Tweedie random variables are exponential dispersion models that have power unit
variance functions, are infnitely divisible, and are closed under translations and scale
transformations. Notably, a Tweedie random variable ...
Thiamine (vitamin B1) is a micronutrient essential to both metabolic functioning and development. It helps the body to take energy from the nutrients it takes in. Due to a diet heavily reliant on polished white rice in ...
This study investigates current climate disclosure practices within the U.S. oil and gas (O&G) industry by analyzing the annual sustainability reports published by nine publicly listed companies in the industry. By centering ...
Much of 20th-century biology has been driven by and proceeded through a finer understanding of biological mechanisms at the level of genes and molecules. These gene-centric approaches have located medical interventions, ...
In the midst of a growing energy crisis, green energy is a central point of conversation. Green energy can be efficiently created in electrochemical devices via water electrolysis. Semiconductors can be used in electrochemical ...
Portland, similarly to the rest of the country, is experiencing a housing crisis. Rising rents, low housing stocks and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have combined to produce record numbers of people ...
Cnidarians have among the most primitive nervous systems, yet they also display diverse behavioral patterns. Previous studies have shown that the hydromedusa Polyorchis penicillatus has a light response in which bell ...
This research investigates the extent to which strict constitutionalists and religious fundamentalists might be intertwined and what implication this might have on the American legal system. Findings suggest close ties ...
Spending time in nature fosters pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors, which are essential for achieving ecological resilience in the face of climate change. Spending time outdoors is additionally associated with several ...
Tavares, TaylorRose(University of Oregon, 2023-05)
This undergraduate thesis explores two dominant narratives, the “Come Here” Narrative and the “Latino Threat” Narrative, in US immigration policies and public discourse. The project contends that the “Come Here” Narrative, ...
U.S. criminal justice settings disproportionately involve minority defendants and white judges/juries, often involving cross-accent communication. Although it is known that racial and linguistic profiling can lead to ...
In today’s highly digitized world, we are constantly consuming media. We watch so many movies and TV shows, listen to so much music, and scroll through so much social media that we have become numb to it. Just as we are ...
This thesis offers a two-pronged inquiry into the work of seventeenth-century nun and polymath Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695). I explore Sor Juana as a gendered writer through two disciplines: literary criticism and ...
The United States immigration system continues to be a source of contention and debate within politics and society in general. While popular discourse tends to center around federal policies, there are many aspects of ...
The present study sought to explore potential relationships between life satisfaction scores and positive/negative affect of goal-oriented speech. Goals were evaluated by coding personal striving language in narrative ...
This research project aims to determine the difference between authentic marketing and rainbow-washing when advertising to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and/or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and Two-Spirit ...
Roberts, Lucinda S.(University of Oregon, 2023-06)
When disaster strikes, data visualizations are used as quick ways to concisely distill timely information to civilians. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, data-driven dashboards played a disproportionately large role in quickly ...
This thesis is primarily concerned with the fact that the general quartic surface does not contain a line or a conic section. More formally, the set of quartic surfaces containing lines or conic sections has measure ...
In 1977, the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture declared wild za'atar a protected plant in Israel, strictly regulating its harvesting. The criminalization of za'atar harvesting continues to be enforced in Israel and occupied ...
Within western practices, music is typically learned either by sight or by ear. Sight-reading, a skill that relies on processing visual information from musical notation and immediately translating it into playing an ...