This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
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)
A Survey of North American Electric Bicycle Owners, Cameron Steven Bennett (Thesis)
Understanding Quadrature Modulation by Designing a 7MHz IQ Test Bench to Encode the Polybius Square, William Lee Bradley (Thesis)
2020 Racial Justice Protests in Portland, OR: An Analysis of Radical Place-making and Police Tactics in a Neighborhood Context, Claire Brumbaugh-Smith (Thesis)
Queer Rural Youth Online: A Digital Ethnography, Joseph Robert Burns (Thesis)
Rupturing Silence(s): Memoir of a Voice, Abigail Rose Card (Closed Thesis)
Faculty Mentors' Influence on Latino/a/x STEM Undergraduates' STEM Identity Development, Sandy Cerda-Lezama (Thesis)
Cabrita::Curandera, Alex Roselio De La Cruz (Closed Thesis)
Design and Test of Asynchronous Systems Using the Link and Joint Model, Ebelechukwu Esimai (Dissertation)
Comparison of Conventional and Adaptive Acoustic Beamforming Algorithms Using a Tetrahedral Microphone Array in Noisy Environments, Megan Brittany Ewers (Thesis)
Exploring the Curriculum and Institutional Contexts of STEM Future Faculty Programs, Amy Mae Forester (Dissertation)
Individual and Structural Contributors to Implicit and Explicit Anti-Muslim Bias in the United States, Aeleah M. Granger (Dissertation)
Co-Designing with First-Generation Transfer Students, Randi Petrauskas Harris (Dissertation)
Varecia rubra (Red Ruffed Lemur) Diel Activity and Calling at Andranobe, Masoala National Park, Madagascar, Hannah Elena Hilden-Reid (Thesis)
Numerical Study of Cone Penetration in Calcareous Sands: Investigating Cone Tip Resistance Correction Factors for Crushable Soils, Stephanie Michelle Hyder (Thesis)
PCL and DMSO2 Composites as Biomaterials for Additive Manufacturing, Jae-Won Jang (Dissertation)
Choosing to Become a Teacher-Mentor: A Qualitative Inquiry into the Experience of Informal Teacher-Mentors, Stephen Wayne Johnson II (Closed Dissertation)
A Qualitative Study on the Persistence of Seasoned Student Affairs Professionals, Russell Taylor Jones (Dissertation)
The Central Role of Perceived Safety in Connecting Crash Risk Factors and Walking Behavior, Kyu Ri Kim (Dissertation)
The Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Juvenile Offender Typology, Aliza Beth Lipman (Thesis)
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)
The Exploration of Latino BIP Participants' Experiences of Oppression and Expressions of Critical Consciousness, Adrian Luis Manriquez (Dissertation)
Sustainable Leadership During Turbulent Times, Paul Marietta (Dissertation)
Doubly Almost Bipartite Leonard Pairs, Shuichi Masuda (Dissertation)
Teaching in a Kenyan Refugee Camp: A Critical Ethnography of the Impact of Teacher Preparation and Cultural Experience on Pedagogy, James Adiok Mayik (Dissertation)
Understanding the Other: Mentor Ethnocultural Empathy and Relationship Quality and Duration in Youth Mentoring, Miriam Miranda-Diaz (Dissertation)
The Mirror Project: Reflections on the Experiences of African-American Female Adolescents Experiencing Foster Care, Bahia Anise-Cross DeGruy Overton (Dissertation)
Latine Dual Language Bilingual Education Teachers' Work Experiences, Nelly Noemi Patiño Cabrera (Dissertation)
The Wage of Wellness: The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status, Race, and Work Recovery, Emily Julia Ready (Thesis)
Computational Tools for Exploring Eigenvector Localization, Robyn Ashley Markee Reid (Dissertation)
H1-conforming Finite Elements on Nonstandard Meshes, Samuel Edward Reynolds (Dissertation)
Corporatizing Violence: Targeted Repression of Indigenous Dissent in Democratic States, Laikaika Layne Rivera (Thesis)
Living on the Outskirts of Things: Women and Nonbinary People of Color with Cognitive Disabilities Describe Their Employment Experiences, Laura Spura Rodriguez (Dissertation)
The Arab Spring Uprisings in Geopolitical Context, Jake Alan Rutledge (Thesis)
A Hierarchical Decision Model for Evaluating the Strategy Readiness of Quantitative Machine Learning/Data Science-Driven Investment Strategies, Mohammadsaleh Saadatmand (Dissertation)
MmWave RAT Optimization: MAC Layer Initial Access Design and Transport Layer Integration, Suresh Srinivasan (Dissertation)
Adaptive Sampling for Seabed Identification from Ambient Acoustic Noise, Matthew Sullivan (Thesis)
Atmospheric Circulation, Climate Change, and Related Impacts Over the Western United States, Graham Patrick Taylor (Dissertation)
Social Reproduction on Campus: Quantitative Investigations into the Reproduction of Gender and Socioeconomic Inequality through Higher Education, Ned William Tilbrook (Dissertation)
It Takes a Village: An Examination of Social Relationships and Mental Health, Em Francis Trubits (Dissertation)
Understanding Waveguides in Resonance, Pieter Johannes Daniel Vandenberge (Dissertation)
Designing for Deployable, Secure, and Generic Machine Learning Systems, Li-Yun Wang (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Tools for Quantifying Bacterial Motility Using Digital Holographic Microscopy as Applied to Studying the Simulated Microgravity Environment, Jacqueline Marie Acres (Dissertation)
The New Profits of Pleasure: Reality Television and Affective Exploitation in Post-Pandemic Neoliberalism, Sophia Aepfelbacher (Thesis)
Fintech and Entrepreneurship: An Assessment Model to Evaluate Policy Instruments for Fintech Adoption by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Deemah Abdullah Alassaf (Dissertation)
Biological Nitrogen and Phosphorus Removal From Wastewater Under Low Dissolved Oxygen (LDO) Conditions, Bashar Al-Daomi (Dissertation)
Organizational Readiness Assessment for Fraud Detection and Prevention: Case of Airlines Sector and Electronic Payment, Sultan Ayed Alghamdi (Dissertation)
Probability Distribution Fitting for Censored Data: A Practical Guide for Survival Analysis of NBI Data for Concrete Bridge Decks in Oregon, Asmaa Almeshaileh (Thesis)
Seeing in the Dark: Towards Robust Pedestrian Detection at Nighttime, Afnan Althoupety (Dissertation)
Heartbreak and Head Trauma, August Joseph Amoroso (Closed Thesis)
How Unequal Access to Personal and Professional Networks Impacts Success Among Construction Apprentices, Cameron Elliot Arnold (Thesis)
Postfire Effects and Regeneration Patterns in Araucaria-Nothofagus Forests in South-Central Chile, Paola A. Arroyo-Vargas (Dissertation)
The Double Dutch Retention Framework: A Grounded Theory Study on Increasing Racial Staff Diversity at Pacific Northwest Community Colleges, Dominique S. Austin (Dissertation)
Phytoplankton Community as an Indicator of Cyanobacteria Harmful Algal Blooms in High Mountain Lakes, Victoria Elizabeth Avalos (Thesis)
A Deep Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder for World Models in Complex Reinforcement Learning Environments, Sriharshitha Ayyalasomayajula (Thesis)
The Influence of Polystyrene Microplastics on Juvenile Steelhead Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), Kaitlyn Marie Baker (Thesis)
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Innovation Ecosystems in Facilitating the Adoption of Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Dana Sami Bakry (Dissertation)
E Hui me ke Kaiāulu: To Connect with the Community, Heather Kayleen Bartlett (Thesis)
The Affective Discourses of Eviction: Right to Counsel in New York City, Hadley Savana Bates (Thesis)
A Just Futures Framework: Insurgent Roller-Skating in Portland, Oregon, Célia Camile Beauchamp (Thesis)
Instructors at a Crossroad: Perceptions of Collaboration and Support Intersect with Intentions to Implement a CURE, Justin Berl (Thesis)
Uncertainty Quantification and Fragility Development of Deteriorating RC Bridge Piers, Ayush Bhandari (Thesis)
Modeling Leaf-Level Transpiration: Exploring the Consequences of Assumed Saturated Vapor Pressure in Leaves, Danlyn L. Brennan (Thesis)
Design and Characterization of 2.4GHz Antennas for Wireless Sensor Applications, Luis Zogby Brennan (Thesis)
UHV-Shear-Force Acoustic Near-Field Microscopy and Its Implementation in the Study of Confined Mesoscopic Fluids, Theodore Alex Brockman (Dissertation)
Examining Factors Impacting the Service Needs of Unhoused Women, Holly Brott (Dissertation)
Electrochemical Hydrogen Gas Production and Carbon Dioxide Sequestration via In Situ Formation of Nickel (II) Tris-(Pyridinethiolate) Derivatives, Dayalis S.V. Brown (Dissertation)
Assessment of the Omni-Channel Adoption for the Management of Emergence Technologies in Food Retailing During and After the Era of COVID-19, Esraa Bukhari (Dissertation)
Do Frameworks Matter? Testing the Framing Effect on Public Support for Prison Pell Grants, Natalie Miles Burke (Thesis)
Cultivating Equity: Harnessing School Garden Education as a Catalyst for Food Justice and Social Change, Maureen Madeleine Callahan (Thesis)
A Policy Proposal for Agricultural Data Governance, Ana Sofía Castellanos Santamaría (Dissertation)
Realization of Multi-Valued Logic Using Optical Quantum Computing, Sophie Choe (Dissertation)
Local Voices: Counterstorytelling and Retention of Faculty of Color in Oregon's Community College System, Kristin Christophersen (Dissertation)
Real-time Length Sensing of Braided Pneumatic Actuator using IR Time-of-Flight Sensor, Luon B. Chung (Thesis)
Structure-from-Motion Derived Snow Cover in Burned Forests of the Western Oregon Cascades, Siobhan Ciafone (Thesis)
Identifying Advantages to Teaching Linear Regression in a Modeling and Simulation Introductory Statistics Curriculum, Kit Harris Clement (Dissertation)
Spatial Variations in Ancient Meteoric Water: An Investigation of the Rattlesnake Tuff, Julian Michael Cohen (Thesis)
Main, Mediated, and Moderated Effects of Participating in an After-School Social and Emotional Learning Program on Young Children's Development of Social-Emotional Skills, Amy L. Cordier (Dissertation)
Increasing Access to Doulas in Oregon: A Delphi Study, Courtney Elizabeth Crane (Dissertation)
Radical Urban Natures: Mitigating Urban Heat with Nature-Based Techniques in Portland, Oregon, Heather Day-Melgar (Thesis)
Improving Peer-to-Peer Learning for Students with Extensive Support Needs in Inclusive Classrooms, Zachary Michael Deets (Dissertation)
Who Puts the "Support" in Supportive Housing? The Impact of Housing Staff on Resident's Well-Being, and the Potential Moderating Role of Self-Determination, Kenna Estell Dickard (Thesis)
Tiny Drifters Amidst Global Change: Examining Environmental Drivers, Trophic Impacts, and Management Strategies of Estuarine Plankton Communities in the Anthropocene, Taylor Nicole Dodrill (Dissertation)
Examining Policy Innovation Process and the Roles of Policy Entrepreneurs: A Case of Smart City Initiative in Khon Kaen, Thailand, Thitisak Duadsuntia (Dissertation)
Motivation to Collaborate: A Qualitative Exploration of the Perspectives of Service Providers on an Alternative First Response Program, Desiree' J. DuBoise (Thesis)
The Letting, Jessamyn Hayley Duckwall (Closed Thesis)
Evaluation of the Slip History and Holocene Activity of the Strawberry Fault, Grant County, Oregon, Andrew Dunning (Thesis)
Developing a Sample-efficient Analytical Pathway for a Qualitative Chemical Investigation of Ancestral Chilkat Dyeing and Weaving Practices, Dario Gerlando Durastanti (Dissertation)
Factors Affecting Community Rating System Participation in the National Flood Insurance Program: A Case Study of Texas, Ryan David Eddings (Dissertation)
Cognitive Engagement During Group Learning Activities in Chemistry Courses: An Analysis of Student Discourse, Safaa Youssef El-Mansy (Dissertation)
Songs in My Head: Essays, Robin Bacior Emanuelson (Closed Thesis)
Exploring Nonprofit Views on Water Management and Conservation Strategies, Jillian Marie Farley (Thesis)
Uncertainty Quantification of Live Load Effect in Buried RC Box Culverts, Mohd Firoj (Thesis)
Tell Me, Do You Feel It Too? A Meta-analysis of Dyadic Emotional Contagion in the Workplace, Stefanie Fox (Dissertation)
Coriolis Forces on Wind Turbine Wakes within a Wind Farm, Natalie Violetta Frank (Thesis)
Comparative Skull Morphology of California Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus) and Steller Sea Lions (Eumetopias jubatus) in the Pacific Northwest and Implications for Hybridization, Ada Iris Garcia Garcia (Thesis)
Understanding the Experiences of Latino Medical Students in a Learning Medical Environment, Leslie García (Dissertation)
Elementary Principal Leadership and Special Education: A Case Study in the United States, Vivian M. Garrison (Dissertation)
Rush: Volume One, Section One: Super Tuesday, Ruben Angel Gil-Herrera (Closed Thesis)
In-Progress Works of Fiction in Disparate Styles with Common Themes, Josef Ginsberg (Closed Thesis)