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  • The relationship between sibling status and sex-role preference among preschool-aged children

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    Easton, Linda
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    The primary purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between the variables of sex, age, sibling status, age relationship of sibling, age spacing between siblings and sex-role preference among preschool-aged children. Seventy-one children, 32 boys and 39 girls, ranging in ages from two-years-eleven-months to five-years-seven-months, served as subjects....
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    findings and tendencies obtained were related to both theoretical and research literature. Limitations of

  • Phospholipids of Tenebrio molitor larvae

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    Kamienski, Francis Xavier
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    Phospholipids of Tenebrio molitor larvae were separated on columns of DEAE-cellulose and silicic acid-Hyflo Super Cel. The major phosphatide components were identified by various analytical procedures. Phosphatidyl choline was demonstrated to be the predominant phospholipid with a high percentage of phosphatidyl ethanolamine. A small amount of inositol-containing phosphatides were present....
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    Science Research Institute for their assistance. I would like to thank Oregon State University for

  • Perceptions of mental health and mental illness among the Wanniya-laeto of Sri Lanka

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    Priest, Jill Amy
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    The Wanniya-laeto, often referred to as Veddas, are the indigenous people of Sri Lanka. They live primarily in governmental designated areas in the forest with a few Vedda villages on the eastern coastal region. In-depth, semi-structured interviews as well as participant observation were the methods used to access the perceptions...
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    . Research was conducted over a two month period and focuses primarily on the Ratugala Veddas with

  • The control, resistance, and evolution of digital artifacts: a materialist study of internet culture

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    Villemarette, Chris
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    My goal is to demonstrate that a coevolutionary relationship exists between decentralized networks over which digital media are used and the control mechanisms placed on those networks and digital media. The resisting digital media and the control mechanisms placed on them push each other toward further decentralization. The aspects of...
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    ............................ 46 4.4 Deterritorialization and Detoumement: Fenslerfilm's G.J. Joe PSAs .. 50 4.5

  • Immigrant encounters : film narratives of the modern immigrant

    Creator:
    Yeager, Angela L.
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    This thesis employs a narrative analysis of more than twenty-five films that are centrally concerned with immigrants and the immigrant experience. In Part One, drawing from the work of Yosefa Loshitzky, I will focus on films that feature an immigrant lead character. In Part Two, I will explore movies that...
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    hiding during his research.22 The movie is a true “journey” immigrant tale: the film ends with Sayra

  • The soul announces itself : Terrence Malick's Emersonian cinema

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    Fech, Bill
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    This thesis takes an auteurist approach to the films of director Terrence Malick by reading them through the spiritual philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson. I establish Malick's thematic concern with the human struggle to achieve better existences in a broken material world, a concern buoyed by his signature aesthetic that...
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    Holly’s limited self-awareness.”46 (30). Much of the film revolves around their lack of distinct

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

    Creator:
    Jolly, J. Christopher
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    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...
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    University Press, Evanston: 1972), 38-62, on p. 46. 5lbid, p. 51. basic and applied research seem to over

  • William Ernest Castle, American geneticist : a case-study in the impact of the Mendelian research program

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    Taylor, H. Terry
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    In their modern context questions of heredity have come to be closely aligned with theories of evolution because all such theories require the presence of heritable variation. Thus the need for an understanding of a source of variation and a mechanism for its inheritance became very apparent with the general...
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    -study in the impact of the Mendelian research program AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF H. Terry Taylor

  • Analysis of dredge tailings pile patterns : applications for historical archaeological research

    Creator:
    Purdy, Sarah E.
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    For centuries humans have been searching for precious metals. The search for gold has greatly changed the landscape of the American West, beginning in the 1850s and continuing today. Various gold rushes around the country created mining colonies in remote areas, thereby connecting the frontier with the rest of America...
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    Analysis of Dredge Tailings Pile Patterns: Applications for Historical Archaeological Research

  • Advertising strategy and anthropology : a focused look at consumers and their organizing devices

    Creator:
    Whiddon, Jeremiah J.
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    This thesis was designed and written with advertising stakeholders in mind. The aim of my thesis is to illustrate how listening to and understanding the behavior and voices of consumers from the perspective of a trained anthropologist can improve advertising strategies. My instruments for conducting this research include an in-depth...
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    trained anthropologist can improve advertising strategies. My instruments for conducting this research