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The Deathscape of St. Paul: Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Landscapes

Creator:: Boulware, Brooke L.
Abstract:: A cultural landscape analysis of two historic cemeteries in St. Paul, Oregon demonstrates that the residents of this early community were unknowingly using grave markers to express their worldview and the identities that they felt were most important. Because of the historical and cultural development of this community as the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , 2004; Manion, 2006; Hérbert, 2007). Many of these volumes are not directly concerned with St. Paul

Geographic variation in genetic and meristic characters of coastal cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki clarki)

Creator:: Williams, Thomas Herbert
Abstract:: Understanding how populations within a species interact across various geographic and temporal scales is fundamental to developing appropriate conservation strategies. I examined the geographic variation in genetic and meristic characters of coastal cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki clarki) based on approximately 1,400 fish sampled from 54 populations spanning their distributional range...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: patience of my graduate committee: Dr. Gordon Reeves, Dr. Phillip Brownell, Dr. Paul Farber, Dr. Daniel

Conservation of Sidalcea nelsoniana through habitat management : effects of burning, mowing, and altered flooding regime on a rare Willamette Valley perennial

Creator:: Bartels, Marilynn R.
Abstract:: Active habitat management plays a key role in the preservation of native ecosystems and rare species, especially in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, where natural succession to woodlands threatens the few wetland prairies remaining after 150 years of agriculture and urbanization. Sidalcea nelsoniana, listed as threatened under the federal Endangered...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Herbert Huddleston, Robert Meinke, and Dominique Bachelet for their time and valuable feedback. This

Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

Creator:: Zimmerman, Katharine
Abstract:: The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, truly a synthesized work of natural history, coincided with the emergence of specialized disciplines in the 19th century. This thesis aims to explore the relationship between the specialization of knowledge, in the form of disciplinization, and the reception of new...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ____________________________________________________________________ Paul Lawrence Farber Mina Carson The publication of Charles Darwins On the Origin

Exploring the Discrete Logarithm with Random Ternary Graphs

Creator:: Brugger, Max Francis Josef
Abstract:: Encryption is essential to the security of transactions and communications, but the algorithms on which they rely might not be as secure as we all assume. In this paper, we investigate the randomness of the discrete exponentiation function used frequently in encryption. We show how we used exponential generating functions...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: approved: Paul Cull Encryption is essential to the security of transactions and communications, but the

Approaches to The Optimization of Honey-Based Fermentations

Creator:: Kartik, Kritika
Abstract:: The fermentation of honey-based musts has been a feature of civilization for millennia. Typically comprised of 75-90% (w/w) simple (i.e. fermentable) sugars, the glucose and fructose present are readily fermented by either pitched or adventitious micro-organisms. Nevertheless, despite its venerable heritage, honey-based fermentations are prone to inconsistency, and it is...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: Paul Hughes The fermentation of honey-based musts has been a feature of

Empathy, Person and Community: the Foundation of the Sciences in the Phenomenology of Edith Stein

Creator:: Lovestone, Lauren R.
Abstract:: During the first decades of the twentieth century different attempts were made to unify the diversifying and specializing sciences. One of these attempts manifested as the History of Science. Established in 1913 with the academic journal Isis, its first article written by George Sarton clarified that the field was created...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ________________________________________________________________ Paul E. Kopperman During the first decades of the twentieth century different attempts were

Institutionalizing Science in Oregon : The Role of the Oregon State Academy of Sciences, 1905-1914

Creator:: Read, Richard Thomas
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the Oregon State Academy of Sciences, 1905-1914 Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy `Paul L

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

Creator:: Blanchard, Nicholas
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Paul L. Farber By 1900 domestication was a promising, if somewhat vexed, subject in

This Earth Emanating Enchantment: What Wonder and Joy Can Teach Us Within Traditional Western Environmentalism

Creator:: Ohotnicky, Colette E.
Abstract:: G.K. Chesterton once stated, “I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairytales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts….The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in the fairy book,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : _____________________________________________________ Michael Paul Nelson G.K. Chesterton once stated, “I am concerned with a certain way of

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The Deathscape of St. Paul: Historic Cemeteries as Cultural Landscapes

Geographic variation in genetic and meristic characters of coastal cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki clarki)

Conservation of Sidalcea nelsoniana through habitat management : effects of burning, mowing, and altered flooding regime on a rare Willamette Valley perennial

Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

Exploring the Discrete Logarithm with Random Ternary Graphs

Approaches to The Optimization of Honey-Based Fermentations

Empathy, Person and Community: the Foundation of the Sciences in the Phenomenology of Edith Stein

Institutionalizing Science in Oregon : The Role of the Oregon State Academy of Sciences, 1905-1914

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

This Earth Emanating Enchantment: What Wonder and Joy Can Teach Us Within Traditional Western Environmentalism

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