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A Practical, Ethical Critique of Hydraulic Fracturing and the Shale Gas Extraction Process

Creator:: Bullock, Claude George, III
Abstract:: This thesis analyzes the emerging technology of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction process through a pluralistic philosophical approach. Rather than defending traditional values in nature, such as intrinsic value, I defend a metaphilosophical pragmatism centered on policy implications. I argue that different philosophical positions will, most of the time,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Thompson This thesis analyzes the emerging technology of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction

Ethics and Human Biomedical Enhancement : A Case for Compatibilism

Creator:: White, Benjamin A.
Abstract:: This thesis explores some of the ethical issues pertaining to the use of so-called radical enhancement technology. Key concepts analyzed include “normal function”, “human being”, and “personhood.” I argue that the use of these key concepts in the debate thus far has lacked philosophical rigor, and that a reexamination of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Allen Thompson This thesis explores some of the ethical issues pertaining to the use

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
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Kenneth Maes Distress among resettled refugees in the U.S. consistently reflects refugees

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

Creator:: Buerger, Catherine F.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: committee, Dr. Nancy Rosenberger, Dr. Robert Thompson, and Dr. Kate MacTavish, for their guidance and

Conversion of a model DBS Loran indicator to a fixed time-base oscilloscope

Creator:: Trolan, J. Kenneth
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: by ti KENNETH TflOLAN r' c' submitted to OREGON STATE COLLEGE in partial fulfillment of

Habitats and distributions of land vertebrates on the Corvallis watershed, Mary's Peak, Benton County, Oregon

Creator:: Sturges, Franklin Wright
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the problem numerous times when difficulties aros e. David Gibriey, H.M. Li11ijren, and Rex Ressler

The relationship of non-recovered rodent caches to the natural regeneration of ponderosa pine

Creator:: Saigo, Barbara Woodworth
Abstract:: Studies were conducted within a 12-mile radius of Camp Sherman, Oregon, in the Deschutes National Forest during the spring and summer of 1965 and the spring of 1966, with one follow-up visit in the summer of 1967. The feeding and foraging activities of Eutamias amoenus and Citellus lateralis were observed,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Kenneth Gordon Studies were conducted within a 12-mile radius of Camp Sherman, Oregon, in the Deschutes

Injera in the Kapitalocene: Understanding Women’s Perceptions of Change in Mekelle, Ethiopia

Creator:: Arefaine, Micknai
Abstract:: Women’s lives in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Mekele, Ethiopia are very organized, systematic, and sophisticated. The women in this study model, express, and reflect the values of community, trust, care, stability, and futurity through their perceptions and sentiments regarding social and political change. I document how these values...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Kenneth Maes Women’s lives in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Mekele, Ethiopia

Falling Inward: Ecstatic Dance & Recording the Ephemeral

Creator:: Sarreal, Jennifer T.
Abstract:: Little scholarship exists on the contemporary trance dance movement known as Ecstatic Dance. This thesis investigates the myriad of pathways dancers in the Ecstatic Dance communities of Western Oregon experience movement-induced altered states of consciousness. A secondary aim was to provide a more visually and ethnographically accessible dance annotation system...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Kenneth Maes Little scholarship exists on the contemporary trance dance movement known as

Habitat distribution of birds of southeastern Washington

Creator:: Dumas, Philip Conrad
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Approved: Dr. Kenneth L. Gordon The problem Involves a determination of which habitets are frecuented by

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A Practical, Ethical Critique of Hydraulic Fracturing and the Shale Gas Extraction Process

Ethics and Human Biomedical Enhancement : A Case for Compatibilism

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

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

Conversion of a model DBS Loran indicator to a fixed time-base oscilloscope

Habitats and distributions of land vertebrates on the Corvallis watershed, Mary's Peak, Benton County, Oregon

The relationship of non-recovered rodent caches to the natural regeneration of ponderosa pine

Injera in the Kapitalocene: Understanding Women’s Perceptions of Change in Mekelle, Ethiopia

Falling Inward: Ecstatic Dance & Recording the Ephemeral

Habitat distribution of birds of southeastern Washington

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