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  • Microwave sintering of alumina-titanium cermets

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    Wrzesinski, Wendell R.
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    The influence of microwave radiation on the fabrication of cermet materials has been investigated for alumina-titanium cermets with compositions ranging from 20 to 80 wt. % titanium. An industrial microwave oven was characterized and adapted to process cermet materials. Physical and mechanical property determinations were made as a function of...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Wendell R. Wrzesinski for the degree of Master of Material Science in Mechanical

  • An Ecological Assessment of a Potential Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) Reintroduction to the Oregon Coast

    Creator:
    Kone, Dominique
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    Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) used to exist along coastlines throughout much of the North Pacific Ocean. During the Maritime Fur Trade, sea otters were extirpated from much of their historic range, including Oregon. There is renewed interest in reintroducing sea otters to Oregon. Managers seek improved understanding of the potential...
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    committee – Dr. Tim Tinker, Dr. Steve Rumrill, and Dr. Ana Spalding – for their support and guidance with

  • President Clinton's health care rhetoric : the role of anecdotal evidence in promoting identification

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    Dahl, Nicholas D.
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    The purpose of this study is to illuminate the presence and rhetorical effect of anecdotes in President Clinton's major health care address. It is the health care debate that shows most clearly how Clinton tries to direct a multi-level campaign that attempts to identify his interests (passage of the Health...
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    elocution seem to be detriments."32 In fact, Wendell Rawls Jr. pointed out that negative campaigning

  • Food systems in the Marys River region and reinhabitation

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    Burke, Erik P.
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    Reinhabitation is an approach to building local cultures and economies within industrial society. The food system is a vital starting point. What are the principles of reinhabitory food systems? What are the possibilities for a locally adapted food system in the Marys River region of western Oregon? I describe past...
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    Shepard, Wendell Berry, and Wes Jackson. Jessyca Burke made this work possible, and she inspires and

  • Potential reciprocal differences for selected traits in six different F₁ wheat populations

    Creator:
    Stein, Ira Steven
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    Concerns about the possible reciprocal differences resulting from systematic crossings of winter and spring wheat gene pools prompted this investigation. If traits can be improved by simply reversing the direction of a cross, then identification of the best female parent in a cross would be helpful for breeding programs. Two...
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    measure. The computer instruction from Nan Scott, statistical consulting of Steve Broich, technical field

  • The sum of its parts : investigating the component pieces of GenderMag

    Creator:
    Hill, Charles
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    Previous work introduced the GenderMag method, a software inspection method used to help software creators identify features within their software that are not gender-inclusive. Inclusiveness of software (gender or otherwise) matters because supporting diversity matters—it is well-known that the more diverse a group of problem-solvers, the higher the quality of...
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  • The natural history of public works development

    Creator:
    Robertson, Robert A.
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    A case study of the Eugene Water and Electric Board's planning for the Minto Hydroelectric is examined in terms of social movement theory. It is hypothesized that public works projects have a significant likeness to a social movement and they conform in their essential ingredients to social movement explanations. The...
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  • Re-sounding Harlem Renaissance narratives : the repetition and representation of identity through sound in Nella Larsen's Passing and Toni Morrison's Jazz

    Creator:
    Aragon, Racheal
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    The cultural and historical construction of African American identity in the United States has been closely tied to the dialectical relationship formed between sound and silence. This thesis examines the modernist and postmodernist representation of sound and silence in the African American novels Passing (1929), by Nella Larsen, and Jazz...
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    my life. To my mom and dad, Steve and Stephanie, Matthew, Rabecca, and Ramona, I am beyond

  • A Qualitative Feminist Analysis of Welfare Mothers and Human Capital

    Creator:
    Leer-Beyerlein, Amy L.
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    This thesis explores outcomes of women's participation in the American welfare system. The primary goal of this research was to determine the impact certain segments of the welfare system in the United States have on women's ability to obtain and retain human capital. The primary resources were formulated around participants...
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    well, Wendell Primus and Kristina Daugirdas in their (1999) 'Several Suggestions for Improving the

  • Historic Farm Structures As Material Culture : An Oregon Study

    Creator:
    Judge, Barbara C.
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    The thesis is a case study of two traditional family farms that were settled in Oregon in 1850 and 1915. The study embraces the theory that material culture reflects customs and values. The material culture indicators within the study are the architectural structures of the Oregon farms. The study filters...
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    " from FARMING: A HAND BOOK, copyright 1970 by Wendell Berry, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace