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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
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    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...
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    changing- moving from the Medieval Warm Period to the colder Little Ice Age. Redacted for privacy I

  • "If You're Not Outraged...": White Feminist Feelings, Rhetoric, and the Enthymematic Circulation of White Supremacy

    Creator:
    Landberg, Brooke
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    While a number of scholars in the field of Rhetoric and Composition continue to reassert the importance of whiteness as an object of study, a sense of anxiety about the effectiveness of extant antiracist rhetorical practices permeate recent scholarship. This thesis engages with thinking from black studies, afropessimism, and transnational...
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    Right Rally: Tina Fey’s “sheet-caking” monologue and Samantha Bee’s “Life After Hate” segment. Through

  • A study of the differential equation d²w/dz² + (m + z²)w=0

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    Morris, C. Gordon
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    visualized on each sheet of the Rie- mann surface. There will then be infinitely many regions R. numbered

  • Looking for Fish of the Right Age : Developing Predictive Modeling for Submerged Sites Using GIS, Salmon Genetics, and the Human Ecology of Salmon

    Creator:
    Krier, Jon C.
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    A major challenge to the study of the peopling of the Americas is that much of the Bering Land Bridge (Beringia), the geographic area that people migrating from Northeast Asia into North America would presumably have passed through, is now submerged due to sea-level rise since the last glacial maximum....
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    resources to support human populations along the Pacific edge of the ice sheet during the Last Glacial

  • Just Beneath the Surface : Analysis of Excavations at 35WS453, The Dalles Chinatown

    Creator:
    French, Jamie
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    In a mostly abandoned block, capped by concrete, the building at 210 East 1st Street, The Dalles, Oregon still stands as one of three remaining structures. This building housed the Wing Hong Hai Company, a mercantile store and Chinese laundry, from 1889 to 1926. Beneath the modern concrete that encircles...
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  • The Orient King, and other stories

    Creator:
    Hess, Demian
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    These six stories represent a child's search for identity. The first story, "Road Map," is intended to be independent from the other pieces in this collection, but has been included because it is clearly set in the same place and explores many of the same themes of the other pieces....
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    little white box with a sheet of tissue paper He folded the box together like in the bakery It felt

  • Things not seen, and other stories

    Creator:
    Walsh, Amy M.
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    These six stories investigate characters who must begin to understand their own actions, which are often made in response to authority. In the lives of these characters, there are schemas which they believe they fit, certain rules placed on them by society that they each feel they must obey. It...
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    rest of the neighborhood, is a thick sheet of ice She steps carefully, holding onto the snow-covered

  • Plant materials for high school biology courses

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    France, Emilie Margaret
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    specimen in water, slide thet.r mounting sheet under it, lift the whole out of the water, lay a thin

  • Fallow

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    Lutz, Kevin W.
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    Fallow is a creative non-fiction book of memory and place. It chronicles the lives of William and Vera Lutz and their lives of struggle on the Northern Plains of North Dakota. It follows a narrator and his attempts to make sense of, and connect to their, lives following both of...
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    hunched on one knee and toppled over into the hard crust of ice. In the end, this is the death he asked

  • Renovations

    Creator:
    Gallagher, Scott V.
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    The six stories within, "Still and Silent," "Cold Comfort," "The King of Porn," "Miscuts," "In Between," and "Renovations," are part of a work in progress. They attempt to show how the characters, although they may seem to struggle for independence from the family unit, are in fact strengthening the bonds...
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    twisted into a bun at the back of her neck, black with streaks of white like chocolate and vanilla ice

  • Business office survey of representative Portland firms

    Creator:
    Orem, Elizabeth Bryant
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  • Knot theory : in imitation of Lewis Thomas

    Creator:
    Schmidgall, Matthew J.
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    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...
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    , hemisphere, planet, solar system, galaxy, galaxy group, galaxy cluster, super cluster, sheet, wall

  • Computer and internet usage in rural clubs : are members digitally divided?

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    Cassell, Christopher J.
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    Lower rates of computer adoption and usage in rural areas has been called a "digital divide." This work explores the current state of connectivity within a rural town of the Pacific Northwest with a quantitative and qualitative overview of computer usage and access within civic and activity clubs, ranging from...
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    : Conclusion 111 Chapter 7: Recommendations 116 Bibliography 117 Appendices 122 Appendix A: Sign Up Sheet

  • Three measures of similarity in values

    Creator:
    Hofstetter, Merlin Ivan
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    The study is based on a frame of reference for comparing characteristics of ordered pairs of members of small groups ("relators" in relation to "co-relatives"). An attempt is made to replicate selected findings from a study of the acquaintance process reported by Theodore Newcomb. The effectiveness of three measures of...
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    questionnaire, which is reported in Appendix A, was divided into two rnajor parts plus an instruction sheet

  • A settlement model at the Robert Newel Farmstead (35MA41), French Prairie, Oregon

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    Manion, Mollie Jo
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    This thesis is based on the excavations of the Robert Newell farmstead (35MA41), excavated in 2002 and 2003 by the Oregon State University Department of Anthropology archaeological field school. Robert Newell lived at this farm from 1843- 1854. Major architectural features, including a brick hearth and postholes were discovered at...
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    1957: 179), leaving his Oregon dreams behind him. Upon his return to Cambridge he returned·to the ice

  • Fortunate son

    Creator:
    Bernard, Sean
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    The narrator of Fortunate Son is Jake, a 21 year-old who has recently arrived in Tucson, Arizona, after the death of his mother. He's spent his entire life on the road with his mother, possibly followed and antagonized by his father, whom Jake has never seen. He has come to...
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    York, a dry July in Kansas, an early spring in southern Utah, in high desert that blew ice-daggers at

  • Search images

    Creator:
    Dunham, Karen L.
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    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...
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    some of them--a sheet of cardboard or flimsy plywood serving as roof over an earthen gully. They

  • Morphological and cytological variation in Trillium albidum Freeman (Liliaceae)

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    Bledsoe, Karen E.
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    This work was performed on Trillium albidum Freeman (Liliaceae), to clarify the pattern of morphological variation between the small-flowered populations at the northern limit of its range ( T. parviflorum Soukup) and the larger-flowered populations from southern Oregon and northern California. It was hypothesized that only a single species of...
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    transported in an ice chest until they could be refrigerated. Laboratory studies and analysis Morphology

  • Palynological Perspectives on Younger Dryas to Early Holocene Human Ecology at Paisley Caves, Oregon

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    Saban, Chantel V.
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    The Younger Dryas climatic event is a global phenomenon associated with a 1,000 year return to glacial conditions during the late Pleistocene period between 12,800 and 11,500 cal BP. Because of its significant effects on paleoenvironmental conditions in some parts of the world, archaeologists commonly seek to assess whether the...
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    Younger Dryas period climate change is based more on more distant Greenlandic ice core data and not

  • The Night Before the Elections and other stories

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    Clarke, Patrick J.
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    The stories here are stories of childhood. To me, they concern the shift between dependence to independence, comfort to instability, which is disastrous for the characters but also a point of awakening. The move from childhood to adulthood puts the characters in a world that is neither made for the...
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    and spoon ice-cream into her chapped mouth? Did she run through the dark halls, announcing her new