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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Minimal Separating Sets in Surfaces, Christopher Nelson Aagaard (Dissertation)

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Quantum Search Algorithms for Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization Problems Using Grover's Search and Quantum Walk Algorithms with Advanced Oracle Design, Abdirahman Sheikh Hassan Alasow (Dissertation)

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Crossover of Supervisors' Perceptions of Co-worker Support to Employees' Well-Being, Shalene Joyce Allen (Dissertation)

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A Deep Learning Framework for Blockage Mitigation in mmWave Wireless, Ahmed Hazaa Almutairi (Dissertation)

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The Conflict between the United States and Iran and its Effect on Iraq, Sarah Alsalih (Thesis)

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Undergraduate Students of Color Raising Children and Persisting in Higher Education, Kimberly Denise Alvarez (Dissertation)

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Embodied Urban Political Ecology of Oil: Social Reproduction in Oil ‎Geographies Case Study: Ahwaz, Khuzestan, Iran, Maryam Amiri (Dissertation)

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The Women of the Oregon State Insane Asylum: 1900-1910, Rebekah Catherine Averette (Thesis)

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"We're Going to Tear up the Caldera So We Can Have an Electric Car": Competing Perceptions and Spatial Dimensions of Open-Pit Lithium Mining in the McDermitt Caldera, Oregon, Elizabeth Bartholomew (Thesis)

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A Survey of North American Electric Bicycle Owners, Cameron Steven Bennett (Thesis)

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Cleaning the Dirty Pool: Testing Interaction Effects Using Different Panel Model Specifications, Rhiannon Berry (Thesis)

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Understanding Quadrature Modulation by Designing a 7MHz IQ Test Bench to Encode the Polybius Square, William Lee Bradley (Thesis)

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2020 Racial Justice Protests in Portland, OR: An Analysis of Radical Place-making and Police Tactics in a Neighborhood Context, Claire Brumbaugh-Smith (Thesis)

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Queer Rural Youth Online: A Digital Ethnography, Joseph Robert Burns (Thesis)

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Analyzing the Legitimacy, Effectiveness, and Legacy of the United Nations, Hunter Wade Calley (Thesis)

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Rupturing Silence(s): Memoir of a Voice, Abigail Rose Card (Closed Thesis)

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Large Length Scale Droplet Capillary Phenomena: Generation, Jump, and Capture, Karl Jeffrey Theodore Cardin (Dissertation)

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Urgent Care Program Influences on an Integrated Health Care System, Craig H. Carter (Dissertation)

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Adopting OER Course Materials: Instructor Experiences, Jenny Ceciliano (Dissertation)

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Faculty Mentors' Influence on Latino/a/x STEM Undergraduates' STEM Identity Development, Sandy Cerda-Lezama (Thesis)

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Post-Wildfire Water Quality Dynamics: A Multiscale Examination and Predictive Modeling of Stream Temperature and Turbidity in Western U.S. Watersheds, Junjie Chen (Dissertation)

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Three Essays on Communicative Planning: From the Perspective of East Asians, Minji Cho (Dissertation)

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Exploring Evidentiary Approaches and Reform Potential in the Allies in Change Program for Abusive Intimate Partners, Julie Melissa Conner (Thesis)

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Immigration Policy Evaluation for Technology Professionals Immigrants in the United States, Angel Contreras Cruz (Dissertation)

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An Exploratory Study of an Executive Team Leading Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB), Tara LaShawn Cooper (Dissertation)

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Characterizing the Role of the Complement Receptor C3aR in Regulating Inflammatory Responses and Mitochondrial Function in Activated Macrophages, Jesse Alan Corcoran (Dissertation)

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Social Media and the Technological Infrastructure of Polarization in the United States: How Do We Move Forward?, Phoebe Cordova (Thesis)

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Marketing in Higher Education: The Effects on the College Choice Experience of First-Generation Latinx Students, David Cortez (Dissertation)

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An Examination of the Impact of Court-Appointed Fines and Fees: How Governmental Reliance on These Expenses is Harming Vulnerable Communities, Rachel Elizabeth Couche (Thesis)

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The Nuanced Relationship Between Mindfulness, Racial Prejudice, and Policy Support, Jared Michael Cutler (Dissertation)

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The Not-Vampire, Everett Thomas DeBeauchamp (Closed Thesis)

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Cabrita::Curandera, Alex Roselio De La Cruz (Closed Thesis)

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Single-Stage Three-Phase Buck-Boost DC/AC Converter Design, Analysis, and Validation, Daisy Delgado-Zaragoza (Thesis)

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(un, made, Dumitru Michael Dobre (Thesis)

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Body/Prose, J.T. Duncan (Closed Thesis)

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Flood Vulnerability in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Hue Hong Duong (Dissertation)

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Uncovering the Dynamic Nature of Fire Refugia Across Landscapes in Oregon's Western Cascades, Alec Scott Dyer (Thesis)

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Design and Test of Asynchronous Systems Using the Link and Joint Model, Ebelechukwu Esimai (Dissertation)

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Comparison of Conventional and Adaptive Acoustic Beamforming Algorithms Using a Tetrahedral Microphone Array in Noisy Environments, Megan Brittany Ewers (Thesis)

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Automatic Measurement of Dialogue Engagingness in Multilingual Settings, Amila Ferron (Thesis)

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Social Justice in Social Work: A Critical Discourse Analysis, Erica Fonseca (Dissertation)

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Exploring the Curriculum and Institutional Contexts of STEM Future Faculty Programs, Amy Mae Forester (Dissertation)

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Phytoplankton Community Dynamics in the Northern California Current System, Kristin E. Forgrave (Thesis)

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The Bonneville Power Administration in a Transformative Decade: A Study of Collibration in Public Administration, Christopher M. Frost (Dissertation)

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Simulation-Based Education: Experiences from Multiple Academic Health Centers, Jesika Samuelson Gavilanes (Dissertation)

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Individual and Structural Contributors to Implicit and Explicit Anti-Muslim Bias in the United States, Aeleah M. Granger (Dissertation)

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Experiences of Community College STEM Students in Transferring and Adapting to a Four-Year Urban University, MacKenzie Jade Gray (Dissertation)

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Peer Group Influence on the Antecedents of Academic Coping over the First Year of Middle School, Daniel Lee Grimes (Dissertation)

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Exploring the Social Processes Influencing the Well-Being and Social Integration of Systemically Marginalized Students in Higher Education: A Mixed-Methods Approach, Zeinab Abbas Hachem (Dissertation)

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An Evaluation of Sediment Transport in the Columbia River Basin: Before and After System-Wide Flow Regulation, Patrick Alan Haluska (Thesis)

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Social Workers as Police and Prison Wardens in the Progressive Era, Sam Harrell (Dissertation)

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Co-Designing with First-Generation Transfer Students, Randi Petrauskas Harris (Dissertation)

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The Foodpunk City: Advancing Portland's Food Security Through a Shared Ideology of Adaptation & Resistance, Nickolas Hash (Thesis)

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Varecia rubra (Red Ruffed Lemur) Diel Activity and Calling at Andranobe, Masoala National Park, Madagascar, Hannah Elena Hilden-Reid (Thesis)

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Artificial Intelligence as the Next Front in the Class War, Christopher Hill (Thesis)

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両忘: Ryōbō Both Forgotten, Claire Elizabeth Dame Hinkley (Closed Thesis)

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Stricken by the Worst Type of Sickness: The Communal Reaction and Response to Impaired Individuals in the Middle Ages, Alice Holland (Thesis)

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Bridging the Gap: Using Significance Modeling to Identify Data Gaps in Lithic Sites Within the Tualatin River Basin, Aaron James Reid Hood-Foster (Thesis)

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Participatory Democracy: The Potential for Civic Transformation Understanding Participants' Learning in the Milwaukie Citizens Jury, Amanda Grace Hudson (Dissertation)

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Numerical Study of Cone Penetration in Calcareous Sands: Investigating Cone Tip Resistance Correction Factors for Crushable Soils, Stephanie Michelle Hyder (Thesis)

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An Analysis of Citizen Participation in Spatial Plan Preparation, Case Study of Gaborone City, Botswana, Bongani Tshidiso Ikaneng (Thesis)

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PCL and DMSO2 Composites as Biomaterials for Additive Manufacturing, Jae-Won Jang (Dissertation)

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Pathways to Social Mobility: Examining Trades as a Career Path for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals, June Jenkins (Thesis)

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Primary Care in the University Setting After COVID-19: A Multiple Case Study of Student Health Services in Oregon, D. Chad Johnson (Dissertation)

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A Native American Perspective on Navigating the Academic World With Resilience and Honoring the Wisdom of Native Elders, Shani Renee Johnson (Dissertation)

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Choosing to Become a Teacher-Mentor: A Qualitative Inquiry into the Experience of Informal Teacher-Mentors, Stephen Wayne Johnson II (Closed Dissertation)

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Machine Learning Framework for Predicting Reliability of Solder Joints, Robert Lee Jones (Dissertation)

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A Qualitative Study on the Persistence of Seasoned Student Affairs Professionals, Russell Taylor Jones (Dissertation)

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Effects of Exogenous and Endogenous Variables on Efficiency and Productivity: Case of Indian Banks, Aurobindh Kalathil Puthanpura (Dissertation)

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The Central Role of Perceived Safety in Connecting Crash Risk Factors and Walking Behavior, Kyu Ri Kim (Dissertation)

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Crown Shy, Laura Francesca Kincaid (Thesis)

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Resource-constrained 2D Scene Recovery with Single-Photon Cameras, Daphne Ariadne Kurzenhauser (Thesis)

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Applying Decolonizing Theories and Methodologies in Archaeology to Two Collaborative Cultural Resource Management Projects, Cydney K. Lanthier (Thesis)

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Desert: Poems, Eric Larsh (Closed Thesis)

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Prosodic Analysis of Wh-indeterminate Questions in L2 Korean, Jung In Lee (Thesis)

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Centering the Leader: An Investigation of Leader-Centric Variables in the Support Provision Process, Jordyn Jan Leslie (Dissertation)

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The Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Juvenile Offender Typology, Aliza Beth Lipman (Thesis)

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Concolic Testing for Scripting Languages, Zhe Li (Dissertation)

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Is This My Place? Contributing Factors to Community College Students' Longitudinal Sense of Belonging and the Connection of Sense of Belonging to Student Success, Kelly Elizabeth Love (Dissertation)

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Yang-Baxter Equations, David Lovitz (Dissertation)

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The Protective Effects of Perceived Partner Responsiveness on Service Members' Drinking and Health Outcomes, Julia Maria Oosi Lynch (Thesis)

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A Cognitive Approach to Supervisor Training Intervention Evaluation: Analyzing Change with Response Shift Theory and Models of Measurement Invariance, Luke Daniel Mahoney (Dissertation)

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The Exploration of Latino BIP Participants' Experiences of Oppression and Expressions of Critical Consciousness, Adrian Luis Manriquez (Dissertation)

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Sustainable Leadership During Turbulent Times, Paul Marietta (Dissertation)

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Doubly Almost Bipartite Leonard Pairs, Shuichi Masuda (Dissertation)

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Thermal Regimes of Beaver Impacted Stream Reaches in the Tualatin River Basin, Miles Mayer (Thesis)

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Teaching in a Kenyan Refugee Camp: A Critical Ethnography of the Impact of Teacher Preparation and Cultural Experience on Pedagogy, James Adiok Mayik (Dissertation)

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Permission to Play: A District's Initiative to Innovate Kindergarten and Promote Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Cristin McDonough (Thesis)

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Efficient and Chemoselective Access to Highly Functionalized Arenes by C-H Deprotonative Generation of Aryne Intermediates, Bryan Edward Metze (Dissertation)

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Teeth, Chukwudaru Immaculata Michael (Thesis)

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Understanding the Other: Mentor Ethnocultural Empathy and Relationship Quality and Duration in Youth Mentoring, Miriam Miranda-Diaz (Dissertation)

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Improved Parameters of ANAND Model and Advanced FEA Technique for Low-Cycle Fatigue Life: Finite Element Analysis Models for Pb-free Solder and Pb Solder in Real Life Ball Gird Ally Package, Hamidreza Nahavandi (Dissertation)

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Property as Freedom: Reconfiguring the Role of the State, Before and After Neoliberalism, Author Name (Thesis)

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Acquisition of Spatial and Temporal Vte-kuru by Learners of Japanese at a University in the U.S., Ayumi Naraoka (Thesis)

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The Mirror Project: Reflections on the Experiences of African-American Female Adolescents Experiencing Foster Care, Bahia Anise-Cross DeGruy Overton (Dissertation)

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Embodying Whole Community Preparedness: A Case Study of Student-Facing Preparedness Initiatives at Institutions of Higher Education in the State of Oregon, Francis Pastorelle (Dissertation)

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Latine Dual Language Bilingual Education Teachers' Work Experiences, Nelly Noemi Patiño Cabrera (Dissertation)

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The Formation of a Dialect: An Examination of the History, Characteristics, and Evolutions of Los Angeles Vernacular Spanish, Lianna Perry Fountain (Thesis)

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A PWM Control Method for Reducing Electromagnetic Noise at the Generation Source in Power Electronic Converters, Abhijeet Prem (Thesis)

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Dynamic Social Ecologies of Students' Motivational Resilience: The Complex Relationship between Family, Teacher, and Peer Support, and Students' Academic Coping and Reengagement, Kristen Elizabeth Raine (Dissertation)