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  • When We're Good, It’s All Good: Associations between Marital Quality and Daily Stress Processes

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    Witzel, Dakota D.
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    Affective reactions to daily stressors are known mechanisms through which daily stressors impact health and well-being (e.g., Charles et al., 2013; Piazza et al., 2013; Sin et al., 2015; Stawski et al., 2019). Therefore, understanding what may promote resilience or vulnerability to such affective reactions is imperative. Theoretical perspectives (Almeida,...
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    which daily stressors impact health and well-being (e.g., Charles et al., 2013; Piazza et al., 2013

  • Are There Gender Differences in Stress Response in Older Adults? Findings from the Normative Aging Study

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    Proulx, Jeffrey A.
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    In this study, we explored the relationships among gender, age, daily stressors, positive and negative affect, and neuroticism on cortisol outcomes in older men and women. We were particularly interested in whether variation in positive affect would have an effect on variation in negative affect and if this relationship would...
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    ________________________________________________________________________ Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my dissertation will become part of the

  • An Exploration of Leadership in the Implementation of Collaborative Co-Teaching

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    Koetje, Marcianne
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    This qualitative study explored the role of leadership in implementing co-teaching for English language development in K-12 settings, specifically, the role of leadership of administrators and teacher-leaders. Research has confirmed that school leaders substantially impact student outcomes and teacher effectiveness (Cheung et al., 2018; Leithwood et al., 2004; Liebowitz &...
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    . Using grounded theory, I include the perspective and experiences of 22 K-12 educators from three

  • Politicized Collective Illness Identity and Boundary-Spanning in Western Montanan Community Health Workers: An Ethnographic Study

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    McQuillan, Kindra
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    Background: Against global health disparities and a shortfall of medical personnel, community health workers (CHWs) promise a solution based in lived experience and connection to the health system. To address global and upstream health determinants, CHW programs engage the perspectives of both the workers they employ and the communities they...
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    collective illness identity and boundary-spanning from social movement theories, I explored Western

  • Defining the Role of Tyrosine Nitration in Biology with Genetic Code Expansion

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    Porter, Joseph J.
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    The buildup of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen and oxygen species (RNS) is known as oxidative stress. Oxidative stress results in a wide variety of modification to biological macromolecules including nucleic acids, lipids, and proteins. For at least 30 years it has been known that high levels of...
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    (Chapter 2), I review the strengths and weaknesses of GCE for the study of Ox-PTMs, provide an overview

  • Investigating Transcriptional Control of Specialized Gene Expression in Plants

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    Fraser, Valerie N.
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    Specialized or secondary metabolism is a collection of pathways and small molecules that, while beneficial to an organism, are not strictly necessary for survival. Plants use secondary metabolites to, among other things, attract pollinators, defend against biotic and abiotic stressors, and form symbioses. Natural products from plants have seen an...
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    work, my collaborators and I work to address some of the larger challenges that come from this

  • Impacts of ponderosa pine forest restoration treatments on the ectomycorrhizal fungal community and fine root biomass in the Blue Mountains of Oregon

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    Smith, Jane E. (Jane Elizabeth)
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    Before the arrival of Euro-Americans, the inland Pacific Northwest was settled by native people whose frequent intentional burning of the landscape promoted open stands dominated by large fire-resistant ponderosa pine. Fire suppression for nearly a century, livestock grazing, and logging of the largest trees has resulted in forests characterized by...
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    , and duff (decaying material) levels to (i) seasonal burning (fall vs. spring) and (ii) alternative

  • Learning algorithms for adapting the compliance of robotic limbs

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    Aboufazeli, Mahtab
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    Motivation: Many robots such as legged robots and prosthetic hands/arms are designed to interact with uncertain and time-varying environments to accomplish their tasks. Observations on humans and animals during their daily tasks suggest that they adapt their leg compliance while traversing with different velocities on different grounds and adjust their...
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    Graduate School I understand that my dissertation will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon

  • Hemispheric processing of kinesthetically oriented spatial perception

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    Nishizawa, Sho
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    Right cerebral hemispheric lateralization for spatial perception has been reported by using visual and tactile spatial tasks in brain-damaged patients, split-brain patients, and normal subjects. The main purpose of the present study was to investigate whether or not kinesthetic spatial perception was dominantly processed with the right cerebral hemisphere as...
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  • On Morality, Psychology, and Conservation: An Interdisciplinary Appraisal of Ethics in Context

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    Batavia, Chelsea K.
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    Conservation is, among other things, the expression of a relationship between humans and nonhuman nature. This relationship can be described empirically using the methods of social science, but it can also be prescribed in the form of philosophical arguments. Scholars in the field of environmental ethics have discussed and debated...
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    Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society Dean of the Graduate School I