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Food insecurity in rural Benton County: an ethnographic study

Creator:: Gross, Joan and Rosenberger, Nancy
Abstract:: In 2003 the US Census Bureau found that 11.2% of the United States population was food insecure at some time during the year. The curious nature of such statistics only increases when we shift our gaze to the state of Oregon. This state enjoys a temperate climate and good farmland,...
Resource Type:: Working Paper
Full Text:: Ruiz. There are general trends that affect the poor all over, but each community, and even each

Women in Transition: The Mexican Family, Migration, and the Mothers of Casa de los Angeles

Creator:: Richards, Rosalie A.
Abstract:: Women in Transition: The Mexican Family, Migration, and the Mothers of Casa de los Angeles is broken into three parts: methodology, history of migration and gender roles, and in Mexico, the examination of interviews from mothers in San Miguel de Allende. Methodology explores the various ways historian collect oral histories....
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: travelled to Africa to examine vampire legends and their role in the communities. Authors Gloria Gonzalez

Entre crítica e imaginación: El contexto de las relaciones de México y Estados Unidos desde la perspectiva de La frontera de cristal y Gringo viejo

Creator:: Hansen, Tobin M.
Abstract:: What historical and political reality is reflected in the novels Gringo viejo and La frontera de cristal? What is revealed when the characters, plot, and setting of the novels are analyzed against research of the context of U.S.-Mexico relations? We begin to explore these questions by studying three periods crucial...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , debido a que la profesora Gloria Anzaldúa utilizó la metáfora de la frontera como herida en su obra

Depression, acculturation, and relationship power in Mexican immigrant women: an exploratory study

Creator:: Helfgott, Gabriela I.
Abstract:: One of the largely undetected and untreated health conditions affecting the Latino population in the United States is depression. Although the onset of depression can be influenced by a variety of factors that differ among individuals, Latinos in the United States are subject to certain cultural-specific social and environmental stresses...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: suggest that by 2030 the number of Latinos in the United States will reach 63 million (Gloria, Ruiz

Analytical approach to the quantitative analysis of silicon in plants : its application to plant silica extraction

Creator:: Boone, Carmen E.
Abstract:: The literature available on the silica content of herbaceous biomass, and its relative mobility in leaching/extraction systems, includes studies that have employed several different methods for silica quantification. This makes comparison of the data difficult. The objective of this thesis research was to determine the quantitative relationships between the measured...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Recordando memoria : shaping Chicana identity

Creator:: Martinez, Yolanda Tellez
Abstract:: This research explored the self-concept of Chicanas in terms of their lived experiences and how those experiences influenced the shaping of their identity. It examined the multiple labels Chicanas use to self-identify and the context or situations in which they use specific labels. Moreover, it took into account the influence...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: other beliefs but in keeping with what Gloria Anzaldua (1990) terms "surviving the crossroads" (p. 380

Exploiting Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum genetic resources : diversity analysis and germplasm development

Creator:: Matus, Iván Ariel
Abstract:: Wild barley (Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum) could be a source of useful genes for improving cultivated barley. The useful genes present in Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum may be new alleles at described loci, or these may be entirely new genes in the sense that there is limited allelic variation at...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Feed P. striformis resistance LBIranIUNA827 1//Gloria! NA /Malting; 2-row ComexBowmanBC 43 Tango

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

Creator:: Christensen, Terry M.
Abstract:: This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to determine where best to situate the study of mentoring (i.e. the 'making of scientists') on the landscape of the history of science and science studies. This task is accomplished by establishing mentoring studies as a link between the robust body...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Weiner (with Gloria Lubkin), Finn Aaserud, and Ken Ford, the 2006 Master’s Thesis was developed using

Cloning and biochemical characterization of the hectochlorin biosynthetic gene cluster from the marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula

Creator:: Ramaswamy, Aishwarya V.
Abstract:: Cyanobacteria are rich in biologically active secondary metabolites, many of which have potential application as anticancer or antimicrobial drugs or as useful probes in cell biology studies. A Jamaican isolate of the marine cyanobacterium, Lyngbya majuscula was the source of a novel antifungal and cytotoxic secondary metabolite, hectochlorin. The structure...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: and Dr. Lena Gerwick for their academic guidance. I would also like to thank Gloria Zeller for her

Anthropological case studies of religious syncretism in Bolivia

Creator:: Lord, Jonathan
Abstract:: Religious histories have always appropriated pre-existing symbol systems of religion into newer forms, often with the goal in mind to acculturate a population into a new cultural setting to reach a desired status quo of society. The problem with acculturation theory is that it is filled with teleological and quantitative...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: solo que es corta; y que hay sólo una gloria que es eterna. Si haces esto, habrá muchas cosas que no

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Food insecurity in rural Benton County: an ethnographic study

Women in Transition: The Mexican Family, Migration, and the Mothers of Casa de los Angeles

Entre crítica e imaginación: El contexto de las relaciones de México y Estados Unidos desde la perspectiva de La frontera de cristal y Gringo viejo

Depression, acculturation, and relationship power in Mexican immigrant women: an exploratory study

Analytical approach to the quantitative analysis of silicon in plants : its application to plant silica extraction

Recordando memoria : shaping Chicana identity

Exploiting Hordeum vulgare subsp. spontaneum genetic resources : diversity analysis and germplasm development

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

Cloning and biochemical characterization of the hectochlorin biosynthetic gene cluster from the marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula

Anthropological case studies of religious syncretism in Bolivia

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