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  • Population demography, resource use, and movement in cooperatively breeding Micronesian Kingfishers

    Creator:
    Kesler, Dylan C.
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    Island systems and species are susceptible to extinction because of their small population size and an ecological naiveté from an evolutionary past lacking strong competition and predation. For example, only one-fifth of the world’s bird species occur on islands, yet more than 90% of the avian extinctions witnessed during historic...
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    Dissertation
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    Movement in Cooperatively Breeding Micronesian Kingfishers Abstract approved: Susan M

  • Phylogeography and population structure of least terns (Sterna antillarum)

    Creator:
    Draheim, Hope M.
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    Historically, least terns (Sterna antillarum) were one of the most common tern species in North America. However, population declines have resulted from direct and indirect anthropogenic pressures on their breeding and foraging habitat. Three subspecies of least terns have been described within the United States: California least tern (S. a....
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    Masters Thesis
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    Susan M. Haig Historically, least terns (Sterna antillarum) were one of the most common tern

  • A Thematic Feminist Analysis of Best-Selling Children’s Picture Books

    Creator:
    Marie, Michelle
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    Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the top ten best-selling children's picture books of 2006 reveals that these books contain elements of systematic privilege and oppression. Dominant group members are numerically overrepresented in the sample. Major emergent themes are the normalization of racism and white privilege, the stereotypical portrayal of the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Feminist Analysis of Best-Selling Children’s Picture Books. Abstract approved: Susan M. Shaw

  • Passage through The Vagina Monologues: A College Anti-Violence Rite

    Creator:
    Freehling-Burton, Kryn
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    Passage through The Vagina Monologues: A College Anti-Violence Rite examines the ways in which the audience at Oregon State University (OSU) responds to the annual production of the play in connection with the international college campaign to raise awareness about violence against women and to raise money for community organizations...
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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Susan M. Shaw Passage through The Vagina Monologues: A College Anti-Violence Rite

  • Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

    Creator:
    Morales-Warming, Melissa
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    White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often are generalized to other women’s experiences, much like how the experience of men in often represented as the experience of all humankind. In 2001 Elaine Howard Ecklund studied white lay women in the Catholic Church and explored two questions: What...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : __________________________________________________________________ Susan Shaw White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often

  • Changes in developing strawberry fruit : I. Cell division and enlargement ; and II. Biosynthesis of anthocyanins and other phenolics and activity of associated enzymes

    Creator:
    Cheng, Guiwen
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    Size and color are important visual quantity attributes of the fruit of strawberry (Fmgaria x ananassa Duch.). Strawberry cultivars produce fruit of a characteristic size and color, the later being the result of accumulation of particular anthocyanins. This research sought to determine the basis for genotypic differences in fruit size...
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    members: Dr. John Potter, Dr. Anita Miller, Dr. Fred Rickson, Dr. Tony Chen, and Dr. Dave Hannaway

  • The economics of spatial choice and displacement: case study of the Oregon bottom trawl groundfish fishery

    Creator:
    Valcic, Branka
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    To increase the knowledge needed to successfully implement the ecosystem-based approach to fishery management, this dissertation investigates important issues within the economics of choice and the economics of displacement. In particular, a discrete choice model of the fishing location decision in the Newport, Oregon bottom trawl groundfish fishery is estimated...
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    Displacement: Case Study of the Oregon Bottom Trawl Groundfish Fishery Abstract approved: Susan S. Hanna

  • Patterns of retention and vagrancy in larval Lost River and shortnose suckers from Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon

    Creator:
    Reithel, Susan A.
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    Larval transport and retention of two endangered suckers were studied in a highly altered lacustrine/riverine complex. The endangered populations of Lost River sucker, Deltistes luxatus, and shortnose sucker, Chasmistes brevirostris, in Upper Klamath Lake (UKL), Oregon are the largest remnant populations of these suckers. Downstream of UKL, the Keno Impoundment...
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    Masters Thesis
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    OF THE THESIS OF Susan A. Reithel for the degree Master of Science in Fisheries Science

  • The Oregon placer mineral technical task force : Resources, management, and potential impacts

    Creator:
    Ross, Susan
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    In September 1988, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior and the Governor of Oregon announced the creation of the joint state-federal Placer Minerals Technical Task Force. The group was charged with performing an analysis of the potential economic and environmental aspects of placer mineral mining in the nearshore waters of...
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    Capstone Project
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    , Management, and Potential Impacts by Susan Ross Research Report Submitted To Marine Resource Management

  • Analysis of marine resource conflicts in two North Central Chilean fishing villages

    Creator:
    Qashu, Susan E.
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    In 1992, amendments to the Fishing and Aquaculture Law required rural communities to organize into syndicates or cooperatives and to create resource management plans. Once the Chilean Fisheries Service (SERNAP) approves these plans, villages could manage designated subtidal and intertidal areas. In response to these amendments, two villages, Puerto Aldea...
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    Chilean Fishing Villages by Susan E. Qashu A Research Report Submitted To Marine Resource Management