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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)Parents of young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) often report heightened levels of parental distress. An increasing amount of attention is being directed to parental mental health and addressing the well-being ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)This thesis explores how women heads of transnational households in one rural Mexican village in Querétaro, Mexico experienced the COVID-19 pandemic vis-à-vis their gendered family roles. From June 2021 to February 2022, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)This dissertation is an ethnographic study of how members of the Indo-Guyanese community traveled from Guyana to New York City, carrying with them distinct understandings of Hinduism informed by their multiple dislocations ...
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(University of Oregon, 2004-12)There is growing evidence of an environmental movement within the religious sector. However, this phenomenon, referred to as faith-based environmentalism (FBE), is only present in some congregations. Previous research has ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)My dissertation investigates the loss of morphological case and grammatical gender in the Germanic, Romance, and Balkan Sprachbund languages. Crucial language-internal and language-external motivations are considered. To ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-12)The purpose of this dissertation study is to explore and describe the development of political attitudes and behaviors in current undergraduate academic life. By undertaking this study, I sought to add to the understanding ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-12)The purpose of this study was to learn more about the transition experiences of one group of high school students ( N = 75) as they began attending one alternative pathway: an Early College High School program on a community ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)This case study identified which of Baker and Richards' (2004) leadership models (compliance, performance, ecological) were used to make data-based decisions in six Oregon schools. Two elementary, two middle and two high ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)The Cassandra Complex is a work in the traditions of critical philosophy and psychoanalysis. In The Cassandra Complex, I examine the intersection of violence, racism, and mourning. I hold that analysis of this intersection ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-03)Since 1975, the Spanish autonomous region of Catalonia has been renegotiating its political and cultural place within Spain. The designation and promotion of places within Catalonia as World Heritage Sites-a matter over ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-11-21)This dissertation uses techniques from the theory of categorical actions of Kac-Moody algebras to study the analog of the BGG category O for the queer Lie superalgebra. Chen recently reduced many questions about this ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)Graphs and matroids are two of the most important objects in combinatorics.We study invariants of graphs and matroids that behave well with respect to certain morphisms by realizing these invariants as functors from a ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-12)This dissertation examines the development of skeptical views concerning causation from the medieval to the early modern period. While causal skepticism is often overlooked by intellectual historians, I argue that, in spite ...
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(Department of Planning, Public Policy & Management, University of Oregon, 2005-06)In the past fifty years corporate involvement in the nonprofit sector has gradually changed from a voluntary practice of corporate philanthropy to the current mainstream practice of corporate social responsibility through ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)Fossil fuel markets have formed the backbone of commerce in the United States for the better part of the last century. Whether it be through the extraction of raw materials, the refinement for future use, their use in the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)Millions of dollars are spent on celebrity contracts each year by assuming that the benefits of using celebrities will exceed the costs. Accordingly, many researchers have studied the impact of celebrity endorsements on ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)Neurons in the central nervous system are typically not replaced and must therefore maintain their choice of fate and their synaptic connections throughout the life of an organism. I have used Drosophila genetics to analyze ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)Resident microbes are a fixture within all animal life and impact diverse aspects of host biology ranging from metabolism, training of the immune system to identify pathogens but tolerate commensals, and tissue development. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)Cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II), or cisplatin, is a widely prescribed anticancer compound, currently one of only three platinum (II) complexes FDA approved for cancer treatment. Despite its widespread use, we lack a ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)This is a multidisciplinary and comparative study of the recurrent representations of bandits in Latin American literature from the second half of the 19th Century to the early 20th Century. After the wars of independence ...
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