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(University of Oregon, 2011-03)Between the 1980s and early 2000s, Ecuador's commercial tuna fishing industry evolved from an insignificant player in the global marketplace to the third largest tuna fishery in the world. The reasons behind this dramatic ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)We define and study a gluing procedure for Bridgeland stability conditions in the situation where a triangulated category has a semiorthogonal decomposition. As one application, we construct an open, contractible subset U ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This thesis presents two main results on analytic and topological aspects of scalar curvature. The first is a gluing theorem for scalar-flat manifolds with vanishing mean curvature on the boundary. Our methods involve tools ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)In order for a human being to process complex thought, cells within the brain must communicate with each other in a very precise manner. The mechanisms which underlie the development of these connections, however, are ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)Approximately thirty years after their inception, the use of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, remains contentious. Often, proponents of their use contend that the potential of GMOs to mitigate poverty and hunger ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)My dissertation argues that the study of antebellum American religious novels is hindered by the secularization narrative, the widely held conviction that modernity entails the decline of religion. Because this narrative ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)This thesis presents an historical study of the Kyushu shrine family known as the Munakata, beginning in the fourth century and ending with the onset of Japan's medieval age in the fourteenth century. The tutelary deities ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)This dissertation’s aim is to reveal how essential economic mechanics were to playwrights when it came to depicting agency. Rising commercialization in the seventeenth century prompted playwrights to appropriate market ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)According to the material feminist corpus, namely Stacy Alaimo’s concept of trans-corporeality, material flows and interconnectivity between humans and their environment insists that the human body has never been atomistic, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)This dissertation examines the geographical circumstances in carceral environments that affect the construction of artistic practice. This work is contextualized within the framework of both agency and resistance and seeks ...
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(1940-06)It is only in the past few years that the relations of the United States with Latin America have exoited a large measure of interest in the American people. This trend of opinion seems to be based upon two factors: the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)How do systemic and ideational factors shape the composition and effectiveness of the American military? From the American Revolution to the present, the American military has regularly established informal and formal ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-10)The Baramon is a handmade kite from the Gotô Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Its motif features a fierce ogre biting an ornate warrior's helmet. Today, the Baramon is widely recognized as a unique Gotô product. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)My thesis examines four major religious commissions from distinct points within Goya's artistic development. Each piece serves as a touchstone for a discussion of its particular moment, provoking analyses of iconography, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)Seminal music education accords, including the Housewright and Tanglewood Symposia, call on music educators to support lifelong engagement with music. Citing challenges with retention in music programs and persistence in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)We study the graded representation theory of the Iwahori-Hecke algebra, denoted by Hd , of the symmetric group over a field of characteristic zero at a root of unity. More specifically, we use graded Specht modules to ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-11-21)My dissertation examines the unacknowledged role of negative female models from traditional literature in constructing the modern woman in China. It draws upon literary and historical sources to examine how modern cultural ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)Bih is a Chamic (Austronesian) language spoken by approximately 500 people in the Southern highlands of Vietnam. This dissertation is the first descriptive grammar of the language, based on extensive fieldwork and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)Karbi is a Tibeto-Burman (TB) language spoken by half a million people in the Karbi Anglong district in Assam, Northeast India, and surrounding areas in the extended Brahmaputra Valley area. It is an agglutinating, verb-final ...
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