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The application of GIS and spatiotemporal analyses to investigations of unusual marine mammal strandings and mortality events

Creator:: Norman, Stephanie A., Huggins, Jessie, Carpenter, Tim E., Case, James T., Lambourn, Dyanna M., Rice, Jim, Calambokidis, John, Gaydos, Joseph K., Hanson, M. Bradley, Duffield, Deborah A., Dubpernell, Sandra, Berta, Susan, and Klope, Matt
Abstract:: In 2006–2007, an unusually high number of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) stranded along the Washington and Oregon coastlines. Spatiotemporal analyses were used to examine their ability to detect clusters of porpoise strandings during an unusual mortality event (UME) in the Pacific Northwest using stranding location data. Strandings were evaluated as...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: Biology, Portland State University, PO Box 751, Portland, Oregon 97207, U.S.A. SANDRA DUBPERNELL SUSAN

The Role of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Anti-Tumor Immunity of Canine Osteosarcoma

Creator:: Allende, Carolina M.
Abstract:: Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common primary bone tumor in both humans and dogs, occurring approximately 10 times more frequently in dogs. OS is a highly aggressive neoplasm with evidence of metastasis often found at the time of diagnosis. Long-term survival in afflicted dogs continues to remain low despite aggressive...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: special thanks to Berta Higgins for all of her time in training and helping me troubleshoot the various

Mentorship and Student Self-efficacy

Creator:: Williams, MaryJean Harris
Abstract:: Background: The United States has been under-producing college graduates since at least 1980, with many challenges suppressing students’ self-efficacy. One approach to improving student outcomes is through mentorship. This dissertation applied Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) and Kram’s Mentor Relationship Development Theory (MRD) to discover whether students’ campus mentorship experiences...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Liese, Berta and Lallette, and my brother Clark, each of whom shaped my childhood and set standards

Radicalizing Food: Navigating the Radical Fault Lines of our Local Food Systems—on Farm, at Market, & Online

Creator:: Bennett, Laura E.
Abstract:: Mainstream local food systems focus on environmental and individual health, but labor is out of sight and out of mind. We begin with a story that introduces the immigrant in the room, the locavore’s blind spots, and the need to move beyond mainstream environmentalism and embrace social justice. In the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: it. But most people don’t. 4 “Más alambres!?” [More ties?] Berta yelled from across the

Weight watching: Morphometric indices of ontogenetic and reproductive stages in Weddell seals

Creator:: Monnin, Mee-ya A.
Abstract:: We investigated ontogenetic changes in body morphology of Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) using three three-dimensional (3D) photogrammetry, to estimate surface areas and body volumes for 42 Weddell seals. We sampled ten weaned pups, twelve juveniles (age one or two years), 11 non-breeding adult females, and 9 adult females who had...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: years of love provided my Sarah Charles; to Susan and Francis Reedy, whose love and support over the

Believing details

Creator:: Harrell, Anna M.
Abstract:: In this creative non-fiction thesis, the author reads her own life, suggesting that she believes in the details of experience and knows truth in and through experience even though the truth is not always clear. The first chapter includes several narratives from her childhood experience. In the second chapter, the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Colette Tennant, Marty Trammell, Richard Caulkins, Steve Kunert, Susan Wood, Charles Goodrich, Wayne

The Effect of Group Size on Individual Roles and the Potential for Cooperation in Group Bubble-net Feeding Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Creator:: Mastick, Natalie
Abstract:: Group foraging is observed in many species as a means to increase the ability of members of the group to find and exploit patchy prey. Group foraging can be exhibited in a number of different contexts based on the relationships between the participants, including by-product mutualism. One variant of by-product...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: processing. Dr. Susan Parks contributed her Acousonde tags for the Stellwagen Project. TABLE OF CONTENTS

Becoming Austrian: Women, the State, and Citizenship in World War I

Creator:: Healy, Maureen
Abstract:: In late July 1914, upon partial mobilization of the Austro-Hungarian army, an urgent appeal to “Austria's women” circulated widely in the Viennese press. It urged women to “perform service in the time of war” and reminded them that in this moment of state peril, women had to suppress their “differences”...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: Stourzh zum 70. Geburtstag, ed. Thomas Angerer et al. (Vienna, 1999), 207–23. 6. See, for example,Susan R

Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) of Oregon and Northern California: seasonal haulout abundance patterns, movements of marked juveniles, and effects of hot-iron branding on apparent survival of pups at Rogue Reef

Creator:: Scordino, Jonathan
Abstract:: The Steller Sea Lion Research Initiative was passed in 2001 to provide funding to help scientists determine causes and solutions for the population crash of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus). In response to need to understand population dynamics of Steller sea lions, NOAA Fisheries has spearheaded a large-scale, range-wide research...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and St. George Reef cameras were monitored by Susan Reimer and Justin Jenniges. They provided the

Alternative crops for the Columbia Basin

Creator:: Machado, Stephen, Tuck, Brian, Macnab, Sandy, Maley, Jordan, Igo, Jerry, and Oregon State University. Extension Service
Abstract:: For several years, the profitability of farming in the Columbia Basin has been diminishing, as consistently low grain prices have not kept pace with increases in farming costs. The costs of labor, fuel, machinery, fertilizer, pesticides, transportation, accounting, and brokerage fees have combined to cause many small grain producers to...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: Bruce Barnes, Native Plant Society of Oregon Berta Youtie, The Nature Conservancy Dr. Kenton Chambers

ScholarsArchive@OSU

The application of GIS and spatiotemporal analyses to investigations of unusual marine mammal strandings and mortality events

The Role of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Anti-Tumor Immunity of Canine Osteosarcoma

Mentorship and Student Self-efficacy

Radicalizing Food: Navigating the Radical Fault Lines of our Local Food Systems—on Farm, at Market, & Online

Weight watching: Morphometric indices of ontogenetic and reproductive stages in Weddell seals

Believing details

The Effect of Group Size on Individual Roles and the Potential for Cooperation in Group Bubble-net Feeding Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Becoming Austrian: Women, the State, and Citizenship in World War I

Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) of Oregon and Northern California: seasonal haulout abundance patterns, movements of marked juveniles, and effects of hot-iron branding on apparent survival of pups at Rogue Reef

Alternative crops for the Columbia Basin

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