This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Thermodynamic Effects of 5' and 3' Single Strand Dangling Ends on Short Duplex DNA, Rebekah Dickman (Thesis)
Puppet Theater in the German-Speaking World, Connor Bartlett Doe (Thesis)
Assessing Portland's Smart Growth: A Comprehensive Housing Supply and Location Choice Modeling Approach, Hongwei Dong (Dissertation)
Symmetric Near-Field Probe Design and Comparison to Asymmetric Probes, Jeffrey Jon Doughty (Thesis)
Hierarchical Image Analysis and Characterization of Scaling Effects in Remote Sensing, Craig David Ducey (Thesis)
Down the Drain: A Story of Sewage, Lisa Ekman (Closed Thesis)
Exploring Prehistoric Salmon Subsistence in the Willamette Valley using Zooarchaeological Records and Optimal Foraging Theory, J. Tait Elder (Thesis)
Exploring School Engagement as a Protective Factor for Youth At Risk of Joining Gangs, Lorraine M. Escribano (Dissertation)
Dying to Know, Carla Fran Feinstein (Closed Thesis)
Achieving Congruence: Building a Case for Implementing a District-Wide Interim Benchmark Assessment that is Aligned with a Balanced Literacy Framework, Theodore Feller (Dissertation)
A Structural and Functional Analysis of Codeswitching in Mi Vida Gitana 'My Gypsy Life,' a Bilingual Play, Gustavo Javier Fernandez (Thesis)
Northeast Asia and the Avoidance of a Nuclear Arms Race, Samuel Fogleman (Thesis)
Performance Measures for Managerial Decision Making: Performance Measurement Synergies in Multi-Attribute Performance Measurement Systems, Robert Andrew Fowke (Dissertation)
The Pulpit at the End of the Rainbow: How Queer Clergy Enter Into and Maintain Religious Occupations, Brian Gregory Gerow (Thesis)
Medical Image Segmentation Using a Genetic Algorithm, Payel Ghosh (Dissertation)
Diatom-Based Stream Bioassessment: the Roles of Rare Taxa and Live/Dead Ratio, Nadezhda Dimitrova Gillett (Dissertation)
About a Girl, Haili Jones Graff (Closed Thesis)
Extensible Scheduling in a Haskell-based Operating System, Kenneth William Graunke (Thesis)
Simplified Reversed Chloroquines to Overcome Malaria Resistance to Quinoline-based Drugs, Bornface Gunsaru (Dissertation)
Writing Chinuk Wawa: A Materials Development Case Study, Sarah A. Braun Hamilton (Thesis)
Anatomy of Mishima's Most Successful Play Rokumeikan, Mami Harano (Thesis)
American Belly Dance and the Invention of the New Exotic: Orientalism, Feminism, and Popular Culture, Jennifer Lynn Haynes-Clark (Thesis)
Climatic and Spatial Variations of Mount Rainier's Glaciers for the Last 12,000 Years, Michael Leslie Hekkers (Thesis)
The Foundation to Collaborate: Understanding the Role of Participant Interests, Tia S. Henderson (Dissertation)
Polyaniline Nanofibers as the Hole Transport Medium in an Inverse Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell, Ian Brock Hesselsweet (Dissertation)
Working Mothers' Decisions, Experiences and Feelings about using On-Site Childcare, Stephanie LaRae Hixson-Somanchi (Dissertation)
Efficient Encoding Of Vocalizations In The Auditory Midbrain, Lars Andreas Holmstrom (Dissertation)
On Family and Fences: Tracing Melungeon Roots in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and Tennessee, Ron Horton (Thesis)
Examining the Effects of Climate Change and Urban Development on Water Demand: A Multi-Scale Analysis of Future Water Demand in Hillsboro, Oregon, Lily Arielle House-Peters (Thesis)
Removing Textured Artifacts from Digital Photos Using Spatial Frequency Filtering, Ben Huang (Thesis)
3-D modelling of IC interconnect using OpenAccess and Art of Illusion, Navaneeth Prasannakumar Jamadagni (Thesis)
Music and Conflict Resolution: Exploring the Utilization of Music in Community Engagement, Mindy Kay Johnston (Thesis)
Addressing Automated Adversaries of Network Applications, Edward Leo Kaiser (Dissertation)
Biomechanical Assessment of Parkinson's Disease, Edward A. Katz (Thesis)
An Empirical Assessment of the CAN SPAM Act, Alex Conrad Kigerl (Thesis)
Investing and Vesting International Students' Expressive Resources in Social Capital at Portland State University, Mami Kikuchi (Thesis)
Model-Based Material Parameter Estimation for Terahertz Reflection Spectroscopy, Gabriel Paul Kniffin (Thesis)
Regional Integration in East Asia, Amaleia E. Kolovos (Thesis)
Parental Differential Treatment (PDT) of Siblings: Examining the Impact and Malleability of Differential Warmth and Hostility on Children's Adjustment, Brianne H. Kothari (Dissertation)
Identifying Best Quality Management Practices for Achieving Quality and Innovation Performance in the Forest Products Industry, Scott A. Leavengood (Dissertation)
The Moderating Effect of Role Quality on the Relationship between Work-Family Conflict and Well-Being: A Longitudinal Study, Jenna Risa LeComte-Hinely (Thesis)
A Wind River Romance, Megan Breen Leigh (Thesis)
An Automata-Theoretic Approach to Hardware/Software Co-verification, Juncao Li (Dissertation)
Practical Type Inference for the GADT Type System, Chuan-kai Lin (Dissertation)
Theodore Roosevelt on Labor Unions: A New Perspective, Louis B. Livingston (Thesis)
Vertical Noise Structure and Target Detection Performance in Deep Ocean Environments, Zizheng Li (Thesis)
Between Non-intervention and Protection: A study on the case of Darfur and the Responsibility to Protect, David Ryan Lucas (Thesis)
Sour Grapes While You're Down and Out: Self-Serving Bias and Applicant Attributions for Test Performance, Kyle Garret Mack (Thesis)
Guild's Lake Courts : an impermanent housing project, Tanya Lyn March (Dissertation)
The Effects of Animals on Children's Development of Perspective-Taking Abilities, Mika Maruyama (Dissertation)
A Rabbi in the Progressive Era: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Ph.D. and the Rise of Social Jewish Progressivism in Portland, Or, 1900-1906, Mordechai Ben Massart (Thesis)
"Heaven's Last, Worst Gift to White Men": The Quadroons of Antebellum New Orleans, Erin Elizabeth McCullugh (Thesis)
Who Am I? Well, It Depends: How Frame-of-Reference Imposes Context In Non-Contextualized Personality Inventories, Elizabeth Anne McCune (Dissertation)
Molecular Changes Associated with Anoxia Tolerance in Austrofundulus limnaeus embryos, Camie Lynn Meller (Dissertation)
Spatial Segregation of the Sexes in a Salt Marsh Grass Distichlis spicata (Poaceae), Charlene Ashley Mercer (Thesis)
Library Characterization and Static Timing Analysis of Single-Track Circuits in GasP, Swetha Mettala Gilla (Thesis)
The Function of an Alternate TFB from Pyrococus furiosus and the Orientation of the TFB B-reader within Archaeal Transcription Initiation Complexes, Michael Micorescu (Dissertation)
Fundamental Studies in Selective Wet Etching and Corrosion Processes for High-Performance Semiconductor Devices, Nabil George Mistkawi (Dissertation)
Scalable event tracking on high-end parallel systems, Kathryn Marie Mohror (Dissertation)
S-Nitrosothiols: Formation, Decomposition, Reactivity and Possible Physiological Effects, Moshood Kayode Morakinyo (Dissertation)
Public opinion and public engagement with genetically modified foods : a qualitative study, Celeste Laurana Moser (Thesis)
Participatory Action Research with Dignity Village: an Action Tool for Empowerment within a Homeless Community, Heather Irene Mosher (Dissertation)
Modeling Terahertz Diffuse Scattering from Granular Media Using Radiative Transfer Theory, Kyung Moon Nam (Thesis)
Coal to Oil in China: Scientific Development or Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones?, Joseph John Narus (Thesis)
The MicroPIVOT : an Integrated Particle Image Velocimeter and Optical Tweezers Instrument for Microscale Investigations, Nathalie Neve de Mevergnies (Dissertation)
Meditation in an Emergency, Wendy Lynn Noonan (Closed Thesis)
The Design of a Novel Tip Enhanced Near-field Scanning Probe Microscope for Ultra-High Resolution Optical Imaging, Derek Brant Nowak (Dissertation)
Extraction of Small Boat Harmonic Signatures From Passive Sonar, George Lloyd Ogden (Thesis)
Investigation of Speech Samples from Typically Developing Preschool Age Children: A Comparison of Single Words and Imitated Sentences Elicited with the PABA-E, Matthew William Olsen (Thesis)
A Logic Formulation for the QCA Cell Arrangement Problem, Marc Stewart Orr (Thesis)
Design Space Analysis and a Novel Routing Agorithm for Unstructured Networks-on-Chip, Neha Parashar (Thesis)
Reversible Logic Synthesis Using a Non-blocking Order Search, Alberto Patino (Thesis)
Family relationship quality and acculturation: Examination of their relationship among Latino adolescent sexual offenders, Lindsey B. Patterson (Thesis)
Teacher Evaluation of Item Formats for an English Language Proficiency Assessment, Jose Luis Perea-Hernandez (Thesis)
Initiation zone characterization of debris flows in November, 2006, Mount Hood, Oregon, Rachel Pirot (Thesis)
Re-Engagement as a Process of Everyday Resilience, Jennifer Rose Pitzer (Thesis)
Bilingual Spanish-English Speaking 4-Year-Old-Children: English Normative Data and Correlations with Parent Reports, Brooke Leann Powers (Thesis)
Understanding the Development of Self-determination in Youth with Disabilities in Foster Care, Jennifer L. Powers (Dissertation)
Genomic and Hormonal Components of Altered Developmental Pathways in the Annual Killifish, Austrofundulus limnaeus, Benjamin M. Pri-Tal (Thesis)
Radiative Transfer Theory Applied to Ocean Bottom Modeling, Jorge Quijano (Dissertation)
Genetic patterns of dispersal and colonization during initial invasion and spread of an invasive grass, Brachypodium sylvaticum, Alisa Paulsen Ramakrishnan (Dissertation)
Occurrence and Concentrations of Caffeine in Seawater from the Oregon Coast and Potential Effects on the Dominant Mussel, Mytilus californianus, Zoe Rodriguez del Rey (Thesis)
Room for Me, Crystal Lynn Root (Closed Thesis)
Weder Bürger noch Mensch: Gefangener der Medien und des Rechtsstaats gekoppelte Entmenschlichung mit Radikalisierung Zwei Auffassungen Heinrich Bölls Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann, Tyler Robert Russ (Thesis)
Production, Characterization and Possible Applications of Monoclonal Antibodies Generated against Toluene Diisocyanate-conjugated Proteins, Tinashe Blessing Ruwona (Dissertation)
Investigating Freeway Speed-Flow Relationships for Traffic Assignment Applications, Meead Saberi Kalaee (Thesis)
Child Welfare Workforce Turnover: Frontline Workers' Experiences with Organizational Culture and Climate, and Implications for Organizational Practice, Melanie Dawn Sage (Dissertation)
"Real Americanism" : resistance to the Oregon Compulsory School Bill, 1920-1925, Catherine Marie Saks (Thesis)
Predictors of Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors: Supervisor Job Stress and Work-Family Climate, Brittany E. Sale (Thesis)
Design of Regular Reversible Quantum Circuits, Dipal Shah (Dissertation)
Beyul Khumbu: Sherpa Constructions of a Sacred Landscape, Lindsay Ann Skog (Thesis)
Anaerobic Degradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons at a Creosote-Contaminated Superfund Site and the Significance of Increased Methane Production in an Organophilic Clay Sediment Cap, Kiara L. Smith (Dissertation)
Performance Analysis of Hybrid CPU/GPU Environments, Michael Shawn Smith (Thesis)
Beyond the "Stalled Revolution": Stay-at-Home Fathers, Gender Identity and the Division of Household Labor, Aundrea Janae Snitker (Thesis)
A Comparison of Single Word Identification, Connected Speech Samples, and Imitated Sentence Tasks for Assessment of Children with a SSD, Emily Katherine Snyder (Thesis)
Using Turbidity Monitoring and LiDAR-Derived Imagery to Investigate Sources of Suspended Sediment in the Little North Santiam River Basin, Oregon, Winter 2009-2010, Steven Sobieszczyk (Thesis)
Transformative Teacher Evaluation: Self Evaluation for High Performing Teachers, Carla Ann Sosanya-Tellez (Dissertation)
Leo Strauss and the Problem of Sein: The Search for a "Universal Structure Common to All Historical Worlds", Jennifer Renee Stanford (Thesis)
Current Situations and Roles of the Portland hoshuukoo: From the Perspective of Heritage Japanese Education, Keiko Sugiue (Closed Thesis)
Expressive Motion Synthesis for Robot Actors in Robot Theatre, Mathias I. Sunardi (Thesis)