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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

Fungitoxicity of sodium n-methyldithio-carbamate (Vapam) and its decomposition products

Creator:: Elson, Joseph Earl
Abstract:: An assay for fungicidal activity of sodium N-methyldithiocarbamate (Na-MDC) and its decomposition products was developed in which there was a minimum influence due to the widely varying physical properties of the compounds (i.e. vapor pressure and water solubility). Decomposition of the toxicant during the tests was measured and held to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ) and Its Decompostion Products AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Joseph Earl Elson for the M. A. in

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

Academic preparation of American business executives for foreign service

Creator:: Goodearl, Arthur William
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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

Writing (righting) the silences : "points of perspective" for texts and students

Creator:: Payne, Eva M.
Abstract:: The classroom practices discussed in this thesis come slowly and at a "slant" to feminism through critical reading of texts, a practice that I call a (re)presentation of the silent women in texts. Given our patriarchal western culture, making meaning, and especially making sense, of the role and representations of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of others, but both authors make representations and speak for females. Kenneth Burke's dramatistic

Aliens and academics : how cultural representations of alien abduction support an entrenched consensus reality

Creator:: Bryan, Frederick Clark
Abstract:: The alien abduction phenomenon has garnered considerable media attention in the last fifteen years, including many representations in books, film, and television. An overview of significant abduction literature is presented. Contrasts and comparisons are noted between popular written accounts and both the visual representations they engender and reports outside the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: "New Age" thinking and are quite popular among UFO aficionados. Academic theorists Keith Thompson

Writing Rhodesia : young girls as narrators in works by Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga

Creator:: Thomas, Jane McCauley
Abstract:: Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga write fiction set in Zimbabwe, the former Southern Rhodesia. Although Lessing grew up as a white settler and Dangarembga, a generation later, as part of the colonized African population, the women sometimes address similar issues. Both write of young girls trying to find a speaking...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Thompson house. With one exception, the viewpoint remains that of the child. At the old ruin behind their

Patterns from the past : exploring gender and ethnicity through historical archaeology among fur trade families in the Willamette Valley of Oregon

Creator:: McAleer, Carolyn Patricia
Abstract:: This thesis examines archaeological material in order to explore gender and ethnicity issues concerning fur trade era families from a settlement in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Ethnohistorical information consisting of traders journals and travelers observations, as well as documentation from the Hudson's Bay Company, Catholic church records, and genealogical information...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: cultures EI3 include Lillooet, Thompson, Shuswap, Nicola, Kootenai, Northern Okanagon, Lakes and

ScholarsArchive@OSU

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

Fungitoxicity of sodium n-methyldithio-carbamate (Vapam) and its decomposition products

Habitat distribution of birds of southeastern Washington

Academic preparation of American business executives for foreign service

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

Writing (righting) the silences : "points of perspective" for texts and students

Aliens and academics : how cultural representations of alien abduction support an entrenched consensus reality

Writing Rhodesia : young girls as narrators in works by Doris Lessing and Tsitsi Dangarembga

Patterns from the past : exploring gender and ethnicity through historical archaeology among fur trade families in the Willamette Valley of Oregon

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