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Reproductive decision-making in young women breast cancer survivors

Creator:: Everson, Courtney Louise
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to use an integrated biocultural perspective to examine the decision-making processes of young survivors as they navigate breast cancer treatment and reproductive health care options. This retrospective study utilizes a mixed-methods approach that integrates quantitative survey data (Phase I) with interview (Phase II) and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ………………………..………………..99 Appendix B Invitation Script for Phase II.....…………………….………103 Appendix C Interview

Cultural analysis of the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan and Fishermen's reforestation movement

Creator:: Takahashi, Tokiko
Abstract:: Based on the author's ethnographic research at the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan, this thesis explains a cultural process of the local people's synthesis of the values they place on nature and their everyday behavior in a modern industrial world. Explicated by ethnographic narrative, this study focuses on a revitalization...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Care and Kinship in the Anthropocene: What Interspecies Relationships Can Tell Us About Managing Agricultural Pests In A Changing Climate

Creator:: Olson, Elizabeth
Abstract:: In Oregon, the effects of climate change on agriculture are already being felt. In the Northwest, climate change impacts agricultural pest pressure, especially insects, whose life cycles are tied directly to weather and climate. The goal of this research was to record and analyze Oregon fruit and vegetable farmers’ relationships...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: that elected to participate likely already have a) some interest in talking about insect pests and b

Little houses on the prairie : a predictive model of French-Canadian settlement in Oregon's Willamette Valley

Creator:: Kinoshita, Jun R.
Abstract:: Using GIS, this study creates a predictive model of a distinct population of French-Canadian settlers, highlighting shared environmental characteristics of known sites that may have factored into their decision-making process as they chose locations for their farmsteads. While traditional historic and archaeological research has been conducted on French Prairie, the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: shepherding of Karen Mills, Loretta Wardrip and Claire Younger, my time at OSU could not have been as rich

Queering the Birthing Body: Coming Out Fatigue and the Medical Gaze

Creator:: Danna, Maria N.
Abstract:: Queer birthing parents in the Pacific Northwestern United States have multifaceted and variable paths when it comes to conceiving a family. With the innovations in assisted reproductive technology accompanying the wider acceptance and recognition of gender and sexual difference in mainstream society, a greater number of queer birthing parents are...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: “natural” as a cultural construction. Claire Wendland, an obstetrician and feminist

Food Insecurity Among Oregon College Students : Their Experiences and Perspectives

Creator:: Sutton, Juliet
Abstract:: This thesis examines the food insecurity experiences of student clients of the Oregon State University Emergency Food Pantry. Utilizing semi‐structured interviews and participant observation at the food pantry, this study investigated who is using the food pantry, the forms of food insecurity they experience, how they cope with it, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Looking for Fish of the Right Age : Developing Predictive Modeling for Submerged Sites Using GIS, Salmon Genetics, and the Human Ecology of Salmon

Creator:: Krier, Jon C.
Abstract:: A major challenge to the study of the peopling of the Americas is that much of the Bering Land Bridge (Beringia), the geographic area that people migrating from Northeast Asia into North America would presumably have passed through, is now submerged due to sea-level rise since the last glacial maximum....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Of stereotypes and strategies : emic perspectives of shopping in a television servicescape

Creator:: Harris, Mackenzie Moore
Abstract:: Culturally based stereotypes are a pervasive force behind quick judgments about behavior, intent, and beliefs which allow individuals to interact efficiently to meet their own goals. Gender stereotypes are present in marketing media and servicescapes, where they define the behavior, needs, and wants of shoppers. The literature on consumer behavior...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the ghosts of overworked graduate students. Thank you to Karen, Loretta and Claire, three fabulous

Power and participation in urban planning : an ethnographic case study of Curitiba, Brazil

Creator:: Piel, Eric W.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the concepts of power and participation and how they are intertwined in the examination of the urban planning systems in Curitiba, Brazil. Power is identified as both the planning system's ability to affect the daily lives of the city's residents and the power of individuals and groups...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: receive. B. Ideological forms strive to shame the powerful, justilr the infractions of the weak or

Native American Representation in Museums : A Cross Cultural Comparison of the Effects of Cultural Resource Laws

Creator:: Thorsgard, Misty
Abstract:: The image of Native Americans in the United States has changed through the passage of time. Part of this change is directly related to the representation of their cultures in a museum setting and the inception of cultural resource laws that govern them. This research looks at four museums, two...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Reproductive decision-making in young women breast cancer survivors

Cultural analysis of the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan and Fishermen's reforestation movement

Care and Kinship in the Anthropocene: What Interspecies Relationships Can Tell Us About Managing Agricultural Pests In A Changing Climate

Little houses on the prairie : a predictive model of French-Canadian settlement in Oregon's Willamette Valley

Queering the Birthing Body: Coming Out Fatigue and the Medical Gaze

Food Insecurity Among Oregon College Students : Their Experiences and Perspectives

Looking for Fish of the Right Age : Developing Predictive Modeling for Submerged Sites Using GIS, Salmon Genetics, and the Human Ecology of Salmon

Of stereotypes and strategies : emic perspectives of shopping in a television servicescape

Power and participation in urban planning : an ethnographic case study of Curitiba, Brazil

Native American Representation in Museums : A Cross Cultural Comparison of the Effects of Cultural Resource Laws

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