This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
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)
Racial Disparities in a State Based Workers' Compensation System, Caroline Kristine Smith (Dissertation)
Development and Validation of the Workplace Mental Illness Stigma Scale (W-MISS), Nicholas Anthony Smith (Dissertation)
Effects of Regulation Intensity on Marijuana Black Market After Legalization, Sikang Song (Thesis)
The Impact of Implementing Different Cordon Size Designs on Land Use Patterns in Portland, OR, Asia Spilotros (Dissertation)
Relational Thriving in Context: Examining the Roles of Gratitude, Affectionate Touch, and Positive Affective Variability in Health and Well-Being, Alicia Rochelle Starkey (Dissertation)
Preventing Child Sexual Abuse and Juvenile Offending Through Parental Monitoring, Kelly E. Stewart (Dissertation)
Symbiosis in Archaea: Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity of Marine and Terrestrial Nanoarchaeota and their Hosts, Emily Joyce St. John (Thesis)
The Influence of Hibernation Temperature on Deiodinase 2 in Red-Sided Garter Snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis), Kalera Stratton (Thesis)
"Beneath this Sod": Intersections of Colonialism, Urbanization, and Memory in the Cemeteries of Salem and Portland, Oregon, Kirsten Makenna Straus (Thesis)
Family, School, and Forms of Capital, Sonja Taylor (Dissertation)
Optimizing On-Street Parking Supply with Analytical Models, Chawalit Tipagornwong (Dissertation)
Capillary Migration of Large Confined Drops in Non-wetting Wedges, Logan John Torres (Thesis)
Memcapacitive Reservoir Computing Architectures, Dat Tien Tran (Dissertation)
Context-Aware Wi-Fi Infrastructure-based Indoor Positioning Systems, Huy Phuong Tran (Dissertation)
Arctic Security: the Race for the Arctic through the Prism of International Relations Theory, Michael Gregory Morgan Trujillo (Thesis)
Closing the Loop: the Capacities and Constraints of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D), Phillip Nicholas Turman-Bryant (Dissertation)
Systems Isomorphisms in Stochastic Dynamic Systems, Rajesh Venkatachalapathy (Dissertation)
The Influence of Neighborhood Landscape Characteristics on Native Bird Communities: Implications for Increasing Biodiversity in Our Yards, Michael E. Vermeulen (Thesis)
"To Call or Not to Call?" The Impact of Supervisor Training on Call Center Employee Attitudes and Well-Being, Whitney Elan Schneider Vogel (Thesis)
Modeling and Control of Magnetic Gear Dynamics in a Wind Turbine Drivetrain, Danielle Vournas (Thesis)
Investigating the Origins of Toxins Present in Electronic Cigarette Aerosols, Shawna Vreeke (Dissertation)
Fatigue Characteristics of New ECO Series Aluminum 7175 Alloy, Chinh Q.L. Vu (Dissertation)
Are We Providing Preferred Floral Resources for Bees in Our Neighborhoods? : Assessing the Relationship Between Small Scale Vegetation Metrics and Bee Presence in SE Portland, Hailey Wallace (Thesis)
Mud, Twigs, and Clover, Mark Walsh (Closed Thesis)
Gentrification and Student Achievement: a Quantitative Analysis of Student Performance on Standardized Tests in Portland's Gentrifying Neighborhoods, Justin Joseph Ward (Thesis)
Principia, Kathryn Borak Watson (Closed Thesis)
"It's All Because I Like the Person That's Teaching Me": Masculinities, Engagement, and Caring Relationships in Secondary Schools, Cristy Lauren Weggelaar (Dissertation)
Nine Times Out of Ten, You Don't Die, Patrick Ronald Wensink (Thesis)
Concrete Bridge Deck Performance Data and Metrics for the State of Oregon, Jael Wettach-Glosser (Thesis)
Grappling with the African E-Waste Pandemic: Contributing Factors and Future Deterrence, Brittany Nicole Wideman (Thesis)
Physical and Emotional Sibling Violence and Child Welfare: a Critical Realist Exploratory Study, Katherine Elizabeth Winters (Dissertation)
Sensory Relevance Models, Walt Woods (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
An Assessment of Sentencing Disparities among American Indians within the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Federal Circuit Courts, Makenzie Laron Aaby (Thesis)
College Student Rankings of Multiple Speakers in a Public Speaking Context: a Language Attitudes Study on Japanese-accented English with a World Englishes Perspective, John James Ahlbrecht (Thesis)
Stakeholder Expectations of Islamic Education, Julia Marie Ahmed (Dissertation)
Grammatical Errors by Arabic ESL Students: an Investigation of L1 Transfer through Error Analysis, Aisha Saud Alasfour (Thesis)
Food Waste Diversion Programming in Post-Secondary Education, Manar Arica Alattar (Dissertation)
Who Am I? Criminal Social Identity as a Mediator in the Relationship between Criminal Peers and Criminal Attitudes within a Sample of Probationers/Parolees, Quinton Thomas Alexander (Thesis)
Thermally (Un-) Stratified Wind Plants: Stochastic and Data-Driven Reduced Order Descriptions/Modeling, Naseem Kamil Ali (Dissertation)
Achieving Organizational Ambidexterity: an Exploratory Model, Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps, Yasser Alizadeh (Dissertation)
New Approaches for Memristive Logic Computations, Muayad Jaafar Aljafar (Dissertation)
Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Modeling of the Tigris River System in Iraq Using CE-QUAL-W2, Muhanned Al Murib (Dissertation)
The Effect of Styrene-Maleic Acid (SMA) Copolymers on Solubilizing Lipid Bilayers and Forming Nanodiscs, Ghada Alramadan (Thesis)
3D Hydrodynamic, Temperature, and Water Quality Numerical Model for Surface Waterbodies: Development, Verification, and Field Case Studies, Hussein Ali Mahdi Al-Zubaidi (Dissertation)
Staring Into the Sun: Essays on Vision and Blindness, Joshua James Amberson (Closed Thesis)
Finding Common Ground: Relationship Building and Communication between PO and Client within a Community Supervision Setting, Carl Eugene Appleton (Thesis)
Impact of Suburban Landscape Features on Gene Flow of the Model Invasive Grass, Brachypodium sylvaticum, Tina Marie Arredondo (Thesis)
Delphinids on Display: the Capture, Care, and Exhibition of Cetaceans at Marineland of the Pacific, 1954-1967, Taylor Michael Bailey (Thesis)
How Persevering Latina/o First-Generation College Students Navigate Their College Experience: Keeping Who They Are While Learning and Persisting in the Culture of College, Angela Judith Balcacer (Dissertation)
Giving the Noose the Slip: an Analysis of Female Murderers in Oregon, 1854-1950, Jenna Leigh Barganski (Thesis)
Public Participation in Plant-Pollinator Conservation: Key Assessment Areas that Support Networked Restoration and Monitoring, Kerissa Battle (Dissertation)