JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Theses & Dissertations
Browse by
Recent Submissions
-
(The University of Oregon, 1958-06)Although Sir Thomas Browne's most important work, the Religio Medici, created an intellectual stir at the time of its publication, the fickle current of taste and appreciation soon veered away and the book was left stranded ...
-
(The University of Oregon, 1973-03)Excavated in 1967, the Nightfire Island site yielded large amounts of artifactual, floral, and faunal data. This report presents the analysis of the bird and mammal segments of this large collection. While a fragmentary ...
-
(University of Oregon, 2022)Efforts to understand and preserve methane seep communities of the Gulf of Mexico and the US western Atlantic margin begin with an understanding of biodiversity and community composition. In this study, 10143 individuals ...
-
(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)Our experiences of place and emplacement are so fundamental to our everyday existence that most of us rarely dedicate much time to thinking about how place and emplacement impact the various aspects of our daily lives. In ...
-
(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)The activation of silanes by transition metals is a crucial step in many transformations, including hydrosilylation, cross-coupling, and carbene insertion. Palladium is a common metal in catalysis and its activity is usually ...
-
(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)Two decades after the first distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the Internet remains challenged by DDoS attacks as they evolve. Not only is the scale of attacks larger than ever, but they are also harder to detect ...
-
(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)Between c.1700 and 1900, Swiss Alpine song was used as a tool to cultivate mountainous aspects within human bodies. Scholarship on Alpine song in this period typically focuses on the subgenre of the ranz des vaches, a ...
-
(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)What does it mean to restore a landscape degraded by settler colonialism? How might a well intentionedprocess like ecological restoration end up causing harm from underlying settler colonial logics? This thesis explores ...
-
(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)This thesis investigates using immersive media to explain landscape restoration efforts where the means and ends of such projects may appear risky or unsightly. I built a desktop-based, virtual tour of fire-dependent Pine ...
-
(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)The global pandemic has caused myriad damages to the lives of millions of people worldwide. Several studies confirm that indoor spaces are the main hotspots of COVID-19 outbreaks resulting in multiple confirmed instances ...
-
(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)This dissertation explores how the cultural-economic model (CEM) of public relations practice informs public diplomacy practice by focusing on the model’s three “moments”: regulation (e.g., laws, cultural norms), production ...
-
(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)Microbiomes mediate a variety of important ecosystem functions. However,it remains unclear what attributes of the microbiome are important for determining the rate of ecosystem functions. Past attempts to elucidate this ...
-
(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)Cnidarian medusae are predators that structure pelagic ecosystems. Studies on their predatory impact have focused on big cruising scyphomedusae even though hydrozoans represent 60% of all medusan diversity and prey upon a ...
-
(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)Ireland’s long history as a British colony raises questions in postcolonial studies about race, class, and gender that an ecocritical lens helps to answer. Drawing on literature, film, and archival photography and radio, ...
-
(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis ignited protests around the world. Portland, OR quickly emerged as a vanguard for leftist organizing, based on principles of anti-racism, antifascism, and anarchism, leading to ...
-
(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)Research indicates that school-family partnerships improve student academic achievement, yet forming those partnerships can be challenging in any school. While the importance of those partnerships has been researched and ...
-
(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)Single negotiating text, also known as the one text method, is a method of mediation created by Roger Fisher which allows a mediator to easily bring parties involved in complex and contentious issues toward a solution. ...
-
(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)Resident microbes are a fixture within all animal life and impact diverse aspects of host biology ranging from metabolism, training of the immune system to identify pathogens but tolerate commensals, and tissue development. ...
-
(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)This thesis is composed of three essays and provides empirical contributions to the Industrial Organization literature, especially in the field of transportation and health economics. It aims to understand different issues ...
-
(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)Trends in high-performance computing increasingly require visualization to be carried out using in situ processing. This processing most often occurs without a human in the loop, meaning that the in situ software must be ...