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  • An Electrophysiological Study of Attention Capture: Does Rarity Enable Capture?

    Creator:
    Noesen, Birken
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    Several behavioral studies have suggested that rarity is critical for enabling irrelevant, salient objects to capture attention. We tested this hypothesis using the event-related potential (ERP) component, N2pc, thought to reflect attentional allocation. A cue display was followed by a target display in which participants identified the letter in a...
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    , secondary advisor, Dr. Carolyn Aldwin, tertiary advisor, and Dr. Jason Silveira, graduate committee

  • Peavy Arboretum : an archaeological and historical investigation of a Willamette Valley landscape

    Creator:
    Hylton, Lindon B.
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    This thesis documents a period of ecological and cultural change on a Willamette Valley, Oregon landscape. In particular, this study examines the Peavy Arboretum area and the cultural changes that accompanied the transformation of the landscape from an oak savannah in the mid-nineteenth century to a dense Douglas-fir forest in...
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    investigation of a Willamette Valley landscape AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Lindon B. Hylton for the degree

  • Stoicism, Enkrasia, and Happiness

    Creator:
    Bowman, John L.
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    Cicero wrote in Tusculan Disputations that we are born with the seeds of virtue which, if allowed to ripen, would lead us to a happy life (Cicero 227). However, as things are, we find ourselves in a world of "iniquity among a medley of wrong beliefs" that inhibits the ripening...
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      Stoic history include Albin Lesky’s A History of Greek Literature, and Gary B. Ferngren and  Darrell W

  • The Emerging Church Movement: An Exploratory Case Study of Its Environmental and Political Attitudes

    Creator:
    McKelvie, Loni M.
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    To date, no investigation of the Emerging Church Movement has made an effort to examine the environmental and political views of its members. Despite the vast research on the politics and environmental opinions of American evangelicals, little is known about where the majority of members of the Emerging Church Movement...
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    Participant Interview Questions....…………..72 Appendix B: Clergy Interview Questions

  • Willamette Mission Archeological Project : Phase III Assessment

    Creator:
    Weber, Mary K. (Mary Kathryn)
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    The Willamette Mission archeological project consists of a broad program of cultural research in the fields of archeology, history, and architecture. The study focuses on the first Methodist mission in the Pacific Northwest. Archeological excavations were conducted in 1980 to locate the site of the mission, to assess the site's...
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    A 241 BLOCK B 251 BLOCK C 252 BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS 253 SIGNIFICANCE 259 LITERATURE CITED 262

  • Willamette Mission archeological project : phase III assessment

    Creator:
    Chapman, Judith Sanders
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    The Willamette Mission archeological project consists of a broad program of cultural research in the fields of archeology, history, and architecture. The study focuses on the first Methodist mission in the Pacific Northwest. Archeological excavations were conducted in 1980 to locate the site of the mission, to assess the site's...
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    REMAINS 238 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 241 BLOCK A 241 BLOCK B 251 BLOCK C 252 BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS 253

  • ESPN and the Construction of Gay Identity

    Creator:
    Cook, Alexandra Cleo
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    On February 9th, 2014 Michael Sam stated in an interview with ESPN's "Outside the Lines" that he is gay. Since he was drafted, Sam will become the first ever openly gay player in NFL history. The following study aims to explore ESPN's coverage of Michael Sam, with a goal of...
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    who have come out while still being an active athlete. Jason Collins in 2013 came out as gay while

  • Disputant storytelling in divorce mediation

    Creator:
    Hansen, Alan R.
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    This paper investigates the nature of disputants' stories within the context of divorce mediation. Tapes and transcripts of actual mediation sessions from three different sources are scrutinized, utilizing a modified form of conversation analysis known as ethnography of speaking. Several themes emerge from this analysis of disputants' stories: the functions...
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    B. Walker This paper investigates the nature of disputants' stories within the context of

  • Comparison of the Characteristics and Attitudes of Dog Adopters from Three Dog Rescue Groups

    Creator:
    Zimmerman, Zelda L.
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    A web-based survey was conducted to investigate the relationships between adopters and the dogs they adopted from three types of rescue groups/organizations: humane societies, greyhound rescues, and pit bull rescues. The dog selected to adopt can vary for many reasons, one of which is breed preference. This study found dog...
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    Rutherford B. Hayes. General George Custer reportedly always took his 22 coursing greyhounds with him when

  • Boring to the Core: The Archaeology, History, and Dendrochronology of a Railroad Logging Camp, Ladee Flat, Clackamas County, Oregon

    Creator:
    Paullin, Pamela K.
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    Although the timber industry was the major economic force in the lives of several generations of Oregon families, very little archaeological investigation has been done on the dozens of abandoned logging camps that are scattered throughout the forests of the Pacific Northwest. This project focuses on Camp 1, a 1920s...
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    Page Appendix A…………………………………………………………………..225 Appendix B…………………………………………………………………..236