This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
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)
Woodpeckers in the City: Habitat Use and Minimum Area Requirements of Woodpeckers in Urban Parks and Natural Areas in Portland, Oregon, Adam Baz (Thesis)
You are D. B. Cooper, James Bezerra (Thesis)
White Space, Black Space: Community Gardens in Portland, Oregon, David Ross Billings Jr. (Thesis)
Effects of Fan Cooling at Room Temperature on Indoor 20-km Cycling Time Trial Performance, Matthew Bloom (Thesis)
Judgments of Lethal Risk: a Comparison of Visual and Narrative Stimuli, Derek Anthony Bonniksen (Thesis)
Quantifying Knickpoint Behavior and Erosion Mechanisms in an Urbanized Watershed, Bull Mountain, Washington County, Oregon, Max Gregory Bordal (Thesis)
A Spatial Analysis of Ceramics in Northwestern Alaska: Studying Pre-Contact Gendered Use of Space, Katelyn Elizabeth Braymer-Hayes (Thesis)
Glacier Inventories and Change in Glacier National Park, Melissa Carrie Brett (Thesis)
Shear-Force Acoustic Near-Field Microscopy and Its Implementation in the Study of Confined Mesoscopic Fluids, Theodore Alex Brockman (Thesis)
Walter's Rules for Getting By, Patrick Brogan (Closed Thesis)
Is Therapy Going to the Dogs? Evaluating Animal Assisted Therapy for Early Identified At-Risk Children, Leah Faith Brookner (Dissertation)
The Impact of Leader Race and Gender on Perceptions of Organizations in Response to Corporate Error, Nicolas Derek Brown (Thesis)
Pushing Back on School Pushout: Youth at an Alternative School Advocate for Educational Change Through Youth Participatory Action Research, Jessica Hopson Burbach (Dissertation)
Selling Protest in the News? Movement-Media Framing of Occupations: an Exploratory Study, Andrew David Butz (Dissertation)
"My Teacher Says I'm an Overachiever, but I Think He's an Overexpecter" : Teacher Expectations, Self-Concept, and Academic Success, Jennifer Lea Campbell (Thesis)
Wind Energy and Wind-Energy-Inspired Turbulent Wakes: Modulation of Structures, Mechanisms and Flow Regimes, Elizabeth H. Camp (Dissertation)
Volcanic Glass as a Paleoenvironmental Proxy: Comparing Preparation Methods on Ashes from the Lee of the Cascade Range in Oregon, USA, Tessa Boe Carlson (Thesis)
Computer-Based Instruction as a Form of Differentiated Instruction in a Traditional, Teacher-led, Low-Income, High School Biology Classroom, Cheryl Casey (Thesis)
Assessing the Effects of Climate Change and Fuel Treatments on Forest Dynamics and Wildfire in Dry Mixed-Conifer Forests of the Inland West: Linking Landscape and Social Perspectives, Brooke Alyce Cassell (Dissertation)
Software Defined Radio Based Modulated Scatterer Antenna Measurement, Aditya Channamallu (Closed Thesis)
An Exploration of Linear Classifiers for Unsupervised Spiking Neural Networks with Event-Driven Data, Wesley Chavez (Thesis)
Hierarchical Random Boolean Network Reservoirs, Sai Kiran Cherupally (Thesis)
Impacts of Mindfulness Training on Mechanisms Underlying Stress Reduction in Teachers: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial, Jaiya Rae Choles (Thesis)
Environmental Justice in Natural Disaster Mitigation Policy and Planning: a Case Study of Flood Risk Management in Johnson Creek, Portland, Oregon, Seong Yun Cho (Dissertation)
Exploring Technology Forecasting and its Implications for Strategic Technology Planning, Yonghee Cho (Dissertation)
"Tindersluts" & "Tinderellas:" Examining Young Women's Construction and Negotiation of Modern Sexual Scripts within a Digital Hookup Culture, MacKenzie A. Christensen (Thesis)
Electric Water Heater Modeling for Distributed Energy Resource Aggregation and Control, Anne E. Clarke (Thesis)
Using the Syrian Civil War to Measure Hierarchy: Regional Power Transition in the Middle East, Eric Michael Clary (Thesis)
Bounding Box Improvement with Reinforcement Learning, Andrew Lewis Cleland (Thesis)
The Limitations of DNA Interstrand Cross-link Repair in Escherichia coli, Jessica Michelle Cole (Thesis)
What's New Pussyhat? Men, Feminism, and Social Identity, Rachel Lee Crist (Thesis)
Student Motivation Profiles as a Diagnostic Tool to Help Teachers Provide Targeted Support, Cailin Tricia Currie (Dissertation)
Politics in the Social Media Era: the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Political Participation During the 2016 United States Presidential Election, Kevin Everett Curry (Dissertation)
Insufficient Effort Responding on Mturk Surveys: Evidence-Based Quality Control for Organizational Research, Lee Cyr (Thesis)
The Impact of Online Professional Development on the Assessment Efficacy of Novice Itinerant Teachers of Students with Multiple Disabilities Including Visual Impairments, Jacqulyn Anne Donnenwirth Daniels (Dissertation)
Modeling the Co-Production of Public Sector Innovation: Strategic Dimensions of Organizational Innovation within the Public Maritime Ports of the Pacific Northwest, Christopher R. Davis (Dissertation)
Building Climate Empire: Power, Authority, and Knowledge within Pacific Islands Climate Change Diplomacy and Governance Networks, Ashlie Denée Denton (Dissertation)
The Gender Gap in Postsecondary Enrollment Intentions: the Mediating Role of Student Attitudes and Behaviors, Paul J. Deppen III (Thesis)
Development of a Liquid Contacting Method for Investigating Photovoltaic Properties of PbS Quantum Dot Solids, Vitalii Alekseevich Dereviankin (Dissertation)
Characterizing Temperature Variability States Across Southern South America and Associated Synoptic-Scale Meteorological Patterns, Judah Adam Detzer (Thesis)
Dual Immersion Leadership: a Case Study of Three K-5 Principals Who Show Success with Emergent Bilinguals, Ivonne Karina Dibblee (Dissertation)
Relationship between Anisotropy and Dispersive Stress in Wind Plants with Variable Spacing, Tamara S. Dib (Thesis)
Murmuration, Braeden Dillenbeck (Thesis)
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Justice Reinvestment Legislation in Oregon: Analyses of State and County Implementation, Christopher Wade Dollar (Thesis)
Understanding ASEAN : An Alternative Approach to International Relations Theory in Asia, Ryan Grimstad Driver (Thesis)
Scattered Sandpipers, Cassie Duncanson (Closed Thesis)
Exploring District Judges' Decision Making in the Context of Admitting Expert Testimony, Andrew Bryan Dzeguze (Dissertation)
Ecology and Population Dynamics of Salmonids in the Columbia River: Response of Fishes to Anthropogenic Change in a Large Riverscape, Timothy Sean Elder (Dissertation)
Dynamics of Magma Recharge and Mixing at Mount Hood Volcano, Oregon -- Insights from Enclave-bearing Lavas, Molly Kathryn Ellowitz (Thesis)