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  • An investigation of qualities predictive of future counselor effectiveness

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    Brown, Brian Hale
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    Nature of the Phenomenon The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine if the predisposition of counselor candidates on selected factors found to be associated with effective counseling, upon entering a counselor education program, was predictive of effective counselors at the end of that program. Hypotheses Two central hypotheses...
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    Dr. Jo Anne J. Trow Dr. Craig C. Lundberg Dr. Robert F. Cain Dr. Glenn E. Clark Dr. George M. Gazda

  • Transport and Mixing of Buoyant Water from Small Mountainous Rivers : An Investigation of Estuarine Residence Timescales and Coastal Current Propagation

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    Lemagie, Emily P.
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    Small rivers, such as those that line the Oregon coast, have been shown to deliver significant concentrations of suspended sediments and nutrients to estuaries and the coastal ocean during wet seasons during which winds are predominantly downwelling-favorable. The fate of the buoyant source water and of any suspended or dissolved...
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    Estuarine Residence Timescales and Coastal Current Propagation Abstract approved: James A. Lerczak Small

  • Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

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    Jolly, J. Christopher
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    The public controversy over possible health hazards from radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing began in 1954, shortly after a thermonuclear test by the United States spread fallout world wide. In the dissertation, I address two of the fundamental questions of the fallout controversy: Was there a threshold of radiation...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF J. Christopher Jolly for the

  • 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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    . Jospeh O'Neil's expedition.34 B. J. Bretherton, N. E. Linsley, and Louis Henderson (listed as mineral

  • Regionalism and the Pacific Northwest

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    William G. Robbins, Robert J. Frank, and Richard E. Ross
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    G.Robbins Robert J. Frank Richard E. Ross eli' UI OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS Corval lisOregon The

  • Legislators' perceptions about community colleges' use of alternative funding sources to solve budget shortfalls

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    Klimes, Debra S. E.
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    The purpose of this study was to discern the nature of legislators' perceptions about community colleges' abilities to generate revenues through alternative funding sources and the resultant effects on state allocations to these colleges. Selected community college-related staff members and legislative staff members in Idaho and Oregon were asked to...
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    ................................................................................................................... 257 E: Letter of Invitation to Legislators in Oregon/Idaho

  • Student leadership development within student government at Snow College

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    Wilson, Gordon Ned
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    The purpose of this study was to describe the leadership development process of former student leaders at Snow College. More specifically, the study focused on understanding how, when, and where leadership development took place in their "lived experience" within the student government at Snow College (Van Manen, 1998). Examining the...
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    . Gardner, James MacGregor Burns, Thomas J. Peters, and Robert H. Waterman, Jr. all challenged higher

  • Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

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    Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
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    L. C. Dunn (1893-1974) spent most of his scientific career conducting research in developmental genetics as a member of the Zoology Department at Columbia University in the City of New York. He had an accomplished scientific career researching mutations in mice, which earned him respect from other geneticists and scientists....
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    political categories. He [E. J. Gumbel] was obviously disappointed with my non-political & non-partisan

  • John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

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    Christensen, Terry M.
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    This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to determine where best to situate the study of mentoring (i.e. the 'making of scientists') on the landscape of the history of science and science studies. This task is accomplished by establishing mentoring studies as a link between the robust body...
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    Sperber, John Toll, J. Peter Vajk, Robert Wald, Steven Weinberg, Cheuk-Yin Wong, and Wojciech Zurek. In

  • The Maturest Deliberation : Colonial Pennsylvania Currency in Depression and War

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    Borden, John F.
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    The purpose of this study is to review Pennsylvania's use of paper money through two distinct periods: the first seven years of currency issues starting in 1723 and concluding in 1730, and the second period encompassed by the French and Indian War in 1755-63. They represent two significant periods affecting...
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    Hamilton 76 D. Governor Robert James Morris 79 E. Credit of the House 81 F. Fall of Fort Duquesne

  • Identical confusion : the history of twin studies on sexual orientation, 1952-1973

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    Boltseridge, Nathan H.
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    In 1952, at the height of the McCarthy era, Franz Kallmann, a Jewish psychiatrist and eugenicist who fled the National Socialist regime in Germany, published a study, in which he claimed to have found a one hundred percent concordance rate for homosexuality among forty pairs of identical twins. From this...
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    paths of research and advice on composition that I received from Mina J. Carson and Paul L. Farber was

  • Archaeological Symbols of Status and Authority : Fort Hoskins. Oregon. 1856-1865

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    Bowyer, Gary C.
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    Fort Hoskins is located near Kings Valley, approximately 16 miles from Corvallis. The Fort, built after the Rogue Wars of the 1850s, was intended to safeguard the newly created Indian reserves. During its' ten-years of existence, U.S. Army Regulars manned the Fort from 1856-1861 while volunteers from California, Washington, and...
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    sites and their contexts. As J. W. Joseph (1987:56) has pointed out, "[A]rtifact patterning is [a

  • Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

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    Ellis, Erik
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    This dissertation focuses on the life of Dixy Lee Ray as it examines important developments in marine biology and biological oceanography during the mid twentieth century. In addition, Ray's key involvement in the public understanding of science movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a larger social and cultural context...
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    with me: J. J. Gonor; Kenneth Boss, Paul Dayton, Art Whiteley, Bruce Menge, Jane Lubchenco, Robert

  • Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

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    Canavan, Barbara C.
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    By means of a case study and historical analysis, this dissertation examines the past and present of avian influenza. By integrating disconnected histories of human and animal influenza, this dissertation links historical insights with the concerns of contemporary avian flu science. It is not only a natural history of avian...
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    –42. 2 Anthony J McMichael, Maria Neira, and David L Heymann, “World Health Assembly 2008: Climate

  • Deepening: Place Relationship in the Valley of Lake Creek, Oregon

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    McCumber, Elisabeth Carol Harvey
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    This is an IRB-exempt thesis exploring place relationship in the valley of Lake Creek, Oregon, at Triangle Lake. An interdisciplinary ethnography of place, it involves a synthesis of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic literature; an analysis of nineteenth-century Coos, Alseya (Alsea), and Kalapuya myth-texts from Native oral tradition; a history of...
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    ), 228. 19. Leo J. Frachtenberg, Alsea Texts and Myths (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920

  • Second nature : domestication as experiment and metaphor in 20th century American psychobiology

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    Blanchard, Nicholas
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    By 1900 domestication was a promising, if somewhat vexed, subject in biology. Volumes had been written about domestication, but little serious scientific inquiry was directed toward the phenomenon. Expertise lay with practical men, primarily breeders and fanciers. The bulk of scientific commentary on domestication came from anthropologists who derived theories...
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    …………………………..…119 Coat-color in History and Culture..………………………..………………..121 William E. Castle and the Bussey

  • Preach my gospel : a metaphoric analysis of Mormon missionary rhetoric

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    Roberts, Myra Nichole
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    The rhetorical significance of Mormonism stems from its history and its success—this success being measured by its consistent increase in membership. The total membership of the Mormon Church has grown from 6 members in 1830 to just over 14 million in just over 180 years. A consistently high rate of...
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    also a way of not seeing” (Permanence 49) which aligns with James Berlin’s ideas that “teaching is

  • Photophysics of organic semiconductors at the nanoscale

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    Grollman, Rebecca R.
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    Organic semiconductors are used in a wide variety of applications including transistors,solar cells, and light emitting diodes. These materials are solution-processable,low cost, and tunable. Many successful organic optoelectronic materials utilizeblends of several types of molecules (such as donors and acceptors) in order topromote charge generation. As blends are an inherently...
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    with respect to E0a,f (E 0 a,back) which is the most probable activation energy for forward (backward

  • Forms of Life: Goethe’s Impact on Twentieth-Century Anglophone Botany and Morphology

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    Hahn, Andre M.
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    This dissertation examines the impact of the German naturalist and literary figure Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s ideas on twentieth century Anglophone plant morphology and biology. Goethe interpreted the organ forms of flowering plants as metamorphoses of each other. His literary, historical, and philosophical writings suggest themes of alienation from and...
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    interesting T. H. Huxley, “Nature: Aphorisms by Goethe,” Nature 1, no. 1 (November 4, 1869): 9–1 11. F. J

  • The essence of influence : community college presidents' experiences with Washington state legislators

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    Coats, Rhonda Quash
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    The purpose of this study was to identify the strategies and tactics community college presidents used to influence state legislators. Selected State Board for Community and Technical Colleges staff and legislative staff members were asked to independently name 3-5 presidents whom they perceived to be most influential with legislators. Ten...
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    ................................................................. 175 Appendix E Informed Consent for Presidents .................................................. 176