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• 5201. [Article] Language Learning Perspectives and Experiences of Stakeholders in the Community of Flowers Bay, Roatan, Honduras

  When searching for pluralistic models of bilingual education, looking globally for examples is beneficial. The overarching global perspective toward bilingual and multilingual education supports literacy ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Language Learning Perspectives and Experiences of Stakeholders in the Community of Flowers Bay, Roatan, Honduras Author: McNelly, Carla Year: 2014 When searching for pluralistic models of bilingual education, looking globally for examples is beneficial. The overarching global perspective toward bilingual and multilingual education supports literacy in the student's first, second, and including the possibility of a third or more languages to attain socio-political pluralism. This dissertation project will specifically examine the voices of stakeholders in the local community of Flowers Bay, Roatan, Honduras where the mission of bilingual education is a pluralistic society. The goal of the research study is to examine the perspectives and experiences around language learning within the lens of language as a problem, a right, and a resource of stakeholders in their local community. Chapter I of this dissertation includes the problem statement of the research project, a historical and contextual explanation of the land, people, and social movement toward multilingual education on the Bay Islands of Honduras. Chapter II is a review of the literature surrounding the two frameworks in the research project. The first framework I utilize is the public sphere to describe who is or is not included in the conversations of multilingual education within the community of Flowers Bay, Roatan, Honduras. The second framework I utilize is language as a problem, a right, and a resource to describe and analyze the data collected from national policies, field observations, and stakeholders. Chapter III is an in-depth description of the research design, the demographics of the stakeholders in Flowers Bay, the method data collected and analysis of the data. Chapter IV features the findings from the data analysis using the two frameworks outlined in Chapter II. Chapter V offers a discussion of the frameworks and further research projects inspired by this dissertation project. Three themes emerged from framework of language as a right and resource of stakeholder voices from Flowers Bay, Roatan, Honduras: access, economy, and identity. Two themes emerged from the stakeholder voices not represented in the frameworks: resources needed and parent engagement. Title: Language Learning Perspectives and Experiences of Stakeholders in the Community of Flowers Bay, Roatan, Honduras Author: McNelly, Carla Year: 2014 When searching for pluralistic models of bilingual education, looking globally for examples is beneficial. The overarching global perspective toward bilingual and multilingual education supports literacy in the student's first, second, and including the possibility of a third or more languages to attain socio-political pluralism. This dissertation project will specifically examine the voices of stakeholders in the local community of Flowers Bay, Roatan, Honduras where the mission of bilingual education is a pluralistic society. The goal of the research study is to examine the perspectives and experiences around language learning within the lens of language as a problem, a right, and a resource of stakeholders in their local community. Chapter I of this dissertation includes the problem statement of the research project, a historical and contextual explanation of the land, people, and social movement toward multilingual education on the Bay Islands of Honduras. Chapter II is a review of the literature surrounding the two frameworks in the research project. The first framework I utilize is the public sphere to describe who is or is not included in the conversations of multilingual education within the community of Flowers Bay, Roatan, Honduras. The second framework I utilize is language as a problem, a right, and a resource to describe and analyze the data collected from national policies, field observations, and stakeholders. Chapter III is an in-depth description of the research design, the demographics of the stakeholders in Flowers Bay, the method data collected and analysis of the data. Chapter IV features the findings from the data analysis using the two frameworks outlined in Chapter II. Chapter V offers a discussion of the frameworks and further research projects inspired by this dissertation project. Three themes emerged from framework of language as a right and resource of stakeholder voices from Flowers Bay, Roatan, Honduras: access, economy, and identity. Two themes emerged from the stakeholder voices not represented in the frameworks: resources needed and parent engagement. Close

• 5202. [Article] Community Wildfire Protection Plan Analysis

  87 pages

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Community Wildfire Protection Plan Analysis Author: University of Oregon. Dept. of Planning, Public Policy and Management. Community Planning Workshop Year: 2015, 2013 87 pages Title: Community Wildfire Protection Plan Analysis Author: University of Oregon. Dept. of Planning, Public Policy and Management. Community Planning Workshop Year: 2015, 2013 87 pages Close

• 5203. [Article] Electric Vehicle Charging Station Infostructure Community Needs Assessment

  114 pages

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Electric Vehicle Charging Station Infostructure Community Needs Assessment Author: University of Oregon. Dept. of Planning, Public Policy and Management. Community Planning Workshop, Abbott, Stephen, Havener, Joshua, Khut, Rithy, Promes, Molly, Fertig, Sasha, West, Amanda, Parker, Robert Year: 2016, 2010 114 pages Title: Electric Vehicle Charging Station Infostructure Community Needs Assessment Author: University of Oregon. Dept. of Planning, Public Policy and Management. Community Planning Workshop, Abbott, Stephen, Havener, Joshua, Khut, Rithy, Promes, Molly, Fertig, Sasha, West, Amanda, Parker, Robert Year: 2016, 2010 114 pages Close

• 5204. [Article] Farm bill evolution to increase landowner and ecosystem service benefits

  2 pages

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Farm bill evolution to increase landowner and ecosystem service benefits Author: University of Oregon. Ecosystem Workforce Program Year: 2016, 2013 2 pages Title: Farm bill evolution to increase landowner and ecosystem service benefits Author: University of Oregon. Ecosystem Workforce Program Year: 2016, 2013 2 pages Close

• 5205. [Article] Wildfire Mitigation Compliance Through Senate Bill 360 : A Content Analysis of Oregon County Documents

  104 pages

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Wildfire Mitigation Compliance Through Senate Bill 360 : A Content Analysis of Oregon County Documents Author: Rawlings, Tarik Year: 2017 104 pages Title: Wildfire Mitigation Compliance Through Senate Bill 360 : A Content Analysis of Oregon County Documents Author: Rawlings, Tarik Year: 2017 104 pages Close

• 5206. [Article] The Eastside Blue Line Manifesto

  26 pages ; illustrations

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: The Eastside Blue Line Manifesto Author: Ahrens, Nick Year: 2017, 2015 26 pages ; illustrations Title: The Eastside Blue Line Manifesto Author: Ahrens, Nick Year: 2017, 2015 26 pages ; illustrations Close

• 5207. [Article] Sandy River to Springwater Multimodal Corridor Feasibility Study

  113 pages ; illustrations

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Sandy River to Springwater Multimodal Corridor Feasibility Study Author: Xian Chen, Leona, Ribe, Rob, Eischeid, Mark Year: 2017, 2014 113 pages ; illustrations Title: Sandy River to Springwater Multimodal Corridor Feasibility Study Author: Xian Chen, Leona, Ribe, Rob, Eischeid, Mark Year: 2017, 2014 113 pages ; illustrations Close

• 5208. [Article] The Effects of Global Changes on Fungal Communities: Measuring Biodiversity Belowground

  Global changes resulting from human activities, including elevated levels of greenhouse gases, enrichment of nitrogen and land use changes, have led to substantial losses in biodiversity of macroscopic ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: The Effects of Global Changes on Fungal Communities: Measuring Biodiversity Belowground Author: Mueller, Rebecca Year: 2013, 2014 Global changes resulting from human activities, including elevated levels of greenhouse gases, enrichment of nitrogen and land use changes, have led to substantial losses in biodiversity of macroscopic organisms, such as plants and animals, but whether these changes will have similar impacts on microscopic organisms, such as bacteria and fungi, is less clear. I examined the impact of three of these global changes, including elevated carbon dioxide, increased soil nitrogen availability and large-scale deforestation, on the biodiversity of soil fungi in three separate ecosystems. The responses of fungi to global changes were variable across ecosystems and the experimental system and were not readily predicted by observed changes in the plant community. However, subtle shifts in the community composition of fungi were observed in response to all global changes. Whether these shifts will impact the ecosystem function of these systems in unclear, but previous studies suggest that even small changes in community dynamics can have large effects on important processes, such as nitrogen cycling and carbon storage. These findings indicate that soil fungi do respond to global changes, but additional research must be undertaken to examine the effects of these shifts. Title: The Effects of Global Changes on Fungal Communities: Measuring Biodiversity Belowground Author: Mueller, Rebecca Year: 2013, 2014 Global changes resulting from human activities, including elevated levels of greenhouse gases, enrichment of nitrogen and land use changes, have led to substantial losses in biodiversity of macroscopic organisms, such as plants and animals, but whether these changes will have similar impacts on microscopic organisms, such as bacteria and fungi, is less clear. I examined the impact of three of these global changes, including elevated carbon dioxide, increased soil nitrogen availability and large-scale deforestation, on the biodiversity of soil fungi in three separate ecosystems. The responses of fungi to global changes were variable across ecosystems and the experimental system and were not readily predicted by observed changes in the plant community. However, subtle shifts in the community composition of fungi were observed in response to all global changes. Whether these shifts will impact the ecosystem function of these systems in unclear, but previous studies suggest that even small changes in community dynamics can have large effects on important processes, such as nitrogen cycling and carbon storage. These findings indicate that soil fungi do respond to global changes, but additional research must be undertaken to examine the effects of these shifts. Close

• 5209. [Article] Nature Industries: U.S. Environmental Fictions after Fordism, 1971-2011

  This dissertation recontextualizes literary, critical, and popular models of nature in contemporary American fiction, and argues that the transformations in the post-Fordist economy reframe environmental ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Nature Industries: U.S. Environmental Fictions after Fordism, 1971-2011 Author: Krieg, Charles Year: 2016 This dissertation recontextualizes literary, critical, and popular models of nature in contemporary American fiction, and argues that the transformations in the post-Fordist economy reframe environmental concepts and their uses in a new light. Scholars in the environmental humanities have long recognized that understanding changes in the political economy are a key way to understanding our ideas and representations of the natural world. These ideas serve as metaphysical models that relate individuals to society and to the broader world described by the sciences. However, much environmental criticism only goes so far as to historicize, either arguing that images of nature are wholly determined by structures and institutions of power, or, by privileging certain ideas of nature as absolute, critics lay claim to an imagined oppositional, but no less normative, space outside of society. Nature Industries intervenes in this dilemma by drawing on pragmatist and cultural studies methods to reconstruct the experience of American life in the aftermath of Fordism. Constructing this historical conjuncture enables interpretive practices which foreground the diverse political articulation of environmental figuration. The title is a play on Horkheimer and Adorno’s 1944 essay on “the culture industry,” which announced that cultural production had been subsumed into monopoly capitalism. Following culture, nature has undergone a similar loss of perceived autonomy. From the affective to the biogenetic, informational to the atmospheric, post-Fordist technologies and economies intervene in the world at scales that previous vocabularies struggle to describe without the help of fiction. Contemporary capitalism not only produces new natures—new combinations of nature and culture, or new “natural-history”—but, given the ecological consequences of industrialism, environmentalists too are forced to intervene in ways that would give pause to previous generations of conservationists. Rather than announcing the “death of Nature,” as the fictionalized Immanuel Kant does in the final moments of Mary McCarthy’s Birds of America (1971), we encounter a proliferation of natures, each with their own political valence, and each mobilizing a different set of social and natural referents in the public sphere. Title: Nature Industries: U.S. Environmental Fictions after Fordism, 1971-2011 Author: Krieg, Charles Year: 2016 This dissertation recontextualizes literary, critical, and popular models of nature in contemporary American fiction, and argues that the transformations in the post-Fordist economy reframe environmental concepts and their uses in a new light. Scholars in the environmental humanities have long recognized that understanding changes in the political economy are a key way to understanding our ideas and representations of the natural world. These ideas serve as metaphysical models that relate individuals to society and to the broader world described by the sciences. However, much environmental criticism only goes so far as to historicize, either arguing that images of nature are wholly determined by structures and institutions of power, or, by privileging certain ideas of nature as absolute, critics lay claim to an imagined oppositional, but no less normative, space outside of society. Nature Industries intervenes in this dilemma by drawing on pragmatist and cultural studies methods to reconstruct the experience of American life in the aftermath of Fordism. Constructing this historical conjuncture enables interpretive practices which foreground the diverse political articulation of environmental figuration. The title is a play on Horkheimer and Adorno’s 1944 essay on “the culture industry,” which announced that cultural production had been subsumed into monopoly capitalism. Following culture, nature has undergone a similar loss of perceived autonomy. From the affective to the biogenetic, informational to the atmospheric, post-Fordist technologies and economies intervene in the world at scales that previous vocabularies struggle to describe without the help of fiction. Contemporary capitalism not only produces new natures—new combinations of nature and culture, or new “natural-history”—but, given the ecological consequences of industrialism, environmentalists too are forced to intervene in ways that would give pause to previous generations of conservationists. Rather than announcing the “death of Nature,” as the fictionalized Immanuel Kant does in the final moments of Mary McCarthy’s Birds of America (1971), we encounter a proliferation of natures, each with their own political valence, and each mobilizing a different set of social and natural referents in the public sphere. Close

• 5210. [Article] The New World Order: Ursulines, Music from the Court of Louis XIV, and Educational Outreach in Eighteenth-Century New Orleans

  When a group of Ursuline nuns arrived in New Orleans from Rouen in 1727 it significantly changed the sacred musical landscape in the Louisiana Territory of New France. The women brought with them their ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: The New World Order: Ursulines, Music from the Court of Louis XIV, and Educational Outreach in Eighteenth-Century New Orleans Author: Pineda, Kim Year: 2014 When a group of Ursuline nuns arrived in New Orleans from Rouen in 1727 it significantly changed the sacred musical landscape in the Louisiana Territory of New France. The women brought with them their commitment to education, a tradition of using music in their worship, and music similar to that performed in the Chapelle Royale of Louis XIV. Before 1727 the practice of sacred music in New Orleans was practical and simple, established by Capuchin priests in 1725 with the construction of a school and a makeshift church. The construction of the Ursulines' own permanent building in 1734 allowed the nuns to further emphasize their commitment to education through music. After the Ursulines arrived in New Orleans, the first French settlers were from wealthy and noble families that had a need and yearning for homeland familiarity and culture. In 1730 the Ursulines solidified their educational mission in New Orleans by establishing a lay confraternity with a group of French women colonists that secured a bridge of continuity between the nuns, the religious culture of France, and the members of the colony. In 1754 the sisters were given a manuscript entitled Nouvelles Poésies spirituelles et morales, copied in Paris in 1736. Now known as the Ursuline Manuscript, the collection contains music by composers active in the reign of Louis XIV. It is not known if the manuscript was prepared specifically for the nuns, but by examining the music in this manuscript--which contains well-known instrumental works turned into sacred vocal parodies--I will demonstrate that regardless of the copyist's intention, the music in the manuscript filled a need for such a document given the physical and cultural landscape in which the collection found itself. I will also discuss the importance of the manuscript and its place in the study of music history in North America, including a comparison between French and other European musical practices that were maintained in the New World in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Title: The New World Order: Ursulines, Music from the Court of Louis XIV, and Educational Outreach in Eighteenth-Century New Orleans Author: Pineda, Kim Year: 2014 When a group of Ursuline nuns arrived in New Orleans from Rouen in 1727 it significantly changed the sacred musical landscape in the Louisiana Territory of New France. The women brought with them their commitment to education, a tradition of using music in their worship, and music similar to that performed in the Chapelle Royale of Louis XIV. Before 1727 the practice of sacred music in New Orleans was practical and simple, established by Capuchin priests in 1725 with the construction of a school and a makeshift church. The construction of the Ursulines' own permanent building in 1734 allowed the nuns to further emphasize their commitment to education through music. After the Ursulines arrived in New Orleans, the first French settlers were from wealthy and noble families that had a need and yearning for homeland familiarity and culture. In 1730 the Ursulines solidified their educational mission in New Orleans by establishing a lay confraternity with a group of French women colonists that secured a bridge of continuity between the nuns, the religious culture of France, and the members of the colony. In 1754 the sisters were given a manuscript entitled Nouvelles Poésies spirituelles et morales, copied in Paris in 1736. Now known as the Ursuline Manuscript, the collection contains music by composers active in the reign of Louis XIV. It is not known if the manuscript was prepared specifically for the nuns, but by examining the music in this manuscript--which contains well-known instrumental works turned into sacred vocal parodies--I will demonstrate that regardless of the copyist's intention, the music in the manuscript filled a need for such a document given the physical and cultural landscape in which the collection found itself. I will also discuss the importance of the manuscript and its place in the study of music history in North America, including a comparison between French and other European musical practices that were maintained in the New World in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Close