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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...