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Parenting Behaviors During Adolescence and Associations With Emerging Adult Educational Attainment and Mental Health
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)Emerging adulthood is described as the life stage spanning from the end of adolescence to the initiation of young adulthood or assuming stable adult roles. This developmental period, typically spanning ages 18-29, is ... -
Tourism and Change in Costa Rica: Pura Vida, Power and Place in a Small Beach Community
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)A vast majority of tourism development in Guanacaste has occurred in the northern coastal region along the Pacific coast (Honey, Vargas and Durham 2010). However, recent development is beginning to move south as developers ... -
“Yes! We Have No Bananas”: Cultural Imaginings of the Banana in America, 1880-1945
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)My dissertation project explores the ways in which the banana exposes Americans’ interconnected imaginings of exotic food, gender, and race. Since the late nineteenth century, The United Fruit Company’s continuous supply ... -
The Melodramatics of Turkish Modernity: Vurun Kahpeye [Strike the Slut] and its Cinematic Afterlife
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)Proposing melodrama as an aesthetics of victimhood, my dissertation examines the intermedial itineraries of notable feminist Halide Edib’s Vurun Kahpeye [Strike the Slut]. Originally serialized in 1923 and published as a ... -
Population Dynamics and Variability of Two Gelatinous Zooplankters (Aequorea and Pyrosoma atlanticum) in the Northern California Current
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)This research focused on population dynamics of two gelatinous zooplankters (Aequorea & Pyrosoma atlanticum) in the northern California Current to assess their relationship to environmental conditions and role in the pelagic ... -
Effective Soft-Mode Theory of Strongly Interacting Fermions in Dirac Semimetals
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)We present an effective field theory for interacting electrons in clean semimetals (both three dimensional Dirac semimetals and graphene) in terms of their soft or massless bosonic degrees of freedom. We show, by means of ... -
The Exclusive Frontier: Whiteness and the Settler Imagination in Last Child in the Woods
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)Spurred by Richard Louv’s bestseller Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit-Disorder (2005), a popular movement composed of parents, educators, and researchers has increasingly called for the ... -
Behavior and Functional Morphology of Respiration in the Basket Star, Gorgonocephalus eucnemis and Two Brittle Stars in the Genus Ophiothrix
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)Gorgonocephalus eucnemis, Ophiothrix suensonii and Ophiothrix spiculata are aerobic Echinoderms. Previous observations on the anatomy of these two genera state five pairs of radial shields and genital plates are responsible ... -
Revealing Promising Pathways for Increasing Urban Ecosystem Services: An Approach Combining Stakeholder Priorities with Ecosystem Service Quantification
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)Urban development diminishes the delivery of ecosystem services (ES), defined as benefits from ecological processes and functions critical to human health and well-being. Land-use planners and environmental managers are ... -
Predicting Phenotypes in Sparsely Sampled Genotype-Phenotype Maps
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)Naturally evolving proteins must navigate a vast set of possible sequences to evolve new functions. This process depends on the genotype-phenotype map. Much effort has been directed at measuring protein genotype phenotype ... -
Surface Potential Sensing Atomic Force Microscopy to Probe the Role of Oxygen Evolution Catalysts When Paired with Metal-Oxide Semiconductors
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)While prices of solar energy are becoming cost competitive with traditional fossil fuel resources, large scale deployment of solar energy has been limited by the inability to store excess electrical energy efficiently. One ... -
Border Assemblages: The Political Economy of Asian Regional Vegetable Trade
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)In my dissertation, I study the spatio-temporal variegation and transnational circulation of vegetable commodities using the case of edamame beans (the largest frozen vegetable sector in Asia). My dissertation shows that ... -
Diaspora Media, Local Politics: Journalism and the Politics of Homeland among the Ethiopian Opposition in the United States
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)The relentless political pressure the Ethiopian government put on Ethiopian journalists, political dissidents and opposition activists drove hundreds of them out of their country. However, after leaving their country, the ... -
Structure-Property Relationships in Mixed-Metal Oxides and (Oxy)Hydroxides for Energy Applications
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)Metal oxides and (oxy)hydroxides, particularly those containing two or more metals have many uses as electronic materials and catalyst, especially in energy applications. In this dissertation, the structure-property ... -
Bud-Sex: Sexual Flexibility Among Rural White Straight Men Who Have Sex With Men
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)I interviewed 60 rural, white, straight-identified men who have sex with men (MSM). I did so to answer three main research questions: How do rural, white, straight MSM understand their gender and sexual identity? How do ... -
The Impact of Religious Bias on Mental Health and Academic Performance: Implications for Diversity in Academia and Science Fields
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)Science thrives when there is a continuous flow of new ideas and diverse generations of scholars contributing to the field. Although academic institutions aim to encourage diverse viewpoints, a culture of atheism among ... -
Temporal Relations of Verbal and Non-Verbal Behavior in Storytelling
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)This dissertation takes a ‘big data’ approach to analyzing a corpus of multimodal storytelling with the goal of providing data for researchers interested in developing more holistic models of production that integrate ... -
Rhizomatic Resistance: Teacher Activism and the Opt-Out Movement
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)High-stakes testing has grown in scope and impact in recent years, as accountability decisions regarding funding, school sanctions, and teacher evaluations often depend on standardized test results. The shift toward more ... -
Farming Without Farmers: Deskilling in Contract Broiler Farming
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)Social scientists and food studies scholars have shown an enduring interest in how food is produced in our largely industrialized food system. However, there has been little research about the organization of labor on ... -
Value Creation: The Dynamic Position of Policy Change in The Global Tea Industry
(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 ...