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Soil erosion and vegetation loss accelerated by visitor use of Paradise Meadows, Mount Rainier National Park

Creator:: Fritzke, Susan L.
Abstract:: Recreational impacts on the subalpine-alpine ecosystems of Mount Rainier National Park have developed over the past century, and today pose a major problem for park managers. Field data were collected during the summer of 1987 in the Paradise meadows area in order to describe visitor impacts on social trails (trails...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Inside, Outside : Light and Dark

Creator:: Knotts, L. William
Abstract:: In a story of his life Les reflects on what he has gained and what he has lost while seeking success in the moving and shifting of military and academic life through homes and schools all over the United States. He describes himself as between races, languages, and cultures.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: THESIS OF L. William Knotts for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, in the co

Breaking Down Blackout: Building Understanding of Media Effects at OSU

Creator:: Dillard, Lauren L.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Building Understanding of Media Effects at OSU By Lauren L. Dillard A PROJECT submitted to

A qualitative description of pregnant women experiencing homelessness

Creator:: Shatzel, Margaret M.
Abstract:: This study describes the experience of homelessness and pregnancy for seven women and their partners in Lane County, Oregon. Homeless pregnant women provide a unique challenge to health care providers and social workers. These women are at increased risk for many negative factors that could affect their pregnancy outcomes. The...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Homelessness. Abstract approved: Susan L. Prows This study describes the experience of homelessness and

A Global Trend of Child trafficking Among Girls Experiencing Violence and Neglect in the Yorùbá Ethnic group in Nigeria: A Transnational Feminist Approach

Creator:: Oludayo, Folasade M.
Abstract:: The trafficking of children is one of the gravest violations of human rights globally today. Every year, hundreds of thousands of girl child are smuggled across borders and sold as mere commodities. There are minimal scholarly works focusing on the girl child and analyzing it from the global trends among...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Susan M. Shaw Abstract The trafficking of children is one of the gravest violations of human

Greening the grid : the cost-effectiveness of residential solar programs in Oregon

Creator:: Hanhan, Nadine
Abstract:: Oregon residents possess several options in installing solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. This study examines a range of options--tax credits and rebates, a volumetric incentive rate program, power purchase agreements from third-party installers, and solar leasing--and compares the cost of these options to not installing. The paper considers the problem of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Susan M. Capalbo Oregon residents possess several options in installing solar photovoltaic

Seasonal movement, home range, and abundance of the Mariana Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus guami) on Guam and the northern Mariana Islands

Creator:: Takano, Leilani L.
Abstract:: The endemic avifauna of Guam and the Mariana Islands represent a unique assemblage of bird species found nowhere else in the world and thus, are of considerable biological and conservation importance. Unfortunately, most of these species are understudied and exist in precariously low populations. The endangered Mariana Common Moorhen (Gallinula...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Leilani L. Takano for the degree

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

Creator:: Buchalter, Robert Blake
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Susan E. Carozza Quantitative measurement of the urban-rural continuum for

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

Creator:: Tanner, Laura C.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Susan Shaw Social discourse presents teenage childbearing as a “serious problem” that results in

Sex Disparities in Adult and Childhood Cancer Incidence

Creator:: Fisher, Stephanie A.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: approved: ______________________________________________________ Dr. Susan Carozza Studies

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Soil erosion and vegetation loss accelerated by visitor use of Paradise Meadows, Mount Rainier National Park

Inside, Outside : Light and Dark

Breaking Down Blackout: Building Understanding of Media Effects at OSU

A qualitative description of pregnant women experiencing homelessness

A Global Trend of Child trafficking Among Girls Experiencing Violence and Neglect in the Yorùbá Ethnic group in Nigeria: A Transnational Feminist Approach

Greening the grid : the cost-effectiveness of residential solar programs in Oregon

Seasonal movement, home range, and abundance of the Mariana Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus guami) on Guam and the northern Mariana Islands

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

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

Sex Disparities in Adult and Childhood Cancer Incidence

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