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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This thesis examines the ways in which masculinity is constructed and performed by commercial fisherman poets. Focusing on the writings of cisgender male poets, this thesis examines the ways in which competence and credibility ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-12)This work argues that the principle of autonomy set forth in the Principalist theory of biomedical ethics should be replaced by "the just distance"-a concept first suggested by Paul Ricoeur. Beginning with the prevailing ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)Divisiveness routinely turns violent, thus making research into alternative means of dealing with conflict an urgent necessity. This dissertation focuses on the politics of divisiveness and the techniques of conflict ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-09)Global climate negotiations have been at a standstill for over a decade now over the issue of distributing the responsibility of mitigating climate change among countries. During the past few years, countries such as India ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)This dissertation explores the history of Japanese home cooking during the formative postwar period—focusing on the women who were responsible for its development. My research demonstrates that as the primary consumers who ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-03)The Demosion Sema ["Public Tomb"] was an area of the Kerameikos in Athens that in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE functioned as the state burial ground--the repository of mass graves for those who had lost their lives in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-05-01)This dissertation gives an account of Kant’s understanding of the human animal through examination of a range of published works and lecture transcripts from the 1770s through the 1790s, with particular attention paid to ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)The Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial of a matroid M, denoted P_M( t ), was recently defined by Elias, Proudfoot, and Wakefield. These polynomials are analogous to the classical Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials associated with Coxeter ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-03)In 1972 ceramist Ken Price (b. 1935) embarked on Happy's Curios , a six-year long project that he described as an homage to Mexican folk pottery. It ended with a 1978 exhibition of the same name held at the Los Angeles ...
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Kernel (University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)Kernel is a fifteen-minute work for wind ensemble. Its unifying strands of rhythm, melody, and harmony are spun out of simple four-note tone clusters which undergo changes in contour, intervallic inversion, register, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-09)Whistleblowing has been a topic of media interest since the Vietnam War, and it continues to resonate strongly with the public. Several well-publicized whistleblowers have done much more than catch the attention of the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)Oregon’s Kindergarten Assessment (KA) is mandatory for all incoming Oregon kindergarteners starting in the 2013-14 school year. One component of Oregon’s KA is the Child Behavioral Rating Scale (CBRS), which Oregon has ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)DISSERTATION ABSTRACT Li Jin Doctor of Philosophy Department of Human Physiology March 2018 Title: Kinematic and Kinetic Analysis of Walking and Running across Speeds and Transitions between Locomotion States Walking ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-11-21)Subduction zone fault processes range from tsunami-generating megathrust events to aseismic creep along the deeper portions of the fault. Episodic tremor and slow slip (ETS) represents the transition between these two ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This dissertation corrects the notion that fiction written in the late 1920s through the early 1940s fails to achieve the mastery and innovation of high modernism. It posits late modernism as a literary dispensation that ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)Generating and maintaining participation in online communities is critical to their success. In this research, I investigate how the design of the reputation system can influence user participation. Specifically, I explore ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)Machine learning and data mining have provided plenty of tools for extracting knowledge from data. Yet, such knowledge may not be directly applicable to target applications and might need further manipulation: The knowledge ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-03)Parallel applications running on high-end computer systems manifest a complex combination of performance phenomena, such as communication patterns, work distributions, and computational inefficiencies. Current performance ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)From the early 1860s Koreans appeared in the Russian Far East. Beginning in 1864, Koreans who received approval of the Russian authorities had begun to establish Korean villages in this region. During the 1860s and 1870s, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)We investigate some homological properties of graded algebras. If A is an R -algebra, then E (A) := Ext A ( R, R ) is an R-algebra under the cup product and is called the Yoneda algebra. (In most cases, we assume R ...
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