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  • Factorization of Integers

    Creator:
    Simshaw, James
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    Factorization of integers is an important aspect of cryptography since it can be used as an attack against some of the common cryptographic methods being used. There are numerous methods in existence for factoring integers. Some of these are faster than others for general numbers, while others work best on...
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    Introduction AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF James Simshaw for the

  • 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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    Kryn Freehling-Burton for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Women Studies

  • Argument and common ground : scholarly research meets the common core state standards

    Creator:
    Clark, Jillian
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    This thesis examines the recent history of the teaching of argument and its implications in the face of new writing standards being implemented in K-12 classrooms under the Common Core State Standards. The new educational policies will shift the focus of writing instruction onto argument writing as part of students'...
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    : Vicki Tolar Burton This thesis examines the recent history of the teaching of argument and its

  • An Exploration of Scholarship on Peer Review in Composition Studies : Looking to the Future with Replicable, Aggregated, and Data-Supported Research Methodologies

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    Day, Jacob E.
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    This thesis examines the nature of evidence in scholarship on peer review in composition studies. I argue that the nature of evidence present in scholarship on peer review over the past three decades is typically anecdotal, theoretical, and based on limited case studies. I argue that peer review research in...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Vicki Tolar Burton This thesis examines the nature of evidence in scholarship on peer review

  • A reinterpretation, and new demonstrations of, the Borel Normal Number Theorem

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    Rockwell, Daniel Luke
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    The notion of a normal number and the Normal Number Theorem date back over 100 years. Émile Borel first stated his Normal Number Theorem in 1909. Despite their seemingly basic nature, normal numbers are still engaging many mathematicians to this day. In this paper, we provide a reinterpretation of the...
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    , and New Demonstrations of, the Borel Normal Number Theorem Abstract approved: Robert M. Burton The

  • Charting their own course as writers : a study of writing-intensive students’ self-assessment and goal-setting at start of term

    Creator:
    Robinson, Tracy Ann
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    Curricular models and teaching techniques that support college students as the primary authors of their writing-across-the-curriculum experiences remain largely unexplored. This thesis addresses that research gap by investigating the use of a start-of-term writing self-assessment and goal-setting questionnaire (STQ) for upper-division undergraduates taking writing-intensive (WI) college courses in their majors....
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    Vicki Tolar Burton Curricular models and teaching techniques that support college students as the

  • Towards meaningful intercultural interactions: a case study of service-learning in a business writing classroom

    Creator:
    Sprague, Allen
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    The following thesis presents a case study analyzing a service-learning project implemented in a second-year level Writing in Business course at Oregon State University. The classroom project required business writing students to serve as cultural ambassadors and conversation partners with international students through INTO OSU's Cultural Ambassador Conversant Program. Relying...
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    : __________________________________________________________________ Vicki Tolar Burton The following thesis presents a case study analyzing a service-learning

  • A circle of response : addressing the tensions of teacher responseto student writing

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    Carothers, April D.
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    What students need most from instructors’ written response on their texts is commentary that evokes a sense of exchange. Teachers often believe that their job is to point out the deficits in a student’s paper and help eliminate those deficits. While this is a part of the function of response,...
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    : ___________________________________________________________________ Vicki Tolar Burton What students need most from instructors’ written response on their texts is

  • When High School Teachers Teach College Writing : Oregon Approaches to Dual Credit Teacher Qualifications, Support, and Professional Development

    Creator:
    Terriere, Jordan E.
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    This thesis examines the challenging situation high school dual credit teachers in Oregon face teaching first-year composition in the high school location. I argue that thorough training, support, and professional development are vital for high school teachers teaching dual credit writing courses, who without it may find themselves faced with...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Vicki Tolar Burton This thesis examines the challenging situation high school dual

  • Rhetorical Arrangement and the Digital Archive : Finding Women’s Voices in the Linus Pauling Papers

    Creator:
    Boardman, Colleen
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    The common imagining of archives characterizes these spaces as monolithic, hallowed sites of preserved truths, carefully catalogued and stored, static and frozen in history and waiting to be uncovered. My thesis works to dispel this myth and identify rhetorical elements of the archive’s structure in order to assess how the...
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    Vicki Tolar Burton Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder The common imagining of archives characterizes

  • Plenty & paucity in the ethics of argumentation : a rhetorical critique of eight argumentation textbooks for ethical propositions and corresponding support, reasons and evidence

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    Roberts, James Nolan
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    Some argumentation texts require additional evidentiary support to uphold their ethical propositions. A rhetorical critique of eight argumentation textbooks for ethical propositions and corresponding support, reason and evidentiary materials reveals that some texts advance ethical claims without providing sufficient backing. Inadequate support for an ethical proposition decreases the likelihood of...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF James Nolan Roberts for the

  • Talking Story, Writing Proper : Pidgin-Speaking Hawaii Writers at Oregon State University

    Creator:
    Lum, Kristina H. J.
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    This thesis is based on a two-part study that analyzes the cultural and linguistic characteristics of the Hawaii student population at Oregon State University (OSU). I designed and conducted a survey among Hawaii students at OSU. Then I interviewed ten Hawaii students who self-identified as Hawaii Creole English (a.k.a. Pidgin)...
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    Vicki Tolar Burton This thesis is based on a two-part study that analyzes the cultural and

  • Picture this, imagine that : the literary and pedagogic force of ekphrastic principles

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    Pajak, Zachary E.
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    My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Interpreting Britomart's Encounters with Art: The Cyclic Nature of Ekphrasis in Spenser's Faerie Queene III," and "Picture This, Imagine That: Teaching Visual Literacy in the Disciplines." The purpose of my first article is to argue that Edmund Spenser uses ekphrasis in his...
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    : _____________________________________________________________________ Vicki Tolar Burton Rebecca R. Olson My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled

  • Do Slasher Films Breed Violence Against Women?

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    Kimsey, Jennfer M.
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    A topic of concern for feminists, film critics, media researchers, and film scholars alike who believe in a causal connection between film violence and real life violence have found an enemy in the slasher film. Critics of slasher films, a subgenre of horror, often charge these films are uniquely violent...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    would like to than my co-mentors Kr Freehling-Burton for brining extra sources to the project and also

  • Adaptive Potential of Coastal Invertebrates to Environmental Stressors and Climate Change

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    Burton, Andrea R.
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    Climate change presents multiple stressors that are impacting marine life. As carbon dioxide emissions continue to increase in the atmosphere, atmospheric and sea water temperatures increase. In addition, more carbon dioxide is absorbed into the oceans, reducing pH and aragonite saturation state, resulting in ocean acidification (OA). Tightly coupled with...
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    DISSERTATION OF Andrea R. Burton for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Integrative Biology presented on

  • Ammonia-oxidizer and denitrifier populations in boreal forest soils of differing nitrogen availability

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    Burton, Marci S.
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    Nitrification and denitrification are major biological processes transforming nitrogen (N) in soils to plant available N, highly leachable nitrate (NO₃⁻) and gaseous N oxides. Although many studies in the past have studied N cycling communities, the effect of increased N inputs on ammonia-oxidizer and denitrifier population dynamics is still under...
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    Soils of Differing Nitrogen Availability AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Marci S. Burton

  • Notions of complexity in substitution dynamical systems

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    Wing, David Josiah
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    There has been a lot of work done in recent decades in the field of symbolic dynamics. Much attention has been paid to the so-called "complexity" function, which gives a sense of the rate at which the number of words in the system grow. In this paper, we explore this...
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    in Substitution Dynamical Systems Abstract approved: Robert M. Burton There has been a lot of work

  • Creative Placemaking as a Composition Pedagogy

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    Yerace, Marisa
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    This thesis explores the ways in which creative placemaking, a neighborhood-based practice for building community, can offer community-building and civic action wisdom as a model for composition. This model brings attention to spatial metaphors for rhetoric and teaching that have persisted for millennia; it re-focuses us on community; it encourages...
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    Vicki Tolar Burton This thesis explores the ways in which creative placemaking, a neighborhood

  • Chatting, cooking, curating : English language learners as sponsors of literacy in a multicultural literacy center

    Creator:
    Saleh, Natalie K.
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    Drawing on Deborah Brandt’s “literacy sponsorship,” this thesis examines ways English language learners (ELLs) in the Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center (CMLC) act as literacy sponsors, sharing their expertise in language, textiles, and cooking, based on nine in-depth interviews with ELLs at the center. The findings of this thesis are presented...
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Vicki Tolar Burton Drawing on

  • Literacy narratives across the curriculum

    Creator:
    Coffey, Marjorie D.
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    This thesis proposes expanding the locations where literacy narratives are currently used as readings and as writing assignments and considering broad conceptions of the types and uses of literacy narratives read in classrooms. In particular, this thesis asserts the value of expanding the literacy narratives read beyond the current canonical...
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    : _____________________________________________________________________ Vicki Tolar Burton This thesis proposes expanding the locations where literacy narratives

  • Beyond the Birds and the Bees: A Study of Comprehensive Sex Education in Oregon High Schools

    Creator:
    Wicks, Katie J.
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    Oregon high schools are required to provide comprehensive sex education to students, but there is anecdotal evidence that this is not consistently being carried out across all schools. Despite the significant amount of literature that exists on the topic of sex education, there is a gap in regards to what...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Kryn Freehling-Burton Oregon high schools are required to provide comprehensive sex

  • Religion in the writing classroom : toward a pedagogy of possibility

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    May, Laura D.
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    In this thesis, I examine composition scholarship on the intersections of religious faith and writing pedagogy over the past twenty years, tracing the origins of compositionists' discomfort with religion and focusing on pedagogical approaches for working with religiously-committed students. In particular, I emphasize the way in which these approaches are...
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    Burton, Chris Anderson, and Paul Kopperman for serving on my committee. I count myself very lucky to

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

    Creator:
    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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    members of my committee. Dr. Robert Iltis, Dr. Celeste Walls, Dr. Vicki Tolar Burton, and Dr. Anthony

  • Mike Rose : composing a reading of inclusion

    Creator:
    Jameson, Sara
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    Mike Rose researcher, professor, scholar, and author of numerous articles and books including the literacy memoir - Lives on the Boundary - has been active in the field of education and composition for over 30 years. This thesis looks back at the development of the discipline of composition studies to...
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    other committee members Vicki Tolar Burton, Anita Helle, and Janet Nishihara whose guidance

  • More than a term : a consideration of how to support generation 1.5 students at colleges and universities

    Creator:
    Wimberly, Elizabeth Summer
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    In this thesis, Elizabeth Summer Wimberly details the profile of generation 1.5 students as a group of students who can need extra support in higher education. Generation 1.5 students stand distinct from both international students and native, monolingual students. As such, placing generation 1.5 students in either a mainstream or...
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    Universities. Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Ehren H

  • "It's not about place it's about space" : place-of-birth decision-making in Cork, Ireland

    Creator:
    Houtman, Leah S.
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    Despite apparently supportive national policies, including nation-wide legalization of home birth and coverage by the national health care system of the costs associated with that option, these births account for less than 1% of all births in the Republic of Ireland. Using data collected during participant observation, both in person...
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     Shirazi  and  Kryn  Freehling-­‐Burton,  MAIS,   for  their  patience  with  me  and

  • Monsters in the mirror : literary reflections of mentally and physically deformed humanity in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

    Creator:
    Bromley, Michele Joy
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    Monstrous beings, or distortions of nature, were a tangible object of fear in the medieval and early modern eras. Aristotle, as a precursor to the scientists and magical practitioners of the twelfth century or the barber-surgeons of the sixteenth century, understood monsters to be human or animal beings deformed by...
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    Masters Thesis

  • The Oregon State University Writing Center : history and context

    Creator:
    Weintraub, Melissa R.
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    The Oregon State University (OSU) Writing Center: History and Context provides a detailed and multi-faceted view of the Writing Center from its start in 1976 through the present. The information was gathered from interviews, annual reports, archival sources, and scholarly research. Chapter One examines the scholarly conversation about writing centers,...
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    also for her support. I also thank the rest of my committee, Anita Helle, Vicki Tolar Burton, and

  • Coolhunting : the commodification of creative expression and the alienation of youth

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    Fillmore, Mark W.
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    In this thesis, I argue that the cooptation and commodification of young peoples’ creative expressions of individuality through the practice of “coolhunting” causes alienation within said young people and is, therefore, unethical. I support this claim by using Marxist theory of the Frankfort Institute, viz., Max Horkheimer and Theodor W....
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    master’s committee: Dr. Vicki Tolar Burton for her willingness to climb on board at such a late hour in

  • In and Out of Touch : Fabricated Histories in Nella Larsen's Passing and James VanDerZee's Studio Portraiture

    Creator:
    Trowbridge, A. Hayley
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    Author Nella Larsen and photographer James VanDerZee are two of the most canonical figures of Harlem Renaissance studies, whose respective novels and portraits have been explored extensively, if separately, by scholars. Both Larsen's 1929 novel Passing and VanDerZee's studio portraiture of the 1920s and 1930s have been read in terms...
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    Passing and James VanDerZee’s Studio Portraiture Abstract approved

  • The Effect of Affect: A Close Reading of LeBron James’ Athlete Activism

    Creator:
    Campista, Joshua, I.
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    The purpose of this thesis is to argue that LeBron James’ expressions of activism are, in many ways, perceived as insincere, hypocritical or disingenuous to his followers on the social media platform Twitter. Using the theoretical framework of Affect Theory and Plutchik’s wheel of emotions, a close reading was conducted...
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    Reading of LeBron James’ Athlete Activism Abstract approved

  • Long Term Trends and Sources of Sound in United States Waters

    Creator:
    Haver, Samara M.
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    Passive acoustic monitoring is a valuable tool for observing the status of marine environments. Comparisons of underwater soundscapes over temporal and spatial scales can provide data to inform marine conservation efforts, including protection of threatened and endangered species. This dissertation utilizes passive acoustic data collected via a broadly spaced array...
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    without my graduate committee representative, Vicki Tolar-Burton. Vicki, thank you for creating and

  • Learning to Estimate Multi-Relation Aggregation Functions

    Creator:
    Jadhav, Rashmi Suresh
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    Multi-relation aggregation queries process the join operator before computing the aggregation function. This join is arguably the most costly operation since traditional join algorithms spend majority of their time trying to join the parts of the relations that do not generate any output tuples. This causes slow response times with...
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    Masters Thesis
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    interesting. I would like to thank my collaborators Mian Xie and Michael Burton since I truly liked working

  • Collaborative Online Learning For Join Processing

    Creator:
    Xie, Mian
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    Relational binary operators, such as join, are arguably the most costly and frequently used operations in relational data systems. In many join algorithms, the majority of the process time is spent on scanning and attempting to join the parts of the relations that do not satisfy the join condition and...
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    Capstone Project
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    technology in my major. I would like to thank my collaborators Rashmi Jadhav and Michael Burton since I

  • Form Fits Content in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

    Creator:
    Hogan, James Joseph
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    In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce used the form or structure of his language to connote a meaning which supported the content of the text. The elements of form he used most often were sentence and paragraph structure, punctuation, rhythm, and classical rhetorical schemes....
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    Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce used the form or structure of his language to connote a meaning which

  • Torn : A Cluster Analysis

    Creator:
    Mulatero Ferrando, Oriana
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    Pornography remains one of the most controversial topics in our culture. Politicians, religious groups, and special interest organizations tend to focus on the ‘effects’ pornography has on those who consume it, and fear that pornography is a threat to public health. The general discourse surrounding pornography is that men produce...
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    Jacky St. James’ full-length film, Torn. Jacky St. James, a self-proclaimed feminist, is a writer and

  • Blowout and spill occurrence model

    Creator:
    Sim, Lawrence H.
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    To assist with risk-assessment with deepwater and ultra-deepwater prospects for offshore energy extraction as well as provide a useful tool for oil spill response, a spatially-explicit model was developed for comprehensive simulations of a blowout event from the wellhead to final fate and degradation. The Blowout and Spill Occurrence Model...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Lawrence H. Sim for

  • Mapping QTL for root rot resistance, root traits, and morphological trait in a common bean recombinant inbred population

    Creator:
    Hagerty, Christina H.
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    Root rot diseases of bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) are a problem wherever they are grown, and are a major constraint to dry edible and snap bean production. Root rot is a primary yield limitation of snap bean production in the US, especially within the top three snap bean producing states...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christina H. Hagerty for the degree of Master of Science in Horticulture

  • Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : hermeneutics and epistemology in Ishmael's seafaring

    Creator:
    Goodrum, Emily A.
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    This paper defends a reading of Hennan Melville's Moby-Dick that elevates Ishmael's status from mere narrator of Ahab's tragedy to that of protagonist of his own story, a novel of epistemological seafaring. As a metaphysical quester, Ishmael provides the novel's only reliable and complex vision of the condition of man...
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    , committee members Dr. Vicki Tolar Burton, Dr. Linc Kesler, and Dr. Jim Folts. I am especially grateful to

  • Translingual Science Communication: From Local Publications to the STEM Writing Classroom

    Creator:
    Werndli, Alexander J.
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    In order to assist WAC/WID practitioners and science writing faculty in incorporating translingual perspectives in disciplinary writing instruction, this study extends translingualism to language practice in the sciences by conducting a corpus study of Al-Awamia, a Moroccan agronomic journal. Mapping rhetorically significant changes across abstracts authored in English, French, and...
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Ehren H. Pflugfelder In

  • To Express the Inexpressible: Poetry as Philosophy within Mystical Discourse

    Creator:
    Hyam, Jarrod
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    Within this thesis, I posit that poetry, rather than philosophical argument, is a more effective means of expressing and understanding the nature of mystical experiences. William James’ analysis of mysticism inspires the theoretical approach utilized in this thesis. An analysis of the unique qualities of poetic language within mystical discourse...
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    : ______________________________________________________________ James Blumenthal Within this thesis, I posit that

  • Wendy Bishop : a feminist voice at the intersections of composition, creative writing, and ethnography

    Creator:
    Rosman, Alice L.
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    Wendy Bishop's lively voice and scholarly contribution continue to resonate and be important in composition studies. Bishop--poet, scholar, feminist, teacher, ethnographer, and compositionist--sought to blur the lines between creative writing and composition. This thesis argues that in challenging the boundaries that exist between creative writing and composition, Bishop also challenged...
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    also like to express my gratitude to my readers, Dr. Vicki Tolar Burton and Sara Jameson, for their

  • Development of a radial microlamination architecture for cylindrical microchannel arrays

    Creator:
    Vlieg, James H.
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    Microchannel arrays are being developed across a wide spectrum of microfluidic applications including blood processing, fuel cells and thermal management among many others. Typical arrays are based on a flat laminated architecture produced in a vacuum hot press (VHP) through solid-state diffusion bonding. Due to the cylindrical nature of certain...
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    James H. Vlieg for the degree of Master of Science in Industrial Engineering presented on June 10, 2010

  • A material approach : Anne Frances Wysocki and new media

    Creator:
    Margoni, Travis
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    Anne Frances Wysocki, a scholar in the field of new media and composition studies, has published many articles, book chapters, a textbook, and is a major contributor to a multi-authored collection titled Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. This thesis considers the five openings...
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    further develop the concept of pedagogy as design, but the authors—including Courtney Cazden, James Gee

  • Taskmaster II, a versatile distributed system for control

    Creator:
    Schaal, Hans-Werner
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    This thesis discusses a special type of a versatile, distributed control system, the Taskmaster II. It includes a detailed specification of a readily realizable Taskmaster system utilizing a layered communication among units, oriented on the ISO OSI seven layer model. The specification was developed from the analysis of previous research...
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    major professor and thesis advisor Dr. James H. Herzog for his encouragement and guidance throughout

  • Biomechanical Modeling of Isometric Muscle-Tendon Force Generation Through Tendons Coupled in Parallel and a Passive Differential Mechanism

    Creator:
    Le, Anthony H.
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    There are at least fifteen types of upper extremity tendon transfer procedures for combined peripheral nerve injuries that involve re-routing a single donor muscle to multiple recipient tendons. As a result, force and movement across finger joints become coupled, resulting in limited grasping abilities. Quantification and modeling of the donor...
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    on Biomedical Engineering with co-authors, James D. Sweeney and Ravi Balasubramanian

  • Ultra-low power receivers for wireless sensor networks

    Creator:
    Ayers, James S.
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    In wireless sensor network applications, low-power operation of the wireless receiver is critical. To address this need an ultra-low power Binary Frequency Shift Keying (BFSK) receiver using the super-regenerative architecture is developed. A prototype receiver is built and tested for operation in the 900 MHz ISM band. Lab measurements show...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF James S. Ayers for the degree

  • Scenes of language

    Creator:
    Duerst, Gretchen
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    In this creative non-fiction thesis, I present a collection of personal essays that examine my significant moments of awkwardness with failed communications or frustrated relationships when I wanted to draw people closer with language, but was unsuccessful. In the twelve stories, I discuss these issues in my interpersonal communication interwoven...
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    members Ted Leeson and John Maul for patient reading; To Vicki Tolar Burton and Lisa Ede for reassurance

  • The art of resisting the patriarch

    Creator:
    Nasser, Aisha K.
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    This study examines the theme of power in Naguib Mahfouz's The Cairo Trilogy (1956/57). Contrasting my analysis with earlier review of the novel that emphasized a hegemonic patriarchal power, I argue that such power was constantly subverted by the dominated: family members of the patriarch. Using James C. Scott's notions...
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    such power was constantly subverted by the dominated: family members of the patriarch. Using James C

  • Knot theory : in imitation of Lewis Thomas

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    Schmidgall, Matthew J.
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    Knot Theory: In Imitation of Lewis Thomas is a collection of 14, 1200-word essays written in the style of Lewis Thomas, a physician who regularly contributed to The New England Journal of Medicine. His 1200-word column, "Notes of a Biology Watcher," ran from 1971 - 1980. The resulting compilations collectively...
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My sincerest thanks to Chris Anderson, Lisa Ede, and Vicki Tolar Burton whose guidance and