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Feeding Victory: The Challenge of Agriculture, Food Distribution, and Nutrition During the Second World War in the United Kingdom and Germany

Creator:: Paoli, Gus R.
Abstract:: The Second World War was not just a military struggle but also a struggle between two different agriculture, food distribution, and nutrition systems in the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany. At the start of the war, both countries understood that food and nutrition would play an important role and carefully...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Challenge of Agriculture, Food Distribution, and Nutrition During the Second World War in the United

Food for Axiology : Acknowledging Relationships

Creator:: Piquette, Daniel S.
Abstract:: An overarching explanation for environmental degradation has been humans' disconnection from the natural world. Utilizing Whiteheadian theory, I offer that there is no disconnection. Rather, I propose that there is a dearth of relational acknowledgement. I suggest that the Cartesian dualism and modern science led to an illusory belief that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Piquette for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Ethics presented on June 10, 2016. Title: Food

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:: agriculture. As a result of the improved brining process and tariff protection, Northwest cherry growers

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:: efficiency of 1 Laura Clarke Rockwood, “Food Preparation and Its Relation to the Development of Efficient

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:: Mayer, "The Reception of a Journal of the Plague Year and the Nexus of Fiction and History in the Novel

Dig Sites and Domesticity: Jessie Camp and the 1947 University of California Africa Expedition

Creator:: Fraas, Picabo K.
Abstract:: In 1947, scientists from the University of California departed for a fifteen-month expedition to Africa. Jessie Camp, wife of the head paleontologist Dr. Charles L. Camp, had no official position on the expedition. Yet in performing her traditional domestic duties, she greatly contributed to the overall success of the expedition....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the 1940s: Post-War Reconstruction and the Onset of Apartheid,” South African Historical Journal 50

Manufactured science - the attorneys' handmaiden : the influence of industry in occupational disease research during the twentieth century

Creator:: Biegel, Craig A.
Abstract:: Since the early twentieth century, manufacturers of toxic products have attempted to discredit research linking their product with disease. At the same time they have manufactured their own science designed to minimize risks associated with their products. Much of this activity has been conducted by or through corporate attorneys, endeavors...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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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:: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease and the American Journal of Human Genetics, purporting to have

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:: the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Eighteenth Century” British Journal for the

Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Oney, Celia E.
Abstract:: People involved in a nuclear activity, whether they are developing it, benefiting from it, or opposing it, see inherent connections between various aspects of nuclear science and technology. This thesis investigates three nuclear sites: a university research reactor, a dual-purpose reactor that produced plutonium for the U.S. military and electricity...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Margarete K. Luddemann, “Nuclear Power in Latin America: An Overview of Its Present Status,” Journal of

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Feeding Victory: The Challenge of Agriculture, Food Distribution, and Nutrition During the Second World War in the United Kingdom and Germany

Food for Axiology : Acknowledging Relationships

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

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

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

Dig Sites and Domesticity: Jessie Camp and the 1947 University of California Africa Expedition

Manufactured science - the attorneys' handmaiden : the influence of industry in occupational disease research during the twentieth century

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)

Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

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