This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Does X Mark the Applicant? Assessing Reactions to Gender Non-Binary Job Seekers, Kelly Mason Hamilton (Thesis)
Use of Two-replisome Plasmids to Characterize How Chromosome Replication Completes, Nicklas Alexander Hamilton (Thesis)
Knowing Without Knowing: Real-Time Usage Identification of Computer Systems, Leila Mohammed Hawana (Thesis)
Closure or Censure? Examining the Determinants of Disclosure of Sexual Assault Among College Students, Whitney Head-Burgess (Thesis)
Student Voice in a Participatory Design Process Focused on Developing Equity-Based STEM Teaching Practices, Frank Heimerdinger (Dissertation)
Flood Dynamics in the Portland Metropolitan Area, Past, Present, and Future, Lumas Terence Helaire (Dissertation)
DC-RTS Noise: Observation and Analysis, Benjamin William Hendrickson (Dissertation)
Assessing the Efficacy of Virtual Experiments in the General Chemistry Laboratory, Cory Jerome Hensen (Dissertation)
Bounce House of 1000 Corpses, Jessica Hiestand (Closed Thesis)
Follow the Bone, Lauren Verdell Hobson (Closed Thesis)
Attrition and Psychotherapy, Jesse Barrington Homan (Dissertation)
Seismic Source Characterization of Faults in the Portland and Tualatin Basins and a Paleoseismic Study of the Gales Creek Fault, OR, Alison Elizabeth Horst (Thesis)
The Process of Establishing Theoretically Grounded Measures of Science and Chemistry Identity for Use in Undergraduate Chemistry Courses, Kathryn Nicole Hosbein (Dissertation)
New Directions for Kabuki Performances in America in the 21st Century, Narumi Iwasaki (Thesis)
A 30-Year Climatology of Meteorological Conditions Associated with Lightning Days in the Western United States, Dmitri Alexander Kalashnikov (Thesis)
Evaluating Project Assessment Techniques for High-Profile Transportation Projects Development and Delivery: Case of State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) in the United States, Rafaa Ibrahim Khalifa (Dissertation)
Design and Experimental Evaluation of DeepMarket: an Edge Computing Marketplace with Distributed TensorFlow Execution Capability, Soyoung Kim (Thesis)
The Many Wives of General August V. Kautz: Colonization in the Pacific Northwest, 1853-1895, Nicole Ann Kindle (Thesis)
Stormwater Treatment Effectiveness of Established Bioretention Facilities in Portland, Oregon, Emma Rose Kohlsmith (Thesis)
Can Churches Change a Neighborhood? A Census Tract, Multilevel Analysis of Churches and Neighborhood Change, David E. Kresta (Dissertation)
Localizing Little Landmarks with Transfer Learning, Sharad Kumar (Thesis)
Gender and the Voir Dire Process, Tasha Ann Lane (Thesis)
Attitudes, Behavior, and Archetypes in the Clackamas River Basin: a Model of Water Customer Analysis and Outreach for Watershed Protection and Conservation, Daniel Close Larson (Dissertation)
HIV, Stigma, and Attribution of Causal Emotions, Zoe Elizabeth Larson (Thesis)
A Scoring Model to Assess Organizations' Technology Transfer Capabilities: the Case of a Power Utility in the Northwest USA, João Ricardo Lavoie (Dissertation)
Support From Inside Out: Exploring Whether Various Social Supports Assist in Reducing Prison Rule Violations, Sarah Renee Lazzari (Dissertation)
Politics in the San Clemente Dam Removal, Aylan Matthew Lee (Thesis)
The Optimized Synthesis of Copper Nanowire for High-quality and Fabrication of Core-Shell Nanowire, Suhyun Lee (Thesis)
Urbanicity as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Stigma and Well-being Outcomes for Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses, Emily Leickly (Thesis)
Interrogating the Construction and Representations of Criminalized Women in the Academic Social Work Literature: a Critical Discourse Analysis, Sandra Marie Leotti (Dissertation)
Sensors and Portable Instruments for Postharvest Agriculture, Ryan M. Lerud (Dissertation)
Stigmatization and Mental Illness: the Communication of Social Identity Prototypes through Diagnosis Labels, Justin Samuel Leverett (Thesis)
"What About the Men? Investigating Alcohol Consumption, Masculinities, and Risky Sex in Peri-Urban Eswatini, Aaron Jackson Levine (Thesis)
The Relationship Between Undergraduate Research Training Programs and Motivational Resources for Underrepresented Minority Students in STEM: Program Participation, Self-efficacy, a Sense of Belonging, and Academic Performance, Jennifer Lindwall (Thesis)
Application of Improved Feature Selection Algorithm in SVM Based Market Trend Prediction Model, Qi Li (Thesis)
Cooperating Teachers' Perceived Preparedness to Support Science Teacher Candidates for Culturally Sustaining Science Teaching, Keelan Purcell LoFaro (Dissertation)
Photoelectrochemical Catalysis of Hydrogen Peroxide with Tellurium Containing Chromophores, James Eliott Lohman (Thesis)
Scenes from the Swale: Investigating Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Nitrogen Cycling in Urban Stormwater Bioretention Facilities, Erin Nicole Looper (Dissertation)
Seismic Performance of Substandard Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns under Subduction-Zone Ground Motions, Alvaro Francisco Lopez Ibaceta (Dissertation)
Learning From Culturally Specific Programs and Their Impact on Latino Parent Engagement, Analucia Lopezrevoredo (Dissertation)
An Investigation of the Impact of High School Student Fine Arts Course Accumulation on Mathematics Course Achievement, Daniel Mackin Freeman (Thesis)
Fault Deformation at the Base of and within the Crescent Formation along the Dosewallips River, Olympic Mountains Peninsula, Washington, USA, Christine Meryl Maher (Thesis)
An Examination of Non-waged Labor and Local Food Movement Growth in the Southern Appalachians, Amy Kathryn Marion (Thesis)
Large-Scale DER Aggregations of Electric Water Heaters and Battery Inverter Systems, Kevin Marnell (Thesis)
Making Imaginaries: Identity, Value, and Place in the Maker Movement in Detroit and Portland, Stephen Joseph Marotta (Dissertation)
Examining Human Behavior and Tool Use through Experimental Replications and a Technological Analysis of Ground Stone in the Lower Columbia, Kelley Prince Martinez (Thesis)
The Tangle of Institutional Care and Control at a Shelter for Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth, Liat Tzvia Mayer (Thesis)
The Cosmological Empire of Pliny the Elder: an Examination of Political Themes in the Second Book of the Historia Naturalis, Kevin Alan McCormick (Thesis)
An Evaluation of Clackamas County's Transition Center Using Propensity Score Modeling, Alicia de Jong McKay (Thesis)
The Influence of Age at Migration on Criminal Offending Among Foreign-Born Immigrants, Omar Melchor-Ayala (Dissertation)
"All Things to All Men": the Life and Work of Monsignor Thomas J. Tobin, Priest of the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon, Samuel Richard Mertz (Thesis)
Scientists, Uncertainty and Nature, an Analysis of the Development, Implementation and Unintended Consequences of the Northwest Forest Plan, Gilbert David Miller (Dissertation)
A Study of Thermal Energy Storage of Phase Change Materials: Thermophysical Properties and Numerical Simulations, Kyung-Eun Min (Dissertation)
Seismic Behavior of Screen Grid Core Insulated Concrete Form Walls, Anwer Sabah Mohammed Mohammed (Dissertation)
"The Most Difficult Vote": Post-Roe Abortion Politics in Oregon, 1973-2001, Tanya Trangia Monthey (Thesis)
Tracking Center of Mass with Limited Inertial Measurement Units, Connor Nathaniel Morrow (Thesis)
Parr Going the Distance: How Migratory Difficulty Influences Red Muscle Lipid Storage in Juvenile Oncorhynchus mykiss, Emily Jean Morse (Thesis)
A Mixed Methods Analysis of Corpus Data from Reddit Discussions of "Gay Voice", Sara Elizabeth Mulliner (Thesis)
Application of Single Particle Electron Microscopy to Native Lens Gap Junctions and Intrinsically Disordered Signaling Complexes, Janette Bernadette Myers (Dissertation)
Architectural and Philosophical 'Makerspace' Redesign Impact on Teacher Beliefs and Practices: a Case Study, Rurik-Rory James Nackerud (Dissertation)
Walking the Ridge of the Whorl, David Naimon (Closed Thesis)
Noncompliance with Land Acquisition in Vietnam: a Policy Tools Approach, Dang Van Nguyen (Dissertation)
Confronting Noh Demons: Zeami's Demon Pacifying Noh and Nobumitsu's Demon Killing Noh, Jitsuya Nishiyama (Thesis)
RevolutionärInnen am Fließband: a Comparative Gendered Analysis of the 1973 Pierburg and Ford Migrant Labor Strikes, Jordan Faith Norquist (Thesis)
Perceived Partner Responsiveness, Sleep and Pain: a Dyadic Study of Military-Connected Couples, AnnaMarie Sophia O'Neill (Thesis)
Modeling Vertical Migration of Cyanobacteria and Zooplankton, Corina Christina Mae Overman (Thesis)
"An Idolatry of Sound" : Nature, the Natural, and the Castrato's Body in the Eighteenth Century, Caitlin Elizabeth Pala (Thesis)
The Interactive Effect of Temperature and Salinity in the Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), Rachel Marie Palmer (Thesis)
Evaluating the Utility of Theories of Social Integration in Understanding Areal Suicide Rates in the United States, Nathan Finch Parsons (Thesis)
Impact of Professional Development on Accessible Early Literacy Content for Preschool Children with Disabilities in Public Library Storytime, Melissa Pebly (Dissertation)
The Effect of Dynamic Kinetic Selection on an Evolving Ribozyme Population, Patrick David Poletti (Dissertation)
Bone Mineral Density of the Common Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus: a Proposed Model for Monitoring Osteological and Ecosystem Health, James Wright Burrus Powell (Dissertation)
Hospital-Based Services for Opioid Use Disorder: a Study of Supply-Side Attributes, Kelsey Caroline Priest (Dissertation)
Ethnonational Identity and Detached Lives in a Serbian Province: a Study of Parallelism Among Vojvodina's Hungarian Community, Uros Prokic (Dissertation)
Recruitment Marketing: How Do Wellness and Work-Life Benefits Influence Employer Image Perceptions, Organizational Attraction, and Job Pursuit Intentions?, Amy Christine Pytlovany (Dissertation)
Passive Separation of Binary Fluid Mixtures in Microchannels Using Lattice Boltzmann Method, Mohanad Kamil Radhi (Dissertation)
Tree Canopy Cover and Potential in Portland, OR: a Spatial Analysis of the Urban Forest and Capacity for Growth, Jeff Ramsey (Thesis)
Non-Contact Distillation, Rawand Muzafar Rasheed (Thesis)
Geothermometry of H6 and L6 Chondrites and the Relationship between Impact Processing and Retrograde Metamorphism, Michael Tyler Ream (Thesis)
To Disclose or Not to Disclose? Self-Disclosure of Mental Health in the Workplace, Samantha Margaret Reynolds (Thesis)
The Combined Effects of Parent and Teacher Involvement on the Development of Adolescents' Academic Engagement, Nicolette Paige Rickert (Dissertation)
Reproduciendo Otros Mundos: Indigenous Women's Struggles Against Neo-Extractivism and the Bolivian State, Gisela Victoria Rodriguez Fernandez (Dissertation)
Stratospheric Polar Vortex Variability in the Northern Hemisphere: the Effects of Climate Change on Polar Vortex Trends and Future Projections, John Earl Rogers (Thesis)
Measurements of N₂O and SF₆ Mole Fraction and N₂O Isotopic Composition between 1978 and 1997 in Archived Air Samples from Cape Meares, Oregon, Terry Clinton Rolfe (Dissertation)
Recognizing and Addressing Risk Ambiguity in Sea Level Rise Adaptation Planning: a Case Study of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Mary Ann Rozance (Dissertation)
Situational Context of Police Use of Deadly Force: a Comparison of Black and White Subjects of Fatal Police Shootings, Shana Lynn Meaney Ruess (Thesis)
Relationship Between Empathy and Language Proficiency in Adult Language Learners, Mika Sakai (Thesis)
Examining the Development and Classroom Dynamics of Student Disaffection Over Multiple Time Periods: Short-term Episodes and Long-term Trajectories, Emily Anne Saxton (Dissertation)
The Spatial and Temporal Evolution of the Portland and Tualatin Basins, Oregon, USA, Darby Patrick Scanlon (Thesis)
Next Generation Science Standards and Physics First: a Case Study of High School Teachers' Beliefs and Practices, Stephen Godfrey Scannell (Dissertation)
Very High Frequency Bipolar Junction Transistor Frequency Multiplier Drive Network Design and Analysis, Daniel Dale Schaeffer (Thesis)
Design of a Canine Inspired Quadruped Robot as a Platform for Synthetic Neural Network Control, Cody Warren Scharzenberger (Thesis)
Physics-Based Signal Processing Methods for Terahertz Non-Destructive Evaluation of Layered Media, Scott G. Schecklman (Dissertation)
Localized Photoemission in Triangular Gold Antennas, Christopher M. Scheffler (Thesis)
Not Even Past: Historical Essays on Subjects Forgotten, Michael L. Schepps (Closed Thesis)
Statistical Analysis of Social Network Change, Teresa Danielle Schmidt (Dissertation)
Student Sustainability Leadership Development at Portland State University: Developing Holistic Sustainability Leaders, Megan Suzanne Schneider (Thesis)
Characterizing Tilt Effects on Wind Plants, Ryan Scott (Thesis)
Drinking on a Work Night: a Comparison of Day and Person-Level Associations with Workplace Outcomes, Brittnie Renae Shepherd (Dissertation)
Spontaneous Recombination of Short RNAs to Increase Length and Complexity in Prebiotically Plausible Conditions, Benedict Arthur Smail (Dissertation)