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(University of Oregon, 2021-06)Cnidarian jellyfish are ubiquitous predators of pelagic communities, but little is known about their phenology and how food availability affects their nutritional status. Starved medusae tend to decrease somatic growth ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-06)Squirrels have an incredibly diverse lineage with a global distribution and have dispersed over millions of years from a common ancestor approximately 40-50 MYA. The assumption since the 1980’s has been that squirrels ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-06)Meat has been ingrained into American culture since the birth of the nation—holidays that center around traditional meat dishes, experiences that almost always pair with some form of meat consumption, and the presence ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-06)Exotic species pose a threat to many ecosystems within the western U.S. The annual grass species known as cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is a prevailing invader in the Great Basin. Cheatgrass invasion in combination with ...
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(University of Oregon Libraries, 2021-06)Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of forest fires and drought across the Pacific Northwest (PNW) of the United States. Due to increasingly variable temperature and precipitation patterns, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-06)This honors thesis examines the environmental, sociopolitical, and socioeconomical aspects of Cancer Alley, Louisiana, United States of America. Cancer Alley is a name dubbed to an eighty-five-mile-long corridor in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Scholars agree that public space is essential for adolescents living in low-income communities. However, design professionals struggle to justify public space in resource-constrained environments such as rapidly densifying ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Grain-size remote sensing presents an opportunity to address our poor understanding of the relationships among the patterns and processes of sediment sorting across spatial scales and advance the accessibility to riverscape ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Antiaromatic and diradical molecules are emerging both as novel synthetic targets for fundamental studies and as promising materials for next generation organic electronics. In order to properly apply these types of molecules ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Inorganic metal oxides are extremely versatile materials that make up many components of modern technology. In order to keep up with increasing demand, microelectronics industries have optimized their fabrication techniques ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Carbon-based materials—such as graphene nanoribbons, fullerenes, and carbon nanotubes—are promising candidates for many applications due to their wide-ranging properties. However, a lack of methods for precise synthesis, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)The voter turnout rate among young Latinx citizens is very low compared to other demographic groups. Low voter turnout has negative impacts upon public policy and low voting behavior is associated with higher rates of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Dance, film, and music are living art forms. They unfold through time, motion, environments, and bodies. They take up shapes, rhythms, textures, and tones. They tell stories. And they often amplify one another in ways that ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Gradually in Spain, the Blue Division—a volunteer corps of 47,000 sent by the Spanish fascist government to fight alongside Hitler in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front (Novgorod-Leningrad area) between October 1941 and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Over the last two decades, the number of children in the United States who experience parental incarceration along with parents navigating the reentry process have drastically increased. Making this population of parents ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)This thesis evaluates the musical and cultural components of singer-songwriter Janelle Monáe's 2018 album and “emotion picture” Dirty Computer. I argue that Monáe engages audience members from all walks of life through her ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Our closest living relatives are two species in the genus Pan: bonobos and chimpanzees. Chimpanzees are further divided into four subspecies. While there are a number of phenotypic similarities between bonobos and chimpanzees, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)This dissertation consists of three essays: “The Effect of Women's Access to Free Health Care on Breastfeeding Practices: Evidence from Armenia” examines how women's decisions regarding breastfeeding respond to increased ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Sensor networks that collect indoor environmental (IEQ) data are frequently used to drive building systems and to inform research and building standards.The research that connects the trends in IEQ data with human factors ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Theatre and Performance Studies have studied the ways in which theatre and performance act as auxiliaries of hegemonic state power at least since Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed explored the ways in which classical Greek ...