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The Distribution of Two Marine Cladocerans During Upwelling and Relaxation Events Off the Oregon Coast
(2010-11)Offshore surface currents that appear during upwelling events have the potential to carry nearshore coastal zooplankton offshore. I tested the hypothesis that the marine cladocerans Podon leuckarti and Evadne nordmanni are ... -
The subtidal Bryozoan fauna off Cape Arago, Oregon
(2013-05)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 ... -
Reconstructing the Mothership: Meaning and History in the Music of P-Funk
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)During the 1970s, the Parliament-Funkadelic collective, or P-Funk, performed a unique type of funk music that impacted the lives and culture of generations of fans. Their music has been a vital force in the developments ... -
Russia's Hybrid Warfare: The Prowess and Limitations of Putin's (In)Visible Hand in Estonia and Latvia
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Russia’s recent increase in acts of aggression against bordering nations is concerning. After Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, many wondered if the world should anticipate a Baltic intervention. This ... -
Stylish Politics: Long Takes in Post-1945 Cinema
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)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 ... -
Investigating Dopamine- and Norepinephrine-Linked Variability in Cognitive Control in Lab and in Life
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)A series of experiments investigated the relationship between locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) function and striatal dopamine (DA) tone and the flexibility of stability of cognitive control. Across 4 experiments, ... -
Faithful tropicalization of hypertoric varieties
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)The hypertoric variety M_A defined by an arrangement A of affine hyperplanes admits a natural tropicalization, induced by its embedding in a Lawrence toric variety. In this thesis, we explicitly describe the polyhedral ... -
A Better Tomorrow: Examination of International Students’ Success in Higher Education
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)International student enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased and diversified over the past decade. The unique needs and challenges international students face in pursuing higher education in the U.S. need a ... -
Synaptic Target Selection in the Drosophila Visual System
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Synapses are necessary for a functional nervous system. To form a synapse, a neuron must first extend an axon, then select its proper synaptic target, and finally, a series of adhesion and adaptor molecules must work ... -
INTERLIMINAL TONGUES: SELF-TRANSLATION IN CONTEMPORARY TRANSATLANTIC BILINGUAL POETRY
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)In this dissertation, I argue that self-translators embody a borderline sense of hybridity, both linguistically and culturally, and that the act of translation, along with its innate in-betweenness, is the context in which ... -
Folk Networks, Cyberfeminism, and Information Activism in the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Series
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This thesis explores how the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon event impacts the people who coordinate and participate in it. I review museum catalogs to determine institutional representation of women artists, and then ... -
Weighing in on Wonder Woman: Analyzing Gardner Fox's Writing for Potential Sexism
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Wonder Woman is seen as the embodiment of feminism in the comic world and her placement as the secretary of the Justice Society of America is seen as a crime against her character. Many blame Gardner Fox for this decision, ... -
HOW SOCIAL DOMINANCE THEORY MIGHT CONTRIBUTE TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE LIBERIAN CIVIL WAR (1989-2003)
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Even though scholars and researchers have suggested that the Liberian civil war arose as a result of socioeconomic and political inequalities, oppression, discrimination, and marginalization of a certain group of people, ... -
Aspirational Migration: The Case of Chinese Birth Tourism in the U.S.
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)The ways in which individuals navigate the globe today complicates previous conceptualizations of migration and mobility. Once such mode of contemporary movement which challenges scholars is known as "birth tourism." This ... -
Images of Protest: The Barrier Wall Art of Ron English and Other Artists
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This thesis looks at illegal public art produced on state built barrier walls. The focus is on the artist Ron English, and his artworks produced on the Berlin Wall, Israeli Barrier Wall, and Mexican Border Fence. I examine ... -
Concerto Grosso No. 1
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This concerto is the composer’s conversation with the past. In four movements, each one embodies a traditional musical form. The work is a continually transforming kaleidoscope of relentless virtuosity, fanciful flights ... -
Beautiful Empire: Race, Gender, and the Asian/American Femme on U.S. Network Television
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Since the earliest days of broadcast television in the 1950s, network television has maintained a keen fascination with Asian/American women, who implicitly helped secure the boundaries of white women’s “empire of the ... -
A Solution Under Pressure: Integrating Facilitative Practices into Water-Related Civil Litigations
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)The broad scope of this research concerns the field of conflict and dispute resolution, also referred to as alternative dispute resolution (ADR). ADR practices have developed in both executive and judicial branches of ... -
A Discourse Analysis of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Reaction to Proposed Funding Cuts
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Federal funding has been a frequent political issue for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The corporation has come under the threat of being defunded many times since its inception. Those calls have been renewed ... -
PRE-ENTRY: EXPANDING THE METHODS BY WHICH PUBLIC DEFENDERS PREPARE CLIENTS FOR A SUCCESSFUL RE-ENTRY PRIOR TO INCARCERATION
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)The criminal justice system does not focus on individual needs outside of the defense against criminal charges and thus perpetuates the cycle that results in indigent people burdened with a criminal record. This paper first ...