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Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

Creator:: Jolly, J. Christopher
Abstract:: From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: for privacy AKNOWLEDGEMENT I thank the members of my thesis committeeMary J0 Nye, Robert Nye, Paul

Plague in London : a case study of the biological and social pressures exerted by 300 years of yersinia pestis

Creator:: Hall, Alice
Abstract:: The Second Pandemic had a profound impact on the people of Europe. In the few years between 1347 and 1350, a new epidemic disease spread across the entirety of Europe and killed between one third and two thirds of the population. While this initial wave was important, the real significance...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: committee, Dr. Lisa Sarasohn, Dr. Robert Nye and Dr. Paul Kopperman, read my work attentively including

Ghanaian women, creating economic security : an analysis of gender, development, and power in the Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa

Creator:: Vickers, Katherine Elise
Abstract:: In June 1999, I was a volunteer for a United States non-governmental organization, Crossroads Africa. I joined six other American women traveling to Ghana, West Africa to participate in a collaborative program designed by the Ghana Red Cross Society and Crossroads Africa. Specifically our group was assigned to work on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , tie-dye, beadwork, and woven mats from cornhusks. My research objective was to evaluate the role

Behavior of colored ions in electric and magnetic fields

Creator:: Wahl, Harold Frederick
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: good quality. III A STUDY OF CERTAIN DYES The color of an organic dye cannot be pre- ducted

Hemolytic streptococcus bacteriophage

Creator:: Gross, Noel Harden
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Further observatiors indicated that motlrylono blue inactivated 1)haeO. This dye apparently has an

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

Dress and acculturation : clothing transitions of the Mien

Creator:: Hoffman, Elizabeth Lee
Abstract:: The Mien are recent United States immigrants from Laos. They left Southeast Asia at a time of great political upheaval. Because of their close ties with United States governmental operations during the Southeast Asian war, conditions for Mien in Laos made flight imperative as Pathet Lao forces now control the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

Creator:: McHugh, Kathleen M.
Abstract:: Across from the Memorial Union on Oregon State University’s campus sits Milam Hall, the former site of the Department of Home Economics. The building is named for Ava Milam Clark, the dean of home economics for thirty-three years, from 1917 to 1950. I aim to understand Ava Milam’s early career...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: enthusiastic about 14 Scott J. Peters and Paul A. Morgan, “The Country Life Commission: Reconsidering a

Dust storm transport of pathogenic microbes to Viking Scandinavia : a query into possible environmental vectors or disease pathogenesis in a closed biological and ecological system

Creator:: Boling, David Carter
Abstract:: This thesis is an integrated study that links several disciplines-archaeology, anthropology, geography, atmospheric sciences, and microbiology. It attempts to generate an argument that central to climate change is disequilibrium in human ecologies- in my case, disease ecologies in Iceland during the 15th century. This thesis investigates the environment's effect on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

Creator:: Davis, Caryn M.
Abstract:: At first glance, Edgar Rice Burroughs's wildly popular romantic fantasy novel, Tarzan of the Apes (1912), and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist science fiction-utopian novel, Herland (1915), with its dystopian companion, With Her in Ourland (1916), may appear to have little in common. Tarzan celebrates the human connection with wild nature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: example is the French Lieutenant Paul D’Arnot—a character whose story arc reveals what wilderness/nature

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Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

Plague in London : a case study of the biological and social pressures exerted by 300 years of yersinia pestis

Ghanaian women, creating economic security : an analysis of gender, development, and power in the Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa

Behavior of colored ions in electric and magnetic fields

Hemolytic streptococcus bacteriophage

Patterns from the past : exploring gender and ethnicity through historical archaeology among fur trade families in the Willamette Valley of Oregon

Dress and acculturation : clothing transitions of the Mien

Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

Dust storm transport of pathogenic microbes to Viking Scandinavia : a query into possible environmental vectors or disease pathogenesis in a closed biological and ecological system

Wild nature or the garden : conservation themes in the forests of Tarzan and Herland/Ourland

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