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Defining agricultural sustainability in the Marys River region of Oregon

Creator:: Stanton, Michael
Abstract:: This ethnographic study explores the social aspects of agricultural land-use in the Marys River region. The study seeks to understand how farmers define sustainability and how their views on agricultural issues help to define a sense of place and identity in the Marys River region, within the context of the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Patterns in coastal marsh vegetation of the Juneau area, Alaska

Creator:: Stone, Catherine S.
Abstract:: A vegetation study was made of four coastal marshes near Juneau, Alaska. Results confirmed earlier studies' findings in southeast Alaska that communities or assemblages of species can be identified but from marsh to marsh these assemblages appear to have no consistent relationship to each other or to environmental "factors" such...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Alaska AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Catherine S. Stone for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the

Chemical signaling and pheromone evolution in plethodontid salamanders

Creator:: Palmer, Catherine Anne
Abstract:: My dissertation focuses on the evolutionary forces that have shaped the chemical signaling system of plethodontid salamanders. Pheromones mediate two phases of plethodontid reproduction: mate attraction prior to courtship and female persuasion during courtship. Substrate-borne chemical signals are believed to play an important role in mate attraction for these animals....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Catherine Anne Palmer for

The development of a methodology to study the grief and adjustment processes of parents following the death of a young child

Creator:: Mayhall, Cheron J.
Abstract:: Purpose of the Study The primary purpose of this investigation was to develop a methodology by which to objectively study and assess the grief and adjustment processes of bereaved parents. An original research and counseling instrument, the Parental Bereavement Interview and Rating Scale (PBIRS), was formulated, field-tested in a preliminary...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: hope; Dr. Mary Jane Wall, Dr. Cliff Michel and Dr. Jim Firth, for listening, listening, listening

Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

Creator:: Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
Abstract:: L. C. Dunn (1893-1974) spent most of his scientific career conducting research in developmental genetics as a member of the Zoology Department at Columbia University in the City of New York. He had an accomplished scientific career researching mutations in mice, which earned him respect from other geneticists and scientists....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Mary Jo Nye L. C. Dunn (1893-1974) spent most of his scientific career conducting research

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:: Uncertainty: Radiation and Responsibility in the Fallout Controversy Mary Jo N The public controversy over

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

Creator:: Christensen, Terry M.
Abstract:: This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to determine where best to situate the study of mentoring (i.e. the 'making of scientists') on the landscape of the history of science and science studies. This task is accomplished by establishing mentoring studies as a link between the robust body...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Abstract approved: Mary Jo Nye This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is

Intercropping trees in a vegetable production systems : a holistic inquiry

Creator:: Seiter, Stefan
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Catherine Knott, Elaine Ingham,, Mary Lynn Roush, and Paul Doescher for their motivation throughout the

Removal of Radioactive Strontium, Iodine, and Uranium from Contaminated Groundwater : Sorption Processes and Properties

Creator:: Leonard, Mary E.
Abstract:: Iodine-129 is a key risk driver at sites where nuclear materials have been fabricated or processed, and it is a predominant isotope of concern in long-term waste storage strategies. I-129 exists primarily as iodate in the subsurface at the Hanford Site in south-central Washington State. Between 15 and 40% of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Mary E. Leonard for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry

Relationships between work values and job satisfaction amoung college student personnel workers

Creator:: Maples, Mary F.
Abstract:: This study was undertaken to examine the relationships which exist between the work values and job satisfaction characteristics of college student personnel workers in the states of Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Washington. Work values are viewed as characteristics desired on an ideal job and job satisfaction characteristics are those factors...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF MARY FINN MAPLES for the degree

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Defining agricultural sustainability in the Marys River region of Oregon

Patterns in coastal marsh vegetation of the Juneau area, Alaska

Chemical signaling and pheromone evolution in plethodontid salamanders

The development of a methodology to study the grief and adjustment processes of parents following the death of a young child

Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

Intercropping trees in a vegetable production systems : a holistic inquiry

Removal of Radioactive Strontium, Iodine, and Uranium from Contaminated Groundwater : Sorption Processes and Properties

Relationships between work values and job satisfaction amoung college student personnel workers

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