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(University of Oregon, 2009-12)The development of a functional nervous system is paramount for the ability of animals to interact with their environments. Minor defects in nervous system function compromise the effectiveness of sensing and responding ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)Drinking is common among college students but has different social meanings and consequences for students of color. Using data from first-time U.S. resident students gathered pre-matriculation, end-of-first-year, and fall ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)This study examined disparities in participation based on race and gender in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IBDP) in Oregon and Washington and policies and practices that may lead to representation among ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Homeownership may be the American Dream, but renting is the American reality for nearly half of Portland, Oregon’s residents. In Oregon, where I conducted fieldwork from 2014 to 2017, a statewide ban on rent control, the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)This dissertation examines how racism structures the lives and emotions of communities of color in Portland, Oregon. As the U.S. becomes more racially diverse, Portland remains the whitest U.S. city with a population over ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)Black students continue to endure racialized experiences in their pursuit of higher learning. Students’ educational experiences, especially at historically White institutions, are plagued by incidents of racial microaggressions ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)Ample evidence suggests many U.S. institutions operate within a system of racial inequities, yet the existence of these inequities and their implications are regularly debated in public discourse. The term “School-to-Prison ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-12)This dissertation presents experimental and theoretical studies of radiation pressure cooling in silica optomechanical microresonators where whispering gallery modes (WGMs) are coupled to thermal mechanical vibrations. In ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster that occurred in March of 2011 has not only strongly affected the environment and economy in Japan; it has also impacted the social and psychological well-being of the people of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)This dissertation explores the use of temporal storytelling within an online teacher professional development to understand how engaging in archaeology of self practices (Sealey-Ruiz, 2019), radical dreaming and world ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This thesis is a historical, sociological case-study of the movement for public control and land-use planning prior to WWII. The impetus for this movement came from a radicalized faction of the forestry profession. Radicalism ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)This dissertation explores how life narratives created by trans*-identified people (transsexual, transgender, genderqueer, and other non-binary identities included in the term’s asterisk) imagine new categories by re-working ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Railroads have been subject to federal regulation since 1887. Due to the development of competing modes of transportation and changes in types of products being shipped, regulation began to impede efficiency and viability ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)This dissertation is both a new historical synthesis of pioneer violence within and beyond the wars on Native people in the mid-nineteenth-century American Pacific Northwest, and a new history of how these wars—and broader ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)My dissertation analyzes the rake, the libertine male, a figure whose liminal masculinity and transgressive appetites work both to stabilize and unsettle hegemony in the texts in which he appears. The rake may seem no more ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-12)In this dissertation, we demonstrate the generation of optical Raman frequency combs by a single laser pump pulse traveling in hydrogen-filled hollow-core optical fibers. This comb generation process is a cascaded stimulated ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)The ranging behavior of an animal can reveal much about the social and ecological conditions it faces. Food availability, feeding competition, population pressures, metabolic requirements and human influences can all ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)In 1920s and 1930s, filmmakers William L. Finley and Arthur N. Pack produced a number of short-subject nature documentary films notable for their early use of the narrative techniques that are now considered rote in the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)Attempts to define play have highlighted its complexity, making it a difficult concept to fully pin down, particularly in its relationship to game. However, the focus on transformation and creation remain consistent within ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)This thesis examines the role of international trade in building the Ōshū Fujiwara’s autonomous Hiraizumi polity, and ultimately critiques the idea of “center-periphery” binaries in Japanese history. Following the introduction, ...
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