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  • Boundary value problems and bifurcation theory for ordinary differential equations

    Creator:
    Malloy, David
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    Two numerical methods are presented that can be used to solve second order nonlinear ordinary differential equations with periodic boundary conditions. One of these methods is a shooting method developed solely for the periodic problem. The other, "quasilinearization," is a method applicable to a wide variety of problems. It is...
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    Differential Equations AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF David Malloy for the degree of Master of Arts in

  • "Living Outside the Madness" : reform and ecology in the work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder

    Creator:
    Hiatt, Bryan
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    Recent conflicts in America concerning the environment (the harvesting of old growth timber in the Pacific Northwest, or the proposed opening of public lands in southern Utah to mining interests, for instance) have precipitated a personal examination of "historical others" (Jensen 64), individuals that possess very different sensibilities from a...
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    and Ecology in the Work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder. Abstract Approved: David Robinson

  • "Born of ourselves" : gendered doubling and the femme fatale in Vernon Lee's ghost stories

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    Delf, Liz
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    This thesis examines the characterization of the femme fatale and the implications of this trope for late-Victorian gender and sexuality in the ghost stories of female aesthete Vernon Lee. In her treatment of the femme fatale figure, Lee both reinforces and complicates the image of the sexualized, often bestialized woman...
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    ghost stories of female aesthete Vernon Lee. In her treatment of the femme fatale figure, Lee both

  • Life in railroad logging camps of the Shevlin-Hixon Company, 1916-1950

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    Gregory, Ronald L.
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    Remnants of railroad logging camps, and their associated features, are perhaps some of the most common archaeological resources found on public lands in the Pacific Northwest. Many camps have already been located, their cultural materials inventoried, and networks of logging railroad grades mapped. Yet, despite these efforts, little can be...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Ronald L. Gregory for the degree

  • The archaeology of the Smith House (ORYA3), Dayton, Oregon

    Creator:
    Stone, Helen Delight
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    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,...
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    Smith House (ORYA3), Dayton, Oregon. David Brauner Site ORYA3, the Smith House, is located in Dayton

  • “Missed the Best Months of the War”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and Empire among British Royal Flying Corps Interned in First World War German Prisoner of War Camps

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    Graham, Devon E.
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    This thesis focuses on performances of masculinity by British Royal Flying Corps (RFC) airmen in the charged landscape of the First World War prisoner of war (POW) camp. I examine how captive airmen coped with imprisonment by reasserting the familiar homosocial communities of pre-capture squadron life, particularly through practices associated...
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    Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Janet Lee This thesis

  • The Politics of Population : A Transnational Feminist Analysis of India’s National Population Policy of 2000

    Creator:
    Rowe, Ashley
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    The purpose of this study is to critically analyze whether India’s National Population Policy of 2000 represents a paradigm shift in terms of how the nation-state conceptualizes and address population growth through formal population policy. Analyzed through transnational feminist theory, this study employed political discourse analysis as the research method....
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    : ______________________________________________________ Janet Lee The purpose of this study is to critically analyze whether India’s National

  • Gender, Race, and Nation in the Dear America Series

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    Furman, Kali
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    Books and literature help children and young adults develop language, cognitive, and social skills. Additionally children's literature enables individuals to develop a deeper appreciation for their own, and others' cultures and histories. This thesis analyzes the young adult historical fiction series Dear America, published by Scholastic press, and examines how...
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    . Title: Gender, Race, and Nation in the Dear America Series Abstract approved: Janet Lee Books and

  • Reproductive cycle of the male newt Taricha granulosa : exogenous and endogenous regulation of plasma androgens

    Creator:
    Specker, Jennifer Lee
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    During a 13-month period starting in October of 1976, adult male rough-skinned newts (Taricha granulosa) were collected periodically to study seasonal changes in reproductive status. Plasma androgen concentration, measured by radioimmunoassay, is elevated during autumn and spring (about 50 ng/ml). Winter and summer levels are considerably lower (less than 10...
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    for Jennifer Lee Specker ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I thank Dr. Frank L. Moore for his good-naturedness and

  • A Game of Silent Irreverence : Passive Resistance in The Dalles, Oregon

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    Maddoux, Maryanne
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    210 East First Street (site 35WS453) contains the only extant remains of a once thriving Overseas Chinese settlement, in the city of The Dalles, Oregon. Very little is known about the everyday lives of these early settlers, or the pressures that they faced. This thesis will help to enrich the...
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    : ______________________________________________________ David R. Brauner 210 East First Street (site 35WS453) contains the only extant remains