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  • Temporal Evolution of Submarine Volcanoes and Seamount Trails

    Creator:
    Schnur, Susan R.
    Abstract:
    The spatial distribution and geologic histories of submarine volcanoes provide insight into submarine eruptive behavior, deep earth processes and plate tectonics. This dissertation examines the evolution of individual submarine volcanic edifices as well as linear trails of seamounts at three spatial and temporal scales. In order to understand constructive and...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Confessing Our Sims: The construction of gender and sexuality among women ages 18-22 on MySpace

    Creator:
    Papaleo, November R.
    Abstract:
    MySpace is a social network phenomenon with over 100 million profiles and a strong presence in over 24 countries. As digital media become more commonplace, social networks are becoming sites where women create and manage relationships and identities. This thesis is a study of how women ages 18-22 are constructing...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    THE THESIS OF November R. Papaleo for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary

  • Phylogeography, evolution, and conservation in forest-associated Pacific Northwest salamanders

    Creator:
    Wagner, R. Steven
    Abstract:
    Phylogeographic studies of six Pacific Northwest forest-associated salamanders provide insight into historical and contemporary processes on population genetic structure. Among Larch Mountain Salamanders (Plethodon larselli), cytochrome b mitochondrial (mtDNA) sequences (381 bp) and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPDs; 34 loci) supported separate Management Units for northern and southern populations (12...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF R. Steven Wagner for the

  • Population differentiation among Snowy Plovers (Charadrius alexandrinus) in North America

    Creator:
    Gorman, Leah R.
    Abstract:
    Two North American subspecies of Snowy Plovers (Charadrius alexandrinus) have been described: the Cuban Snowy Plover (C. a. tenuirostris) and the Western Snowy Plover (C. a. nivosus). Coastal populations of the Western Snowy Plover are listed as Threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, while populations of the Cuban Snowy...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Economic feasibility of segregating grain by protein concentration while harvesting

    Creator:
    Martin, Charles T.
    Abstract:
    Price premiums and discounts are currently paid for various classes of wheat in the US marketplace. These premiums and the known heterogeneity of grain protein across landscapes beg the question of whether grain could be separated on the farm to maximize revenues. Theoretically, the concavity or convexity of a price...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Grain by Protein Concentration While Harvesting Abstract approved: Susan M. Capalbo Price

  • A Qualitative Study of Women in Modern Day Polygamous Households in the United States

    Creator:
    Wilson, Suzanne M.
    Abstract:
    This study will show that polygamy is not a religious freedom protected under the U.S. Constitution, but a power system in which men use economic, political, social and physical force to control the behavior of others. This thesis will use a feminist perspective theory to provide a theoretical outline for...
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    Masters Thesis
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  • Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

    Creator:
    Morales-Warming, Melissa
    Abstract:
    White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often are generalized to other women’s experiences, much like how the experience of men in often represented as the experience of all humankind. In 2001 Elaine Howard Ecklund studied white lay women in the Catholic Church and explored two questions: What...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    : __________________________________________________________________ Susan Shaw White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often

  • When she was bad : framing female killers in contemporary film

    Creator:
    Finch, Kurstin
    Abstract:
    This thesis presents an analysis of seventeen contemporary blockbuster films in which women kill people. The purpose of the analysis is to discover the "frames" with which film producers, directors, scriptwriters and actors portray women in film. The thesis first establishes the model in use in the analysis: Entman's model...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Contemporary Film. Abstract approved: _____ a..v-)-_-:::::: _ Susan Shaw This thesis presents an analysis

  • Women: Pregnancy and Sexual Activity

    Creator:
    Kilkenny, Michelle
    Abstract:
    The perception of the self as a sexual being is challenged by the experience of pregnancy. Included in the experience of pregnancy are issues with perceptions of the self, body image, transition into motherhood, and reconciliation of the self as a sexual being during pregnancy. Through a review of the...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Approved: Susan Shaw The perception of the self as a sexual being is challenged by the experience of

  • Negotiating conflicted climates : the experiences of transgender students attending women's colleges

    Creator:
    Jones, Whitney K.
    Abstract:
    The conversation regarding transgender students in the context of women's colleges is inherently complicated due to the binary gender system that the existence of women's colleges reinforce. The primary goal of this phenomenological research was to examine the lived experiences of transgender college students at U.S. women's colleges. Because the...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Susan M. Shaw The conversation regarding transgender students in the context