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  • Exploring Income, Housing Space, and Cultural Perceptions in Relationship to Food Security in Full-time RV Households

    Creator:
    McGonagall, Odhran Mason
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    This thesis explores the relationships that income and housing space limitations have with regard to food security in full-time recreational vehicle (RV) households. This research used a scaled survey tool and a subset questionnaire to gather information on RV dwellers' housing and kitchen spaces along with participants' food shopping, storage,...
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    : _______________________________________________________________________ Lisa L. Price, Major Professor, representing Applied Anthropology

  • Triple angular correlations of gamma rays in ¹¹⁰Cd

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    Schulz, Norbert S.
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    An experiment has been conducted using a triple directional correlation method developed by K. S. Krane, R. M. Steffen and R. M. Wheeler (ref. 3). This method is presented and two normal detection geometries are introduced. The performance of the N1- and N2- geometry was studied in four experiments using...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Norbert S. Schulz for the degree of Master of Science in Physics presented on

  • A Feminist Celebrates the Rediscovery of Immanence

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    Lockhart, Janet L.
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    I offer a personal and prehistoric exploration of the concept of immanence, the principle of a divine force living, remaining, and operating within living creatures, inherent in the human, including the female; a unifying force that connects humans to each other, to nature, and to the earth. I examine the...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Janet L. Lockhart for the degree

  • Inside, Outside : Light and Dark

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    Knotts, L. William
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    In a story of his life Les reflects on what he has gained and what he has lost while seeking success in the moving and shifting of military and academic life through homes and schools all over the United States. He describes himself as between races, languages, and cultures.
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    THESIS OF L. William Knotts for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, in the co

  • Making a New Mexican Cuisine: An Exploratory Study of Food Security and the Cultivation of Culinary Subjectivities in a First-generation Mexican Immigrant Community

    Creator:
    Esteban, Emily E.
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    In 2010, Mexican cuisine was declared as intangible cultural heritage, integral to Mexican identity and necessary to preserve for the good of humanity. Despite this recognition, first-generation Mexican communities in the United States face an exacerbated likelihood of experiencing food insecurity. In most United States studies, understanding the relationship between...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Lisa Price In 2010, Mexican cuisine was declared as intangible cultural heritage, integral

  • Farmers' markets and food access : Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) use at the Corvallis and Albany, Oregon farmers' markets

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    Finneran, Kathleen B.
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    This thesis explores the use of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits at the Corvallis and Albany, Oregon Farmers' Markets and its role in food access for SNAP participants. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach combining a farmers' market survey and household interviews, the study investigated who uses SNAP at the farmers'...
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    and Albany, Oregon Farmers’ Markets Abstract approved: Lisa M. L. Price This thesis explores the

  • Fostering Authority in Readers and Writers

    Creator:
    Love, Jennifer Mary
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    As a reader and as a teacher of introductory reading and writing courses, I am persuaded by the concept of a genuine authority in which all readers both value and seek to examine their early readings of texts. What I have come to regard as a pretended authority or mastery,...
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    Authority in Readers and Writers Abstract approved: Lisa Ede As a reader and as a teacher of introductory

  • A rhetoric of transformation : the emergence of community literacy within composition studies

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    Vega-Peters, Susan T.
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    Within literacy and composition studies, writing, as a social act, is believed by many to have the potential to effect change in and transform situations of injustice. Community literacy, as an emergent practice within composition studies, embraces and stretches this notion of linking literacy to social change. Community literacy also...
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    Emergence of Community Literacy Within Composition Studies. Abstract Approved: Lisa Ede Within literacy

  • Plague in London : a case study of the biological and social pressures exerted by 300 years of yersinia pestis

    Creator:
    Hall, Alice
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    The Second Pandemic had a profound impact on the people of Europe. In the few years between 1347 and 1350, a new epidemic disease spread across the entirety of Europe and killed between one third and two thirds of the population. While this initial wave was important, the real significance...
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    Abstract approved: _____________________________________________________________________ Lisa T. Sarasohn

  • A material approach : Anne Frances Wysocki and new media

    Creator:
    Margoni, Travis
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    Anne Frances Wysocki, a scholar in the field of new media and composition studies, has published many articles, book chapters, a textbook, and is a major contributor to a multi-authored collection titled Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. This thesis considers the five openings...
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    : Lisa Ede Anne Frances Wysocki, a scholar in the field of new media and composition studies, has