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  • Renovations

    Creator:
    Gallagher, Scott V.
    Abstract:
    The six stories within, "Still and Silent," "Cold Comfort," "The King of Porn," "Miscuts," "In Between," and "Renovations," are part of a work in progress. They attempt to show how the characters, although they may seem to struggle for independence from the family unit, are in fact strengthening the bonds...
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    bench looked like a green triangle on a field of black. He scratched at the surface; the sound

  • Discovering Antigone: A Non-Normative Political Figure

    Creator:
    Patten, Jennifer A.
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    This thesis analyzes Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy Antigone as it relates to biopolitics, biopower, democratic language and non-normative principles of politics. I argue that the figure of Antigone enables a better understanding of exclusive biopolitical philosophy. Antigone is a figure not recognized as human because her gender is tortured and...
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    : A Non-Normative Political Figure by Jennifer Patten A THESIS

  • A thermoelectric study of doped liquid thallium-tellurium alloys

    Creator:
    Field, Marshall B.
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    Electrical resistivity and thermoelectric power measurements have been made over the temperature range of 450° to 600°C on n-type liquid thalliurn-tellurium solutions. Liquids with compositions from 61.5 to 72.0 atomic percent thallium were studied. In addition, alloys of some of the three component thallium-teIlurium solutions containing small amounts of silver,...
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    the M.4" in Physics to@"1 ]ffi;i- Date thesis is pres errted,il, TitIC A THERMOELECTNTC STUDY OF

  • Claire Lies and other stories

    Creator:
    Rosenberg, Valerie P.
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    The five short stories included in this thesis depict characters who struggle as they try to balance their responsibilities to each other, and their own independent desires. Whether those desires include personal freedom, another relationship, or self-protection, these characters are at least minimally aware that obtaining what they most want...
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    want may have a negative impact on those closest to them. Many times, the cost of maintaining the

  • Cultural competency in associate degree nursing education : a skills approach

    Creator:
    Wade, Jennifer L.
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    The purpose of this study was to determine whether a course in cultural competency would impact associate degree nursing students' perceptions of their abilities to provide care to culturally diverse clients. Ethnographic interviews with nursing faculty, graduates and students were utilized in course development. The cultural competency course was evaluated...
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    -cultural experiences as a means of applying what is learned in the classroom. ©Copyright by Jennifer

  • An informed and ignorant readership : the contradictions of creative nonfiction

    Creator:
    Rush, Lani
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    Creative nonfiction is a genre replete with contradictions--the name itself shows that: nonfiction writing is true and factual, but creative writing is imaginative and inventive. Because of fundamental contradictions like this, there is no standardized or even most common definition of the genre. This creates confusion for both critics and...
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    nonfiction is a genre replete with contradictions—the name itself shows that: nonfiction writing is true

  • Where Old West meets New West : confronting conservation, conflict and change on Utah's last frontier

    Creator:
    Leaver, Jennifer Jensen
    Abstract:
    In the United States during the last 30 years there has been a shift from extractive natural resource-based economies of the Old West to a New West defined by environmental protection. Over the past century, a growing national support for environmental protection has influenced a lengthening list of national and...
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    Frontier by Jennifer Jensen Leaver A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial

  • Conservation programs from the farmer's perspective : where is the greener grass?

    Creator:
    Gibson, Jennifer S.
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    On the national level, landowners demand for conservation programs like EQIP and WRP has far outstripped federal funding in 2001. Yet within Oregon's Willamette Valley, both EQIP and CREP have had a rough time gaining momentum. Much of the past research on rural landowners' conservation participation has relied on surveys...
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    Farmers' Perspective: Where is the Greener Grass? by Jennifer S. Gibson A THESIS submitted to Oregon

  • Falling Inward: Ecstatic Dance & Recording the Ephemeral

    Creator:
    Sarreal, Jennifer T.
    Abstract:
    Little scholarship exists on the contemporary trance dance movement known as Ecstatic Dance. This thesis investigates the myriad of pathways dancers in the Ecstatic Dance communities of Western Oregon experience movement-induced altered states of consciousness. A secondary aim was to provide a more visually and ethnographically accessible dance annotation system...
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    Falling Inward: Ecstatic Dance & Recording the Ephemeral by Jennifer Tehani Sarreal A THESIS

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

    Creator:
    Specker, Jennifer Lee
    Abstract:
    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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    Endogenous Regulation of Plasma Androgens by Jennifer Lee Specker A THESIS submitted to Oregon State