• Place-in-Being: A Decolonial Phenomenology of Place in Conversation with Philosophies of the Americas 

  Newton, Margaret (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  Our experiences of place and emplacement are so fundamental to our everyday existence that most of us rarely dedicate much time to thinking about how place and emplacement impact the various aspects of our daily lives. In ...
• The Oxidative Addition of Palladium(0) to Hydro- and Halo- Silanes: Mechanisms and Applications 

  Hurst, Michael (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  The activation of silanes by transition metals is a crucial step in many transformations, including hydrosilylation, cross-coupling, and carbene insertion. Palladium is a common metal in catalysis and its activity is usually ...
• Understanding and Advancing the Status Quo of DDoS Defense 

  Shi, Lumin (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  Two decades after the first distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the Internet remains challenged by DDoS attacks as they evolve. Not only is the scale of attacks larger than ever, but they are also harder to detect ...
• Mountain Geist: Swiss Alpine Body and Song, 1700–1900 

  Loeffler, Emily (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  Between c.1700 and 1900, Swiss Alpine song was used as a tool to cultivate mountainous aspects within human bodies. Scholarship on Alpine song in this period typically focuses on the subgenre of the ranz des vaches, a ...
• Restoring What? And for Whom? Listening to Karuk Ecocultural Revitalization Practitioners and Uncovering Settler Logics in Ecological Restoration. 

  Worl, Sara (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  What does it mean to restore a landscape degraded by settler colonialism? How might a well intentionedprocess like ecological restoration end up causing harm from underlying settler colonial logics? This thesis explores ...
• Testing Presence, Assessing Attitudes: Study of a Virtual Tour in an "Aesthetically Challenged" Landscape 

  Steidle, Stuart (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  This thesis investigates using immersive media to explain landscape restoration efforts where the means and ends of such projects may appear risky or unsightly. I built a desktop-based, virtual tour of fire-dependent Pine ...
• Estimating and Mitigating Indoor Airborne Pathogens to Support Healthy Buildings 

  Parhizkar , Hooman (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  The global pandemic has caused myriad damages to the lives of millions of people worldwide. Several studies confirm that indoor spaces are the main hotspots of COVID-19 outbreaks resulting in multiple confirmed instances ...
• Public Diplomacy through an Integrated Cultural-Economic Model and Bourdieu Theoretical Lens: A Case Study of Sister Cities International 

  Ertem Eray, Tugce (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  This dissertation explores how the cultural-economic model (CEM) of public relations practice informs public diplomacy practice by focusing on the model’s three “moments”: regulation (e.g., laws, cultural norms), production ...
• Linking Microbial Community Structure to Ecosystem Function Using Microbiome Association Mapping and Artificial Ecosystem Selection 

  Morris, Andrew (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  Microbiomes mediate a variety of important ecosystem functions. However,it remains unclear what attributes of the microbiome are important for determining the rate of ecosystem functions. Past attempts to elucidate this ...
• Trophic Interactions of Hydromedusae Across Multiple Spatial Scales 

  Corrales, Marco (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  Cnidarian medusae are predators that structure pelagic ecosystems. Studies on their predatory impact have focused on big cruising scyphomedusae even though hydrozoans represent 60% of all medusan diversity and prey upon a ...
• Re-mediating Ireland: The Nature of Modernization in Twentieth-Century Irish Culture 

  Huber, Katherine (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  Ireland’s long history as a British colony raises questions in postcolonial studies about race, class, and gender that an ecocritical lens helps to answer. Drawing on literature, film, and archival photography and radio, ...
• Anonymity, Technology, and Conflict in the 2020-21 Portland Protests 

  Francis, Elise (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis ignited protests around the world. Portland, OR quickly emerged as a vanguard for leftist organizing, based on principles of anti-racism, antifascism, and anarchism, leading to ...
• Teacher Selfies and Parent Portraits: The Relationship Between Teacher Communication and School-Family Partnerships in Low Socio-economic Schools 

  Grissom, Suzanne (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  Research indicates that school-family partnerships improve student academic achievement, yet forming those partnerships can be challenging in any school. While the importance of those partnerships has been researched and ...
• A History of Roger Fisher’s Single Negotiating Text and its Application by President Jimmy Carter to the Egyptian Israeli Conflict 

  Simmons, Chloe (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  Single negotiating text, also known as the one text method, is a method of mediation created by Roger Fisher which allows a mediator to easily bring parties involved in complex and contentious issues toward a solution. ...
• Cell Specific Responses to Microbiota Play Global Roles in Host Development & Homeostasis 

  Massaquoi, Michelle (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  Resident microbes are a fixture within all animal life and impact diverse aspects of host biology ranging from metabolism, training of the immune system to identify pathogens but tolerate commensals, and tissue development. ...
• Essays on Industrial Organization and Health Economics 

  Jiang, Sichao (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  This thesis is composed of three essays and provides empirical contributions to the Industrial Organization literature, especially in the field of transportation and health economics. It aims to understand different issues ...
• Automating Camera Placement for In Situ Visualization 

  Marsaglia, Nicole (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  Trends in high-performance computing increasingly require visualization to be carried out using in situ processing. This processing most often occurs without a human in the loop, meaning that the in situ software must be ...
• On a Spectral Method for Calculating the Electrical Resistivity of a Low Temperature Metal from the Linearized Boltzmann Equation 

  Amarel, James (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  While it is well known that transport equations may be derived diagrammatically, both this approach and that of Boltzmann inevitably encounter an integral equation that both is difficult to solve and, for the most part, ...
• Scalable Observation, Analysis, and Tuning for Parallel Portability in HPC 

  Wood, Chad (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  It is desirable for general productivity that high-performance computing applications be portable to new architectures, or can be optimized for new workflows and input types, without the need for costly code interventions ...
• The Effects of Increasing Step Rate on Achilles Tendon Stress During Running 

  Farina, Kathryn (University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)

  Achilles tendon injuries are one of the most common running related injuries. Injuries to the Achilles tendon are painful, often involve long recovery and rehabilitation, and many patients are non-responsive to current ...

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