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Swartzlender, Kyle 2014-04-21T20:51:38Z 2014-04-21T20:51:38Z 2014-02-12 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/17450 Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2013-2014. 17 pages. This essay explores how the genre of the artist’s book, especially the appropriative manner of artist’s book, may be used as a method of literary criticism. The central argument of the paper is that the book artist, when using a preexisting work of writing to form their own artist’s book, has the potential to not only create an object of interest and beauty, but also a work of intimate and scathing criticism. To demonstrate this point, the paper analyzes three separate artist’s books: A Humument by Tom Phillips, Tree of Codes by Jonathan Saffran-Foer, and Legendary, Lexical, Loquacious Love by Eve Rhymer, each of which represents a different method by which the book artist is able formulate a critique of the original text they have altered. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Deconstructing the Novel: The Critical Function of the Artist’s Book Other

Dodrill, Taylor N. Nelson, Greg C. Stone, Jessica H. Fitzpatrick, Scott M. 2016-06-03T19:28:15Z 2016-06-03T19:28:15Z 2016 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19937 1 page poster en_US University of Oregon Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US Undergraduate symposium Caribbean archaeology unprovenienced human remains Determining Ancestry of Unprovenienced Human Remains from the Grenadines, Southern Caribbean: Dental Morphology and Craniometric Thesis / Dissertation

Peck, Mairin 2015-04-09T18:51:29Z 2015-04-09T18:51:29Z 2014 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18846 Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2014-2015. 18 pages. In 2007, Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa presented a novel climate change mitigation plan to the world: Ecuador would leave 846 million barrels of crude oil untouched beneath the Amazon if the global community reciprocated with a contribution of 3.6 billion dollars – half of the oil’s market value (McAvoy 27). The Yasuní-ITT Initiative vowed to preserve immense biodiversity, protect indigenous groups, and prevent the emission of 410 million tons of carbon dioxide (Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues). In 2013, Correa abandoned the initiative, lamenting the lack of international support, and approved oil drilling in the Yasuní (Correa, “Anuncio a la Nación” 3). This analysis utilized Correa’s speeches and government documents to identify the prevailing narratives employed in the initiative. Those narratives – common but unequal responsibility for climate change, a reconceptualization of value, and Ecuador as martyr and revolutionary – reflect a framework that simultaneously criticized and sought authority from the capitalist ideal. The failure of the Yasuní-ITT Initiative to capture the hearts and wallets of the world provides insight into the dominant global forces and perspectives on climate change mitigation policy. en_US University of Oregon Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US Yasuní-ITT Initiative climate change mitigation Rafael Correa Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT Initiative: A Case Study on International Climate Change Mitigation Narratives Other

Lai, Kevin 2016-06-03T19:52:26Z 2016-06-03T19:52:26Z 2016 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19941 1 page poster en_US University of Oregon Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US testosterone stress cardiovascular stress exogenous testosterone Undergraduate Symposium HR HRV TSST STAI hormones anxiety heart psychology biology physiology The Effects of Exogenous Testosterone on Cardiovascular Stress Thesis / Dissertation

Brogan, Megan 2013-04-19T00:07:29Z 2013-04-19T00:07:29Z 2012-06 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12847 Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2012-2013. 83 pages. Do large dam projects create a “sustainable improvement of human welfare” for those directly affected by a dam or not (WCD 2000, 2)? This question is central to a major debate in international development. This thesis argues that although there may be benefits of leaving a river to run its natural course, the economic gains associated with the implementation of a large hydropower dam bring greater socioeconomic benefits to the community in question. Despite environmental changes and economic obstacles associated with the Yacyretá Dam, over time, the people that depend on the Paraná River have experienced a significant “sustainable improvement of human welfare” compared to the residents along the Pilcomayo River (WCD 2000, 2). The benefits of allowing a river to run freely are the forgone opportunity costs that would be associated with the construction of a dam, such as dam-related downstream and upstream flooding. However, economic benefits such as job growth and access to electricity have the potential to outweigh these environmental costs. en_US University of Oregon rights_reserved An Environmental Anthropology: The Effects of the Yacyretá Dam on Communities in Misiones, Argentina in Comparison to the Economic and Environmental Well-being of the Pilcomayo River Basin Other

Bronk, Kevin 2011-07-20T18:57:39Z 2011-07-20T18:57:39Z 2010 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11431 48 pages Associated Students of the University of Oregon en_US Ethos Magazine Ethos : Vol. 2, Issue 2 (2010 : Winter) Article

Bronk, Kevin 2011-07-20T18:44:58Z 2011-07-20T18:44:58Z 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11429 25 pages Associated Students of the University of Oregon en_US Ethos Magazine Ethos : Vol. 2, Issue 4 (2010 : Summer) Article

Paek, Suji 2011-07-20T18:37:50Z 2011-07-20T18:37:50Z 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11428 25 pages Associated Students of the University of Oregon en_US Ethos Magazine Ethos : Vol. 3, Issue 2 (2011 : Winter) Article

Paek, Suji 2011-07-20T18:15:59Z 2011-07-20T18:15:59Z 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11426 25 pages Associated Students of the University of Oregon en_US Ethos Magazine Ethos : Vol. 3, Issue 4 (2011 : Summer) Article

Sakamoto, Kiwako 2009-05-15T16:42:18Z 2009-05-15T16:42:18Z 2008 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9160 Awarded $1,000 in the 2009 Undergraduate Research Award scholarship competition. 32 p. Paper versions also available for check out or consultation in the University of Oregon's library. In "Time Series Tests of Endogenous Growth Models" (1995)1, Charles Jones concludes that the two textbook endogenous growth models - AK-models and R&D based models -are inconsistent with time series evidence. Showing that there is little or no persistent increase in growth rates of OECD countries but large persistent movements in investment, Jones argues that either the persistent movements in growth determinant variables have been offsetting, or "the hallmark of the endogenous growth models, that permanent changes in policy variables have permanent effects on growth rates, is misleading." This pafer replicates his time series test ofAK models and extends its original data to 2004 . The extended data exhibit negative trends or no trend at all in total investment rates, but in general still support the conclusions of the original paper. en_US University of Oregon An Examination of the Time Series Evidence on AK-Style Endogenous Growth Models Article