Scholarsbank at the UO Libraries: Recent submissions
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Faithful tropicalization of hypertoric varieties
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)The hypertoric variety M_A defined by an arrangement A of affine hyperplanes admits a natural tropicalization, induced by its embedding in a Lawrence toric variety. In this thesis, we explicitly describe the polyhedral ... -
A Better Tomorrow: Examination of International Students’ Success in Higher Education
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)International student enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased and diversified over the past decade. The unique needs and challenges international students face in pursuing higher education in the U.S. need a ... -
Synaptic Target Selection in the Drosophila Visual System
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Synapses are necessary for a functional nervous system. To form a synapse, a neuron must first extend an axon, then select its proper synaptic target, and finally, a series of adhesion and adaptor molecules must work ... -
INTERLIMINAL TONGUES: SELF-TRANSLATION IN CONTEMPORARY TRANSATLANTIC BILINGUAL POETRY
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)In this dissertation, I argue that self-translators embody a borderline sense of hybridity, both linguistically and culturally, and that the act of translation, along with its innate in-betweenness, is the context in which ... -
Folk Networks, Cyberfeminism, and Information Activism in the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Series
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This thesis explores how the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon event impacts the people who coordinate and participate in it. I review museum catalogs to determine institutional representation of women artists, and then ... -
Weighing in on Wonder Woman: Analyzing Gardner Fox's Writing for Potential Sexism
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Wonder Woman is seen as the embodiment of feminism in the comic world and her placement as the secretary of the Justice Society of America is seen as a crime against her character. Many blame Gardner Fox for this decision, ... -
HOW SOCIAL DOMINANCE THEORY MIGHT CONTRIBUTE TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE LIBERIAN CIVIL WAR (1989-2003)
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Even though scholars and researchers have suggested that the Liberian civil war arose as a result of socioeconomic and political inequalities, oppression, discrimination, and marginalization of a certain group of people, ... -
Aspirational Migration: The Case of Chinese Birth Tourism in the U.S.
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)The ways in which individuals navigate the globe today complicates previous conceptualizations of migration and mobility. Once such mode of contemporary movement which challenges scholars is known as "birth tourism." This ... -
Images of Protest: The Barrier Wall Art of Ron English and Other Artists
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This thesis looks at illegal public art produced on state built barrier walls. The focus is on the artist Ron English, and his artworks produced on the Berlin Wall, Israeli Barrier Wall, and Mexican Border Fence. I examine ... -
Concerto Grosso No. 1
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This concerto is the composer’s conversation with the past. In four movements, each one embodies a traditional musical form. The work is a continually transforming kaleidoscope of relentless virtuosity, fanciful flights ... -
Beautiful Empire: Race, Gender, and the Asian/American Femme on U.S. Network Television
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Since the earliest days of broadcast television in the 1950s, network television has maintained a keen fascination with Asian/American women, who implicitly helped secure the boundaries of white women’s “empire of the ... -
A Solution Under Pressure: Integrating Facilitative Practices into Water-Related Civil Litigations
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)The broad scope of this research concerns the field of conflict and dispute resolution, also referred to as alternative dispute resolution (ADR). ADR practices have developed in both executive and judicial branches of ... -
A Discourse Analysis of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in Reaction to Proposed Funding Cuts
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Federal funding has been a frequent political issue for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The corporation has come under the threat of being defunded many times since its inception. Those calls have been renewed ... -
PRE-ENTRY: EXPANDING THE METHODS BY WHICH PUBLIC DEFENDERS PREPARE CLIENTS FOR A SUCCESSFUL RE-ENTRY PRIOR TO INCARCERATION
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)The criminal justice system does not focus on individual needs outside of the defense against criminal charges and thus perpetuates the cycle that results in indigent people burdened with a criminal record. This paper first ... -
Political Connections in the Municipal Bond Market: Is There a Pay-to-Stay
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This paper investigates the impact of investment banks’ political contributions on their underwriting business with local government officials. Using an original data set on municipal underwriting banks political contributions ... -
On the Subregular J-ring of Coxeter Systems
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Let (W, S) be an arbitrary Coxeter system, and let J be the asymptotic Hecke algebra associated to (W, S) via Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials by Lusztig. We study a subalgebra J_C of J corresponding to the subregular cell C ... -
Motives of Log Schemes
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This thesis introduces two notions of motive associated to a log scheme. We introduce a category of log motives à la Voevodsky, and prove that the embedding of Voevodsky motives is an equivalence, in particular proving ... -
A Grammar of Hakhun Tangsa
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Hakhun Tangsa is one of around eighty ethnic and linguistic communities called Tangsa or Tangshang. Hakhuns live mostly in Arunachal Pradesh, India, and in Sagaing Division, Myanmar. The number of speakers is estimated at ... -
Electron orbital angular momentum: preparation, application and measurement
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)The electron microscope is an ideal tool to prepare an electron into a specified quantum state, entangle that state with states in a specimen of interest, and measure the electron final state to indirectly gain information ... -
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health under Marketization and Community Context: Evidence from China
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This dissertation examines China’s market reforms over the last few decades, and their implications for (re)shaping socioeconomic inequalities in health. Specifically, I study the effect of marketization and related ...