Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Defending the Principle of Legality in Afghanistan: Toward a Unified Interpretation of Article 130 to the Afghan Constitution
(University of Oregon School of Law, 2017-09-20)The 2004 Constitution of Afghanistan is one of the main sources of criminal law in the country, not because it defines crimes and punishments, but because it establishes the fundamental, individual rights and liberties ... -
Alternative Business Structures for Lawyers and Law Firms: A View from the Global Legal Services Market
(University of Oregon School of Law, 2017-09-20)This Article begins by looking at formulations of law practice from a European perspective, focusing on European Union law and mandates that relate to lawyers and the delivery of legal services. The Article then examines ... -
Facing an Ugly Truth: The Senate’s Report on CIA Torture as Truth-Telling
(University of Oregon School of Law, 2017-09-20)Known as the “torture report,” the U.S. Senate’s December 2014 report on the CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation program described years of systematic human rights abuses born from an official policy of torture and cruel treatment. ... -
Structural Organization in Benjamin Britten's Three Suites for Solo Cello
(University of Oregon, 2017-08)Benjamin Britten's instrumental music has received relatively little attention in the music theory community compared to is operas and vocal music. This lecture document examines three of his instrumental works: the Suite ... -
Structural Models in Debussy's Late Works
(University of Oregon, 2017-08)In Claude Debussy’s late works one sometimes encounters passages with unclear and seemingly fragmented structures. Performers often make interpretive decisions based on musical structure, and understanding these problematic ... -
What to Listen for in Copland: An Interpretive Analysis of His 1941 Piano Sonata
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Selected Solo and Chamber Works for Clarinet by Germaine Tailleferre: Historical, Compositional and Pedagogical Perspectives
(University of Oregon, 2017-09)A successful and prolific composer throughout the twentieth century, Germaine Tailleferre remains relatively unknown despite her membership in Les Six and collaborations and friendships with some of the most well-known ... -
The Distribution of Two Marine Cladocerans During Upwelling and Relaxation Events Off the Oregon Coast
(2010-11)Offshore surface currents that appear during upwelling events have the potential to carry nearshore coastal zooplankton offshore. I tested the hypothesis that the marine cladocerans Podon leuckarti and Evadne nordmanni are ... -
The subtidal Bryozoan fauna off Cape Arago, Oregon
(2013-05)The subtidal marine biodiversity off the Oregon coast is poorly studied and not well understood. The few subtidal studies in Oregon have focused on vertebrates with little regard to invertebrate assemblages. Oregon’s ... -
When lives are in your hands: Dilemmas of the societal decision maker
(1990)A Societal Decision Maker (SDM) is a person who makes risky decisions on behalf of others. Most of the time, such decisions should be based on the wishes and beliefs pf the affected people. This paper explores a few cases ... -
Reconstructing the Mothership: Meaning and History in the Music of P-Funk
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)During the 1970s, the Parliament-Funkadelic collective, or P-Funk, performed a unique type of funk music that impacted the lives and culture of generations of fans. Their music has been a vital force in the developments ... -
Russia's Hybrid Warfare: The Prowess and Limitations of Putin's (In)Visible Hand in Estonia and Latvia
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Russia’s recent increase in acts of aggression against bordering nations is concerning. After Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, many wondered if the world should anticipate a Baltic intervention. This ... -
Stylish Politics: Long Takes in Post-1945 Cinema
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This dissertation is a politically conscious, comparative-historical formal analysis of long takes at the intersection of art and mass-market cinemas in the post-WWII era. Given the contemporary fascination with long takes ... -
Investigating Dopamine- and Norepinephrine-Linked Variability in Cognitive Control in Lab and in Life
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)A series of experiments investigated the relationship between locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) function and striatal dopamine (DA) tone and the flexibility of stability of cognitive control. Across 4 experiments, ... -
Faithful tropicalization of hypertoric varieties
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)The hypertoric variety M_A defined by an arrangement A of affine hyperplanes admits a natural tropicalization, induced by its embedding in a Lawrence toric variety. In this thesis, we explicitly describe the polyhedral ... -
A Better Tomorrow: Examination of International Students’ Success in Higher Education
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)International student enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased and diversified over the past decade. The unique needs and challenges international students face in pursuing higher education in the U.S. need a ... -
Synaptic Target Selection in the Drosophila Visual System
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Synapses are necessary for a functional nervous system. To form a synapse, a neuron must first extend an axon, then select its proper synaptic target, and finally, a series of adhesion and adaptor molecules must work ... -
INTERLIMINAL TONGUES: SELF-TRANSLATION IN CONTEMPORARY TRANSATLANTIC BILINGUAL POETRY
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)In this dissertation, I argue that self-translators embody a borderline sense of hybridity, both linguistically and culturally, and that the act of translation, along with its innate in-betweenness, is the context in which ...