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Community Art Methods and Practices: A Model for a More Human-Centered and Culturally Sensitive Historic Preservation Practice
(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)A growing number of Community Artists are doing work with potential relevance to the field of historic preservation. They have seen a need for action in low-income communities and communities of color that are losing their ... -
Aviation English Is Distinct From Conversational English: Evidence From Prosodic Analyses And Listening Performance
(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)International aviation professionals converse in a register of English derived from postwar radiotelephony. Decades of use and regulatory pressure established Aviation English (AE) as the lingua franca for pilots and air ... -
Sustainable Development, Youth, Entrepreneurship and Leadership Education: A Case Study of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, Young African Leaders Initiative
(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)Entrepreneurship education has emerged as an alternative to traditional models of sustainable development in Sub-Sahara Africa. Traditional development models focus on economic reforms. In contrast, Amartya Sen’s capabilities ... -
Examining the Effectiveness of College- or University Sexual Assault Prevention Programs: A Literature Review
(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)The purpose of the current review was to examine the effectiveness of college- or university sexual assault prevention programs. Further, the current paper reviews prevalence rates, factors that may contribute to the high ... -
Expanded Indenofluorenes: From Structure to Theory
(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)As humanity moves into the future, the demand for new electronic devices increases. Flexible electronics that could be bendable, wearable, and/or biocompatible are more desired and, fortunately, closer to our grasp than ... -
GMO: Friend or Foe? An Analysis of the GMO Debate with Special Focus on India
(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)Approximately thirty years after their inception, the use of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, remains contentious. Often, proponents of their use contend that the potential of GMOs to mitigate poverty and hunger ... -
Phylogenetics and the Genomic Consequences of Divergence in a Radiation of Monkeyflowers
(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)Understanding the forces that drive divergence, and the genomic consequences of this process, is a central goal in evolutionary biology. Evolutionary radiations provide excellent opportunities to study speciation, as taxa ... -
Mission Accepted: A Case Study Examining the Relationship of Khan Academy with Student Learning
(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)This study examined implementing the online website Khan Academy as a primary resource for mathematics instruction. Participants were high school students aged 15-18 years enrolled in the traditional mathematics courses ... -
A PALEOETHNOBOTANICAL APPROACH TO 14,000 YEARS OF GREAT BASIN PREHISTORY: ASSESSING HUMAN-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONS THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PLANT DATA AT TWO OREGON ROCKSHELTERS
(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)Well-preserved plant remains recovered from archaeological deposits at the Paisley Five-Mile Point Caves and Little Steamboat Point-1 Rockshelter in southcentral Oregon provided a rare opportunity to study ancient plant ... -
Kakeibo Monogatari: Women's Consumerism and the Postwar Japanese Kitchen, 1945-1964
(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 ... -
Microclimate and Phenology at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest
(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)Spring plant phenology is often used as an indicator of a community response to climate change. Remote data and low-resolution climate models are typically used to predict phenology across a landscape; however, this tends ... -
Nonequilibrium Statistical Models: Guided Network Growth Under Localized Information and Perspectives on Electron Diffusion in Conductors
(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)The ability to probe many-particle systems on a microscopic level has revolutionized the way we do statistical physics. As computational capabilities continue to grow exponentially, larger and more complex systems come ... -
Gauging Community Support for a Bilingual Two-Way Immersion Program for K-8 Students Using Under-Represented Languages
(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)This application is for the U.S. Department of Education’s Education Innovation and Research Program to secure funding for a market analysis to gauge the interest of Portland, Oregon parents for opening a two-way immersion ... -
Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomials of Matroids and Their Roots
(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 ... -
KINEMATIC AND KINETIC ANALYSIS OF WALKING AND RUNNING ACROSS SPEEDS AND TRANSITIONS BETWEEN LOCOMOTION STATES
(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 ... -
Comparative and Cross-Cultural Validity of the Moral Actions Questionnaire, a Measure for Ethical Virtue
(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)Though current personality models provide a starting point for measuring ethical virtues, ethical content may not be fully captured in existing personality inventories due in part to the systematic elimination of ... -
Flesh and Stone: Competing Narratives of Female Martyrdom from Late Imperial to Contemporary China
(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)My dissertation focuses on the making of Chinese female martyrs to explore how representations serve as a strategy to either justify or question the normalization of the horrors of untimely death. It examines the narratives ... -
On Germs and Germination: Uncovering the Hidden Ecology of Seedborne Bacteria and Fungi in Open-Pollinated Maize
(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)Plants are inhabited by diverse species of bacteria and fungi, which affect plant health and fitness. Endophytes are bacteria or fungi that live within plant host tissues without causing symptoms of disease, and mediate ... -
Reproducing the River: Historic Context and Resource Survey of Oregon’s State Fish Hatchery System
(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)Oregon’s fish hatchery system developed in the late 1800’s in response to salmon fishery losses. Salmon hatcheries consist of a number of built components. ‘Growing fish’ requires a variety of building types which support ... -
THE SOVIET CRITIQUE OF A LIBERATOR’S ART AND A POET’S OUTCRY: ZINOVII TOLKACHEV, PAVEL ANTOKOL’SKII AND THE ANTI-COSMOPOLITAN PERSECUTIONS OF THE LATE STALINIST PERIOD
(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)This thesis investigates Stalin’s post-WW2 anti-cosmopolitan campaign by comparing the lives of two Soviet-Jewish artists. Zinovii Tolkachev was a Ukrainian artist and Pavel Antokol’skii a Moscow poetry professor. Tolkachev ...