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  • Does Knowing Someone Who has Taken Their Own Life Increase Support for Gun Control?

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    Pastori, Shannon
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    This research paper attempts to identify variables which may influence the public's support for requiring gun permits by looking at areas which may increase their care of safety. The variables that are explored through the General Social Survey are: knowing someone who has commited suicide or not and the number...
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    data collection survey participants across the United States with will be used to generalizing the

  • The Gender Wage Gap and Education

    Creator:
    Nordin, Bri
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    Does the wage gap exist in careers that require higher levels of educational attainment? Research indicates that, on average, women make around 80% of what men earn. This study aims to investigate the relationship between educational attainment and the magnitude of the wage gap. Due to the differences in gender...
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    Research Paper
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    find that the wage gap persists, regardless of degree obtained. To test this hypothesis, survey data

  • Estimating basal glacier conditions using internal layer slopes

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    Carroll, Georgia
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    Ice-penetrating radar produces detailed images of the internal ice layers in a glacier. Because the layers form from each year's snowfall, the curving of the internal layers is a record of the climate conditions that the glacier experienced as it flowed throughout the millennia. The Hiawatha Glacier lies on top...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    the bedrock topography of the crater. The complexity of basal processes and limited climate data are

  • Implications of sex and education on abortion attitudes: a cross-sectional analysis

    Creator:
    Narendra, Anna
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    Written for Sociology 316.
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    Research Paper
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    sample of 1111 females and 828 males acquired from the 2006 General Social Survey with a response rate

  • The Effect of Deviance On Solidarity

    Creator:
    Beskow, Jonathan
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    This research project seeks to explain the relationship between deviance and solidarity among individuals, as put forth in structural functionalism, and more importantly anomie. Using the work of Emile Durkheim as a theoretical framework, this essay takes the concepts of deviance and solidarity and explains the relationship with solidarity depending...
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    reassess their values and possibly change them. Using the General Social Survey 2010 Cross-Section and

  • Genetic and morphological evidence suggests cryptic speciation within the Torrent Sculpin, Cottus rhotheus, across the Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    Nicholas, Benjamin P.
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    Dwelling on the bottom of large rivers to high alpine streams, freshwater sculpins (genus Cottus) occur in high densities across the Pacific Northwest, with 21 currently recognized species found in the Pacific Northwest. Sculpin fill many ecological roles, with some species serving as important prey sources, and others competing with...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    the Columbia River and Cascade Range acting as allopatric barriers. Morphometric data corroborates

  • Unified medical instrument prototype hardware : final report

    Creator:
    Hille, Joshua, Stevenson, Jay, and Nesler, Chris
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    DISCLAIMER This report was prepared by students as part of a university course requirement. While considerable effort has been put into the project, it is not the work of licensed engineers and has not undergone the extensive verification that is common in the profession. The information, data, conclusions, and content...
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    Technical Report
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    undergone the extensive verification that is common in the profession. The information, data, conclusions

  • Carbon isotopes show snowpack acts as a valuable moisture subsidy to mountain forests in the Oregon Cascades

    Creator:
    Ratcliff, Christopher J.
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    This study examines climatological influences, particularly that of snowpack, on tree growth and stable carbon isotope discrimination (Δ¹³C) from ~1980 to 2013 at two sites located in the upper reaches of the McKenzie River watershed of the Oregon Cascade Mountains. We tested the use of Δ¹³C values from latewood, corroborated...
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    Undergraduate Thesis
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    included Douglas-fir and mountain hemlock. Interpolated meteorological and snowpack data included snow

  • Youth Vaping Epidemic: LGBTQ+ Youth

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    Bhupalam, Ratna
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    In the United States, rates of youth vaping are alarmingly high. In 2018, the U.S Surgeon General declared youth vaping as an epidemic (Truth Initiative, 2019a). However, LGBTQ+ youth are disproportionately affected. In 2017, current e-cigarette usage in youth was 13.2% among heterosexuals, but was 17.5% in LGBTQ+ youth (CDC,...
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    Research Paper
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    Distribute post-test survey to participants six months after CMB implementation and analyze data X

  • Support for capital punishment: The role of parenthood and suburbanism in death penalty opinions

    Creator:
    Whitley, Hannah
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    This paper was prepared to fulfill partial requirements for SOC 315 and 316, which serve as the Writing Intensive Courses (WIC) required for a degree in Sociology from Oregon State University.
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    Working Paper
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    METHODS The data for this study comes from the 2012 General Social Survey (GSS), one of the most