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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
Full Text:: Pathogenesis in a Closed Biological and Ecological System Abstract approved: Roberta Hall This thesis is an

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
Full Text:: their multi-layered networks of interconnection, constructed a unique engineering culture

Local resilience, canola cropping, and biodiesel production

Creator:: Bates, Christopher Allen
Abstract:: New technology may have negative, as well as positive, effects on a sociocultural system. Biodiesel is growing in popularity as a fuel alternative that addresses global warming and reduces dependency on petroleum. The biodiesel innovation fits well into the existing behavioral infrastructure of Linn and Benton Counties, Oregon. The introduction...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and identity that is maintained or emerges in the face of social-ecological challenges and

Omen of Mere Event : Vignettes in a Post-Wilderness Landscape

Creator:: Schultz, Aaron A.
Abstract:: This thesis uses a series of non-fiction vignettes to explore objects, agencies, and networks, applying theories of rhetoric and composition directly to experience and vise versa. Focusing on agency--as understood through sociology's actor-networks, post- humanism’s Object Orientated Ontology, and Ecocriticism's ecological approach--I look at events, landscapes, and partnerships that have...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Ecocriticism’s ecological approach—I look at events, landscapes, and partnerships that have shaped who I am and

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:: closely examined: agriculture and tourism. The socio-economic, socio-cultural and socio-ecological

The body of a patient and rational treatment in the managed care era

Creator:: Sumii, Kensuke
Abstract:: This study aims to identify conceptions of the body, as well as "rational" treatment among primary care practitioners (PCPs) and emergency medicine practitioners (EMPs) dealing with managed care plans. I conducted ethnographic study throughout 1996, and interviewed six PCPs and four EMPs. In the course of my interviews, I discovered...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to save health care expenditure. Technocrats implemented the engineering concept of quality

Queering Science Writing: Bringing Marginalized Perspectives to the Mainstream

Creator:: Goodfriend, Olivia F.
Abstract:: Within the field of science communication, the voices, perspectives, and experiences of the LGBTQ+ community have long been kept at the margins. This has led to a gap in material that recognizes queer individuals and communities as audiences, communicators, and stakeholders in STEM. I address this gap by generating a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: level, my project considers landscape and ecological change to be processes of queering, as both

Embodying Gaia: Bruno Latour’s Gaia and the Earthboundedness of Contemplative Pedagogy (a snail’s view)

Creator:: Schindler, Jason A.
Abstract:: Bruno Latour’s Facing Gaia provokes us to embrace our Earthboundedness to approach the problematic political ecologies of the Anthropocene. Latour’s call for the Earthbound is to re-trace networks of society, institutions, and meaning and to challenge, as enemy, those that would continue to behave as if we lived on more...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , and make kin of enemies, political and ecological

A GIS investigation of indigenous intensification of native food plants : humans as environmental variable in maxent habitat suitability modeling of Camassia in Oregon

Creator:: Elliott, Braden T.
Abstract:: This thesis merges the fields of Ecology and Anthropology by applying Habitat Suitability Modeling to the relationship between people and plants in the Pacific Northwest. In it, I create and optimize two Maxent habitat suitability models for camas (Camassia spp.) in Oregon. The first model describes the physical environment of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to travel—to the nearest known oven. The first (ecological) model performs acceptably well, but the

The benefits of diversified agricultural systems among Maya Mopan farmers in southern Belize

Creator:: Hofbauer, Derek M.
Abstract:: Maya Mopan farmers in southern Belize face socio-economic hardships, persisting environmental constraints, and an unfavorable political climate that has prevented land tenure stability on reservation lands. This thesis describes the agricultural practices of a group of Mopan farmers and examines farm-site diversification and its relationship to ecological knowledge, out-migration, agricultural...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -site diversification and its relationship to ecological knowledge, out-migration, agricultural markets

ScholarsArchive@OSU

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

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

Local resilience, canola cropping, and biodiesel production

Omen of Mere Event : Vignettes in a Post-Wilderness Landscape

Commodification in an Ersu Tibetan village of Sichuan, China

The body of a patient and rational treatment in the managed care era

Queering Science Writing: Bringing Marginalized Perspectives to the Mainstream

Embodying Gaia: Bruno Latour’s Gaia and the Earthboundedness of Contemplative Pedagogy (a snail’s view)

A GIS investigation of indigenous intensification of native food plants : humans as environmental variable in maxent habitat suitability modeling of Camassia in Oregon

The benefits of diversified agricultural systems among Maya Mopan farmers in southern Belize

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