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  • Marine reserves in The Bahamas and Ecuador : a scientific and socioeconomic perspective

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    Lamb, Robert W.
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    Marine reserves are known to directly replenish overfished species. However, the community-wide effects of reserves are less clear. I examined the community of coralreef fishes in a large, fully protected marine reserve in The Bahamas: the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park. Visual-transect surveys provided estimates and comparisons of the...
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    Studies thesis of Robert W. Lamb presented on August 25, 2008 APPROVED: Mark Hixon, Mentor

  • Sensitive Barnacles : A Case Study for Collaborative Sustainable Fishery Development

    Creator:
    Bingham, Julia
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    Current human – ocean relationships are dominated by unsustainable extraction of marine resources having both ecological and socio-economic consequences. Sustainable fishery management utilizing stakeholder collaboration must become a proactive strategy to prevent or reduce further long-lasting impacts. In Oregon, USA, a newly developing fishery for gooseneck barnacle (Pollicipes polymerus) presents...
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    Development. Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Mark Novak

  • “Just” Words?

    Creator:
    Lieberman, Aaron W.
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    The purpose of this thesis is to engage in a linguistic-conceptual inquiry into what it proposes might for analytical purposes be conceived—and which it hence stipulatively defines—as Applied Value Words. After constructing the conceptual framework through which to identify, and within which to characterize Applied Value Words, this thesis then...
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    Thesis Preamble AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Aaron W

  • Measuring Past Networks of Cultural Transmission: The Haskett Projectile Point

    Creator:
    Stone, Samantha R.
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    Advances in technology such as 3D digital scanning and spatial analysis software have provided archaeologists with novel data. Specifically, these methods increase the researcher's ability to measure artifact morphology and past networks of cultural transmission, to potentially track the movement of past peoples and ideas through space and time. This...
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    _____________________________________________________________________ Daniel W. Bean, Committee Member

  • The Effect of Varying Parameters on Web Vibration Analysis Accuracy

    Creator:
    Gladson, Kathleen Y.
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    The SpiderHarp is a bio-inspired electronic musical instrument that uses a localization algorithm developed at Oregon State University to translate plucks of its strings into musical notes. This localization algorithm was inspired by the way spiders locate prey in their webs. The SpiderHarp frame, sensors, and web design are also...
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    ® 225 315 270 Average Difference Between Predicted and Actual Pluck Range by Pluck Angle: W eb 2 at

  • Corporate Oregon : A narrative study of Measure 97

    Creator:
    McMorris, Claire M.
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    Oregon Ballot Measure 97 is a contentious measure on the Oregon 2016 ballot that seeks to raise taxes on corporations with sales over 25 million dollars within the state of Oregon. Predictably, there has been a considerable amount of dialogue with the public as well as lobbying among elites to...
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  • How the Portrayal of Women Characters in the Zorro and Robin Hood Stories Has Changed Over Time

    Creator:
    Rodriguez-Walmisley, Olga B.
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    This thesis explores how female characters in the Zorro and Robin Hood stories have changed throughout time, from beginnings until present day. I began my analysis by first researching whether Zorro and Robin Hood existed, and found that Robin Hood was most likely a real man who lived during the...
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    characters: one may have actually existed, while the other is entirely fictitious. According to J. W. Walker

  • "What Fools Call Crime": The Boundaries of the Pornographic Imagination in Sade’s La Philosophie dans le Boudoir

    Creator:
    VanLaningham, Christie A.
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    On the surface, the written works of the Marquis de Sade appear to be nothing more than pornographic mania articulated, the narrative trajectory of which oscillates between illicit words and acts. Yet his life and works are important to historians, if not due to their inherent quality then because they...
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    of the common noun, “sadism,” and the adjective, “sadistic,” which serve to mark a signifying

  • The Culture of Names – A Comparison between Vietnam and Denmark

    Creator:
    Ngo, Toan Tri Dung
    Abstract:
    This project discusses the topic of personal names and the cultures of different peoples and their particularities, specifically in Vietnam and Denmark. The first part of this paper gives a brief history of naming traditions (mostly relating to Western European traditions). The second part of the paper compares two families...
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    . Census Bureau 2005; U.S. Census Bureau 2008)10 Immigration is the great exclamation mark in any

  • Neural and Behavioral Components of Moral Elevation

    Creator:
    Lewis, Blanca M.
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    Moral elevation, or elevation, is a prosocial emotional state elicited by witnessing displays of altruism or moral beauty. For this study, medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and autonomic physiology activity were monitored during elevation induction. We hypothesized that changes would occur in mPFC activity during elevation and that these would significantly...
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    release (Silvers & Haidt, 2008) and dual activation of the SNS and PNS may mark oxytocin release (Kenkel