Jorge Manuel, Briceño González(University of Oregon, 2020-05)
Although academic papers and dissertations on Costa Rican music are not completely uncommon, only a handful focus on piano music. The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the sonata genre in the Costa Rican ...
All countries face numerous environmental problems, from air and ocean pollution to the existential threat posed by climate change and many more. In response, many nations have negotiated and joined international environmental ...
This dissertation offers an inquiry into the nascent phenomenon of CEO activism. It addresses gaps in CEO activism research, including a dearth of non-Western contexts, the dominance of modernist perspectives, the omission ...
Adolescence is a critical period of development during which myriad biological and ecological changes converge with youths’ burgeoning sense of self-awareness. Despite enduring views of this convergence as one of only ...
This thesis explores the photography of Oregon’s lesbian land communities, through the Ovular workshops hosted at the lesbian land Rootworks from 1980 to 1983 and their subsequent magazine The Blatant Image (1981-1983). I ...
Hansberger, Dayna(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)
Rural Ethiopian families bear the responsibility to invest in their own sanitation, resulting in large disparities in latrine quality. This study analyzes considerations for household latrine purchases, desirable latrine ...
Campos Cerda, Felipe(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)
Animals interact with complex microbial communities (i.e., their microbiomes) throughout their lifetimes. Microbiomes can have important effects on their host’s fitness and survival, but it is unclear how newborn hosts are ...
Schweer-Collins, Maria(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)
Childhood maltreatment is a prevalent and costly public health problem, which confers significant negative mental and physical consequences to the children and families who are affected. Among the negative sequelae of ...
Egelhofer Ruegger, Kira(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)
Solar cells require two primary components to function: an absorber and contacts, either of which may limit photovoltaic efficiency. For example, the contacts of silicon and perovskite solar cells limit their performance. ...
Pakistan being the fifth most populous country in the world with limited resources. The demand for contraceptives is low with contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) being 35 %. Most of the health campaigns in Pakistan focus ...
My dissertation unites several aspects of Joseph Brodsky’s writing under the arc
of his development as a bilingual and transnational writer. I make the case that Brodsky’s
poetic sensibility was originally transnational, ...
DISSERTATION ABSTRACT
Marisa Dawn Acosta
Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Earth Sciences
September 2020
Title: Titanium in quartz during growth and deformation under hydrothermal-magmatic conditions
Titanium in ...
The martial law era was an important period for the development of the fashion market in Taiwan. Due to economic and/or cultural influence from China, Japan, Western Europe, and, importantly, the United States, Taiwan was ...
This dissertation is a study of borrowed melodies, harmonies, and formal structures in six representative works from the organ literature of the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. These works, by composers François ...
Peterson, Jeffrey(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)
An important function of the visual system is to identify and localize objects within our environment. This task is often facilitated by accounting for the broader visual context in which the object is embedded. However, ...
Jamshidi, Soheil(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)
Many large networked systems ranging from the Internet to ones deployed atop the Internet (e.g., Amazon) play critical roles in our daily lives. In these systems, individual nodes (e.g., a computer) establish a physical ...
This thesis explores the representation and testimony of trauma in the medieval Brennu-Njáls saga. Beginning with an outline of contemporary trauma studies, this thesis examines the repercussions narratives of social trauma. ...
Scientific algorithms have been built on top of linear algebra subprograms, historically implemented in languages such as C/C++ or Fortran, to optimize their performance, sometimes at the cost of their conciseness. Recent ...
This dissertation reads pro-life feminism as a break from traditional public perceptions of feminist thought. Through a variety of methodological analyses, it engages three case studies to answer (1) How does pro-life ...
Currently warming at more than twice the rate of the global average, the Arctic is rapidly changing with global consequences. Climate change enables arctic shrub expansion, which alters ecosystem structure and contributes ...