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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
Full Text:: Journal of Medicine. His 1200-word column, "Notes of a Biology Watcher," ran from 1971 – 1980. The

Lamarck's approach to an understanding of man

Creator:: Dobson, Christopher Michael
Abstract:: Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) is considered here in the context of the Enlightenment effort to develop a science of man. His Philosophie zoologique (1809) and the Systeme analytique (1820) are the two principal relevant works examined in depth to discover how he meant to base a science of man on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: organization. Lamarck intended his evolutionary biology to supply a natural history of the soul, and to

The Grizzly Bear and the Deer : the history of Federal Indian Policy and its impact on the Coast Reservation tribes of Oregon, 1856-1877

Creator:: Van Laere, M. Susan
Abstract:: The Coast Reservation of Oregon was established under Executive Order of President Franklin Pierce in November, 1855, as a homeland for the southern Oregon tribes. It was an immense, isolated wilderness, parts of which had burned earlier in the century. There were some prairies where farming was possible, but because...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: land was a virtual paradise. Native people seemed to need neither laws nor letters as civilized people

The control, resistance, and evolution of digital artifacts: a materialist study of internet culture

Creator:: Villemarette, Chris
Abstract:: My goal is to demonstrate that a coevolutionary relationship exists between decentralized networks over which digital media are used and the control mechanisms placed on those networks and digital media. The resisting digital media and the control mechanisms placed on them push each other toward further decentralization. The aspects of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of architecture, geology, biology, and linguistics. John Bonta and Mark Protevi have done similar

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

Creator:: Aldrich, Franklin Dalton
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -water biology was demonstrated vividly by Coffin, using radioactive phosphorus taken UI) by

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:: ," Journal of the History of Biology (2001) 34 (1): 3-50 and Philip J. Pauly, Controlling Ltfe: Jacques Loeb

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

Creator:: Davolt, Claudine Virginia
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Letters (Lower Division) A. English 1. English Composition 4 B. Speech 1. Extempore Speaking 7 XVI

"They called me the hyacinth girl" : T. S. Eliot, masculinity, and the Great War

Creator:: Query, Patrick
Abstract:: This thesis traces the relationship between the First World War, constructions of masculinity, and the life and poetry of T.S. Eliot. Central to this relationship is a study of homoeroticism, which the author characterizes as different from homosexuality but not exclusive of it, in late 19th and early 20th century...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: hurried good night...because I must get back to work. Jean Verdenal (from letter to Eliot, 26 August

William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

Creator:: Taylor, H. Terry
Abstract:: In their modern context questions of heredity have come to be closely aligned with theories of evolution because all such theories require the presence of heritable variation. Thus the need for an understanding of a source of variation and a mechanism for its inheritance became very apparent with the general...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Bancroft Library and the Biology Library on that campus. Beth Carroll, Assistant Manuscript Librarian of

The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

Creator:: Swanner, Leandra
Abstract:: This study examines the interactions between the scientific communities of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the discovery of the tau lepton by physicist Martin Perl between 1973- 1977. Perl became interested in searching for heavy leptons through positron-electron collision experiments using the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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Knot theory : in imitation of Lewis Thomas

Lamarck's approach to an understanding of man

The Grizzly Bear and the Deer : the history of Federal Indian Policy and its impact on the Coast Reservation tribes of Oregon, 1856-1877

The control, resistance, and evolution of digital artifacts: a materialist study of internet culture

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

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

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

"They called me the hyacinth girl" : T. S. Eliot, masculinity, and the Great War

William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

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