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Online classes : the student experience

Creator:: Bucy, Mary C.
Abstract:: Online courses and even degree programs are becoming a widespread phenomenon at universities across the United States. Research into the effectiveness of these courses is in the early stages. This qualitative study explored student perceptions of their online class experience using expectancy-value theory as a framework in an attempt to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of Doctor of Philosophy in Education presented on February 28, 2003. Title: Online Classes: The

Boundaries of research : civilian leadership, military funding, and the international network surrounding the development of numerical weather prediction in the United States

Creator:: Harper, Kristine C.
Abstract:: American meteorology was synonymous with subjective weather forecasting in the early twentieth century. Controlled by the Weather Bureau and with no academic programs of its own, the few hundred extant meteorologists had no standing in the scientific community. Until the American Meteorological Society was founded in 1919, meteorologists had no...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of Science presented on April 25, 2003. Title: Boundaries of

Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

Creator:: Jolly, J. Christopher
Abstract:: The public controversy over possible health hazards from radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing began in 1954, shortly after a thermonuclear test by the United States spread fallout world wide. In the dissertation, I address two of the fundamental questions of the fallout controversy: Was there a threshold of radiation...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of Science presented on May 30, 2003. Title: Thresholds of

Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

Creator:: Richards, Linda Marie
Abstract:: The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Nye, for giving me this chance of a lifetime to study History of Science at OSU with her and in the

The illicit use of prescription stimulants on college campuses : a theoretical examination

Creator:: Bavarian, Niloofar
Abstract:: The illicit use of prescription stimulants (IUPS) is a critical Public Health problem in the college population that represents a unique form of substance use. Namely, the primary motives for IUPS by college students are academic in nature (e.g., Teter, McCabe, LaGrange, Cranford, & Boyd, 2006), which may explain why...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: final 96-item version of the BEACH-Q was administered throughout campus using one-stage cluster

Second nature : domestication as experiment and metaphor in 20th century American psychobiology

Creator:: Blanchard, Nicholas
Abstract:: By 1900 domestication was a promising, if somewhat vexed, subject in biology. Volumes had been written about domestication, but little serious scientific inquiry was directed toward the phenomenon. Expertise lay with practical men, primarily breeders and fanciers. The bulk of scientific commentary on domestication came from anthropologists who derived theories...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: arrived on campus absolutely green in the work of history. Ron Doel and Mary Jo Nye gave me an

Going somewhere or getting stuck : transitions to adulthood in rural Oregon

Creator:: Cunningham, Sarah E.
Abstract:: This dissertation explores the real world problem of rural youth out-migration and finds that the central problem is one of persistent class difference in this rural Oregon town. The research that informs this dissertation was conducted in a rural community of approximately 2300 residents in Eastern Oregon, here called Talltown....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: lifestyles are intricately tied to a web of global relations,” it is not new (Nayak 2003:170). The effect

A formative evaluation of pre-service suicide prevention training in CACREP accredited school counseling programs

Creator:: House, Terrie J.
Abstract:: Suicide is currently the third leading cause of death for adolescents ages 15- 24. While much attention has been given to this topic, no research has examined what specific information is being taught to pre-service school counselors. The purpose of this descriptive study was to evaluate the pre-service suicide prevention...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling presented on April 30, 2003. Title: A Formative Evaluation

Zimbabwean counselors' knowledge of and attitudes toward HIV/AIDS

Creator:: Richards, Kimberly A.
Abstract:: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has become the world's foremost health threat and is the number one killer in Zimbabwe. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome impacts not only the individual who has AIDS, but on nuclear and extended families, and all aspects of society in Zimbabwe. Since studies have indicated that...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Landry Richards for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling presented on November 21. 2003. Title

Comparative study of the population dynamics, secondary productivity, and reproductive ecology of the euphausiids Euphausia pacifica and Thysanoessa spinifera in the Oregon upwelling region

Creator:: Gutierrez, Jaime Gomez
Abstract:: I compare the seasonal abundance variation, population dynamics, fecundity, egg hatching mechanism and success, and apostome ciliate parasites of the euphausiids Euphausia pac?fica and Thysanoessa spinfera from the Oregon coast, USA. Community structure and nearshore distributions were examined from bi-weekly oceanographic surveys (1970-1972). This region has a strong cross-shelf change...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Oceanography presented on December 12, 2003. Title

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Online classes : the student experience

Boundaries of research : civilian leadership, military funding, and the international network surrounding the development of numerical weather prediction in the United States

Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

The illicit use of prescription stimulants on college campuses : a theoretical examination

Second nature : domestication as experiment and metaphor in 20th century American psychobiology

Going somewhere or getting stuck : transitions to adulthood in rural Oregon

A formative evaluation of pre-service suicide prevention training in CACREP accredited school counseling programs

Zimbabwean counselors' knowledge of and attitudes toward HIV/AIDS

Comparative study of the population dynamics, secondary productivity, and reproductive ecology of the euphausiids Euphausia pacifica and Thysanoessa spinifera in the Oregon upwelling region

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