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The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

Creator:: Swanner, Leandra
Abstract:: This study examines the interactions between the scientific communities of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the discovery of the tau lepton by physicist Martin Perl between 1973- 1977. Perl became interested in searching for heavy leptons through positron-electron collision experiments using the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : _____________________________________________________________________ Mary Jo Nye This study examines the interactions between the scientific communities of the

A settlement model at the Robert Newel Farmstead (35MA41), French Prairie, Oregon

Creator:: Manion, Mollie Jo
Abstract:: This thesis is based on the excavations of the Robert Newell farmstead (35MA41), excavated in 2002 and 2003 by the Oregon State University Department of Anthropology archaeological field school. Robert Newell lived at this farm from 1843- 1854. Major architectural features, including a brick hearth and postholes were discovered at...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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:: , and Specialized Agriculture: The Re- Invention of the Maraschino Cherry Abstract Mary Jo Nye From

Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

Creator:: Zimmerman, Katharine
Abstract:: The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, truly a synthesized work of natural history, coincided with the emergence of specialized disciplines in the 19th century. This thesis aims to explore the relationship between the specialization of knowledge, in the form of disciplinization, and the reception of new...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: support of Ron Doel, Paul Farber and Mary Jo Nye. The extent to which their guidance has shaped my

Identical confusion : the history of twin studies on sexual orientation, 1952-1973

Creator:: Boltseridge, Nathan H.
Abstract:: In 1952, at the height of the McCarthy era, Franz Kallmann, a Jewish psychiatrist and eugenicist who fled the National Socialist regime in Germany, published a study, in which he claimed to have found a one hundred percent concordance rate for homosexuality among forty pairs of identical twins. From this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: invaluable. Thanks as well to Mary Jø Nye for her help and agreeing to sit on my committee with so little

The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

Creator:: Koroloff, Rachel
Abstract:: Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 – 1755) was a successful early Russian naturalist whose professional and social destinies were linked to eighteenth-century Russia's nascent but growing naturalist tradition. During his own time Krasheninnikov bridged the gap that existed in Russia between a distinctly European scientific practice and a tradition of Russian...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: guidance of Paul Farber, Mary Jo Nye, Robert Nye, Ben Mutschler, and the history faculty at Oregon

A Game of Silent Irreverence : Passive Resistance in The Dalles, Oregon

Creator:: Maddoux, Maryanne
Abstract:: 210 East First Street (site 35WS453) contains the only extant remains of a once thriving Overseas Chinese settlement, in the city of The Dalles, Oregon. Very little is known about the everyday lives of these early settlers, or the pressures that they faced. This thesis will help to enrich the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Dr. Jo Tynon has been generous with both her time and advice, and her enthusiasm for my topic has

Reduction of Fredholm integral equations with Green's function kernels to Volterra equations

Creator:: Aalto, Sergei Kalvin
Abstract:: G. F. Drukarev has given a method for solving the Fredholm equations which arise in the study of collisions between electrons and atoms. He transforms the Fredholm equations into Volterra equations plus finite algebraic systems. H. Brysk observes that Drukarev's method applies generally to a Fredholm integral equation (I-λ G)u...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: calculate one of the Born approximations which are truncations of the Neurnann series solu- tions lZ, p

Certain ecological aspects of cultivated hill pastures in Kings Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Miller, Bonita June
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: express iïr sincere appreciation to Dr. R. P. Hansen Dean of the Graduate School, Oregon State College

Food systems in the Marys River region and reinhabitation

Creator:: Burke, Erik P.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the region. AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Erik P. Burke for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied

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The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

A settlement model at the Robert Newel Farmstead (35MA41), French Prairie, Oregon

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

Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

Identical confusion : the history of twin studies on sexual orientation, 1952-1973

The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

A Game of Silent Irreverence : Passive Resistance in The Dalles, Oregon

Reduction of Fredholm integral equations with Green's function kernels to Volterra equations

Certain ecological aspects of cultivated hill pastures in Kings Valley, Oregon

Food systems in the Marys River region and reinhabitation

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