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(University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)In this study I investigate the relation between (1) country-level financial accounting standards and audit profession development and (2) firm-level tax evasion. I investigate this relation using a confidential dataset ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)Cities across the United States are increasingly vulnerable to internal and external forces that threaten energy and food security, access to resources, local ecologies and natural systems, global climate, and local ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2019)Over the past two decades, there has been a rise in organized “forest collaborative” groups of multiple stakeholders meeting regularly for dialogue about forest management priorities on a given area of national forest ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)Drawing from trends in environmental and disaster studies, this study examines the meaning of earthquakes within the official histories of China's Tang Dynasty (618-907), specifically those during the reign of Emperor ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)Large lahars threaten communities living near volcanoes all over the world. Evacuations are a critical strategy for reducing vulnerability and mitigating a disaster. Hazard perceptions, transportation infrastructure, and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This study examines how the South African Department of Home Affair’s asylum policies, laws, and implementation of those policies speak to South Africa’s commitment (both legally and socially) to protecting human rights. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)Histamine is commonly associated with immune responses, typically involved in allergic reactions. It can be released in multiple tissues, including skeletal muscle during exercise; however, it is unknown what it is ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)The rapid evolution of malicious activities in network environments necessitates the development of more effective and efficient detection and mitigation techniques. Traditional traffic analysis (TA) approaches have ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-04-27)An unusual marine heatwave preceded anomalous blooms of the colonial pelagic tunicate Pyrosoma atlanticum in the Northern California Current (NCC) in 2014-2018. Although aggregations of pyrosomes have the potential to shape ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)In this work we prove that the finite W -algebras associated to nilpotent elements in the symplectic or orthogonal Lie algebras whose Jordan blocks are all the same size are quotients of twisted Yangians. We use this to ...
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Fire and False Brome: How Do Prescribed Fire and Invasive Brachypodium sylvaticum Affect Each Other? (University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)Brachypodium sylvaticum, an invasive grass in Oregon, has the potential to cause ecosystem collapse by altering forest fire regimes. To examine interactions with fire we divided two sites in the Willamette National Forest ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Fire is an important ecological feature across temperate forests, yet characteristics of the coast redwood fire regime remain uncertain due to generally few fire histories. This study examines legacies of fire in redwood ...
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Fire in the Rainforest: Fire History and Carbon Pools in Southwestern Borneo's Tropical Rainforest (University of Oregon, 2021-04-29)Tropical rainforests are globally important resources for carbon storage as well as biodiversity. Despite high precipitation, fires now occur on an annual basis in Southeast Asia’s forests. Fire in the rainforest is not ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)After a century of wildfire suppression, the costs and complexity of wildfire management are increasing. Population growth in fire-prone landscapes, climate change, and diverse land management objectives all contribute ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)Although wildfire costs are commonly discussed in natural resource policy and research, how wildfire suppression spending affects local economies has received relatively little attention. Wildfires can have multiple ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)The current dissertation is a systematic study of variation in the English spoken in multilingual and multicultural India. Three experiments were conducted to investigate the influence of two native languages (Hindi and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)Due to their generally poor conductivity, metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have been limited in electrical applications. In this dissertation we explore structural deformation as a route to augmenting the electronic properties ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)Seeking healthcare is an act of trust: patients reveal private information, pain, and vulnerability to physicians who have specialized knowledge and skills. Patients may endure risk and uncertain treatment outcomes based ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)Beginning in the 1970s, states adopted sentencing reforms as a response to a growing number of concerns in the criminal justice system. These reforms included sentencing guidelines, statutory presumptive sentencing, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)We define a useful diagram for studying fixed-point-free involution words. Following the example of Little, we define a specific and a general bumping algorithm on these diagrams. These algorithms serve as the basis for ...
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