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  • Sound and death in John Haines's poetry

    Creator:
    Noble, Darren L.
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    Poet John Haines is best known for his first book of poetry, Winter News, which was published in 1966. The book contains poems about the Alaskan landscape that surrounded Haines during his many years of living in Richardson, Alaska. The recurring motifs in his poems include hunting, trapping, the Arctic...
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    . Noble Nay 11, 2001 All Rights Reserved Sound and Death in John Haines's Poetry by Darren L. Noble

  • Spatial Ecology and Species Interactions among Predators and their Prey

    Creator:
    Ruprecht, Joel S.
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    Carnivores have disproportionate effects in ecological systems but understanding their exact influences on ecosystems is a matter of great complexity and debate. Predators directly impact prey by killing them, and indirectly by modifying their behavior in response to predation risk. Yet how species interact, both among members of a carnivore...
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    Dissertation
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    was infectious and motivating. I also thank my excellent committee members Darren Clark, Katie

  • Juvenile survival and birth-site selection of Rocky Mountain elk in northeastern Oregon

    Creator:
    Rearden, Spencer N.
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    With declining populations and low calf recruitment in northeastern Oregon, much interest has been generated to study the survival rates and causes of mortality of Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni). I investigated the causes of elk calf mortality and the effects of predation risk on birth-site selection by cow...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , helped me gain valuable field experience and provided valuable input for this thesis. I thank Darren

  • Post-breeding habitat selection by songbirds in the headwaters of the Trask River, northwestern Oregon

    Creator:
    Jenkins, Stephanie R.
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    Little is known on the importance of riparian areas to birds near small headwater streams in mesic forests. Progress towards understanding limiting factors that affect bird populations has been difficult because of lack of information beyond the breeding period. I compared bird assemblages between headwater riparian and upland areas throughout...
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    , Darren Wiens, Jenny Watson, Erika Dittmar and Michael Moses) as well as numerous volunteers (Matt Betts

  • The role of herbivores and productivity on community structure of rocky shores of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

    Creator:
    Vinueza, Luis R.
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    Ecosystems are facing increasing threats from human related activities, such as overfishing, pollution, habitat destruction, species invasions, and diseases, among others. While oceanic islands provide natural laboratories to understand ecological and evolutionary process, they are also particularly vulnerable to these impacts, given their usual isolation from the mainland and the...
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    Dissertation
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    , Ryan Craig, Mae Noble, Erin Richmond, Mike Farris, Paulina Viteri, Ashley Rogers, Juan Manuel Alava

  • Understanding historical events through dress and costume displays in Titanic museum attractions

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    Reeves-DeArmond, Genna F.
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    The sinking of the RMS Titanic has achieved a difficult feat – it has remained culturally relevant. The dedication of the general public to understanding Titanic is evident in many avenues of popular and consumer culture. For those individuals who did not get enough of the 1997 Titanic movie, there...
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    Dissertation

  • Studies of Structurally Complex Thin Film Oxides for Electronic Materials

    Creator:
    Fast, Dylan Braucht
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    In this dissertation, the structure and electronic properties of multiple metal oxide thin films are characterized and presented. Prompt inorganic condensation (PIC) of metal-oxo and –hydroxo clusters was evaluated as a technique for making metal oxide clusters in two separate studies. The first focuses on the synthesis of lithium niobate...
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    Dissertation
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    data collection and analysis of the second project in chapter 2. Darren Johnson oversaw the second

  • On the evolution of correlated color traits in garter snakes

    Creator:
    Westphal, Michael F.
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    How complex traits evolve continues to be a major focus of evolutionary investigation. A current topic of debate is the hypothesis that the phenotypic integration of complex traits gives rise to evolutionary constraints. I studied two color traits in the common garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, that show a high level...
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    students and postdocs to my ongoing education. Mark Christie and Darren Johnson frequently took time

  • Characterization and Investigations of Thin-Film Materials with X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

    Creator:
    Diulus, J. Trey
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    Surface characterization of materials is widely utilized over a range of disciplines and essential to the development of new materials, technology, or processes. Metal oxide nanoclusters have shown promise as potential new generation photoresist materials for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) nanolithography. Organotin clusters have been proposed as potential candidates for resist...
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    Dissertation
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    Darren Johnson’s lab. Greg Herman provided contributions towards experimental design and

  • Adaptive diversity and divergence at frog antimicrobial peptide loci

    Creator:
    Tennessen, Jacob A.
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    In this dissertation I study evolutionary patterns at genes encoding antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in frogs. AMPs are short, amphipathic, cationic, secreted proteins that kill bacteria and other pathogens through a non-catalytic mechanism that involves binding to and disrupting the microbial cell membrane. In many animal taxa, positive selection is much...
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    , Leslie Dyall, Dafne Eerkes- Medrano, Deb Finn, Elise Granek, Margot Hessing-Lewis, Darren Johnson, Karen