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  • Reconstruction and calibration of a small grating spectrograph

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    Elle, Bruce Lloyd
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    . Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1931. (6) Wood, Robert W. Physical optics. New York, The Macmillan

  • On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

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    Stoller, Kevin R.
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    William James came of age at a time of great social and intellectual change in the United States. During this period, new professional identities proliferated, and a new culture of professionalization developed with important ramifications for conceptions of individual and social identity. Professionalization was also closely related to key intellectual...
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    the topic. On the social sciences, see Robert C. Bannister, Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in

  • Expression & identity : the word made flesh

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    Beach, J. M.
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    This essay is an exploration of identity formation and expression. Humanity's identity formations create the orientations and languages with which we use to create our knowledge and understanding of the surrounding external environment (both social and physical) and our internal environment (psychological). This essay traces the sources of identity formation...
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    . Title: Expression and Identity: The Word Made Flesh. Abstract approved: Robert Frank This essay is an

  • Hamlet's delay : an attempt at synthesis

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    Cohen, Martin, 1943-
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    The study of the question of why Shakespeare's Hamlet delays killing Claudius in revenge for his father's murder is examined in light of the major critical theories from neo-classical to modern scholarship. An expanded treatment of the works of Fredson Bowers, Eleanor Prosser, Bertram Joseph, and Roland Frye, is provided...
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    . Title: Hamlet's Delay: An Attempt At Synthesis Abstract approved: Robert B. Schwartz The study of

  • From weakness to wisdom : Jane Austen transforms the female of sensibility tradition

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    Mosher-Knoshaug, Jessica M.
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    The eighteenth-century female of sensibility was characterized by delicate nerves that allowed her to feel her surroundings and enabled her to choose virtue over vice more consistently than males. While females were considered virtuous, their "innate" delicacy or weakness became their dominant trait and the true focus of male admiration....
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    the Female of Sensibility. Tradition. Abstract approved: Robert V. Wess The eighteenth-century

  • Site ORBE2 : an archaeological analysis of a construction disturbed site

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    Cromwell, Robert J.
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    This thesis describes investigations of archaeological materials recovered from Site ORBE2, an early-twentieth century historic site in Corvallis, OR. The archaeological materials were found only after construction workers had excavated trenches underneath the still-standing structure on the site in order to install a new foundation. Over 1500 artifacts were recovered...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Robert J. Cromwell for the degree

  • Preferred customers? : barriers for Hispanics in Oregon's managed care Medicaid program

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    Keys, Robert T. III
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    From February to September of 2001, a significant body of qualitive data was collected to investigate barriers for Hispanic participation in Oregon's managed care Medicaid program. As a means to investigate this topic, comments were solicited from physicians, hospital administrators, social service agencies, and low-income Hispanics through semi-structured focus groups...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE ThESIS OF Robert T. Keys III for the degree

  • Palynological Perspectives on Younger Dryas to Early Holocene Human Ecology at Paisley Caves, Oregon

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    Saban, Chantel V.
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    The Younger Dryas climatic event is a global phenomenon associated with a 1,000 year return to glacial conditions during the late Pleistocene period between 12,800 and 11,500 cal BP. Because of its significant effects on paleoenvironmental conditions in some parts of the world, archaeologists commonly seek to assess whether the...
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    broader ways of approaching research problems, and to Bruce Weber from the College of Agricultural

  • Is "Smart Growth" smart? : health effects of urban renewal in Portland, Oregon

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    Buerger, Catherine F.
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    This thesis examines the impact of urban renewal on individual health, specifically focusing on an urban planning model called Smart Growth that is being used in Portland, Oregon. Findings are based on qualitative and quantitative analyses of interview and survey data from study participants living in a community where renewal...
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    committee, Dr. Nancy Rosenberger, Dr. Robert Thompson, and Dr. Kate MacTavish, for their guidance and

  • Artificial intelligence and cyberpunk

    Creator:
    Scott, Ron
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    This thesis examines the ways in which cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories reflect our cultural relation with technology, a series of relationships predicated on the way that corporate control of knowledge industries increased during the 1980s. The document begins by locating the means of corporate control in the...
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    Privacy science fiction. In texts by Bruce Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and Greg Bear, the subcultural work