The oldest strata present in the Swales Mountain area
are part of the Roberts Mountains allochthon. These include
the western-facies Ordovician Vinini Formation and unnamed
transitional-facies Devonian limestones. The Vinini Formation
comprises dark cherts and black to brown shales
deposited in a deep-water oceanic environment. The Devonian
limestones include numerous...
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Mountain area, Elko County, Nevada
AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF
MargaretAnnePendergast for the degree
The oldest strata present in the Swales Mountain area
are part of the Roberts Mountains allochthon. These include
the western-facies Ordovician Vinini Formation and unnamed
transitional-facies Devonian limestones. The Vinini Formation
comprises dark cherts and black to brown shales
deposited in a deep-water oceanic environment. The Devonian
limestones include numerous...
The oldest strata present in the Swales Mountain area
are part of the Roberts Mountains allochthon. These include
the western-facies Ordovician Vinini Formation and unnamed
transitional-facies Devonian limestones. The Vinini Formation
comprises dark cherts and black to brown shales
deposited in a deep-water oceanic environment. The Devonian
limestones include numerous...
The oldest strata present in the Swales Mountain area
are part of the Roberts Mountains allochthon. These include
the western-facies Ordovician Vinini Formation and unnamed
transitional-facies Devonian limestones. The Vinini Formation
comprises dark cherts and black to brown shales
deposited in a deep-water oceanic environment. The Devonian
limestones include numerous...
The oldest strata present in the Swales Mountain area
are part of the Roberts Mountains allochthon. These include
the western-facies Ordovician Vinini Formation and unnamed
transitional-facies Devonian limestones. The Vinini Formation
comprises dark cherts and black to brown shales
deposited in a deep-water oceanic environment. The Devonian
limestones include numerous...
The oldest strata present in the Swales Mountain area
are part of the Roberts Mountains allochthon. These include
the western-facies Ordovician Vinini Formation and unnamed
transitional-facies Devonian limestones. The Vinini Formation
comprises dark cherts and black to brown shales
deposited in a deep-water oceanic environment. The Devonian
limestones include numerous...
The oldest strata present in the Swales Mountain area
are part of the Roberts Mountains allochthon. These include
the western-facies Ordovician Vinini Formation and unnamed
transitional-facies Devonian limestones. The Vinini Formation
comprises dark cherts and black to brown shales
deposited in a deep-water oceanic environment. The Devonian
limestones include numerous...
The oldest strata present in the Swales Mountain area
are part of the Roberts Mountains allochthon. These include
the western-facies Ordovician Vinini Formation and unnamed
transitional-facies Devonian limestones. The Vinini Formation
comprises dark cherts and black to brown shales
deposited in a deep-water oceanic environment. The Devonian
limestones include numerous...
Five sympatric species of desert lizards (leopard lizards (Garnbelia wizlizeni), sagebrush lizards (Sceloporus graciosus), side-blotched. lizards (Uta stansburiana), desert horned lizards
(Phrynosoma platyrhinos), and Western whiptails (Cnemidophorus tigris)) were studied in June and July of 1978 and 1979 in northern Nevada on the Charles Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge. Lizard
distribution,...
End users develop more software than any other group of programmers, using software authoring devices such as e-mail filtering editors, by-demonstration macro builders, and spreadsheet environments. Despite this, there has been only a little research on finding ways to help these programmers with the dependability of the software they create....
The literature asserts that sexuality educators should be comfortable
with sexuality. In fact, some authors suggest that comfort with
sexuality is a major criterion for qualification as a sexuality educator.
Yet, the literature is vague and assuming and what the concept
of comfort with sexuality means to teachers. Thus, the...
Nowadays, sports events are a significant part of the every-day entertainment with local, national, and international championships. A lot of money is invested by broadcasting companies to attract new and more viewers, acquire broadcasting rights, or send entire crews on site to cover such events. Journalists are among the few...
This study was designed to determine the common personal finance
competencies needed by graduating high school students in Oregon as
perceived by personal finance teachers from the subject matter areas
of business education, home economics, mathematics, and social studies
and the business community. Two other purposes were to (1) determine...
We know students use mobile technologies. We expect they will want to use them more. The mobile landscape is changing fast. But what does this actually mean? How does having constant access affect the ways students use information? This is one of the questions librarians at Oregon State University are...
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Undergraduate
Information
Practices in the
Mobile
Landscape
Anne-Marie Deitering and Margaret Mellinger
We know students use mobile technologies. We expect they will want to use them more. The mobile landscape is changing fast. But what does this actually mean? How does having constant access affect the ways students use information? This is one of the questions librarians at Oregon State University are...
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Deitering (anne-marie.deitering@oregonstate.edu)
Margaret Mellinger (margaret.mellinger@oregonstate.edu
We know students use mobile technologies. We expect they will want to use them more. The mobile landscape is changing fast. But what does this actually mean? How does having constant access affect the ways students use information? This is one of the questions librarians at Oregon State University are...
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Anne-Marie Deitering, Margaret Mellinger.
6 students, 6
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...
The purpose of this study was to investigate Peer Collaborative
Mentoring (PCM) as a professional development model for international
graduate teaching assistants at an American university. Data were gathered
from interviews and observations of three American peer mentors
(Intracultural Peer Mentors/IAPMs), five Chinese Graduate Teaching
Assistants (Intercultural Peer Mentors/IEPMs), and...
Shifting climate patterns in the Columbia River basin are affecting snow pack, and, as a result, stream flow throughout the region. In the Oregon Cascades, ever growing populations, and their associated activities, place increasing stress on an already over allocated hydrologic system. Political pressures, including the possibility of renegotiation or...
Lifestyle blogs viewed through the lens of utopian literature reveals a rich historical heritage behind the current phenomenon. Blogs such as "Classy Girls Wear Pearls" exhibit an idyllic perfection, unable to withstand inquiry, and the intense disagreement that results between the real and the ideal echoes features of formative utopian...
The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether the 1981
recommendation by the Montana State Board of Public Education had in
fluenced actual implementation of sexuality education in that state.
The study also sought to describe sexuality education in Montana and to
assess perceptions of Montana public high...
The literature asserts that both the medical and educational
communities have forecast a potential for an AIDS
epidemic on college and university campuses. The experts
warn that without either a cure or a vaccine for AIDS, it
is only through education of "risk behaviors" that
devastation can be avoided.
A...
Today's office worker is being expected to operate computers in order to
increase office productivity. While learning the new technology is a positive
challenge for most people, some students experience a negative computer
attitude when faced with computer training. This study sought to determine if
there were significant differences about...
Spreadsheet languages, which include commercial spreadsheets and various research systems, have proven to be flexible tools in many settings. Research shows, however, that spreadsheets often contain faults. This thesis presents an integrated testing and fault localization methodology for spreadsheets. This methodology allows spreadsheet developers to engage in modeless development,
testing...
While digital inclusivity researchers and software practitioners have been trying to address exclusion biases in Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointers (WIMP) user interfaces (UIs) for a long time, little has been done to investigate if and how inclusive software design and its methods that have been devised for WIMP UIs...
How can software practitioners assess whether their software supports diverse users? Although there are empirical processes that can be used to find “inclusivity bugs” piecemeal, what is often needed is a systematic inspection method to assess software’s support for diverse populations. To help fill this gap, this thesis introduces InclusiveMag,...
Evidence-based interventions (EBIs), which demonstrate efficacy in research settings, are rarely sustained when implemented in public health organizations. Rather, EBIs are often de-adopted - potentially undermining the positive benefits of the EBIs for the communities that access them. The lack of sustainability is particularly troubling among public health organizations that...
The two major purposes of this study were to gather data relative
to the knowledge and attitudes toward sexual expression among sixty-five
to seventy-four year olds and to determine whether or not significant
differences existed between the sexes. The study focused on six
research questions: These were:
1. Do older...
The Central Oregon High Cascade Range is an anomalously mafic segment of the Cascade Arc due to ongoing intra-arc extension, which allows most magmas to traverse the crust without stalling and evolving to more evolved compositions. North Sister, a composite volcano in this arc segment, has produced a seemingly monotonous...
To users, mobile touchscreen devices have appealing characteristics; among these characteristics is intuitiveness, which leads to mobile devices being used almost everywhere by almost everyone to accomplish almost anything. This statement, to some degree, holds for children too. Despite touchscreen devices’ intuitiveness and popularity, we don’t know much about how...
This study addresses women's experiences in higher education at Oregon Agricultural College between 1870 and 1916. The experiences of these women illustrate how they were affected by society's beliefs and values, and further, how their education encouraged them to develop skills necessary to transform their role in society. Education has...
This thesis compares and contrasts Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo and Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping to explore how Mexican and American cultures perceive death. By examining the thoughts and actions of the young protagonists through the lens of the uncanny, it becomes obvious that they are searching for a history that has...
Ninety-two physicians from six different medical specialty
areas were participants in an opinion survey concerning corporate
executive fitness. The survey was comprised of 21 statements
related to such areas as fitness, nutrition, implementation
of specific programs and cost effectiveness. Descriptive
research methods were utilized to analyze results.
Physicians surveyed were...
The Altar Valley is an important working landscape that supports biodiversity and vulnerable species in Pima County, Arizona (Huckelberry 2000). This semi-desert grassland, alluvial valley and 713,807-acre watershed composed of 39 subbasins serves as an aquifer to a portion of southwestern Tucson. This region of Southern Arizona has been identified...
Nearshore and estuarine environments along the U.S West Coast are ocean acidification (OA) "hotspots". Carbon dioxide-enriched water has been correlated with production losses of Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) larvae at hatcheries in the Pacific Northwest. Limited and unreliable supply of larval seed has implications for the economic well-being of commercial...
In this study patterns of shared family time in 210 two-parent,
two-child Oregon households were described. The relationship between
amounts of shared time and a number of family and environmental
characteristics was also researched.
The study used the Oregon data from a contributing project of
the Northeast Regional Research Project...
This investigation consisted of two parts: A. stability, B.
bioavailability of vitamin B₆ in wheat. Three variables; whole wheat
flour (WHW), white flour (W) and W enriched with vitamin B₆ (WB₆)
were tested.
Stability of vitamin B₆ during bread making and storage of
bread and flour was determined. Bread was...
Swamp rice offers tropical populations the most feasible means
of obtaining a dependable and plentiful supply of protein-rich cereals.
An acre of swamp rice land will support many persons and the crop
does not cause erosion. A further production of this type of rice appears
warranted in Sierra Leone and...
Financial management planning styles were investigated with original data
collected from 180 unmarried, elderly women with a home economics college
background and living alone. Deacon and Firebaugh's (1975, 1988)
household management systems theory, continuity theory from gerontology,
and the construct of anticipatory socialization from sociology framed the
study. Three planning...
Emerging research shows that individual differences in how people use technology sometimes cluster by socioeconomic status (SES) and that when technology is not socioeconomically inclusive, low-SES individuals may abandon it. To understand how to improve technology’s SES-inclusivity, we present a multi-phase case study on SocioEconomicMag (SESMag), an emerging inspection method...
This is a bibliography of doctoral dissertations and masters' theses in forestry and related topics issued during the period from July 1981 through June 1990. The colleges and universities included are all accredited by the Society of American Foresters. The actual listings were supplied by the individual institutions. Topics covered...
Animals aggregate and interact in nonuniform and nonrandom patterns, which lead to group level characteristics that have important evolutionary and ecological consequences. Network analysis provides a useful conceptual framework for linking animal interactions at all scales from dyads to communities, to populations and ecosystems. Despite exciting theoretical and applied advances...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship
between the weaving performance and the visual perception abilities
of primary school children. The sample population consisted of 50
first-graders, 26 boys and 24 girls.
A measure was developed to test weaving performance; the
children participated in a weaving lesson...
Many of the natural resource problems facing man in the present
era are so large and complicated that no one discipline provides an
adequate approach for their solutions. As an example, the relationships
of man to the land resource base can best be understood when
they are considered holistically rather...
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biotically productive land into irreversible uses
AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF
ANNE HUSTON HOLLINGSHEAD
