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  • RTFM NOOb: Criticizing Internet Based Instructional Documents as a Rhetorical Genre

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    Carlson, Gordon S. III
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    The purpose of this thesis is to aid in qualitative improvements to technical support documents on the Internet. By using a generic criticism this analysis will make substantive suggestions towards the improvement of this type of document by engaging the rhetoric employed by their authors. It will discuss the history...
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    formatting conventions) finally ended their near 50 year stance that technical writing had no place within

  • Virtual virtuosos : cyborgs and integrative ethics in the intimate machine

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    Clemenhagen, Ronda L.
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    Standard accounts of women's relationship with technology stress women's need to overcome anxiety to achieve competence with computers. Recent studies provide evidence that this woman-anxiety-technology connection is an oversimplification of the relationship between women and computers. New literature also suggests that making computers more appealing will help girls overcome computational...
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    Scientific and Technical Communication presented on July 17, 2000. Title: Virtual Virtuosos: Cyborgs and

  • Negotiating between conflicting discourse communities : scientists writing technical marketing copy

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    Bratten, JoAnne Lynn
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    This case study investigates how scientists who write technical marketing copy experience and resolve the tension that results from the conflicting demands of their local (company) and global (research science) discourse communities. Twelve scientists, who are currently technical marketing writers at a small biotechnology company, were interviewed by e-mail over...
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    of Master of Science in Scientific and Technical Communication presented on October 29. 2001. Title

  • Financial development and technical efficiency : Georgian banking in transition, 1991-2000

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    Amaghlobeli, David
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    In this study overall financial development and the performance of commercial banks in Georgia during 1991-2000 is analyzed. Georgian banking system emerged from a scratch after the country gained its independence in 1991. Initial reform path turned out to be very arduous, full of failures and disappointments. After complete chaos...
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    Technical Efficiency: Georgian Banking in Transition, 199 1-2000 Abstract approved: John P. Farrell In

  • Scientists' perspectives on the importance of scientific communication in natural resource decision-making

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    Shaw, Christine Michelle
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    Natural resource decisions require consideration at many levels, ranging from how one invertebrate will be affected by a nearby road, to how an entire watershed will be transformed by a massive clearcut. Considerations reach farther than just the local ecological community-human communities, economies, and future impacts on the communities and...
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    Communication of Science 8 What good is scientific discovery if no one finds out about it? This is the

  • "No pain, no fear, no regrets": views of a good death

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    Amberwood, Lee J.
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    Substantial research has shown deficits in the quality of end-of-life care in the U.S. In response to evidence of these deficits, efforts have been made to improve quality of end-of-life care. One approach has been to ask the question, "What is a good death?" Data on views of a good...
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    Master of Science in Human Development and Family Studies presented on December 3. 2004. Title: "No

  • Phosphorus availability in biosolids-amended soils

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    Choate, Jeff
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    Quantifying labile phosphorus (P) pools in biosolids is needed to manage biosolids for both agronomic and environmental purposes. Phosphorus indices originated in an effort to protect surface water quality from-non-point-agricultural P inputs. The objectives of this research were to: (1) evaluate soil test components of the western Oregon P index...
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    , 151, 163 and 128%, respectively in the 0-5 cm depth. Thirty biosolids samples were collected from 22

  • The determinants of library prices of biology journals : an econometric analysis

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    Phillips, Irina
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    Increases in the prices of scholarly journals have exceeded the general rate of inflation for the last decade and more. In the face of this "serials crisis," libraries have found it increasingly difficult to maintain essential journal collections. This thesis investigates the causes of the serials crisis in biology using...
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    sheds some light on price determinantsspecifically, technical characteristics (including frequency and

  • Nature in chains : the effects of Thomas Jefferson’s rectangular survey on a Pacific Northwest landscape

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    Schweickert, Tina K.
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    Understanding the impact of humans on the environment has long been a topic of scholarly interest and debate. As environmental problems mount, accounts of historic ecological conditions and the factors of change become increasingly useful. This study considers competing schools of interpretation about human impacts on ecological landscapes and develops...
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    -century modernist conception,” which has no place in contemporary historical narratives.10 Munslow’s

  • Use of decision tree analysis for predictive soils mapping and implementation on the Malheur County, Oregon initial soil survey

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    Hash, Sarah Jane
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    Soil surveys provide essential information for making land use and management decisions on publicly-owned lands in the semi-arid Great Basin. Soil maps produced with conventional mapping techniques are time-consuming, costly, and do not explicitly document the soil scientist's mental soil-landscape model. Predictive soils mapping using decision tree analysis (DTA) can...
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    documentation of procedures would be provided as an NRCS technical note. Adequate support in early stages of