This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Automating Variation and Repeater Analysis in Physical Design of Integrated Circuits, Subrat Mahalik (Thesis)
Organizational Calling and Safety: the Role of Workload and Supervisor Support, Layla Rhiannon Mansfield (Dissertation)
Effect of Microbes on the Growth and Physiology of the Dioecious Moss, Ceratodon purpureus, Caitlin Ann Maraist (Thesis)
At the Trail's End, Naomi Marshall (Thesis)
Co-Creating Spaces of Critical Hope through the Use of a Psychosocial Peace Building Education Course in Higher Education in Protracted Refugee Context: Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, Staci BokHee Martin (Dissertation)
Clock Jitter in Communication Systems, Andrew Wayne Martwick (Dissertation)
The Role of the Academic Analyst in Shared Governance, Rebecca Ann Mathern (Dissertation)
Role of Spouse/Partner in Fertility Preservation Decision Making by Young Women with Cancer, Aakrati Mathur (Dissertation)
Mooring Impacts on Zostera marina Meadows and Associated Epifauna in Nantucket Harbor, Massachusetts, USA, Andrew Wright McCandless (Thesis)
Using Repeat Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Photogrammetry to Monitor Reactivation of the Silt Creek Landslide in the Western Cascade Mountains, Linn County, Oregon, Justin Craig McCarley (Thesis)
Bystander Intervention to Prevent Campus Sexual Violence: the Role of Sense of Community, Peer Norms, and Administrative Responding, Erin Christine McConnell (Thesis)
Recovery of Zooplankton Communities to Whole-Lake Disturbance, Brian Newton McGann (Thesis)
The Mind of a Medieval Inquisitor: an Analysis of the 1273 Compilatio de Novu Spiritu of Albertus Magnus, Emily McKinstry (Thesis)
Benevolent Sexism and Racial Stereotypes: Targets, Functions, and Consequences, Jean Marie McMahon (Dissertation)
A New Finite Difference Time Domain Method to Solve Maxwell's Equations, Timothy P. Meagher (Dissertation)
Carbon-Supported Transition Metal Nanoparticles for Catalytic and Electromagnetic Applications, Kavita Meduri (Dissertation)
Sturgis, Michigan, Notable, Tyler Ray Meese (Closed Thesis)
Assessment of Seismic Retrofit Prioritization Methodology for Oregon's Highway Bridges Based on the Vulnerability of Highway Segments, Selamawit Tesfayesus Mehary (Dissertation)
Mechanisms and Identification of Unsteady Separation Development and Remediation, Matthew Scott Melius (Dissertation)
Exploring the Association of Victimization and Alcohol and Marijuana Use among American Indian Youth Living On or Near Reservations: a Mixed Methods Study, Lindsay Nicole Merritt (Dissertation)
Silicon Compilation and Test for Dataflow Implementations in GasP and Click, Swetha Mettala Gilla (Dissertation)
Driver Distraction in Microsimulation of a Mid-Block Pedestrian Crossing, Darryl Joseph Michaud (Thesis)
Examining the Spatial Characteristics of Pluvial Flooding Through Citizen Science in Portland, Oregon, Katelyn Rachel Michelson (Thesis)
Inclusion and Assimilation: Including Change in the Workplace, Marisa Jean Miller (Thesis)
Foreign Language Anxiety, Sexuality, and Gender: Lived Experiences of Four LGBTQ+ Students, James Donald Mitchell (Thesis)
An Analysis of the BizX Commercial Trade Exchange: the Attitudes and Motivations Behind Its Use, Ján André Montoya (Thesis)
Development of a Design Guideline for Bridge Pile Foundations Subjected to Liquefaction Induced Lateral Spreading, Jonathan A. Nasr (Thesis)
"On the Murder of Rickey Johnson": the Portland Police Bureau, Deadly Force, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1940 - 1975, Katherine EIleen Nelson (Thesis)
Reconciling the Opportunities and Obstacles of Motherhood Following Corrections Involvement, Summer Brooke Newell (Dissertation)
Perceived Overqualification and Withdrawal Among Seasonal Workers: Would Work Motivation Make a Difference?, Anthony Duy Nguyen (Thesis)
Exiters of Religious Fundamentalism: Reconstruction of Identity, Social Relationships and Support, and Meaning Related to Well-Being, Andreea Alexandra Nica (Dissertation)
Quantifying Spatial Potential Access Equity in an Agent Based Simulation Model of Buprenorphine Treatment Policy in the United States, Alexandra Elizabeth Nielsen (Dissertation)
Campus Sexual Assault and (In)Justice: an Inquiry into Campus Grievance Professionals' Roles, Responsibilities, and Perspectives of Justice, Liane Kehaulani O'Banion (Dissertation)
The Intersections of Good Intentions, Criminality, and Anti-Carceral Feminist Logic: a Qualitative Study that Explores Sex Trades Content in Social Work Education, Meg Rose Panichelli (Dissertation)
Differential Well-Being in Response to Incivility and Surface Acting among Nurses as a Function of Race, Lauren Sarah Park (Thesis)
Cyclists' Queue Discharge Characteristics at Signalized Intersections, Kirk Thomas Paulsen (Thesis)
Financial Strain and the Work-Home Interface: a Test of the Work-Home Resources Model from the Study for Employment Retention of Veterans (SERVe), MacKenna Laine Perry (Dissertation)
Between a Rock and a Hot Place: Economic Development and Climate Change Adaptation in Vietnam, Khanh Katherine Pham (Thesis)
Does AVID Higher Education (AVID HE) Increase Student Term-to-Term Progression, Persistence Toward Credited Classes and Social Capital for First-Generation College Students Placing Into Developmental Education: a Mixed Methods Study, Christie M. Plinski (Dissertation)
How Can Community Engagement in the Local Past and Archaeological Research Be Mutually Beneficial? A Case Study in Community Archaeology from Sauvie Island, Oregon, Martin John Plumer (Thesis)
Studying the Effects of Motivated Reasoning on Appraisals of Message Strength, Aric Christopher Powell (Thesis)
Chemo-Thermo Cure of Viscoelastic Materials for Semiconductor Packaging Applications, Anjali Pradeep Kumar (Thesis)
Early Detection of Corrosion via Hydrogel-based Spectroelectrochemical Sensors, Capri Ann Price (Dissertation)
Verb Stem Alternation in Vaiphei, Jesse Prichard (Thesis)
Stress Analysis of Embedded Devices Under Thermal Cycling, Sadhana Radhakrishnan (Thesis)
Developing a Mixed-Methods Method to Model Elderly Health Technology Adoption with Fuzzy Cognitive Map, and its Application in Adoption of Remote Health Monitoring Technologies by Elderly Women, Noshad Rahimi (Dissertation)
Ozone-Surface Exchange and Transport and Transformation Near Ventilation Air Supply, Pradeep Ramasubramanian (Thesis)
An Ethnographic Study of Intermediate Students from Poverty: Intersections of School and Home, Shiela G. Rector (Dissertation)
An Experimental Study on the Impact of Informal Rape Myth Education to Alter Rape Myth Acceptance Scores in a Non-Student Sample, Leah Noelle Reddy (Thesis)
A Mutual Charge: the Shared Mission of Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman to Alleviate Global Hunger in a Postwar World, Brian Douglas Reese (Thesis)
Design Optimization for a CNC Machine, Alin Resiga (Thesis)
Affordances on Facebook, Stress, and Emotional Support, Caitlin Rose Rethwish (Thesis)
Principal and Teacher Beliefs About the Impact of CBAs on School Performance: Five High Performing High Schools in Oregon, Kevin Jon Ricker (Dissertation)
Domestic Violence and Other Poems, Patrick Sevin Rogers (Closed Thesis)
Modeling Spawning Habitat Potential for Chum (Onchorhynchus keta) and Pink Salmon (O. gorbuscha) in Relation to Landscape Characteristics in Coastal Southeast Alaska, Bernard Timothy Romey (Thesis)
Using Wetlands to Prevent the Surface Accumulation of Aphanizomenon flos-aquae from Upper Klamath Lake, Arick Christopher Rouhe (Dissertation)
The Wildcat Creek Tuff, Eastern Oregon: Co-eruption of Crystal-poor Rhyolite and Fe-rich Andesite with Implication for Mafic Underpinnings to Voluminous A-type Rhyolites, Hillarie Jaye Sales (Thesis)
Electro-Drop Bouncing in Low-Gravity, Erin Stivers Schmidt (Thesis)
Short-Term Tracking of Orientation with Inertial Sensors, Golriz Sedaghat (Thesis)
The Preparation of Diaryliodonium Salts for Application in Arylation Chemistry, Thomas Ludwig Seidl (Dissertation)
Spacetime Numerical Techniques for the Wave and Schrödinger Equations, Paulina Ester Sepùlveda Salas (Dissertation)
Neighbor Perceptions of Psychiatric Supportive Housing : the Role of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors, Amy Leigh Shearer (Dissertation)
Interplay of Transcription Factor E and Spt4/5 During Transcription Initiation in Pyrococcus furiosus, Kimberly Kay Sheffield (Thesis)
Soil Phosphorus Characterization and Vulnerability to Release in Urban Stormwater Bioretention Facilities, Benjamin James Shetterly (Thesis)
Thiophene-Based Molecular Sensors towards the Selective Detection of Mercury(II) and Other Metals, Austin Kazuo Shigemoto (Dissertation)
Anti-LGB Hate Crimes: Political Threat or Political Legitimization?, Johanna R. Shreve (Thesis)
The Skins We Have Shed and Where They Are Buried: a Collection, Molly Elizabeth Simas (Closed Thesis)
The Role of Caregiver Disruption in the Development of Juvenile Sexual Offenders, Miranda Sitney (Thesis)
Adoption of an Internet of Things Framework for Distributed Energy Resource Coordination and Control, Tylor Slay (Thesis)
Assessment of Observational Uncertainty in Extreme Precipitation Over the Continental United States, Emily Anne Slinskey (Thesis)
Morphological Correlates and Behavioral Functions of Sound Production in Loricariid Catfish, with a Focus on Pterygoplichthys pardalis (Castelnau, 1855), Monique Renee Slusher (Thesis)
"The Battling Ground": Memory, Violence, and Resistance in Greenwood, North Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1907-1980, Greta Katherine Smith (Thesis)
A Temperate and Wholesome Beverage: the Defense of the American Beer Industry, 1880-1920, Lyndsay Danielle Smith (Thesis)
SOSIEL: a Cognitive, Multi-Agent, and Knowledge-Based Platform for Modeling Boundedly-Rational Decision-Making, Garry Sotnik (Dissertation)
Framing Physical Activity: Weight Control Frames and Physical Activity Motivation, Kristin Spurkland (Thesis)
"Agglutinating" a Family: Friedrich Max Müller and the Development of the Turanian Language Family Theory in Nineteenth-Century European Linguistics and Other Human Sciences, Preetham Sridharan (Thesis)
The Interplay Between Early Childhood Education and Mental Health: How Students in an In-Service Early Childhood Teacher Education Program Experience Children with Mental Health and Behavioral Challenges in the Classroom, Katie Statman-Weil (Dissertation)
Biomimetic Design and Construction of a Bipedal Walking Robot, Alexander Gabriel Steele (Thesis)
Discount Ceremony: a Collection of Short Stories, Tim Steele (Closed Thesis)
Intrapersonal and Social-Contextual Factors Related to Psychological Well-being among Youth Experiencing Homelessness, Katricia Stewart (Thesis)
Accumulation and Transmission Dynamics of a Naturally-Occurring mtDNA Deletion in Caenorhabditis briggsae, Jennifer Anne Sullins (Thesis)
A Million Piece Jigsaw Puzzle: Transition Experiences of Foster Youth Accessing Higher Education through Community College, Karen A. Sullivan-Vance (Dissertation)
Using Archival and Archaeofaunal Records to Examine Victorian-era Fish Use in the Pacific Northwest, Emily Celene Taber (Thesis)
Stance-taking: JFL Learners and Benefactive Verbs, Kumiko Takizawa (Thesis)
The Role of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in the Preparation of Secondary Teacher Candidates for Successful Teaching of Diverse Learners: a Multiphase Mixed Methods Case Study, Rosalyn Taylor (Dissertation)
Perception of the Online Degree by Accounting Hiring Gatekeepers of Mid-Size Firms in the Northwestern U.S., Domanic Thomas (Dissertation)
Effectiveness of Pollinator Enhancements in Portland Community Orchards, Jess Alan Tyler (Thesis)
Neighborhood Economic Impacts of Contemporary Art Centers, Steve Van Eck (Closed Thesis)
Latinas and Sexual Health: Correlates of Sexual Satisfaction, Christine Marie Velez (Dissertation)
Annotation-Enabled Interpretation and Analysis of Time-Series Data, Niveditha Venugopal (Thesis)
Representations of Immigrants in Young Adult Literature, Frances Augusta Ramos Verbruggen (Dissertation)
EPA-RIMM-V: Efficient Rootkit Detection for Virtualized Environments, Tejaswini Ajay Vibhute (Thesis)
Little Russia: Patterns in Migration, Settlement, and the Articulation of Ethnic Identity Among Portland's Volga Germans, Heather Ann Viets (Thesis)
Combined Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Hydrogen Production Catalysis, Carolyn Noelle Virca (Dissertation)
Urban Geocomputation: Two Studies on Urban Form and its Role in Altering Climate, Jackson Lee Voelkel (Thesis)
Assessing Spatiotemporal Stream Temperature Trends and Drivers through Integrated Longitudinal Thermal Profiling and Stationary Data Logger Methodology on the Upper Chehalis River, WA, Whitney Vonada (Thesis)
Composition and Dispersal Dynamics of Vegetation Communities in Urban Riparian Forests, Christa von Behren (Dissertation)
Thietmar of Merseburg's Views on Clerical Warfare, Benjamin Joseph Wand (Thesis)
Novel 2D Structure Nanomaterials Synthesis and IR Absorption, Suming Wang (Thesis)
Strong Coupling Between Photonic Cavities, Xiang Wei (Thesis)