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(University of Oregon, 2005-08)This dissertation inquires into the ethical, embodied subjectivity in American literature since World War II. It demonstrates how texts that register embodiment operate at the limits of the human and the literary, exposing ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)"Bathymodiolus" childressi is a mixotrophic mussel from Gulf of Mexico cold seeps. There is no genetic differentiation of mussels among the seeps, suggesting wide dispersal of their larvae. This dissertation describes ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-05-01)This dissertation proposes a new framework for understanding how argumentation and rhetorical action unfold in digital space. While studies in the field of rhetorical theory often address new discursive practices in spaces ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-11-21)The properties of conventional materials are inextricably linked with their molecular composition; to make water flow like wine would require changing its molecular identity. To circumvent this restriction, I have ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)Emotion experiences such as internalized distress have been described mostly in European Americans and adults in the psychological literature and less in Asian American children. Associations between emotion experience and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)This dissertation examines the spatial and built forms of Japanese power. As it sought to consolidate control of new territory, the Meiji government followed a design forged in Tokyo as it attempted to build legitimacy ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)Speech is highly variable and systematic, governed by the internal linguistic system and socio-indexical factors. The systematic relationship of socio-indexical factors and variable phonetic forms, referred to here as ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)This dissertation adjudicates the role of empiricism in the science and political theory of Thomas Hobbes. It accords “empiricism” status as a separate, coherent motivation, apart from others (like geometricization), which ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)This dissertation presents methods for economic analysis in settings characterized by sparse data. In the first substantive chapter, I show that difference-in-differences estimators can be biased in the presence of treatment ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)In this dissertation, we demonstrate that it is possible to develop methods of empirical hardware-counter-based performance analysis for scientific applications running on diverse CPUs. Although counters have been used in ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2010)With the current focus on developing the green economy as a strategy for economic recovery, there has been an increasing emphasis on investing in renewable energy development, energy efficiency, and businesses that ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)The advent of the information age brought with it a strong belief in the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for allowing Third World countries to leapfrog many stages of the development process. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)This dissertation proposes a study of female Caribbean subjectivity based on corporeality. By establishing relationships that break racial, geopolitical, linguistic and cultural barriers that have historically separated ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)This thesis explores the development of a housing scheme in rural Pakistan. In the so-called ‘backward’ district of Bhakkar, five entrepreneurs formed a partnership in 2004 to build the area’s first privately developed ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)The purpose of this study was to conduct, as a participant observer and district-level regional administrator, three exploratory mini-case studies of elementary schools in the same district attempting to meet the same ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)This piece is an exploration of tango music. Having played, arranged, composed, and performed this music since 2011, I consider myself steeped and well-versed in the culture and musical language of tango, and this piece ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)This dissertation proposes an approach to energy that transcends the focus on energy as a mere technical economic or engineering problem, is connected to sociological theory as a whole, and takes issues of equality and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)This thesis examines the enforcement of medical licensing laws in the United States between 1875 and 1915. Since all of these laws operated at the state level, I focus on the actions taken by various state medical boards ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2014)Payments for ecosystem services (PES) is an emerging conservation strategy that provides economic incentives for the protection of ecosystem services that benefit society, such as the provision of clean air, clean water, ...
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(University of Oregon, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, 2008)Recent catastrophic wildfires in the United States provided images of the destruction of multimillion-dollar homes, dense urban neighborhoods, and vast estates that overlook beautiful forests or the southern California ...
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