• The Piano Sonata in Costa Rica 

  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 ...
• Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements: A Review of International Environmental Governance Theory 

  Adamczyk, Brendan (University of Oregon, 2020-05)

  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 ...
• Beyond Corporate Profits: Reminiscing about the future of CEO activism in Ghana 

  Adae, Eric (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

  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 ...
• The Freshman Project: Adolescent Well-Being During the Transition to College 

  Mobasser, Arian (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

  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 ...
• "Herstory if Caught by the Camera's Eye:" Photographers of Oregon's Lesbian Lands 

  Root, Raechel (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

  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 ...
• Rural Sanitation Preferences and Household Decisions: A Mixed-Methods Case Study in Wolaita, Ethiopia 

  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 ...
• The Effect of Nest Architecture on Nest Microclimate and Microbiome Assembly in Tropical Birds 

  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 ...
• Disruptions in Intergenerational Childhood Maltreatment for Dual System-Involved Women: Investigating the Protective Role of Parenting 

  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 ...
• Solar Cell Contacts: Quantifying the Impact of Interfacial Layers on Charge Transfer, Selectivity, Recombination, and Open-Circuit Voltage 

  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. ...
• Representing Pakistani Women in Family Planning Campaign: A Case-Study of Greenstar Social Marketing Campaign and DKT International 

  Azhar, Farah (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

  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 ...
• The Language Zone: Joseph Brodsky and the Making of a Bilingual Poet 

  Smirnova, Daria (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

  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, ...
• Titanium in quartz during growth and deformation under hydrothermal-magmatic conditions 

  Acosta, Marisa (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

  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 Evolving Fashion of Taiwan from 1949-1987: Expression, Consumption, and Futurity 

  DiFonzo, Nakota (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

  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 ...
• Music Borrowing in Organ Literature through History: Couperin, Bach, Brahms, Ives, Alain, and Cage 

  Schroeder, Joy (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

  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 ...
• The Time Course of the Integration of Visual Information into the Egocentric Reference Frame 

  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, ...
• The Applications of Machine Learning Techniques in Networked Systems 

  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 ...
• Mediations from Under the Cloak: Christianity, Trauma, and Reconciliation in Brennu-Njáls Saga 

  Young, Jeremiah (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

  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. ...
• An Interface for Embedding the BLAS in Haskell 

  Ndemeye, Bosco (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

  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 ...
• Occupying a Third Place: Pro-Life Feminism, Legible Politics, and the Edge of Women's Liberation 

  Strait, Laura (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

  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 ...
• Little Plants, Big Changes: Disturbances facilitate shrub seedling establishment in the Arctic 

  Chafe, Oriana (University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)

  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 ...

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