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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Tools for Quantifying Bacterial Motility Using Digital Holographic Microscopy as Applied to Studying the Simulated Microgravity Environment, Jacqueline Marie Acres (Dissertation)

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The New Profits of Pleasure: Reality Television and Affective Exploitation in Post-Pandemic Neoliberalism, Sophia Aepfelbacher (Thesis)

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Fintech and Entrepreneurship: An Assessment Model to Evaluate Policy Instruments for Fintech Adoption by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Deemah Abdullah Alassaf (Dissertation)

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Biological Nitrogen and Phosphorus Removal From Wastewater Under Low Dissolved Oxygen (LDO) Conditions, Bashar Al-Daomi (Dissertation)

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Organizational Readiness Assessment for Fraud Detection and Prevention: Case of Airlines Sector and Electronic Payment, Sultan Ayed Alghamdi (Dissertation)

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Probability Distribution Fitting for Censored Data: A Practical Guide for Survival Analysis of NBI Data for Concrete Bridge Decks in Oregon, Asmaa Almeshaileh (Thesis)

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Seeing in the Dark: Towards Robust Pedestrian Detection at Nighttime, Afnan Althoupety (Dissertation)

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Heartbreak and Head Trauma, August Joseph Amoroso (Closed Thesis)

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How Unequal Access to Personal and Professional Networks Impacts Success Among Construction Apprentices, Cameron Elliot Arnold (Thesis)

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Postfire Effects and Regeneration Patterns in Araucaria-Nothofagus Forests in South-Central Chile, Paola A. Arroyo-Vargas (Dissertation)

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The Double Dutch Retention Framework: A Grounded Theory Study on Increasing Racial Staff Diversity at Pacific Northwest Community Colleges, Dominique S. Austin (Dissertation)

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Phytoplankton Community as an Indicator of Cyanobacteria Harmful Algal Blooms in High Mountain Lakes, Victoria Elizabeth Avalos (Thesis)

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A Deep Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder for World Models in Complex Reinforcement Learning Environments, Sriharshitha Ayyalasomayajula (Thesis)

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The Influence of Polystyrene Microplastics on Juvenile Steelhead Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), Kaitlyn Marie Baker (Thesis)

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An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Innovation Ecosystems in Facilitating the Adoption of Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Dana Sami Bakry (Dissertation)

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E Hui me ke Kaiāulu: To Connect with the Community, Heather Kayleen Bartlett (Thesis)

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The Affective Discourses of Eviction: Right to Counsel in New York City, Hadley Savana Bates (Thesis)

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A Just Futures Framework: Insurgent Roller-Skating in Portland, Oregon, Célia Camile Beauchamp (Thesis)

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Instructors at a Crossroad: Perceptions of Collaboration and Support Intersect with Intentions to Implement a CURE, Justin Berl (Thesis)

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Uncertainty Quantification and Fragility Development of Deteriorating RC Bridge Piers, Ayush Bhandari (Thesis)

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Modeling Leaf-Level Transpiration: Exploring the Consequences of Assumed Saturated Vapor Pressure in Leaves, Danlyn L. Brennan (Thesis)

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Design and Characterization of 2.4GHz Antennas for Wireless Sensor Applications, Luis Zogby Brennan (Thesis)

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UHV-Shear-Force Acoustic Near-Field Microscopy and Its Implementation in the Study of Confined Mesoscopic Fluids, Theodore Alex Brockman (Dissertation)

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Examining Factors Impacting the Service Needs of Unhoused Women, Holly Brott (Dissertation)

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Electrochemical Hydrogen Gas Production and Carbon Dioxide Sequestration via In Situ Formation of Nickel (II) Tris-(Pyridinethiolate) Derivatives, Dayalis S.V. Brown (Dissertation)

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Assessment of the Omni-Channel Adoption for the Management of Emergence Technologies in Food Retailing During and After the Era of COVID-19, Esraa Bukhari (Dissertation)

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Do Frameworks Matter? Testing the Framing Effect on Public Support for Prison Pell Grants, Natalie Miles Burke (Thesis)

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Cultivating Equity: Harnessing School Garden Education as a Catalyst for Food Justice and Social Change, Maureen Madeleine Callahan (Thesis)

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A Policy Proposal for Agricultural Data Governance, Ana Sofía Castellanos Santamaría (Dissertation)

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Realization of Multi-Valued Logic Using Optical Quantum Computing, Sophie Choe (Dissertation)

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Local Voices: Counterstorytelling and Retention of Faculty of Color in Oregon's Community College System, Kristin Christophersen (Dissertation)

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Real-time Length Sensing of Braided Pneumatic Actuator using IR Time-of-Flight Sensor, Luon B. Chung (Thesis)

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Structure-from-Motion Derived Snow Cover in Burned Forests of the Western Oregon Cascades, Siobhan Ciafone (Thesis)

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Identifying Advantages to Teaching Linear Regression in a Modeling and Simulation Introductory Statistics Curriculum, Kit Harris Clement (Dissertation)

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Spatial Variations in Ancient Meteoric Water: An Investigation of the Rattlesnake Tuff, Julian Michael Cohen (Thesis)

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Main, Mediated, and Moderated Effects of Participating in an After-School Social and Emotional Learning Program on Young Children's Development of Social-Emotional Skills, Amy L. Cordier (Dissertation)

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Increasing Access to Doulas in Oregon: A Delphi Study, Courtney Elizabeth Crane (Dissertation)

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Radical Urban Natures: Mitigating Urban Heat with Nature-Based Techniques in Portland, Oregon, Heather Day-Melgar (Thesis)

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Improving Peer-to-Peer Learning for Students with Extensive Support Needs in Inclusive Classrooms, Zachary Michael Deets (Dissertation)

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Who Puts the "Support" in Supportive Housing? The Impact of Housing Staff on Resident's Well-Being, and the Potential Moderating Role of Self-Determination, Kenna Estell Dickard (Thesis)

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Tiny Drifters Amidst Global Change: Examining Environmental Drivers, Trophic Impacts, and Management Strategies of Estuarine Plankton Communities in the Anthropocene, Taylor Nicole Dodrill (Dissertation)

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Examining Policy Innovation Process and the Roles of Policy Entrepreneurs: A Case of Smart City Initiative in Khon Kaen, Thailand, Thitisak Duadsuntia (Dissertation)

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Motivation to Collaborate: A Qualitative Exploration of the Perspectives of Service Providers on an Alternative First Response Program, Desiree' J. DuBoise (Thesis)

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The Letting, Jessamyn Hayley Duckwall (Closed Thesis)

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Evaluation of the Slip History and Holocene Activity of the Strawberry Fault, Grant County, Oregon, Andrew Dunning (Thesis)

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Developing a Sample-efficient Analytical Pathway for a Qualitative Chemical Investigation of Ancestral Chilkat Dyeing and Weaving Practices, Dario Gerlando Durastanti (Dissertation)

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Factors Affecting Community Rating System Participation in the National Flood Insurance Program: A Case Study of Texas, Ryan David Eddings (Dissertation)

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Cognitive Engagement During Group Learning Activities in Chemistry Courses: An Analysis of Student Discourse, Safaa Youssef El-Mansy (Dissertation)

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Songs in My Head: Essays, Robin Bacior Emanuelson (Closed Thesis)

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Exploring Nonprofit Views on Water Management and Conservation Strategies, Jillian Marie Farley (Thesis)

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Uncertainty Quantification of Live Load Effect in Buried RC Box Culverts, Mohd Firoj (Thesis)

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Tell Me, Do You Feel It Too? A Meta-analysis of Dyadic Emotional Contagion in the Workplace, Stefanie Fox (Dissertation)

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Coriolis Forces on Wind Turbine Wakes within a Wind Farm, Natalie Violetta Frank (Thesis)

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Comparative Skull Morphology of California Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus) and Steller Sea Lions (Eumetopias jubatus) in the Pacific Northwest and Implications for Hybridization, Ada Iris Garcia Garcia (Thesis)

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Understanding the Experiences of Latino Medical Students in a Learning Medical Environment, Leslie García (Dissertation)

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Elementary Principal Leadership and Special Education: A Case Study in the United States, Vivian M. Garrison (Dissertation)

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Rush: Volume One, Section One: Super Tuesday, Ruben Angel Gil-Herrera (Closed Thesis)

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In-Progress Works of Fiction in Disparate Styles with Common Themes, Josef Ginsberg (Closed Thesis)

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The Definition of Yearning, Ryan Goderez (Closed Thesis)

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Creating Regression Model for Non-Markov Transition Probability Using Pseudo-Observations, Michael Gray (Dissertation)

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Participatory Mapping of Tree Equity, Preferences, and Environmental Justice in Portland, OR, Katharine Vezin Gregory (Thesis)

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Forest Fire Effects on Snow Storage and Melt Across Scales of Forest Recovery in the Western Oregon Cascades, Megan Nicole Guinn (Thesis)

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Left Out to Dry: Understanding the Social Experiences of Ground Depletion in Washington State's Columbia River Basin, Alexis Lisandro Guizar-Diaz (Thesis)

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The Greeley Variations, Mary Haidri (Thesis)

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The Impact of Climate Change on Selected PNW Watersheds through the Lens of Western Red Cedar Habitat, Jordan T. Hamann (Thesis)

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Graphical Models in Reconstructability Analysis and Bayesian Networks, Marcus Andrew Harris (Dissertation)

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Ambos, Emerson Daniel Henry (Closed Thesis)

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"Suited to the Wants of the Country": Historical Ceramics from the Fort Vancouver Sutler's Store, Vancouver, Washington, Kaitlyn Nicole Hosken (Thesis)

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Toward Efficient Rendering: A Neural Network Approach, Qiqi Hou (Dissertation)

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Energy Auction with Non-Relational Persistence, Michael Ramez Howard (Thesis)

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Tidal Bed Stress Asymmetry and Sediment Transport in Estuaries, Austin Scott Hudson (Dissertation)

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Left on "Read" and All Alone: Instigated Cyber Incivility, Shame, and Experienced Ostracism at Work, Alison Lucia Hunt (Thesis)

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"The Call is Coming from Inside the House": Tracing Experiences in the Institutionally-Centered Process of Establishing Limited Conservatorships in California, Barbara Alison Imle (Dissertation)

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Drivers and Dynamics of Phytoplankton Communities and Harmful Algal Blooms in Mountain Lakes, Lara Stephanie Jansen (Dissertation)

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Implementing a Functional Logic Programming Language via the Fair Scheme, Andrew Michael Jost (Dissertation)

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American Institution of Public, K-12 Education: An Institutional Field Under a Complexity Paradigm, Jennifer Jean Joyalle (Dissertation)

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Studies on Bonding, Syntheses, and Applications of Diarylhalonium Compounds, Shubhendu Karandikar (Dissertation)

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Long Season, Jieon Kim (Closed Thesis)

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The Experiences of Black Women Direct Care Workers in Long-Term Care, Nakeshia Knight-Coyle (Dissertation)

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Forest Generating Functions of Directed Graphs, Ewan Joaquin Kummel (Dissertation)

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BodySLAM: Feasibility of Tracking Human Kinematics with Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), Sepehr Laal (Thesis)

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A Hierarchical Decision Model to Evaluate Healthcare Organization's Readiness to Implement Clinical Decision Support Systems, Mohammed Oussama Laraichi (Dissertation)

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Exploring Associations between Military Identity and Well-being Outcomes among Post-9/11 Veterans after Separation, James David Lee (Dissertation)

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Surface Roughness Prediction in End Milling Processes Considering the Vibration of the Cutting Tool, Yubin Lee (Dissertation)

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Experiences of People with Serious Mental Illness Seeking Services at Community Mental Health Centers During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Emily Leickly (Dissertation)

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The Establishment and Shaping of the Education System and National Identity in Manchukuo, Tianyang Lei (Thesis)

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Design and Optimization with Quantum and Memristor Platforms, Yiwei Li (Dissertation)

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Survival Times and Investment Analysis with Dynamic Learning, Zhenzhen Li (Dissertation)

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LEED Buildings and Green Gentrification: Portland as a Case Study, Jordan Macintosh (Thesis)

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Using Biometrics, Behavioral Observations, and Multiple Molecular Techniques to Assess the Impacts of Changes in Temperature and Salinity on the Common Bay Mussel (Mytilus trossulus), Casey Martin (Thesis)

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Care Remittances: Farmworkers' Political Knowledge and Hemispheric Information Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Jennifer Martinez-Medina (Dissertation)

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Wasted Space, Ryan Martyn (Thesis)

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A Field, Petrological, and Geochronological Investigation of the Chief Joseph Dike Swarm, Mary Joyce Mass (Thesis)

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Mechanisms of Fibrillar Aggregation of the Lens Small Heat Shock Proteins, αA- and αB-crystallin, Russell James McFarland (Dissertation)

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In the Hot Seat: Acquiring Kernel Density Heat Map Design Guidance through Delphi and Survey Methods, Lauren Eileen McKinney-Wise (Thesis)

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Why So Serious? Using the Belongingness Need Tenet from the Self-Determination Theory to Examine Workplace Humor and Its Outcomes, Katharine Lucille McMahon (Dissertation)

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Motherdough, Sophia Kalin Merrell (Closed Thesis)

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Behavior Training for Educators: What Training do Educators Need to Support Students with Challenging Behaviors?, Michelle R. Milburn (Dissertation)

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Contextualizing The Role of Answerers' Gaze Orientation in Turn Taking, Cassidy Moore (Thesis)

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Committees in the Oregon State Legislature: Partisan, Distributive, or Informational, Woodrow C. Moore (Thesis)