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  • Virtual virtuosos : cyborgs and integrative ethics in the intimate machine

    Creator:
    Clemenhagen, Ronda L.
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    Standard accounts of women's relationship with technology stress women's need to overcome anxiety to achieve competence with computers. Recent studies provide evidence that this woman-anxiety-technology connection is an oversimplification of the relationship between women and computers. New literature also suggests that making computers more appealing will help girls overcome computational...
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    ..................................................................................................................... 102 Dedication To my parents, Y'Vonne and Buddy, for being proud of me. Also, to James Patrick

  • Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

    Creator:
    Faris, Michael J.
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    In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...
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    OF THE THESIS OF Michael J. Faris for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on

  • Towards meaningful intercultural interactions: a case study of service-learning in a business writing classroom

    Creator:
    Sprague, Allen
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    The following thesis presents a case study analyzing a service-learning project implemented in a second-year level Writing in Business course at Oregon State University. The classroom project required business writing students to serve as cultural ambassadors and conversation partners with international students through INTO OSU's Cultural Ambassador Conversant Program. Relying...
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  • Toward a more ethical engineering : four habits of highly ethical engineering practice

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    Sugie, Masayuki Luke
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    In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of paradigmatic background assumptions deployed in engineering decision-making processes, in order to understand how these assumptions, operating tacitly and in tension with each other, contribute to decisions that are ethically less effective and less substantial than they would otherwise be. I do so...
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    Masami Sugie, John Sugie, Kathy and Hai-Yue Han, Nicholas Rhodes, Michael J. Faris, Christian Matheis

  • The Yellow House: Stories of Place, Space and Community

    Creator:
    Gann, Tamara S.
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    This thesis is an IRB-exempt oral history focused on the non-profit Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center (CMLC) in Corvallis, Oregon. The CMLC, formerly on 9th Street, was known to many community members as the Yellow House. The Yellow House was a dedicated community-based space where people of all cultures could come...
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    Deloria, Jr. Lewis (2018) states that writing history, including academic history, is a fictional

  • The study of fluo-tantalum species by solvent extraction

    Creator:
    Coker, Marjory Carol
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    The extraction of tantalum fluoride complexes by large cationic extractants (tetraphenylarsonium ion, TPA, and crystal violet) and by methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK) has been investigated as a function of fluoride concentration using ¹⁸² Ta as tracer. Extractions by the cationic extractants into chloroform were carried out in the absence of...
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    ligand, j the ligand number of any of a series of complexes MAj, and N the maxi- mum ligand number

  • The role of social support in overcoming obstacles to abortion access : Oregon women tell their stories

    Creator:
    Ostrach, Bayla
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    Current estimates indicate that between one-third and one-half of women in the United States have at least one abortion in their lifetime, and that many women encounter socioeconomic, logistical, or social obstacles in the process of seeking care (Jones 2005, Guttmacher 2008). The purpose of this study is to critically...
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  • The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

    Creator:
    Swanner, Leandra
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    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...
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    Section 3.4 A Troublesome Discovery: the J/psi Controversy ............... 73 Section 3.5 Risk and

  • The influence on Manchu women of changes in social institutions and the sinification of Manchu Society

    Creator:
    Fang, Jin-cai
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    Gender relations as well as the social situation of Manchu women have long been ignored in studies of the cultural evolution of the Manchu. By setting the discussion of Manchu women in the context of cultural adaptation, this study reintroduces gender and women's problems into the research on the Manchu...
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  • The influence of imperialist ideology on the dichotomy of passion and reason in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

    Creator:
    Dietrich, Rhonda
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    A prevalent belief during the Victorian age was that the world was divided between inferior beings governed by passion and superior reasoning beings. On the political level, this idea separated inferior passion-driven natives from superior reasoning Europeans. This division contributed to the maintenance and expansion of imperialist rule in distant...
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    ....................................................................................... J 28 Bibliography