Sylwester, Eva(University of Oregon, Department of Psychology, 2007-06)
This study looks for differences between residents of two Christian religious housing co-operatives (N = 23) and residents of a secular fraternity house who self-identified as Christian (N = 8) on variables related to ...
The extent to which precipitation has an impact on annual ring-growth of Douglas-fir trees and how that impact differs between stands of different age classes has been a little-studied topic, particularly in the Pacific ...
Boys are assumed to be more reluctant to disclose sexual abuse than girls but empirical evidence is lacking. Previous qualitative research by Alaggia (2005) suggests that typical nondisclosure reasons for women are related ...
The role proteoglycans play in molecular-genetic mechanisms of skeletogenesis is not completely understood. UDP-glucuronic acid decarboxylase 1 (Uxs1) converts UDP-glucuronic acid to UDP-xylose which is used by ...
HIV/AIDS has caused millions of deaths and untold suffering throughout the world. Although there is no cure, treatment exists that has transformed this disease from an acutely lethal infection into a manageable chronic ...
Through the centuries, critics have struggled with the poetry of Andrew Marvell, using diverse frameworks to examine his work. In this thesis, three poems – “Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings,” “Mourning,” and “The Nymph ...
In the 1970' s when the Black Radical Movement was at its height and the United States
was experiencing incredible social and political changes and challenges, there was a
moment of dialogue and expression from the ...
Before the United States established its dietary guidelines and before the discovery of the chemistry of nutrition, authors of nineteenth-century cookery books based their opinions of a healthy lifestyle primarily on their ...
Malstrom, Stacey Nicole(University of Oregon, 2008-06)
My interest in this research lies specifically in investigating how message design
theories work in and are applied to anti-drug messages. I pay particular attention to
which aspects of the messages are effective and how ...
Hudson, Karen Alice(University of Oregon, 2008-06)
People tend to cooperate with and defer future decisions to authorities when those
people perceive the authorities as fair (Tyler, 2003). In the current experiment, the
effects of expert witness type (adversarial, neutral ...
Within the confines of static, two-dimensional representation, sensory tools are limited to visual cues, thus demanding the maximum output of symbols. Combining words and images taps multiple perception levels in the ...
The homeless demographic fluctuates in response to economic, political, social, and environmental upsets. As the climate of uncontrollable conditions changes, so does the population of those with inadequate shelter. ...
This thesis suggests that a modification in the way writing is taught at the high school level can make the subject more worthwhile and accessible to students. A look at the current English classroom shows that students ...
Day-to-day human life requires functional sensory systems that enable us to
perceive the surrounding environment. Often, the surrounding environment assessed by
our sensory systems can be very complex, so that processes ...
Kovensky, Rachel A.(University of Oregon, 2008-06)
Millions of children around the globe have been killed, maimed, disabled, or orphaned as
a result of armed conflict. Children have been exposed to brutal death, dangerous escape
or flight; violence; physical injury; ...
Cummings, Nicholas Michael(University Of Oregon, 2008-07)
As modem culture begins to embrace the Internet as a social medium, new programs
such as Linden Lab's Second Life raise questions about what an audience can expect
from new interactive media. By utilizing the media studies ...
Legislative entrenchment refers to the procedure by which one legislature insulates its acts from repeal or emendation through binding requirements on a subsequent legislature. It is commonly viewed as a tenet of U.S. ...
Mason, Katelyn Sarah(University of Oregon, 2009-06)
This paper is a translation and study of El Relato del Nacimiento de Jesus, an aljamiado
story of the birth of Jesus, written by underground Muslims in Spain during the Spanish
Inquisition circa the sixteenth century. ...
Since the Spanish conquest, Ecuador's lowland indigenous groups have experienced two
major periods of development: faith-based initiatives and petroleum exploitation. The early
1990s marked the beginning of a third, ...
Reynolds, Joel Michael(University of Oregon, 2009-06)
Emmanuel Levinas calls suffering "the very bond of human subjectivity," that by
which we are most fundamentally connected. Albeit irrefutable in its own right, properly
accounting for human suffering and pain resists ...