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An Ethnoburb in Oregon? Vietnamese Settlement in Suburban Portland
(University of Oregon, 2005-06)Many immigrants in recent years have opted against settling in traditional urban ethnic enclaves and chosen instead to reside in suburban locales. Some of these immigrants have formed communities in the suburbs, a phenomenon ... -
Development of the Storage Batteries and Accumulators
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A Study of Incandescent Lights
(1902)This study was carried on chiefly to find in what manner the candle-power of an incandescent lamp varies with the voltage at the terminals of the lamp. -
An Overview of the Evolution of Affect in the Music of Western Civilization from the Ancient Greek Period Through The Baroque
(University of Oregon, 1998-08)Musicians, philosophers, historians, and composers through the ages have attempted to understand the relationship between musical modes and musical affections. The Greeks used the modes as prescriptives for healing diseases, ... -
The Oregon Commonwealth Federation: The Rise and Decline of a Reform Organization
(1963-06)The history of the Oregon Commonwealth Federation is the story of the rise and decline of a reform organization. This thesis is an attempt to discover why the OCF was formed, how it developed, and why it suddenly declined. ... -
A History of the Irreducible School Fund in Oregon
(1949-06)Efforts have been made in this study to trace the developments of the Irreducible School Fund and the factors responsible for depriving the schools of the legacy bequeathed by far-seeing statesmen during the formative ... -
A Tile-Based Approach for Photo-Realistic Volume Rendering
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Previous studies on photo-realistic volume rendering have failed to optimize for performance with respect to the cache-hierarchy. With this thesis, we consider a tile-based approach for photo-realistic volume rendering, ... -
On the Performance of Line Integral Convolution in a Distributed-Memory Parallel Setting
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Line integral convolution (LIC) is a powerful tool for visualizing vector fields by combining particle advection with image convolution. Practical usage of LIC is limited by its computational expense, requiring many ... -
Consensus and Confusion: An Examination of Public Salience and Misperceptions of U.S. Budget Deficits and National Debt
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)A belief that reducing the budget deficit is important has long been a matter of exceptional public consensus in the U.S. As a political issue, the budget deficit is often the framing issue around major policy debates in ... -
Ni Santas Ni Putas, Sólo Mujeres: Disrupting Appropriate Latina Femininity through Raunch Aesthetics on Instagram
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This thesis analyzes how Latinas on Instagram actively resist social and cultural conventions of sexuality, propriety and femininity through the adornment and arrangement of their bodies. Taking into account expectations ... -
The Essence of Codata and Its Implementations
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Data types are a widely-used feature of functional programming languages that allow programmers to create abstractions and control branching computations. Instances of data types are introduced by applying one of a disjoint ... -
A Longitudinal Assessment of Website Complexity
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Nowadays, most people use several websites on a daily basis for various purposes like social networking, shopping, reading news, etc. which shows the significance of these websites in our lives. Due to this phenomenon, ... -
Understanding the Origins of Yellowstone Hot Spot Magmas Through Isotope Geochemistry, High-Precision Geochronology, and Magmatic-Thermomechanical Computer Modeling
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)The last several years have seen renewed interest in the origin of silicic magmas thanks to the developments of new microanalytical techniques allowing the measurement of the isotopic and trace element compositions of ... -
Grave Concerns: Decay, Death, and Nature in the Early Republic
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)While multiple questions drive this project, one fundamental query lays at its center. How did American approaches to mortality, their own and others, during the early national period (roughly 1770 to 1850) shape both their ... -
Stability Within T<sup>2</sup>-Symmetric Expanding Spacetimes
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)We prove a nonpolarized analogue of the asymptotic characterization of T<sup>2</sup>-symmetric Einstein flow solutions completed recently by LeFloch and Smulevici. We impose a far weaker condition, but obtain identical ... -
Accurate Distance Calculation Using GPS While Performing Low Speed Activity
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)In the last 10 years GPS technology has become widely available due to the proliferation of smart devices with GPS capability. GPS was introduced as a method to assist in location and navigation and is still the most common ... -
Self-Organization as a Response to Homelessness: Negotiating Autonomy and Transitional Living in a "Village" Community
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Tent cities date back to the 1930s; however, the past decade has seen a rise in formalized camps, many attempting to function as democratic communities. Here, democratic communities refer to temporary spaces in which ... -
Football Crowd Behavioral Responses to a University Marching Band’s Musical Prompts
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Decades of market research have investigated how music can influence consumer purchase, food consumption, and alcoholic drinking. Before market researchers declared music an influencer of atmospheric perception, sociologists ... -
Signifying the Childish Adult of Horus Gilgamesh’s Awkward Moments of the Children’s Bible
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This project focuses on Horus Gilgamesh’s Awkward Moments of the Children’s Bible, Vol. 1 (2013), an adult picture book that parodies the Bible by illustrating biblical scriptures with child unfriendly images of gore, sex, ... -
The Physiology of Literature: A.A. Ukhtomskii and the Principle of the Dominant
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)THESIS ABSTRACT Svetlana R. Osadchuk Master of Arts Russian, and East European, and Eurasian Studies Program June 2018 Title: The Physiology of Literature: A.A. Ukhtomskii and The Principle of The Dominant Russian ...