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  • Torn : A Cluster Analysis

    Creator:
    Mulatero Ferrando, Oriana
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    Pornography remains one of the most controversial topics in our culture. Politicians, religious groups, and special interest organizations tend to focus on the ‘effects’ pornography has on those who consume it, and fear that pornography is a threat to public health. The general discourse surrounding pornography is that men produce...
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    presented on November 28, 2016. Title: Torn: A Cluster Analysis. Abstract approved

  • The Role of Southern Oregon's Coastal Islands in Prehistoric Subsistence

    Creator:
    Gard, Howard A.
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    The portion of the Oregon coast extending from Cape Blanco south into California has long been recognized as a distinct physiographic region, with probable ramifications for prehistoric subsistence and settlement patterns. Several researchers have proposed models outlining a greater reliance upon marine/littoral resources among groups within this region, while more...
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    Cape Blanco south into California has long been recognized as a distinct physiographic region, with

  • Peace, But Not at Any Price : The Effects of Rapid Military Demobilization on US Foreign Policy and the Progression of the Nuclear Arms Race 1945-1953

    Creator:
    Jones, Sean G.
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    The research conducted here originated with the question of what caused the massive build-up of nuclear arsenals, which included ever larger and more powerful bombs and delivery systems from them, in the United States and the Soviet Union, even though the consensus beforehand was that nuclear energy should be prohibited...
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    American strategy. Several historians, including Michael D. Gordon and Morton A. Kaplan, trace the

  • Fostered Futures: A Campus Support Service for Former Foster Youth

    Creator:
    Kirker, Emma G.
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    An often overlooked student population within higher education, former foster youth, is a population that needs support. Students who were formerly a part of the foster care system who have since aged out, are left to navigate higher education institutions on their own. College support services tailored for the needs...
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    development and wellbeing (Morton, 2012). These developmental impacts are a result of the common ACEs that

  • Catching up with a WAVE : a multiscalar anthropological study of the Navy's women in blue of World War II

    Creator:
    Federico, Julie
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    The purpose of this study is to educate adults and later generations on the experience of women of the Navy who worked behind the scenes in World War II and helped win the war. The efforts and experiences of these pioneering women will be lost at a rate of 1,700...
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    presented on May 6, 2004. Title: Catching Up With A WAVE: A Multiscalar Anthropological Study of the Navy's

  • Community planning and adaptation : a case study at Corvallis, Oregon

    Creator:
    Eshbaugh, Dorothy L.
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    Three kkeeyy variables are examined to determine their influence on the process of community planning at Corvallis, Oregon. These are (1) the setting of priorities, (2) organization and (3) external reference. Interactions of goals program participants were recorded as the community responded to comply with Oregon Senate Bill #100's requirement...
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    Community Planning and Adaptation: A Case Study at

  • Transactional analysis applied to a community development issue

    Creator:
    Manolescu, Kathleen M.
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    Barth's theory of transactional analysis is applied to the community of Tiller, Oregon and its reaction to a development proposal. Community behavior patterns vis-a-vis the development proposal are examined from a processual point of view to determine how these patterns are generated. The community's history and contemporary situation are described....
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    Economics, and Political Science presented on December 16, 1976 Title: TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS APPLIED TO A

  • An electrophysiological study of emotional perception in a dual-task paradigm

    Creator:
    Shaw, Kathleen Elizabeth
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    The present study examined whether emotion perception requires central attentional resources. A dual-task paradigm was used to examine whether people can direct their attention to a face expressing a target emotion, even while they are still selecting a response to another task. Task-1 required an auditory discrimination while for Task-2,...
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    February 24, 2011. Title: An Electrophysiological Study of Emotional Perception in a Dual-Task Paradigm

  • Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rhetorical Strategy : A Case for the Functional Role of Narratio

    Creator:
    Bruno, Edward Louis
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    The purpose of this study is to investigate the rhetorical strategies used by Reverend Jesse L. Jackson from the 1970's to the 1990's. Specifically, this study examines Jackson's use of narrative to empower himself, his constituency, and his political ideologies without possessing a traditional political platform. Jackson raised political and...
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    Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rhetorical Strategy: A Case for

  • Public policy competition in water resource planning : a case study of Days Creek Dam

    Creator:
    Bartel, Marvin I.
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    The Corps of Engineers is in a position to dominate the formulation and implementation of public policy at a given local level. The position is based on the Corps' capability to influence the decision-making process through the exercise of force by means of eminent domain procedures, the assumption and demonstration...
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    RESOURCE PLANNING: A CASE STUDY OF DAYS CREEK DAM Abstract approved: Redacted for privacy Professor