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  • A Decade of Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities, their Mitigation and Open Problems

    Creator:
    Raj, Abhilash
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    The aim of this thesis is to study past 10 years of security vulnerabilities reported against Linux Kernel and all existing mitigation techniques that prevent the exploitation of those vulnerabilities. To systematically study the security vulnerabilities, they were categorized into classes and sub-classes based on their type. This thesis first...
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    . Kevin McGrath, Prof. Mike Rosulek and Prof. Joseph Louis for their invaluable comments and review of

  • Personality Perception Accuracy Development within Newly Acquainted Groups

    Creator:
    Brown, Jill A. (Jill Anne)
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    The present research sought to investigate the effect of acquaintance on the accuracy of personality judgments and extend results to groups resembling families. Participants were college students ranging from 18 to 54 years of age enrolled in a ten week long "Psychological Assessment" research practicum. The study was designed to...
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    representations of a group (McGrath, 1984). Groups, in the most basic sense, are defined as a collection of

  • Enhancing Instructors’ Teaching Experience through Virtualization

    Creator:
    Patil, Ajinkya
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    In the current education environment, many instructors make use of some type of software, such as Visual Studio or a software library like OpenGL, in the classroom. Incorrect setup and configuration on an individual’s own system is a common problem when using these software tools. This thesis explores the difficulty...
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    ” CS 462 - PD - Prof. McGrath 27 Our original assumption/hypothesis about instructors

  • Exploring Involvement : A Qualitative Study

    Creator:
    Flowers, Kyle
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    Involvement has been defined and researched by many student affairs professionals and theorists over the past 40 plus years. While many studies have researched the relationship between involvement and a student's academic success, little research has been done that explores what involvement means to them, and the motivations and factors...
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    participants of the study. Brandon, Kyle, Antonia, Jessica Jones, TJ, Kierstin, and Daniel-all of your

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

    Creator:
    Harris, Mackenzie Moore
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    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...
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    sphere. . . regarded as a feminine activity" (Otnes and McGrath 2001: 111). Even Barbie was in on the

  • Gender, genre, and the canon : teaching Aemilia Lanyer

    Creator:
    Jurgens, Jeremy
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    Traditionally, Renaissance studies have neglected or overlooked the contributions of early modern female poets, many of whom produced lively, engaging, and highly creative work despite the limitations imposed on them by a rigidly patriarchal society. In my thesis, I examine the life and work of Aemilia Lanyer, a 17th century...
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    1 That Lanyer is in fact taught is attested by numerous sources. McGrath writes that “Salve Deus is

  • Truth to Nature: The Art and Ecology of Hudson River School Painting

    Creator:
    Loeb, Harper
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    Beginning with the inception of American art history as a formal discipline in the 1940s, the dominant mode of interpreting nineteenth-century American landscape painting has been to view aspects of the landscape as symbols for grand cultural, religious, national, and moral narratives. While this method of interpretation highlights some key...
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    Masters Thesis

  • The Rebirth of Direct Farm Marketing and the Rethinking of Food Safety Regulation: A View from the Ground in Oregon

    Creator:
    Brekken, Christy Anderson
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    Consumers are increasingly turning to farm direct foods for personal reasons, such as fresh and healthy food, and for public reasons, such as supporting local and rural economies and reducing the environmental impact of their food choices. As a result, farmers’ markets and other direct farm marketing has increased substantially...
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    Capstone Project

  • The Empathetic Melancholy of Celluloid Decay

    Creator:
    Schuster, Andrea L.
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    As digital video pushes celluloid film further into obsolescence, many artists and viewers mourn the loss of what they consider a more organic medium. Photochemical film is subject to decay due to variables of care and the inevitability of time, and film’s embodied vulnerabilities are similar to those of the...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Rethinking the dualism : Don DeLillo's White Noise and the ecocritical possibilities of the nature/culture mix

    Creator:
    Bowman, Natalie A.
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    Rethinking the Dualism: Don DeLillo's White Noise and the Ecocritical Possibilities of the Nature/Culture Mix questions current applications of ecocriticism and offers that these applications are inadequate in dealing with the perceived nature/culture dualism. This thesis suggests that ecocritics need to stop thinking in dualistic terms, but instead must consider...
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    McGrath emphasizes that through Thoreau's treatise on sustainable living, "[h]e describes an alternative