Browsing Undergraduate Works by Title
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Climate Change Impacts on the Productivity and Community Dynamics of Pacific Northwest Prairie Systems
(2017)Preservation of Pacific Northwest prairie ecosystems depends on our understanding of how climate change will impact levels of biodiversity within these systems. In the PNW, climate change models have predicted significant ... -
The Combined Success of the International Tropical Timber Agreements
(University of Oregon, 2004)The improvement of international environmental regimes is a delicate science that is slowly being mastered through a complicated and costly process of trial and error. Differences in regime effectiveness are influenced ... -
Common versus Differentiated Goals in the Face of Between-Country Inequities: Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Helsinki and Oslo Protocols on the Reduction of Sulfur Emissions
(University of Oregon, 2011-03-16)In this paper, I will explore whether, and how the Helsinki and the Oslo Protocols influenced emissions behavior, and whether the use of differentiated targets increased the effectiveness of the Oslo Protocol. The data I ... -
Comparing morphometric methods in Macaca mulatta crania
(University of Oregon Libraries, 2015)Accurate, reliable, cost-effective methods of measuring skeletal remains are vital to biological anthropology and related disciplines. Photogrammetry is a new method that is being utilized in various fields including, but ... -
Concrete mazes & brutalist trails : wayfinding at Lane Community College
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The Convention for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna: Examining State Behavior under Binding and Nonbinding Accords
(University of Oregon, 2008)In the relatively young realm of international environmental politics, there is a great deal to learn about the most effective and efficient ways in which to mitigate the world's increasing number of environmental problems. ... -
A Curious Crucible of Pain and Pleasure
(University of Oregon, 2015-03-13)Walter Pater's "The School of Giorgione" appealed to me because it addressed a concern I had with previous aesthetic texts. Most texts largely ignore the sensory training it requires to behold an aesthetic experience. I ... -
Deconstructing the Novel: The Critical Function of the Artist’s Book
(University of Oregon, 2014-02-12)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 ... -
Designing a Drip Irrigation System at Berggren Demonstration Farm
(University of Oregon, 2015)Our Sustainable Farms Team is working with the Berggren Demonstration Farm to develop an active understanding of a drip irrigation system at Berggren as a potential replacement for their current overhead sprinkler irrigation ... -
Dissecting the Cortical Canonical Circuit of Auditory Cortex to Understand Gap Detection
Speech comprehension requires processing sound information with a high degree of temporal precision. As a standard metric for assessing temporal acuity, gap detection allows us to understand the neural circuitry involved ... -
Dissecting the Cortical Canonical Circuit of Auditory Cortex to Understand Gap Detection
Speech comprehension requires processing sound information with a high degree of temporal precision. As a standard metric for assessing temporal acuity, gap detection allows us to understand the neural circuitry involved ... -
Duck's Life
(Korean Ducks, 2006) -
The Ecology and Demography of the Invasive Ascidian Botrylloides violaceus in the Coos Estuary
(University of Oregon, 2017)Botrylloides violaceus, a colonial ascidian, is a cosmopolitan invader of fouling communities on man-made structures in harbors including Oregon’s Coos Estuary. This study documents seasonal and spatial patterns of B. ... -
Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT Initiative: A Case Study on International Climate Change Mitigation Narratives
(University of Oregon, 2014)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 ... -
The Effect of Different Light Wavelengths on the Dust Microbiome
(University of Oregon, 2015) -
The Effect of Muscle Fatigue on Single- and Dual-Task Walking and Obstacle-Crossing in Young Adults
Previous research has demonstrated independent effects of fatigue or concurrent cognitive task on walking and obstacle-crossing; however, limited studies were performed to examine their combined effects and interaction. ... -
The Effects of Exogenous Testosterone on Cardiovascular Stress
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Effects of histamine-receptor blockade and exercise on blood-glucose concentration
(University of Oregon, 2017)Histamine has been found to be an important component during the exercise recovery period, particularly in mediating vasodilation, hyperemia, and hypotension. Blocking H1/H2 histamine receptors produced altered outcomes ...