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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)I propose two new theories to explain the consumption of aversive experiences: valence conversion and the hedonic equation. The principle of valence conversion asserts that discrete emotions that share a similar set of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)The purpose of this study is to examine the evidence underlying the claim that scores from CampusReady, a diagnostic measure of student college and career readiness, are valid indicators of student college and career ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-09)This study considers the role of the forest ecosystem in Trinity County, California's economy. I seek to better understand the natural resource-based economy of a national forest-proximate community by creating a framework ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)In this sector analysis I report on my investigation of the International Smallholder Tea Sector and its incorporation into global policy spheres. “Globally, tea smallholder sector covers 70% of the plantation area and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)This thesis examines the expressive culture of urban chicken-keepers in Eugene, Oregon in an attempt to explain why this practice has become so popular in recent years as well as to understand what role it plays in their ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)This research asks what happens when the measures that will provide needed housing to the poor are also those that will displace other precariously housed people and disrupt valued social relations in neighbourhoods. To ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-02-18)The Coos Estuary, is the second largest estuary in Oregon in terms of area and volume, after the Columbia River Estuary, with extensive tidal flats and subsidiary sloughs. Estuaries, like the Coos, are utilized for habitat ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Asymmetric gait, or a difference in functioning between legs during human locomotion, is a health concern that can lead to secondary complications such as chronic musculoskeletal injury or a more sedentary lifestyle. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)The Tokugawa period (1600-1868) brought significant social, legislative, and institutional change to Japan, including peace and stability that pervaded much of early modern society. Life in these new social conditions was ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-03)Airstream brand travel trailers from the 1950s and 60s have developed a subculture dedicated to their preservation and use. This subculture serves as a case study for how nostalgia, defined in a postmodern context, may ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-05-01)This dissertation provides the first full-scale musicological study of Stuttgart 95, a thirteenth-century song book, formerly thought to be from the abbey of Weingarten. Upon further examination, it is clear that rather ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)This dissertation describes the functional and structural properties of the Amdo Tibetan verb system. Amdo Tibetan (Tibetic, Trans-Himalayan) is a verb-final language, characterized by an elaborate system of post-verbal ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)The figure of the user is often overlooked in Internet histories, which frequently focus on larger treatments of infrastructure, governance, or major contributions of specific individuals. This thesis constructs a philosophical ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-10)We look at the problem of verifying optical entanglement for two types of states relevant to quantum information processing. One type occurs in Hong-Ou-Mandel interference and is relevant to quantum computing. The other ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)The boundary between two immiscible fluids is an important location for the adsorption and assembly of polyelectrolytes. A good description of the fundamental properties of polyelectrolytes at such interfaces is a prerequisite ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)Aqueous aerosol surfaces are an important platform for chemical reactions through which gases are transported in the atmosphere. The chemical complexity of aqueous aerosols is well-established, but many questions remain ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)The boundary between two immiscible liquids is known to play host to numerous chemical reactions and interactions despite making up a relatively small fraction of the overall system as a whole. Surfactants, the primary ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-09)Aqueous solutes next to hydrophobic interfaces arc prevalent in a multitude of chemical and biological systems throughout the world. Their presence ranges from environmental processes such as soil and water remediation to ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-03)We explore the reconstruction of B-state vibrational wave packets in I 2 from simulated two-color nonlinear wave packet interferometry data. As a simplification of earlier proposals, we make use of different vibrational ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-10)This project begins by asking why so many realist novels of the Victorian period also exhibit tropes borrowed from the eighteenth-century gothic romance—its locales, characters, and thematics. While theorizations of realism ...
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