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(University of Oregon, 2017)Botrylloides violaceus, a colonial ascidian, is a cosmopolitan invader of fouling communities on man-made structures in harbors including Oregon’s Coos Estuary. This study documents seasonal and spatial patterns of B. ...
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Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT Initiative: A Case Study on International Climate Change Mitigation Narratives (University of Oregon, 2014)In 2007, Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa presented a novel climate change mitigation plan to the world: Ecuador would leave 846 million barrels of crude oil untouched beneath the Amazon if the global community reciprocated ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016)Contemporary historians, ecologists, and foresters agree that the policy of all-out suppression of forest fires was misled and that it led to the proliferation of highly flammable fuels contributing to larger, more frequent ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012-06)Do large dam projects create a “sustainable improvement of human welfare” for those directly affected by a dam or not (WCD 2000, 2)? This question is central to a major debate in international development. This thesis ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-04-29)The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic was the most devastating Ebola outbreak in history which killed over 10,000 people. During the outbreak, the WHO led efforts to design the best method to test the potential treatments quickly. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008)In "Time Series Tests of Endogenous Growth Models" (1995)1, Charles Jones concludes that the two textbook endogenous growth models - AK-models and R&D based models -are inconsistent with time series evidence. Showing ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014)Exotic dancing has been studied widely throughout the social sciences. Many scholars, such as Bernadette Barton and Katherine Frank, have argued that women become exotic dancers because they are suffering from repetition ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-12)For immigrants and refugees, the concept of “home” is seldom a concrete definition, as the question of where “home” is - either in the country of origin or the new country, activates a tension in self-identity. For the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-06)While many are aware of the inputs required to maintain food production at an industrial level in the United States, we seldom reflect on the profound significance of a food system that is so deeply rooted in what Matthew ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-04-29)During the post 9/11 era the President made claims to expansive Commander-in-Chief Powers, yet the United States’ functioning as a constitutional democracy necessitates a sharing of power among all three branches. Executive ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017)The nature of high seas fisheries as a common pool resource necessitates international agreements to regulate fishing behavior to preserve commercial fish stocks. The Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-12)Amakhosikazi (elite women) played a vital role within the social, economic, and political reality of the Zulu pre-colonial state. However, histories have largely categorized them as accessory to the lives of powerful men. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-06)The purpose of this research is to explore how genocide prevention has progressed in the 21st century with an in-depth examination of the crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR). The goal is to show that tools created ...
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(University of Oregon, 2004-12)Monsters. In the modern mind, they have come to occupy a mere periphery. Rejected by the orderly nature of our scientific universe, they are either subsumed into the categories of routine, abnormal results, or delegated ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011)Ground: for Four Players and Their Instruments is a piece of music written for flute, clarinet, violin, and violoncello. The facets of this piece that make it unique are those which may not have had any possibility of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023-03-21)This case study examines a cameo ring featuring Hermaphroditus. The use of this cameo has been theorized by The Getty as amulatory or related to Hermaphroditus cult. However, the common uses of similar rings, subject ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-12-13)Throughout history, the Northern Paiute people have continuously been subjected to both racism and prejudice. This prejudice came from both the arrival of Euro-American colonizers and other Native American tribes in the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-06)The United States is in the midst of an epidemic of overdose deaths. In response, harm reduction programs commonly distribute the opioid antagonist naloxone directly to drug users so that they can act as first responders ...
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