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  • The effects of the Mazama tephra-falls : a geoarchaeological approach

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    Matz, Stephan E.
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    About 7,000 years ago two major tephra-falls blanketed the Pacific Northwest in volcanic ash. These two tephra-falls, identified as the Llao and climatic tephra-falls, were a part of the eruptive events that led up to the collapse of Mount Mazama to form Crater Lake in the southern Oregon Cascades. The...
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    would like to begin by expressing my gratitude to my committee members. Dr. Frederick Swanson, Dr

  • Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQ) in the Pacific Halibut Fishery : Applications to the Magnuson Act

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    Reisenweber, John W.
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    The Pacific halibut has supported a major commercial fishery on the West coast of the United States for over 100 years. In the past, the halibut fishery was managed by a policy of open access which led to an overcapitalized fishery and raised concerns about overfishing, fishing safety, and deteriorating...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF John W. Reisenweber for the degree of

  • Descriptive Analysis of Human Remains from the Fuller and Fanning Mounds, Yamhill River, Willamette Valley, Oregon

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    Stepp, David
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    The study presents the results of a descriptive analysis of the skeletal remains of 66 individuals recovered from the Fuller and Fanning Mound sites, located on the Yamhill River, Willamette Valley, Oregon, excavated in 1941-42 by W. T. Edmundson and William S. Laughlin. The literature and original field notes have...
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    Valley, Oregon, excavated in 1941-42 by W. T. Edmundson and William S. Laughlin. The literature and

  • Predictive locational modeling of late Pleistocene archaeological sites on the southern Oregon Coast using a Geographic Information System (GIS)

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    Punke, Michele Leigh
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    The search for archaeological materials dating to 15,000 yr BP along the southern Oregon coast is a formidable task. Using ethnographic, theoretical, and archaeological data, landscape resources which would have influenced land-use and occupation location decisions in the past are highlighted. Additionally, environmental data pertaining to the late Pleistocene is...
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  • The Morphology of Goethe’s Botanical Work

    Creator:
    Hahn, Andre M.
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    This thesis examines the morphology of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) through several lenses. The first explores Goethe's morphology as he applied it in his botanical work and supplies an explanation of what Goethe referred to as archetypal phenomena and the archetypal plant. The scope of exploration then broadens to...
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    published in 1968) translated by W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, and the two volume Correspondences with

  • Racism and Bad Faith

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    Jones, Gregory Alan
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    Human beings are condemned to freedom, according to Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. Every individual creates his or her own identity according to choice. Because we choose ourselves, each individual is also completely responsible for his or her actions. This responsibility causes anguish that leads human beings to avoid their...
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    leads to the choice ofbad faith. I use the work of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Richard

  • Institutionalizing Science in Oregon : The Role of the Oregon State Academy of Sciences, 1905-1914

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    Read, Richard Thomas
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    In February 1905 the Oregon State Academy of Sciences formed in Portland to promote scientific research and diffusion of scientific knowledge in Oregon. The founders also planned to assist in the discovery and development of the state's natural resources. The Academy was the first scientific society in Oregon with professional...
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    Gates, Empire of the Columbia, p. 315. 23Leroy R. Hafen, W. Eugene Hollon, and Carl C. Rister, Western

  • Some aspects of Western religious thought and man's use of land

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    Bryant, Robert Edman
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    This study examines a limited number of selected themes in Judeo-Christian, or Western, religious thought and their implications for man's use of land, with the objective of discovering the influence of Western religion on attitudes toward nature and land. Five themes are examined: dominion of man; stewardship; contempt for, and...
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    Lewis W. Moncrief 39 Rene Dubos 41 V. Elving Anderson 43 Yi-Fu Tuan 45 Summary 48 IV. Summary and

  • An attempted standardization of a reading and writing skills test used at Oregon State University's Communication Skills Center

    Creator:
    Carman, Betty Lou
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    The objective of the investigator in carrying out this study is: to evaluate the reliability and validity of the ENGLISH SKILLS TEST-REVISED (EST-R); to construct local norms based on a small sample of subjects from Oregon State University's WR. 40X; to investigate the statistical terms and methods used in educational...
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    JOURNAL, XXVI (March, 1956), 395-99. 3King, "Notes on Remedial English," pp. 245-50. 4 Grace W. Welch

  • China and France in the Nineteenth Century

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    Leggatt, Nick
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    In studying Western, especially French, imperialist action in China during the nineteenth century, this thesis argues that contemporary Sino-Western relations took various forms across various social strata on both sides, and the general terms used to classify them are erroneous: in effect, there was no "Chinese" response to "the West,"...
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    either side. Frederick 7Dikotter, The Discourse of Race, 32. 8 Esherick, Boxer Uprising, 128. Which