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  • On the Conflation of the Concepts of Medicine and Health

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    Tuten, Mavis I.
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    The concepts of medicine and health are becoming conflated. This can be seen in the language of medicine and health: medicine is discussed in terms of health and health in terms of medicine. A review of literature by medicine and health scholars gives evidence of the conflation and of its...
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    with the statement of Talcott Parsons that "the state of illness is involuntary" (67). A person might

  • Everyday Movement Against Capitalism : Prospects for a Prefigurative Strategy toward Open Utopia

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    Riccio, Alexander
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    Across the U.S. social activism is on the upsurge, offering possibilities for a revolution against capitalism. However, these possibilities are potentially undermined by entrenched factionalism amongst the left. At root, such in-fighting is fostered by the creation of false dualistic frameworks on the transition out of capitalism and into the...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Robert D. Thompson, Jr. Across the U.S. social activism is on the upsurge, offering

  • A Preliminary Archaeological Predictive Model for the US 30 Transportation Corridor, Portland, Oregon to Astoria, Oregon

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    Kachadoorian, Lydia A.
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    This thesis is a preliminary archaeological predictive model and project-planning tool created for the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) as part of a statewide planning effort to enhance the agency's ability to assess the potential impacts of highway projects on archaeological resources. This model addresses the archaeological sensitivity of the...
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    task. In addition, Robert Trevis provided useful map assistance. I would like to thank my friends who

  • Visitor Behavior at the Mark O. Hatfield Marine Science Center Aquarium

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    Tissot, Susan Gaughan
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    Visitor behavior research has become an essential component to many museum programs. Since its opening to the public in 1965, Oregon State University's Mark O. Hatfield Marine Science Center Aquarium in Newport, it has been visited by millions of people. A clear understanding of who this audience was and what...
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    , Robert and Vera Gaughan, for without them, this project would never have been possible. I would like to

  • Subsistence variability in the Willamette Valley

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    Havercroft, Francine M.
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    During the summer of 1981, Oregon State University archaeologically tested three prehistoric sites on the William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge. Among the sites tested were typical Willamette Valley floodplain and adjacent upland sites. Most settlement-subsistence pattern models proposed for the Willamette Valley have been generated with data from the...
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    Willamette Valley (Balster and parsons 1969:116). The southern division of the Willamette Valley

  • The Impact of Internet and Videogame Use on College Student Development

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    Calhoun, Benjamin W.
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    In recent decades, there has been a tremendous change in the college student experience. In many ways this change has been driven by developments in technology, which have in turn changed the way students conduct research, socialize, and recreate. This thesis seeks to gain an understanding as to how Internet...
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    roommates, Ben, Robert, Skyler, Shauna, and Steven a debt of gratitude. Not only were you all instrumental

  • Claude McKay's Vision of Community in the African Diaspora : A Fresh Take on Home to Harlem and Banjo

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    De Jesus, Michael A. (Michael Anthony)
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    This research examines the literary and philosophical dimensions of the African American Harlem Renaissance, beginning with the historical milieu of the early twentieth century. A social movement that became known as Uplift and the so-called Cabaret Movement emerged as important, competing literary and social ideologies within the Renaissance. W.E.B. Du...
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  • Regional Archaeological Model of the Luckiamute Band Settlement Patterns

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    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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    others, notably Jeffrey R. Parsons (1972), and Robert L. Bettinger (1977), terrain classification and

  • 'Mejor Amancebada que Mal Casada' : Rhetoric and Practice of Amancebamiento in Seventeenth-Century New Spain

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    Hisey, Aimee
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    Following a history of tensions surrounding concubinage in medieval and early modern Spain, the Church sought greater control of religious life, particularly over the sacrament of marriage, via the Holy Office of the Inquisition. The Church exercised its strengthened restrictions and prosecuted these relationships with more frequency, as did civil...
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    , Diccionario de la Lengua Castellana (Madrid: Joachín Ibarra, 1770), 214. 9 Robert McCaa, “Marriageways in

  • Champoeg, a perspective of a frontier community in Oregon, 1830-1861

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    Speulda-Drews, Lou Ann
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    Champoeg, located along the Willamette River, developed as a transportation center for both river and overland travel and as a shipping point for agricultural products. Retired employees of the Hudson's Bay Company were the first to settle in the area, in the 1830s. American settlers began arriving in large numbers...
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    to this research project. From Oregon State University: Dr. Robert Krahmer, who identified the wood