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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)This exploratory investigation examined the relationship between states' educational standardization and voter turnout, using cultural and critical theory lenses. The study documented the problem of low voter participation ...
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(1986)The objective of informing and educating the public about risk issues seems easy to attain in principle, but, in practice, may be difficult to accomplish. This paper attempts to illustrate why this is so. To be effective, ...
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(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012)This paper describes a psychological phenomenon called psychic numbing that devalues lives when many are at stake and thus enables political leaders to neglect mass suffering, in violation of our professed humanitarian ...
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(1980)Designers of programs for informing the public about radiation hazards need to consider the difficulties inherent in communicating highly technical information about risk. To be effective, information campaigns must be ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023)Food insecurity plagues the globe, affecting hundreds of millions of people. There are many different levels of food insecurity spanning from acute to those living in deep famine. This issue is one that needs to be solved ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)Esta disertación analiza el desarrollo de la estética literaria decadentista en Bolivia en conexión con las infraestructuras de urbanización del espacio a principios del siglo XX. A diferencia del decadentismo europeo, que ...
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Infrastructural Development’s Effects on Rural Women’s Livelihoods in Tehri-Garhwal, Northern India (University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This thesis investigates the effects of change and modernization on rural women’s livelihoods in northern India. Infrastructural development projects have been identified by research agencies and scholars as beneficial to ...
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(Green Mountains Review, 2008-02)This poem is part of a series of poems about victims in recent Middle east wars.
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-27)Not having accurate contemporary, historical and place-based curriculum drafted in consultation with tribes is a huge disservice and a violation of the trust agreements the United States government entered into with its ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)Extant data suggest that rural children are more likely to consume a surplus of calories and energy-dense foods (e.g., candy, soft drinks, and vending machine snacks) compared to their urban peers. Eating behaviors established ...
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(Elsevier, 1992-06)Supernatant solutions from kidney and liver homogenates of the chicken, Gallus domesticus, were found to hydrolyze the organophosphate (OP) compound diisopropylfluorophosphate (DFP). The activity on DFP as substrate was ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-12)This study attempts to reconstruct Proto-Boro-Garo (PBG), the ancient language from which the modern Boro-Garo (BG) family evolved. BG is a largely underdocumented sub-branch of Tibeto-Burman that is spoken primarily in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)While mixed ionic-electronic conductors (MIECs) show promise in a number of different device structures, their successful application has been inhibited by difficulties with characterization. The simultaneous influence of ...
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(University of Oregon, 1992-02)The work is divided into four parts. The first deals with both the genesis of the ILWU and its ideology, and more specifically the Portland waterfront leading up to the watershed strike of 1934. The second part is a ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-06)Many bacteria live commensally in the intestines of complex host organisms. but the methods by which this community assembles are not fully understood. It is :i.uspected that two processes, inter-host dispersal and host ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-10-08)Literary critic and poet Tatiana Neshumova, who has devoted much of her research to Russian Silver Age literature, discusses the life and works of Russian writers V.G. Malakhieva-Mirovich, Dimitry Usov, and Evgenii Arkhippov.
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(University of Oregon, 2024)Yoga is an ancient spiritual and philosophical system originating in what is now India that aims to create union within the individual self and with a higher consciousness. Now, yoga is practiced all over the world, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015)In this article, I place Orhan Pamuk's novel The Museum of Innocence into dialogue with Sigmund Freud's theory of the fetish. As Gerhard Neumann argues, the fetish provides the basic pattern for the modern subject and its ...
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(1960-06)The focus of this particular study is on collective bargaining, or more generally, industrial sociology. Fringe benefits, the particular aspect of collective bargaining in question, were chose not so much for their present ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)Many youth under the age of 18 experience high levels of mental health problems, and very few of those youth receive the necessary services to combat those problems. Historically, assessment of behavior and social and ...
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