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Affirming Actions, Fallacy of American Post Racial Society: Policy Analysis and Critique of United States Supreme Court Effect on Black Student Access To Higher Education
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)Affirming actions, fallacy of American post racial society: Policy analysis and critique of United States Supreme Court effect on Black student access to higher education. Since the inception of the country that is now ... -
Economic Decision Making and Neural Correlates of Subjective Value in the Nematode Worm, Caenorhabditis elegans
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)Decision making is pervasive in nature. Organisms from across the phylogenetic spectrum take in information from the external world and pursue courses of action in an attempt to maximize their evolutionary fitness. When ... -
Laser Cooling and Trapping of Neutral Strontium for Spectroscopic Measurements of Casimir-Polder Potentials
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)Casimir and Casimir-Polder effects are forces between electrically neutral bodies and particles in vacuum, arising entirely from quantum fluctuations. The modification to the vacuum electromagnetic-field modes imposed by ... -
Properties of Sequent-Calculus-Based Languages
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)Programmers don't just have to write programs, they are have to reason about them. Programming languages aren't just tools for instructing computers what to do, they are tools for reasoning. And, it isn't just programmers ... -
Sensorimotor Abnormalities in Chronic Subacromial Pain: The Influence of Sex, Contribution of Pain, and Utility of Using the Contralateral Limb as a Control
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)Patients with subacromial pain syndrome (SPS) display a number of sensorimotor deficits including alterations in pain processing, poor proprioception, and weakness at the symptomatic limb. The primary purpose of this ... -
Ends And Beginnings: A Cycle of Symphonic Tango Songs
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)This piece is an exploration of tango music. Having played, arranged, composed, and performed this music since 2011, I consider myself steeped and well-versed in the culture and musical language of tango, and this piece ... -
Mapping topological magnetization and magnetic skyrmions
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)A 2014 study by the US Department of Energy conducted at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory estimated that U.S. data centers consumed 70 billion kWh of electricity[1]. This represents about 1.8% of the total U.S. ... -
Fais de Beaux Rêves
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)Fais de Beaux Rêves is a single-movement atonal string quartet for a duration of approximately 17 minutes. My inspiration for this piece came from my language immersion experience in the French School at Middlebury College. ... -
Restorative Justice in Cases of Sexual Misconduct at the University of Oregon: Risks, Rewards, and Challenges
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)The present research seeks to identify the risks, rewards and challenges associated with hypothetical restorative justice based responses to sexual misconduct at the University of Oregon. Prior to this project here was ... -
Close-Spaced Vapor Transport for III-V Solar Absorbing Devices
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)Capture of the energy in sunlight relies mainly on the use of light-absorbing semiconductors, in solar cells and in water-splitting devices. While solar cell efficiency has increased dramatically since the first practical ... -
Blood Flow Through Intrapulmonary Arteriovenous Anastomoses: Reconciliation of Inconsistent Data Obtained in Hypobaria and Body Position Studies
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)Intrapulmonary arteriovenous anastomoses (IPAVA) are vascular conduits through which blood flow bypasses the pulmonary circulation, and does not participate in pulmonary gas exchange. Blood flow through IPAVA (QIPAVA) is ... -
Frames and Monkeywrenching the Media in Côte d’Ivoire: How to Win a War in Françafrique
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)This study revisits the media coverage of Côte d’Ivoire’s 2010-2011 electoral crisis as a case study of the political, economic, and contextual stressors that impact journalists writing in francophone Africa in times of ... -
Swimming Kinematics and Thoracic Appendage Morphology in Cyprids of Balanus glandula
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)As the final larval stage before settlement, barnacle cyprids swim with six pairs of thoracic appendages used to maintain orientation, change direction, and swim against downwelling currents. This thesis examines thoracic ... -
Analysis of an Exposed Portion of the Badwater Turtleback Shear-zone, Death Valley, California, USA
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)The exposed shear zone within the footwall of the Badwater turtleback presents an excellent opportunity to explore the brittle-ductile transition. Within this shear zone, a variety of lithologies preserve the last stages ... -
RING AROUND THE ROSIE: QUEER TEMPORALITY IN NARRATIVES OF TRAUMA
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)This dissertation employs both traditional and digital tools to analyze fictional texts through the converging lenses of narratology, queer theory, and trauma studies. I am invested specifically in the work fictional ... -
CONTROLLING THE CHARGE DENSITY WAVE IN VSE2 CONTAINING HETEROSTRUCTURES
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)Exploring the properties of layered materials as a function of thickness has largely been limited to semiconducting materials as thin layers of metallic materials tend to oxidize readily in atmosphere. This makes it ... -
The Evolution of Metal and Peptide Binding in the S100 Protein Family
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)Proteins perform an incredible array of functions facilitated by a diverse set of biochemical properties. Changing these properties is an essential molecular mechanism of evolutionary change, with major questions in ... -
Extended Virtues
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)The central argument of this dissertation is that virtue ethics is overly individualistic. In response, I develop and defend a more relational, ecological account - what I call extended virtues. First, following Andy Clark, ... -
Imaging Neural Circuits Underlying Learning and Behavior
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)Sensory perception is context dependent and is likely modulated by task demands, learning and engagement to best serve specific goals of the organism. Sensory-driven behaviors also engage a cascade of cortical regions to ... -
Experimental and Computational Investigations of Kinetically Stable Selenides Synthesized by the Modulated Elemental Reactants Method
(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)The controlled and targeted synthesis of new solid materials is still a challenge difficult to overcome. Slow diffusion rates and long diffusion lengths require long reaction times and high synthesis temperatures, resulting ...