Prillwitz, Braden James(University of Oregon, 2019)
This thesis examines the sources utilized by researchers at the Oregon Climate Change Research Institution in the Third Oregon Climate Assessment Report, published in 2017. The report follows Oregon legislation from 2007, ...
The immediate goal of this study was to gain insight into the molecular basis of Usher
Syndrome. Usher Syndrome is the leading cause of hereditary deaf-blindness and its
underlying mechanisms are studied at the University ...
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 ...
COOPER, JENNIFER(University of Oregon, 2021-04-29)
Shoulder pain is a common orthopedic concern. The pain has a wide range of possible causes and may progress in a number of different manners. One large gap in knowledge is the specific pathway of a chronic condition resulting ...
Museums, as social institutions, have a responsibility to communities to act as a public space where museum visitors can interact with source communities. To incorporate accurate representations of communities, museum ...
Vigeant, Christine(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)
This thesis examines representations of female android subjectivities across three successive texts and media corresponding with three time periods: E.T.A. Hoffmann’s short story Der Sandmann (1816), Ernst Lubitsch’s silent ...
Despite their remote location and green veneer, landfills, like
many industrial sites, have become monuments to consumerism.
Every day in Lane County, Oregon, the equivalent of six pounds
of waste per resident joins the ...
Hernandez, Carolyn(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)
In this thesis I apply literary analysis to railroad guidebook illustration (1880-1890) to argue that the framing and decorative embellishments aided the nineteenth century reader in imagining an idealized version of the ...
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 ...
Zwier, Emily Rachel(University of Oregon, 2016-06)
The aim of this thesis is to engage with scholarly criticism of the omniscient
narrator to provide new understandings about its distinct manifestation and function in
literature. In order to reach new conclusions, this ...
Wilkinson, Sarah Wraye(University of Oregon, 2009-12)
New Urbanists promote development modeled upon neighborhoods that are highdensity
and mixed-use with connected streets so that residents will drive less and have a
strong sense of community. Little is known about whether ...
This study investigates the impact of democratic control on Turkey's
cooperatives. Turkey has had agricultural cooperatives in one form or another since the
early l31
h century; before the rise of the Ottoman Empire. ...
Success, particularly in our society in the US, is a complex social construct that often determines the life an individual will lead. I have analyzed the ideas of power and wealth, and the effect that these elements have ...
Over the past few years, performing arts centers have come to be regarded as having an important role in improving a community. But how can a performing arts center operate effectively and efficiently, playing this expected ...
The Dance of the Millions occurred during the year 1920 when, following the cessation of World War One price controls, the price of sugar increased by 43%. Sugar producers of the British West Indies, a group of 12 islands ...
Reynolds, Joel Michael(University of Oregon, 2009-06)
Emmanuel Levinas calls suffering "the very bond of human subjectivity," that by
which we are most fundamentally connected. Albeit irrefutable in its own right, properly
accounting for human suffering and pain resists ...