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Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

Creator:: Bruno, Mark P.
Abstract:: This study is an ethnographic investigation of residential turnover, organizational memory, and the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational turnover, memory, and persistence is reviewed and integrated with scholarship on intentional communities and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis. Data

Assessment of Feedstock Materials for Producing a Suitable and Cost-Effective Biochar to Use as a Soil Amendment for Northern Highbush Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)

Creator:: Kumari, Pooja
Abstract:: Biochar is a highly porous, carbon-rich residue produced by thermochemical conversion (pyrolysis) of plant biomass and carbonaceous organic materials under oxygen-controlled conditions. Chars produced by this process tend to have high ion-exchange capacities and, when added to soil, increase retention of water and nutrients and improve soil aggregation, porosity, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Scott Lukas Biochar is a highly porous, carbon-rich residue produced by thermochemical

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Student-Athlete College Experience

Creator:: Jackman, Callan
Abstract:: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life for populations all over the world. One population that has been uniquely impacted by the pandemic is the student-athlete population. Over the last two years, universities took safety precautions by first sending students home and moving teaching and learning to a remote format and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and moving teaching and learning to a remote format and then instituting safety features for in

Governing By Nature

Creator:: Rhodes, Mericos H.
Abstract:: The choice of what to eat is political, and food systems shape and are shaped by political and economic power. During the last several hundred years, agricultural and food power has been consolidated to an unprecedented degree, and this consolidation continues today. This paper will describe this process as “Governing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . This paper will describe this process as “Governing By Nature,” and will develop a theoretical

Title VII and Employment Discrimination in the LGBTQ+ Communities of Texas and Oregon

Creator:: Melancon, Trystan D.
Abstract:: The primary goal of this study is to illuminate the voices of LGBTQ+ individuals in Oregon and Texas who were victims of workplace discrimination due to their LGBTQ+ status in order to highlight the necessity of LGBTQ+ inclusive employment discrimination legislation. This study used qualitative research methods to gather data...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: + Communities of Texas and Oregon by Trystan Denae Melancon A THESIS submitted

The Effect of Affect: A Close Reading of LeBron James’ Athlete Activism

Creator:: Campista, Joshua, I.
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis is to argue that LeBron James’ expressions of activism are, in many ways, perceived as insincere, hypocritical or disingenuous to his followers on the social media platform Twitter. Using the theoretical framework of Affect Theory and Plutchik’s wheel of emotions, a close reading was conducted...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Communication, and Political Science presented on June 4, 2021. Title: The Effect of Affect: A Close

How Have Black/African American Division 1 Student-athletes Socioeconomic Backgrounds Affected their Mental Health Well-being Compared to their Counterpart Athletes

Creator:: Nassar, Arica Louise Fafa
Abstract:: Mental health among student athletes has gotten much more attention in the world of sport today. However, there has been a lack of research focusing on how the socioeconomic backgrounds of Division 1 student athletes can play a role in their mental health and their desire to seek out help...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: sport today. However, there has been a lack of research focusing on how the socioeconomic backgrounds

An Interdisciplinary-Botanical Perspective for Cultural Resource Management: A Definition and the Application of Culturally Significant Plants in Identification, Interpretation, and Evaluation for the National Register of Historic Places

Creator:: Burk, Rene F.
Abstract:: Cultivated plants are often living artifacts that can aid in evaluation of historic or cultural landscapes. However, a working definition for “culturally significant plant” is currently lacking in the guidance literature for the cultural resource management practitioners. Based on a review of the literature on cultivated plants as indicators of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Resource Management: A Definition and the Application of Culturally Significant Plants in Identification

Simply Simulation: What a Birth Simulator Says About the Birthing Process

Creator:: Nevin, Fiona K.
Abstract:: Modern technology has provided many new opportunities in medicine, one of which is improved learning through simulation. One of the newest incarnations of robotic simulation dolls is the Victoria S2200 produced by Gaumard scientific company. With the recent surge of technological advancement in simulation dolls there has been little research...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Speech Communication presented on June 19, 2020 Title: Simply Simulation: What a Birth Simulator

Assessing the Potential for a Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Occupation at the Tahkenitch Landing Site (35DO130), Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area

Creator:: Kirkpatrick, Molly C.
Abstract:: The archaeological record of the First Americans is known almost exclusively from interior sites located away from coastal margins. While archaeologists hypothesize that early peoples initially migrated into the Americas along the Pacific coast, environmental changes associated with postglacial sea level rise may have destroyed or obscured such early sites....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: a Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Occupation at the Tahkenitch Landing Site (35DO130), Siuslaw

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

Assessment of Feedstock Materials for Producing a Suitable and Cost-Effective Biochar to Use as a Soil Amendment for Northern Highbush Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Student-Athlete College Experience

Governing By Nature

Title VII and Employment Discrimination in the LGBTQ+ Communities of Texas and Oregon

The Effect of Affect: A Close Reading of LeBron James’ Athlete Activism

How Have Black/African American Division 1 Student-athletes Socioeconomic Backgrounds Affected their Mental Health Well-being Compared to their Counterpart Athletes

An Interdisciplinary-Botanical Perspective for Cultural Resource Management: A Definition and the Application of Culturally Significant Plants in Identification, Interpretation, and Evaluation for the National Register of Historic Places

Simply Simulation: What a Birth Simulator Says About the Birthing Process

Assessing the Potential for a Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Occupation at the Tahkenitch Landing Site (35DO130), Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area

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