This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Development of Physics Curriculum for Pre-Health Students, Elliot Eckman Mylott (Dissertation)
Analyzing Dam Feasibility in the Willamette River Watershed, Alexander Cameron Nagel (Thesis)
Designing In-Headset Authoring Tools for Virtual Reality Video, Cuong Nguyen (Dissertation)
Physics Based Approach for Seafloor Classification, Phu Duy Nguyen (Thesis)
A Pilot Study on Methods to Introduce Teachers to New Science Standards, Noelle Frances Garcia Niedo (Thesis)
Patients and Nurses and Doctors Oh My!: Nurse Retention from a Multi-Foci Aggression Perspective, Kevin Oliver Novak (Thesis)
Holocaust, Memory, Second-Generation, and Conflict Resolution, Leslie O'Donoghue (Thesis)
An Analytical System for Determining Disciplinary Vocabulary for Data-Driven Learning: an Example from Civil Engineering, Philippa Jean Otto (Thesis)
Home Is Where the Gator Is: a collection of memoir and essays, Rachel Heather Palmer (Closed Thesis)
Design and Experimental Investigation of 500kV Current Transformer Seismic Retrofit Utilizing Structure Rocking and Supplemental Damping with Self-Centering, Ilya S. Palnikov (Thesis)
Living Between Worlds: Arrival and Adjustment Experiences of the Somali Community in Portland, Oregon, Neil A. Panchmatia (Thesis)
Lithography Hotspot Detection, Jea Woo Park (Dissertation)
Using the Task Analysis Process with Teachers to Uncover Language Demands within an Eight-Week NGSS Summer Course, Leah Plack (Thesis)
Building a Multivariable Linear Regression Model of On-road Traffic for Creation of High Resolution Emission Inventories, James Eckhardt Powell (Thesis)
Examination of Human Impacts on the Biodiversity and Ecology of Lichen and Moss Communities, Hannah Marie Prather (Dissertation)
Certifying Loop Pipelining Transformations in Behavioral Synthesis, Disha Puri (Dissertation)
Investigation into Effects of Instability and Reactivity of Hydride-Passivated Silicon Nanoparticles on Interband Photoluminescence, Christine Marie Radlinger (Dissertation)
Generalized Differential Calculus and Applications to Optimization, R. Blake Rector (Dissertation)
Sustaining the Human Spirit of the High School Principal Leading for Equity, Ryan David Richardson (Dissertation)
Investigating the Role of Small Noncoding RNAs in Vertebrate Anoxia Tolerance, Claire Louise Riggs (Dissertation)
Transcriptomic Regulation of Alternative Phenotypic Trajectories in Embryos of the Annual Killifish Austrofundulus limnaeus, Amie L. Romney (Dissertation)
Influence of the Presidential Inaugural Address on Audience Perceptions of Candidate Image and the State of the Nation, Kyle Alexander Rush (Thesis)
Intimate Partner Violence Impact Panels for Batterer Intervention: a Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Restorative Justice Process, Kate Louise Sackett (Thesis)
Vagrant of the El Camino: a Memoir, Jacob Kevin Sauvageau (Closed Thesis)
"Neither of the Boxes": Accounting for Non-Binary Gender Identities, Erin Patricia Savoia (Thesis)
Synthesis of Linear Reversible Circuits and EXOR-AND-based Circuits for Incompletely Specified Multi-Output Functions, Ben Schaeffer (Dissertation)
An IR and RF Based System for Functional Gait Analysis in a Multi-Resident Smart-Home, Erich Reinhardt Schafermeyer (Thesis)
Quadded GasP: a Fault Tolerant Asynchronous Design, Kristopher S. Scheiblauer (Thesis)
Music and Race in the American West, William Steven Schneider (Thesis)
Mineral Evidence for Generating Compositionally Zoned Rhyolites of the Devine Canyon Tuff, High Lava Plains, Oregon, Erik Paul Shafer (Thesis)
Assessing a Fluorescence Spectroscopy Method for In-Situ Microbial Drinking Water Quality, Taylor Jeffery Sharpe (Thesis)
Computational Algorithms for Improved Representation of the Model Error Covariance in Weak-Constraint 4D-Var, Jeremy A. Shaw (Dissertation)
Newspaper Construction of Homelessness in Western United States Cities, Charlie Allan Sheese (Thesis)
Exploring the Positive Utility of Travel and Mode Choice, Patrick Allen Singleton (Dissertation)
Controlling Water Exchange Kinetics and Improving ParaCEST Imaging, Jacqueline R. Slack (Thesis)
Contexts of Reception and Constructions of Islam: Second Generation Muslim Immigrants in Post-9/11 America, Shahriyar Smith (Thesis)
Loanwords in Context: Lexical Borrowing from English to Japanese and its Effects on Second-Language Vocabulary Acquisition, Andrew Michael Sowers (Thesis)
Investigating Cable: the Potential and Actual Value of PEG & Franchise Fees, Duncan Chaz Stewart (Thesis)
Investigating the Relationship Between Supervisor Status and the Modus Operandi of Juvenile Sexual Offenders: a Routine Activity Theory Perspective, Kelly E. Stewart (Thesis)
Rural Interprofessional Health Care Education: a Study of Student Perspectives, Curt Carlton Stilp (Dissertation)
The Discovery and Development of Metal-Free Arylation Reactions with Unsymmetrical Diaryliodonium Salts, Sunil Kumar Sundalam (Dissertation)
Foundational Knowledge and Other Predictors of Commitment to Trauma-Informed Care, Stephanie Anne Sundborg (Dissertation)
An AFM-SIMS Nano Tomography Acquisition System, Richard William Swinford (Dissertation)
Sampling Fish: a Case Study from the Čḯxwicən Site, Northwest Washington, Laura Maye Syvertson (Thesis)
Contextualization: an Experimental Model for EFL Writing Instruction in China, Guimin Tang (Dissertation)
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Additive Manufacturing Titanium Alloys After Thermal Processing, Ahmet Alptug Tanrikulu (Thesis)
The Influence of Sense of Community on the Relationship Between Community Participation and Recovery for Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses, Rachel Elizabeth Terry (Thesis)
Quantifying the Impacts of a Novel Predator: the Distinctive Case of the Oregon Spotted Frog (Rana pretiosa) and the Invasive American Bullfrog (Rana (Aquarana) catesbeiana), Kyle Scott Tidwell (Dissertation)
"Are We Building Biking Solidarity": Gendered, Racial, and Spatial Barriers to Bicycling in Portland, Oregon, Kyla Jean Tompkins (Thesis)
When You Aren't Who Your Friends Are: the Moderating Influence of Racial Similarity on the Association Between Friendships and Mental Well-Being, Philip Tostado (Thesis)
Profiles of School Readiness and Implications for Children's Development of Academic, Social, and Engagement Skills, Elizabeth Jane Tremaine (Thesis)
Wolbachia-Host Interactions and the Implications to Insect Conservation and Management, Amy Michelle Truitt (Dissertation)
Investigation in to the Stabilizing Effects of the Modified Base Archaeosine in tRNA and the Identification of the Fluorescent Product of Base Treatment of NAD(P)+ Cofactors, Ben Turner (Dissertation)
Responses of Aquatic Non-Native Species to Novel Predator Cues and Increased Mortality, Brian Christopher Turner (Dissertation)
Settler Visions of Health: Health Care Provision in the Central African Federation, 1953-1963, Catherine Janet Valentine (Thesis)
Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Modeling of the Chehalis River Using CE-QUAL-W2, Sarah Van Glubt (Thesis)
My Mouth has a Mother, Jenessa VanZutphen (Closed Thesis)
Predicting Parturition in a Long-Gestating Species: Behavioral and Hormonal Indicators in the Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus), Heather Kelly Velonis (Thesis)
Culturally Responsive School Leadership For Latino/a Students Success, Victor H. Vergara (Dissertation)
Reduced Order Description of Experimental Two-Phase Pipe Flows: Characterization of Flow Structures and Dynamics via Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, Bianca Fontanin Viggiano (Thesis)
Capturing Peers', Teachers', and Parents' Joint Contributions to Students' Engagement: an Exploration of Models, Justin William Vollet (Dissertation)
A Numerical Model Investigation of the Role of the Glacier Bed in Regulating Grounding Line Retreat of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, Michael Scott Waibel (Dissertation)
The Social Acceptance of Community Solar: a Portland Case Study, Anne Weaver (Thesis)
The Littlefield Rhyolite, Eastern Oregon: Distinct Flow Units and Their Constraints on Age and Storage Sites of Grande Ronde Basalt Magmas, Brian McCulloch Webb (Thesis)
Sleep and Young Children's Development of Self-Regulation and Academic Skills, Emily Michelle Weiss (Thesis)
Middle School Teacher Beliefs about Classroom Diversity and their Influence on Differentiated Instructional Practices, Marcus Fredrick-Lynn Wenzel (Dissertation)
How Does a Next Generation Science Standard Aligned, Inquiry Based, Science Unit Impact Student Achievement of Science Practices and Student Science Efficacy in an Elementary Classroom?, Kayla Lee Whittington (Thesis)
Workers of the Word Unite!: The Powell's Books Union Organizing Campaign, 1998-2001, Ryan Thomas Wisnor (Thesis)
Survive or Thrive: a Mixed Method Study of Visiting Chinese Language Teachers' Identity Formation in the U.S. Classrooms, Li Xiang (Dissertation)
Melting in the Mantle Wedge: Quantifying the Effects of Crustal Morphology and Viscous Decoupling on Melt Production with Application to the Cascadia Subduction Zone, Jiaming Yang (Thesis)
An Analysis of Oregon Youth Authority Populations: Who Receives Treatment and What Factors Influence Allocation of Treatment Resources?, Rebecca Arredondo Yazzie (Dissertation)
Intestinal Microbiota Diversity of Pre-Smolt Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Across Six Oregon and Washington Hatcheries, Christina Carrell Yildirimer (Thesis)
Power-Aware Datacenter Networking and Optimization, Qing Yi (Dissertation)
Examining the Structure of the Modus Operandi Questionnaire for Adult & Juvenile Sex Offenders, Judith Gayle Zatkin (Thesis)
Investigation of Aerosol Optical and Chemical Properties Using Humidity Controlled Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy, Xijing Zhu (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Consistency Analysis for Judgment Quantification in Hierarchical Decision Model, Mustafa Sulaiman Abbas (Dissertation)
Identifying Relationships between Scientific Datasets, Abdussalam Alawini (Dissertation)
Exploratory Study of the Adoption and Use of the Smartphone Technology in Emerging Regions: Case of Saudi Arabia, Fahad Abdulaziz Aldhaban (Dissertation)
Experimental Investigation of CFRP Wrapped Square Non-ductile Reinforced Concrete Columns, Hayder Lateef Al-Khafaji (Thesis)
Vision-Based Motion for a Humanoid Robot, Khalid Abdullah Alkhulayfi (Thesis)
Information Representation and Computation of Spike Trains in Reservoir Computing Systems with Spiking Neurons and Analog Neurons, Amin Almassian (Thesis)
Development of 3D Accelerometer Testing System, Mohammed Abbas Soudai Alsaedi (Thesis)
Tryon Trekkers: An Evaluation of a STEM Based Afterschool Program for At-Risk Youth, Chessa Eckels Anderson (Thesis)
The Importance of Online Peer Relationships During the Transition to Motherhood: Do They Decrease Stress, Alleviate Depression and Increase Parenting Competence?, Bobbie Sue Arias (Dissertation)
The Kazaks of Istanbul: A Case of Social Cohesion, Economic Breakdown and the Search for a Moral Economy, Daniel Marc Auger (Thesis)
Citizen-led Urban Agriculture and the Politics of Spatial Reappropriation in Montreal, Quebec, Claire Emmanuelle Bach (Thesis)
The Effect of Extended Instruction on Passive Voice, Reduced Relative Clauses, and Modal Would in the Academic Writing of Advanced English Language Learners, Audrey Bailey (Thesis)
Sex-Specific Fungal Communities of the Dioicous Moss Ceratodon purpureus, Mehmet Ali Balkan (Thesis)
The Terroir of Pinot Noir Wine in the Willamette Valley, Oregon : A Broad Analysis of Vineyard Soils, Grape Juice and Wine Chemistry, Kathryn Nora Barnard (Dissertation)
The Investigation and Optimization of a Two-Heat-Pump System Incorporating Thermal Storage for Shaping Residential Heating Load, Emily Lord Barrett (Thesis)
An Investigation of School-Based Specific Learning Disability Identification, Bonnie Heather Bartos (Dissertation)
Inequality, Position, and Perception: Understanding and Addressing Workplace Harassment in Oregon's Construction Trades, Sasha Mae Bassett (Thesis)
Survivorship and Breeding Dispersal Patterns of a Migratory, Socially Monogamous Passerine; the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus), Adam John Becker (Thesis)
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Based Structure from Motion Biomass Inventory Estimates, Emily Jane Bedell (Thesis)
Use of Water Indices Derived from Landsat OLI Imagery and GIS to Estimate the Hydrologic Connectivity of Wetlands in the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge, Debra Sue Blackmore (Thesis)
The Making of Modern Egypt: the Egyptian Ulama as Custodians of Change and Guardians of Muslim Culture, Marai Boauod (Thesis)
Identity Construction and Language Use by Immigrant Women in a Microenterprise Development Program, Linda Eve Bonder (Thesis)
QueF and QueF-like: Diverse Chemistries in a Common Fold, Adriana Bon Ramos (Dissertation)
A Meta-Analysis of the Nomological Network of Work Ability, Grant Brady (Thesis)
Travel Mode Choice Framework Incorporating Realistic Bike and Walk Routes, Joseph Broach (Dissertation)