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  • Investigation of Age-Related Incidence Patterns in Adult Cancers

    Creator:
    Fulton, Stephanie E. and Carozza, Susan
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    One of the most commonly diagnosed illnesses in the elderly population is cancer. Despite research to explain the consistent increase in incidence rates with age, the mechanisms are largely unknown. In order to explore the patterns in age-specific cancer incidence through visualization, tables and graphs were generated via SEER*stat of...
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    Poster
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    -Related Incidence Patterns in Adult Cancers Stephanie Fulton, Dr. Susan Carozza, PhD COLLEGE OF PUBLIC

  • Managing a non-profit organization: directors' views from the top

    Creator:
    Barp, Meghan E.
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    This research is based on in-depth interviews with 10 women directors of nonprofit organizations in New York City. Each director identified as feminist, or worked for a feminist-identifying organization that existed to meet the needs of women in New York City. The intention of this study is to examine how...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Shifting Rural Quantification Towards Study of Health Disparities: Applications in Statistical and Spatial Analysis of Rural Colorectal Cancer

    Creator:
    Buchalter, Robert Blake
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    Quantitative measurement of the urban-rural continuum for examination of U.S. rural health disparities is a relatively new research area, where only a handful of studies have investigated health disparities using quantitative rural measures and even fewer have attempted to integrate health variables within said measures. Most U.S. rural health disparity...
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    Dissertation
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    : ______________________________________________________ Susan E. Carozza Quantitative measurement of the urban-rural continuum for

  • Sex Disparities in Adult and Childhood Cancer Incidence

    Creator:
    Fisher, Stephanie A.
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    Studies indicate that many cancers occur more frequently in adult males than females. This male predominance must either be due to disparate environmental exposures or innate, biologic mechanisms, or a combination of the two. Using data and statistical software from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program, male:female incidence...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Dr. Susan Carozza Studies

  • Breaking Down Blackout: Building Understanding of Media Effects at OSU

    Creator:
    Dillard, Lauren L.
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    In the days following Oct. 5, 2007, the staff of The Daily Barometer - the student newspaper at Oregon State University - was left scrambling for understanding. The paper published a image of a man wearing black face paint for an event called "Blackout Reser." That black face paint looked...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    approved: ________________________________________________ Susan Shaw In the

  • “My Whole World”: Teen Moms Navigating Identity and Social Discourse

    Creator:
    Tanner, Laura C.
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    Social discourse presents teenage childbearing as a “serious problem” that results in significant harm and expense to teenage mothers, their children, and society. Although the discourse of teenage childbearing has been multiple, overlapping, and contested, it has resulted in negative stereotyping and stigmatization of teenage mothers. Much of these stereotypes...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Susan Shaw Social discourse presents teenage childbearing as a “serious problem” that results in

  • Confessing Our Sims: The construction of gender and sexuality among women ages 18-22 on MySpace

    Creator:
    Papaleo, November R.
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    MySpace is a social network phenomenon with over 100 million profiles and a strong presence in over 24 countries. As digital media become more commonplace, social networks are becoming sites where women create and manage relationships and identities. This thesis is a study of how women ages 18-22 are constructing...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    approved: ___________________________________ Susan Shaw MySpace is a social network phenomenon

  • Negotiating conflicted climates : the experiences of transgender students attending women's colleges

    Creator:
    Jones, Whitney K.
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    The conversation regarding transgender students in the context of women's colleges is inherently complicated due to the binary gender system that the existence of women's colleges reinforce. The primary goal of this phenomenological research was to examine the lived experiences of transgender college students at U.S. women's colleges. Because the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Susan M. Shaw The conversation regarding transgender students in the context

  • Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

    Creator:
    Morales-Warming, Melissa
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    White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often are generalized to other women’s experiences, much like how the experience of men in often represented as the experience of all humankind. In 2001 Elaine Howard Ecklund studied white lay women in the Catholic Church and explored two questions: What...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    : __________________________________________________________________ Susan Shaw White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often

  • Women: Pregnancy and Sexual Activity

    Creator:
    Kilkenny, Michelle
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    The perception of the self as a sexual being is challenged by the experience of pregnancy. Included in the experience of pregnancy are issues with perceptions of the self, body image, transition into motherhood, and reconciliation of the self as a sexual being during pregnancy. Through a review of the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    from the change from wife to mother. Kenneth Reamy and Susan E. White, in "Sexuality and Pregnancy: A