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Processes of orientation to the informal caregiving role among Mexican-origin women : a qualitative analysis

Creator:: McDermott, Elizabeth A.
Abstract:: This thesis presents the steps that were taken to develop thematic findings using data from a qualitative study. Using a grounded approach, the study focused on qualitatively exploring Mexican origin caregivers' conceptualizations of elder caregiving in terms of role functioning, social norms, cultural beliefs, and familial obligations. Data collected from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: burden among Mexican caregivers, Mendez-Luck, Kennedy, and Wallace (2008) found that women

Leslie Marmon Silko and the New Sincerity

Creator:: Lackey, Ryan W.
Abstract:: One reading of the post-postmodern literary period argues that as formal aesthetics have (re)engaged with ethics there has been a concomitant move to treat literature as a space of ethical potential. Adam Kelly has called this attitude, when combined with the appropriation of certain metafictional and postmodern techniques, the “New...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: yet to place Silko alongside other contemporary authors such as David Foster Wallace, George

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

Creator:: Ellis, Erik
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Finally, in 1966 Lurleen Wallace, wife of George Wallace, successfully ran in his stead because the

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

Creator:: Christensen, Terry M.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Mars and Popular Astronomy, 1890-1910

Creator:: Simpson, Emily M.
Abstract:: Beginning in the late-nineteenth century, several dialogues emerged concerning life on Mars. Some supported the notion of an inhabited Mars, citing recent observations of the planet, while others, pointing to a lack of concrete evidence, denied the validity of such a bold hypothesis. The dialogues within and between different...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Russell Wallace, Is Mars Habitable: A Critical Examination of Professor Lowell’s Book “Mars and Its

Regionalism and the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: William G. Robbins, Robert J. Frank, and Richard E. Ross
Resource Type:: Book
Full Text:: Edwin R. Bingham "New Era": Growing up East of the Cascades, 1937-1950 175 Jarold Ramsey Our Pleasant

MAN 'aging Water Resources of the Deschutes River Basin

Creator:: Taganova, Jahan
Abstract:: In the last two decades, there has been an increase in substantial body of work on the inclusion of women in the water management and governance field. However, these scholarly inquiries have mostly focused on cases from the Global South, where women are still underrepresented in decision-making positions in the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Space Between: How We Understood, Valued, and Governed the Ocean Through the Process of Marine Science and Emerging Technologies

Creator:: Newton, Samantha
Abstract:: Ian Angell, in the New Barbarian Manifesto, said “A ‘brave new world’ is being forced upon unsuspecting societies by advances in information technology.” It would seem then, that technological advances happen automatically and have a life of their own. There is a logic to technological advancements that is outside human...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Aquatic insect adaptations to different flow regimes

Creator:: Yamamuro, Asako Melody
Abstract:: My thesis explored the effects of environmental variability on population dynamics and community composition of aquatic insects. Environmental variability in the form of flow regime in streams can limit the distribution and life-history traits of aquatic insects. I used tributaries to the McKenzie River in Oregon with dramatically different flow...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: field, including Edwin Price, Ashley Timko, Morgan Hannaford, Nick Chambers, Jacob Tennessen, Deb Finn

UVB Radiation Affects the Quality of the Female Sexual Attractiveness Pheromone of the Red-Sided Garter Snake

Creator:: Vigeland, Anna E.
Abstract:: In this study, pheromone and skin lipid samples collected from red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) were exposed directly to either full-spectrum light or full-spectrum plus UVB light. In addition, female and male snakes were exposed to daily doses of either full-spectrum or full-spectrum and UVB light, after which the...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: stability in plants. Nature 406: 98-101. 22. Say, T. (1823). IN: Edwin James, account of an expedition

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Processes of orientation to the informal caregiving role among Mexican-origin women : a qualitative analysis

Leslie Marmon Silko and the New Sincerity

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

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

Mars and Popular Astronomy, 1890-1910

Regionalism and the Pacific Northwest

MAN 'aging Water Resources of the Deschutes River Basin

The Space Between: How We Understood, Valued, and Governed the Ocean Through the Process of Marine Science and Emerging Technologies

Aquatic insect adaptations to different flow regimes

UVB Radiation Affects the Quality of the Female Sexual Attractiveness Pheromone of the Red-Sided Garter Snake

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