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The role of traditional ecological knowledge in understanding a species and river system at risk : Pacific lamprey in the Lower Klamath Basin

Creator:: Petersen, Robin S.
Abstract:: Pacific lamprey (Lampetra tridentata) have historically been considered by the Western scientific community as a "trash" fish and generally overlooked in West Coast fisheries management. Recent population declines in Pacific Northwest streams have triggered new research to understand the life history and ecological significance of this species. These new studies...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: by Robin S. Petersen A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of

The ionization constant of pantothenic acid

Creator:: Moser, Robin Emerson
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ws zoea that this invest1g;- tion involving a 5tudy of the acidic strength of the cota- pound

A multi-phase variable frequency audio oscillator

Creator:: Esterly, Henry Norcross
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to the plat;es. The screen voltage is obtained from the center of a 100,000 ohm voltage divider

Toxic politics at 64N, 171W : addressing military contaminants on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

Creator:: Henifin, Kai A.
Abstract:: St. Lawrence Island, Alaska is home to two Formerly Used Defense Sites (FUDS) under remediation by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since 1985. After more than two decades the local residents continue to be concerned about inadequate site characterization and cleanup. During the summer of 2005, I collected ethnographic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Kai A. Henifin for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology presented on March 9, 2007

Cooperation and small to medium sized enterprises in Oregon's forest product industry

Creator:: Brown, Nicole A.
Abstract:: This thesis examines perceptions of cooperation among small to medium sized enterprises (SME) in western Oregon's forest products industry. Recent changes in the industry, such as corporate consolidation, global marketing, and government regulations have created an environment in which many SMEs find it difficult to stay competitive. Cooperation among SMEs...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Nicole A. Brown for the degree of

Power and participation in urban planning : an ethnographic case study of Curitiba, Brazil

Creator:: Piel, Eric W.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the concepts of power and participation and how they are intertwined in the examination of the urban planning systems in Curitiba, Brazil. Power is identified as both the planning system's ability to affect the daily lives of the city's residents and the power of individuals and groups...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: involved in the planning process. As a case study, Curitiba presents an example of how power gradients

Features of boardrooms and conference rooms in Pacific Northwest organizations

Creator:: Foltz, Andrew L.
Abstract:: This study examines selected cultural elements of the negotiating environment in seventeen organizations having home or branch offices in the Northwest United States. Conference room and boardroom design, intentional placement of meaningful artifacts, arrangement of seating, and providing of refreshments are compared. Observations and interviews of organizational representatives in nine...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Features of Boardrooms and Conference Rooms in Pacific Northwest Organizations John A. Young This study

Embodying Gaia: Bruno Latour’s Gaia and the Earthboundedness of Contemplative Pedagogy (a snail’s view)

Creator:: Schindler, Jason A.
Abstract:: Bruno Latour’s Facing Gaia provokes us to embrace our Earthboundedness to approach the problematic political ecologies of the Anthropocene. Latour’s call for the Earthbound is to re-trace networks of society, institutions, and meaning and to challenge, as enemy, those that would continue to behave as if we lived on more...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Earthboundedness of Contemplative Pedagogy (a snail's view) AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jason A

“I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era

Creator:: Baker, Carlee A.
Abstract:: In the months preceding the 2016 presidential election and during the Trump presidency, rhetoric, composition, and communications scholars expressed an urgent concern about the threat that Trump and his political affiliates posed to the status of truth in political life (McComiskey; Rice; Harsin; Cloud). However, the conversations surrounding the discipline’s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: THE THESIS OF Carlee A. Baker for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 25

Re-viewing the canon : using film and critical pedagogy in the standards-based classroom

Creator:: Divelbiss, John D.
Abstract:: This thesis analyzes the efficacy of emancipatory (critical) pedagogical practices in an educational climate of standards-based reform. Using two films noir of the blacklist era--Body and Soul and Crossfire--as the core texts of a unit in a secondary school curriculum, I argue that an emphasis on student agency and a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: texts of a unit in a secondary school curriculum, I argue that an emphasis on student agency and a

Full of his details and other essays

Creator:: Tuma, Teresa K. Easterling
Abstract:: This collection consists of autobiographical essays which center around my father, my first husband, and my backyard. All of the pieces are recollections, and most occur either from my study inside the house, or from the deck outside, looking at the yard. The Preface is the story of how I...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: from the deck outside, looking at the yard. The Preface is the story of how I came to be a writer

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
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Heath Rakes In their master’s thesis, Mateo Rosales Fertig offers the framework of a

Development and study of a four wire echo suppressor, using a double anode gas filled tube

Creator:: Jones, Herbert L.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and 1000 . iu zu*aeurenta were taken foi' loases greater than t1t oorreponting to a O ohm shunt

A Public Elementary School as a Cultural Context : Japanese Children Learning to Perceive their Environment

Creator:: Sugai, Taichi
Abstract:: This thesis examines the cultural context in which Japanese children are constructing their own perspective of the environment because in the development of environmental education in Japan, the perspectives of children and teachers have not been taken into consideration. Although educators have made efforts to give direction to environmental education,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: January 8, 2007 Title: A Public Elementary School as a Cultural Context: Japanese Children Learning to

Femslash Fanfiction as a Reparative Practice of Critique

Creator:: Johnson, Colleen E.
Abstract:: Ever since Henry Jenkins’ groundbreaking _Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture_ (1992), fan studies has slowly worked its way further into mainstream academia. However, particular practices and cultures of femslash fandom, and the contribution of queer women to fandom archives and circulation have, in many ways, been neglected. In...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: April 30, 2019. Title: Femslash Fanfiction as a Reparative Practice of Critique. Abstract

The social dimension of Shakespeare's art : a Midsummer Night's Dream

Creator:: Schaefer, Mimi
Abstract:: The study of the social dimensions of Shakespeare's art is represented by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, C.L. Barber, Robert Weimann, Edward Berry, and Michael Bristol. Their work analyzes the background in Elizabethan social practices and popular dramatic traditions that contribute to the form, structure, and meaning of Shakespeare's comedies....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: practices. Puck, from A Midsummer Night's Dream, is just such a character. Addressed as Robin Goodfellow

Electrode potentials of nickel and cobalt in a fused electrolyte

Creator:: Hamby, Drannan Carson, 1933-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: chlorine electrodes, could be measured. A 10, 000 ohm resistor to prevent polarization was always in

Site ORBE2 : an archaeological analysis of a construction disturbed site

Creator:: Cromwell, Robert J.
Abstract:: This thesis describes investigations of archaeological materials recovered from Site ORBE2, an early-twentieth century historic site in Corvallis, OR. The archaeological materials were found only after construction workers had excavated trenches underneath the still-standing structure on the site in order to install a new foundation. Over 1500 artifacts were recovered...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Archaeological Analysis of a Construction Disturbed Site. Abstract approved: David Brauner This thesis

More than a term : a consideration of how to support generation 1.5 students at colleges and universities

Creator:: Wimberly, Elizabeth Summer
Abstract:: In this thesis, Elizabeth Summer Wimberly details the profile of generation 1.5 students as a group of students who can need extra support in higher education. Generation 1.5 students stand distinct from both international students and native, monolingual students. As such, placing generation 1.5 students in either a mainstream or...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: More Than a Term: A Consideration of How to Support

A material approach : Anne Frances Wysocki and new media

Creator:: Margoni, Travis
Abstract:: Anne Frances Wysocki, a scholar in the field of new media and composition studies, has published many articles, book chapters, a textbook, and is a major contributor to a multi-authored collection titled Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. This thesis considers the five openings...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , 2010. Title: A Material Approach: Anne Frances Wysocki and New Media. Abstract Approved

Cape Scene & the path to a conscientious tourism product

Creator:: Sykes, Kimberly M.
Abstract:: Many countries around the world are looking to tourism as a sustainable solution for economic development and many individuals seek business opportunities in the tourism industry. Researchers in the field of anthropology and other disciplines alike have recorded findings of the environmental, economic and cultural impacts of tourism development that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Scene & The Path To A Conscientious Tourism Product Abstract approved Courtland L. Smith Many

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
Full Text:: Anthropology presented on May 20, 2008. Title: Empowerment or a ‘Citizenship Project’?: Microcredit with

Invitations to the writing life : a study of popular writing books

Creator:: Finley, Devon
Abstract:: The field of composition studies has concerned itself with the way in which people learn to write and the role schooling plays in writing development. Recently a trend has developed within the field towards exploring writing development outside of the classroom, termed the extracurriculum. Much of the scholarship thus far...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Invitations to the writing life : a study of popular writing

Toward a more ethical engineering : four habits of highly ethical engineering practice

Creator:: Sugie, Masayuki Luke
Abstract:: In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of paradigmatic background assumptions deployed in engineering decision-making processes, in order to understand how these assumptions, operating tacitly and in tension with each other, contribute to decisions that are ethically less effective and less substantial than they would otherwise be. I do so...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Ethics presented on November 18, 2009. Title: Toward a

"Land of War and Blood" : spectacular violence, conflicting medievalisms, and chivalric legacies in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones

Creator:: Horton, Kaely
Abstract:: This thesis examines depictions of medievalism in three central texts: Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. Each of these texts provides an entry point for exploring the ways in which English and American writers have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Chivalric Legacies in Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Our “dead keep up the simple habits of the living”: Queer Digital Ephemerality in the Victorian Roman à Clef

Creator:: Snyder, Christin
Abstract:: Many queer scholars have made the turn away from orientations that treat Victorian queerness as either “lost” or “hidden.” Adding more complexity to literary theories which center practices of “revealing” queer artifacts, Sharon Marcus, for instance, argues queer encounters exist at the surfaces of Victorian literature. In addition, Anjali Arondekar’s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: simple habits of the living”: Queer Digital Ephemerality in the Victorian Roman à Clef Abstract

James Baldwin's Pedagogy of Love: A Method for Transforming American Political Thinking and Pedagogy in the Academy

Creator:: Saleem, Ikhzaan
Abstract:: My thesis examines how the American identity is constructed through thinking shaped by deception and domination, as James Baldwin argues in the corpus of his work. I rely on the work of Eddie Glaude Jr., Sean Kim Butorac, and Joel Schlosser to forward love in Baldwin’s political vision as being...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Pedagogy of Love: A Method for Transforming American Political Thinking and Pedagogy in the Academy

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
Full Text:: Anthropology presented on June 15, 2007 Title: Central Place Foraging and the Winter Village: A Settlement

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
Full Text:: "A GIS investigation of indigenous intensification of native

Sexologists, What of the Night?: Parody and Resistance in Nightwood

Creator:: Simpson, Taylor
Abstract:: The present study considers the mid-nineteenth century origins of the term “sexual inversion,” as it became applied to a variety of nonnormative subjects and sexual practices. Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood (1936) has long been recognized as a discursive space wherein socially constructed notions of sexuality and gender are interrogated. A key...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: inversion,” as it became applied to a variety of nonnormative subjects and sexual practices. Djuna Barnes

Differential heat capacity curves for salts of hydrazine

Creator:: McKee, William Myron
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (1922) showed that the specific heats of the ammonium halides underwent a gradual transition covering

Girlhood reimagined : representations of girlhood in the films of Hayao Miyazaki

Creator:: Sabine, Karissa N.
Abstract:: Despite the now common usage of the term “girl”, there has been little call for pause and deeper analysis into what we actually mean when we use this term. In particular, animated film provides a wide scope of media texts that claim to focus on girlhood; but how do we...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: analysis into what we actually mean when we use this term. In particular, animated film provides a wide

Chasing Tails: Stories for Refining Relationships Between Wolves & Humans

Creator:: Beggen, Kristina
Abstract:: As wolves return to their historic habitats both in Oregon and across the globe, emotions are running high between people either gladdened or disturbed by their homecoming. Prior to colonization, wolves occupied the entire Pacific Northwest alongside Indigenous peoples. However, European settlements that ultimately coalesced to form the state of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: intentions, wolves have slowly been moving westward from Idaho, and as of 2019 Oregon now has over a

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:: approved: Gerald C. Alex.nder The objective of this thesis is to develop criteria for a data acquisition

Low pressure striations in argon and helium glow discharges

Creator:: Davis, Monte V. (Monte Vincent), 1923-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: series with the tube was placed a 150,000 ohm resistance to limit the current tu order to keep the

The Andy Stories

Creator:: Henkel, William B.
Abstract:: The four stories within, "Jim of India," "Shooting the Breeze," "Bridge," and "Point Reyes," are part of a longer work in progress, tentatively titled The Andy Stories. The stories follow Andy, a woman in her 50s, on a voyage across the continent and into herself. Of these, all are written...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: nutcrackers and wrens displaced by a robin, by a jay, displaced by a woodpecker going for the suet

Toward Critical Consciousness : Rhetorical Grammar as Anti-Racist Praxis in the First Year Composition Classroom

Creator:: Koneval, Addison B.
Abstract:: While grammar is a core aspect of written and oral communication, many find grammar instruction equally frustrating and boring, and as such, grammar receives very little formal attention in the university system (Hoffman). My thesis draws attention to this overlooked, and yet central component of composition, and asks a radical...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Jensen While grammar is a core aspect of written and oral communication, many find grammar

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
Full Text:: This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental

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:: Spillers, Vincent Woodard and Hiram Pérez as a foundation to ground my discussion of agency

Narrative frames and the works of John Coltrane

Creator:: Duncan, James Bryan
Abstract:: In Culture and Imperialism, Said illustrates that we have no "autonomous cultural forms," but rather "impure" ones that are the products of historically "discrepant experiences." American culture has an interesting relationship with the history of imperialism. The Europeans that settled the U.S. imported slave labor to assist in the growth...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: culture despite institutionalized segregation of the races, mixing disparate cultural ideas in a common

In Search of the Carnivalesque: An Investigation of Carnival in Santiago de Cuba

Creator:: Nichol, Melanie
Abstract:: Carnival celebrations in Santiago de Cuba transform large swaths of the city for an anticipated week of festivities, during which Afro-Cuban dancers and musicians are center stage, performing a complicated statement of prescribed cultural ideology, historic acts of agency, and nationalism. A particularly revealing celebration, carnival can be understood as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , during which Afro-Cuban dancers and musicians are center stage, performing a complicated statement of

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
Full Text:: understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public

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
Full Text:: Register of Historic Places, applied for a demolition permit. The 1859 home, first occupied by two early

Energy relations of certain organic compounds from the heats of combustion

Creator:: Cole, Leland Gordon
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: resistivity in ohm-centimeters, j is length in centímetera, and a is area in centimeters squared, and that

Public Proof : Science Communication, Weak Theory, and the Nonrational

Creator:: Snyder, Wesley M.
Abstract:: A 2014 Pew Research poll revealed large gaps between public opinion and scientific opinion over environmental and biomedical issues (Funk and Rainie). Similarly, a number of recent popular books have described a growing public mistrust in scientific expertise (Mooney; Storr; Specter). Why is it, then, that so much of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: A 2014 Pew Research poll revealed large gaps between public opinion and scientific opinion over

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

Creator:: Landberg, Brooke
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: ___________________________________________________ Ana Ribero While a

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
Full Text:: question the traditional telling of the history of rhetoric. Dissatisfied with a history which is told in

The experiences of Latino immigrant students in an Oregon high school : identity, language, and interethnic relationships

Creator:: Hayden, Alyssa
Abstract:: For much of history, U.S. schools have employed ideologies of assimilation and nationhood - involving an exchange of immigrants' ways of life for a homogenous American identity - as frameworks for their curriculum and language education programs. However, a new ideology of multiculturalism has gained popularity in recent decades. Multicultural...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: assimilation and nationhood – involving an exchange of immigrants’ ways of life for a homogenous American

Fallow

Creator:: Lutz, Kevin W.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Marjorie Sandor Pa/low is a creative non-fiction book ofmemory and place. It chronicles the lives of

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
Date Created:
Full Text:: A Non-Thesis Project In partial fulfillment for the Degree of Environmental Arts and Humanities

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