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"Identity in the making" in an adolescent new media maker experience : the role of interest, figured worlds, and use of authentic tools and practices

Creator:: Wyld, Jennifer N.
Abstract:: Human development researchers consider adolescence a rich time for interest development and identity exploration. A relatively new movement in the Free-Choice Learning (FCL) arena, the Maker movement, offers learners interest-driven, experiential, often collaborative, and process-oriented activities ranging from game design (computer-based and otherwise) and robotics, to sewing LEDs into clothing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Appendix Page A: Interest Survey……………………………………………………………………………..………..288 B: Personal Meaning

"Instead of tumbleweed, we have mitigation systems" : an ethnography of toxics risk, mitigation, and advocacy in IBM's deindustrialized birthplace

Creator:: Little, Peter C.
Abstract:: This dissertation draws on ethnographic data and political ecological theory to analyze the experience of residents living in the IBM-Endicott Superfund site in Endicott, New York. Combining in-depth narratives and quantitative measures from a household survey, it highlights residents' perceptions of 1) environmental health risk, 2) risk mitigation, 3) deindustrialization...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ………………………………………………………………………....276 Appendices Appendix A………………………………………………………………….303 Appendix B………………………………………………………………….329

"Pretty and patriotic" : women's consumption of apparel during World War II

Creator:: Mower, Jennifer M.
Abstract:: The War Production Board issued limitation order 85 in April 1942 in order to conserve fabric and manpower needed for the war effort. The L-85 order froze the silhouette so no major style changes in women's wear would occur during the war. It is clear that on the one hand...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ....................................................................... 132 Appendix B: Wartime demographics by respondent............. 134 Appendix C: Recruitment

A biological and systematic study of the armored boreid, Caurinus dectes, with comparative notes on related mecoptera

Creator:: Russell, Loren Kenneth
Abstract:: Caurinus dectes Russell is a minute, brachypterous scorpionfly which was discovered at Marys Peak, Benton County, Oregon, in 1976, and subsequently described as the only representative of the subfamily Caurininae within the Boreidae (snow scorpionflies). Caurinus dectes is now known to range from the Olympic Peninsula and Northern Cascades in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Butterflies, was the just object of Ridicule." -Benjamin Franklin, in response to Polly Stevenson's question

A biomechanical and physiological comparison of deep-water running styles

Creator:: Killgore, Garry L.
Abstract:: Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was to identify a deep-water running (DWR) style that most closely approximates terrestrial running. Methods: Twenty healthy male and female intercollegiate (NCAA III) distance runners were videotaped from the right sagittal view while running on a treadmill (TR) and in deep water at 55-60%...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: .................................................................... 43 B: Informed Consent Form................................................................ 80 C

A biosystematic study in the genus Aster, section Aster, in western North America

Creator:: Dean, Milton Lee
Abstract:: A biosystematic investigation was undertaken in 15 species and three subspecies of the genus Aster, in western North America. Previous studies had been based entirely on external morphological features, and it was believed that much could be learned about the natural affinities of the taxa by exploring their cytological and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ranging from n = 8 to n = 48. Examples of aneu- ploidy, B- chromosomes, and meiotic irregularities were

A biosystematic study of some North American species of Agrostis L. and Podagrostis (Griseb.) Scribn. & Merr.

Creator:: Carlbom, Curt Gerald, 1932-
Abstract:: A taxonomic investigation was made of 24 taxa belonging to the section Trichodium (Michx.) Trin., of Agrostis, and the genus Podagrostis. Experimental methods were employed, including: uniform garden culture of transplants and plants grown from seeds collected in natural populations; breeding studies; physiological and phenological investigations; cytological studies; ecological studies...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: and A. scabra. Bjorkman confirmed the presence of B- chromosomes in several of the species he

A Climate of Risk: Modeled Vegetation, Carbon, Fire, and Biomass Loss Risk in Western Oregon and Washington under Climate Change

Creator:: Sheehan, Timothy J.
Abstract:: Managing wildlands to protect species and ecosystem services in response to climate change is challenging. To develop effective long-term strategies, natural resource managers need to account for the projected effects of climate change as well as the uncertainty inherent in those projections. Vegetation models are one important source of projected...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Study area: (A) Index map of study area within the contiguous United States; (B) subregions defined for

A comparative analysis of three approaches to in-service education designed to change the behavior of classroom teachers in the social studies (K-12)

Creator:: Adams, Warren Samuel
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of an in-service project for teachers of the social studies (K-12). The project was sponsored by the Region II Committee of the Oregon Council for Curriculum and Instruction (O.C.C.I.) during the period from November 1, 1966 to April 1, 1969....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: expert counsel throughout the preparation of this thesis. To Dr. Franklin R. Zeran, who was Dean of the

A comparative investigation of the pharmacology of fish and mammalian neuromuscular systems

Creator:: Gant, Daniel B.
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Daniel B. Gant A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the

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"Identity in the making" in an adolescent new media maker experience : the role of interest, figured worlds, and use of authentic tools and practices

"Instead of tumbleweed, we have mitigation systems" : an ethnography of toxics risk, mitigation, and advocacy in IBM's deindustrialized birthplace

"Pretty and patriotic" : women's consumption of apparel during World War II

A biological and systematic study of the armored boreid, Caurinus dectes, with comparative notes on related mecoptera

A biomechanical and physiological comparison of deep-water running styles

A biosystematic study in the genus Aster, section Aster, in western North America

A biosystematic study of some North American species of Agrostis L. and Podagrostis (Griseb.) Scribn. & Merr.

A Climate of Risk: Modeled Vegetation, Carbon, Fire, and Biomass Loss Risk in Western Oregon and Washington under Climate Change

A comparative analysis of three approaches to in-service education designed to change the behavior of classroom teachers in the social studies (K-12)

A comparative investigation of the pharmacology of fish and mammalian neuromuscular systems

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