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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Despite the complexities and decentralization that characterize global supply chains in today’s world economy, imperialist relations of exchange continue to prevail, due to the fact that the differences between wages of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This thesis investigates Anni Albers’s development from a student at the Bauhaus to a teacher at Black Mountain College, focusing on her unique pedagogical practice that was informed by what she called a “back to zero” ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)Top-down attentional control is essential for efficiently allocating our limited attentional resources to process complex natural environments, focusing on information relevant to our goals. The neural mechanism underlying ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This thesis explores the use of modified Schenkerian analysis and how it relates to a feminine narrative in a piece of music. In music theory literature about music by women, Schenkerian analysis is a tool that is often ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)Human intestinal microbiomes exhibit a large degree of interindividual compositional variation. Animal models, such as the zebrafish, facilitate the design of controlled and highly replicated studies that allow us to ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)Diabetes is a metabolic disease characterized by the loss of functional pancreatic beta cells. The incidence of diabetes has risen rapidly in recent decades, which has been attributed at least partially to alterations in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-12)This dissertation describes research into microbial influences on host signaling in the zebrafish intestine. Vertebrate organisms are consistently exposed to microbes, especially on epithelial tissues that are exposed to ...
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(University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Biology, Ph.D., 1982, 1982-06)
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(University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)This dissertation seeks to unpack how the two dominant images--'bad Gypsies' and 'good Roma'--developed and are mobilized in formal and informal educational institutions in Hungary and Russia and how those are perceived ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-05-01)Unrealistic representations of love have rarely been studied across popular music genres. The lyrics of the top songs in five of the most popular genres (Country, Hip Hop/R&B, Pop, Rap, and Rock) during the periods of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)Centering my focus on a detailed translation of the poetry of Bai Juyi's New Yuefu, I will reconstruct the poet's world on the foundation of political allegory found within his verse. Bai Juyi once said that there are four ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-09)Falls are a significant source of physical, social, and psychological suffering among elderly adults. Falls lead to morbidity and even mortality. Over one-third of adults over the age of 65 years will fall within a calendar ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-12)This dissertation focuses on an urban development project outside St. Petersburg, Russia, called the Baltic Pearl. Financed by a consortium of firms based in Shanghai, China, the Baltic Pearl signals several changes in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)This dissertation first addresses various shortcomings in definitions of “applicative” when compared to what is actually found across languages. It then proposes a four-way distinction among applicative constructions, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)Supramolecular chemistry (chemistry beyond the molecule) is the study and synthesis of complex molecular architectures from simple subunits using non-covalent interactions. The types of non-covalent interactions that are ...
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(University of Oregon, 2007-12)This thesis investigated feeding behavior, cirral anatomy, Reynolds numbers (Re's), and leakiness of the cirral fan for three barnacle species: Balanus glandula, Semibalanus cariosus, and Balanus nubilus. A study of the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)In this dissertation, I make an argument for strong sustainability, which emphasizes environmental and social justice concerns, by distinguishing it from weak sustainability. I critique the global neoliberal sustainable ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)Galaxies are not closed systems but are constantly interacting with their environment which generally contains a) other nearby galaxies and b) some form of warm gaseous medium existing between galaxies (known as the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Since the earliest days of broadcast television in the 1950s, network television has maintained a keen fascination with Asian/American women, who implicitly helped secure the boundaries of white women’s “empire of the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)Washington State’s Gray Wolf Conservation and Management Plan has struggled to respond to conflicts between humans and wolves. This has led to an increase in cultural stratification between pro-wolf community members and ...
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