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  • Using stable-isotope analysis to obtain dietary profiles from old hair

    Creator:
    Roy, Diana Milantia
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    Stable isotope analysis of human tissue can provide information about diet independent of artifactual remains. Food is broken down and used in the synthesis of body tissue, so the isotopic composition of hair keratin reflects the isotopic composition of foods consumed. Therefore, the analysis of hair can provide a window...
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    Analysis to Obtain Dietary Profiles from Hair Abstract approved. Robon I3onnichsen Stable isotope

  • Sound and death in John Haines's poetry

    Creator:
    Noble, Darren L.
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    Poet John Haines is best known for his first book of poetry, Winter News, which was published in 1966. The book contains poems about the Alaskan landscape that surrounded Haines during his many years of living in Richardson, Alaska. The recurring motifs in his poems include hunting, trapping, the Arctic...
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    John Haines's Poetry. Kerry D. Ahearn Poet John Haines is best known for his first book of poetry

  • John Turberville Needham (1713-1781) and eighteenth century theories of generation

    Creator:
    Benson, Keith Rodney
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    There were two viable theories of generation, preformation and epigenesis, existing in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Due to their irreconcilable nature, they were often at loggerheads during this time interval. The status of these generation theories can be effectively understood in terms of Thomas Kuhn's conception of preparadigm science....
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    John Turberville Needhuam (1713-1781) and eighteenth

  • Sites of Memory : Black Women's Geographies, #SayHerName, and Black Hair Politics

    Creator:
    Adkins, Daryl
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    According to Katherine McKittrick, black women’s geographies reveal and confront geographies of domination that have been erased or considered unworthy of analysis. This thesis positions #SayHerName protests and natural kink/coiled hair within a black women’s geographic analysis suggesting that both body and hair politics provide historical and contemporary geographic clues...
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    , #SayHerName Protests, and Black Hair Politics Abstract approved

  • Narrative frames and the works of John Coltrane

    Creator:
    Duncan, James Bryan
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    In Culture and Imperialism, Said illustrates that we have no "autonomous cultural forms," but rather "impure" ones that are the products of historically "discrepant experiences." American culture has an interesting relationship with the history of imperialism. The Europeans that settled the U.S. imported slave labor to assist in the growth...
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    Narrative frames and the works of John Coltrane AN

  • Ecotourism, poverty, and conservation in Prek Toal, Cambodia

    Creator:
    Conway, Kathryn
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    In Prek Toal, a poor subsistence fishing village on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, the conservation organization Osmose is using ecotourism revenues to finance poverty intervention programs and promote conservation in a threatened ecosystem. This thesis examines local perceptions of tourism as a measure of Osmose’s success. Limited awareness of tourism...
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    , Cambodia. Abstract approved: _________________________________________________ John A. Young

  • Power and participation in urban planning : an ethnographic case study of Curitiba, Brazil

    Creator:
    Piel, Eric W.
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    This thesis examines the concepts of power and participation and how they are intertwined in the examination of the urban planning systems in Curitiba, Brazil. Power is identified as both the planning system's ability to affect the daily lives of the city's residents and the power of individuals and groups...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Eric W. Piel for the degree of

  • Lichen distribution in Oregon coastal dune communities

    Creator:
    Leuthner, Shirley Mae
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    Distribution of lichens was studied at seven coastal dune sites in Oregon. Lichens were sampled in the dry stable, dry meadow, meadow, rush meadow, marsh, shrub and forest deflation plain communities. Observations were made of the standing water in the marsh community. Quantitative measurements were made of the percent organic...
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    DUNE COMMUNITIES Abstract approved: Redacted for privacy W. W. Chilcote Distribution of lichens was

  • An investigation into the ecology and distribution of Kalmiopsis leachiana (Hend.) Rehder

    Creator:
    Marquis, Robert John
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    Ecological factors associated with the relictual distribution of the endemic shrub Kalmiopsis leachiana (Ericaceae) were investigated. A prostrate evergreen species with small coriaceous leaves, K. leachiana is restricted to two disjunct populations in the Siskiyou Mountains and southern Cascade Mountains of southwestern Oregon, USA. Exact distributions of individual populations were...
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    Kalmiopsis leachiana (Hend.) Rehder AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Robert John Marquis for the degree of

  • The synthesis of certain 6- and 9- substituted purines of biological interest

    Creator:
    Daly, John W.
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    JOHN ILLIAM DALY A THESIS submitted to OREGON STATE COLLEGE in partial fulfillment of the