Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1973. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliography.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1987. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 459-497).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1984. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004. / Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 267 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-267).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Davis, 2004. / Degree granted in History. Includes bibliographical references. Also available via the World Wide Web. (Restricted to UC campuses)

Thesis (M.S.)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2006. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Susan Kollin. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-100).

This thesis is a study of dancing and dancing events amongst Mexicanos and Mexican Americans in northern California. The study posits that dancing can be approached as a broader form of activity which encompasses a variety of individual dance styles. In adopting this approach, the aim is to move the understanding of dancing away from a practice set apart from the everyday and used principally as a tool and site fo4r the construction and maintenance of identification, dancing instead emerges as an activity threaded through the everyday in a variety of forms, an activity in which practitioners engage for many varied and overlapping reasons throughout the course of their lives. Three principal themes are explored in the work. The first addresses the practitioners' understanding of dancing and highlights the place of movement, music, and ‘sentir la música/el ritmo' in this. This understanding is revealed to be flexible, multiple, and shifting, the result of attunement and responsiveness as the practitioners interacted with one another and the world around then, the second themes addresses learning and points to the presence of two different by interconnected experiences of dance enskilment, ‘learning to dance' and ‘just dancing'. These are principally differentiated through the intent of the practitioners but are further differentiated through the understanding and sensory experience of the learning, the subject of enskilment and the value this is given, and dynamics between the practitioners. The third theme looks at dancing and dancing events as a relational process and explores the variety of relations, both those experienced as ‘positive' and those as ‘negative', that practitioners foster and articulate within dancing and how the explore a range of concrete activity before, during, and after dancing events to do so. Together these themes p-provide and understanding of dancing as a broader activity and process that complements work which focuses on individual dance forms and specific issues related to these.

ix, 60 p. : col. ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Spatial and temporal patterns of movement of the Boulder Creek earthflow were investigated using 26 interferograms derived from ALOS satellite radar images acquired between February 2007 and February 2008. Persistently unstable hillslopes in Northern California are ideally suited to the study of the dynamics and morphological signature of earthflows, as the deeply sheared melange lithology, high seasonal rainfall, and fast uplift rates promote widespread deep-seated landsliding. In addition to identifying multiple active landslides in the region, L-band InSAR reveals varying deformation rates in the accumulation, transport, and toe regions of the Boulder Creek earthflow. Downslope displacement rates up to 1.8 m/yr are observed on the earthflow over a I-year period. The pattern of deformation is similar to that observed from 1944-2006 inferred from aerial photography. Interferograms highlight spatially variable rates controlled by lithology and gullies, and movement correlates with seasonal rainfall with a phase lag of ~2 months. / Committee in Charge: Dr. Joshua J. Roering, Chair; Dr. David A. Schmidt; Dr. John M. Logan

This thesis is a collection of three essays discussing the incentive for generation investment in deregulated electricity markets in Texas and California. Essay one: Ex post payoffs of a tolling agreement for natural-gas-fired generation in Texas. To explore the problem of insufficient investment incentive for natural-gas-fired generation in Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), I use a large sample of over 134,000 15-minute observations in the 46-month period of 01/01/2011 - 10/31/2014 to estimate the effects of several fundamental drivers on the ex post payoffs of three hypothetical tolling agreements by heat rate. Our assumed heat rates reflect those of a new combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT), a new combustion turbine (CT) and an old CT. The fundamental drivers are postulated to be the natural-gas price, regional loads, nuclear generation, and wind generation. We find rising natural-gas price and non-West regional loads tend to increase the agreements' ex post payoffs. These payoff increases, however, were reduced by rising West regional load, nuclear generation and wind generation. Finally, we find a substantial payoff decline due to large-scale wind generation development in Texas, lending support to the suggestion of ERCOT's transition from an energy-only market to an energy-and-capacity market. Essay two: Wind generation's effect on the ex post variable profit of compressed air energy storage: Evidence from Texas. We use 1401 daily observations in the 46-month period of 01/01/2011 - 10/31/2014 to estimate wind generation's effect on the daily per MWH arbitrage profits of compressed air energy storage (CAES) in the four regions of Houston, North, South, and West in the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). We find an increase in wind generation's MWH output in the discharge hours tends to reduce a CAES system's profits. The same MWH increase in the charge hours, however, tends to increase profits. Hence, a wind generation capacity expansion that increases wind MWH in both discharge and charge hours has offsetting profit effects, implying that a CAES unit's profitability is unlikely affected by wind generation development. Sharply contrasting the "gone with the wind" profitability problem faced by natural-gas-fired generation, our findings lend support to the financial attractiveness of CAES, whose development is useful for integrating a rising share of wind generation capacity into an electric grid. Essay three: Renewable generation's impact on pumped hydro storage's profitability in California. We use a sample of 860 daily observations over the 28-month period of 12/12/2012 - 04/30/2015 to estimate the effect of renewable generation development on pumped hydro storage's (PHS's) profitability in California. We find that rising renewable generation does not significantly (a = 0.01) diminish a PHS system's daily operating profits from energy sales at the California Independent System Operator's (CAISO's) day-head and real-time market prices, chiefly because renewable generation's merit-order effect on the market prices cuts the system's output revenue in a discharge period and input cost in a charge period. The system, however, faces severely inadequate investment incentive because its annual operating profit can hardly pay for its annual fixed cost. Hence, California should continue its adopted procurement process for long-term contracts with adequate fixed cost recovery, so as to promote PHS to reliably integrate increasing amount of renewable generation into the state's electric grid.

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