• REIMAGINING LOUISIANA’S PENOLOGICAL HISTORY AS THE PRECURSOR TO NATIONAL INCARCERATION 

  GOLLEDGE, LYSSANDRA (University of Oregon, 2017-05-15)

  Louisiana's incarceration rates are substantially higher than any others in the country. The state's high rates are symptomatic of a pattern ingrained within the state's penological history, which Louisiana State University's ...
• INFLUENCE OF OIL FIELD DISCOVERIES ON SECTORAL ALLOCATION OF GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE 

  OKA, RYUICHI (University of Oregon, 2021-12)

  How do governments respond to an oil field discovery which can sometimes be worth as much as the nation’s gross domestic product? This paper studies the potential effect of oil field discoveries on sectoral allocation of ...
• GEOGRAPHICAL MOBILITY AND OREGON’S SHORT TERM EDUCATIONAL GOALS 

  Hakanson, Henry (University of Oregon, 2021-11)

  Geographical mobility data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey shows that interstate migration increases the number of highly educated workers in Oregon. Throughout 2011-2018, there were more people entering ...
• EFFECTS OF STUDENT MAJOR INDECISION ON CAREER OUTCOMES 

  Cartmell, Tycho (University of Oregon, 2021-11)

  Student major indecision is a well-studied problem for counselors, psychologists, and students who seek to build fruitful careers from their college education. To quantify the effects of student major indecision on career ...
• Childhood in aNew Religious Movement: The Socialization of Two Rivers Farm School Children 

  Stocklin-Enright, Helen (University of Oregon, 2001-05)

  Current literature on new religious movements and their effects on the children that grow up in them lacks objectivity and the depth of personal experience. The experience of children in new religious movements varies ...
• Intergenerational Effects of Maternal Obesity on Offspring Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species Production and DNA Damage 

  Rapp, Maurisa (University of Oregon, 2021)

  Epidemiological studies have shown that offspring from pregnancies complicated by maternal obesity have a 4-fold greater risk for developing childhood obesity and symptoms of metabolic syndrome. The developmental origins ...
• Translation and Discussion of Choi Sung-Guk’s Labor Interrogation 

  Shaw, Allene D. (University of Oregon, 2021-03)

  North Korean defectors living in South Korea face a paradoxical situation: they hold rights as citizens of South Korea, but experience “social exclusion and identity problems as the Other” due to a mass media system that ...
• What can a small RNA molecule teach us about molecular switches? Distinguishing contact and ensemble epistasis in the adenine riboswitch 

  Wonderlick, Daria (University of Oregon, 2021)

  The ability to engineer biomolecules with new and improved functions could revolutionize medicine, industry, and biotechnology. Efficient bioengineering requires a predictive understanding of the sequence changes needed ...
• Peripheral Vascular Responses to Acute Cold-Water Immersion 

  Whittman, Emma (University of Oregon, 2021)

  Exercise is effective in improving cardiovascular health, specifically, as a result of the increase shear stress on peripheral vasculature. Similarly, heat therapy (i.e., sauna bathing and hot water immersion) has indicated ...
• Thinly Veiled Agendas: Examining How the COVID-19 Pandemic Set the Stage for Conservative Legislators to Ban Abortion 

  Weiss, Hadley (University of Oregon, 2021)

  The COVID-19 pandemic has created a significant threat to abortion rights in the United States. Crises that uproot and disorient people are often the ideal circumstances for drastic political change. The shock of a national ...
• Characterizing Cortical Visual Responses Near the Perceptual Threshold 

  Weibezahn, Annie (University of Oregon, 2021)

  At any given moment, our brain is processing a large amount of sensory information, yet we are only consciously aware of a small portion of it. Information that we perceive must reach a perceptual threshold, which is defined ...
• ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN OPENNESS IN ADOPTION AND ADOPTEE LIFE SATISFACTION: A COMPARISON OF TRANSRACIAL AND SAME-RACE ADOPTIONS 

  Warth, Whitney (University of Oregon, 2021)

  While it is commonly presumed that adoption results in the formation of a loving family, it can also come with inherent losses to both the families and adoptees involved. In addition to a potential lack of knowledge about ...
• Influence of Prenatal Nutrition and Supplementation on Birth Outcomes and Negative Affectivity in Infants 

  Volk, Hailey (University of Oregon, 2021)

  Excessive inflammation during pregnancy can exert powerful effects on the developing fetus by altering embryonic, fetal, and placental growth and development, predisposing the fetus to adverse birth outcomes and long-term ...
• Information and Interaction: On the Specialization of General System Theory 

  Vischer, Alexander (University of Oregon, 2021)

  In the natural sciences, there is a prevalent structure: a structure that involves things that interact with each other through time. In classical physics, there is a theory that describes this structure and that is Newtonian ...
• Countries Beyond Bars: A Cross-National Comparison of Punitive and Rehabilitative Methods of Incarceration 

  Vann, Madi (University of Oregon, 2021)

  The culture of incarceration in the United States has long been rooted in punitive practices intended to punish incarcerated persons rather than to rehabilitate these populations in preparation for re-entry into society ...
• The Intersection of Accounting and Blockchain Technology: An Analysis of Current and Future Implications 

  Van Horn, Jeffrey (University of Oregon, 2021)

  Today we are undergoing an unprecedented era of innovation in the business world. Emerging technologies are impacting nearly every organization, with blockchain becoming one of the most widely discussed. It is important ...
• Market-Ability: The History and Impact of Name, Image, and Likeness legislation of Intercollegiate Athletics 

  Van Horne, Quinn (University of Oregon, 2021)

  Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) is the largest impending change coming to intercollegiate athletics. As the history of college sports has shown, the NCAA has long acted as the regulatory body that governs changes within ...
• Racial Disparities in Infant and Maternal Care in the United States: A History of Exclusion and Mistreatment 

  Urban, Meg (University of Oregon, 2021)

  Black women and their children are subject to disparate maternal and birth outcomes in the United States due to barriers preventing access to quality and equitable prenatal and postnatal maternal and infant care. The history ...
• EXPLORING YOUTH IRREGULAR EMPLOYMENT IN JAPAN DURING COVID-19: A QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS 

  Uptegrove, Manami (University of Oregon, 2021)

  Irregular employment, in contrast to the expected regular (fulltime and long-term) employment, has made up a significant part of Japan’s work force since the 1990s. By examining quantitative and qualitative data showcasing ...
• DEVELOPMENT AND OPTIMIZATION OF AMMONIUM-SENSITIVE CHEMFETS FOR AQUEOUS SENSING 

  Torrence, Ian (University of Oregon, 2021)

  Ion sensing is an increasingly important field of research for regulating and detecting high concentrations of ions harmful to the environment. One such ion is the ammonium ion which, because of eutrophication, destroy ...

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