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“I Think I'll Do Good”: Hopeful Future Expectations and Critical Reflection in Oppressed Youth

Creator:: Thogmartin, Asia A.
Abstract:: Critical consciousness (CC) and hopeful future expectations (HFE) are believed to promote positive development in youth who face structural inequalities (Callina et al., 2014; Heberle et al., 2020; Mcwhirter & McWhirter, 2008). Although both CC and HFE hold promise for enhancing the positive development of oppressed youth, gaps in the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

"Instead of tumbleweed, we have mitigation systems" : an ethnography of toxics risk, mitigation, and advocacy in IBM's deindustrialized birthplace

Creator:: Little, Peter C.
Abstract:: This dissertation draws on ethnographic data and political ecological theory to analyze the experience of residents living in the IBM-Endicott Superfund site in Endicott, New York. Combining in-depth narratives and quantitative measures from a household survey, it highlights residents' perceptions of 1) environmental health risk, 2) risk mitigation, 3) deindustrialization...
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"Pretty and patriotic" : women's consumption of apparel during World War II

Creator:: Mower, Jennifer M.
Abstract:: The War Production Board issued limitation order 85 in April 1942 in order to conserve fabric and manpower needed for the war effort. The L-85 order froze the silhouette so no major style changes in women's wear would occur during the war. It is clear that on the one hand...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: expressed in the Language of Fashion. (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1973), 98 and 422. Restricted sleeve

“We’ll Be That Kid That You Think We Are” : The Influences of Stigma and Interactions with Important Adults on Youth Identity Development in a Rural Context

Creator:: Lile, Joy R.
Abstract:: Adolescence is a developmental stage marked by crystallization in individuals’ sense of identity (Erikson, 1994; Harter, 1999). Research on positive youth development stresses the ways in which thriving trajectories during adolescence contribute to positive lifelong outcomes (Lerner & Overton, 2008; Scales, Benson, & Roehlkepartain, 2011) A symbolic interactionism perspective (Mead,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

(re)Presenting in a global village : students of color and the study abroad international experience

Creator:: Davis-White Eyes, Allison
Abstract:: Post-secondary education institutions across the United States are increasingly allocating resources to promote international education exchange programs as a pedagogical praxis to develop students into global citizens. Underlying such notions of global citizenship is the assumption that students will also develop a stronger post-national or cosmopolitan identity as a result...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A biogeographical analysis of some relationships between man, land, and wildlife in Belize (British Honduras)

Creator:: Frost, Marvin D.
Abstract:: This thesis research consists of an investigation of the human influences on wildlife in Belize. The study was accomplished by the collection and analysis of data with respect to land use, habitat characteristics, and wildlife status in Belize. Requirements and status of many species are tabulated in order to give...
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Full Text:: Farm. Station Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Total 9 yr. avg. 1 2.64

A biological and developmental study of Coeloides brunneri Vier. : a parasite of the Douglas-fir beetle, Dendroctonus pseudotsugae Hopk.

Creator:: Ryan, Roger B.
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Station. The writer also wishes to express nia thanks to Dr. F. H. Butt, Professor Eneritus, Cornell

A biological and taxonomic study of selected myxosporida of some Oregon fresh-water fishes

Creator:: Wyatt, Ellis Junior
Abstract:: Biological studies were conducted on a histozoic myxosporidan Myxobolus insidiosus (Wyatt and Pratt, 1963) from the musculature of Oncorhynchus tshawytscha (Walbaum). This organism is known to occur in spring chinook salmon in Oregon and coho salmon O. kisutch (Walbaum) in Washington. In addition Myxobolus kisutchi (Yasutake and Wood, 1957) was...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: dirt rearing ponds in series for production fish. The water supply for this station is from the

A biosystematic study in the genus Aster, section Aster, in western North America

Creator:: Dean, Milton Lee
Abstract:: A biosystematic investigation was undertaken in 15 species and three subspecies of the genus Aster, in western North America. Previous studies had been based entirely on external morphological features, and it was believed that much could be learned about the natural affinities of the taxa by exploring their cytological and...
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Full Text:: ., ca. 10 mi. W of Mitchell on U.S. Hwy. 26. 420 Oregon: Crook Co., Cold Spring Guard Station. 423

A biosystematic study of some North American species of Agrostis L. and Podagrostis (Griseb.) Scribn. & Merr.

Creator:: Carlbom, Curt Gerald, 1932-
Abstract:: A taxonomic investigation was made of 24 taxa belonging to the section Trichodium (Michx.) Trin., of Agrostis, and the genus Podagrostis. Experimental methods were employed, including: uniform garden culture of transplants and plants grown from seeds collected in natural populations; breeding studies; physiological and phenological investigations; cytological studies; ecological studies...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A capture-recapture analysis of a mountain beaver population in western Oregon

Creator:: Lovejoy, Bill Pertl
Abstract:: This report summarizes the results of a field study of a population of the Pacific mountain beaver, Aplodontia rufa pacifica, from August 1965 through August 1967. The study site consisted of a 13. 5- acre grid on a logged over area in the Coast Range Mountains of Benton County, Oregon....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: recorded at the nearest U. S. Weather Bureau Station located 6 miles to the north at Summit, Oregon. Snow

A case study to investigate retention efforts at Mt. Hood Community College

Creator:: Rawe, Carl L.
Abstract:: This case study describes and analyzes the experiences of Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC) in its implementation of four retention interventions. Each of the four interventions are described in detail. Discussion is framed within the context that retention is a by-product of institutional renewal brought about by implementing interventions that...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A chalcid parsite, Dinarmus acutus Thomson, of the vetch bruchid, Bruchus brachialis Fahraeus

Creator:: Leong, Kingston Lin Hoy, 1940-
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A chemical study of the minerals from L-6 chondritic meteorites

Creator:: Curtis, David Ballantyne
Abstract:: Major and minor minerals have been separated from three L-6 chondritic meteorites (Alfianello, Colby (Wisconsin), and Leedey). Olivine, hypersthene, diopside, feldspar, troilite, chromite, phosphate minerals, and metallic minerals were analyzed for major, minor and trace elements using instrumental neutron activation analysis and radiochemical neutron activation analysis techniques. Concentrations df the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A chemosystematic study of the phylogenetic position of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) heynh. (Brassicaceae) employing numerical methods

Creator:: Kaplan, Hesh J.
Abstract:: The Brassicaceae, Mustard Family, is a well marked natural family, whose tetramerous flowers, tetradynamous stamens, and distinctive bi- carpellary fruits, clearly distinguish it from related families. It is a large family of some 3, 000 recognized species and over 300 genera. Although numerous attempts have been made over the past...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A chick growth inhibitor in alfalfa

Creator:: Kodras, Rudolph
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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A Climate of Risk: Modeled Vegetation, Carbon, Fire, and Biomass Loss Risk in Western Oregon and Washington under Climate Change

Creator:: Sheehan, Timothy J.
Abstract:: Managing wildlands to protect species and ecosystem services in response to climate change is challenging. To develop effective long-term strategies, natural resource managers need to account for the projected effects of climate change as well as the uncertainty inherent in those projections. Vegetation models are one important source of projected...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A cognitive-motivational-relational examination of angry driving : applying Lazarus' model to a public health concern

Creator:: Flint, Matthew O.
Abstract:: Angry driving behaviors that lead to acts of road rage have become a major public health concern. Understanding the differences between people who drive with a high level of anger and those who do not provides insight into possible prevention approaches. This study applied Richard Lazarus' Cognitive-Motivational-Relational (CMR) Model to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A combined study of the growth of the grayling (Thymallus arcticus) and the development of its olfactory apparatus

Creator:: Watling, Harold
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: propagation of the fish at the United States Fisheries Station at Bozeman, Montana. Papers concerned with

A comparative analysis of clerical office occupations teachers' and business employers' perceptions of the competencies important for a high school graduate of clerical office occupations program to possess for an entry-level job in Oregon

Creator:: Akeyo, Valerie Tabitha
Abstract:: The Purpose of the Study: The primary purpose of this study was to compare the clerical office occupations teachers' and business employers' perceptions of the competencies important for a high school graduate to possess for an entry-level clerical office job in Oregon. A secondary purpose was to determine the best...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A comparative analysis of household owned woodlots and fuelwood sufficiency between female and male headed households : a pilot study in rural Malawi, Africa

Creator:: Chikoko, Mercy Gwazeni
Abstract:: Fuelwood is a basic need for rural households in Malawi. However, deforestation has reduced the quantity of forest products such as fuelwood available to households. This has negatively affected rural Malawian quality of life, especially for women who are forced to walk long distances to collect fuelwood, prepare foods with...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A comparative analysis of morphological, physiological, and biochemical adaptation to abiotic stress in intertidal porcelain crabs, genus Petrolisthes

Creator:: Stillman, Jonathon Harris
Abstract:: Organismal tolerance to abiotic environmental stresses contributes significantly to setting the distribution limits of organisms, as demonstrated by vertical zonation patterns in the marine intertidal zone. In this thesis, the ultimate (evolutionary) and proximate (mechanistic) causes of tolerance to temperature and emersion stresses associated with the intertidal zone were examined...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A comparative study of instructional goals and objectives for selected secondary cooperative work experience programs

Creator:: Latham, Thoyd O.
Abstract:: STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM The problem studied was whether there exist significant differences between the perceived knowledge obtained by former secondary cooperative work experience students as compared to the instructional goals and objectives of these programs as identified by the Oregon State Department of Education. THE PROCEDURE The problem as...
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Full Text:: schools in Boston. In 1919, she wrote the U.S. Federal Board for Vocational Education Bulletin No. 22

A comparative study of prenatal behavior ontogeny in altricial and precocial murid rodents

Creator:: Robinson, Scott R., 1952-
Abstract:: Using techniques that permit the direct observation of fetuses in vivo, prenatal behavioral development was compared among four species in the rodent family Muridae: the Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus), Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus), cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus), and spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus). Rattus and Meriones bear altricial offspring, as do...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A comparative study of temperate Chamaecyparis forests

Creator:: Hawk, Glenn M.
Abstract:: The objectives of this study include: (1) analysis of Chamaecyparis lawsoniana, C. taiwanensis, and C. formosensis forests including the structure, composition, and dynamics of plant communities and their environmental relationships; and (2) comparison of the temperate Chamaecyparis forests of Taiwan and the Pacific Northwest with emphasis on structural and successional...
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Full Text:: States study area, 1951-1960. Region Station Lat, Dist. Elev. Precipitation (mm) Snow Mean Temperatures

A comparative study of the effectiveness of residence hall student government and selected perceptions and characteristics of resident hall student staff members and student government officers

Creator:: Bachman, William C.
Abstract:: This study was concerned with determining if: (1) the effectiveness of residence hall student government varies according to the perceptions of its role held by residence hall student staff and government officers, and the hall type and population; (2) the perception of hall student government held by student staff varies...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A comparative study of the infauna of the Central Oregon continental shelf

Creator:: Bertrand, Gerard A. (Gerard Adrian)
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: grab samples per season per station were analyzed for macrofauna (>1.0 mm). Particular attention was

A comparative study of the perceptions of the university environment of candidates for student government positions and other students and the effects of the election experience upon those perceptions

Creator:: Gassert, Leland Calvin
Abstract:: The purposes of this study were to determine whether the generally accepted procedure of campus elections as a method of choosing student government representatives (1) appears to encourage the candidacy of students who hold perceptions of the university environment similar to other students who do not choose to become candidates;...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A comparative study of two instructional methods employed in teaching nutrition among culturally diverse adolescents : teacher-oriented lecture and student-oriented instructional design

Creator:: Marshall, Joyce M.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the effectiveness of two approaches in nutrition education instruction among culturally diverse adolescents: the teacher-oriented lecture approach and the student-oriented instructional design approach. The study was designed to help culturally diverse students gain a basic understanding of practices that promote...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A comparison of braille and compressed speech as learning modes for legally blind adults

Creator:: Hughes, Colleen Constance Carris
Abstract:: The primary purpose of this research study was to determine whether significant differences occurred in the amount of knowledge achieved as a result of using Braille or compressed speech as learning modes. Biographic/demographic characteristics such as present age, highest educational level achieved, age at loss of vision, age at initial...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A comparison of college/university professors and specialists in adapted physical education in their perception of the importance of a specified set of professional competencies

Creator:: Dempsey, Stephen D.
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A comparison of Computer-Assisted Instruction with Prescription Learning and the traditional "pull-out" program used in supplementing instruction of mathematics basic skills to Chapter I (Title I) students

Creator:: Miller, Suzanne Winifred Hilton
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to compare the Chapter I supplemental mathematics program CAI with other Chapter I supplemental mathematics programs, Prescription Learning and the traditional "pull-out" program, in terms of achievement and retention of mathematics basic skills. There were 577 Chapter I students from 12 middle schools and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A comparison of in vivo and in vitro techniques for the evaluation of varying roughage-concentrate rations

Creator:: Klett, Ramon Hollis
Abstract:: The objective of this study was to compare the total collection (in vivo), nylon bag, and in vitro digestibility techniques under standardized conditions. Twin steers were used simultaneously to measure the digestibility of five rations consisting of the following ratios of alfalfa hay to steamed roller barley: 4:0 (I), 3:1...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A comparison of metabolism of rapidly and slowly gaining beef cattle

Creator:: MacDonald, Malcolm Allan
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: using 422 ste3rs from 43 sires in a 2b2 day feeding trial of three 84-day periods. Their analysis

A comparison of soil microfungi in forest stands of Red Alder, Conifer, and Alder-Conifer mixtures

Creator:: Wicklow-Howard, Marcia C. (Marcia Cope) 1943-
Abstract:: The species composition of soil microfungal populations in-adjacent stands of red alder, conifers, and mixed alder conifer correlated strongly with the dominant vascular vegetation. A total of 92 species were isolated: 55 from the alder stand; 45 from the conifers; and 46 from the mixed alder-conifer, with few species (16,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, USDA Forest, just north of the Salmon River near Otis

A comparison of student affect and kinesic behavior

Creator:: Eggen, Paul D., 1940-
Abstract:: This investigation was designed to determine whether or not the nonverbal behaviors of junior high and secondary school science students could be systematically analyzed. It was further determine what relationship exists between the nonverbal behaviors of students and their attitude. The hypotheses investigated were as follows: H₁: A valid and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A comparison of the effect of experimenter and microcomputer delivered knowledge of results on the response speed of nonretarded and mentally retarded students

Creator:: Atkins, Virginia Foster
Abstract:: The purpose of the study was to analyze the effect of experimenter delivered and microcomputer delivered knowledge of results on the response speed of nonretarded and mentally retarded public school students. Response speed was measured for 63 nonretarded students and 63 mentally retarded students. Subjects were randomly assigned to conditions...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: computer. Grocery store clerks, gas station attendants, secretaries who word process, managers who must

A comparison of the perceptions of educational personnel toward trade and industrial teacher certification procedures in selected states

Creator:: Denny, Lawrence
Abstract:: Purpose of the Study: The main focus of this study was to compare the perceptions of district superintendents, vocational administrators and trade and industrial teachers toward vocational teacher certification procedures and ramifications. The population consisted of 225 respondents randomly selected from 15 states. The following hypotheses were tested: 1. There...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A comparison of the personal and social adjustment of 38 never-married women and 38 married women

Creator:: Baker, Luther Galloway, Jr.
Abstract:: A survey of scholarly and popular contemporary literature reveals two persisting stereotypes regarding the nature of women. First is the theory that woman is inferior to man and that since she is the "negative" of man's masculine nature, she cannot develop her humanity to the fullest extent without fusion with...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A comparison of two diagnostic models using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders : toward the development of a teaching paradigm for counselor education

Creator:: Downs, Louis
Abstract:: The present study was conducted to examine the effects of early orientation of counseling related students to the two most prevalent paradigms of psychodiagnostic decision-making on first, the integration of the model, and second, on the ability to make proficient diagnostic decisions while in training. Using an experimental, pretest posttest...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A comparison of verbal responses of anglo-migrant and anglo-resident children

Creator:: Petrie, Ronald G.
Abstract:: The study compares the differences in verbal responses between 39 Anglo-resident and 32 Anglo-migrant children in the first grade in selected school districts in Oregon. The children were tested for I. Q. using the Goodenough Draw- A-Man test. They were grouped for comparison purposes by age, sex, and by migrancy...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A compound from onion roots inhibitory to Pyrenochaeta terrestris

Creator:: Pfleger, Francis Louis
Abstract:: In vitro tests showed mycelial growth of Pyrenochaeta terrestris was inhibited by root and bulb extracts from the pink root resistant onion cultivar Nebuka, but not by extracts from the susceptible Southport White Globe. The active principle was shown to be fungistatic rather than fungicidal. It is present in both...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: obtained from the University of Idaho Branch Experiment Station at Parma, Idaho and from Harris Seed

A computer simulation model of land use dynamics in the State of Oregon

Creator:: Calligan, C. C.
Abstract:: The dynamics of land use in the State of Oregon are simulated on a digital computer. The introductory chapter outlines the complex nature of the problems facing the post-industrial society and argues that the scientific and professional estates share in the responsibility for public policy formulation. The second chapter .presents...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A Contingency-Based Evaluation for Beaver Restoration of Salmon Habitat in Oregon Coastal Streams

Creator:: Stevenson, John R.
Abstract:: Streams across the western United States are impaired from human alterations that have reduced freshwater habitat by simplifying channel complexity and disconnecting floodplains (Knox et al., 2022; Waples et al., 2008; Wohl, 2014). Climate change is likely to continue exacerbating these risks by warming summer surface stream temperatures (Crozier et...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ). Defining Ecological Drought for the Twenty-First Century. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

A contribution to the biology of the Pseudohylesinus nebulosus (LeConte) (Coleoptera:Scolytidae), especially in relation to the moisture stress of its host, Douglas-fir

Creator:: Stoszek, Karel Josef
Abstract:: The study (1) describes the life cycle of P. nebulosus, (2) examines stimuli that may cause the beetles to locate brood material, and (3) establishes the relationship between moisture stress in Douglas-fir and colonization by P. nebuZosus.and other meristem insects. (1) Development of P. nebulosus goes through the egg stage,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: October and March. The 1/Recorded at a meterological station located about three kilometers east of

A contribution to the development of wide band-gap nonlinear optical and laser materials

Creator:: Stone-Sundberg, Jennifer L.
Abstract:: The primary focus of this work is on examining structure-property relationships of interest for high-power nonlinear optical and laser crystals. An intuitive and simply illustrated method for assessing the nonlinear optical potential of structurally characterized noncentrosymmetric materials is introduced. This method is applied to materials including common quartz and tourmaline...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A contribution to the natural history of sparrow hawk, Falco sparverius

Creator:: Roest, Aryan I.
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A cost effectiveness analysis of actions to reduce stream temperature : a case study of the Mohawk watershed

Creator:: Mooney, Sian, 1965-
Abstract:: The concept of ecosystem management requires that management prescriptions account for economic and environmental goals that are measured in non-commensurate units. This study examines the economic and environmental trade-offs associated with planting a riparian buffer in trees to reduce stream temperatures in the Mohawk watershed, Oregon. The detrimental effects of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Station and the United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA

A critical analysis of wildlife conservation in Oregon

Creator:: Rymon, Larry Maring
Abstract:: This analysis is the study of Oregon's wildlife resources from the period prior to white settlement up to the present time, including critical projections, based on present trends and expected conditions for both human and wildlife populations in the state up to the year 2010. Prior to white settlement Oregon...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

A Critical Policy Analysis of Dyslexia Policy in One Oregon School District

Creator:: Wiger, Sara L.
Abstract:: Persistent reading difficulties are prevalent in U.S. schools and can lead to lower student performance across all subjects as well as distress, anxiety, and depression. In 2022, only 32% of fourth graders in the United States tested as proficient in reading. While there are many factors which affect reading progress...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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