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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:: Strategy on Sportswear Brand Attitude and Recall Abstract approved: Leslie D. Burns The

The life cycle of Metagonimoides oregonensis Price (trematoda; heterophyidae)

Creator:: Burns, William Chandler
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ) by WILLIAM CHANDLER BURNS A TU3IS submitted to OREGON STATE COLLEGE in partial fulfillment

Constructing identities : analyzing dress, appearance, and mental illness in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White

Creator:: Haas, Rachael E.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to determine how the popular writer Wilkie Collins used dress and appearance to bring to light concerns about mental illness in his 1859-60 sensation novel The Woman in White. The method of narrative analysis was used to complete this study. Data sheets were developed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: characterization. Lennon and Burns (1993) studied the ways in which authors use descriptors such as dress, facial

Existence of small zero-sum subsets of large sets of residue classes

Creator:: Green, Dale E.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: residue classes AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Dale E. Green for the degree of Master of Arts in

Gibberellin effects on the carbohydrate, glycoside, and growth patterns in Digitalis lanata Ehrhart

Creator:: Burton, Stephen Dale
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

To restore what once was : a mixed methods approach to understanding the shoe repair transaction

Creator:: Giulietti, Michael P.
Abstract:: The shoe repair transaction, as it occurs in the 5000 or so remaining shoe repair shops in the United States, is currently unexamined in academic literature for the significance it holds for either shoe repairers or their customers. Making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection, this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Biological activities of the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex owyheei Cole, in central Oregon

Creator:: Willard, John Royal Alexander
Abstract:: The mound-building harvester ant, Pogonmyrmex owyheei Cole, (formerly included in the species occidentals) is widely distributed on the semi-arid rangeland east of the Cascade mountains in Oregon. Because of its seed foraging and vegetation clearing habits, this ant has been considered as a possible competitor with livestock and wildlife for...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Empire and other stories

Creator:: Gelper, Cynthia H.
Abstract:: This is a collection of eight short stories, all of which deal on some level with alienation and the struggle to find meaning in one's life. Although most of the stories deal with issues related to women or feature female protagonists, I did not set out to create a political...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Cyuglia H. Gelper for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 6, 1996 Title

A classification of managerial human relations problems

Creator:: Savage, Charles H.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: A Ci4ASSIFICATION OF MANAGERIAL RUtIAN RELATIONS PROBLS by Charles H. Savage, Jr. A THESIS

A Reconstruction of Plant Species Composition at the Devil's Kitchen Site (Southern Oregon Coast) using Plant Opal Phytoliths and Charcoal Macro-remains

Creator:: Bulder, Nicholas H.
Abstract:: Although plant remains, such as opal phytolith and charcoal analyses, have been used since the beginning of the 20th century to reconstruct past environments by ecologists and botanists, only recently have these techniques been considered by archaeologists in understanding the past at the site level. This study employs opal phytolith...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Nicholas H. Bulder for the

Seeing the Ocean For the Whales: How Whales Get Lost in the Sea of Human Perceptions

Creator:: McKinnon, Haley
Abstract:: Humans have always been fascinated with whales; from prominent features in mythology, to stories of terrifying monsters on the high seas, to globalized utility, to symbolic wildness and radical environmentalism, to figures and statistics, how have human relationships with whales been understood throughout time? Because humans have a need to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Ehren H. Pflugfelder

Meeting the Night : The Science and Mystery of an Endangered Habitat

Creator:: Sisson, Jill
Abstract:: Night is an extraordinary resource. Unlike air, water, or soil, nighttime is a spatio-temporal phenomenon, which leads to many crucial roles. It provides refuge to wildlife species, triggers hormonal and behavioral responses among a wide variety of organisms, and serves as an essential migratory backdrop for species that navigate by...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
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An illustrated key to the ferns of Oregon

Creator:: Pembrook, Helen Patricia O'Donahue
Abstract:: The purpose of the work is to enable students of botany to identify accurately Oregon ferns, both as living plants and as dried specimens. Therefore, it provides vegetative keys to the families, genera and species of the ferns (Class FILICINAE) found in Oregon. Correct names have been determined using the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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A study of the educational values of high school newspapers through an analysis of their contents

Creator:: Lake, Adelaide Valeta
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Extending and Visualizing Authorship in Comics Studies

Creator:: Brown, Nicholas A.
Abstract:: This thesis complicates the traditional associations between authorship and alphabetic composition within the comics medium and examines how the contributions of line artists and writers differ and may alter an audience's perceptions of the medium. As a fundamentally multimodal and collaborative work, the popular superhero comic muddies authorial claims and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Tim T. Jensen Ehren H. Pflugfelder This thesis complicates the traditional associations between

Animals of the subalpine forest of the McKenzie Pass area

Creator:: Yancey, Robert Maxwell
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Forest restoration and fuels reduction on non-industrial private land in northwestern California

Creator:: Latimer, Lisa Marie
Abstract:: This thesis explores the complexity of relationships between communities and the ecosystems in which they live through a focus on forest restoration and fuels reduction on private land. As a case study, research took place in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of rural Northern California, in Humboldt and Siskiyou counties. The research...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Knot theory : in imitation of Lewis Thomas

Creator:: Schmidgall, Matthew J.
Abstract:: Knot Theory: In Imitation of Lewis Thomas is a collection of 14, 1200-word essays written in the style of Lewis Thomas, a physician who regularly contributed to The New England Journal of Medicine. His 1200-word column, "Notes of a Biology Watcher," ran from 1971 - 1980. The resulting compilations collectively...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Tissue metabolism of guinea pigs deficient in the anti-stiffness factor

Creator:: Simonsen, Donald Howard
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Political, economic and educational aims of the National Association of Manufacturers' public relationships program : a case study in opinion-molding

Creator:: Vogel, Barbara Ross
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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A Practical, Ethical Critique of Hydraulic Fracturing and the Shale Gas Extraction Process

Creator:: Bullock, Claude George, III
Abstract:: This thesis analyzes the emerging technology of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction process through a pluralistic philosophical approach. Rather than defending traditional values in nature, such as intrinsic value, I defend a metaphilosophical pragmatism centered on policy implications. I argue that different philosophical positions will, most of the time,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Properties of the hydrogenase system in bacteroids of soybean root nodules

Creator:: McCrae, Roberta Ellen
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Virtual virtuosos : cyborgs and integrative ethics in the intimate machine

Creator:: Clemenhagen, Ronda L.
Abstract:: Standard accounts of women's relationship with technology stress women's need to overcome anxiety to achieve competence with computers. Recent studies provide evidence that this woman-anxiety-technology connection is an oversimplification of the relationship between women and computers. New literature also suggests that making computers more appealing will help girls overcome computational...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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David Foster Wallace's communal middle ground

Creator:: Randlemon, Daniel E.
Abstract:: Throughout the course of this thesis, I argue that the prose of David Foster Wallace, specifically his posthumously published novel The Pale King, inhabits a middle ground between universal sincerity and the particularized authenticity of postmodern irony. I examine Lionel Trilling's definitions of sincerity and authenticity before moving toward an...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Advocacy travel, creating social and ideological change : a comparison of travelers to Cuba and Chiapas

Creator:: Donckers, Jana L.
Abstract:: As a result of academic research into the effects of mass travel, an industry of alternative tourism has emerged. Application of this research has resulted in myriad forms of tourism, two of these being ecotourism and educational travel. Ecotourism represents a response to what is the destructive nature of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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
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Habitat distribution of birds of southeastern Washington

Creator:: Dumas, Philip Conrad
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: his constant en- couragement during the course of this study. I also wish to thank Storrs H. Lyman

“The Struggle Continues”: An Analysis of the Concerned Student 1950 Demands at the University of Missouri

Creator:: Larkins, Emma L.
Abstract:: In the fall 2015, students at the University of Missouri embarked upon an extended series of protests aimed at calling out the University’s failure to address recent racist incidents against Black students and a larger oppressive campus culture. The protests prompted the creation of a student group led largely by...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Ellsworth and Burns (1970) write, “Respecting the fact that unrest is not a new phenomenon but an

From teacups to lumber : archaeological site content and integrity of the Copeland Site (35BE90), Corvallis, Oregon

Creator:: Kanaby, Kara M.
Abstract:: This thesis describes the archaeological site content and integrity of the Copeland site (35BE90) in Corvallis, Oregon. The Copeland site is owned by the Benton County Historical Society and is the future home of the Benton County Historical Museum. In 2001, an Oregon State University archaeological field school was conducted...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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The Effect of Wear and Laundering on the Moisture Management Performance of Nomex Base Layer Garments

Creator:: Couvrette, Skye T.
Abstract:: Apparel has been described as a portable environment (Jintu & Tsang, 2008). This portable environment has the ability to facilitate human presence in a variety of situations, conditions, and circumstances that would otherwise be uncomfortable, harmful, or even fatal. Personal protective garments (PPGs) that provide thermal insulation from external heat...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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A field and culture study of some freshwater algae

Creator:: McLachlan, J. L. (Jack Lamont), 1930-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Dust storm transport of pathogenic microbes to Viking Scandinavia : a query into possible environmental vectors or disease pathogenesis in a closed biological and ecological system

Creator:: Boling, David Carter
Abstract:: This thesis is an integrated study that links several disciplines-archaeology, anthropology, geography, atmospheric sciences, and microbiology. It attempts to generate an argument that central to climate change is disequilibrium in human ecologies- in my case, disease ecologies in Iceland during the 15th century. This thesis investigates the environment's effect on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: biology, GIS, and remote sensing. 3 Dr. Dale Griffin, from the USGS, demonstrated that African dust and

An observation of the history and discrimination of the Buraku in modern day Japan

Creator:: Kawano, Mika
Abstract:: The Buraku people have been segregated, oppressed, and discriminated against throughout Japanese history. The Japanese can dismiss the Buraku issue because of assimilation theories, the belief in homogeneity, and passive attitudes by the Buraku people. The Buraku Liberation League (BLL), which has fought for equal rights on behalf of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Analyzing National Geographic as a Case Study for Identifying and Utilizing Narrative Strategies in Environmental Communication

Creator:: Chang, Kei Lin N.
Abstract:: National Geographic’s June 2018 magazine titled “Planet or Plastic?” drew attention to a growing problem throughout the world: ocean plastic. The eight plastic-related articles in the magazine are an example of science communication as a critical method of not only disseminating information but also raising awareness of the marine debris...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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The effect of sublethal doses of dieldrin, parathion, and sevin on the calling song of Acheta domesticus L. (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)

Creator:: Young, Conny Lee
Abstract:: The objectives of this study were: a) to obtain and evaluate equipment for bio-acoustical analysis for this work and for future work in the analysis of insect sounds, b) to study the acoustical and sexual behavior of Acheta domesticus L., and c) to determine methods for analyzing the changes effected...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Development and testing of a data collection instrument for boys' clothing 1867-1910 : an Oregon photographic study

Creator:: Gallett, Kelly S.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to develop and test a data collection instrument that would facilitate description of the clothing of Oregon school boys 1867-1910. In addition, the researcher attempted to describe Oregon school-aged boys' clothing and determine if fashion changes occurred in Oregon boys' clothing. The researcher also...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Religion in the writing classroom : toward a pedagogy of possibility

Creator:: May, Laura D.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I examine composition scholarship on the intersections of religious faith and writing pedagogy over the past twenty years, tracing the origins of compositionists' discomfort with religion and focusing on pedagogical approaches for working with religiously-committed students. In particular, I emphasize the way in which these approaches are...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A survey of the resources of Union County

Creator:: Richards, Wayne Elliott
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Local perceptions of climate change, coping and adaptation strategies among smallholder farmers in the Lake Basin Region of Kenya

Creator:: Asinjo, Robert
Abstract:: Smallholder farmers in Africa, who have long relied on rain-fed agriculture, are currently experiencing adverse impacts of climate change which is posing serious challenges to their ability to sustain their livelihoods (Morton 2007). This is the case for many other areas around the world, especially among indigenousor ruralcommunities who rely...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

Creator:: Robinson, Tracy Ann
Abstract:: Curricular models and teaching techniques that support college students as the primary authors of their writing-across-the-curriculum experiences remain largely unexplored. This thesis addresses that research gap by investigating the use of a start-of-term writing self-assessment and goal-setting questionnaire (STQ) for upper-division undergraduates taking writing-intensive (WI) college courses in their majors....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Aurora Colony, Oregon

Creator:: Stanton, Coralie Cassell
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Child guidance attitudes of parents who have children in cooperative nursery schools and those who do not

Creator:: Pehrson, June
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . 32 10. Marshall, William H. An evaluation study of a group of cooperative preschools. The Family

Source material for holiday programs in high school : an annotated bibliography

Creator:: Castle, Leola Blanche
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: special days. H. W. Wi1on Co., Mimi. 1911. Riverside, Calif., Public Library. Home festivals. 1913

The archaeology of the Smith House (ORYA3), Dayton, Oregon

Creator:: Stone, Helen Delight
Abstract:: Site ORYA3, the Smith House, is located in Dayton, Oregon. The archaeological project originated because owners of this structure, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, applied for a demolition permit. The 1859 home, first occupied by two early Oregon pioneers, Andrew and Sarah Smith, was considered architecturally significant,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Patterns from the past : exploring gender and ethnicity through historical archaeology among fur trade families in the Willamette Valley of Oregon

Creator:: McAleer, Carolyn Patricia
Abstract:: This thesis examines archaeological material in order to explore gender and ethnicity issues concerning fur trade era families from a settlement in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Ethnohistorical information consisting of traders journals and travelers observations, as well as documentation from the Hudson's Bay Company, Catholic church records, and genealogical information...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A history of the Good Samaritan Hospital of Portland and its place in the community

Creator:: Goodale, Dorothy Louise
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Geoarchaeological research within five river miles of the Upper Klamath River Canyon : use of pedogenic properties to calculate alluvial terrace age

Creator:: Hescock, Sara
Abstract:: Soil is a valuable medium when investigating the past-- from understanding rates of development, landform evolution, to the construction of various predictive models. Landforms and sediments provide insight into depositional environments and soil morphology indicates pedogenic change within those landforms. The rate at which pedogenesis occurs has been quantitatively measured...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: surrounding the dams (BOR 2011: Appendix H). More geological and archaeological research needs to be

Omen of Mere Event : Vignettes in a Post-Wilderness Landscape

Creator:: Schultz, Aaron A.
Abstract:: This thesis uses a series of non-fiction vignettes to explore objects, agencies, and networks, applying theories of rhetoric and composition directly to experience and vise versa. Focusing on agency--as understood through sociology's actor-networks, post- humanism’s Object Orientated Ontology, and Ecocriticism's ecological approach--I look at events, landscapes, and partnerships that have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: “Controlled Burn” explores fire’s role as a tool for the Native Americans of the West Coast. In the third

What are the environmental, economic, and social barriers to achieving agricultural sustainability in the Ten Rivers region of western Oregon?

Creator:: Stanton, Michael
Abstract:: This ethnographic study examined some of the ways that global markets and the infrastructure of agribusiness affect local smallholder farmers in the Ten Rivers region who are transitioning toward more sustainable and traditional agricultural methods. The purpose of this research was to discover what barriers smallholder farmers face in developing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Deepening: Place Relationship in the Valley of Lake Creek, Oregon

Creator:: McCumber, Elisabeth Carol Harvey
Abstract:: This is an IRB-exempt thesis exploring place relationship in the valley of Lake Creek, Oregon, at Triangle Lake. An interdisciplinary ethnography of place, it involves a synthesis of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic literature; an analysis of nineteenth-century Coos, Alseya (Alsea), and Kalapuya myth-texts from Native oral tradition; a history of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A Game of Silent Irreverence : Passive Resistance in The Dalles, Oregon

Creator:: Maddoux, Maryanne
Abstract:: 210 East First Street (site 35WS453) contains the only extant remains of a once thriving Overseas Chinese settlement, in the city of The Dalles, Oregon. Very little is known about the everyday lives of these early settlers, or the pressures that they faced. This thesis will help to enrich the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Ghanaian women, creating economic security : an analysis of gender, development, and power in the Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa

Creator:: Vickers, Katherine Elise
Abstract:: In June 1999, I was a volunteer for a United States non-governmental organization, Crossroads Africa. I joined six other American women traveling to Ghana, West Africa to participate in a collaborative program designed by the Ghana Red Cross Society and Crossroads Africa. Specifically our group was assigned to work on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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A GIS investigation of indigenous intensification of native food plants : humans as environmental variable in maxent habitat suitability modeling of Camassia in Oregon

Creator:: Elliott, Braden T.
Abstract:: This thesis merges the fields of Ecology and Anthropology by applying Habitat Suitability Modeling to the relationship between people and plants in the Pacific Northwest. In it, I create and optimize two Maxent habitat suitability models for camas (Camassia spp.) in Oregon. The first model describes the physical environment of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

An experimental taxonomic study of a northwest American polyploid species, Scrophularia lanceolata pursh

Creator:: Carlbom, Curt Gerald, 1932-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Revisiting hypertext communities of practice

Creator:: Breitenfeldt, Jeffrey
Abstract:: This thesis is an exploration of writing from two communities of practice addressing different aspects of hypertext--an electronic medium used to link text, images, and other content such that it can be accessed by users non-sequentially. In particular, I examine multiple narratives of hypertext development and key theoretically oriented approaches...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Vicarious power : masculinity, access and the hard-boiled detective

Creator:: Winsor, Shiloh
Abstract:: Dashiell Hammett's fiction and detective pulps generally, offered the reader a chance to participate in vicarious power, by giving them a sense of the profession of detection, both in and out of the stories. It was the realism of the detective figure that allowed the audience to relate to him....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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The Oregon State University Writing Center : history and context

Creator:: Weintraub, Melissa R.
Abstract:: The Oregon State University (OSU) Writing Center: History and Context provides a detailed and multi-faceted view of the Writing Center from its start in 1976 through the present. The information was gathered from interviews, annual reports, archival sources, and scholarly research. Chapter One examines the scholarly conversation about writing centers,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Perception and action : an analysis on communication between U.S. sponsorship and Russian speaking immigrants

Creator:: Johnston, Candace G.
Abstract:: The problems of Russian speaking refugees from the Ukraine region of the former Soviet Union are the basis for ethnographic inquiry and the delineation of the role of voluntary agencies who assist their resettlement in Portland, Oregon. Interpretive methods are the foundation for an analysis of Ukrainians' perceptions of problems...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Archaeological Textile Fragments Present an Opportunity In the Study of Social and Landscape Interactions

Creator:: Lopez, Kirsten M.
Abstract:: Textiles (including basketry, cordage, woven, knotted, or plaited products) make up a considerable portion of the perishable archaeological record in dry caves of the northern Great Basin region, much of which is created from plants and plant fibers. The archaeological study of precontact textiles greatly informs our understanding of how...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Speaking for the dead : funeral rhetoric and women's lament in ancient Athens

Creator:: Robertson, Wayne
Abstract:: Recently, feminist scholars have begun to question the traditional telling of the history of rhetoric. Dissatisfied with a history which is told in terms of privileged, white males to the exclusion of all other voices, these scholars have worked to recover "lost" female rhetoricians and have begun critically rereading the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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
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Whisper Like Lovers: (Re)membering Story as Soul Retrieval, Susurrar Como Amantes: (Re)cordando Narraciones Como Recuperación del Alma

Creator:: Fertig, Mateo Rosales
Abstract:: In their master’s thesis, Mateo Rosales Fertig offers the framework of a Curanderismx soul retrieval ceremony as a method of grappling with queerness and multiraciality in anti-colonial border and Chicanx contexts. From the legacies of Chicana, women of color, and QTPOC feminisms, they write out of the works and theories...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Audio-visual aids in the library

Creator:: Smith, Xenophon Palmer
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Evaluation of medical and surgical nursing course offered at a three year hospital school of nursing in 1953

Creator:: Hamilton, Jean Esther
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Challenges to re-embedding food systems : tracing the decline and revival of a farmers’ market on the edge

Creator:: Murray, Mary K.
Abstract:: A number of researchers view farmers’ markets as an appropriate vehicle for re-embedding food markets into communities (O’Hara & Stagl, 2001, Feenstra, 2002, Lyson, 2005). Amidst astounding growth in the number of farmers’ markets in the United States in recent decades, many markets struggle and fail. Recent research suggests that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The growth and development of practice-teaching facilities at the Oregon Normal school

Creator:: Wall, Lucille Eugenie
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , former president of the Oregon Normal School, Delmer R. Dewe, former Director of Training, T. H. Gentle

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

Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

Creator:: Faris, Michael J.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Edith Wharton’s dark ecology : representations of nature in three major novels

Creator:: Bacon, Julie M.
Abstract:: This thesis is arranged in three chapters which explore Wharton’s representations of nature in three novels: The House of Mirth (1905), The Fruit of the Tree (1907), and The Custom of the County (1913). This thesis contends that Wharton’s novels reveal changes in the interplay between representations of nature and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thinking, Wharton writes of Talcott, “[h]er ideas had the 4 brilliant bloom and audacious irrelevance

A study of the reactions of students at Oregon State College to their curricula and instruction

Creator:: Davolt, Claudine Virginia
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Serving Amid Institutional Camouflage : The Invisibility of School Food Service Workers

Creator:: Byrd, Janette
Abstract:: The products, processes, and tools of school feeding programs have been examined from multiple perspectives and disciplines in an attempt to improve child nutrition outcomes, to support local and national agriculture, and increase sustainability practices. There is little qualitative research on the role, needs, and experiences of school food service...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Central place foraging and the winter village: a settlement pattern analysis in the lower Salmon River Canyon in Idaho

Creator:: Carlisle, Kendra
Abstract:: Hunter-gatherers depend on naturally occurring resources and, in order to survive, must overcome resource procurement challenges inherent in their environment. One challenge relates to the temporal and spatial availability of resources, which hunter-gatherers address, in part, through the strategic use of space to position themselves for optimal access to necessary...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Life in railroad logging camps of the Shevlin-Hixon Company, 1916-1950

Creator:: Gregory, Ronald L.
Abstract:: Remnants of railroad logging camps, and their associated features, are perhaps some of the most common archaeological resources found on public lands in the Pacific Northwest. Many camps have already been located, their cultural materials inventoried, and networks of logging railroad grades mapped. Yet, despite these efforts, little can be...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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Creator:: Dunham, Karen L.
Abstract:: This thesis is a collection of six essays with interconnecting elements and themes. Two overriding themes which pervade the collection are the search for spiritual wholeness and the relationships between humans and their environments. The essays document my recent explorations of and experimentations with the "creative nonfiction" genre. have worked...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Scenes of language

Creator:: Duerst, Gretchen
Abstract:: In this creative non-fiction thesis, I present a collection of personal essays that examine my significant moments of awkwardness with failed communications or frustrated relationships when I wanted to draw people closer with language, but was unsuccessful. In the twelve stories, I discuss these issues in my interpersonal communication interwoven...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: cluttered clothes and the strange emptiness of an unused recliner because Uncle Dale died in his thirties

Empowerment or a 'citizenship project'? : microcredit with education in Cuzco, Peru

Creator:: Kearney, Emily Q.
Abstract:: Microfinance, or the technique of lending small amounts of money to the world's poor for productive activities, has emerged as a dominant approach to poverty alleviation among international development organizations. However, consensus does not yet exist as to the best mechanism for delivery of loans. While most organizations simply offer...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Ecology of Pinus albicaulis on Bachelor Butte, Oregon

Creator:: Lueck, Dennis
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Paul Ina Peak (-) A N A RI A Crater Lake A Burns La Grande w 1.240 1210 Figure 1. Location of

One methodology for the incorporation of entomological material in the discipline of historic archaeology using the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) as a test subject

Creator:: Kellar, Brenda M.
Abstract:: Using the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) this thesis shows that entomological information and material can be retrieved using current historical archaeological methods. Historical archaeology has the ability to uncover connections between arenas as varied, and seemingly isolated, as the honey bee, the environment, and human cultures. By focusing on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , and Sir Thomas Dale made unto the Company, conceiving those praises no way hyperbolical, nor any

Using computers for reversing language shift : ethical and pragmatic implications from a Wasco case study

Creator:: Denis, Armelle
Abstract:: Indigenous languages worldwide are rapidly disappearing, forced out of use by the spread of dominant Western culture and its languages. On the Warm Springs reservation of Oregon, the Culture and Heritage department, the tribal agency in charge of language preservation, is offering instruction in all three languages of the reservation:...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: designed than the infamous Indian Boarding Schools. Richard H. Pratt, founder of the first Indian

Why they volunteer : a study of participants at nature conservancy work parties

Creator:: Hastings, Kevin L.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the motivations of ecological restoration volunteers with the Oregon chapter of The Nature Conservancy. This study helps fill in voids left by a lack of research on the motivations of ecological restoration volunteers. Studies that have explored restoration volunteer motivation relied largely on surveys that revealed altruistic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: building restoration, garbage removal, and preparation for prescribed burns. Work parties usually begin

A provenance study of crypto-crystalline silicates at the Cooper's Ferry site : a geochemical approach

Creator:: Nyers, Alexander John
Abstract:: A provenance study of crypto-crystalline silicates was performed at the Cooper's Ferry archaeological site in west-central Idaho on the Columbia Plateau. In this research, the author used instrumental neutron activation analysis as well as portable x-ray fluorescence to examine and characterize the geochemistry of 300 geologic samples of crypto-crystalline silicates...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Academic preparation of American business executives for foreign service

Creator:: Goodearl, Arthur William
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , character, etc., especially by formal school- ing, teaching, and training." Admiral H. G. Rickover asks

Reproductive decision-making in young women breast cancer survivors

Creator:: Everson, Courtney Louise
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to use an integrated biocultural perspective to examine the decision-making processes of young survivors as they navigate breast cancer treatment and reproductive health care options. This retrospective study utilizes a mixed-methods approach that integrates quantitative survey data (Phase I) with interview (Phase II) and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Jessica Hale, and my partner, Dale Lawson, who has provided the love and rock steady foundation of our

Ecotourism, poverty, and conservation in Prek Toal, Cambodia

Creator:: Conway, Kathryn
Abstract:: In Prek Toal, a poor subsistence fishing village on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, the conservation organization Osmose is using ecotourism revenues to finance poverty intervention programs and promote conservation in a threatened ecosystem. This thesis examines local perceptions of tourism as a measure of Osmose’s success. Limited awareness of tourism...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

Creator:: Stoller, Kevin R.
Abstract:: William James came of age at a time of great social and intellectual change in the United States. During this period, new professional identities proliferated, and a new culture of professionalization developed with important ramifications for conceptions of individual and social identity. Professionalization was also closely related to key intellectual...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Professionalism cited above; George H. Daniels, "The Process of Professionalization in American Science: The

LGBTQ Latinx Student Activist and Leaders in the State of Oregon: A Preliminary Study

Creator:: Zayas, Minerva
Abstract:: In 2016, the Oregon Community Foundation reported that twelve percent of Latinx folks graduated with their bachelor’s and/or master’s degree compared to the 31 percent of White counterparts (Latinos in Oregon Report, 2016). While Latinx students continue to be the largest minority in the United States, Latinx students enroll in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: responsibilities and social demands. Most times, this leads to burn out and becoming over committed with social

Street children : the other side of tourism in Hue, Viet Nam

Creator:: Wangsgard, David B.
Abstract:: Street children are a significant presence in Hue, Viet Nam's tourist center, where they eat, sleep, work, and play. Utilizing ethnographic methods, this study examines how tourism impacts the lives of street children involved in the industry. The street children have generally been compelled to leave home because of adverse...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Walking the narrow path : narratives of migration and mental health among Saudi Arabian women at Oregon State University

Creator:: Gentry, Kristen Elizabeth
Abstract:: Since the inauguration of the King Abdullah-Aziz Foreign Scholarship Program in 2005, the number of Saudi university students in the United States has increased exponentially, and an unprecedented amount of Saudi women are seeking international degrees. The absence of scholarly research within these women’s home and host countries highlights the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Theoretical perspectives on Latin American indigenous development, with reference to a case study of Cebadas, Ecuador

Creator:: Ocana, Juan Carlos
Abstract:: This thesis presents a discussion of the main materialistic theories proposed to explain the process of development among the indigenous population of Latin America. Four theoretical approaches are presented and discussed. The first one deals with the social group referred to as peasants. The second one explains the process of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Family dental care : perspectives from women recovering from methamphetamine addiction

Creator:: Hanks, Melissa A.
Abstract:: This research focuses on the economic and social impacts to women’s and children’s dental health after methamphetamine abuse. Family oral health status, access to professional services, health literacy and home hygienic practices are evaluated in the frameworks of critical medical anthropology, applied anthropological praxis and matrix and bio-psycho-social addiction models...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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:: Science, Technology, and Medicine, by Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and Londa L. Schiebinger

Urban residents and non-point source pollution : an examination of practices, influences, and values in the Tualatin watershed

Creator:: Nielson, Lisa M.
Abstract:: In July of 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) activated the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDLs) provisions of the Clean Water Act. As the first river in Oregon to implement TMDL regulations, people and agencies in the Tualatin basin face many challenges. Non-point source pollution affects water quality in the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Who's afraid of a little nitrate? : discovering impediments and incentives in following best management practices related to water quality within the southern Willamette Valley groundwater management area

Creator:: Rolston, Irene
Abstract:: Thesis summarizes interviews with growers residing within the Groundwater Management Area (GWMA) in the Southern Willamette Valley of Oregon. Informal and semi-structured interviews were used to identify perceived impediments and incentives perceived by local farmers in following best management practices related to water quality. Results from the interviews were coded...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Designed to fit : tailored technologies for medical practitioners

Creator:: de Brum, Silvina
Abstract:: Although electronic medical records systems (EMR) present promising benefits, they have not yet been widely adopted. A problem facing many EMR are that they are disruptive technologies; their complex hardware and software are not designed to account for the clinicians' characteristics and needs, thus, demanding a steep learning curve and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: attention to detail. Leslie Burns and Minjeong Kim gave me the opportunity to be a design theory

“Missed the Best Months of the War”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and Empire among British Royal Flying Corps Interned in First World War German Prisoner of War Camps

Creator:: Graham, Devon E.
Abstract:: This thesis focuses on performances of masculinity by British Royal Flying Corps (RFC) airmen in the charged landscape of the First World War prisoner of war (POW) camp. I examine how captive airmen coped with imprisonment by reasserting the familiar homosocial communities of pre-capture squadron life, particularly through practices associated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Dr. Qwo-Li Driskill, Kryn Freehling- Burton, Dr. Ron Mize, Dr. H Rakes, Dr. Susan Shaw, Dr

Water, fire, and stone : images and meaning in Melville

Creator:: Martin, Brian D.
Abstract:: This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental images of water, fire, and stone in Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852), and Clarel; A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876). This work is a semiotic study, insofar as the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

An investigation into the ecology and distribution of Kalmiopsis leachiana (Hend.) Rehder

Creator:: Marquis, Robert John
Abstract:: Ecological factors associated with the relictual distribution of the endemic shrub Kalmiopsis leachiana (Ericaceae) were investigated. A prostrate evergreen species with small coriaceous leaves, K. leachiana is restricted to two disjunct populations in the Siskiyou Mountains and southern Cascade Mountains of southwestern Oregon, USA. Exact distributions of individual populations were...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Constructing heroic identities : masculinity and the western film

Creator:: Foster, Brad D.
Abstract:: This thesis employs the study of gender to demonstrate how recent Hollywood western films have constructed a hero that is reflective of contemporary beliefs regarding masculinity. Beginning with a New Historicist approach at studying gender, this work first considers the construction of masculinity in post World War II America and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Evaluation of the 2001 pilot Oregon Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program

Creator:: Saylor, Kirsten N.
Abstract:: The Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP), piloted in Oregon in 2001, provided $100 worth of vouchers (aka coupons) to low-income seniors to buy fresh local produce from farmers at farmers' markets and roadside stands. Presented in a political ecology framework, this research integrated the perspectives of beneficiaries and their...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Local resilience, canola cropping, and biodiesel production

Creator:: Bates, Christopher Allen
Abstract:: New technology may have negative, as well as positive, effects on a sociocultural system. Biodiesel is growing in popularity as a fuel alternative that addresses global warming and reduces dependency on petroleum. The biodiesel innovation fits well into the existing behavioral infrastructure of Linn and Benton Counties, Oregon. The introduction...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: technology that burns less oil. This, in turn, could slow the rise of oil costs by slowing the rate of

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