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Oregon outdoor garments : outdoor garments worn in the Willamette Valley and Eastern Oregon regions between 1880 to 1920

Creator:: Mower, Jennifer M.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to describe women's outdoor garments worn in Oregon from 1880 to 1920 to determine whether there were garment differences between the Willamette Valley and Eastern Oregon. The question addressed was: can garment differences be explained by the different Oregon climates, geographic locations, and availability...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Master of Arts in Design and Human Environment presented on May 1, 2006. Title: Oregon Outdoor

Identical confusion : the history of twin studies on sexual orientation, 1952-1973

Creator:: Boltseridge, Nathan H.
Abstract:: In 1952, at the height of the McCarthy era, Franz Kallmann, a Jewish psychiatrist and eugenicist who fled the National Socialist regime in Germany, published a study, in which he claimed to have found a one hundred percent concordance rate for homosexuality among forty pairs of identical twins. From this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease and the American Journal of Human Genetics, purporting to have

Deliver knowledge or touch the mind? The effect of informational and emotional advertisement strategy on sportswear brand attitude and recall

Creator:: Lee, Jennifer J.
Abstract:: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of advertisement strategy (informational, positive emotional, negative emotional) and brand awareness (high, low awareness) on brand name recall and change in brand attitude. The study extends previous research by focusing on the sportswear market and including personal involvement towards...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Lee for the degree of Master of Arts in Design and Human Environment presented on May 29, 2013

"Walloped" by the weather? Deflections, diversions, and dubious representations of women in climate change discourse

Creator:: Brinker, Rachel K.
Abstract:: Research shows that women's lives are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change. While the topic of women is largely absent from climate discourse overall, the representations of women that occur reveal underlying structures of power rooted in imperialism and colonial dominance. This thesis presents an analysis of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: because of the historical associations between women and the environment. Ecofeminist scholars such as

The effects of retail store lighting and shelf height on consumer' feeling of safety and behavior

Creator:: Mouhoubi, Farida
Abstract:: This study aims to identify the effect of different lighting conditions and shelf height in a retail store environment on emotional states, feeling of safety and behavioral intentions. Lighting and store fixture height are two retail store components that can affect consumers’ emotional states and therefore their shopping experience. This...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Environment presented on March 13 2014. Title: The Effects of Retail Store Lighting and Shelf Height on

Dig Sites and Domesticity: Jessie Camp and the 1947 University of California Africa Expedition

Creator:: Fraas, Picabo K.
Abstract:: In 1947, scientists from the University of California departed for a fifteen-month expedition to Africa. Jessie Camp, wife of the head paleontologist Dr. Charles L. Camp, had no official position on the expedition. Yet in performing her traditional domestic duties, she greatly contributed to the overall success of the expedition....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the 1940s: Post-War Reconstruction and the Onset of Apartheid,” South African Historical Journal 50

Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

Creator:: McHugh, Kathleen M.
Abstract:: Across from the Memorial Union on Oregon State University’s campus sits Milam Hall, the former site of the Department of Home Economics. The building is named for Ava Milam Clark, the dean of home economics for thirty-three years, from 1917 to 1950. I aim to understand Ava Milam’s early career...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Better Farms’: Domestic Reform in Rural Tennessee,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 22, no. 1

Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

Creator:: Zimmerman, Katharine
Abstract:: The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, truly a synthesized work of natural history, coincided with the emergence of specialized disciplines in the 19th century. This thesis aims to explore the relationship between the specialization of knowledge, in the form of disciplinization, and the reception of new...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: departmentalization of knowledge occurring throughout 19th century America. In this environment, trained

Plague in London : a case study of the biological and social pressures exerted by 300 years of yersinia pestis

Creator:: Hall, Alice
Abstract:: The Second Pandemic had a profound impact on the people of Europe. In the few years between 1347 and 1350, a new epidemic disease spread across the entirety of Europe and killed between one third and two thirds of the population. While this initial wave was important, the real significance...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: created an environment in Britain that was much less conducive for the survival of Y. pestis. In the

The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

Creator:: Koroloff, Rachel
Abstract:: Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 – 1755) was a successful early Russian naturalist whose professional and social destinies were linked to eighteenth-century Russia's nascent but growing naturalist tradition. During his own time Krasheninnikov bridged the gap that existed in Russia between a distinctly European scientific practice and a tradition of Russian...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Eighteenth Century” British Journal for the

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Oregon outdoor garments : outdoor garments worn in the Willamette Valley and Eastern Oregon regions between 1880 to 1920

Identical confusion : the history of twin studies on sexual orientation, 1952-1973

Deliver knowledge or touch the mind? The effect of informational and emotional advertisement strategy on sportswear brand attitude and recall

"Walloped" by the weather? Deflections, diversions, and dubious representations of women in climate change discourse

The effects of retail store lighting and shelf height on consumer' feeling of safety and behavior

Dig Sites and Domesticity: Jessie Camp and the 1947 University of California Africa Expedition

Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

Plague in London : a case study of the biological and social pressures exerted by 300 years of yersinia pestis

The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

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