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  • Online product presentation and perceived trustworthiness : the moderating role of gender

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    Marshall, Kerianne
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    E-commerce is growing each year, reaching 130.1 billion in 2008 (Internetretailer.com, 2009b). Retailers have turned their attention to the online channel to discover ways to stay competitive. Yet there is still limited research on online apparel retailing, especially in online product presentation. Thus, the purpose of this study was to...
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    an interaction; the second is personal harm as a possible outcome of the interaction, and finally a

  • Erotic Capital and Women’s Online Sexual Marketing

    Creator:
    Perkins, Abby M.
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    The purpose of this paper was to discuss the theory of erotic capital proposed by Catherine Hakim and how this theory affects online advertising done by sex workers. Through analyzing 29 different pages relating to the commercial sex industry, I observed how sexual capital is utilized in marketing strategies and...
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    perspectives do exist. Throughout this paper, the female sex workers mentioned describe their work, personal

  • Increasing the digital divide : the online college application process

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    Werth, Loredana L.
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    The major objectives of this study were to ascertain if certain ethnic and racial groups of first-year Oregon State University students are without access to online admission materials, and to determine what students' point of view are about computer access or applying to Oregon State University online. In addition, the...
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    who participated in this study and gave so many personal accounts. In addition, a special thanks to

  • Water over stones : Oregon watershed stories

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    Oberst, Gail D.
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    The 13 personal essays in Water over Stones: Oregon Watershed Stories explore the author's experiences in dozens of Oregon watersheds. Using the genre of the personal essay, the author, a fifth-generation Oregonian and amateur ecologist, writes about her life and family relationships in stories that are saturated with the waters...
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    Stories Abstract approved: Lisa S. Ede The 13 personal essays in Water over Stones: Oregon Watershed

  • Rethinking autonomy in group home policy

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    Gaddis, Matthew A.
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    In this thesis I argue that in contemporary Oregon, the policies and design of group homes for individuals with developmental disabilities emphasizes an ineffective conception of autonomy, and this emphasis should be shifted to provide better opportunities for the growth of individuals both within the homes and in their communities....
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    individuals with disabilities a chance at personal growth. I argue that by shifting the focus towards what I

  • I Tweet therefore I am: An Interview Study of Identity Development and Portrayal of Twitter Users Utilizing the Communication Theory of Identity

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    Carron, Ashley A.
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    The rise of social networking is more prevalent in today's society than ever before. Of the existing social networking platforms, Twitter is widely recognized as operating within the social networking elite. With this rise in social networking comes the challenge to develop new strategies of navigation when presenting one's identity...
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    frames of the location of identity (personal, enactment, relationship, and communal) were present in

  • Recognizing and overcoming the critical cultural barriers to progress in the sustainability movement : from a human perspective

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    Bestvina, Bodarc
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    This thesis seeks to better understand the most pressing cultural barriers to progress in the sustainability movement, and to offer suggestions for overcoming barriers. This research includes a two-year long case study of the sustainability movement at OSU, where the researcher coordinated projects encouraging behavior change. Despite increasing severity and...
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    notion that progress in the movement will be defined by a focus on creative, personal, and spiritual

  • The MiniSpec : a low-cost, compact, FPGA-based gamma spectrometer for mobile applications

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    Becker, Eric M.
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    There is a significant role in emergency response and personal radiation safety that can be played by a compact radiation detector that is capable of identifying radionuclides. Herein is described the design, construction, and characterization of a small, low-cost, low-power gamma ray spectrometer prototype intended to fill this role, conducted...
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    personal radiation safety that can be played by a compact radiation detector that is capable of

  • Leyline : a provenance-based desktop search system using graphical sketchpad user interface

    Creator:
    Ghorashi, Seyed Soroush
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    While there are powerful keyword search systems that index all kinds of resources including emails and web pages, people have trouble recalling semantic facts such as the name, location, edit dates and keywords that uniquely identifies resources in their personal repositories. Reusing information exasperates this problem. A rarely used approach...
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    , location, edit dates and keywords that uniquely identifies resources in their personal repositories

  • Defining oppression, demanding childhood : the vision and work of an Indian social action group

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    Henderson, Laura A.
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    Mukti Ashram is a rehabilitation center in north India that works with ex-child laborer boys. Fieldwork completed at the ashram in 1997-98 centered around the issue of the organization's attempt to enact social change through the engineering of community within the ashram's walls. Several fundamental processes that contribute to this...
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    processes that contribute to this goal have been identified: the construction and presentation of personal