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Dissertations appearing in this collection have been digitized, with the authors' permission, from the paper version approved by the UO Graduate School. Dissertations are under copyright protection and should be appropriately cited. There are two collections of dissertations listed below:
- Theses and Dissertations (Official) represent items that have been digitized from official paper manuscripts approved by the Graduate School.
- Theses and Dissertations (Self-Submitted) represent items for which authors have submitted their own electronic files of their dissertations. The electronic files have not been reviewed by the Graduate School and the content may differ from the official, authorized paper manuscripts.
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)Set Class Conceptualizations has two main goals: one, facilitate a student’s learning of set classes; and two, demonstrate multiple ways in which they could benefit from doing so. The intended audience of this dissertation ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)Much like exercise, heat stress is a profound thermoregulatory, cardiovascular, and autonomic stressor which may promote a distinct post-stress recovery period marked by altered cardiovascular support of blood pressure. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)My dissertation presented case studies of two GuateMaya feminist groups that are challenging state-dominant narratives of the Guatemalan 36-year- war (1960-1996) and foregrounding counter-memory with art, Maya cosmovision ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)Despite the ubiquity and known impacts of transitions in developmental pattern in marine invertebrates, many taxa have been insufficiently analyzed. In Chapter II, I report the effects of larval feeding in an undescribed ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)In this dissertation, I investigate relationships between gut microbiome variation and social interactions in a natural population of black and white colobus monkey (Colobus vellerosus) at Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)This dissertation investigates the paradoxical revival of strategic missile defense, a resurgence notable for high economic, diplomatic, and strategic costs and a lack of imminent threats. Despite historically incurring ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)This dissertation is an environmental sociological study of wildland fire in what is now the western United States. It examines wildfire management from roughly the 1900s to the present time employing a Marxist historical ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)This dissertation has two principal aims. First, it provides a critical reconsideration of Marx’s philosophical anthropology as it bears on the essential continuity of his emancipatory critique of political economy. Second, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)Most contemporary political theories argue that the state is autonomous from the hegemony of the capitalist class. This project tackles the question of the relative autonomy of the state through a novel approach of converting ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)Most biological systems, particularly protein-DNA complexes, leverage a dynamic evolution of their structure to perform a myriad of functions within the context of the cell. Decades of detailed biophysical research have ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)In this dissertation, I map how the authors of canonical Polish dramas from Romanticism to the present construct and solidify the ideals of womanhood and its connection to land and nature. I analyze how the use of the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)Contamination of ground and well water by Cr and V from anthropogenic and geogenic sources has gained considerable attention over the last few decades due to environmental and public health concerns. The specific threat ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)Strained molecules possess the potential energy required to do work in the form of further chemical transformations. Strained alkynes in particular are an attractive handle for such applications as they can undergo the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)The fitness effects of new mutations are one of the central drivers of evolutionary change. Mutation is the ultimate source of novel genetic diversity, yet only a small fraction of new mutations provides an adaptive ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)How do the underlying biophysical properties of proteins dictate the “rules” that govern molecular evolution? Understanding the principles and mechanisms that determine which evolutionary trajectories proteins take is ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)Patent foramen ovale (PFO) has been documented in humans since Galen reported their existence approximately 2000 years ago. PFO has been associated with a variety of negative outcomes such as impaired ventilatory ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)The idea that programs are data forms the bedrock of functional programming languages, but it is also found in object-oriented languages and recent iterations of systems languages. Since passing and returning programs ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)Graphitic carbon nanomaterials hold tremendous promise for a variety of applications. The realization of this potential, however, has been hampered by the lack of synthetic methods by which we can prepare such materials ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)Cell polarity is a crucial factor in enabling a cell to carry out its specialized functions during animal development and homeostasis. It involves the organized distribution of cellular components into distinct regions, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)Action preparation is a vital component of healthy goal-directed movement. While several studies have found evidence of transient inhibition of the motor system prior to simple finger movements, the functional role and ...