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• 1. [Article] Arno Farm: Replanting for Self-Reliance

  iii, 42 p. "Project undertaken by: the Ministry of Resources and Development, Republic of the Marshall Islands, with technical assistance from: the University of Oregon Micronesia and South Pacific Pro...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Arno Farm: Replanting for Self-Reliance Author: Finney, Kevin, Laukon, Alexander, Marshall Islands. Ministry of Resources and Development, University of Oregon. Micronesia and South Pacific Program Year: 2009, 1993 iii, 42 p. "Project undertaken by: the Ministry of Resources and Development, Republic of the Marshall Islands, with technical assistance from: the University of Oregon Micronesia and South Pacific Program." Title: Arno Farm: Replanting for Self-Reliance Author: Finney, Kevin, Laukon, Alexander, Marshall Islands. Ministry of Resources and Development, University of Oregon. Micronesia and South Pacific Program Year: 2009, 1993 iii, 42 p. "Project undertaken by: the Ministry of Resources and Development, Republic of the Marshall Islands, with technical assistance from: the University of Oregon Micronesia and South Pacific Program." Close

• 2. [Article] Property Values, Transit, and the Recession: A Case Study of L.A. Metro’s Gold Line in Pasadena, California

  30 pages

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Property Values, Transit, and the Recession: A Case Study of L.A. Metro’s Gold Line in Pasadena, California Author: Bernhardt, Adams Year: 2014 30 pages Title: Property Values, Transit, and the Recession: A Case Study of L.A. Metro’s Gold Line in Pasadena, California Author: Bernhardt, Adams Year: 2014 30 pages Close

• 3. [Article] Willamette National Forest land and resource management plan final environmental impact statement

  1585 pp. Tables, figures, references, glossary, maps, appendices. Captured April 14, 2008.

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Willamette National Forest land and resource management plan final environmental impact statement Author: United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region Year: 2008, 1990 1585 pp. Tables, figures, references, glossary, maps, appendices. Captured April 14, 2008. Title: Willamette National Forest land and resource management plan final environmental impact statement Author: United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region Year: 2008, 1990 1585 pp. Tables, figures, references, glossary, maps, appendices. Captured April 14, 2008. Close

• 4. [Article] Back to Production: Labor-Value Commodity Chains and the Imperialist World Economy

  Despite the complexities and decentralization that characterize global supply chains in today’s world economy, imperialist relations of exchange continue to prevail, due to the fact that the differences ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Back to Production: Labor-Value Commodity Chains and the Imperialist World Economy Author: Suwandi, Intan Year: 2017 Despite the complexities and decentralization that characterize global supply chains in today’s world economy, imperialist relations of exchange continue to prevail, due to the fact that the differences between wages of North and South is greater than the difference of their productivities. This dissertation examines the global exploitation of labor that mostly occurs in the global South, as a form of such imperialist relations, particularly under the domination of multinational firms emanating primarily from the core of the system. I start by laying out the theoretical and empirical groundwork for the labor-value commodity chains framework that puts labor, along with the question of control and class, at the center of its formulation. By incorporating a calculation of cross-national variation in unit labor costs in manufacturing—a measurement that combines labor productivity with wage costs in a manner closely related to Marx’s theory of exploitation—the labor-value chains framework is a means to operationalize exploitation within the framework of the labor theory of value. Findings show that the global organization of labor-value chains is a means to extract surplus value through the exploitation of workers in the global South, where not only are wages low, but productivity is also high. I then show the concrete processes of how global North capital, personified in multinational corporations, captures value from the global South by applying systemic rationalization and flexible systems as mechanisms to exert control over their dependent suppliers in labor-value commodity chains. The burden of such mechanisms is borne by the workers —the direct producers of commodities—employed by these dependent suppliers. Case studies of two Indonesian companies that supply to multinationals are presented to illustrate these phenomena at the point of production. This observation further suggests that labor-value commodity chains are a form of unequal exchange and thus reveal the imperialistic characteristics of the world economy. This dissertation includes both previously published and coauthored materials. Title: Back to Production: Labor-Value Commodity Chains and the Imperialist World Economy Author: Suwandi, Intan Year: 2017 Despite the complexities and decentralization that characterize global supply chains in today’s world economy, imperialist relations of exchange continue to prevail, due to the fact that the differences between wages of North and South is greater than the difference of their productivities. This dissertation examines the global exploitation of labor that mostly occurs in the global South, as a form of such imperialist relations, particularly under the domination of multinational firms emanating primarily from the core of the system. I start by laying out the theoretical and empirical groundwork for the labor-value commodity chains framework that puts labor, along with the question of control and class, at the center of its formulation. By incorporating a calculation of cross-national variation in unit labor costs in manufacturing—a measurement that combines labor productivity with wage costs in a manner closely related to Marx’s theory of exploitation—the labor-value chains framework is a means to operationalize exploitation within the framework of the labor theory of value. Findings show that the global organization of labor-value chains is a means to extract surplus value through the exploitation of workers in the global South, where not only are wages low, but productivity is also high. I then show the concrete processes of how global North capital, personified in multinational corporations, captures value from the global South by applying systemic rationalization and flexible systems as mechanisms to exert control over their dependent suppliers in labor-value commodity chains. The burden of such mechanisms is borne by the workers —the direct producers of commodities—employed by these dependent suppliers. Case studies of two Indonesian companies that supply to multinationals are presented to illustrate these phenomena at the point of production. This observation further suggests that labor-value commodity chains are a form of unequal exchange and thus reveal the imperialistic characteristics of the world economy. This dissertation includes both previously published and coauthored materials. Close

• 5. [Article] Celebrity endorsements and advertising effectiveness: The importance of value congruence

  xvi, 152 p. : col. ill.

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Celebrity endorsements and advertising effectiveness: The importance of value congruence Author: Gurel Atay, Eda, 1980- Year: 2011, 2013 xvi, 152 p. : col. ill. Title: Celebrity endorsements and advertising effectiveness: The importance of value congruence Author: Gurel Atay, Eda, 1980- Year: 2011, 2013 xvi, 152 p. : col. ill. Close

• 6. [Article] The Axiology of Necrologies: Using Natural Language Processing to Examine Values in Obituaries

  This dissertation is centrally concerned with exploring obituaries as repositories of values. Obituaries are a publicly-available natural language source that are variably written for members of communities ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: The Axiology of Necrologies: Using Natural Language Processing to Examine Values in Obituaries Author: Levernier, Jacob Year: 2017 This dissertation is centrally concerned with exploring obituaries as repositories of values. Obituaries are a publicly-available natural language source that are variably written for members of communities that are wide (nation-level) and narrow (city-level, or at the level of specific groups therein). Because they are explicitly summative, limited in size, and written for consumption by a public audience, obituaries may be expected to express concisely the aspects of their subjects' lives that the authors (often family members living in the same communities) found most salient or worthy of featuring. 140,599 obituaries nested in 832 newspapers from across the USA were scraped with permission from *Legacy.com,* an obituaries publisher. Obituaries were coded for the age at death and gender (female/male) of the deceased using automated algorithms. For each publishing newspaper, county-level median income, educational achievement (operationalized as percent of the population with a Bachelor's degree or higher), and race and ethnicity were averaged across counties, weighting by population size. A Neo4J graph database was constructed using WordNet and the University of South Florida Free Association Norms datasets. Each word in each obituary in the corpus was lemmatized. The shortest path through the WordNet graph from each lemma to 30 Schwartz value prototype words published by Bardi, Calogero, and Mullen (2008) was then recorded. From these path lengths, a new measure, "word-by-hop," was calculated for each Schwartz value to reflect the relative lexical distance between each obituary and that Schwartz value. Of the Schwartz values, Power, Conformity, and Security were most indicated in the corpus, while Universalism, Hedonism, and Stimulation were least indicated. A series of nine two-level regression models suggested that, across Schwartz values, newspaper community accounted for the greatest amount of word-by-hop variability in the corpus. The best-fitting model indicated a small, negative effect of female status across Schwartz values. Unexpectedly, Hedonism and Conformity, which had conceptually opposite prototype words, were highly correlated, possibly indicating that obituary authors "compensate" for describing the deceased in a hedonistic way by concurrently emphasizing restraint. Future research could usefully further expand word-by-hop and incorporate individual-level covariates that match the newspaper-level covariates used here. Title: The Axiology of Necrologies: Using Natural Language Processing to Examine Values in Obituaries Author: Levernier, Jacob Year: 2017 This dissertation is centrally concerned with exploring obituaries as repositories of values. Obituaries are a publicly-available natural language source that are variably written for members of communities that are wide (nation-level) and narrow (city-level, or at the level of specific groups therein). Because they are explicitly summative, limited in size, and written for consumption by a public audience, obituaries may be expected to express concisely the aspects of their subjects' lives that the authors (often family members living in the same communities) found most salient or worthy of featuring. 140,599 obituaries nested in 832 newspapers from across the USA were scraped with permission from *Legacy.com,* an obituaries publisher. Obituaries were coded for the age at death and gender (female/male) of the deceased using automated algorithms. For each publishing newspaper, county-level median income, educational achievement (operationalized as percent of the population with a Bachelor's degree or higher), and race and ethnicity were averaged across counties, weighting by population size. A Neo4J graph database was constructed using WordNet and the University of South Florida Free Association Norms datasets. Each word in each obituary in the corpus was lemmatized. The shortest path through the WordNet graph from each lemma to 30 Schwartz value prototype words published by Bardi, Calogero, and Mullen (2008) was then recorded. From these path lengths, a new measure, "word-by-hop," was calculated for each Schwartz value to reflect the relative lexical distance between each obituary and that Schwartz value. Of the Schwartz values, Power, Conformity, and Security were most indicated in the corpus, while Universalism, Hedonism, and Stimulation were least indicated. A series of nine two-level regression models suggested that, across Schwartz values, newspaper community accounted for the greatest amount of word-by-hop variability in the corpus. The best-fitting model indicated a small, negative effect of female status across Schwartz values. Unexpectedly, Hedonism and Conformity, which had conceptually opposite prototype words, were highly correlated, possibly indicating that obituary authors "compensate" for describing the deceased in a hedonistic way by concurrently emphasizing restraint. Future research could usefully further expand word-by-hop and incorporate individual-level covariates that match the newspaper-level covariates used here. Close

• 7. [Article] A Landscape Approach to Ecosystem Services in Oregon's Southern Willamette Valley Agricultural Landscape

  Over the past decade, ecosystem services has become a familiar term. Definitions vary but the central idea is that society depends on and is enhanced by earth's resources. Concerns about natural resource ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: A Landscape Approach to Ecosystem Services in Oregon's Southern Willamette Valley Agricultural Landscape Author: Enright, Christianne Year: 2013 Over the past decade, ecosystem services has become a familiar term. Definitions vary but the central idea is that society depends on and is enhanced by earth's resources. Concerns about natural resource depletion and degradation have motivated researchers to move from concept to operation and real-world change. Since the late 1990s, attention has been directed at characterizing the monetary value of ecosystem services to influence decision-making processes. This research has been dominated by the disciplines of ecology and economics with the underlying assumption that the integration of these disciplinary approaches will provide the necessary operational pathways forward. The perspectives of ecology and economics are crucial but the unique qualities of ecosystem services suggest the need to consider other approaches and a willingness to look beyond existing models and disciplinary boundaries. I propose a landscape approach to ecosystem services in which they play a role in the intentional coevolution of social/ ecological systems. I apply this approach to explore the potential for floodplain agricultural landscapes to provide ecosystem services in a 65,000 acre study area located in Oregon's agriculturally-dominated southern Willamette Valley. The landscape's biophysical processes are represented by three ecosystem services: non-structural flood storage, carbon sequestration and floodplain forest. These are quantitatively evaluated using a geographic information system. One aspect of the landscape's sociocultural processes is explored through qualitative interviews with farmers and profiles of the crops they commonly grow. The biophysical and sociocultural research components are integrated through an alternative futures framework to compare the ca. 2000 landscape with a 2050 future landscape in which agricultural production includes ecosystem services. In the 2050 landscape, the synthesis results show where all three ecosystem services are simultaneously provided on 2,981 acres, and where increases in carbon sequestration and floodplain forest are simultaneously provided on an additional 4,841 acres. For the identified acres, the annual income from present-day conventional crop production is provided as a first approximation of the monetary income that farmers would consider for producing ecosystem services. Title: A Landscape Approach to Ecosystem Services in Oregon's Southern Willamette Valley Agricultural Landscape Author: Enright, Christianne Year: 2013 Over the past decade, ecosystem services has become a familiar term. Definitions vary but the central idea is that society depends on and is enhanced by earth's resources. Concerns about natural resource depletion and degradation have motivated researchers to move from concept to operation and real-world change. Since the late 1990s, attention has been directed at characterizing the monetary value of ecosystem services to influence decision-making processes. This research has been dominated by the disciplines of ecology and economics with the underlying assumption that the integration of these disciplinary approaches will provide the necessary operational pathways forward. The perspectives of ecology and economics are crucial but the unique qualities of ecosystem services suggest the need to consider other approaches and a willingness to look beyond existing models and disciplinary boundaries. I propose a landscape approach to ecosystem services in which they play a role in the intentional coevolution of social/ ecological systems. I apply this approach to explore the potential for floodplain agricultural landscapes to provide ecosystem services in a 65,000 acre study area located in Oregon's agriculturally-dominated southern Willamette Valley. The landscape's biophysical processes are represented by three ecosystem services: non-structural flood storage, carbon sequestration and floodplain forest. These are quantitatively evaluated using a geographic information system. One aspect of the landscape's sociocultural processes is explored through qualitative interviews with farmers and profiles of the crops they commonly grow. The biophysical and sociocultural research components are integrated through an alternative futures framework to compare the ca. 2000 landscape with a 2050 future landscape in which agricultural production includes ecosystem services. In the 2050 landscape, the synthesis results show where all three ecosystem services are simultaneously provided on 2,981 acres, and where increases in carbon sequestration and floodplain forest are simultaneously provided on an additional 4,841 acres. For the identified acres, the annual income from present-day conventional crop production is provided as a first approximation of the monetary income that farmers would consider for producing ecosystem services. Close

• 8. [Article] An Interdisciplinary Analysis of a Corn-based Seed Saving Network

  43 pages

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of a Corn-based Seed Saving Network Author: Robins, Adrian Year: 2015 43 pages Title: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of a Corn-based Seed Saving Network Author: Robins, Adrian Year: 2015 43 pages Close

• 9. [Article] Adaptive Reuse: Explaining Collaborations within a Complex Process

  Examining committee: Gerardo Sandoval, chair, Kingston Heath

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Adaptive Reuse: Explaining Collaborations within a Complex Process Author: Bond, Christina Year: 2011 Examining committee: Gerardo Sandoval, chair, Kingston Heath Title: Adaptive Reuse: Explaining Collaborations within a Complex Process Author: Bond, Christina Year: 2011 Examining committee: Gerardo Sandoval, chair, Kingston Heath Close

• 10. [Article] UO Higher Education Values and Opinions Survey

  Contains an SPSS data set, survey instrument, survey questionnaire, survey result, and sample report.

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: UO Higher Education Values and Opinions Survey Author: Oregon Survey Research Laboratory, University of Oregon. Office of Communications Year: 2005, 1994 Contains an SPSS data set, survey instrument, survey questionnaire, survey result, and sample report. Title: UO Higher Education Values and Opinions Survey Author: Oregon Survey Research Laboratory, University of Oregon. Office of Communications Year: 2005, 1994 Contains an SPSS data set, survey instrument, survey questionnaire, survey result, and sample report. Close