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(University of Oregon, 2011-09)I develop a model in which a representative consumer selects an affordable consumption bundle, not as a single choice, but as the end result of a series of smaller, incremental purchase decisions. If the array of such ...
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Satisfied with the Safety School: Rank, Choice, and Competition within the College Admissions Mania (University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)Over 16% of entering college students attend more than one university’s new student orientation program. How does attending multiple orientations affect the likelihood of students’ enrollment a university? Similarly, do ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)This thesis describes the unique development and execution of a practice of improvisational dance through the lens of non-attachment. The ephemeral nature of dance as discussed by Maxine Sheets-Johnston is compared to a ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)My dissertation examines the modern ideological concept of children and individualism in Republican Chinese literature. It draws upon eugenics discourse, ideological essays and fictional stories to examine the emergence ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)Home-based food preservation in Bulgaria is widespread and these foods link material, biological and cultural survival, formal and informal economies, social networks, cultivated and wild-harvested foods. As such, they ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-06)Despite the overwhelming evidence for anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change, a significant portion of the American public remains unconvinced. This disconnect between scientific certainty and public skepticism calls ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)This thesis compiles a working corpus of Anglo-Saxon self-referential inscribed artifacts to examine how the inscriptions and supports utilize self-reference to push the viewer to understand the social and cultural ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020)Indigenous peoples are among the most severely impacted groups by the effects of the climate crisis despite their negligent role in engendering environmental degradation. To many Indigenous peoples, the violence of the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)It is desirable for general productivity that high-performance computing applications be portable to new architectures, or can be optimized for new workflows and input types, without the need for costly code interventions ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)In 1992, Stolz proved that, among simply connected Spin-manifolds of dimension5 or greater, the vanishing of a particular invariant α is necessary and sufficient for the existence of a metric of positive scalar curvature. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)The international treaty regime on climate change is failing to address this problem adequately and cannot fully capture the scales of the problem or of efforts to address it. This dissertation draws from geographic ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-02-18)With semiconductor device dimensions shrinking to smaller and smaller sizes the individual components become more susceptible to surface or interface atomic defects, as the surface atoms are a larger percentage of the whole ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-09)This dissertation discusses three topics on scenarios beyond the Standard Model. Topic one is the effects from a fourth generation of quarks and leptons on electroweak baryogenesis in the early universe. The Standard ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Scenes from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke is a twenty-five minute work for violin and small ensemble. The accompanimental ensemble consists of flute (doubling alto flute), Bb clarinet, viola, cello, percussion (crotales ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)This dissertation examines how literary form adapts to emergent print environments by identifying common strategies for incorporating the act of reading into the situation of the text. In my analysis of original textual ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017)This thesis aims to provide a justification for the necessity of transitional support in schools for youth involved in the juvenile justice system. Through a literature review, it shows a disparity in the school outcomes ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)The purpose of this study was to explore specific activities school psychologists performed related to both testing and placing within a medical model and prevention within a public health model. Spurred by landmark legal ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)The present study provides a breadth and depth perspective of the current landscape for school suicide prevention (SSP). Despite an increase in SSP programming, practices, and policy, there remains a gap in understanding ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)Introduction: Education is a social determinant of health, and its intersection with incarceration is a powerful nexus for well-being of students. Whether policies specific to student well-being are associated with ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)Various instruments have been created to measure the implementation fidelity of SWPBIS. The most recent of the measures is the Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI), designed as a complete index of the fidelity of implementation ...
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