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Yield, protein, and hcn content of varieties of sudangrass Sorghum vulgare sudanense (Piper) Hitchc and pearl millet Pennisetum

Creator:: Wilcox, Bert Guy
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Sorghum Vulgare Sudanense (Piper) Hitchc and Pearl Millet Pennisetum Glaucum L. by BERT GUY ILCOX A

Life history, habits, and control of the Indian meal moth Plodia interpunctella, Hbn., order Lepidoptera, family Pyralidae

Creator:: McGinnis, Guy Robert
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of MASTER OF SCIENCE by Guy R. McGinnis May 10, 1928 APPROVED: Redacted for privacy 7

'Mejor Amancebada que Mal Casada' : Rhetoric and Practice of Amancebamiento in Seventeenth-Century New Spain

Creator:: Hisey, Aimee
Abstract:: Following a history of tensions surrounding concubinage in medieval and early modern Spain, the Church sought greater control of religious life, particularly over the sacrament of marriage, via the Holy Office of the Inquisition. The Church exercised its strengthened restrictions and prosecuted these relationships with more frequency, as did civil...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Guy Wood, and Anders Carlson for their willingness to contribute to the completion of this thesis

The Schultz Fire: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on its History, Management, and Ecological Effects

Creator:: Ranseen, Susanne N.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the Schultz Fire as a case study to explain the complex history of fire suppression management in America’s forests, and to gain further understanding of how management practices have affected the increase in fire severity levels and how forests respond to such a disturbance. The thesis objectives...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Harmon, Anita Guerrini, John Bailey, and Guy Wood. Special thanks to my best friend, Judy for heading

Fantasy and Hate: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Der Giftpilz

Creator:: Rosenberg, Matthew S.
Abstract:: In Nazi Germany, 1938, Der Stürmer publishing house, under the control of Julius Striecher, published Der Giftpilz or The Poisonous Mushroom; an anti-Semitic children's book. Disseminated in the thousands, Der Giftpilz became infamously known as a children's book so grotesque it could be, and in fact was, admitted as evidence...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Preach my gospel : a metaphoric analysis of Mormon missionary rhetoric

Creator:: Roberts, Myra Nichole
Abstract:: The rhetorical significance of Mormonism stems from its history and its success—this success being measured by its consistent increase in membership. The total membership of the Mormon Church has grown from 6 members in 1830 to just over 14 million in just over 180 years. A consistently high rate of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Wilcox all contributed to the success of this study, and I am grateful for the opportunity I have had

Exploring the lived experiences of rural college student transitions

Creator:: Ast, Karen M.
Abstract:: This study explores the lived experiences of first-year, rural, Oregon students in their initial entry to college. Through qualitative research involving one-on-one interviews with 10 participants, the author examines the transition of rural students into higher education, common experiences of rural students in their first term of college, and perceived...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: for aiding in my understanding of narrative inquiry methods. Thank you to Dr. Tony Wilcox for your

The effects of lime and potassium on mineral uptake in filberts (Corylus avellana L. cv Barcelona) grown in pot culture

Creator:: Geddeda, Yosef Ibrahim
Abstract:: The effects of soil incorporated lime and K on the concentrations of N, P, K, Ca, Mg, Mn, Fe, Cu, B and Zn in the leaves of filbert trees (Corylus aveliana L. cv Barcelona) were investigated. One year old filbert trees of uniform size were grown in Laurelwood clay loam...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the available K for fil- bert trees. Further experimentation is required to develop a test which

Contemporary student veterans : transitional experiences from military life to college life

Creator:: Normandin, Kathleen
Abstract:: The contemporary student veteran population is growing rapidly as service members who served in the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts take advantage of the Post 9/11 Veteran Educational Assistance Act of 2008 to receive educational benefits to attend college (Cook & Kim, 2009). However, student veterans entering college today have a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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Creator:: Aguilar, Joseph R.
Abstract:: This novel-in-progress is an attempt to struggle with the complicated process of forging one’s identity in the murk of urban Northwest life. The protagonist of this piece is confused, to put it lightly: bi-racial, torn between the affections of divorced parents, unsure about his religious views, and baffled by his...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ones. “Hi Stakes,” for example. Some guy with horse teeth, an Adam’s apple, long hair. Cradling a

Fluorescence microscopy for detecting incipient decay and estimating residual strength of wood

Creator:: Lowell, Eini Carole
Abstract:: The objectives of this study were to 1) develop a relatively quick staining procedure that would detect incipient decay by color differentiation under fluorescence, 2) quantitatively assess the amount of decay present with the use of an image analyzer, and 3) re/ate loss in strength at various decay levels to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: weight loss of only one or two percent (Wilcox, 1968). Many methods have been employed for the

Organization of a school for training naval machinists

Creator:: Summers, Robert Edward, 1901-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A study of a metallurgical background of welding instructors at the college or university level

Creator:: Love, Leonard Carl, 1921-
Abstract:: This study was set up to examine selected aspects of the knowledge of welding metallurgy that is a part of the background of present teacher educators who teach welding courses for Industrial Arts majors. Specifically this study was made to answer the following questions: 1. What knowledge is now possessed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: about the relationship of metallurgy to other subjects and with Guy suggest the value of a knowledge

Examining Wave Attenuation Rates and Subsurface Pore Pressures Across Three Marsh Restoration Sill Structures on a Sandy Bed

Creator:: Converse, Jordan D.
Abstract:: With rising sea levels and more frequent exposure to extreme storms, coastlines worldwide are vulnerable to increased erosion and loss of natural marsh lands. In an effort to lessen these impacts, there is a growing practice of adapting hard or “gray” coastline protection techniques to more nature-based features that promote...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: planting and b) intertidal oyster reef (C. S. Hardaway, Milligan, and Wilcox 2017; Piehler 2018

Postpartum disorders associated with high potassium forages in Holstein cows

Creator:: Crill, Roberta L.
Abstract:: Until recently, occurrence of milk fever (MF) has been attributed to prepartum calcium intake. However, researchers in Iowa have concluded that high prepartum dietary potassium (K) is the major cause of MF. Potassium concentrations have been increasing on manure fertilized soils over the last 20 years. Grasses grown on these...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Empire and other stories

Creator:: Gelper, Cynthia H.
Abstract:: This is a collection of eight short stories, all of which deal on some level with alienation and the struggle to find meaning in one's life. Although most of the stories deal with issues related to women or feature female protagonists, I did not set out to create a political...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: that I've somehow missed it. You know, there was some great guy for me, some great connection we

The effects of the Mazama tephra-falls : a geoarchaeological approach

Creator:: Matz, Stephan E.
Abstract:: About 7,000 years ago two major tephra-falls blanketed the Pacific Northwest in volcanic ash. These two tephra-falls, identified as the Llao and climatic tephra-falls, were a part of the eruptive events that led up to the collapse of Mount Mazama to form Crater Lake in the southern Oregon Cascades. The...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ), Williams and Goles (1968), Lidstrom (1972), Mullineaux and Wilcox (1980), Bacon (1983), and others

High-speed switched-capacitor filters based on unity-gain buffers

Creator:: Bruneau, David
Abstract:: In this work a new voltage buffer, the drain-follower, achieves 300MHz band-width with 2pF load, a dc gain of 0.993V/V, 1mV offset voltage, -60 dB total harmonic distortion at 1.4Vpp output voltage and 6.5mW power dissipation from 5V supply. A unity-gain buffer switched-capacitor biquad filter has been implemented in 0.5μm...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: "go to" guy for everyone in the department from first year graduate student to tenured professor. He

The role of nutrition in dental caries

Creator:: McClain, Mary Oakes
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Bert G. Anderson, (8) 01' the Medical SchooL, Yale University, 01 the prevalence of caries in 975

Environmental Sustainability During the Early Design Phase: Understanding the Uncertainty in the Use Phase, Visualization, and Automating Design Repository Curation

Creator:: Tensa, Melissa
Abstract:: The objective of this research is to support DfX considerations in the early phases of design, particularly Design for the Environment. In order to include DfX considerations, especially early in the design process, there needs to be access to knowledge and information that is usually only applicable further downstream in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Algorithm animation in a declarative visual programming language

Creator:: Carlson, Paul M.
Abstract:: How might capabilities for algorithm animation be seamlessly integrated into a programming language that is both visual and declarative? Until now, visual programming language researchers have not attempted to answer that question, making the fruits of algorithm animation available only to users of textual programming languages. Users of visual programming...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , thanks to Captain Bert Speir, U.S. Navy, for his efforts in making my studies at Oregon State a reality

A history of intercollegiate wrestling at Oregon State University (1909-1974)

Creator:: Nelson, Richard C. (Richard Cornelius), 1932-
Abstract:: Intercollegiate wrestling at Oregon State University had its inception on March 20, 1909. On that day, the Oregon Agricultural College wrestling team wrestled in a home meet against the team from Washington State College. The Beavers, under the tutelage of their first coach Eddie O'Connell, won their first intercollegiate meet,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A classification of managerial human relations problems

Creator:: Savage, Charles H.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Higher Education; Mr. George V. Guy, Assistant Professor of Education at Portland State Col-. lege

Radical centrism : The Bakatcha Bandit, Emook, and the hope of the riparian

Creator:: Scruton, Evan
Abstract:: In 1965 Malcolm X said that we are living in a time of extremism. People in power have misused it now there has to be a change, and a better world has to be built, and the only way it's going to be built is with extreme methods. And I,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: John's intervention into the conflict that nearly erupted between the two groups. After Old Bert

Budgeting and accounting practices for extracurricular activities in selected Oregon high schools : a proposed system

Creator:: Doughton, Preston Franklin
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Case studies of forty exceptional children

Creator:: Chase, Mildred Rosine
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Kinship, Environment and the Forest Service : Homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

Creator:: Prior, Jan M.
Abstract:: The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (Wilhoit) Wilcox and Keith Wilhoit for sending this complete stranger wonderful photographs and

Kinship, environment and the Forest Service : homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

Creator:: Prior, Jan M.
Abstract:: The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (Wilhoit) Wilcox and Keith Wilhoit for sending this complete stranger wonderful photographs and

Movement, dive behavior, and habitat-use of common murres (Uria aalge) in the Northern California Current System under variable ocean conditions

Creator:: Loredo, Stephanie A.
Abstract:: Year-round habitat use of marine predators provides knowledge of important marine areas throughout different life stages. Large-scale, environmental variability, both in space and time, causes changes in the behavior and distribution of marine predators that are important to quantify for conservation. In the Northern California Current System (NCCS), common murres...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A study of text and reference material used for industrial arts metalworking, in the secondary schools of California

Creator:: Lane, Irving Eugene
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the most unproductive program. 24 Wilcox (41:454-5) says that the assignments for study in a

Phenotyping diverse strawberry (Fragaria spp.) germplasm for aid in marker- assisted breeding, and marker-trait association for red stele (Phytophthora fragariae) resistance marker Rpf1

Creator:: Mathey, Megan M.
Abstract:: Strawberry is one of four crops included in the USDA-NIFA Specialty Crop Research Initiative-funded RosBREED project along with apple, peach, and cherry. Phenotyping strawberry for specific horticultural and commercial traits is important to identify associations with genotypic marker(s). This process is the first step in translating genomic knowledge into enhanced...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: weevils have been a big problem in the PNW since the 1920’s (Wilcox et al., 1934). Multiple species

An analysis of parent practices in the selection and use of books found in home libraries of 48 preschool children

Creator:: Ross, Phyllis
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The chemical nature of Douglas fir cork

Creator:: Hergert, Herbert Lawrence
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: to thank Dr. Hub Wilcox for his help ìrx preparing thin sections of the bark. TABLE O? CONTENTS

An evaluation of the industrial engineering practices in the greater Portland area

Creator:: Weatherbee, Lyle Eugene
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The expressive power and declarative attributes of exception handling in Forms/3

Creator:: Agrawal, Anurag
Abstract:: Exception handling is a programming language feature that can help increase the reliability of programs. However, not much work has been done on exception handling in visual programming languages. We present an approach for improving the exception handling mechanism in Forms/3, a declarative visual programming language based on the spreadsheet...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

To restore what once was : a mixed methods approach to understanding the shoe repair transaction

Creator:: Giulietti, Michael P.
Abstract:: The shoe repair transaction, as it occurs in the 5000 or so remaining shoe repair shops in the United States, is currently unexamined in academic literature for the significance it holds for either shoe repairers or their customers. Making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection, this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A history of the Good Samaritan Hospital of Portland and its place in the community

Creator:: Goodale, Dorothy Louise
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Fathers' perceptions of their impact on children's health and well-being : an exploratory study

Creator:: Hill, Tisa Fontaine
Abstract:: Fathers play a critical role in child development and well-being, yet research on how men view their roles as fathers and their influence on their children's health is limited. The present study sought to answer the following questions: 1) What are men's expectations regarding fatherhood? 2) How have these expectations...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Writing against convention : Kate Chopin's short fiction in Vogue, 1893-1900

Creator:: VanKooten, Crystal
Abstract:: Kate Chopin, author of the proto-feminist novel The Awakening, was also a prolific writer of short stories. Nineteen of her stories were originally published in Vogue magazine between 1893 and 1900. This study looks at six of these stories, "The Father of Desiree's Baby," "A Respectable Woman," "The Dream of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Guy Wood for the time and feedback they offered reading and commenting on my thesis. TABLE OF

Analysis of dredge tailings pile patterns : applications for historical archaeological research

Creator:: Purdy, Sarah E.
Abstract:: For centuries humans have been searching for precious metals. The search for gold has greatly changed the landscape of the American West, beginning in the 1850s and continuing today. Various gold rushes around the country created mining colonies in remote areas, thereby connecting the frontier with the rest of America...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Boring to the Core: The Archaeology, History, and Dendrochronology of a Railroad Logging Camp, Ladee Flat, Clackamas County, Oregon

Creator:: Paullin, Pamela K.
Abstract:: Although the timber industry was the major economic force in the lives of several generations of Oregon families, very little archaeological investigation has been done on the dozens of abandoned logging camps that are scattered throughout the forests of the Pacific Northwest. This project focuses on Camp 1, a 1920s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The matter between them

Creator:: Shumway, Charity D.
Abstract:: A collection of short stories about the Gardner family, spanning several generations, but focusing on the children of Len and Laura Gardner, Brooke, the second oldest, in particular. Set primarily in Utah, the collection tells the story of family members' struggles with one another, with their religious faith, and with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

A program of conservation for Arizona schools grades 7-12

Creator:: Menefee, Donald Franklin
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The distribution of geologic and artifact obsidian from the Silver Lake/Sycan Marsh geochemical source group, South-Central Oregon

Creator:: Thatcher, Jennifer J.
Abstract:: Geochemical characterization methods are commonly used in the reconstruction of prehistoric raw material use and procurement systems. Trace element studies of lithic source material and artifacts, specifically those made of obsidian, can reveal important information about the environmental and cultural factors which influence the prehistoric distribution of raw material. The...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation Solid Cancer Risk in Adults : Radiation Hormesis Study Design

Creator:: Alhussan, Abdulaziz S.
Abstract:: Cancer risk at low-dose ionizing radiation has been the subject of great scientific controversy in the past century. The clear majority of national and international radiation protection regulators adopt the linear no-threshold (LNT) model based on the atomic-bomb survivors Life Span Study (LSS) for solid cancer risk assessment. The LNT...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: me that no matter how hard it gets, there is always a way around it. Thanks a lot, the coolest guy

Conflict and cooperation at the public-private interface : a case study of fire management in eastern Oregon

Creator:: Bergmann, Stefan Andrew
Abstract:: Cooperation across ownership boundaries is critical to most conservation efforts in mixed ownership landscapes. Where owner objectives vary widely, as at public-private landownership boundaries, cooperation can be especially challenging. This research explores the opportunities and challenges for cooperative fire management among public and private forest managers in the John Day...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The evaluation of data file access methods for an on-line information system

Creator:: Meesajjee, Chulit
Abstract:: It is necessary to evaluate and compare the characteristics of various methods of accessing data-files in order to utilize economically both the hardware and the software (Space and Time) supported by the digital on-line system. The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the structure and use of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Yellow House: Stories of Place, Space and Community

Creator:: Gann, Tamara S.
Abstract:: This thesis is an IRB-exempt oral history focused on the non-profit Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center (CMLC) in Corvallis, Oregon. The CMLC, formerly on 9th Street, was known to many community members as the Yellow House. The Yellow House was a dedicated community-based space where people of all cultures could come...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Rempel, who helped me bend Zotero into an oral history management system and in SMS, Hayden Wilcox for

Feasibility study on a soluble boron-free small modular reactor

Creator:: Mart, Justin R.
Abstract:: The elimination of soluble boron creates several advantages for Small Modular Reactor (SMR) operation. Most of these advantages are realized through significant core simplification (removal of pipes, pumping, and purification systems), the removal of the corrosive effects of soluble boron, and from improved safety effects. However, removing soluble boron creates...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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