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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)In 2002, the Russian government began distributing tens of thousands of Russian passports in the de facto states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Some scholarly attention has been devoted to this process, known as passportization, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-03)In this essay, I propose a method by which humans may understand themselves in relation to our imagined origin. Many believe that humanity's origin offers great insight into our present condition, yet its historical distance ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)In this dissertation, I examine literary representations of Jewishness published between 1955 and 2021, after the perceived end of the transition of Jews into whiteness in the mid to late 1940s. Primary among these texts ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)Frivolous patent-infringement claims increase the cost of innovation for small businesses and force them to exit via premature and discounted acquisitions. This study investigates the effect of abusive patent-infringement ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)Background: Parents play a significant role in shaping children’s behaviors and their responses to emotions. Research has established a strong, bi-directional effect between parenting stress and children’s challenging ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This mixed-methods dissertation considers the experiences of women who used substances during pregnancy. Retrospective interviews with 15 women, currently accessing inpatient substance abuse treatment, identify trends in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)The purpose of this study is to examine the feasibility of introducing innovative dialysis delivery methods. In the first essay, advised by Prof. Nagesh Murthy and Dr. Eren Cil, we study a new and non-traditional dialysis ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)The synthetic, historically sensitive, analytic method of this dissertation illuminates relationships between pattern and meaning in François Couperin's Pièces de Clavecin --character pieces firmly rooted in traditions of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-09)Historic campgrounds on National Forest Service lands are a key location where the public experiences the intersection of natural and cultural resources. In the Pacific Northwest Region, the majority of historic Forest ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-09)Improved understanding of pharyngeal arch (PA) patterning and morphogenesis can reveal critical insights into the origins of craniofacial diseases, such as Fraser syndrome. PAs contain mesenchymal condensations, which give ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)Culturally shared beliefs about societies and humanity play a prominent part in world events, from beliefs about the histories and destinies of nations to beliefs about the appropriate relationship between humanity and the ...
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(Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 1992., 1992)Biogeographic patterns of developmental mode in marine invertebrates have been examined with respect to latitude, depth, and general habitat type. Regional comparisons, which might reveal the influence of specific ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)Election fraud is a serious problem in a number of modern democracies. While election observers can combat this problem to some extent, election forensics aims to provide a low-cost supplement. Forensic tools uncover ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This is a study of processes of structural and functional diversification of the uses of three cognate verbs across the Indo-Iranian language family: “do/make”, “be/become”, and “give”. First, this study identifies over ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This dissertation focuses upon patterns and concepts of containment within selected Lieder from Hugo Wolf's Mörike collection. More specifically, I focus upon melody as a way of understanding how these found patterns and ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2013)Fish recovery in rivers depends on sufficient instream flows to maintain water quality and habitat. In many areas, water rights for agriculture present direct competition for these flows, and “use it or lose it” water ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2013)As the concepts of ecosystem services and payments for ecosystem services (PES) have gained in popularity, numerous web-based resources have been created to 1) provide and exchange information about ecosystem services, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)This dissertation examines the relationship between community colleges and prisons as similar institutions that absorb and manage displaced workers, economic refugees, and dispossessed adult populations. Based on interviews ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-12)Streaming multimedia content over the Internet is extremely popular mainly due to emerging applications such as IPTV, YouTube and e-learning. All these applications require simultaneous streaming of multimedia content from ...
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Pela Vida das Mulheres: Violence Against Women and the Struggle for Justice and Care in Urban Brazil (University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)In 2006, Brazil passed what is considered one of the most progressive policies on violence against women (VAW) in the world: the Maria da Penha Law. Among its provisions, the Maria da Penha Law called for the creation of ...
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