This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Conceptualizing the Mindful Teacher: Examining Evidence for Mindfulness Skills in Teachers' Classroom Speech and Behavior, Cynthia Lynn Taylor (Dissertation)
Effects of Antibiotic Mixtures across Marine Intertidal Trophic Levels: Examining Environmentally-Relevant Contaminant Concentrations, Jaclyn Rebecca Teixeira (Thesis)
Household Water Filter Use Characterization in Rural Rwanda: Signal Interpretation, Development and Validation, Sarita Lucia Tellez Sanchez (Thesis)
Social Support and Depression Symptomatology Post Injury in Division 1 Athletes, Alyssa Catherine Tiedens (Thesis)
Keeley Probes as a Tool for Uncovering Student Ideas: How Do Teachers Use Formative Assessment Probes to Plan and Adapt Instruction?, Kalin Tobler (Thesis)
One-Dimensional Nanostructure and Sensing Applications: Tin Dioxide Nanowires and Carbon Nanotubes, Hoang Anh Tran (Dissertation)
"On This, We Shall Build": the Struggle for Civil Rights in Portland, Oregon 1945-1953, Justin LeGrand Vipperman (Thesis)
Relationships that Extend Beyond the Fence-Line: Private Landowner Attitudes and Interest in Conservation Easements, Ashley Lyn Vizek (Thesis)
The Village Market: New Columbia Goes Shopping for Food Justice, Jane Therese Waddell (Dissertation)
Molecular Probes for Pancreatic Cancer Imaging, Lei Wang (Dissertation)
Use of Distance Weighted Metrics to Investigate Landscape-Stream Temperature Relationships Across Different Temporal Scales, Eric Craig Watson (Thesis)
The Effectiveness of Participation in a Project-based Learning Project on At-risk Student Self-Efficacy, Benjamin Aaron Weber (Thesis)
Phylogeography of Two Species of the Genus Apochthonius Chamberlin, 1929, in the Pacific Northwest (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones), Brandi Lynn Welch (Thesis)
Surviving Catastrophe: Resource Allocation and Plant Interactions Among the Mosses of Mount St. Helens Volcano, Trevor David Williams (Thesis)
A Utility-Scale Deployment Project of Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage for Use in Ancillary Services, Energy Resiliency, Grid Infrastructure Investment Deferment, and Demand-Response Integration, Joseph Nathanael Wilson (Thesis)
Large Length Scale Capillary Fluidics: From Jumping Bubbles to Drinking in Space, Andrew Paul Wollman (Dissertation)
Insulin-like Growth Factor Pathway Described in Austrofundulus limnaeus Diapause and Escape Embryos, Steven Cody Woll (Thesis)
Origin and Use of Pedagogical Content Knowledge: A Case Study of Three Math Teachers and Their Students, Christopher Neal Wood (Thesis)
Stellar Works: Searching for the Lives of Women in Science, Jennifer Elizabeth Woodman (Thesis)
The Design of a Simple, Spiking Sparse Coding Algorithm for Memristive Hardware, Walt Woods (Thesis)
From Drought Monitoring to Forecasting: a Combined Dynamical-Statistical Modeling Framework, Hongxiang Yan (Dissertation)
Conventionalizing and Axiomatizing in a Community College Mathematics Bridge Course, Mark Alan Yannotta (Dissertation)
Watershed Response to Climate Change and Fire-Burns in the Upper Umatilla River Basin Using the Precipitation Runoff Modeling System, Kimberly Crystal Yazzie (Thesis)
The Foundations of Network Dynamics in an RNA Recombinase System, Jessica Anne Mellor Yeates (Dissertation)
South Korean Teachers' Beliefs about Diversity: the Impact on Practice of Multicultural Education, Marie Yeo (Dissertation)
A Relevance Rule Organizing Responsive Behavior During Projectably Multi-Unit Tellings, Anri Zama (Thesis)
Cyclic Loading Behavior of CFRP-Wrapped Non-Ductile Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Joints, Ali S. H. Zerkane (Thesis)
Image Stitching: Handling Parallax, Stereopsis, and Video, Fan Zhang (Dissertation)
Dietary and Physical Activity Acculturation and Weight Status in Chinese College Students, Yanni Zhang (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Principal Leadership Practices in High Poverty K-5 Model Schools in Oregon, Janice Marie Adams (Dissertation)
Experimental Investigation of Fiber Reinforced Concrete Beams, Karrar Ali Al-lami (Thesis)
Exploring Dietary Sacrifice in Intimate Relationships for Couples with Celiac Disease, Lindsey Marie Alley (Thesis)
Fall Risk, Jacqueline Alnes (Closed Thesis)
Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Beams Retrofitted in Flexure Using CFRP-NSM Technique, Salam Al-Obaidi (Thesis)
Constant Interface Temperature Reliability Assessment Method: An Alternative Method for Testing Thermal Interface Material in Products, Christian Amoah-Kusi (Thesis)
A Combined Energy and Geoengineering Optimization Model (CEAGOM) for Climate Policy Analysis, John George Anasis (Dissertation)
Developing Key Sustainability Competencies through Real-World Learning Experiences: Evaluating Community Environmental Services, Erin Lorene Anderson (Thesis)
Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Consequences of Loneliness: Health Behavior, Social Interactions, Self-Disclosure, and Perceived Responsiveness, Sarah Noel Arpin (Dissertation)
Language Policy and Bilingual Education for Immigrant Students at Public Schools in Japan, Naomi Asakura (Thesis)
Vortex Identification in the Wake of a Wind Turbine Array, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Aseyev (Thesis)
The Floating Men: Portland and the Hobo Menace, 1890-1915, Marin Elizabeth Aurand (Thesis)
Novel Methods for Learning and Adaptation in Chemical Reaction Networks, Peter Banda (Dissertation)
On the Estimation of Volumes of Roadways: An Investigation of Stop-Controlled Minor Legs, Joel Stephen Barnett (Thesis)
Development of an Optical Method for the Detection of Homocysteine as a Disease Biomarker Using Fluorescein-Aldehydes, Aabha Barve (Dissertation)
The Effects of an Overnight Environmental Science Education Program on Students' Attendance Rate Change for Middle School Years, Jennifer Elizabeth Basham (Thesis)
Nationalism in United States Foreign Policy in the Post 9/11 Era, Chris W. Baum (Thesis)
Beyond Fruit: Examining Community in a Community Orchard, Emily Jane Becker (Thesis)
Catholic Action in Twentieth-Century Oregon: The Divergent Political and Social Philosophies of Hall S. Lusk and Francis J. Murnane, Ian Alan Berge (Thesis)
An Exploration of Bicyclist Comfort Levels Utilizing Crowdsourced Data, Bryan Philip Blanc (Thesis)
The Europeanization of Political Parties: A Study of Political Parties in Poland 2009-2014, Dennis Jan Blew (Thesis)
Modifications to a Cavity Ringdown Spectrometer to Improve Data Acquisition Rates, Gregory Alan Bostrom (Dissertation)
Performance Metrics for Depth-based Signal Separation Using Deep Vertical Line Arrays, John K. Boyle (Thesis)
Localized Ecological and Educational Effects of Environmental Service-Learning in Portland, Oregon, Steven Matthew Braun (Dissertation)
The Response of Zooplankton Communities in Montane Lakes of Different Fish Stocking Histories to Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition Simulations, Jeffrey Thomas Brittain (Thesis)
Using Landsat TM Imagery to Monitor Vegetation Change Following Flow Restoration to the Lower Owens River, California, Lesley Crandell Bross (Thesis)
Developmental Perspectives on Motivational Resilience: Predictors of Eighth-grade At-risk Students' Academic Engagement and Achievement, Heather Anne Brule (Thesis)
Misery Poker, Marina Callahan (Closed Thesis)
The Role of Emotional Support Consistency and Child Risk Factors in Predicting Pre-K Cognitive and Social-Emotional Development, Amy Lynn Cannell-Cordier (Thesis)
Landforms along the Lower Columbia River and the Influence of Humans, Charles Matthew Cannon (Thesis)
Challenges, Experiences, and Future Directions of Senior Centers Serving the Portland Metropolitan Area, Melissa Lynn Cannon (Dissertation)
Die unbewältigte Vergangenheit: the Third Generation and the Holocaust in Recent Literature and Film, Dana Lynne Capage (Thesis)
Deepwater, Katrina Marie Carrasco (Closed Thesis)
Dynamic Job Satisfaction Shifts: Implications for Manager Behavior and Crossover to Employees, David Ellis Caughlin (Dissertation)
Global Time-Independent Agent-Based Simulation for Transactive Energy System Dispatch and Schedule Forecasting, Shawn Aaron Chandler (Thesis)
Characterization, DNA Binding and Cleavage Activities of New Prodigiosin and Tambjamine Analogues and Their Cu²⁺ and Zn²⁺ Complexes, Karen Chichetu (Dissertation)
A Few More Words to Part, Tony Chiotti (Closed Thesis)
Photoluminescent Silicon Nanoparticles: Fluorescent Cellular Imaging Applications and Photoluminescence (PL) Behavior Study, Sheng-Kuei Chiu (Dissertation)
Custom Fluorophores for Investigating the Cellular Uptake Mechanisms and Side-Effects of Pharmaceuticals, Yu-Hsuan Chu (Dissertation)
Lonely Color, Ross William Clifford (Closed Thesis)
Training and Application of Correct Information Unit Analysis to Structured and Unstructured Discourse, Audrey Bretthauer Cohen (Thesis)
Post-Revolutionary Mexican Education in Durango and Jalisco: Regional Differences, Cultures of Violence, Teaching, and Folk Catholicism, Lindsey Ellison Collins (Thesis)
Post-silicon Functional Validation with Virtual Prototypes, Kai Cong (Dissertation)
Investigating Relationships among Work, Family, and Sleep: Cross-Sectional, Daily, and Intervention Effects, Tori Laurelle Crain (Dissertation)
Mistrust: An Exploration of African Americans' Attitudes and Perspectives Toward Healthcare, Adolfo Gabriel Cuevas (Dissertation)
Centralia, Collective Memory, and the Tragedy of 1919, Shawn T. Daley (Thesis)
Untitled, Alexander Scott Dannemiller (Thesis)
Empowering All Who Teach: A Portrait of Two Non-Native English Speaking Teachers in a Globalized 21st Century, Rosa Dene David (Thesis)
Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Use in Collegiate Athletes, Brian Robert Davis (Thesis)
Polymeric Porphyrins as Solar Photocatalysts, Nicholas Upton Day (Dissertation)
A Queer Liberation Movement? A Qualitative Content Analysis of Queer Liberation Organizations, Investigating Whether They are Building a Separate Social Movement, Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis (Dissertation)
Workplace Aggression: A Multi-Study Examination of Work and Nonwork Consequences, Caitlin Ann Demsky (Dissertation)
Betrayal : Short Stories, Mary Ann Dougherty (Closed Thesis)
Evaluating the Effects of a Congestion and Weather Responsive Advisory Variable Speed Limit System in Portland, Oregon, Matthew Blake Downey (Thesis)
Novel Cryptographic Primitives and Protocols for Censorship Resistance, Kevin Patrick Dyer (Dissertation)
Building Resources at Home and at Work: Day-Level Relationships between Job Crafting, Recovery Experiences, and Work Engagement, Allison Marie Ellis (Dissertation)
Ninth Grade Student Responses to Authentic Science Instruction, Michael Steven Ellison (Dissertation)
The Role of Pyrococcus furiosus Transcription Factor E in Transcription Iniitiation, Robyn Lynn Eustis (Thesis)
An Investigation of the Role of Alternate Numeration Systems in Preservice Teacher Mathematics Content Courses, Jodi I. Fasteen (Dissertation)
An Examination of Factors that Catalyze LGBTQ Movements in Middle Eastern and North African Authoritarian Regimes, Michael Anthony Figueredo (Thesis)
Aberration Corrected Photoemission Electron Microscopy with Photonics Applications, Joseph P. S. Fitzgerald (Dissertation)
Impact of a State Evidence-Based Practice Legislative Mandate on County Practice Implementation Patterns and Inpatient Behavioral Health Discharge, Carl William Foreman (Dissertation)
The Role of Environmental Dynamics in the Emergence of Autocatalytic Networks, Joe Fusion (Dissertation)
A Critical Race Analysis of Travel for Transformation: Pedagogy for the Privileged or Vehicle for Socio-Cultural Transformation?, James Arthur Gambrell (Dissertation)
Engineering a Healthier Watershed: Middle School Students Use Engineering Design to Lessen the Impact of Their Campus' Impervious Surfaces on Their Local Watershed, Elizabeth Claire Gardner (Thesis)
Revealing Structural Organization with Liquid Crystal-based Spectral Imaging Polarimetry, James Campbell Gladish (Dissertation)
The Development of Personal Resources in the Academic Domain: Age Differences in the Evolution of Coping and Perceived Control and the Process Structures that Facilitate Academic Engagement, Teresa Marie Greene (Dissertation)
Does Gender Matter? Human Elephant Conflict in Sri Lanka: A Gendered Analysis of Human Elephant Conflict and Natural Resource Management in a Rural Sri Lankan Village, Katherine Eileen Griffin (Thesis)
A Spline Framework for Optimal Representation of Semiperiodic Signals, Farzin G. Guilak (Dissertation)
Thinking About Work at Home: Implications for Safety at Work, Frankie Guros (Dissertation)
Exploring Relationships Between Entrepreneurship Education and Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions: A Mixed Method Study of Entrepreneurial Pedagogies at Chilean Universities, Paulina Andrea Gutierrez Zepeda (Dissertation)