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  • A Feminist Celebrates the Rediscovery of Immanence

    Creator:
    Lockhart, Janet L.
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    I offer a personal and prehistoric exploration of the concept of immanence, the principle of a divine force living, remaining, and operating within living creatures, inherent in the human, including the female; a unifying force that connects humans to each other, to nature, and to the earth. I examine the...
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  • The Consequences of Infelicity : The Effects of Unhappiness on Biological and Social Evolution

    Creator:
    Martinez, Jorge R.
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    In social and biological evolution, infelicity can operate as a driving motor to force change. In this essay, for life other than human, infelicity is equated with physical unfitness to compete for the resources of a specific niche. For humanity it is defined as the result of an incongruity between...
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    line. Nevertheless, a pattern common for both biology and culture, and closely 2 related to

  • The Art of Noticing : An Essay on Contemporary Ecological Writing

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    West, Rex Alan, 1967-
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    A number of thinkers are becoming increasingly persuaded that our anthropocentric view of nature is inadequate, that we need a "new morality" with regard to the environment. In this essay, I argue that an alternative to anthropocentricism is available to us now-and has been since at least 1836. I look...
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    Interdisciplinary Studies in the co-departments of English. English. and Philosophy presented on April 16. 1992

  • The Value of New Technology : View Toward Reassessment

    Creator:
    White, Stephen J.
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    Abraham Heschel wrote that a philosopher's primary task was not merely to describe and judge the modes and facts of actual human behavior, but also to examine and understand the meaninq of those descriptions and judgements of modes and facts (Bella, 1978). Our values are critically tied to our structures...
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    - disciplinary Studies in Political Science, Political Science and Philosophy presented on February 18, 1994

  • An abortion service provider as political activist

    Creator:
    Willis, Gloria
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    The feminist beliefs of abortion service providers and the effects of these beliefs on the delivery of health care to patients is examined by the author who is herself a feminist and member of an abortion clinic staff. Discussion includes abortion rates, abortion safety, characteristics of patients, and accessibility of...
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    Women Studies, Philosophy, and Women Studies presented on April 29, 1999. Title: An Abortion Service

  • Women combatants in the United States Navy : a victory for equal opportunity

    Creator:
    Rosenberg, Holly A.
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    The issue of Navy women in combat has been widely discussed since women first served during World War I. In this paper I intend to present the political, philosophical, and historical reasoning behind the changing of the regulations to allow women in combat. History shows that the Navy has faced...
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    in Interdisciplinary Studies in the areas of Political Science, History, and Philosophy presented

  • Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQ) in the Pacific Halibut Fishery : Applications to the Magnuson Act

    Creator:
    Reisenweber, John W.
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    The Pacific halibut has supported a major commercial fishery on the West coast of the United States for over 100 years. In the past, the halibut fishery was managed by a policy of open access which led to an overcapitalized fishery and raised concerns about overfishing, fishing safety, and deteriorating...
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    , representing Political Science 11/L Committee Member, Representing Philosophy Chair, ment of Political

  • The effects of harvesting Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) on the offshore community : the results of a multi-species model

    Creator:
    Gartz, Russell G.
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    The effects of harvesting Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) were examined with a multi-species numerical model composed of seven logistic growth equations coupled by a food web. The food web was composed of: California sea lions (Zalophus californianus), hake, sablefish (Anaplopoma fimbria), spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias), a generic rockfish species (Sebastes...
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    during the larval phase. I modelled these effects as a simple sine wave with the amplitude (AMP) equal

  • Nature and culture in two Pacific Northwest timber-dependent communities

    Creator:
    Six, Amanda
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    Timber-dependent, rural communities in the Pacific Northwest face dramatic economic, political, and cultural change. New philosophies of forest management, primarily formulated in urban communities, require new approaches to the use and extraction of resources. What are the roles of rural communities that wish to adapt and sustain themselves? Two rural...
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    : I I ::H'p jjj "The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this

  • Operation of the motor systems resource facility

    Creator:
    Rollman, Thomas E.
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    A state of the art motor testing facility has been built at Oregon State University. This is the largest independent testing laboratory of its type in the western United States. The construction was funded by a consortium of industrial sponsors, with a goal of becoming financially self-sufficient by charging the...
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    provided. An operating philosophy has been developed which attempts to meet the diverse needs of all