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  1. Ambivalent Landscapes: An Historical Geography of Recreation and Tourism on Mount Hood, Oregon

    Mount Hood is an Oregon icon. The mountain has as long and rich a history of recreation and tourism as almost any other place in the American West. But contemporary landscapes on Mount Hood reveal a recreation...

  2. Community Solutions: Moving Toward Brownfield Redevelopment

    Urban growth boundaries are intended to encourage more development within the existing developed areas and save rural lands from urban sprawl. If this is true, why are there so many large areas of vacant land...

  3. Strengthening the Resiliency of Dryland Forest-Based Livelihoods in Ethiopia and South Sudan: A Review of Literature on the...

    Dry forests account for nearly half of the world’s tropical and subtropical forests and provide a multitude of ecological services. They contribute to hydrological cycles and livestock and wildlife...

  4. Guiding the Work of Professional Learning Communities: Perspectives for School Leaders

    Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are groups of educators committed to working collaboratively in ongoing processes of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students...

  5. Psychosocial Challenges Facing Women Living with HIV During the Perinatal Period in Rural Uganda

    The complexities of navigating pregnancy while living with HIV predispose women to additional stress. Finding ways to minimize psychosocial challenges during the perinatal period may maximize the well-being of...

  6. Analysis of Travel Time Reliability for Freight Corridors Connecting the Pacific Northwest

    A new methodology and algorithms were developed to combine diverse data sources and to estimate the impacts of recurrent and non-recurrent congestion on freight movements’ reliability and delays, costs, and...

  7. The Technology Acceptance Model for Resource-Limited Settings (TAM-RLS): A Novel Framework for Mobile Health Interventions...

    Although mobile health (mHealth) technologies have shown promise in improving clinical care in resource-limited settings (RLS), they are infrequently brought to scale. One limitation to the success of many...

  8. Imagine a Place Where Teaching and Learning Are Inspirational: A Decade of Collected Wisdom From the Field

    The purpose of this article is to share wisdom collected from the field and offer a view of meaningful learning, explore the tensions that exist in educators’ work, and invite conversation about the future of...

  9. Safety in Maize: Subsistence Agriculture in a Zapotec Migrant Town

    Subsistence maize production has long been a dominant economic activity of households in Santiago Apóstol, a Zapotec community in the Central Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. A baseline study from 1973 documents a...

  10. Healthy Snack Availability Near High- and Low-Income Urban Schools

    Children’s snacking habits are influenced by their immediate food environments. Increasingly, findings show that factors such as corner stores near schools are related to obesity. This study was conducted in...

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