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  • The Yakima Indians : study and analysis of the Yakima water rights

    Creator:
    Selam, Leroy Bennie
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    This thesis is an ethnohistoric study of the water rights of the Yakima Confederated Tribes. The study considers the water rights issues of the Yakimas from the cultural viewpoint at the time of European contact to the present legal and political situation. It traces the many obstacles the Yakimas have...
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  • The Effects of Electromyographic Biofeedback on Test Anxiety and Performance

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    Reed, Michael L.
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    The applicability of electromyographic biofeedback toward alleviating test taking anxiety was examined along with the effects of relaxation training on general anxiety, locus of control, test performance, and muscle tension during a test. The Achievement Anxiety Test (AAT) was administered to 271 freshman psychology students. Students whose scores indicated high...
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    instructions alone. A second control group (C) received no treatment. B and IC subjects received eight half

  • Regional Archaeological Model of the Luckiamute Band Settlement Patterns

    Creator:
    Bell, James Walter
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    Human settlement patterns are the ways in which people locate themselves over the terrain in their area of occupation. Settlement pattern prediction attempts to define and understand the factors in culture, technology, and environment that shape the spatial distribution of habitation sites for a given group of people. A systematic...
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    suited to automated data storage and retrieval sys- tems (Mitchell, 1973). A second type of terrain

  • Individual Society and Adaptation in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony--1650

    Creator:
    Hagerty, Dorothy Dean
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    The research examines the reasons for and value of both deliberate and amorphous mutual-aid societies that influenced the life and success of an individual who lived in seventeenth-century Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Information is developed to allow a contextual comparison of life in both areas. The mutual-aid...
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    , AND THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY - 1650 Redacted for Privacy Abstract approved: v v Thomas C. Hogg

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

    Creator:
    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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    Oregon State Academy of Sciences 97 Appendix C: Committees of the Oregon State Academy of Sciences 100

  • Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

    Creator:
    Simmons-Rogers, Alexandra L.
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    Red Light Ladies presents a perspective on prostitution in North America, within the context of the western mining frontier. A biographical profile of the frontier prostitutor is presented, along with an archaeological model of settlement patterns and material culture. Settlement patterns and demographic changes in the prostitutor population are hypothetically...
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    Frontier Prostitution 318 BIBLIOGRAPHY 323 APPENDIX A 332 APPENDIX B 339 APPENDIX C 345 KEY FOR TABLES

  • An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Current Pesticide Management Practices in the Caribbean Region

    Creator:
    Gray, Nancy L.
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    This study examined the existence and effectiveness of current pesticide management programs in the Caribbean region. A questionnaire was developed to assess the current pesticide managment programs in the Caribbean region and to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the existing education and training programs, governmental policies, and other resources....
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    BIBLIOGRAPHY 61 APPENDIX A: PESTICIDE MANAGEMENT QUESTIONNAIRE 65 APPENDIX B: TABULATED DATA 70 APPENDIX C

  • 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

  • The Development of Astronomy in the United States Prior to 1900

    Creator:
    Harburg, William A.
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    From the earliest English colonization to the present day, there has been interest in astronomy in this country. The purpose of this thesis is to show how the science of astronomy developed in America from the earliest observations by educated colonists using imported instruments and publishing in European journals, to...
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    popularizers. 4 NOTES 'Von Del Chamberlin, "Prehistoric American Astronomy (c. 1054 A.D.)," Astronomy