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An informed and ignorant readership : the contradictions of creative nonfiction

Creator:: Rush, Lani
Abstract:: Creative nonfiction is a genre replete with contradictions--the name itself shows that: nonfiction writing is true and factual, but creative writing is imaginative and inventive. Because of fundamental contradictions like this, there is no standardized or even most common definition of the genre. This creates confusion for both critics and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: metaphorical memoir Lying; and third, John D’Agata’s efforts to push back against growing dogmatism in

An optimization model to allocate forestry incentives funds in teak plantations of the southern-coastal region of Guatemala

Creator:: Pavez, Ricardo
Abstract:: Guatemala is internationally recognized as a country suitable to invest in the forestry industry. The first Guatemalan Forest Incentive Program – PINFOR- was implemented in 1996 to foster local forestry through cost-sharing. However, it lacks both formal land use planning processes and mechanisms to assess economic potential of projects, so...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ John Sessions Guatemala is internationally recognized as a country suitable to invest in

Diurnal wind-driven processes on the northern Monterey Bay inner shelf

Creator:: Suanda, Sutara H.
Abstract:: In the summer of 2007, a biophysical experiment was conducted to identify physical processes that determine the delivery of invertebrate larvae and juvenile rockfish to rocky intertidal and kelp forest communities in northern Monterey Bay, California. The experiment was sponsored by the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO)...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : John A. Barth In the summer of 2007, a biophysical experiment was conducted to identify physical

Bridging Ways of Knowing to Model the Dynamics of Fire as an Ecocultural Process on Frequent Fire Landscapes of the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Greenler, Skye M.
Abstract:: Wildfire impacts have intensified in many ecosystems across the western United States due to the combined impact of fire exclusion, climate change, and land management practices. However, on many of these landscapes, fire is a fundamental ecological process that has shaped vegetation structural and compositional diversity, ecosystem function, landscape pattern,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Abstract approved: _____________________________________________________ John D. Bailey

Summering birds of the Cape Arago region, Coos County, Oregon

Creator:: Giesler, John Calvin
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Oregon S US ' .ING BIRDS OF THE CAPE ARAGO REGION COOS COUNTY, OREGON by JOHN CALVIN GIESLER A

Fire weather and fire weather instruments

Creator:: Weisgerber, John E.
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis
Full Text:: AND F I E WEAT BER I N S TRU!vEN TS by John E. Veiserber A THESIS eubrnitted to the OREGON

Interactions of wind-driven and tidally-driven circulation in the Oregon coastal ocean

Creator:: Osborne, John J.
Abstract:: Influences of tidal and slower (subtidal) oceanic flows over the continental shelf and slope off Oregon are studied using a high-resolution ocean circulation model and comparative model-data analyses. The model is based on the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS), a fully nonlinear, three-dimensional model (using hydrostatic and Boussinesq approximations). The...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF John J. Osborne V

Embodied Wisdom in Mahāyāna Buddhism and Orthodox Christianity

Creator:: Beers, Kendrea
Abstract:: In this thesis, I aim to bring two ancient spiritual guides into dialogue with each other and with modern psychology: the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra by Śāntideva of the Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition and The Ladder of Divine Ascent by St. John Climacus of the Christian tradition. I draw from Tibetan Buddhist commentaries on...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Divine Ascent by St. John Climacus of the Christian tradition. I draw from Tibetan Buddhist commentaries

Steep trails; California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon

Creator:: Muir, John, 1838-1914 and Badè, William Frederic, 1871-1936
Abstract:: Gerald W. Williams Collection
Resource Type:: Book
Full Text:: CALIFORNIA· UTAH NEV ADA ·WASHINGTON· OREGON THE GRAND CANON BY JOHN l\fUIR BOSTON AND NEW YORK

Associations Between Family Nutrition and Physical Activity, Food Security, and Childhood Obesity in Rural Oregon

Creator:: Jackson, Jennifer A.
Abstract:: Childhood obesity and food insecurity are public health issues that often coexist, and both conditions are more prevalent among rural compared to non-rural populations. Social ecological prevention efforts are recommended, yet limited research has examined how rural family-home environments may influence obesity-preventing and -promoting behaviors. The purpose of this dissertation...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: thankful for each of my other committee members as well, including Dr. Katherine Gunter, Dr. Deborah John

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An informed and ignorant readership : the contradictions of creative nonfiction

An optimization model to allocate forestry incentives funds in teak plantations of the southern-coastal region of Guatemala

Diurnal wind-driven processes on the northern Monterey Bay inner shelf

Bridging Ways of Knowing to Model the Dynamics of Fire as an Ecocultural Process on Frequent Fire Landscapes of the Pacific Northwest

Summering birds of the Cape Arago region, Coos County, Oregon

Fire weather and fire weather instruments

Interactions of wind-driven and tidally-driven circulation in the Oregon coastal ocean

Embodied Wisdom in Mahāyāna Buddhism and Orthodox Christianity

Steep trails; California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon

Associations Between Family Nutrition and Physical Activity, Food Security, and Childhood Obesity in Rural Oregon

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