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The Relationship Between Visual Event Perception, Dishabituation of Neural Models and Progressive Aspect in English
(University of Oregon, 1991-08)Progressive aspect has traditionally been linked to notions of speaker viewpoint on conceptual structure - specifically, whether the speaker perceives an event as bounded or unbounded. The following research examines the ... -
Show Me the Money: Understanding FATCA- U.S. & CARICOM Relations
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)This study explores the provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Services’ Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and its demands to increase disclosure and transparency pertaining to the financial data of ... -
Towards and Anticolonial Philosophy of Land in the West
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)Despite a preoccupation with the concepts of land and rent during initial historical cycles of colonization and capital expansion, today’s Western philosophers neglect the importance of land, preferring the generic ontologies ... -
Investigation of Collaborative Goal Setting Practices in Hospital-Based Speech Language Pathologists Using the Electronic Goal Attainment Scaling (EGAS) App
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)An extensive body of literature supports the clinical utility and feasibility of client-centric goal-setting techniques in neurorehabilitation. However, such techniques are seldom used and difficult to adopt in mainstream ... -
Predictive and Concurrent Validity of the Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI)
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)This study evaluated the predictive and concurrent validity of the Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI). Structural equation modeling was applied to test the associations between the TFI and student outcomes. First, a total of ... -
Investigating to What Degree Individual Differences in Language and Executive Function Are Related to Analogical Learning in Young Children Across Socio-Economic Populations
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)Analogical reasoning is a foundational skill necessary for enabling learners to draw inferences about new experiences, to transfer learning across contexts, and to make abstractions based on relevant information from daily ... -
Population Genetic Divergence and Environment Influence the Gut Microbiome in Oregon Threespine Stickleback
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)Studying the microbiome in natural populations could improve our understanding of the biological factors that influence microbiome variation. If host genetic variation is important in microbiota assembly, then understanding ... -
Design and Control of Tunable Optical Resonances in Plasmonic Nanoparticle Ensembles
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)Predicting and verifying the tunable optical properties of metal nanostructures is central to designing materials optimized for specific applications. Chemically- deposited nanostructures have been well-studied near the ... -
Fresh Approach for High-Throughput Studies of Ion-Selective Materials Using Reusable ChemFET Platform
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)Aqueous anions play an important role in our world, and the ability to continuously measure them provides both environmental and health benefits. Chemically-sensitive field effect transistors (ChemFETs) are becoming ... -
Optimizing Visualization Performance on Power-Constrained Supercomputers
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)Power consumption is widely regarded as one of the biggest challenges to reaching the next generation of high performance computing (HPC). On future supercomputers, power will be a limited resource. This constraint will ... -
Traversing the Rift: Cultivating Climate Change Literacy Through Theatrical Performance
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)Climate change is a persistent and growing threat to the well-being of both humans and nonhuman species, and little action has been taken to halt it. It is imperative the public gains a sufficient level of climate change ... -
Mechanistic insights into structure-property relationships of doped metal oxide nanocrystals produced from a continuous growth synthesis
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)Colloidal metal oxide nanocrystals have tremendous potential to solve some of the world’s biggest problems in energy storage and harvesting, medicine, catalysis, electronics, and information technology. Colloidal metal ... -
Cosmic Lotus, Rising
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)Cosmic Lotus, Rising is a seventeen-minute, multi-movement experimental intercultural work for North Indian tabla and a fourteen-instrument chamber ensemble. This piece integrates playing styles from cosmopolitan classical ... -
Motivating Collective Action in Response to an Existential Threat: Critical Phenomenology in a Climate-Changing World
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)In this dissertation, I analyze climate change as a collective action problem. Decades of consistent policy and indeed institutional failure suggest that climate change cannot be managed top-down by experts and politicians ... -
Accurate and Precise Calibration of Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)The first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015, and the multiple detections that followed ushered in the era of gravitational-wave astronomy. With these developments, the focus of the gravitational-wave community ... -
Hox Cluster Evolution in the Highly Derived Pipefish & Seahorse Family
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)A central question in evolutionary biology is how organisms evolve highly derived and novel morphologies. More specifically, what changes to conserved developmental genes lead to the evolution of divergent morphologies? ... -
Aging in Place: The Paradox of Community Eldercare in Urban China
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)Population projections indicate that China will be the most rapidly aging country in the world in the near future. To meet the challenge of providing eldercare in a context of shrinking family sizes––where children are no ... -
Humorwork, Feminist Philosophy, and Unstable Politics
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)This dissertation examines humor as a situated practice of reappropriation and transformation undertaken by a subject within a social world. I bring together insights from humor studies, philosophy of humor, and feminist ... -
Geomorphology, hydrology and human-environment interactions in the Kosi megafan, India
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)The continuing channel modification and change in the course of the River Kosi have got a greater implication on the geomorphic evolution processes within its megafan surface. A considerable portion of the land in Kosi ... -
Body and Gender Politics in Post-Revolution Tunisia (2010-2018)
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)Focusing on the context of post-uprising Tunisia and using a gender lens, I explore gender and body politics through embodied social protest. I examine the post-uprising constitutional and decision-making processes as well ...