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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)Animals are colonized by a consortium of microbes that sense and respond to their immediate environments. These microbes, collectively called the gut microbiota, promote epithelial proliferation in a diversity of animal ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)This dissertation takes as its central topic visual narratives in Death with Dignity Storytelling and posits the author’s ideas of a beautiful death and the heard gaze. Its methodology includes a textual analysis of such ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)International student enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased and diversified over the past decade. The unique needs and challenges international students face in pursuing higher education in the U.S. need a ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-11-21)The mobilization and transformation of arsenic within the critical zone is a major cause of human suffering worldwide. Microorganisms, as they grow and utilize organic matter, accelerate redox processes that can transform ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)The compound cisplatin and related FDA-approved Pt(II) therapeutics have been used ubiquitously to treat a variety of cancers since the late 1970’s. Despite the success of Pt therapeutics, their use is limited by undesirable ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)Advertising media planners worry that the negative content in news media creates an inhospitable advertising context. The present research investigates if this concern is well founded. I find that advertisements placed in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-04-29)The implementation of technology is inherently flawed in the field of public education, affecting the ability to operationalize technology in a way that is effective for teachers and students. This unfortunate predetermination ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)The purpose of this study was to understand the implementation of practices derived from Constructing Meaning (CM) training by teachers (n = 30) at a local middle school. The study took place in two phases. Phase one was ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)We study a certain sequence of moduli spaces of stable sheaves on a K3 surface of Picard rank 1 over $\mathbb{C}$. We prove that this sequence can be given the structure of a geometric categorical $\mathfrak{sl}_2$ action, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)We place a differential on $\dot\UC_{\mathfrak{sl}_3}^+$ and show that $\dot\UC_{\mathfrak{sl}_3}^+$ is Fc-filtered. This gives a categorification of the positive half of quantum $\sl_3$ at a prime root of unity.
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)In 1956, a statuette of a female deity and crucifix were discovered inside of a seventeenth-century Amida Buddha statue enshrined in the Nyoirin Kannon-dō, Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan (“Kawaguchi Amida”). ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-11-21)This study examines the role of the reporter in the newsroom amid economic challenges and changes to technology over the past 10 years and how reporter routines have changed in response to those challenges and changes. The ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)We extend a well known result of Uchiyama, which gives a sufficient condition for a family of smooth homogeneous multipliers to characterize the Hardy space H^1(R^N), to the anisotropic setting.
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(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)The purpose of this study was to examine conductors’ behavior and use of rehearsal time in high school and collegiate orchestra rehearsals. In this study, eight conductors (high school, n = 4, college, n = 4) were video ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)The Puget Lowland of the Pacific Northwest (PNW) has a dynamic post-glacial vegetation and climate history. Vegetation structure and fire frequency may be affected by a variety of factors such as large-scale climatic change, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)The purpose of this study was to examine differences between school configuration and students' academic and behavioral outcomes. The participants were eighth grade students in K-8 schools who were matched with eighth grade ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)Hypertension, or high blood pressure, represents a primary yet preventable risk factor for cardiovascular disease, kidney dysfunction, and cognitive impairment that impacts nearly 50% of United States adults. Physical ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)An adapted alternating treatments design was used to evaluate the effect of context on the acquisition of intraverbals for three young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) when utilizing instructive feedback (IF). ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023-07-06)The United States holds alarming records for highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the developed world. The US infant mortality rate is on par with many low and middle income countries, and despite the decline in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)Framing my discussion in the 1990s and early 2000s, my dissertation—“A Counterhistory of the Ratchet”—explores what I term “the ratchet aesthetic” as both an aesthetic language that rejects the politics of respectability ...
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