This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The Link Between Image Segmentation and Image Recognition, Karan Sharma (Thesis)
Distributed Solar Photovoltaic Grid Integration System : A Case Study for Performance, Ming Shen (Thesis)
Child Welfare and Delinquency: Examining Differences in First-Time Referrals of Crossover Youth within the Juvenile Justice System, Courtney Nicole Shrifter (Thesis)
Heart Rate and Accelerometry during Singles Footbag Net Play, Christopher Michael Siebert (Thesis)
Stress Reactions of Division-I Track Athletes, Laura Elizabeth Skarda (Thesis)
Effects of Reactive Oxygen Species on Life History Traits of Caenorhabditis elegans, Samson William Smith (Thesis)
The Sea Cow and The Siren, Sara Sutter (Closed Thesis)
Passive Acoustic Vessel Localization, Pasang Sherpa Suwal (Thesis)
Understanding Sand Mining on the Maha Oya: The Conflict Between Economic and Environmental Survival, Meredith Corea Talbert (Thesis)
Local Reception of Religious Change under Henry VIII and Edward VI: Evidence from Four Suffolk Parishes, William Keene Thompson (Thesis)
Preschool Teachers' Perspectives on Caring Relationships, Autonomy, and Intrinsic Motivation in Two Cultural Settings, Xiaoling Tian (Dissertation)
Post-occupancy Evaluation at the Zoo: Behavioral and Hormonal Indicators of Welfare in Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus abelii), Leigha Tingey (Thesis)
Short-Term Plasticity at the Schaffer Collateral: A New Model with Implications for Hippocampal Processing, Andrew Hamilton Toland (Dissertation)
Relativistic Causal Ordering A Memory Model for Scalable Concurrent Data Structures, Josh Triplett (Dissertation)
A Systems Approach to Ecological Economic Models Developed Progressively in Three Interwoven Articles, Takuro Uehara (Dissertation)
Spontaneous Cooperative Assembly of Replicative Catalytic RNA Systems, Nilesh Vaidya (Dissertation)
Apatite Crystal Populations of the 1991 Mount Pinatubo Eruption, Philippines: Implications for the Generation of High Sulfur Apatite in Silicic Melts, Ashley Elizabeth Van Hoose (Thesis)
Risk Factors for Homelessness Among Community Mental Health Patients with Severe Mental Illness, Rupert Talmage van Wormer (Dissertation)
Adolescent Males' Similarity, Emotional Safety, and Change in Strengths-Based Programming, Wendy Elaine Viola (Thesis)
Understanding the Role of Social, Teaching and Cognitive Presence in Hybrid Courses: Student Perspectives on Learning and Pedagogical Implications, Janelle De Carrico Voegele (Dissertation)
Scale Invariant Object Recognition Using Cortical Computational Models and a Robotic Platform, Danny Voils (Thesis)
Differential Susceptibility to Social Network Influences on School Motivation in a Cohort of Sixth Graders, Justin William Vollet (Thesis)
Cultural Hybridization, Glocalization and American Soccer Supporters: The Case of the Timbers Army, Jesse Harold Wagner (Thesis)
A Strategic Model for INGO Accountability Systems, Sarah Elizabeth Wardwell (Thesis)
Mari When It's Light Out and Other Stories, Anna Christine Weatherford (Closed Thesis)
Short Stories, Alisa Eve Welch (Thesis)
Climate Change Effects and Water Vulnerability in the Molalla Pudding River Basin, Oregon, USA, Susan Amelia Wherry (Thesis)
Investigation of Impedance Spectroscopy for Detection of Ovarian Cancer, Allison Mae Whited (Dissertation)
Engaging Community Food Systems through Learning Garden Programs: Oregon Food Bank's Seed to Supper Program, Denissia Elizabeth Withers (Thesis)
Capillarity-Driven Droplet Ejection, Andrew Paul Wollman (Thesis)
Streamflow Analysis and a Comparison of Hydrologic Metrics in Urban Streams, Matthew Lawton Wood (Thesis)
An Investigation of Urban Mobile Source Aerosol Using Optical Properties Measured by CRDT/N: Diesel Particulate Matter and the Impact of Biodiesel, Monica Elizabeth Wright (Dissertation)
Coping with Interpersonal Conflicts at Work: An Examination of the Goodness of Fit Hypothesis Among Nurses, Robert Randon Wright (Dissertation)
Designing New Drugs to Treat Cardiac Arrhythmia, Yanping Ye (Dissertation)
First-Generation Student Success After Academic Warning: An Exploratory Analysis of Academic Integration, Personal Adjustment, Family and Social Adjustment and Psychological Factors, Gabrielle Shoshana Zeisman (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Is Decoding Sufficient to Predict Reading Ability in Kindergarten Through 2nd Grade Students?, Deborah Adkins (Thesis)
A Computational Model of Adaptive Sensory Processing in the Electroreception of Mormyrid Electric Fish, Eran Agmon (Thesis)
Development of an Objective Motor Score for Monitoring the Progression and Severity of Parkinson's Disease, Timothy W. Albers (Thesis)
Perceptions and Voices of South Sudanese About the North-South Sudan Conflict, Machar Wek Aleu-Baak (Thesis)
High Mobility Group Protein 1 (HMGB1) And Its Role As A Global Transcription Regulator In Response To Temperature Fluctuations In The Annual Killifish Austrofundulus limnaeus, Victoria Martin Alla (Thesis)
Leveraging Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) Data to Estimate Link-Based Heavy-Duty Vehicle Emissions, Heba Naguib Alwakiel (Thesis)
A Self-Configurable Architecture on an Irregular Reconfigurable Fabric, Avinash Amarnath (Thesis)
Conceptual Modeling of Data with Provenance, David William Archer (Dissertation)
Robust Circuit & Architecture Design in the Nanoscale Regime, Rehman Ashraf (Dissertation)
Differences in Sexual Dimorphism and Influences of Sexual Dichromatism on Crypsis Among Populations of the Jumping Spider Habronattus oregonensis, Jason Bazzano (Thesis)
Gender, Culture, and Prison Classification: Testing the Reliability and Validity of a Prison Classification System, Aimée Ryan Bellmore (Dissertation)
Low-latency Estimates for Window-Aggregate Queries over Data Streams, Amit Bhat (Thesis)
3D Interdigitated Electrode Array (IDEA) Biosensor For Detection Of Serum Biomarker, Dheeraj Kumar Bhura (Thesis)
Universal Event and Motion Editor for Robots' Theatre, Aditya Bhutada (Thesis)
Traffic Congestion Mitigation as an Emissions Reduction Strategy, Alexander York Bigazzi (Thesis)
Interception in Open-grown Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) Urban Canopy, Mitchell Bixby (Thesis)
Attaining a Sustainable Future for Public Higher Education: The Role of Institutional Effectiveness and Resource Dependence, Mirela Blekic (Dissertation)
Working in an Artist Collective in Portland Oregon: The artistic benefits of cooperation and place in an underground art world, Elizabeth Furlong Borders (Thesis)
Bus Replacement Modeling and the Impacts of Budget Constraints, Fleet Cost Variability, and Market Changes on Fleet Costs and Optimal Bus Replacement Age, A Case Study, Jesse Alexander Boudart (Thesis)
Coupled Pedagogy: A Study of Sustainability Education and Community-Based Learning in the Senior Capstone Program at Portland State University, Emily Erin Bowling (Thesis)
The Realization of the Cathlapotle Plankhouse: Reflections on Cross-Cultural Collaboration in the Post-NAGPRA Era, Erica Lynn Boyne (Thesis)
Examining the Portland Music Scene through Neo-localism, Tyler James Brain (Thesis)
Effects of Daily Social Support on Tension-Reduction Drinking, Deborah L. Brannan (Dissertation)
The dynamics of change among community development corporations in Inner North/Northeast Portland, 1987-2006, Louisa Jenkins Brown (Dissertation)
"A College for Women, or Something Like It": Bedford College and the Women's Higher Education Movement, 1849-1900, Megan Katherine Brown (Thesis)
Navigating the Edges: An Examination of the Relationship between Boundary Spanning, Social Learning, and Partnership Capacity in Water Resource Management, Stephan Edward Brown (Dissertation)
Proactive Personality and Big Five Traits in Supervisors and Workgroup Members: Effects on Safety Climate and Safety Motivation, Michael Anthony Buck (Dissertation)
Employee Age Differences in Formal Performance Feedback Reactions: Examining the Effects of Perceived Valence, Content, and Delivery, Gabriela Burlacu (Thesis)
The Work of Promising and the Creation of Meaning, Evan Conrad Buswell (Thesis)
Storytelling as Loving Praxis in Critical Peace Education: A Grounded Theory Study of Postsecondary Social Justice Educators, Amanda Smith Byron (Dissertation)
Phase Change Materials as a Thermal Storage Device for Passive Houses, Kevin Ryan Campbell (Thesis)
The Fourth Amendment and Cyberspace: Conflict or Cohesion?, Federico Alberto Cantón (Thesis)
Effects of Evaporative Cooling in the Thermal Performance of Green Roofs, Giorgina Beatriz Castillo Garcia (Thesis)
Information Processing in Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata, Martin Cenek (Dissertation)
Simulation and emulation of massively parallel processor for solving constraint satisfaction problems based on oracles, Gunavant Dinkar Chaudhari (Thesis)
Discovery of Novel Amidotransferase Activity Involved In Archaeosine Biosynthesis and Structural and Kinetic Investigation of QueF, an Enzyme Involved in Queuosine Biosynthesis, Vimbai Masiyanise Chikwana (Dissertation)
An Investigation of the Cultural Values and Beliefs in English Textbooks in Korea, Young Mi Choi (Closed Thesis)
The Challenges and Opportunities of Immigrant Integration: A Study of Turkish Immigrants in Germany, Matthew Franklin Clark (Thesis)
Growth and Optical Characterization of Zinc Oxide Nanowires for Anti-reflection Coatings for Solar Cells, Martha Coakley (Thesis)
Chinese Merchants and Race Relations in Astoria, Oregon, 1882 - 1924, Aaron Daniel Coe (Thesis)
Pictures of Lily and Other Stories, Cornelia Coleman (Closed Thesis)
The Second-Hand Society, Christina Elizabeth Cooke (Closed Thesis)
The Issues We Face, Doug Cornett (Closed Thesis)
Population Structure of Island-Associated Pantropical Spotted Dolphins (Stenella attenuata) in Hawaiian Waters, Sarah Shelby Courbis (Dissertation)
Snowing in Kansas, Mackenzie Courtney (Closed Thesis)
The Influence of Ambient Temperature on Green Roof R-values, Bryce Kevin Cox (Thesis)
Identifying Victims of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking in a Juvenile Custody Setting, Jonathan Dickinson Dabney (Thesis)
Exploration of Weather Impacts on Freeway Traffic Operations and Safety Using High-Resolution Weather Data, Chengyu Dai (Thesis)
A low level analysis of Cellular Automata and Random Boolean Networks as a computational architecture, Prateen Reddy Damera (Thesis)
Scalable and Efficient Tasking for Dynamic Sensor Networks, Thanh Xuan Dang (Dissertation)
Biological Erosion of Marine Habitats and Structures by Burrowing Crustaceans, Timothy Mathias Davidson (Dissertation)
Motherland: Collected Stories, Sandra Kelly Derrick (Closed Thesis)
FPGA Implementation and Acceleration of Building blocks for Biologically Inspired Computational Models, Mandar Deshpande (Thesis)
A Study of Soil Organic Matter and Its Controlling Factors in Portland, Oregon, Megan Dillon (Thesis)
Genetic Substructure of Pacific Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina richardsi) Populations Along the Coasts of Oregon and Washington, Diana Lynn Dishman (Thesis)
The Relationship Between Teachers' Multicultural Attitudes and Their Instructional Practice with English Language Learners: A Mixed Method Study, Adria Danielle Dodici (Dissertation)
Antioxidant Anthocyanidins and Calcium Transport Modulation of the Ryanodine Receptor of Skeletal Muscle (RyR1), Thomas J. Dornan (Thesis)
Landslide Inventory Mapping and Dating using LiDAR-Based Imagery and Statistical Comparison Techniques in Milo McIver State Park, Clackamas County, Oregon, Serin Duplantis (Thesis)
Assessment for Improvement in Higher Education: Faculty Perception of and Participation in Program Assessment, Serap Emil (Dissertation)
Modeling Market and Regulatory Mechanisms for Pollution Abatement with Sharp and Random Variables, Thomas Robert Fielden (Dissertation)
Emperors in America: Haile Selassie and Hirohito on Tour, Robert Alexander Findlay (Thesis)
Cultivating Environmental Stewardship in Middle School Students, Kelly Anne Fischer (Thesis)
Microbial Ecology of Active Marine Hydrothermal Vent Deposits: The Influence of Geologic Setting on Microbial Communities, Gilberto Eugene Flores (Dissertation)
An Evaluation of Moderating Influences of Employee Proactive Personality: Empowerment and Political Skill, Deborah Kaylee Ford (Dissertation)
An Investigation of the Relationships between Violence Exposure, Internalizing and Externalizing Problems, and Adolescent Alcohol Use, Gregory Lloyd Forehand (Dissertation)