This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Identifying Clusters of Non-Farm Activity within Exclusive Farm Use Zones in the Northern Willamette Valley, Nicholas Chun (Thesis)
Framing Homelessness as Crisis: A Comparative Content Analysis of Local Media Reports on Portland's Tent Cities, Katrien Cokeley (Thesis)
Improved Scoring Models for Semantic Image Retrieval Using Scene Graphs, Erik Timothy Conser (Thesis)
Off Center Any Other Time, Kellie Constance Cook (Closed Thesis)
Detecting Change in Rainstorm Properties from 1977-2016 and Associated Future Flood Risks in Portland, Oregon, Alexis Kirsten Cooley (Thesis)
Technology Planning for Aligning Emerging Business Models and Regulatory Structures: the Case of Electric Vehicle Charging and the Smart Grid, Kelly R. Cowan (Dissertation)
Field Mapping Investigation and Geochemical Analysis of Volcanic Units within the Dinner Creek Tuff Eruptive Center, Malheur County, Eastern Oregon, Matthew Cruz (Thesis)
Issues in Urban Trip Generation, Kristina Marie Currans (Dissertation)
Copper Nanowires Synthesis and Self-Assembly for Interconnect Applications, Srikar Rao Darmakkolla (Dissertation)
The Cul3 Ubiquitin Ligase: an Essential Regulator of Diverse Cellular Processes, Brittney Marie Davidge (Dissertation)
Why Do Animals Do What They Do, When They Do It? Characterizing the Role of the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis in Seasonal Life-History Transitions, Catherine Anne Dayger Forbes (Dissertation)
Two-Photon Excitation, Fluorescence Microscopy, and Quantitative Measurement of Two-Photon Absorption Cross Sections, Fredrick Michael DeArmond (Dissertation)
Close Enough: Adventures in Fact-Checking, Ramona Wynne DeNies (Closed Thesis)
Stereotype Threat and Effects of Students' Perception of Their Math Teacher's Fairness on Their Math Self-Efficacy, Alexis Jocelyn DeVigal (Thesis)
Analysis of the Acid-Base Balance of Mainstream Tobacco Smoke and its Effect on the Gas/Particle Partitioning of Nicotine, Amy Kathleen DeVita-McBride (Thesis)
Refining Bounding-Box Regression for Object Localization, Naomi Lynn Dickerson (Thesis)
Fully Generic Programming Over Closed Universes of Inductive-Recursive Types, Larry Diehl (Dissertation)
Wicked Water Problems: Can Network Governance Deliver? Integrated Water Management Case Studies from New Zealand and Oregon, USA, Jacqueline Dingfelder (Dissertation)
Investigating Statistics Teachers' Knowledge of Probability in the Context of Hypothesis Testing, Jason Mark Asis Dolor (Dissertation)
Turbidity Dynamics during High-Flow Storm Events in the Clackamas River, Oregon 2006-2012, Micelis Clyde Doyle (Thesis)
The Voices of Special Educators: How Do Special Educators Teach English Language Learners Who are Receiving Special Education Services?, Elizabeth Ann DuBois (Dissertation)
Properties of Carbon Nanotubes: Defects, Adsorbates, and Gas Sensing, Micah C. Eastman (Dissertation)
Identity and Community in Rural Higher Education: Creating New Pathways to Women's Leadership in Oaxaca, Mexico, Amanda Marie Elder (Thesis)
Impact Analysis of Increased Dispatchable Resources on a Utility Feeder in OpenDSS, Crystal Eppinger (Thesis)
Development of a Technology Transfer Score for Evaluating Research Proposals: Case Study of Demand Response Technologies in the Pacific Northwest, Judith Estep (Dissertation)
Design and Application of a 3D Photocatalyst Material for Water Purification, Simon Paul Fowler (Dissertation)
Enhancing Value-Based Healthcare with Reconstructability Analysis: Predicting Risk for Hip and Knee Replacements, Cecily Corrine Froemke (Dissertation)
An Examination of the Relationship Between Professional Development Providers' Epistemological and Nature of Science Beliefs and their Professional Development Programs, Alfonso Garcia Arriola (Dissertation)
Land Use Mix and Pedestrian Travel Behavior: Advancements in Conceptualization and Measurement, Steven Robert Gehrke (Dissertation)
Evolution and Metabolic Potential of Francisella-like Endosymbionts of Ticks, Jonathan Graham Gerhart (Thesis)
Utilizing High-Resolution Archived Transit Data to Study Before-and-After Travel-Speed and Travel-Time Conditions, Travis Bradley Glick (Thesis)
Drivers' Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Bicyclists: Intermodal Interactions and Implications for Road Safety, Tara Beth Goddard (Dissertation)
Symbiosis with Nitrogen-fixing Rhizobia Influences Plant Defense Strategy and Plant-predator Interactions, Adrienne Louise Godschalx (Dissertation)
Grassroots Resistance in the Sustainable City: Portland Harbor Superfund Site Contamination, Cleanup, and Collective Action, Erin Katherine Goodling (Dissertation)
Faculty Job Satisfaction and Morale in Biomedical Research, Richard John Goranflo III (Dissertation)
Let the Seeds Fall Where They May: Investigating the Effect of Landscape Features on Fine-Scale Seed Dispersal, Monica R. Grasty (Thesis)
Blackthorne: a Novel in Progress, LaVonne Griffin-Valade (Closed Thesis)
Escalating Language at Traffic Stops: Two Case Studies, Jamalieh Haley (Thesis)
AM/BITS, Alice Everly Hall (Closed Thesis)
Responsible Pet Ownership: Dog Parks and Demographic Change in Portland, Oregon, Matthew Harris (Thesis)
Root-enhanced Infiltration in Stormwater Bioretention Facilities in Portland, Oregon, Ted David Hart (Dissertation)
A Study of Shame-proneness, Drinking Behaviors, and Workplace Role Ambiguity Among a Sample of Student Workers, Sarah Nielsen Haverly (Thesis)
"As Long as the Mighty Columbia River Flows": the Leadership and Legacy of Wilson Charley, a Yakama Indian Fisherman, David-Paul Brewster Hedberg (Thesis)
Effects of Spatially Distributed Stream Power on Check Dam Function in Small Upland Watersheds: a Case Study of the Upper Laja Watershed, Guanajuato, Mexico, Zachary Andrew Herzfeld (Thesis)
Dirty Girls, Mary E. Higgins (Closed Thesis)
The Tension between Technocratic and Social Values in Environmental Decision-making: An'Yang Stream Restoration in South Korea, Chang-Yu Hong (Dissertation)
Not Just Child's Play: Neo-Romantic Humanism in Ogawa Mimei's Stories, Nobuko Horikawa (Thesis)
Constraining the Holocene Extent of the Northwest Meers Fault, Oklahoma Using High-Resolution Topography and Paleoseismic Trenching, Kristofer Tyler Hornsby (Thesis)
Compositional and Physical Gradients in the Magmas of the Devine Canyon Tuff, Eastern Oregon: Constraints for Evolution Models of Voluminous High-silica Rhyolites, Shelby Lee Isom (Thesis)
The Efficacy of Virtual Protest: Linking Digital Tactics to Outcomes in Activist Campaigns, Rina Lynne James (Thesis)
Meat Shack and Other Creative Works, Susannah Katherine Jayroe (Closed Thesis)
A New Meridian, Catherine Ann Johnson (Closed Thesis)
Building Energy Model Calibration for Retrofit Decision Making, Nicolas R. Johnson (Thesis)
Lexical Bundles in Applied Linguistics and Literature Writing: a Comparison of Intermediate English Learners and Professionals, Kathryn Marie Johnston (Thesis)
GIS Spatial Analysis of Arctic Settlement Patterns: A Case Study in Northwest Alaska, Justin Andrew Junge (Thesis)
Expanding Metabolic Diversity of Two Archaeal Phyla: Nanoarchaeota and Korarchaeota, John Forad Kelley (Thesis)
Charles A. Moose: Race, Community Policing, and Portland's First African American Police Chief, Douglas Jon Kenck-Crispin (Thesis)
Human Subjects, Stephanie Wong Ken (Closed Thesis)
Ecosystem Recovery in Estuarine Wetlands of the Columbia River Estuary, Sarah Ann Kidd (Dissertation)
Out in "The Numbers": Youth and Gang Violence Initiatives and Uneven Development in Portland's Periphery, Dirk Kinsey (Thesis)
Novel Compound, 84F2, Inhibits Calmodulin Deficient RyR2, Robert Carl Klipp (Dissertation)
An Efficient Pipeline for Assaying Whole-Genome Plastid Variation for Population Genetics and Phylogeography, Brendan F. Kohrn (Thesis)
Forget Nostalgia, Jon Jerome Krill (Closed Thesis)
Soputan Volcano, Indonesia: Petrological Systematics of Volatiles and Magmas and their Bearing on Explosive Eruptions of a Basalt Volcano, Syegi Lenarahmi Kunrat (Thesis)
Intraminority Support For and Participation In Race-Based Collective Action Movements: an Intersectional Perspective, Jaboa Shawntaé Lake (Thesis)
High-Quality Chemical Vapor Deposition Graphene-Based Spin Transport Channels, Lester Florian Lampert (Dissertation)
Regulating Pavement Dwellers: the Politics of the Visibly Poor in Public Space, Lauren Marie Larin (Dissertation)
Invertebrate Community Composition Across Inundation Regimes and Its Potential to Reduce Plant Stress, Inez Ilicia Lawson (Thesis)
What is the Nature of the Conflict Experienced by Japanese Workers in International Companies Based in Japan and What Type of Conflict Management Do They Access?, Tomoko Shinohara Le (Thesis)
Non-Native Mangroves (Rhizophora mangle) of Moloka'i, Hawai'i: a Socio-Ecological Analysis, Casey Lynette Lewis (Thesis)
( stay ) go ( put ) through, Andrew P. Longhofer (Closed Thesis)
New World Massive, Miguel Anthony Lopez (Closed Thesis)
Microwave Instrumentation and Sensing Techniques for Quantum Efficiency and Minority-Carrier Lifetime Measurements, Kyle Benjamin Lu (Thesis)
Structural Behavior of Lap Shear Connections with Thermally Insulating Filler Plates, Salih Qasim Mahmood (Thesis)
Making Software, Making Regions: Labor Market Dualization, Segmentation, and Feminization in Austin, Portland and Seattle, Dillon Mahmoudi (Dissertation)
Investigation of Ambient Reactive Nitrogen Emissions Sources and Deposition in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Jacinda L. Mainord (Dissertation)
Using Critical Physical Geography to Map the Unintended Consequences of Conservation Management Programs, Melanie Malone (Dissertation)
Food Access Narratives in Southeast Portland, Oregon, Gwyneth Genevieve McKee Manser (Thesis)
Knowing Nature in the City: Comparative Analysis of Knowledge Systems Challenges Along the 'Eco-Techno' Spectrum of Green Infrastructure in Portland & Baltimore, Annie Marissa Matsler (Dissertation)
The Use of Evidentials in Hearsay Contexts in Japanese and English, Tomomi Matsumura (Thesis)
The Sub-Country, Jason Maurer (Closed Thesis)
Anthropogenic Effects on the Fouling Community: Impacts of Biological Invasions and Anthropogenic Structures on Community Structure, Whitney Elizabeth McClees (Thesis)
Shouts of the Khori-Challwa: Andean Mythological and Cosmological Reconsiderations of the American Identity in Gamaliel Churata’s El pez de oro, Stephen Delaney McNabb (Thesis)
Can a Three-Day Training Focusing on the Nature of Science and Science Practices as They Relate to Mind in the Making Make a Difference in Preschool Teachers' Self-Efficacy Engaging in Science Education?, Colleen Meacham (Thesis)
Socioeconomic Determinants of Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity: the Mediating Role of Social, Psychological and Behavioral Factors, Amanuel Zimam Melekin (Dissertation)
The Downward Spiral: Postmodern Consciousness as Buddhist Metaphysics in the Dark Souls Video Game Series, Paolo Xavier Machado Menuez (Thesis)
Animals Coupling: Stories, Corey Robert Millard (Thesis)
Uncovering Coxiella burnetii's Pathogenicity by Elucidating its Metabolism and Host Interactions, Jess Annai Millar (Thesis)
The Function of Religion in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Stephanie Claire Mitchell (Thesis)
Multilingualism and Multiculturalism: Opinions from Spanish-Speaking English Learners from Mexico, Central America, and South America, Cailey Catherine Moe (Thesis)
Policing in an Era of Sousveillance: the Influence of Video Footage on Perceptions of Legitimacy, Megan Elizabeth Mohler (Thesis)
"First"-Matters: Projecting the Displacement of Responses to Questions in the Context of Presidential Primary-Campaign Debates, Kristella Marie Montiegel (Thesis)
Communicating at Terahertz Frequencies, Farnoosh Moshirfatemi (Dissertation)
Matryoshka, Darla Mottram (Closed Thesis)
Application of Numerical Modeling to Study River Dynamics: Hydro-Geomorphological Evolution Due to Extreme Events in the Sandy River, Oregon, Sarkawt Hamarahim Muhammad (Thesis)
Assessing the Impact of Land Use and Travel on Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Portland, Oregon, Zakari Mumuni (Thesis)
Trade-offs: the Production of Sustainability in Households, Kirstin Marie Elizabeth Munro (Dissertation)
A Collection of Poetry, Michael Edward Murray (Closed Thesis)
A Conservationist Takes Flight: the Early Career of William Lovell Finley, 1887-1911, Carey Elizabeth Myles (Thesis)