Hereditary societies are membership organizations dedicated to the preservation of the memory of particular people or events. This research explored the contribution of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), as ...
This dissertation presents two searches for signals of dark matter in an integrated luminosity of 139 ifb of proton-proton collision data collected at a center of mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector ...
This dissertation summarizes the work of integrating machine-learning and traditional seismic analysis techniques into large and small earthquake problems. Earthquake early warning for large magnitude earthquakes is one ...
Johnson, Abigail(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
In this dissertation, I analyze representations of the intersections between sense perception and sociality in early modern English literature. Literary texts from the late sixteenth through mid-seventeenth centuries ...
In his essay Urfascism, Umberto Eco outlines the various ideological traits that he perceives to be the basic “familial resemblances” of fascism – one of these traits being “the natural fear of difference”. In acknowledgement ...
Whitehat, Paulina(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
DISSERTATION ABSTRACT
Paulina Whitehat
Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences
December 2022
Title: Examining the Lived Experiences of Special Education Teachers During the COVID-19 ...
Norton-Smith, Kathryn(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
This dissertation explores the lived experiences of young adults with cancer through qualitative methods, including 40 in-depth interviews and participant observation. This dissertation extends sociological inquiry to an ...
Yenpure, Abhishek(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
Exascale computing, i.e., supercomputers that can perform 1018 math operations per second, provide significant opportunity for improving the computational sciences. That said, these machines can be difficult to use ...
What does it mean to study silence in a field that has historically been the study of speech and language in action? The discipline of rhetoric and composition relies on a foundational equivocation of speech with being and ...
Jefferson County, between 2011 and 2016, is an excellent case study of emergent water resource and environmental conflict. Three major waterways – the Middle Deschutes, Crooked, and Metolius Rivers – are examined through ...
Networks of Experience: Interactive Digital Art in the 21st Century considers interactivity in digital art practices. Emerging technologies advance so quickly that artworks using such technologies are not fully understood. ...
Three to four billion years ago the surface of Mars may have been habitable. Ancient martian rocks that were subject to aqueous alteration in near-surface environments may store a record of this habitable paleoclimate, and ...
In Taiwan, the high prevalence of emotional and behavioral problems in children has increased public awareness of young children’s social-emotional development in recent years. Early identification of social-emotional ...
Cultural landscape professionals commonly use an established, framework-based approach to assess distinctive site features. This framework serves to organize and inform the study, reconnaissance, and documentation of ...
Plada Guerra, Washington(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
This programmatic work for chamber orchestra features musical motifs based onthree characters: myself, my father, and my son. Musical transitions evoke these characters
transitioning along the cyclical paths of life and ...
Chromatin is made up of an organism’s DNA and DNA binding proteins inside of the nucleus. Nucleosomes are the fundamental unit of chromatin, consisting of a 147 base pair DNA sequence and a protein octamer comprised of 8 ...
Hager, Alexander(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
Mass loss from the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets has accelerated in recent decades and is predicted to contribute < 40 cm of mean sea level rise in the 21st Century. However, there is significant uncertainty in ...
Youth suicide continues to be a growing public health tragedy in the United States. In particular, AI/AN youth are at disproportionate risk for suicide. The present study takes place in Klamath County, Oregon where the ...
Alhazmi, Mofareh(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
My dissertation investigates the loss of morphological case and grammatical gender in the Germanic, Romance, and Balkan Sprachbund languages. Crucial language-internal and language-external motivations are considered. To ...
Garner, Alexandra(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
Heroic fantasy produced by Anglophone creators overwhelmingly and often explicitly draws on western mythopoetic literary traditions. Just as products of the Renaissance and the Victorians before them, late 20th and 21st ...