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

    Creator:
    Anderson, Frederick C.
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    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...
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    privacy. Loren G. Davis The continuation of geoarchaeological investigations at Tseriadun (35CU7

  • Effects of chronic coumestrol administration on female rats

    Creator:
    Chan, Elaine Chi-ling
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    The effects of coumestrol on the uterine weight, uterine fluid imbibition, uterine nucleic acid content, adrenal weight and body weight of female rats were studied. Daily doses of 20 micrograms of coumestrol per 0.1cc propylene glycol were administered subcutaneously to spayed rats following a seven day recovery period, for durations...
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    School Date thesis is presented May 11, 1966 Typed by Kay Smith ACKNOWLEDGMENT The author

  • Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

    Creator:
    Jameson, Sara
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    Mike Rose researcher, professor, scholar, and author of numerous articles and books including the literacy memoir - Lives on the Boundary - has been active in the field of education and composition for over 30 years. This thesis looks back at the development of the discipline of composition studies to...
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    Hull, Kay Loser Fraser, and Marisa Castellano (1991), the authors situate a detailed analysis of

  • What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

    Creator:
    Anderson, Jessica
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    The purpose of this thesis is to understand the experiences that Nahua children, in rural Mexico, have as they attend schools that are primarily influenced by formal Western education in relation to their own ways of learning and knowing. This research took place over the course of three months within...
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  • Pregnancy, class and biomedical power : factors influencing the prenatal care experiences of low-income women in an Oregon community

    Creator:
    Pearce, Laurie Kathleen
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    Low-income women in an Oregon city of approximately 35,000 inhabitants have limited access to prenatal care services during their pregnancies. The purpose of this study was to uncover the impacts of several factors on the experiences of twenty-seven health department clients with public health department prenatal care practitioners and with...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Translating the Animal

    Creator:
    Owen, Melody
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    My thesis in Environmental Arts and Humanities concerned the idea of animal language, as well as other posthuman ideas around animality and indistinction. I also explored virtual space as it relates to human identity, our notions of reality and perception, and the way contemporary digital artists approach animal subjectivity in...
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    Capstone Project
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    , Davis W Lagothrix lagotricha . Humboldt’s woolly monkey . O’Shea, Brian J Lepilemur dorsalis . gray

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

    Creator:
    Snyder, Wesley M.
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    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...
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    way that Debra Hawhee and Diane Davis defined it for their 2011 workshop on nonrational rhetorics

  • The Oregon State University Writing Center : history and context

    Creator:
    Weintraub, Melissa R.
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    The Oregon State University (OSU) Writing Center: History and Context provides a detailed and multi-faceted view of the Writing Center from its start in 1976 through the present. The information was gathered from interviews, annual reports, archival sources, and scholarly research. Chapter One examines the scholarly conversation about writing centers,...
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  • Solidarity’s Last Stand: Rudi Nussbaum and the Hanford Downwinders

    Creator:
    Vitale, Anthony
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    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...
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    .” 9 Davis, “Decentering History: Local Stories and Cultural Crossings in a Global World.” 10 Brown

  • Food systems in the Marys River region and reinhabitation

    Creator:
    Burke, Erik P.
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    Reinhabitation is an approach to building local cultures and economies within industrial society. The food system is a vital starting point. What are the principles of reinhabitory food systems? What are the possibilities for a locally adapted food system in the Marys River region of western Oregon? I describe past...
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