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"Because we didn't have nowhere to go" : residential instability among rural low-income families

Creator:: Ozretich, Robin Nathaniel
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to identify and examine risk and protective factors associated with residential instability within a sample of rural low-income mothers. Residential instability was defined as two or more residential moves within the course of a year. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to compare residentially...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

“I don't think it's harder, just that it's different”: Librarians' attitudes about instruction in the virtual reference environment

Creator:: Gronemyer, Kate and Deitering, Anne-Marie
Abstract:: Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate librarians' attitudes towards instruction in virtual reference transactions and to review relevant literature. Design/methodology/approach – Librarians who provide virtual reference services are surveyed about attitudes towards providing instruction via virtual reference software. In addition to gathering demographic information respondents...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: & Research Libraries, Vol. 68 No. 6, pp. 488-501. Hirko, B. and Bucher Ross, M. (2004), Virtual Reference

"Identity in the making" in an adolescent new media maker experience : the role of interest, figured worlds, and use of authentic tools and practices

Creator:: Wyld, Jennifer N.
Abstract:: Human development researchers consider adolescence a rich time for interest development and identity exploration. A relatively new movement in the Free-Choice Learning (FCL) arena, the Maker movement, offers learners interest-driven, experiential, often collaborative, and process-oriented activities ranging from game design (computer-based and otherwise) and robotics, to sewing LEDs into clothing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Appendix Page A: Interest Survey……………………………………………………………………………..………..288 B: Personal Meaning

"Instead of tumbleweed, we have mitigation systems" : an ethnography of toxics risk, mitigation, and advocacy in IBM's deindustrialized birthplace

Creator:: Little, Peter C.
Abstract:: This dissertation draws on ethnographic data and political ecological theory to analyze the experience of residents living in the IBM-Endicott Superfund site in Endicott, New York. Combining in-depth narratives and quantitative measures from a household survey, it highlights residents' perceptions of 1) environmental health risk, 2) risk mitigation, 3) deindustrialization...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ………………………………………………………………………....276 Appendices Appendix A………………………………………………………………….303 Appendix B………………………………………………………………….329

“Jellyfish : Dispatches from a Gelatinous Ocean”: A non‐fiction book proposal

Creator:: Register, Rhett
Abstract:: Jellyfish benefit from many of the changes mankind is making to the ocean. Climate change, overfishing, nutrient runoff, the introduction of invasive species, and coastal development all promote these ancient, gelatinous creatures. Because of their familiarity to readers and affinity for degraded places in the ocean, jellyfish are used to...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: . Franklin (1986) notes that a “complication/resolution” framework can provide

"My nonsense is only their own in motley" : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ware Jr., and the "nature" of christian character"

Creator:: Jensen, Timothy Ward
Abstract:: Recent changes in the historiography of American Transcendentalism have inspired a reappraisal of the relationship between the Transcendentalist movement in New England and the pietistic wing of the Unitarian church. This thesis explores this reappraisal through a close reading of selected writings by Henry Ware Jr. in juxtaposition to the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

"Pretty and patriotic" : women's consumption of apparel during World War II

Creator:: Mower, Jennifer M.
Abstract:: The War Production Board issued limitation order 85 in April 1942 in order to conserve fabric and manpower needed for the war effort. The L-85 order froze the silhouette so no major style changes in women's wear would occur during the war. It is clear that on the one hand...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ....................................................................... 132 Appendix B: Wartime demographics by respondent............. 134 Appendix C: Recruitment

"The Island" Research Natural Area : a vegetation study with time and location comparisons

Creator:: Fox, M. Anne, 1939-
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to document vegetation on "The Island", a Research Natural Area at the confluence of the Crooked River and the Deschutes River in central Oregon's Juniperus occidentalis Zone and to compare the results with an earlier study reported in 1964 from 1960-'61 data. Present-day comparisons...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Page Appendix A Plant List for "The Island" 57 Appendix B Study Sites and their Locations 59

'Hysterical preservationists' and 'gouge-and-run bulldozer boys' : the land-use controversy in Idaho’s White Cloud Mountains, 1968-1972

Creator:: Jensen, Erica (Erica Lyn)
Abstract:: Similar to other spectacular scenic areas in the American West, Idaho’s White Cloud Mountains have been a contested landscape since the beginning of the 20th century. Although, legislation was introduced in Congress as early as 1913 to protect the towering mountains of south-central Idaho as a national park, the issue...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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

Creator:: Hisey, Aimee
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ...................................................................................................................... 74 APPENDIX A – GLOSSARY……………………………………………………………. 75 APPENDIX B – ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS

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"Because we didn't have nowhere to go" : residential instability among rural low-income families

“I don't think it's harder, just that it's different”: Librarians' attitudes about instruction in the virtual reference environment

"Identity in the making" in an adolescent new media maker experience : the role of interest, figured worlds, and use of authentic tools and practices

"Instead of tumbleweed, we have mitigation systems" : an ethnography of toxics risk, mitigation, and advocacy in IBM's deindustrialized birthplace

“Jellyfish : Dispatches from a Gelatinous Ocean”: A non‐fiction book proposal

"My nonsense is only their own in motley" : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ware Jr., and the "nature" of christian character"

"Pretty and patriotic" : women's consumption of apparel during World War II

"The Island" Research Natural Area : a vegetation study with time and location comparisons

'Hysterical preservationists' and 'gouge-and-run bulldozer boys' : the land-use controversy in Idaho’s White Cloud Mountains, 1968-1972

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

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