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Computer and internet usage in rural clubs : are members digitally divided?

Creator:: Cassell, Christopher J.
Abstract:: Lower rates of computer adoption and usage in rural areas has been called a "digital divide." This work explores the current state of connectivity within a rural town of the Pacific Northwest with a quantitative and qualitative overview of computer usage and access within civic and activity clubs, ranging from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: have higher rates of email penetration (93% - 56%) while activity dubs fare far worse on average (28

"No one cared we was just Indian women" : plants as a catalyst to Eastern Shawnee women's identity change

Creator:: Osborne-Gowey, Cathleen
Abstract:: Being an Eastern Shawnee Tribal member I understand the importance of documenting oral histories of Tribal elders to ensure that our cultural history is passed on to future generations. Therefore, the focus of this project is the collection, of oral histories and folklore in order to document traditional knowledge and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on May 11, 2006. Title: "No One Cared we was

Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

Creator:: McHugh, Kathleen M.
Abstract:: Across from the Memorial Union on Oregon State University’s campus sits Milam Hall, the former site of the Department of Home Economics. The building is named for Ava Milam Clark, the dean of home economics for thirty-three years, from 1917 to 1950. I aim to understand Ava Milam’s early career...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: higher education context.8 No field features these mediocre women more prominently than home economics

Life in railroad logging camps of the Shevlin-Hixon Company, 1916-1950

Creator:: Gregory, Ronald L.
Abstract:: Remnants of railroad logging camps, and their associated features, are perhaps some of the most common archaeological resources found on public lands in the Pacific Northwest. Many camps have already been located, their cultural materials inventoried, and networks of logging railroad grades mapped. Yet, despite these efforts, little can be...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: picture of a community that no longer exists but should provide future researchers, particularly cultural

The relationship of some family background variables to college graduation

Creator:: Ghaffari, Rose Marie Hughes
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships that were hypothesized to exist between the variables birth order, family size, and parents college attendance and the dependent variable, college graduation. The three general hypotheses tested were: 1. A positive relationship exists between a given position in birth order...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: made: 1. No relationship exists between birth order and college graduation. Z. An inverse

Requirement for the growth and maintenance of Alphanizomenon flos-aquae in culture

Creator:: O'Flaherty, Larrance Michael
Abstract:: Aphanizomenon flos-aquae from Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon was introduced into culture in a precipitate -free medium developed by modification of McLachlan's ASM medium. This medium ASMT No. 8 contained no organic substances other than ethylendiaminetetraacetate (EDTA) and Trishydroxymethylamino methane (Tris), and was developed by modifying the concentrations of certain elements,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: precipitate -free medium developed by modification of McLachlan's ASM medium. This medium ASMT No. 8

A revision of the North American species of Pactopus Leconte and Trixagus Kugelann (Coleoptera: Throscidae)

Creator:: Yensen, Arthur Eric
Abstract:: This study was undertaken to find means of separating the morphologically similar species of North American Trixagus and to bring together information on Trixagus and Pactopus. A key to separate the world's eight genera of extant Throscidae is presented for the first time. A key to the five species of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , detailed distribution records and range maps are provided for each species. No new taxa are proposed, but

Sound scattering by marine organisms in the northeastern Pacific Ocean

Creator:: Donaldson, Henry Adam
Abstract:: Sound scattering by marine organisms was studied off the Oregon coast and between Hawaii and Adak, Alaska. Variations in scattering were observed over a period of several hours, over did (24-hour) periods, from month to month, from inshore to offshore, in relation to biomass of midwater animals, and temperature and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: scattering layers during twilight periods. No statistical difference was found between rates of ascent and

The Space Between: How We Understood, Valued, and Governed the Ocean Through the Process of Marine Science and Emerging Technologies

Creator:: Newton, Samantha
Abstract:: Ian Angell, in the New Barbarian Manifesto, said “A ‘brave new world’ is being forced upon unsuspecting societies by advances in information technology.” It would seem then, that technological advances happen automatically and have a life of their own. There is a logic to technological advancements that is outside human...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: they had no incentive to develop them further. In turn, if management could not incorporate new

Observations on the purchase, inspection, and preparation of vegetables for group feeding at certain army air bases

Creator:: McIntyre, Ethel Mae
Abstract:: Since vegetables are of such importance in the nutrition of human beings, it is natural that they should play a large part in Army feeding. They are high in food value. The different kinds vary widely in their energy values; some-- like potatoes--are high in carbohydrates, others--like lettuce and cucumbers--...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to know that the illitial price was by no means the ultimate cost as there was a wide margill

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Computer and internet usage in rural clubs : are members digitally divided?

"No one cared we was just Indian women" : plants as a catalyst to Eastern Shawnee women's identity change

Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

Life in railroad logging camps of the Shevlin-Hixon Company, 1916-1950

The relationship of some family background variables to college graduation

Requirement for the growth and maintenance of Alphanizomenon flos-aquae in culture

A revision of the North American species of Pactopus Leconte and Trixagus Kugelann (Coleoptera: Throscidae)

Sound scattering by marine organisms in the northeastern Pacific Ocean

The Space Between: How We Understood, Valued, and Governed the Ocean Through the Process of Marine Science and Emerging Technologies

Observations on the purchase, inspection, and preparation of vegetables for group feeding at certain army air bases

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