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Street children : the other side of tourism in Hue, Viet Nam

Creator:: Wangsgard, David B.
Abstract:: Street children are a significant presence in Hue, Viet Nam's tourist center, where they eat, sleep, work, and play. Utilizing ethnographic methods, this study examines how tourism impacts the lives of street children involved in the industry. The street children have generally been compelled to leave home because of adverse...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: capital of Viet Nam during the reign of the Nguyen dynasty. The old city lies on the northwest bank of

Angel of Tough Love and other stories

Creator:: Wells, Jerome B.
Abstract:: The overarching theme of these stories is the relationship between love and hate, especially the connection between kindness and violence. In this fictional world, love often begets hate, and hate, love: a man's capacity for empathy serves as the catalyst for an act of brutality; a character's loneliness, his desire...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Acculturation and food : a study of Vietnamese women in Portland, Oregon

Creator:: Sarasin, Heather M.
Abstract:: This study is intended to provide information about the situation of first-generation Vietnamese women to the IRCO Parent and Child Program Department in Portland, Oregon. Nutrition intervention and food assistance currently offered to Vietnamese women enrolled in this program is the focus of the study. The women interviewed characterize themselves...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: regularity of rice, as evidenced by a Vietnamese proverb: "Rice is like a blood mother (Van Kiem, 1991

Risk Perceptions in the Oregon Hazelnut Growing Industry: An Exploratory Study of a Recovering Industry

Creator:: Harrison, Darin L.
Abstract:: This paper is an exploratory study of the risk perceptions in the Oregon Hazelnut growing community. The study takes place at a time when the industry as a whole has begun to stabilize from the effects of Eastern Filbert Blight, a fungal pathogen that infects hazelnut trees which had devastated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: hazelnut industry as a specialty product during a time of market unrest. Joseph Nguyen (2019

"It Brings You into the Fold": Understanding Patients' Experiences of Mobile Health Technologies

Creator:: Lee, Jenney R.
Abstract:: Chronic disease is costly to treat and burdensome for those living with its impacts. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2017), 117 million Americans currently live with chronic disease, and one in four adults live with two or more chronic diseases. The burden placed on the U.S....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: dynamics of giving and receiving care. Dedding, van Doorn, Winker, and Reis's (2011) examined the ways

You better work : negotiating race, sexuality, gender, and neoliberalism in plus-size fashion blogs

Creator:: Conway, Clare
Abstract:: Over the past decade, the explosion of social media has secured the Internet as a venue for political discussions of all sorts; as well as a realm of consumption and commodification. One population of women that has utilized social media in this way is the plus-sized fashion ("fatshion") community on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

International students as educational migrants : east and southwest Asian perspectives

Creator:: Visconti, Lauren A.
Abstract:: Projected to reach one million people next year, international students in the United States are undergoing a transformative educational migration. Moving away from the existing study abroad paradigm is the first step to more accurately understand the lived experience of an educational migrant. Discovering the perceptions of what value an...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: educational products and services now play an increasing role in fulfilling this demand (Van der Wende 2003

Effect of vitamin B-6 status on Selenium metabolism in the rat

Creator:: Beilstein, Michael A.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Making the Shift: Narratives of Transfer from Planned Home Birth to the Hospital in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Houtman, Leah S.
Abstract:: About 1% of U.S. births each year are planned home births (Vital Statistics Reports 2017). Of these, roughly 10% transfer to a higher level of care during labor (Melissa Cheyney et al. 2014), yet their experiences are rarely heard. Storytelling has long been used not only as entertainment, but as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: outside of that often narrow range is ‘abnormal,’ or pathologic (Lock and Nguyen 2018). The medical

Expectations and Lived Realities of Iraqi Women Refugees and Refugee Mental Health Providers in Portland: An Ethnographic Study to Inform Refugee Mental Health Services and Policy

Creator:: Eiwaz, Massarra Adnan
Abstract:: Distress among resettled refugees in the U.S. consistently reflects refugees’ experiences of discrimination, re-traumatization, gaps in healthcare services, and disrupted expectations and lived-realities. This thesis aims to fill a critical need for ethnographic studies investigating how recent anti-immigrant, -Muslim, and -Arab rhetoric and policies combine with chronic gaps in services...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Street children : the other side of tourism in Hue, Viet Nam

Angel of Tough Love and other stories

Acculturation and food : a study of Vietnamese women in Portland, Oregon

Risk Perceptions in the Oregon Hazelnut Growing Industry: An Exploratory Study of a Recovering Industry

"It Brings You into the Fold": Understanding Patients' Experiences of Mobile Health Technologies

You better work : negotiating race, sexuality, gender, and neoliberalism in plus-size fashion blogs

International students as educational migrants : east and southwest Asian perspectives

Effect of vitamin B-6 status on Selenium metabolism in the rat

Making the Shift: Narratives of Transfer from Planned Home Birth to the Hospital in the Pacific Northwest

Expectations and Lived Realities of Iraqi Women Refugees and Refugee Mental Health Providers in Portland: An Ethnographic Study to Inform Refugee Mental Health Services and Policy

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