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Reproductive isolation and interspecific hybridization in the threatened species, Sidalcea nelsoniana

Creator:: Gisler, Steven D.
Abstract:: In addition to its longstanding recognition as an influential evolutionary process, interspecific hybridization is increasingly regarded as a potential threat to the genetic integrity and survival of rare plant species, manifested through gamete wasting, increased pest and disease pressures, outbreeding depression, competitive exclusion, and genetic assimilation. Alternatively, hybridization has also...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Brunet, and Ann Mari VanDerZanden for their valuable feedback. For his assistance and companionship

Weaving Walt : A rhetorical exploration of narrative techniques within Walt: The Man Behind the Myth

Creator:: Seuser, Christina N.
Abstract:: The Disney Company is an inescapable force in American life that is often detached from the stigma of big business and instead viewed as something particularly valuable, the United States’ foremost storyteller. In addition to the stories that the Disney Company produces through its animated and live-action productions, there is...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: analysis of the documentary that is influenced by the works of Fisher (1987), Barthes (1966) and

Influence of cover crops on vine performance at two Willamette Valley vineyards

Creator:: Sweet, Rebecca Marie
Abstract:: It is estimated that 50-75% of Oregon vineyards cultivate at least every other alley in order to 1) reduce water stress 2) increase vineyard canopy temperatures and 3) increase nutrient availability. Because many vineyards are situated on steep hillsides, frequent tillage could result in increased soil erosion, decreased soil quality...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Rebecca Marie Sweet for the degree of Master of Science in

White-breasted nuthatch density and nesting ecology in oak woodlands of the Willamette Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Viste-Sparkman, Karen
Abstract:: Habitat loss causes a reduction in available resources for wildlife, alters the configuration of remaining habitat, and may isolate wildlife populations. White-breasted nuthatches (Sitta carolinensis) are experiencing long-term population declines in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, where they are historically associated with oak woodlands. As secondary cavity-nesters, white-breasted nuthatches may...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Boyer of Heritage Seedlings, Jim Kruetzbender, Dennis Lundeen, Ben Magill, Zora Ann McClintock

Iroquois of the Pacific Northwest fur trade : their archaeology and history

Creator:: Jameson, Jennifer E.
Abstract:: During the early 19th Century, the fur trade brought many Iroquois to the Pacific Northwest as working primarily as voyageurs for the North West Company. When the North West Company merged with the Hudson's Bay Company, the Iroquois employees merged as well. After retirement, some settled in the Willamette Valley...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Deathscape of St. Paul: Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Landscapes

Creator:: Boulware, Brooke L.
Abstract:: A cultural landscape analysis of two historic cemeteries in St. Paul, Oregon demonstrates that the residents of this early community were unknowingly using grave markers to express their worldview and the identities that they felt were most important. Because of the historical and cultural development of this community as the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: over a larger geographical region. An early example of this type of work is Price (1966). Analyzing

Under the Shadow of this Red Rock: Reading T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land for its Places, Persons, and Poetics

Creator:: Summers, Stephen James
Abstract:: Thomas Stearns Eliot’s 1922 modernist poem The Waste Land presents itself as an alternative to the decaying society Eliot found himself inhabiting. It begins as a personal means of pulling together one’s fragmented consciousness, but in doing so Eliot manages to present a solution to a world of selfishness—looking beyond...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: the pragmatic Sosostris and her poisonous “Belladonnas.” Marie longs for a past that has gone away

Publicly Funded, Privately Assisted : The Role of Giving in Oregon K-12 Education

Creator:: Sattem, Jennifer L.
Abstract:: In Oregon, property tax revolts and school equalization measures have led to increasingly unstable and more non-discretionary public funding for schools. As a result, public schools are turning to private donations to provide both basic and supplemental educational opportunities. Some schools and districts are raising hundreds of thousands of dollars,...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: 2000). The idea that “money doesn’t matter” has been perpetuated since the Coleman report of 1966

It's in the blood : the varieties of Linus Pauling's work on hemoglobin and sickle cell anemia

Creator:: Gormlet, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
Abstract:: Linus Pauling incorporated hemoglobin and a disease of the blood, sickle cell anemia, into many of his researches between the mid-1930s and mid-1970s. In the early 1930s Pauling became interested in organic chemistry and named hemoglobin as one of the first biochemical substances that he planned to analyze. In 1935...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1966): 13-8, 13. 6 Linus Pauling, "The Normal Hemoglobins and the

Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

Creator:: Ellis, Erik
Abstract:: This dissertation focuses on the life of Dixy Lee Ray as it examines important developments in marine biology and biological oceanography during the mid twentieth century. In addition, Ray's key involvement in the public understanding of science movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a larger social and cultural context...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Finally, in 1966 Lurleen Wallace, wife of George Wallace, successfully ran in his stead because the

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Reproductive isolation and interspecific hybridization in the threatened species, Sidalcea nelsoniana

Weaving Walt : A rhetorical exploration of narrative techniques within Walt: The Man Behind the Myth

Influence of cover crops on vine performance at two Willamette Valley vineyards

White-breasted nuthatch density and nesting ecology in oak woodlands of the Willamette Valley, Oregon

Iroquois of the Pacific Northwest fur trade : their archaeology and history

The Deathscape of St. Paul: Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Landscapes

Under the Shadow of this Red Rock: Reading T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land for its Places, Persons, and Poetics

Publicly Funded, Privately Assisted : The Role of Giving in Oregon K-12 Education

It's in the blood : the varieties of Linus Pauling's work on hemoglobin and sickle cell anemia

Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

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