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...
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...