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"I'm a Mom too!" - Stigma, Support & Contested Identities among Adolescent Mothers in the United States

Creator:: Everson, Courtney L.
Abstract:: This dissertation aims to provide a comprehensive portrayal of doula care in the lives of pregnant and parenting adolescent mothers. The purpose of this research was to examine the relationships between psychosocial stress, social support, institutionalized constraints, and their impacts on health and well-being among adolescent mothers in the Northwestern...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

(Opto)electronic Properties of Xylindein and Organic (Opto)electronic Devices

Creator:: Giesbers, Gregory J.
Abstract:: Organic semiconductors are of interest for (opto)electronic applications due to their low cost, solution processability, and tunable properties. Natural product-derived organic pigments have attracted attention due to their extraordinary environmental stability and unexpectedly good optoelectronic performance, in spite of only partially conjugated molecular structures. Fungi-derived pigments are a naturally sourced,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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A comparison between current industrial arts philosophy expressions derived from professional publications and their acceptance by industrial arts teacher educators

Creator:: Parker, David Warren
Abstract:: Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study was to identify and compare the current written philosophical expressions of industrial arts with the acceptance of these by select groups of industrial arts teacher educators. Procedure: The data for this study were obtained through the use of a questionnaire derived...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ); the Kendall Coefficient of Concordance, W; and the Chi-square test were used in statistically

A comparison of assessment methods used by community college faculty in face-to-face and online courses

Creator:: Wamsley, Lori H.
Abstract:: Online learning has grown exponentially within higher education in the past decade, especially at community colleges. As online course offerings expand community colleges need to assess student learning in order to ensure quality learning experiences for students and for accreditation purposes. The purpose of this study was to compare the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: colleagues, Joan Carey, Roxanne Dimyan, and Zachary Grant for filling in for me while I was completing

A comparison of efficiency and robustness for lower tolerance limit procedures

Creator:: Li, Chang-chung
Abstract:: Several lower tolerance limit procedures are compared with regard to efficiency and robustness. The procedures include the nonparametric based on a single order statistic and the maximum likelihood estimates for complete and censored samples from parametric families of distributions. Right-censoring is considered as an approach for improving the robustness of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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A comparison of the effectiveness of two CD-ROM database training methods

Creator:: Keowmookdar, Nattaya
Abstract:: The primary question to be answered as a result of the research was: Do native English-speaking undergraduate students learn CD-ROM database search skills more effectively through the use of conventional instruction method or by training confined to a written manual self-instructional method? Thirty-seven Oregon State University students were randomly assigned...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: students could confidently utilize a user-friendly database.. How- ever, Barlow, Karnes, and

A comparison of the health status of freshmen at Oregon State University from 1930 to 1960

Creator:: McAfee, Donald Claude
Abstract:: The data gathered for the study of the health status of freshmen at Oregon State University were derived by an analysis of health history records. These were obtained from the Oregon State University Health Service. The years sampled were 1930, 1940, 1950 and 1960; 300 freshman male and 300 freshman...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Administration (W. P. A. ) in 1940, stating that the mature female height average was 63. 2 inches, and the

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
Full Text:: - mately in the standards and quality of the instructors (Barlow 1974, p. 268). The personnel development

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 composite-beam finite element for seismic analysis of wood-framed buildings

Creator:: Lee, Chyuan-shen
Abstract:: A computer program called SAPWOOD which possesses the capability of performing linear or nonlinear, static or dynamic response including seismic excitation for wood-framed buildings with semirigid connection systems is presented in this study. Program SAPWOOD is a modification of the program NONSAP by adding new elements such as a linkage...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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ScholarsArchive@OSU

"I'm a Mom too!" - Stigma, Support & Contested Identities among Adolescent Mothers in the United States

(Opto)electronic Properties of Xylindein and Organic (Opto)electronic Devices

A comparison between current industrial arts philosophy expressions derived from professional publications and their acceptance by industrial arts teacher educators

A comparison of assessment methods used by community college faculty in face-to-face and online courses

A comparison of efficiency and robustness for lower tolerance limit procedures

A comparison of the effectiveness of two CD-ROM database training methods

A comparison of the health status of freshmen at Oregon State University from 1930 to 1960

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

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

A composite-beam finite element for seismic analysis of wood-framed buildings

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