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  • Guilt and Redemption in a National Eulogy: President Obama’s “Together We Thrive: Tucson and Arizona” Address as a Call for Mortification

    Creator:
    McLennan, Chelsea J.
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    On January 8th, 2011 tragedy struck in Tucson, Arizona. A gunman opened fire on Representative Gabrielle Giffords' "Congress on Your Corner" event, wounding thirteen and killing six ("Arizona Shooting"). Four days later, President Obama spoke to a grieving crowd at the University of Arizona's McKale Memorial Center. This study seeks...
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    THESIS OF Chelsea J. McLennan for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in

  • A high power emulation of a wind farm

    Creator:
    Lalla, Chelsea
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    As more wind farms are connected to the grid, the variable nature of wind energy begins to influence grid stability. Energy storage could help smooth the variable nature of wind energy. Laboratory demonstration and exploration of the interaction between different energy storage devices and wind energy could help improve and...
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    THESIS OF Chelsea Lalla for the degree of Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Ecological Forestry : A Critical Analysis

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    Batavia, Chelsea
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    Although science is widely accepted as a fundamental source of information underlying decisions about forest management and conservation, considerably less attention has been paid to the inevitable role that normative values and beliefs play in such decisions. This thesis highlights the normative dimensions of "ecological forestry," a strategy of forest...
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    ABSTRACT  OF THE THESIS OF Chelsea Batavia for the  degree of Master of Science in Forest Ecosystems

  • A Thematic Feminist Analysis of Best-Selling Children’s Picture Books

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    Marie, Michelle
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    Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the top ten best-selling children's picture books of 2006 reveals that these books contain elements of systematic privilege and oppression. Dominant group members are numerically overrepresented in the sample. Major emergent themes are the normalization of racism and white privilege, the stereotypical portrayal of the...
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    Feminist Analysis of Best-Selling Children’s Picture Books. Abstract approved: Susan M. Shaw

  • Sub-regional detention siting : a methodology using GIS

    Creator:
    Murdock, Carol L.
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    The Mt. Scott watershed in northern Clackamas County, Oregon is an urban watershed that lies inside the Portland metropolitan urban growth boundary. Urbanization of the watershed began in the early 1970s and has recently accelerated. A landscape level analysis of the urbanization process was combined with the results of a...
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    . Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy Catherine M. Neumann The Mt. Scott watershed in northern

  • Estimating plant-available nitrogen release from manures, composts, and crop residues

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    Gale, Eric S.
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    In order to properly utilize organic amendments as nitrogen sources, reliable methods to estimate plant-available nitrogen (PAN) are needed. The objectives of this study were to (1) evaluate the use of crop and soil responses in fertilizer N equivalence (FNE) calculations, (2) examine the relationships between the C/N ratio, total...
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    Nitrogen Release from Manures, Composts, and Crop Residues. Abstract approved: Dan M. Sullivan In order

  • Fitzgerald’s idealism and the question of wealth

    Creator:
    Wood, Amy
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    In This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and several of his short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the importance of wealth as a factor in supporting happiness and fostering the American Dream on an individual basis. With these texts, Fitzgerald acknowledges that wealth is a factor and, simultaneously, a...
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    approved: ______________________________________________ David M. Robinson In This Side of

  • Pacific Northwest rangeland carbon sequestration

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    Wiggins, Seth T.
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    This paper models the supply curve of carbon sequestration on Pacific Northwest rangelands. Rangeland managers have the ability to sequester carbon in agricultural soils by implementing alternative management practices on their farms. Their low adoption rate in practice suggests a high opportunity cost associated with their implementation. To increase their...
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    : _______________________________________________________________________ John M. Antle This paper models the supply curve of carbon sequestration on

  • Negotiating Social Identity within the Oregon State University Polo Club

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    Hanna, Erika L.
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    The purpose of this study is to examine how members of the Oregon State University polo team negotiate aspects of their social identity. Over the course of the 2011-2012 school year, 15 interviews and 30 hours of observations were conducted. From the data, five overarching themes were identified: inclusion as...
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    : Elizabeth M. Root The purpose of this study is to examine how members of the Oregon State University

  • West Nile Virus preparedness in Multnomah County : efficacy, benefits, and limitations of adulticide use for mosquito-borne disease

    Creator:
    Francis, Kristin A.
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    The objectives of this study were to provide a comprehensive review of the risks and benefits of using adulticides to reduce risk of mosquito-borne disease (particularly West Nile Virus) transmission to humans, as well as to decrease annoyance from nuisance mosquitoes. The study was designed with two major research components,...
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    Limitations of Adulticide Use for Mosquito-Borne Disease. Apr Annette M. Rossignol The objectives of this