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The Oregon eugenic movement : Bethenia Angelina Owens-Adair

Creator:: Currey, Linda Lorraine
Abstract:: In 1906, applying Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories to the human race, Sir Francis Galton introduced the concept of eugenics, "the science of the improvement of the human race by better breeding." The rediscovery in 1900 of Mendel's laws of genetic inheritance and an upsurge in hereditarian thought set the stage...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Title: The Oregon Eugenic Movement: Bethenia Angelina Owens-Adair Abstract approved: Dr. 'Paul Farber

Synchronization in a CMOS technology

Creator:: Flannagan, Stephen T.
Abstract:: The problem of synchronization arises in the interaction among digital systems not sharing a common clock reference. The reliability of synchronizers is related to metastable operation of bistable elements. Because of its subtle nature, the phenomenon until recently was not widely researched. However, the literature now contains a sound theoretical...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The advisory committee consisted of professor John Owen and professor Richard Adams of Oregon

Floodplain vegetation following over 80 years of intensive land use and de-watering : Lower Owens River, California

Creator:: Risso, Derek A.
Abstract:: Riparian areas in the arid western United States are critical ecosystems that have been severely degraded by a variety of land and water uses over the last 100 years. In this study, the composition and structure of floodplain vegetation along the Lower Owens River in eastern California was quantitatively described...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Intensive Land Use and De- watering: Lower Owens River, California. Abstract approved

The effect of physical and hydraulic properties of peat moss and pumice on Douglas-fir bark based soil-less substrates

Creator:: Zazirska Gabriel, Magdalena
Abstract:: Douglas-fir [Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirbel) Franco] bark (DFB), sphagnum peat moss, and pumice are the most common substrate components used in the Oregon nursery industry. Despite the widespread use of these three components, little information is available on the effect of physical and hydraulic properties of peat moss and pumice on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: advisors Dr. Jim Owen and Dr. Dan Sullivan. My thanks to Dr. Owen for his investment in my education

For the Purpose of Power: An Analysis of George W. Bush’s Warrantless Wiretapping Address

Creator:: Owens, Michael V.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to examine the rhetorical efforts of President George W. Bush in defending his administration's warrantless wiretapping program. Specifically, the study attempts to determine the president's underlying motives when he defended the National Security Agency in a December 2005 radio address by applying Kenneth Burke's...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Michael V. Owens, Jr., for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary

The relationship between specific mother-child interactions and selected aspects of language development in Head Start children

Creator:: Owen, Martha-Ann
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between specific mother-child interactions and selected aspects of language development in "disadvantaged" children. The subjects were 19 preschool children in a summer Head Start program in Denver, Colorado. Their ages ranged from four years-nine months to five years-seven months. Eighteen...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: MARTHA-ANN OWEN for the MASTER CF SCIENCE (Name) (Degree) in Family Life (Child Development) presented

"Pushing for the Highline" : The Diffusion of Innovations in the Oregon Otter Trawl Fishery

Creator:: Stephenson, Garry Owen
Abstract:: Implementation of. the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 affords opportunities for fishery expansion and economic development in the Oregon otter trawl fishery. The changes stimulated by the Act should occur, according to social science theorists, by the diffusion of innovations from innovative fishermen to less innovative fishermen, with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: in the Oregon Otter Trawl Fishery AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Garry Owen Stephenson for the

Content analysis of fiction as a technique for studying attitudes in social relationships

Creator:: Owen, Lois Darling
Abstract:: The purpose of the study was to attempt to develop a methodological approach which would tap the contribution of the literary artist to the understanding of human behavior. It was assumed that a content analysis of the social attitudes expressed in fiction would yield data which was complimentary, if not...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: attitudes in social relationships AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF LOIS DARLING OWEN for the MASTER OF

Basin-wide distributed modeling of hydrologic responses to irrigation management in the Wood River Basin, Klamath County, OR

Creator:: Owens, Joshua M.
Abstract:: The Wood River Basin lies upstream of Upper Klamath Lake, the main reservoir of the USBR Klamath Irrigation Project that provides irrigation water to 210,000 acres of downstream land. Water allocation became a contentious issue in 2001 when drought led to curtailment of irrigation deliveries to the Klamath Irrigation Project...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Owens for the degree of Master of Science in Water Resources Engineering presented on June 10, 2010

Identification of potential copper and molybdenum livestock nutrition problems with forage analysis

Creator:: Kresge, Paul Owen
Abstract:: Copper deficiency and Mo-induced Cu deficiency are nutrition problems of ruminant livestock in the Burns and Klamath Falls area of Oregon. Chemical analysis of plant and soil samples was used to survey Cu and Mo levels in forage in these areas. The objectives were to assess the possibility of animal...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF PAUL OWEN KRESGE for the

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The Oregon eugenic movement : Bethenia Angelina Owens-Adair

Synchronization in a CMOS technology

Floodplain vegetation following over 80 years of intensive land use and de-watering : Lower Owens River, California

The effect of physical and hydraulic properties of peat moss and pumice on Douglas-fir bark based soil-less substrates

For the Purpose of Power: An Analysis of George W. Bush’s Warrantless Wiretapping Address

The relationship between specific mother-child interactions and selected aspects of language development in Head Start children

"Pushing for the Highline" : The Diffusion of Innovations in the Oregon Otter Trawl Fishery

Content analysis of fiction as a technique for studying attitudes in social relationships

Basin-wide distributed modeling of hydrologic responses to irrigation management in the Wood River Basin, Klamath County, OR

Identification of potential copper and molybdenum livestock nutrition problems with forage analysis

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