Soil carbonate is used to interpret paleoenvironmental conditions in the Eastern Korinthia, Greece, with the use of stable carbon and oxygen isotopes. The Eastern Korinthia consists of a series of marine terraces ranging in age from ~600 to 70.2 ka. The lateral stratigraphic context of the marine terraces allows the...
This thesis examines archaeological material in order to explore gender and ethnicity issues concerning fur trade era families from a settlement in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Ethnohistorical information consisting of traders journals and travelers observations, as well as documentation from the Hudson's Bay Company, Catholic church records, and genealogical information...
Purpose: The major purpose of this study was to determine the readability of selected patient education materials for older adults using the cloze procedure as a criterion. Actual cloze test scores from three selected passages on hypertension were compared with the Coleman readability scores on those same passages. Age and...
Fort Hoskins is located near Kings Valley, approximately 16 miles from
Corvallis. The Fort, built after the Rogue Wars of the 1850s, was intended to safeguard
the newly created Indian reserves. During its' ten-years of existence, U.S. Army
Regulars manned the Fort from 1856-1861 while volunteers from California,
Washington, and...
This study is an ethnographic investigation of residential turnover, organizational memory, and the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational turnover, memory, and persistence is reviewed and integrated with scholarship on intentional communities and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis....
The education (particularly graduate education) of Americans
who were active in astronomical research between 1876 and 1941
is assessed for its effectiveness in preparing the astronomers for
careers in research. This period contains three dynamic changes:
the growth of American astronomy in becoming the world's leading
community of astronomers, the...