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Islands of Castile: Artistic, Literary, and Legal Perception of the Sea in Castile-Leon, 1248-1450 (University of Oregon, 2011-09)Before Spain encountered the Americas, it first encountered the sea. This dissertation explores the roots of that encounter by examining perceptions of the sea in late medieval Castile-Leon reflected in art, literature, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017)Understanding the evolution of host seeking behavior is crucial to conceptualizing the evolutionary rise of parasitism and for the formulation of future treatments. Over a billion people are infected by parasitic nematodes, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-06)The Brunner’s Gland is a small comma-shaped gland, located at the gastrointestinal junction, that is responsible for neutralizing stomach acid and lubricating the intestinal walls. Previous research shows differences ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012-05)The proteins and molecular agents that govern synapse formation in developing organisms are essential for cognitive and neural maturation. Mutations or disruptions in proteins that aid in the formation of a mature synapse ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-12)Large-volume calderas are responsible for producing large deposits of rhyolite and high-silica rhyolite, but the mechanisms by which these deposits are produced are still poorly understood. The Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021)The stable isotope composition of carbonate minerals provides a record of the conditions under which those minerals formed. Carbonate travertine constructions precipitated from high-pH (>11) springs exhibit large and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)Rhyolites of the Picabo volcanic field (10.4-6.6 Ma) of the Yellowstone hotspot in eastern Idaho are preserved as thick ignimbrites and lavas along the margins of the Snake River Plain. This study presents new O and Hf ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)The Arab Peace Initiative (former Saudi Initiative) was officially proposed by Saudi Arabia and has been (re-)endorsed by all 22 member states of the Arab League since 2002. Israel has not officially responded to the API ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017)Interactive data visualizations have created a new way for online journalists to tell a story. With the overwhelming amount of data available, these visualizations make it easier to compare similar data. The data available ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06)The majority of art museums in the US market their institution primarily to traditional audiences: white, mostly female, educated, and with an upper-middle-class and above financial life-style. This capstone research ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-10)When translating between any two languages, both linguistic and theoretical considerations must be made in order to create a successful translation. These choices are not made separately, however, but are inextricably ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019)Outsourcing IT services from onshore to offshore allows an organization to access skilled labor while reducing development and testing times and expenditures (Trickett, 2003). As the trend of outsourcing IT services to ...
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(2017-06-28)Outlined here is a trajectory of research into the relationship between identity and narrative, with a particular focus on how that relationship subverts the boundary between mainstream and margin. Drawing on a Lacanian ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-11-26)This thesis chronicles taarab, a popular genre of music, in Lamu and Matadoni, two communities on the coast of Kenya. My thesis argues that taarab, despite growing as popular and widespread in urban areas, developed as a ...
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(2018-07-25)This thesis chronicles taarab, a popular genre of music, in Lamu and Matadoni, two communities on the coast of Kenya. My thesis argues that taarab, despite growing as popular and widespread in urban areas, developed as ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)This project is about the pervasiveness of neo-liberal ideology as it influences the conception and delivery of services in the field of re-entry. Re-entry refers to the release from prison as it is experienced by convicted ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)This study examines the ways in which the education of children of undocumented immigrants is impacted by their parents’ undocumented status as well as their personal documentation status. In this thesis, I shed light on ...
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(2003-06)Examines the exclusion of women playwrights from the mainstream of American theater.
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)Scientific and engineering applications are dominated by linear algebra and depend on scalable solutions of sparse linear systems. For large problems, preconditioned iterative methods are a popular choice. High-performance ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-05-01)Dog adoption is a popular way for people to find pets in the United States. With dog adoption comes dog adoption narratives, ideologically about the dog, told by humans for humans. Dog adoption narratives, a genre of ...
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