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  • Environmental Remote Sensing with Unmanned Aircraft Systems

    Creator:
    Burnett, Jonathan D.
    Abstract:
    Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUASs) equipped with optical sensors are capableof remotely sensing landscapes and wildlife at spatial and temporal resolutions that werepreviously inaccessible due to technical and budgetary limitations. Conventional remotesensing and photogrammetric workflows can be applied to the resulting high resolution imageryto facilitate new types of scientific inquiry....
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    Graduate School I understand that my dissertation will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon

  • How male undergraduates cope with body dissatisfaction

    Creator:
    Staffileno, Thomas M.
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    This study explores the narratives of male undergraduate students and their experiences with body dissatisfaction. The inquiry utilizes a constructivist epistemology and a qualitative design in order to best understand previous and current experiences of individuals who have reflected upon their body image as part of their identity. To gather...
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    Masters Thesis
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    I understand that my thesis will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon State

  • Traditional Agriculture in Transition: Continuity and Change in Southwest China

    Creator:
    Li, Xiaoyue
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    This dissertation seeks to understand Yi farmers’ livelihoods in the midst of an agricultural transition in Yunnan, Southwest China. This dissertation examines a community’s traditional knowledge related to wild edible plants (WEPs), analyzes socio-ecological vulnerability and resilience in the face of agricultural transition from subsistence farming to cash cropping, and...
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  • Particulate Trace Metal Fluxes in the Western Arabian Sea and Their Links to Marine Productivity

    Creator:
    Flannery, Kelly M.
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    Many trace elements (e.g., Zn, Cd, Mo) are essential phytoplankton micronutrients, making them crucial to the marine ecosystem and ultimately the carbon cycle. Because of this association trace metals are also utilized in paleoceanographic studies (e.g., Mo, Cd). However, not much is known about what controls the cycling of these...
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    Masters Thesis
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  • Deep-sea sediment paleomagnetism : a case study from the North Atlantic

    Creator:
    Strano, Sarah Elianna
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    Sedimentary records from the North Atlantic, instrumental in the development of modern paleo-geomagnetic concepts, show a highly variable field even during times of constant polarity. Yet, our understanding of how the magnetization is acquired in the sediments is poorly understood. Primary magnetizations preserved in deep-sea sediments are known to be...
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  • Insights from stable isotope dynamics into the sensitivity of larval Pacific oysters to ocean acidification

    Creator:
    Brunner, Elizabeth Lev
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    Larvae of the Pacific Oyster, Crassostrea gigas, at Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery (WCH) in Netarts Bay, Oregon, are negatively impacted by high-CO₂ water and exposure during the initial shell formation period appears to be particularly damaging. To investigate the mechanism of this early susceptibility, several cohorts of larvae at WCH...
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  • The Soundcheck of the Sea : Comparing Marine Soundscapes on a Continental Scale

    Creator:
    Haver, Samara M.
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    Monitoring marine ambient sound using standardized methods supports assessments of ocean sound levels across widespread ecosystems. This thesis quantifies differences among coastal and deep-water marine soundscapes in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The sources of sound in a soundscape are compartmentalized into three components and compared over time and among...
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    I understand that my thesis will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon State University

  • The preparation and human taste detection of low degree of polymerization glucose oligomers

    Creator:
    Pullicin, Alexa J.
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    There is growing evidence that humans and other animals can taste certain starch hydrolysis products, namely, maltooligosaccharides (MOS), and that their detection is independent of the known sweet receptor, T1R2 T1R3. The overall goal of this study was to further investigate the taste perception of low degree-of-polymerization (DP) MOS in...
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    Masters Thesis
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    I understand that my thesis will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon State University

  • Bleeding Assemblages: Translating Borders in the Bilingual Poetry of Irma Pineda Santiago

    Creator:
    Killeen, Shanna
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    This thesis examines the bilingual poetry of indigenous, Mexican poet Irma Pineda Santiago. In her work, she composes mirrored poems in Isthmus Zapotec and Spanish. I analyze the ways in which her work brings Zapotec and Spanish into contact with one another, demanding that readers acknowledge narratives of erasure that...
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    mirrored poems in Isthmus Zapotec and Spanish. I analyze the ways in which her work brings Zapotec and

  • The Role of Community Cultural Wealth in the Retention of Latino/a Students in the Community College Setting

    Creator:
    Reeder, Jane F.
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    Background. Many studies addressing the reasons why minority students fail in higher education are based on what is defined as a deficit model. A deficit model documents that a significant number of minority students fail because their culture is distinct from that of the majority population. Numerous minority students do...
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