In their master’s thesis, Mateo Rosales Fertig offers the framework of a Curanderismx soul retrieval ceremony as a method of grappling with queerness and multiraciality in anti-colonial border and Chicanx contexts. From the legacies of Chicana, women of color, and QTPOC feminisms, they write out of the works and theories...
The Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. The country has a total area of 48,442 km², a narrow insular shelf of 9,484 km² and an EEZ of approximately 238,000 km². Around 10,000 fishers with a fleet of 3,750 boats, operate from the 1,575 km of coastline to...
In this collection of nonfiction essays, Brisker recounts her path of recovery after suffering traumatic brain injury. The memoir opens with her first waking moments in the hospital one week after she was thrown from her horse and fractured her skull, and her beginning attempts at piecing together her fragmented...
The purpose of this study was to identify learning activities that
were both Future Homemakers of America/Home Economics Related
Occupations goal-related and realistic for use in the home economics
classroom. The hypothesis tested was: there is no significant difference
between mean scores of individual learning activities related
to FHA/HERO goals...
Twenty-four years of records (1958-1981) from a commercial Angus ranch were utilized in a population analysis to characterize the herd as a biological unit. The herd averaged 632±129 cows and 123±6 replacement heifers with all replacement heifers and many bulls from within the herd. Life tables were calculated for seven...
Twenty-four woven Pre-Columbian textiles in the
Apparel, Interiors and Merchandising Department (AIM) of
Oregon State University were reported to be from Ancon,
Peru. A methodology was developed to confirm the exact
provenance of the AIM textiles. Technical fabrication
characteristics were utilized to describe certain known
Ancon woven textiles and to...
An experimental study of thermally actuated pumping of a single-phase, single-component fluid is presented in the context of thermal management of a heat source. The prominent feature of this pumping method is that the very heat that is to be removed from the heat source causes a net fluid motion....
This thesis is based on the excavations of the Robert Newell farmstead (35MA41), excavated in 2002 and 2003 by the Oregon State University Department of Anthropology archaeological field school. Robert Newell lived at this farm from 1843- 1854. Major architectural features, including a brick hearth and postholes were discovered at...
Hatchery-reared salmonid fish routinely encounter stress due to
handling, barging, tagging, and overcrowding. It has been demonstrated that
there exists a direct correlation between stress and transient immune
suppression which can last for many days in fish. Epizootic viral infections
routinely appear in hatcheries and can have a devastating effect...
The purpose of this study was to develop a programmed learning
booklet concerned with the care of groups of young children. The
instructional material was designed to be used in homemaking and
occupational programs. The criteria for developing the program were
(a) that it be geared to the student with...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of deferring formal fraternity
and sorority rush upon scholastic achievement, levels of satisfaction, and quality
and quantity of involvement among students at a small, private liberal arts university.
It has been suggested that timing of rush may exercise an impact...
The central goal of this study was to assess Venezuelan parent attitudes toward specific areas of parent-child
relationships such as child creativity, child play,
parental sense of frustration in childrearing, the amount
of parental control exercised over their children, and
parents' perception of themselves as teachers of their
own children....
This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to determine where best to situate the study of mentoring (i.e. the 'making of scientists') on the landscape of the history of science and science studies. This task is accomplished by establishing mentoring studies as a link between the robust body...
Biography is one of the most popular categories of books—and indeed the most popular
category among nonfiction books, according to one British poll. Thus, biography offers
historians of science an opportunity to reach a potentially broad audience. This essay
examines approaches typical of different genres of scientific biography, including historians’...
In Zambia, there are approximately 920,000 people living with HIV/AIDS. Children are often referred to as a "window of hope" due to a low HIV/AIDS prevalence rate (UNAIDS/WHO, 2006). With growing numbers of infections and an increased strain on the social and economic structure due to HIV/AIDS there is a...
This study investigated the attitudes of mental health counselors toward persons
with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Three hundred and fifty-eight
members of the American Mental Health Counselors Association were mailed a survey
packet including an Attitude Towards AIDS Victims scale and an additional two
questions assessing comfort with clients with...
An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was developed to
measure specific antibody response in bovine sera to bovine
adenovirus type 3 (BA3), an etiologic agent of respiratory
disease causing economic losses annualy to the cattle
industry. Observed endpoint titers were determined using
the intersection point from optical density values of
serially diluted...
Louis de Broglie received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929 following experimental
confirmation of his theory of the wave properties of the electron. De Broglie was an
anomaly among twentieth-century physicists: he was a prince by birth who would become
the seventh duc de Broglie. What did it mean...
Malheur County is located in the southeast corner of Oregon and consists of about 64 million acres of which 260,000 acres is irrigated. Groundwater contamination has been found in a 115,000 acre area in Northeastern Malheur County. The main source of the groundwater contamination is agricultural practices. The overall objective...
The Newell Farmstead (35MA41) archaeological site lies in the heart of the French Prairie in the Willamette Valley in the Champoeg State Heritage Area, Oregon. The integrity and depth of deposition have made the Newell site a unique opportunity to look at activity areas and domestic life of early Euro-American...
An approach to understanding and managing anadromous salmon, steelhead,
and sea-run cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus spp.) based on life history and
evolutionary adaptive capacities of species and stocks is presented. Species, stocks,
and local populations are viewed as systems that are continuously adapting to
changing environmental conditions. They have the potential...
The goal of this study was to better understand stream communities through a perspective that might make their structure, organization, and development more understandable. This goal was approached
through the following objectives:
1. To determine the assemblages of stream organisms and define subsystems within a stream community.
2. To explain...
The purpose of this study was three fold: 1) to determine if false consensus
effects would be found for estimates of sexual behaviors, 2) to determine the directional
accuracy of consensus estimates for subscribers and nonsubscribers and 3) to determine if
the degree of accuracy of those estimates was influenced...
Winter recreation has increased rapidly in the Crater Lake -
Diamond Lake area of Oregon in recent years. Park and forest
managers are concerned about existing and potential impacts of the
recreationists on the resources and other recreationists.
The purpose of this study was to describe the nature and extent...
The objective of this investigation is the development
of improved techniques for the estimation of robustness for
dynamic systems with structured uncertainties, a problem
which was approached by application of the Lyapunov direct
method. This thesis considers the sign properties of the
Lyapunov function derivative integrated along finite intervals
of...
The effect of sweeteners on fruit flavor perception was studied
through the use of fruitiness power functions for unsweetened and
sweetened model systems. In the first part of the study, two
isosweet concentrations of aspartame and sucrose were determined
and combined with five concentrations of orange and strawberry
flavorants. Fruitiness...
Stream-restoration projects are usually designed to improve habitat quality for fishes.
These projects manipulate flow patterns, substrate distribution, and amount and
placement of large woody debris. Consequently, they also affect the size and composition
of the aquatic macroinvertebrate community. This research evaluates two types of fish
habitat restoration: off-channel structures...
Historians and sociologists of science often identify the efflorescence of social stud ies of science with the work of postwar American intellectuals such as Robert K. Merton and Thomas S. Kuhn. They often also refer to the views of Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) on the roles of tacit knowledge, apprenticeship, social...
Research was conducted near the Starkey Experimental Forest and Range in
northeastern Oregon. Effects of defoliating bluebunch wheatgrass (Agropyron
spicatum (Pursh) Scribn. and Smith) to increase the quality of regrowth available on
elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) winter range were studied from 1988 through 1990.
Clipping treatments were implemented to condition...
The purpose of this research was to do a comparative study of
the self-concept of Mexican-American/Chicano(a) students enrolled
in two- and four-year institutions of higher education in western
Oregon during the 1985-1986 academic year.
The secondary purposes of the research were:
1) To ascertain if there were any significant differences...
The virion protein patterns of 72 isolates of infectious
hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) were analyzed by sodium dodecyl
sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) of S-methionine
labeled virus. This analysis led to the classification of these virus
isolates into 4 or more types. Type 1 virus is characterized by a
nucleocapsid protein...
This thesis will address the transformation of biological sciences during the 1930s and 1940s and it effects on fisheries science. It will focus on Oregon State College and specifically the Department of Fish and Game Management and the interaction with the Oregon Game Commission. Support for mutation theory and neo-...
The role of viral proteins in the pathogenesis of infectious hematopoietic necrosis
virus (IHNV) was studied at the molecular level. The expression of the viral genes at the
protein and RNA level, and their cellular localization, were characterized to further our
understanding of viral pathogenesis. The pathogenic effect of individual...
The A segment of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV)
is expressed as a polyprotein encoding three primary gene
products, VP2, NS and VP3, from a large open reading frame. The
nucleotide sequence for the A segment of the Sp isolate of IPNV
was determined. The NS protein is the putative...
The overall purpose of this research was to determine the
factors involved in Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) freshmen
making a successful adjustment to the Oregon State University
campus environment and to determine whether this adjustment can
be accomplished early in the students' college career. Specifically,
this investigation was designed to...
The present study examined the influence of Crafted With Pride in
the USA stimuli and country of origin on consumers' attitudes toward
and evaluations of clothing. The sample consisted of 112 female
college students enrolled in one of three courses in the College of
Home Economics, Spring term, 1988.
A...
In 1952, at the height of the McCarthy era, Franz Kallmann, a Jewish psychiatrist and eugenicist who fled the National Socialist regime in Germany, published a study, in which he claimed to have found a one hundred percent concordance rate for homosexuality among forty pairs of identical twins. From this...
BACKGROUND: The giant lizard of La Gomera (Gallotia bravoana), is an endemic lacertid of this Canary Island that
lives confined to a very restricted area of occupancy in a steep cliff, and is catalogued as Critically Endangered by
IUCN. We present the first population genetic analysis of the wild population...
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bravoana
Gonzalez, E. G., Cerón-Souza, I., Mateo, J. A., & Zardoya, R. (2014). Island
survivors
BACKGROUND: The giant lizard of La Gomera (Gallotia bravoana), is an endemic lacertid of this Canary Island that
lives confined to a very restricted area of occupancy in a steep cliff, and is catalogued as Critically Endangered by
IUCN. We present the first population genetic analysis of the wild population...
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dataset. Since we observed that the
data for all groups deviate from a normal distribution (Shapiro