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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 Deep Learning Framework for Blockage Mitigation in mmWave Wireless, Ahmed Hazaa Almutairi (Dissertation)
The Conflict between the United States and Iran and its Effect on Iraq, Sarah Alsalih (Thesis)
Undergraduate Students of Color Raising Children and Persisting in Higher Education, Kimberly Denise Alvarez (Dissertation)
Embodied Urban Political Ecology of Oil: Social Reproduction in Oil Geographies Case Study: Ahwaz, Khuzestan, Iran, Maryam Amiri (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)
Urgent Care Program Influences on an Integrated Health Care System, Craig H. Carter (Dissertation)
Faculty Mentors' Influence on Latino/a/x STEM Undergraduates' STEM Identity Development, Sandy Cerda-Lezama (Thesis)
Three Essays on Communicative Planning: From the Perspective of East Asians, Minji Cho (Dissertation)
Immigration Policy Evaluation for Technology Professionals Immigrants in the United States, Angel Contreras Cruz (Dissertation)
An Exploratory Study of an Executive Team Leading Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB), Tara LaShawn Cooper (Dissertation)
Characterizing the Role of the Complement Receptor C3aR in Regulating Inflammatory Responses and Mitochondrial Function in Activated Macrophages, Jesse Alan Corcoran (Dissertation)
The Nuanced Relationship Between Mindfulness, Racial Prejudice, and Policy Support, Jared Michael Cutler (Dissertation)
Cabrita::Curandera, Alex Roselio De La Cruz (Closed Thesis)
Uncovering the Dynamic Nature of Fire Refugia Across Landscapes in Oregon's Western Cascades, Alec Scott Dyer (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)
Social Justice in Social Work: A Critical Discourse Analysis, Erica Fonseca (Dissertation)
Exploring the Curriculum and Institutional Contexts of STEM Future Faculty Programs, Amy Mae Forester (Dissertation)
The Bonneville Power Administration in a Transformative Decade: A Study of Collibration in Public Administration, Christopher M. Frost (Dissertation)
Individual and Structural Contributors to Implicit and Explicit Anti-Muslim Bias in the United States, Aeleah M. Granger (Dissertation)
Experiences of Community College STEM Students in Transferring and Adapting to a Four-Year Urban University, MacKenzie Jade Gray (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)
両忘: Ryōbō Both Forgotten, Claire Elizabeth Dame Hinkley (Closed 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)
Primary Care in the University Setting After COVID-19: A Multiple Case Study of Student Health Services in Oregon, D. Chad Johnson (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)
Effects of Exogenous and Endogenous Variables on Efficiency and Productivity: Case of Indian Banks, Aurobindh Kalathil Puthanpura (Dissertation)
The Central Role of Perceived Safety in Connecting Crash Risk Factors and Walking Behavior, Kyu Ri Kim (Dissertation)
Resource-constrained 2D Scene Recovery with Single-Photon Cameras, Daphne Ariadne Kurzenhauser (Thesis)
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)
Yang-Baxter Equations, David Lovitz (Dissertation)
A Cognitive Approach to Supervisor Training Intervention Evaluation: Analyzing Change with Response Shift Theory and Models of Measurement Invariance, Luke Daniel Mahoney (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)
Permission to Play: A District's Initiative to Innovate Kindergarten and Promote Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Cristin McDonough (Thesis)
Efficient and Chemoselective Access to Highly Functionalized Arenes by C-H Deprotonative Generation of Aryne Intermediates, Bryan Edward Metze (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)
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)
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)
The Genetic Consequences of Pollen and Seed Transport in the Wind, Elizabeth Hendrickson Scott (Dissertation)
Consequences of Spatial Heterogeneity for Turbulent Wake Development, Ryan Scott (Dissertation)
Towards a New Discourse on Success in Alternative Education, Samuel Thomas Settelmeyer (Dissertation)
Assessing the Climate Resilience of Quercus garryana in the Portland Metro Region, Jess Rose Nettle Shamek (Dissertation)
MmWave RAT Optimization: MAC Layer Initial Access Design and Transport Layer Integration, Suresh Srinivasan (Dissertation)
DFT Based Modeling of the Heavy Atom Effect in Triplet Photosensitizers: From Fundamental Mechanics to Rational Design, Bret Andrew Steinkamp (Dissertation)
The Influence of a Ubiquitous Filter Feeder on Coastal Microbial Communities, Melissa Steinman (Dissertation)
Adaptive Sampling for Seabed Identification from Ambient Acoustic Noise, Matthew Sullivan (Thesis)
Culture or Power: The Eruption of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon, Danielle Tagakou Talla (Thesis)
Atmospheric Circulation, Climate Change, and Related Impacts Over the Western United States, Graham Patrick Taylor (Dissertation)
Some Hypergeometric Identities and Related Leonard Pairs, Taiyo Summers Terada (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)
Feeling Otherwise: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of Queer and Trans Youth of Color Who Create and Embody Fursonas, Hazel Ali Zaman (Dissertation)
Residential DERs in Service-Oriented Load Participation: Enhancing Grid Flexibility, Zhongkai Zeng (Thesis)
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 SV. Brown (Dissertation)