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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:: secular works within a religious context. Ann R. Meyer, in a general discussion of the legacy of

"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:: George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones

In Defense of the "Ringding Mukta" : The Later Work of J.D. Salinger

Creator:: Herb, Danielle Kristine
Abstract:: My thesis explores the later work of author J.D. Salinger, including two narratives featured in Nine Stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," and "Teddy," and Franny and Zooey, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," and "Seymour: an Introduction." Through my analysis I argue that the religious nature of Salinger's fiction...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Feeding Victory: The Challenge of Agriculture, Food Distribution, and Nutrition During the Second World War in the United Kingdom and Germany

Creator:: Paoli, Gus R.
Abstract:: The Second World War was not just a military struggle but also a struggle between two different agriculture, food distribution, and nutrition systems in the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany. At the start of the war, both countries understood that food and nutrition would play an important role and carefully...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Kingdom and Germany Abstract approved:______________________________________________ Jacob D. Hamblin

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:: __________________________________________________________________ AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF John D. Divelbiss for the degree of Master of

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

Creator:: Morris, C. Gordon
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: - 8',' I L - 8 - 52 I - s- 7i - /oo i ± t CO3 C 5-3 I, --(- /o ±2f) C , I/i F - - 'r

Nuclear Imperialism: Examining Atomic Test Reactions and UN Intervention in Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana, 1957-1966

Creator:: Bremigan, Shelby R.
Abstract:: France’s decision to test their nuclear weapons program in the Sahara in 1960 wholly reshaped how the Cold War infiltrated into West Africa. During a time of nation building, Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah urged Ghana and Africa, more broadly, to break ties with colonial powers and rebuke further attempts of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Scripts and Minoritarian Subjectivity: Examining Ambivalence and Asian Diasporas in Kim Jee-woon’s The Good, The Bad, The Weird, Kim Fu’s For Today I Am a Boy, and R. Zamora Linmark’s Rolling the R’s

Creator:: Son, Rachana C.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the roles of scripts in shaping minoritarian subjectivity through Kim Jee-woon’s film The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008), Kim Fu’s novel For Today I Am a Boy (2014), and R. Zamora Linmark’s novel Rolling the R’s (1995). In all three works, diasporic characters of Asian descent...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Fu’s For Today I Am a Boy, and R. Zamora Linmark’s Rolling the R’s Abstract approved

A comparison of three test scores used as predictors of college success

Creator:: Feldman, Cynthia Rose
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Years' Scholarship N r if r 1 112 .50 32 .41 2 105 .60 37 .53 3 85 .36 36 .32 4 82 .63 27 .41 5 77 .38

Exploring Embodied Gender Identities in Steven Universe

Creator:: Painter, Stephanie
Abstract:: Steven Universe, a relatively new show from Cartoon Network, explores an unexpectedly complex understanding of gender through their main protagonists. Utilizing Judith Butler’s work on gender performativity and doing gender, as well as Daniel Dennett’s conception of the self as a theorist’s fiction, and Alexander Weheliye’s understanding of power and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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:: - Hispanic Late Period in Northern Highland Ecuador (AD 1250-1525) Abstract approved: Leah D

The taxonomic value of the metathoracic wing in the Scutelleridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)

Creator:: Au, Eunice Chizuru
Abstract:: Classification based on metathoracic wing venation does not coincide with the existing higher classification of the family Scutelleridae. The wings of the genera in the Scutellerinae possess a similar general pattern of venation which is quite distinct from that of Eurygasterinae, Odontoscelinae, Odontotarsinae, and Pachycorinae. The Scutellerinae wings possess three...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Lampromicra senator (Fabricius), e, Duarluga, 20 mi W (2! ld Aust. , Oct. 1929, J. R. Slevin, Coll, (CAS); d

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

Creator:: Green, Dale E.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Classes Redacted for Privacy Abstract approved: Robert D. Stalley R. Stalley conjectured and N. Alon

New theorems and examples for Freedman's density spaces

Creator:: Olson, Arthur Eugene, Jr
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Fo, let D = F r\U(x) and T1[ D] = {y - x I y E D }. Then ° is T-1 if T1[ D] is in 7 v {4 } for

Behavior during rest and the eating patterns of children at nursery school

Creator:: Fernandes, Afra Margaret
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Interconversions of monoterpenes in peppermint

Creator:: Burbott, Alice Joyce
Abstract:: The analysis of the distribution of monoterpenes through the leaf pairs of a single shoot of Mentha piperita supports Reitsema's contention that the first terpenes formed are unsaturated ketones and that saturated terpenes are produced from these. The growth of Mentha piperita under varying conditions of temperature and the leaf-by-leaf...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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A revision of the North American species of Pactopus Leconte and Trixagus Kugelann (Coleoptera: Throscidae)

Creator:: Yensen, Arthur Eric
Abstract:: This study was undertaken to find means of separating the morphologically similar species of North American Trixagus and to bring together information on Trixagus and Pactopus. A key to separate the world's eight genera of extant Throscidae is presented for the first time. A key to the five species of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , University of Arizona; Dr. R. E. Woodruff, Florida State Collection of Arthropods; Dr. D. A. Young, North

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

Effect of vitamin B-6 status on Selenium metabolism in the rat

Creator:: Beilstein, Michael A.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: \ Philip D. Whanged The trace mineral nutrient, selenium, occurs mostly as selenoamino acids in

On the enumeration of certain equivalence classes of Euler paths of full graphs

Creator:: Prothero, Stephen Kerron
Abstract:: This thesis treats the problem of enumerating equivalence classes of Euler paths of full graphs. A full graph is a complete, unordered, graph with no loops or repeated edges. Two Euler paths are equivalent if and only if one can be transformed into the other by a finite sequence of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . - +k r 9 The above definition defines an equivalence relation on the set of all Euler paths

The Space Between: How We Understood, Valued, and Governed the Ocean Through the Process of Marine Science and Emerging Technologies

Creator:: Newton, Samantha
Abstract:: Ian Angell, in the New Barbarian Manifesto, said “A ‘brave new world’ is being forced upon unsuspecting societies by advances in information technology.” It would seem then, that technological advances happen automatically and have a life of their own. There is a logic to technological advancements that is outside human...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Environmental History,” Environmental History 11, no. 3 (2006): 567–97; J. R. Mcneill, “Observations on the

Chinese and International Engineers on the Belt and Road: Culture, Knowledge and Lives on a Renewable Energy Project

Creator:: Zhuo, Chen
Abstract:: Energy issues are becoming one of the most pressing topics in today's political and cultural landscape, particularly in the midst of the climate crisis. Globally, a variety of renewable energy projects are under development to meet energy demand without continuing to overburden the natural environment of our planet, with profound...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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:: Practitioners Abstract approved: Carmen D. Steggell Although electronic medical records

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:: to Dr. Henry D. Schalock, Associate Professor of Family Life, for guidance during this study, both

Sound and death in John Haines's poetry

Creator:: Noble, Darren L.
Abstract:: Poet John Haines is best known for his first book of poetry, Winter News, which was published in 1966. The book contains poems about the Alaskan landscape that surrounded Haines during his many years of living in Richardson, Alaska. The recurring motifs in his poems include hunting, trapping, the Arctic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: John Haines's Poetry. Kerry D. Ahearn Poet John Haines is best known for his first book of poetry

Commodification in an Ersu Tibetan village of Sichuan, China

Creator:: Schmitt, Edwin Anton
Abstract:: This ethnographic research aims to discover the implications of the commodification of production processes amongst the Ersu Tibetans of Sichuan, China. This thesis examines the commodification of Ersu agriculture and ethnic identity in the historical context of both China and the world-system. Ethnohistorical and ethnoecological methodologies are utilized to answer...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: ____________________________________________________________________ Bryan D

Building Resilient Oregon Coastal Communities: Reimagining Critical Facilities through Latinx Sense of Place

Creator:: Stanton, Katherine A.
Abstract:: This paper examines equitability of critical facilities within resilience planning efforts and how it relates to accessibility and utilization for Latinx community members along the Oregon coast in relation to natural hazards including the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Interviews and focus groups were conducted with emergency management personnel and Latinx coastal...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Place Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Bryan D

Intercultural Competence and Cross-Cultural Co-Teaching: Exploring Native English-Speaker Experiences in Taiwan

Creator:: Pike, Jessie L.
Abstract:: The increasing focus on internationalization in Taiwan’s language-in-education policy has expanded the use of cross-cultural co-teaching pairs consisting of a native English-speaking teacher and a local non-native English-speaking teacher. While the model holds great potential for combining unique strengths, navigating cross-cultural communication in these co-teaching collaborations can be complex. This...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Taiwan. Abstract approved: _____________________________________________________ Bryan D

Rural ceramic production, consumption, and exchange in late classic Oaxaca, Mexico : a view from Yaasuchi

Creator:: Pink, Jeremias
Abstract:: The Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico was home to one of the most intensively-studied archaic states in the New World. Centered at the hilltop city of Monte Albán, the Zapotec State first arose around 500 BC and eventually encompassed much of the present-day state of Oaxaca. But by the Late Classic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: T R O D U C T I O N In the study of archaic states, the economic behavior of rural households is

Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Oney, Celia E.
Abstract:: People involved in a nuclear activity, whether they are developing it, benefiting from it, or opposing it, see inherent connections between various aspects of nuclear science and technology. This thesis investigates three nuclear sites: a university research reactor, a dual-purpose reactor that produced plutonium for the U.S. military and electricity...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: director, Loren D. McKinley, started communicating with OSU’s Radiation Center Director, Chih Wang, to

Unfinished work : reading Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth

Creator:: Ridinger, Angela F.
Abstract:: Ralph Ellison died without ever completing his second novel. After his death, the executor of his literary estate, John F. Callahan, edited Ellison's work into a novel published under the title Juneteenth. This thesis examines the problems posed by Ellison's posthumously released text, especially the issues of authorial intent and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 2, 2000. Title: Unfinished Work: Reading Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth. Abstract approved: Kerry D

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:: Jacob D. Hamblin In 1947, scientists from the University of California departed for a fifteen

Solidarity’s Last Stand: Rudi Nussbaum and the Hanford Downwinders

Creator:: Vitale, Anthony
Abstract:: The Hanford Nuclear Reservation drew public ire during the 1980s and 1990s when activist groups forced the declassification of 19,000 documents and discovered proof of accidental and intentional releases of radioactive materials into the environment. These releases had been kept from the public. Although many locals had for decades wondered...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Socio-ecological vulnerability in a Tibetan village on the Lancang River, China

Creator:: Galipeau, Brendan A.
Abstract:: This ethnographic research examines socioeconomic vulnerabilities to resettlement from a large hydropower dam and agricultural commodification in a Tibetan village in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. After providing an initial background on the dynamics of the research region and hydrodevelopment on its rivers, the research framework of examining vulnerability through a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: _____________________________________________________ Bryan D. Tilt This

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
Full Text:: Willamette Valley of Oregon. Abstract Approved: David R. Brauner This thesis examines archaeological

Morality and materialism : American conservatives and science, 1945-1964

Creator:: Schefke, Brian R.
Abstract:: Following World War II, the United States enjoyed unprecedented power and prestige. The wartime alliance with the Soviet Union quickly collapsed amid mutual suspicion and fear, however, resulting in the Cold War. Science was a significant political component in that ideological conflict. In the United States, inspired by Franklin D....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Brian R. Schefke for the degree of

Little houses on the prairie : a predictive model of French-Canadian settlement in Oregon's Willamette Valley

Creator:: Kinoshita, Jun R.
Abstract:: Using GIS, this study creates a predictive model of a distinct population of French-Canadian settlers, highlighting shared environmental characteristics of known sites that may have factored into their decision-making process as they chose locations for their farmsteads. While traditional historic and archaeological research has been conducted on French Prairie, the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jun R. Kinoshita for the degree of

Breeding the new woman : the eugenic discourse of motherhood in Shaw, Yeats, and Lawless

Creator:: Tracy, Hannah R.
Abstract:: The popularity and pervasiveness of eugenic discourse during the modernist period in England and Ireland raised many questions about race, class, and gender. While Hitler's Nazi "experiment" ultimately demonstrated the consequences of implementing eugenic ideas, forcing eugenicists to abandon, or at least mask, their theories, the eugenics movement before World...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE ThESIS OF Hannah R. Tracy for the degree of

Some mathematical models in ecology

Creator:: Engstrom-Heg, Verna Louise
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: a to a + da.) p(a) is the survival factor for that age group, e(o) b, b - a r where d is the

Secrets of the North Staffordshire ceramic recipes : identifying chemical variation and uniformity using an archaeometric approach

Creator:: Hale, Jessica A.
Abstract:: The present thesis chemically examined 174 industrial North Staffordshire pottery fragments from an archaeological context, using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA). In an integrated effort to combine an archaeometric approach with archival research and traditional analysis methods, the purpose of the thesis was to link industrial pottery manufacturers recipes to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: David R. Brauner The present thesis chemically examined 174 industrial North

The purification and characterization of a soluble mitochondrial adenosinetriphosphatase from cabbage, Brassica oleracea

Creator:: Petersen, Thomas Gordon
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: efforts of added DNP, oleic acid and ? r[-D. Some of the results reported suggest that the soluble

The Oregon State Board of Higher Curricula as an agency for curricular control

Creator:: Goode, Delmer M.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: been given by Dr. R. J. Clinton. Appreciation is also ecpressed to r. Charles D. Byrne, secretary

Analysis of dredge tailings pile patterns : applications for historical archaeological research

Creator:: Purdy, Sarah E.
Abstract:: For centuries humans have been searching for precious metals. The search for gold has greatly changed the landscape of the American West, beginning in the 1850s and continuing today. Various gold rushes around the country created mining colonies in remote areas, thereby connecting the frontier with the rest of America...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ________________________________________________________________________________ Dr. David R. Brauner For centuries humans have been searching for precious metals. The

Reconstruction and calibration of a small grating spectrograph

Creator:: Elle, Bruce Lloyd
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: stmerit D et o I IIll9 A4 H ohzontal Adjusting Sc r e i____________ ____________ Tension

Foodways at Fort Yamhill, 1856-1866 : an archaeological and archival perspective

Creator:: Eichelberger, Justin E.
Abstract:: Fort Yamhill, located in the eastern foothills of the Oregon Coast Range near modern day Grand Ronde, Oregon, was a U.S. Army post established in March 1856 as part of a three fort system to guard the newly established Coast Reservation and to provide a Union presence in the state...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Archival Perspective. Abstract approved: David R. Brauner Fort Yamhill

The development of the health program in the schools of Marion County, Oregon

Creator:: Fisher, Alice Bates
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: staff of the Oreø'on Tuberculosis Association: Dr. J. O. Mathis, of Salem, Oregon; Dr. D. R. Ross

Some factors affecting the growth of Anacharis densa (Planchon) Victorin in Siltcoos Lake, Oregon

Creator:: Aldrich, Franklin Dalton
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: fall largely within T.19 S., R.11 and 12 ''1. (.Tillamette Ieridian) in Lane and Douglas Coun- ties

The educational fates of college entrants in the two lowest American council on education test deciles

Creator:: Laslett, Leota Lieurance
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Professor Herbert R. Laslett for their encouragement and indispensable assistance in the preparation of

Some fears of college students

Creator:: Brady, Beth Bryant
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Redacted for Privacy Dean of Graduate School ACKNOWLEDGN=S To Dr. H. R. Laslett, who for twenty years

Thinness in Asia : eating disorders in Singapore as seen through anthropological eyes

Creator:: Isono, Maho
Abstract:: There has been a growing interest in eating disorders among Singaporean medical professionals since the 1990s, and the Singaporean public is also starting to become aware of the risks of these conditions. This ethnographic research on eating disorders in Singapore, conducted in 2001, however, found that the majority of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Questionnaire to the Medical Professionals............................... 200 Appendix D: Informed Consents

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