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Creator:: Ni Bhraonain, Lisa
Abstract:: As I began to explore the evocative nature of language, the creation of themes and images, and the rhythm and beauty of words that I feel must accompany meaning, I discovered that I had always seen and heard and felt the world as many of my characters do; in this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Brennan lived across the road in a cottage that everyone on the street thought was run down and needed

Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) of Oregon and Northern California: seasonal haulout abundance patterns, movements of marked juveniles, and effects of hot-iron branding on apparent survival of pups at Rogue Reef

Creator:: Scordino, Jonathan
Abstract:: The Steller Sea Lion Research Initiative was passed in 2001 to provide funding to help scientists determine causes and solutions for the population crash of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus). In response to need to understand population dynamics of Steller sea lions, NOAA Fisheries has spearheaded a large-scale, range-wide research...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: required. I received a lot of help performing data analysis of mark-resight data and understanding my

Survival and nest site characteristics of translocated mountain quail on Steens Mountain, Oregon

Creator:: Nelson, Jamie N.
Abstract:: Mountain Quail (Oreortyx pictus) populations have declined in the eastern portion of their range during the last century. However, few studies have investigated the nesting habitat and survival of Mountain Quail translocated into an area from which they have been extirpated. We translocated 217 wild Mountain Quail (Oreortyx pictus) from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: program MARK and to Lisa Ganio and Manuela Huso for their statistical advice. I want to thank my

Aspects of the early life history of juvenile salmonids in the Dungeness River Estuary

Creator:: Sather, Nichole K.
Abstract:: The decline of many Pacific salmon stocks has stimulated interest in the early life history and habitat requirements of juvenile salmon. Although estuarine habitat associations of juvenile salmon have been investigated in many coastal areas of the eastern Pacific Ocean, until recently, little was known about juvenile salmonid ecology within...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 2.1. Mark-recapture and residence times of wild subyearling Chinook salmon in the River Slough

Behavioral differences between nonprofit and for-profit hospitals : an empirical study

Creator:: Dickerson, John Fielden
Abstract:: This paper examines the theoretical and empirical differences between the behavior of nonprofit and for-profit hospitals. Considerations are extended to include the possibility of collusion when hospitals make strategic choices. The operating objectives of the firms take into account price, quantity, and quality. Defining the quality of hospital care is...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Coming of age in rural America : sense of purpose, coping, and perceived progress toward adulthood

Creator:: Dolenc, Brooke J.
Abstract:: Individuals in their 20s today have more diverse experiences with school, work, and family transitions than previous cohorts. Contemporary young adults take longer to finish school, settle into marriages or partnerships, and begin parenting; they frequently change jobs or hold multiple part-time positions. Little is known about how young adults...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

From the encoded to the explicit in the 20th Century Irish romance : a study of Elizabeth Bowen's The last September and Edna O'Brien's The country girl's trilogy

Creator:: Breeden, Shobana L.
Abstract:: This thesis uses both feminist and new historic theories to argue that the women's romance novels The Last September (1929) by Elizabeth Bowen and The Country Girl's Trilogy (1960, 1962, 1964) by Edna O'Brien are tragic bildungsroman that subvert and challenge the Irish patriarchal marriage expectations of their respective time...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Baba Brennan. With this in mind, O’Brien reasons, “Baba came to me partly through an impatience

Literacy politics and literacy education : thematic perspectives in contemporary Chicana/o narrative

Creator:: Bowman, Christine D.
Abstract:: Literacy is often considered to be a basic set of skills to be mastered by the student; the conventional wisdom maintains that the individual who has mastered these skills is then literate. Scholars in the field of literacy studies, however, argue that such assumptions about literacy fail to take into...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Can growth strata identify individual paleoearthquakes and characterize fold kinematics? A case study from the La Laja fault system, Sierra de Villicum, Argentina

Creator:: Schultz, Emily S.
Abstract:: A large, damaging earthquake in 1944 on a blind thrust fault caused 60 cm of surface rupture on the subsidiary La Laja fault and additional unmeasured growth of an associated backlimb fold. Both the fold and fault are components of the La Laja Fault System (LLFS) located 25 km northeast...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

Creator:: Stoller, Kevin R.
Abstract:: William James came of age at a time of great social and intellectual change in the United States. During this period, new professional identities proliferated, and a new culture of professionalization developed with important ramifications for conceptions of individual and social identity. Professionalization was also closely related to key intellectual...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thesisand its authorgrounded through the long and difficult writing process. Mark Largent invested as much

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The fading

Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) of Oregon and Northern California: seasonal haulout abundance patterns, movements of marked juveniles, and effects of hot-iron branding on apparent survival of pups at Rogue Reef

Survival and nest site characteristics of translocated mountain quail on Steens Mountain, Oregon

Aspects of the early life history of juvenile salmonids in the Dungeness River Estuary

Behavioral differences between nonprofit and for-profit hospitals : an empirical study

Coming of age in rural America : sense of purpose, coping, and perceived progress toward adulthood

From the encoded to the explicit in the 20th Century Irish romance : a study of Elizabeth Bowen's The last September and Edna O'Brien's The country girl's trilogy

Literacy politics and literacy education : thematic perspectives in contemporary Chicana/o narrative

Can growth strata identify individual paleoearthquakes and characterize fold kinematics? A case study from the La Laja fault system, Sierra de Villicum, Argentina

On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

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