Total organic carbon, total nitrogen, microbial respiration and enzyme
activity (β-glucosidase) were measured on several horizons of a Dayton silt loam
(fine, montmorillonitic, mesic, Typic Albaqualf) soil cropped to annual ryegrass
under two straw residue management systems. The study evaluated the effects
of annual burning of straw residues or annual...
This research examines women's magazine editors' perspectives of the relationship between editorial and advertising content in women's magazines. It specifically investigates how this relationship affects both general editorial content and more specifically, social topic stories. Mainstream women's beauty/fashion magazine editors—including editors-in-chief—were queried as to the nature of these relationships. Interviews...
The Mixteco primarily reside in the Mexican State of Oaxaca in Southwestern Mexico. They have been arriving in larger numbers then ever before to this part of the North American continent in the last twenty years.Their experience is composed of different dynamics compared to those of their mainstream Mexican counterpart....
Tibetan Buddhism has offered two distinct, seemingly dichotomous perspectives about motherhood as it relates to traversing the spiritual path. In the first, mothering is the antithesis to spiritual development and realization, as it tethers a practitioner to the mundane duties of saṃsāra, the cycle of rebirth and suffering, propelling her...
Nuclear energy enjoyed widespread support in the United States during its initial decades and has seen extensive study as a potential means of combating contemporary energy issues such as climate change and alternative transportation fuels. Despite the potential contribution to solving these challenges, the industry has been largely stagnant since...
The purpose of this study was to provide a history of the Business
Education and Secretarial Science departments at Oregon State
University. The historical-documentary method of research was
used. Extensive use was made of interviews with those involved in
the school's history. The chronology of history was divided into segments...
In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...
What constitutes quality of learning in primary care? A
social systems view of that central question regards the
relationships between dimensions of learning, purposes of
primary care, and quality of practice. The question of
learning quality was approached in three ways. First,
perceptions of learning quality were elicited through
recorded...