This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Women's Actions and Reactions to Male Migration: A Case Study of Women in San Juan Guelavía, Oaxaca, Mexico, Julie Boyles (Dissertation)
Queer! Narratives of Gendered Sexuality: A Journey in Identity, Kym Bradley (Thesis)
Faulty Measurements and Shaky Tools: An Exploration into Hazus and the Seismic Vulnerabilities of Portland, OR, Brittany Ann Brannon (Thesis)
Fame, Carolyn Paulette Brazda (Closed Thesis)
Bismuth Nanoparticles as Medical X-ray Contrast Agents: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications, Anna Laura Brown (Dissertation)
Portland, Oregon's Long Hot Summers: Racial Unrest and Public Response, 1967-1969, Joshua Joe Bryan (Thesis)
Phantom Islands A Collection of Short Stories, Marie Buckner (Thesis)
Dance Lessons, Kaitlyn Burch (Thesis)
The Effects of Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Religion on Formal End-of-Life Planning, Tina Dawn Lillian Burdsall (Dissertation)
Supervisor-Subordinate Directional Age Differences and Employee Reactions to Formal Performance Feedback: Examining Mediating and Moderating Mechanisms in a Chinese Sample, Gabriela Burlacu (Dissertation)
Rural Revolution: Documenting the Lesbian Land Communities of Southern Oregon, Heather Jo Burmeister (Thesis)
Optics and Spectroscopy in Massive Electrodynamic Theory, Adam Caccavano (Thesis)
A Survey of Systems for Predicting Stock Market Movements, Combining Market Indicators and Machine Learning Classifiers, Jeffrey Allan Caley (Thesis)
Macroeconomic and Political Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in the Middle East, Robin Barnaby Calver (Thesis)
Spatial Analysis of Climate and Winegrape Production in Winegrape Growing Regions of Oregon, United States of America, Willow Devin Campbell (Thesis)
An Experimental Investigation of Nest Reuse and Nest Site Selection in an Open-Cup Nesting Passerine, Sarah A. Cancellieri (Thesis)
When Again Comes Back to You, Robert Benjamin Carver (Closed Thesis)
Nursing Student Anxiety in Simulation Settings: A Mixed Methods Study, Mary Louise Cato (Dissertation)
Increasing Evidence Based Reasoning in an 8th Grade Classroom Through Explicit Instruction, Erol Chandler (Thesis)
Data Driven Feed Forward Adaptive Testing, Chaitrali Santosh Chandorkar (Thesis)
Developing a Strategic Policy Choice Framework for Technological Innovation: Case of Chinese Pharmaceuticals, Leong Chan (Dissertation)
An Evaluation of the Nontarget Effects of Transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis Maize on Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in the Soil Ecosystem, Tanya Elizabeth Amy Cheeke (Dissertation)
Spectrum Regrowth for OFDM-based LTE and WIMAX Systems, Bosi Chen (Thesis)
The Strategic Effects of Counterinsurgency Operations at Religious Sites: Lessons from India, Thailand, and Israel, Timothy L. Christopher (Thesis)
Optimal Network Topologies and Resource Mappings for Heterogeneous Networks-on-Chip, Haera Chung (Dissertation)
Postwar Reconstruction in Liberia: The Participation and Recognition of Women in Politics in Liberia, Roland Tuwea Clarke (Thesis)
Disruptions in the Dream City: Unsettled Ideologies at the 1905 World's Fair in Portland, Oregon, Kat Cleland (Thesis)
Epic, Benjamin Clemenzi-Allen (Closed Thesis)
Shaping School Culture: to Support Moving from a Targeted-Assistance to Schoolwide Title I Program, Paul Edward Coakley (Dissertation)
Map-based Probabilistic Infinite Slope Analysis of the Stephens Creek Watershed, Portland, Oregon, Ryan Andrew Cole (Thesis)
Solid State Pre-Formed Electronics Adhesive (SPEA), Alexander Randon Cope (Thesis)
L1 Influence on L2 Intonation in Russian Speakers of English, Christiane Fleur Crosby (Thesis)
Identity Development of Adolescent Gay Black Males, Miles James Allen Crumley (Thesis)
Exploring Four Barriers Experienced by African Americans in Healthcare: Perceived Discrimination, Medical Mistrust, Race Discordance, and Poor Communication, Adolfo Gabriel Cuevas (Thesis)
Improving Vehicle Trip Generation Estimations for Urban Contexts: A Method Using Household Travel Surveys to Adjust ITE Trip Generation Rates, Kristina Marie Currans (Thesis)
Exploring Data Quality of Weigh-In-Motion Systems, Chengxin Dai (Thesis)
A New Approach to Explain Policy Reforms in Vietnam during Ðổi Mới by Developing and Validating a Major Policy Change Model for Vietnam, Huan Van Dang (Dissertation)
Climate Change Impacts on Precipitation Extremes over the Columbia River Basin Based on Downscaled CMIP5 Climate Scenarios, Ghulam Hussain Dars (Thesis)
Sustainable, Affordable Housing for Older Adults: A Case Study of Factors that Affect Development in Portland, Oregon, Alan Kenneth DeLaTorre (Dissertation)
A Parametric Study on Power Variation for Model Wind Turbine Arrays, Dominic DeLucia (Thesis)
Lighting the Fire: How Peer-Mentoring Helps Adult Learners Increase Their Interest in STEM Careers: A Case Study at the Community College Level, Patricia Marie DeTurk (Thesis)
Glacier Change in the North Cascades, Washington: 1900-2009, Kristina Amanda Dick (Thesis)
The Impacts of Change in Governance on Faculty and Staff at Higher Education Institutions: A Case Study of OHSU, Dana L. Director (Dissertation)
Object Detection and Recognition in Natural Settings, George William Dittmar (Thesis)
Effects of Increased Nitrogen Deposition on the Dominance of Hedera helix in the Pacific Northwest, Bianca Christine Dolan (Thesis)
Talking the Talk: An exploration of parent-child communication about cyberbullying, Veronica Anne Droser (Thesis)
Work Design Characteristics as Moderators of the Relationship between Proactive Personality and Engagement, Damon Thomas Drown (Dissertation)
Facilitating Master's Student Success: A Quantitative Examination of Student Perspectives on Advising, Sarah Brooks Drummond Hays (Dissertation)
Trust-but-Verify: Guaranteeing the Integrity of User-generated Content in Online Applications, Akshay Dua (Dissertation)
How Does Student Understanding of a Concept Change Throughout a Unit of Instruction? Support Toward the Theory of Learning Progressions, Brian Jay Dyer (Thesis)
Heritage and Health: A Political-Economic Analysis of the Foodways of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah and the Bishop Paiute Tribe, April Hurst Eagan (Thesis)
Designing Innovative Alternatives to Traditional High Schools: What Leaders Need to Know, Chester Roy Edwards (Dissertation)
Joint Angle Tracking with Inertial Sensors, Mahmoud Ahmed El-Gohary (Dissertation)
The Historical, Political, Social, and Individual Factors That Have Influenced the Development of Aging and Disability Resource Centers and Options Counseling, Sheryl DeJoy Elliott (Thesis)
Impact of Teachers' Planned Questions on Opportunities for Students to Reason Mathematically in Whole-class Discussions Around Mathematical Problem-solving Tasks, Sarah Elizabeth Enoch (Dissertation)
Self-Disclosure and Self-Efficacy in Online Dating, Andrew Christopher España (Thesis)
Microbial Biomineralization of Iron, Wen Fang (Thesis)
I'm Not Gonna Be Like That Guy: Exploring the Montana Meth Project Through the Eyes of That Guy, Jaysen Nicole Ferestad (Thesis)
Elementary Teacher Candidates' Images of Mathematics, Diverse Students, and Teaching: An Exploratory Study With Implications for Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education, Bernd Richard Ferner (Dissertation)
A New Low in Getting High: Illegal Drug Use and Crime, Erica Jean Ferrelli (Thesis)
Why Occupy?: Principal Reasons for Participant Involvement in Occupy Portland, Danielle Filecia (Thesis)
Metaphor Use in Interpersonal Communication of Body Perception in the Context of Breast Cancer, Jennifer Mary Fillion (Thesis)
Impact of Teacher Feedback on the Development of State Issued Scoring Guides for Science Inquiry and Engineering Design Performance Assessments, Timothy Paul Fiser (Thesis)
First Bacterial Endosymbionts Found in the Phylum Ascomycota, Eileen Elizabeth Fitzpatrick (Thesis)
Disjointed Cosmopolitanism: Climate Change and Lived Experience in Portland, Oregon, Stephen Wayne Flinn (Thesis)
Social-Ecological Dynamics of Coral Reef Resource Use and Management, Sarah J. Freed (Dissertation)
Grounding Zone Processes: Ice Mechanics and Margin Lakes, Kamb Ice Stream and Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica, Mason Joseph Fried (Thesis)
Reward-driven Training of Random Boolean Network Reservoirs for Model-Free Environments, Padmashri Gargesa (Thesis)
Gene Expression Life History Markers in a Hatchery and a Wild Population of Young-of-the-Year Oncorhynchus mykiss, Ian D. F. Garrett (Thesis)
Martin Luther's "Two Kingdoms Theory": An Analysis through the Lens of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity, Janet Leigh Gesme (Thesis)
The Consolidation of the Consociational Democracy in Lebanon: The Challenges to Democracy in Lebanon, Micheline Germanos Ghattas (Dissertation)
Global Learning Outcomes of a Domestic Foreign Language Immersion Program, Kathleen Ann Godfrey (Dissertation)
Evidence Supporting Treatment Practice Based Delineation of Stormwater Runoff Zones, Jacob J. Gorski (Thesis)
Le Développement du moi et le procédé thérapeutique dans les œuvres de Chrétien de Troyes, Clément Guillaume (Thesis)
Battery Energy Storage Systems to Mitigate the Variability of Photovoltaic Power Generation, Heath Alan Gurganus (Thesis)
Emotion Regulation and Strain in Corrections Officers: Examining the Role of Recovery Experiences and Coping Mechanisms, Frankie Guros (Thesis)
Modeling the Distribution of Bobcats and Areas of Reintroduction for Fisher in the Southern Washington Cascades, Shiloh Michael Halsey (Thesis)
Natural Area Stewardship Volunteers: Motivations, Attitudes, Behaviors, Corinne Handelman (Thesis)
Caught in the Act, William P. Hannon (Closed Thesis)
Equivalence Checking for High-Assurance Behavioral Synthesis, Kecheng Hao (Dissertation)
Expression of Growth Arrest and DNA Damage Protein 45-alpha (gadd45-alpha) and the CCAAT/enhancer binding protein-delta (C/EBP-delta) in Fishes Exposed to Heat and Hypoxia, Daniel Omar Hassumani (Thesis)
Neighborhood Identity and Sustainability: A Comparison Study of Two Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon, Zachary Lawrence Hathaway (Thesis)
Methods for Efficient Synthesis of Large Reversible Binary and Ternary Quantum Circuits and Applications of Linear Nearest Neighbor Model, Maher Mofeid Hawash (Dissertation)
3-D Terahertz Synthetic-Aperture Imaging and Spectroscopy, Samuel C. Henry (Dissertation)
Investigations into the Regional and Local Timescale Variations of Subglacial Drainage Networks, Justin Hiester (Thesis)
Automated Channel Assessment for Single Chip MedRadio Transceivers, Mark Alexander Hillig (Thesis)
Evaluating Alternative High Schools: Program Evaluation in Action, Drew Samuel Wayne Hinds (Dissertation)
An Investigation into Teacher Support of Science Explanation in High School Science Inquiry Units, Rebecca Sue Hoffenberg (Thesis)
An Archaeology of Capitalism: Exploring Ideology through Ceramics from the Fort Vancouver and Village Sites, Dana Lynn Holschuh (Thesis)
Here, We Are Walking on a Clothesline: Statelessness and Human (In)Security Among Burmese Women Political Exiles Living in Thailand, Elizabeth Hooker (Thesis)
English Loan Words in Japanese: Exploring Comprehension and Register, Naoko Horikawa (Thesis)
Neighborhood Commercial Corridor Change: Portland, Oregon 1990-2010, Kelly Ann Howsley-Glover (Dissertation)
Scenario Development and Analysis of Freshwater Ecosystem Services under Land Cover and Climate Change in the Tualatin and Yamhill River Basins, Oregon, Robert Wesley Hoyer (Thesis)
Bent, Genevieve Hudson (Closed Thesis)
Truth and Memory in Two Works by Marguerite Duras, Rachel Deborah Hunter (Thesis)
Work Stress Reactivity and Health Outcomes: A Study of Nurses, Laurie Marie Jacobs (Dissertation)
The Role of Wood Microsites at Timberline-Alpine Meadow Borders for Conifer Regeneration, Adelaide Chapman Johnson (Dissertation)
Establishing Foundations for Investigating Inquiry-Oriented Teaching, Estrella Maria Salas Johnson (Dissertation)
Public Space and Urban Life: A Spatial Ethnography of a Portland Plaza, Katrina Leigh Johnston (Thesis)
Animot: Human ↔ Subhuman ↔ Nonhuman, Chelsea R. G. Kachman (Closed Thesis)