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The culture of academia : authorizing students to read and write

Creator:: Mitchell, Danielle M.
Abstract:: Presenting and synthesizing several paradigms for the teaching of literature in American colleges, I investigate how definitions of reading, readers, texts, interpretations, and knowledge affect student acts of reading and writing. In addition, I draw upon specific examples of text-based, reader-based, and social-cultural based models for the teaching of reading...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Mitchell, Danielle M. AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF

Oregon Health & Science University's understanding of cultural competency

Creator:: Racansky, Pamela A.
Abstract:: The United States population continues to increase and diversify. The cultural composition within the United States embodies a multitude of people from a variety of belief systems, religious backgrounds, and ethnicities. Within current biomedical practice, many of these differences are often marginalized, leaving populations with unsatisfactory experiences in seeking health...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: my committee members br. Sunil Khanna, br. Judy Bowen, br. Loni Roberts and br. Richard Mitchell for

Requirements for vitamin C as affected by exercise

Creator:: Carpenter, Phyllis May
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ) found that In guinea plga i'ed on & diet deficient in vitcnin C, fli@ pigraGrit Gr,crotiiio J.'^KC

Life in (an)other world : issues of otherness and magic in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

Creator:: Fennell, Dalicia K.
Abstract:: My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Journeying Through (An)Other World: Examining the Role of Magic and Transformational Otherness in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "Magic, Muggles, and Mudbloods: Examining Magical Otherness in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series." The introduction frames the thematic, theoretical, and critical connections...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Spell: The Meaning behind the Mania for J. K. Rowling's Bestselling Books. 3rd ed. Carol Stream, IL

The light within us : Quaker women in science

Creator:: McCabe, Leslie N.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the role of Quaker women in science in an attempt to arrive at some understanding of what motivated Quaker women in nineteenth century America to go into the sciences. George Fox founded the Society of Friends in the mid-seventeenth century in England and the Quaker theology centered...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , astronomer Maria Mitchell, naturalist Graceanna Lewis, and medical doctor Ann Preston, were all truth

"All the things you ask of me" : Law Enforcement Experiences of Infant Death Investigation

Creator:: Schindell, Jennifer R.
Abstract:: The sudden and unexpected death of a seemingly healthy infant sets in motion a number of linked processes with potentially complex and far-reaching ramifications. While individuals, families and communities grapple with the shock and heartbreak associated with the loss of a young life, a chain of multidisciplinary investigative responsibilities is...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Melissa J. Cheyney The sudden and unexpected death

Big, Black C%#K: Desire, Race and Masculinity

Creator:: Flenory, Emalydia
Abstract:: My thesis examines perceptions of power in relation to white and black masculinity in the United States. The introduction invokes the work of Mireille Miller-Young, Hortense Spillers, Vincent Woodard and Hiram Pérez as a foundation to ground my discussion of agency, consumption, desire, homoeroticism and the characteristics of the Mandingo,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 29, 2020 Title: Big, Black C%#K: Desire, Race and

Ascocarp development in Anthracobia melaloma

Creator:: Larsen, Harold J.
Abstract:: Cultural and developmental characteristics of a collection of Anthracobia melaloma with a brown hymenium and a barred exterior appearance were examined. It grows well in culture on CM and CMMY agar media and has a growth rate of 17 mm in 18 hours. It is heterothallic and produces asexual multinucleate...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Redacted for privacy William C. Denison Cultural and developmental characteristics of a collection of

The Bachman Cave (10-OE0565) point typology, Owyhee County, southwestern Idaho

Creator:: Chavarria, Juan C.
Abstract:: In the past, archaeological investigations have recovered material culture that have often been stored as museum property without a focused analysis or written report of the results. This study focuses on one such assemblage ofchipped stone projectile points from the Bachman Cave locality of southwestern Idaho that has been stored...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Juan C. Chavarria for the degree

Expectations and Lived Realities of Iraqi Women Refugees and Refugee Mental Health Providers in Portland: An Ethnographic Study to Inform Refugee Mental Health Services and Policy

Creator:: Eiwaz, Massarra Adnan
Abstract:: Distress among resettled refugees in the U.S. consistently reflects refugees’ experiences of discrimination, re-traumatization, gaps in healthcare services, and disrupted expectations and lived-realities. This thesis aims to fill a critical need for ethnographic studies investigating how recent anti-immigrant, -Muslim, and -Arab rhetoric and policies combine with chronic gaps in services...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: …………..……. 89 B. Consent Scripts for Iraqi Refugee Women in Arabic…………………. 91 C. Recruitment Email to

The art of resisting the patriarch

Creator:: Nasser, Aisha K.
Abstract:: This study examines the theme of power in Naguib Mahfouz's The Cairo Trilogy (1956/57). Contrasting my analysis with earlier review of the novel that emphasized a hegemonic patriarchal power, I argue that such power was constantly subverted by the dominated: family members of the patriarch. Using James C. Scott's notions...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: such power was constantly subverted by the dominated: family members of the patriarch. Using James C

Perspectives on Pits of the Western Stemmed Tradition : An Analysis on the Contents of Feature 59 at the Cooper’s Ferry Site

Creator:: Carroll, Amanda J.
Abstract:: Excavation of a pit feature designated as Feature 59 (F59) from the Cooper’s Ferry site (10IH73) in western Idaho offers a unique opportunity to explore more about the Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) and how people used pits in the Far West. In this thesis, an analysis is conducted on the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 1 AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Amanda J. Carroll for

The Anzick site : analysis of a Clovis burial assemblage

Creator:: Jones, J. Scott
Abstract:: The Anzick Clovis assemblage was first discovered in the late 1960's near Livingston, Montana. More than 100 stone and bone artifacts were found in association with the remains of two subadults proven to be the earliest radiocarbon-dated human burial in North America. Although human remains are notoriously absent, similar artifact...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Geoarchaeology at Tseriadun (35CU7), Curry County, Oregon

Creator:: Anderson, Frederick C.
Abstract:: The continuation of geoarchaeological investigations at Tseriadun (35CU7) contributes to the understanding of the site's depositional history and the associated environments, thereby identifying the long term geomorphic change in the area and providing the environmental context for local human activity as it is reflected in the archaeological record. Meeting this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Frederick C. Anderson for the

Late Pleistocene Lithic Technological Organization on the Southern Oregon Coast : Investigations at Indian Sands (35-CU-67C)

Creator:: Willis, Samuel C.
Abstract:: Excavations conducted at Indian Sands (35-CU-67C), located along Oregon's southern coast, during 2002 and 2003 identified two discreet, artifact-bearing stratigraphic units. The uppermost unit is a deflated surface containing burnt shell and lithic artifacts associated with early Holocene ¹⁴C dates, while the underlying unit contained only lithic tools and debitage,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Samuel C. Willis for the degree of

Mixed ethnic identity in the United States

Creator:: Lonergan, Courtney C.
Abstract:: In this paper I focus on the process of formulating an ethnic identity in the United States for individuals of mixed-ethnicity. My main question explores the complexities an individual with parents of separate and distinct ethnic heritages faces when constructing an ethnic identity in our society. American society is reaching...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Courtney C. Lonergan for the

Failure as a Rhetorical Force in First-Year Composition

Creator:: Du Bose, Hannah L.
Abstract:: Recognized as a site of risk, innovation, and inspiration, failure is a growing area of multidisciplinary inquiry. My thesis draws attention specifically to the way composition studies approaches failure in order to ask: how can we implement failure pedagogies safely, and how do rhetorics of failure move toward social justice...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and Mitchell 2020). Other times, this reflection occurs within discussions between students and

The effect of pantothenic acid on the growth of various genera of bacteria

Creator:: Stanbery, Sue Robbins
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Iii., Knight, B. C. J. &. and Gladstone, G. P. A nutrient mixture suitable for the growth of

Factors affecting growth of the immature rat ovary in vitro with special reference to ribonucleotides

Creator:: Berrian, James Henry
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: therapeutic doses of X-and gamma radiation. Brit. J. Exp. Path. 23: 285-313. 19. Parker, Raymond C. 1958

Rational Madmen : Monomania in Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” and Stedman’s “How Old Brown Took Harpers Ferry”

Creator:: Green, Paisley
Abstract:: In this project, I explore the use of monomania as a literary and rhetorical device that pathologizes deviance from certain norms—in this case, sexual and political norms— and allows for contradiction, dissonance, and reform. Using Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark” and Edmund Clarence Stedman’s poem “How Old Brown Took...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Peter J. Betjemann In this project, I explore the use of monomania as a literary and

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:: Cancer Survivors Abstract approved: Melissa J. Cheyney The purpose of

A device for focusing electrons in an electrostatic field

Creator:: Holland, Ralph
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: velocity V1 corresponds to the voltage 11 r i- i ç, en - ev1, aflu )eJ.LJJ /Çv1) =/___ If V2 V1 20

Low pressure striations in argon and helium glow discharges

Creator:: Davis, Monte V. (Monte Vincent), 1923-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: FARADAY DARK SPACE w I- "J z "J C., w Q- u) o > CATHODE GLOW FIGURE 2 80 - - 7o

The Clerk’s Tale : literal monstrosities and allegorical problems

Creator:: Brock, Christopher J.
Abstract:: My thesis, entitled “The Clerk’s Tale: Literal Monstrosities and Allegorical Problems,” argues that Chaucer’s Clerk is engaging both sides of a binary system. The Clerk has situated himself in a precarious position between two major schools of thought in the medieval culture, Franciscan and Dominican; the former promotes the will...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: faith, and not the other way around. Writing in the early 1960s, C. S. Lewis makes the point that

Women's experiences of breastfeeding in an out-of-hospital birthing community

Creator:: Marshall, Lindsay J.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I examine the experiences of breastfeeding mothers who chose to give birth with Certified Professional Midwives at a free-standing birth center, and the factors that influence their known high rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration. Using grounded theory and data collected from participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: J. Marshall for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on November 20

Colonization, Statemaking, and Development: A Political Ecology of the Saru River Development Project, Hokkaido, Japan

Creator:: Ioannides, Michael J.
Abstract:: Although dam construction has been an integral tool in development initiatives for nearly a century, dams can have significant negative impacts on local residents, particularly those who are permanently displaced from their homes and must be resettled elsewhere. Dams have unique impacts on indigenous peoples. As a result, many dam...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Michael J. Ioannides for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology

"Legality" on Hold: An Exploratory Study on DACAmented Student’s Experiences of Uncertainty and Fear

Creator:: Kingsley, Rachel C.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to explore the uncertainty and fear that DACAmented college and university students experience with the potential termination of the United States Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. There is limited research on the experiences of DACAmented individuals during this time of uncertainty for...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Kenneth C. Maes The purpose of this study is to explore the uncertainty and fear that

Summation of divergent infinite series by arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic means

Creator:: Young, Frederick H.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: = - ¿ _// ¿ (A+B+c+D+E+F+a+H8, - 's___ _- - __-) n (3) ABCD... , (A + B + C + D + ...) - -- - 2m -_-- -J

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:: : Wayne C. Anderson In this creative non-fiction thesis, I present a collection of personal essays that

Energy relations of certain organic compounds from the heats of combustion

Creator:: Cole, Leland Gordon
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: reactions: 44 (AL) 2H i() 2.(S'1- -R1.4 t1C. (4h) Lo - (c) -s. j- (5) 2\ (Ça) i34 -ccd. Ç4d

The present status of industrial arts in the junior high schools of California

Creator:: Baldwin, Willis Ambrose
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to aclaiowledge the he1pu]. assistance of Assistant Dean C. W. Salser, of the School of Education

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
Full Text:: to provide c!inical practice for student nurses which is an educative experience. Jth evaluation of

Differential heat capacity curves for salts of hydrazine

Creator:: McKee, William Myron
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: transitions at -184.1°C., _lO0.10 C. and -156° C. The moment of inertia of the molecule, its shape, the

The importance of experience in community nursing in a degree program of study

Creator:: Davis, Eva Ann
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Appreciation for their interest and assistance is extended to Dr. Janies C. Caughlin as Major professor, to

Amino acids in tissues from healthy and crown gall infected Kalanchoe pinnata

Creator:: Harris, Raymond Gene
Abstract:: Crown gall infected and healthy Kalanchoe pinnata (Lam.) Persoon plants were analyzed for soluble amino acids. Specifically the amino acids in young leaf, mature leaf, stem, root, and gall tissues were quantitatively measured. The plants were inoculated with the bacterium, Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Smith and Townsend) Conn., on one side of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: TISSUES FROM HEALTHY AND CROWN GALL INFECTED KALANCHOE PINNATA Abstract approved: Thomas C. Allen

The heats of combustion of trans and cis-azobenzene

Creator:: Corruccini, Robert Joseph
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: counsel and advice received from Prof- essor E. C. Gilbert, under whose uirection this research was

Attitudes, opportunities and environment of Negro grade school children at Couch School

Creator:: Kingsbury, Helen
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -oa11ed 'neo jobstt; j e., those industries in which mo3t of the workers are negroo There are industries

Students' performance in theory and practice in obstetrics as related to state board examination returns

Creator:: David, Gladys Logsdon
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , for assistance in the writing of this study; to members of her advisory committee, Dr. J. C

Instrumentation system for high speed data sampling of electrical machinery

Creator:: Brisbine, Glen Edward
Abstract:: The objective of this thesis is to develop criteria for a data acquisition system for electrical machinery capable of sampling a signal every 0.2 msec with a desired accuracy of 0.1%. The system to be measured includes both AC and DC voltage and current signals from several points. The main...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 6 )(-j 58 X 106) 58 X 10 12 , X R +X C (1 X 106) +( -j 58 X 106) 58.009 X 10 6 o = .9999 X 106

Educational, economic and sociological problems encountered in training the light aviation sections of the Oregon National Guard

Creator:: Monroe, Melvin Candee
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: chooi Graduate Committee Dean of the Graduate School 11 ACKNOWLE2JGM T To Dr. James C

To mend the walls of Babel : essays on identity and ethnicity

Creator:: Inoue, Asao B.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I explore experiences with my identity, looking at the identity people have seen me as, who I've thought I was, and the identities my mother's and father's different family backgrounds suggest I should be. I have divided this discussion into three main areas: my complexion, the first...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: Wayne C. Anderson In this thesis, I explore experiences with my identity, looking at the

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

Creator:: Morris, C. Gordon
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 2. Since W decreas j > e t c and the proof is complete. 3. The interrals between successive

Orthogonal polynomials

Creator:: Pomeroy, C. David
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . If we adopt the notation a ---a 0,0 n,0 - - - ) then aj,j aj . C.) Persynimetric

Willed Women : Female Bodies & Subversive Being in the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales

Creator:: McLemore, Emily C.
Abstract:: This project examines two understudied female characters from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales who emerge as subversive figures by striving to maintain control over their bodies and being. Through my analyses of the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales, I reveal how virginity correlates with bodily autonomy for the narratives’ respective protagonists,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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.
Abstract:: 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....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: J. Clark, Mitrovica, and Alder (2014

Degree and scale of interactions among chiefdoms during the pre-Hispanic late period in northern Highland Ecuador (AD 1250-1525)

Creator:: Yanchar, Kaitlin C.
Abstract:: During the Late Pre-Hispanic period, settlements in Northern Highland Ecuador were organized under a number of chiefdoms. While a basic hierarchical political system is described in the ethnohistoric literature, the nature of the interactions between specific settlements has remained unknown. This study utilizes two methods for describing the degree and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: THE THESIS OF Kaitlin C. Yanchar for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology

“We All Live Downriver”: Environmental Justice and Community Resistance to the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline and Jordan Cove Export Terminal in Southern Oregon

Creator:: Halleran, Patricia C.
Abstract:: Native America tribes and community members throughout Oregon have asserted a strong opposition to the fossil fuel industry’s attempt to expand railways, build pipelines, and construct refineries, holding facilities, and export terminals. Despite the limited presence of fossil fuel infrastructure in the state, however, the industry is actively pursuing permits...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Patricia C. Halleran

"I've lived on these streets, and these streets aren't pretty" : The Life Stories of Corvallis Homeless Women

Creator:: Koch, Elizabeth C.
Abstract:: Over two million people experience homelessness in the United States, but homeless people are often marginalized by invisibility and stigmas surrounding poverty within their local communities. This research seeks to amplify the voices of Corvallis area homeless women as a means to understand their everyday lived experiences. Six women residing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: THE THESIS OF Elizabeth C. Koch for the degree of Master of Arts in Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Responsible Generation: How Care Ethics Can Activate a Just Energy Transition

Creator:: Grubby, Emily C.
Abstract:: At the urging of international scientists, large industrialized nations like the United States must transition away from fossil fuel energy and toward renewable energy by 2030 in order to stay the tide of climate change. To complete this energy transition citizens must take up responsibilities to change the known paradigms...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: generation 20 Matthew J. Burke and Jennie C

Abandoning the girl show ghetto : introducing and incorporating care ethics to girls' animation

Creator:: Hughes, Adam C.
Abstract:: In regards to animation created and aimed at them, girls are largely underserved and underrepresented. This underrepresentation leads to decreased socio-cultural capital in adulthood and a feeling of sacrificed childhood. Although there is a common consensus in entertainment toward girls as a potentially deficient audience, philosophy and applied ethics open...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Care Ethics to Girls' Animation AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Adam C

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