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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)My dissertation draws together postcolonial theory, film and visual studies, and questions of aesthetics and politics in the modern Middle East. Looking closely at Iran in the latter half of the 20th century, I explore ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)Terrain maps are often composed of shaded relief along with other thematic layers to create aesthetically pleasing and clear maps of the physical landscape. Despite that the interplay of layers is of primary concern to a ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)The purpose of this study is to examine the feasibility of introducing innovative dialysis delivery methods. In the first essay, advised by Prof. Nagesh Murthy and Dr. Eren Cil, we study a new and non-traditional dialysis ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)In this dissertation, I develop and defend the importance of species pluralism (the recognition and use of multiple species definitions) for both environmental and humanist ethics. I begin from the concern that, since the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)Scholars have reexamined U.S. Indian policy in order to detail American genocidal efforts in the lands that became the United States. Others have studied the lives and influences of Tribes and Indigenous individuals who ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)This dissertation is both a new historical synthesis of pioneer violence within and beyond the wars on Native people in the mid-nineteenth-century American Pacific Northwest, and a new history of how these wars—and broader ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)This dissertationexamines the potential for participatory, informal urbanisms to buildcollaborative relations across ontological, cultural, and political difference. This research contributes to thefield of urban, environmental ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)My dissertation examines the origins of so-called “Aesopian,” or covertly subversive, narratives. While scholars have focused on fables as prototypes for these narratives, my project addresses the role played by the Vita ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)Borders of the Global Anglophone considers the radical possibilities of three post-independence Anglophone literary works by Black Namibian women—at the intersection of debates in global Anglophone literature, African ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)Before history had christened modernism, the movement had emerged in disabled concepts and forms. It was “degenerate art,” as Hitler infamously put it, before it was modernism. Yet when scholars and many readers examine ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)Microbial kinetics study on the microbial metabolic rates and their dependence on biological and environmental conditions. It has been widely used in biogeochemical models. However the empirical nature of microbial kinetics ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)This dissertation reexamines the place of plants in the history of Western philosophy, drawing on the diverse philosophical approaches of Plato, Aristotle, Goethe, Hegel, and Nietzsche, among others. I suggest that a close ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)This dissertation locates Japan’s place in the world-historical phenomenon of Christianization. Intended as a case study in the spread of Christianity across cultures, it uses the Japanese experience with Jesuit missionary ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)“Sexuality and the Self” argues against conventional views of early modern subjects as anxious about possible breakdowns of self effected by sexual encounters, showing instead how sex’s potential to radically alter the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)Platinum anti-cancer drugs are widely used in the United States being used in 10-20% of cancer therapy treatments today. These drugs have been in use for many years with cisplatin being in use for over 40 years. The mechanism ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)Although the influence of intent understanding on children’s moral development has been long studied, limited research has examined the influence of belief understanding on that development. The purpose of this dissertation ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)Life on Earth has always been shaped by sulfur. Over 2 billion years ago, before our atmosphere became rich in oxygen, volcanic activity was more prevalent. As a result, sulfur-containing gasses were much more prominent ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)Hosts for supramolecular anion binding are used for a range of applications, including real-time detection, anion transport, catalysis, extraction, and molecular machines. These applications are the result of thousands of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)This dissertation work presents various approaches toward accelerating training of deep neural networks with the use of high-performance computing resources, while balancing learning and systems utilization objectives. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)Less than 10% of U.S. adults meet physical activity recommendations. Physical inactivity leads to poor physical and mental health conditions. Little is known about community factors on a county level associated with ...