

Research week 2010 … an Exhibit of recent USU faculty publications ... Jennifer Duncan

With Help from our Friends … Brad Cole on recent acquisitions – A Diet & Health book collection & John Suiter’s photographic archives.

Welcome New Merrill-Cazier Librarians: Kacy Lundstrom and Angela Dresselhaus.

The Library by the Numbers: An Annual Statistical Snapshot of the …

Invisible Abuse: Utah's Response To Emotional Child Abuse, Janae Sirrine

Browse All Undergraduate research

The very nature of emotional child abuse makes it difficult to detect and report. Nevertheless, scholars and professionals in the field of child welfare have identified emotional abuse as being equally detrimental to children as physical abuse and neglect. Many states, including Utah, have unclear definitions of emotional child abuse. The purpose of this study is to interpret how Utah has used its statute on emotional abuse in the court system and whether the current definition of emotional child abuse has given Utah’s courts enough information and direction to prosecute those who emotionally abuse children. Data were collected by researching …

Faculty Senate Agenda, March 29, 2010, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• PRPC Annual Report
• EPC Items
• Faculty, Student, and Administrative Data Report (10 Year Trends)
• Honorary Degrees and Awards Report
• Committee on Committees Election Results
• Ad Hoc Committee Report on Pre-Tenure Mentoring & Evaluation
• PRPC Code changes
• Nominations for Faculty Senate President Elect

Instructional Program For Interdisciplinary Master Of Natural Resources Degree, Oregon State University Online, Badege Bishaw, Paul Doescher, Steven Radosevich

Conference on University Education in Natural Resources

Managing natural resources is a complex problem involving production, ecological, social, economic and ethical systems, which affect and, in turn, are affected by the others. The proposed Master of Natural Resources (MNR) degree is designed to engage university scientists and world‐wide natural resource professionals in a process that integrates diverse perspectives about natural resource situations at the state, regional, national, and international levels. The MNR degree will assist agency and industry personnel meet their self‐improvement goals. Students will learn about the various disciplinary components that make up natural resource problems and solutions to them. The MNR curriculum is organized into …

Standing Our Ground: The Meaning Of Saf Accreditation, Laura E. Dewald, Terrance W. Clark

Conference on University Education in Natural Resources

Since its inception in 1935, the SAF accreditation program for forestry education has changed significantly. Initially, accreditation was a rating system of one’s alma mater to determine which graduates had the knowledge to be eligible for SAF membership versus those who needed more on‐ the‐job experience to qualify. Thus from the beginning, the focus of accreditation has been on quality of education. However, what constitutes “forestry education” has always been difficult for SAF to define for accreditation purposes. For example, a July 1935 Journal of Forestry article described “recreational forestry” as a branch of forestry or a separate profession. In …

The Utah Statesman, March 26, 2010, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The Utah Statesman, March 24, 2010, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda, March 8, 2010, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Honorary Degrees and Awards Report
• Committee on Committees,Election Results
• PRPC Annual Report
• Ad Hoc Committee Report on Pre-Tenure Mentoring & Evaluation
• EPC Items
• PRPC Code changes Section402 –The Faculty Senate and Its Committees

Diversity At Usu

ADVANCE Library Collection

No abstract provided.

Tri-Council For Gender Programs: History, Carol Strong, Pamela Riley, Janet Osborne

ADVANCE Library Collection

No abstract provided.

From The Usu Colleges ( Agriculture, Science, Natural Resources, Engineering) Targeted By Advance

ADVANCE Library Collection

No abstract provided.

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, March 4, 2010, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences

• Prefix Change

Huntsman School of Business

• New Course
• Title Change, Course Description Change

School of Accountancy

• Title Change

Department of Management

• New Course
• Title Change, Course Description Change

Elementary and Secondary Education Program (School of TEAL)

• New Course

Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education

• Title Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change

Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation

• Prerequisite Change

Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation

• Title Change, Multiple List Change, Dual List Change
• Prerequisite Change, Dual List Change, Multiple List Change
• Prerequisite Change

College of Engineering

• Title Change, Credit Hour Change, …

Willingness To Pay Estimation When Protest Beliefs Are Not Separable From The Public Good Definition, Kimberly Rollins, M.D.R. Evans, Mimako Kobayashi, Anita Castledine

Reports

Public good attributes that are correlated with protest beliefs but not separable from the good's value, would affect stated preference estimates of the WTP for the public good. Survey data collected to value a program to prevent ecosystem losses on Nevada rangelands, where the majority of land is publicly owned and managed, reveal more than half of the respondents exhibiting some protest belief. Of these, about 60% voted 'yes' to some nonzero bid amount. By treating protest beliefs and opposition to the proposed program as separate concepts, we systematically analyze their determinants and impacts on WTP. In this framework, people …

The Utah Statesman, March 1, 2010, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Faculty Senate Agenda, March 1, 2010, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Research Council Report
• Budget and Faculty Welfare Committee Report
• EPC Items
• Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee Report
• Human Resources –Policy Changes
• Committee on Committees Election
• PRPC Code Changes Section 401 –Composition and Authority of the Faculty(Second Reading)

The Utah Statesman, February 22, 2010, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Sensitivity Of Wtp Estimates To Definition Of 'Yes': Reinterpreting Expressed Response Intensity, Mimako Kobayashi, Kimberly Rollins, M. D. R. Evans

Articles

Willingness to pay (WTP) estimation typically involves some strategy for mapping nondichotomous contingent valuation (CV) responses onto a dichotomous yes/no dependent variable. We propose a new approach to selecting which responses qualify as ‘yes.’ We apply the proposed method to polychotomous CV data for preventative land management programs in the Great Basin. We also estimate WTP using other methods of response recoding found in the literature. By contrasting the results under different approaches, we demonstrate how and why WTP point estimates vary across recoding methods and discuss the comparative advantages of our more generalized recoding approach that is based on …

The Utah Statesman, January 27, 2010, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The Utah Statesman, January 20, 2010, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Service To Olympic Teams In The Usa Over A 30-Year Period, Richard D. Gordin

Kinesiology and Health Science Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, January 14, 2010, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences

• Prerequisite Change
• Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change
• Grade Mode Change

Huntsman School of Business

• New Course

Department of Economics and Finance

• New Course

Department of Management

• New Course
• Prerequisite Change
• Inactivate Course

Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services

• Title Change, Dual List Change, Course Description Change

Department of Communicative Disorders

• Prerequisite Change

Department of Psychology

• Prerequisite Change
• Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change
• Course Number Change

Department of History

• Add Multiple List

Department of Music

• Inactivate Course

Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology

• Title Change, Add dual list, Course Description …

Faculty Senate Agenda, January 11, 2010, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Information on Administrators Reviews
• Budget Advisory Committee Report
• Council on Teacher Education Report
• Scholarship Advisory Board Report
• EPC Items

Facing The Center: Toward An Identity Poltiics Of One-To-One Mentoring, Harry C. Denny

All USU Press Publications

In the diversity of their clients as well as their professional and student staff, writing centers present a complicated set of relationships that inevitably affect the instruction they offer. In Facing the Center, Harry Denny unpacks the identity matrices that enrich teachable moments, and he explores the pedagogical dynamics and implications of identity within the writing center. The face of the writing center, be it mainstream or marginal, majority or miority, orthodox or subversive, always has implications for teaching and learning. Facing the Center will extend current research in writing center theory to bring it in touch with theories now …

Does "Free Sampling" Enhance The Value Of Public Goods?, Arthur J. Caplan, Douglas Jackson-Smith, Sandra Marquart-Pyatt

Applied Economics Faculty Publications

This study investigates whether a ‘free sampling’ marketing strategy induces an enduring WTP premium effect for public goods. Using data from a unique field experiment involving curbside recycling, we find that the premium effect associated with providing non-participating households a brief opportunity to participate in a curbside recycling program for free is relatively small and not enduring. It may therefore not be cost effective to offer a free-sampling participation incentive for this type (or similar types) of local public good(s).

Deliberation Of Controversial Public School Curriculum: Developing Processes And Outcomes That Increase Legitimacy And Social Justice, Steve P. Camicia

Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications

Public schools in the United States are charged with facilitating public deliberation of controversial school curriculum. This often entails managing the negotiations between multiple stakeholders who have very different positions on the proper design and implementation of curriculum. To maintain legitimacy as caretakers of the public interest in a liberal democracy, public schools are asked to recognize all legitimate perspectives in such disputes. But what happens when a perspective is not considered legitimate or in the public interest by the dominant community? When disputes over curriculum ensue, the rights of individuals to have their perspectives included in the curriculum must …

Status And Prospects For The Wisconsin Dairy Goat Sector, Douglas B. Jackson-Smith

Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Faculty Publications

The Wisconsin dairy goat industry is a diverse, vibrant and robust sector that has grown rapidly over the last decade. Goat milk output has increased several-fold in the last ten years, and retail markets for goat cheese appear to be increasing at double-digit annual rates. The most recent data shows just over 200 licensed farms in Wisconsin in 2009. According to 2006 numbers, Wisconsin dairy goat farms were milking an average of 118 does that produced 1,416 lbs. On average, Wisconsin dairy goat farms were both larger and more productive on a per animal basis than farms in any other …