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  • Native wildlife species (Pseudacris regilla) utilizing invasive-dominated habitat in a highly disturbed ecosystem

    Creator:
    Epperly, Haley K.
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    The Pacific Treefrog (Pseudacris regilla) is commonly encountered throughout the Pacific Northwest and can be an indicator for ecosystem health. At each life stage P. regilla utilizes a different habitat and therefore it is important to understand habitat use at all life stages to properly manage the ecosystem, however, few...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Research and Biology (Honors Scholar) Presented May 14th, 2015 Commencement June 2015 AN

  • An Electrophysiological Study of Involuntary Attention Capture in a Go/No-go Paradigm

    Creator:
    Herdener, Nathan D.
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    The present study examined whether attention capture is driven by object saliency or contingent on top-down control setting using a go/no-go paradigm. Specifically, we investigated whether salient color singletons capture attention only when the target itself is also a singleton. We used a go/no-go task. Participants were told to search...
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    Study of Involuntary Attention Capture in a Go/No-go Paradigm Abstract approved

  • Creation of a Children’s Book to Alleviate Fear of Chemotherapy for Children Ages 5-8

    Creator:
    Funk, Anna
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    The concepts of cancer and chemotherapy are not unheard of to children, but are often scary and confusing. This paper addresses the need for children’s books on difficult concepts (such as cancer), the creation of a script for a children’s book explaining chemotherapy on a cellular level, the creation of...
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    Chemotherapy for Children Ages 5-8 by Anna Funk A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University Honors

  • Effective Signage to Manage Recreation at OSU’s Research Forests

    Creator:
    Walters, Corinne A.
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    This thesis focuses on creating effective signage for the Oregon State University College of Forestry Research Forests (OSU Research Forests). The OSU Research Forests are a unique setting because they offer space for research, class field trips, active timber harvest, and public recreation. The public interface requires the management at...
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    .................................... 46 Figure 8: Kiosk B setup with permanent panel, map, and bulletin board

  • Writing down what no echo can ever repeat

    Creator:
    O’Donnell, Nicolette
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    This thesis consists of an autoethnography of a sexual assault survivor written using poems, journal entries, annotations, photographs and song lyrics. The ethnography is a chronological record of feelings the author experienced during the day prior to the attack and emotions she navigated during the year and a half after...
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    in Chemistry presented on May 19, 2009. Title: Writing Down What No Echo Can Ever Repeat

  • "A Monument to Jim Crow": Post-War Racial Liberalism and the Battle Over the Booker T. Washington Black Veterans Hospital

    Creator:
    Du Plessis, Lihani
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    “A Monument to Jim Crow’: Post-War Racial Liberalism and the Battle Over the Booker T. Washington Black Veterans Hospital” examines the proposed Congressional bill to build a segregated black veterans hospital as a memorial to Booker T. Washington in Franklin County, Virginia. This paper examines the developing ideology of racial...
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    ," Journal of American History 89, No. 3 (December 2002): 958-983; Wendy Wall, Inventing the "American Way

  • Women's Health Narratives: A Cervical Cancer Prevention Program for College-Age Women in Portland, Oregon

    Creator:
    Sawtelle, Katie G.
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    Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is so common that about 80% of those in the United States will acquire it during their lifetime. In more serious cases, HPV can develop into cancer: each year in the U.S., there are around 32,000 HPV related cancer diagnoses. The HPV vaccine series can prevent the...
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    have the virus, because it generally does not present any symptoms. Currently, there is no test to

  • Youth Vaping Epidemic: LGBTQ+ Youth

    Creator:
    Bhupalam, Ratna
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    In the United States, rates of youth vaping are alarmingly high. In 2018, the U.S Surgeon General declared youth vaping as an epidemic (Truth Initiative, 2019a). However, LGBTQ+ youth are disproportionately affected. In 2017, current e-cigarette usage in youth was 13.2% among heterosexuals, but was 17.5% in LGBTQ+ youth (CDC,...
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    -Cigarettes & Addiction Because of the recent introduction of JUULs in the market, there has been no long

  • A Comparative Analysis of Mercury and Lead in Sindoor from the U.S. and Bangladesh

    Creator:
    Breen, Anna K.
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    Heavy metals have historically been popular for use in cosmetics manufacturing due to the colorful pigmentation of heavy metal compounds. In the case of sindoor, a cosmetic used by married Hindu women for religious purposes, mercury sulfide, lead tetroxide, and lead chromate are compounds suspected to still be involved in...
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    BioResource Research (Honors Scholar) Presented May 24, 2021 Commencement June 2021 2 3 AN ABSTRACT OF

  • Native bees, honeybees and pollination in Oregon cranberries

    Creator:
    McKenney, Melissa A.
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    Farmers rely almost exclusively on the imported European honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) for fruit and vegetable crop pollination services. The recent decline in honeybee health has underscored he danger of relying on a single species to provide vital services. Increasing pollinator biodiversity with native bees may provide biological insurance against...
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    of Bandon to just north of Port Orford, a distance of more than 40 km. Because no previous research