This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Quartz and Other Stories, Lily Brooks-Dalton (Closed Thesis)
Demography and the Evolution of Logistic Organization on the Northern Northwest Coast Between 11,000 and 5,000 cal BP, Thomas Jay Brown (Thesis)
Architectures and Algorithms for Intrinsic Computation with Memristive Devices, Jens Bürger (Dissertation)
Understanding the Importance of Intermittently Fragmented Stream Habitat for Isolated Westslope Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi) in the Colville National Forest, Washington, Forrest Michael Carpenter (Thesis)
"That's the test?" Washback Effects of an Alternative Assessment in a Culturally Heterogeneous EAP University Class, Abigail Bennett Carrigan (Thesis)
Biomimetic Tools in Oxidative Metabolism: Characterization of Reactive Metabolites from Antithyroid Drugs, Kudzanai Chipiso (Dissertation)
Investigating the Effects of 17α-Ethynylestradiol on Mitochondrial Genome Stability, Alicia M. Chivers (Thesis)
An Investigation of Invasion: Boater Knowledge Concerning Aquatic Invasive Species and the Influence of the New Zealand Mud Snail on Benthic Food Webs, Samuel Anthony Cimino (Thesis)
Investigations of an "Objectness" Measure for Object Localization, Lewis Richard James Coates (Thesis)
The Gate and Other Stories, Cassondra Bird Combs (Closed Thesis)
National Security, Mass Surveillance, and Citizen Rights under Conditions of Protracted Warfare, Krystal Lynn Conniry (Thesis)
A Chemistry Neutral Flow Battery Performance Model Development, Validation, and Application, Alasdair James Crawford (Thesis)
Gender Bias and the Evaluation of Players: Voice and Gender in Narrated Gameplay Videos, Robin April Crowell (Thesis)
Bridging the Worlds of Home and School: a Study of the Relational Worlds of First-Generation Students in a School of Social Work, Miranda Cunningham (Dissertation)
Watershed Management and Private Lands: Moving Beyond Financial Incentives to Encourage Land Stewardship, Matthew Thomas DeAngelo (Thesis)
Acid-Base Equilibria in Organic-Solvent/Water Mixtures and Their Relevance to Gas/Particle Partitioning in the Atmosphere and in Tobacco Smoke, Julia Lynn DeGagne (Thesis)
Local Approaches to Regional Problems: Suburban Government Responses to Portland's Regional Housing Crisis, Emma Deppa (Thesis)
Discovery and Characterization of the Proteins Involved in the Synthesis of N⁶-Threonylcarbamoyl Adenosine, a Nucleoside Modification of tRNA, Christopher Wayne Deutsch (Dissertation)
On the Variability of Pacific Ocean Tides at Seasonal to Decadal Time Scales: Observed vs Modelled, Adam Thomas Devlin (Dissertation)
On the Poverty, Rise, and Demise of International Criminal Law, Tiphaine Dickson (Dissertation)
Manufacturing Consent in the Maghreb: How Mohammed VI of Morocco Survived the Arab Spring, David Michael Duke II (Thesis)
Cyclist Path Choices Through Shared Space Intersections in England, Allison Boyce Duncan (Dissertation)
Evaluating an Assessment Instrument for the Oregon Environmental Literacy Plan, Susan Mae Duncan (Dissertation)
The Impact of Daily 5 and CAFE Literacy Framework on Reading Comprehension in Struggling Fourth Grade Readers: A Case Study, Sandra Lee Duty (Dissertation)
Wiki-based Collaborative Creative Writing in the ESL Classroom, Rima Elabdali (Thesis)
Learning Through Nature: A Study of a Next Generation Science Standards Based Teacher Workshop that Blends Outdoor Learning Experiences with Formal Science, Ashley Fanning (Thesis)
Expanding the Versatility of Nano Assembled Capsules as Platform of Potential High Payload MRI Contrast Agents, Annah Farashishiko (Dissertation)
Examining Generational and Gender Differences in Parent-Young Adult Child Relationships During Co-residence, Lauren Elizabeth Ferguson (Thesis)
Arsenic Mobilization from Silicic Volcanic Rocks in the Southern Willamette Valley, Gabriela Ribeiro de Sena Ferreira (Thesis)
The Names, Karolinn Fiscaletti (Closed Thesis)
Introducing Complex Systems Analysis in High School Mathematics Using System Dynamics Modeling: A Potential Game-Changer for Mathematics Instruction, Diana Marie Fisher (Dissertation)
Investigation of Jet Dynamics in Cross-Flow: Quantifying Volcanic Plume Behavior, Graham Freedland (Thesis)
A Bridge Across the Pacific: A Study of the Shifting Relationship Between Portland and the Far East, Michael Todd Gagle (Thesis)
Frequency Multiplication in Silicon Nanowires, Marius Mugurel Ghita (Dissertation)
A Measurement System for Science and Engineering Research Center Performance Evaluation, Elizabeth Carole Gibson (Dissertation)
SATOR / AREPO / TENET / OPERA / ROTAS, Aaron Giesa (Closed Thesis)
Green Roofs and Urban Biodiversity: Their Role as Invertebrate Habitat and the Effect of Design on Beetle Community, Sydney Marie Gonsalves (Thesis)
The "ADaM Cube" : Categorizing Portland, Oregon's Urbanization Using GIS and Spatial Statistics, Jeremy Grotbo (Thesis)
Women as Transformational Leaders: Learning to Lead in the Community College, Jennifer R. Grove-Heuser (Dissertation)
Factors Driving the Concentration of Ephemeral Flow, Gretchen Anne Guyer (Thesis)
Wake Character in the Wind Turbine Array: (Dis-)Organization, Spatial and Dynamic Evolution and Low-dimensional Modeling, Nicholas Michael Hamilton (Dissertation)
Discrete Stability of DPG Methods, Ammar Harb (Dissertation)
Modeling of Historic Columbia River Flood Impacts Based on Delft 3D Simulations, Lumas Terence Helaire (Thesis)
Still Lives and Set Pieces, Sean Francis Hennessey (Closed Thesis)
Using Blind Source Separation and a Compact Microphone Array to Improve the Error Rate of Speech Recognition, Jeffrey Dean Hoffman (Thesis)
A Study of the Intelligibility, Comprehensibility and Interpretability of Standard Marine Communication Phrases as Perceived by Chinese Mariners, Lillian Christine Holland (Thesis)
The Use of Anti-Bullying Policies to Protect LGBT Youth: Teacher and Administrator Perspectives on Policy Implementation, Michelle Lauren Holliday (Dissertation)
The Application of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy to Immediately Diagnose the Protective Quality of Coatings on Artistic and Architectural Metalwork, Kathryn Nicole Hosbein (Thesis)
Substantive Representation by the Unelected: The Role of Staff Gender on Mayoral Priorities in U.S. Cities, Sara M. Hottman (Thesis)
Assessing Sense of Place and Geo-literacy Indicators as Learning Outcomes of an International Teacher Professional Development Program, Nancee Hunter (Dissertation)
Development of Middle School Teachers' Knowledge and Pedagogy of Justification: Three Studies Linking Teacher Conceptions, Teacher Practice, and Student Learning, Carolyn McCaffrey James (Dissertation)
The Effects of Phosphonic Acids in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Keith Edward James (Dissertation)
Thermal Decomposition of Electronic Cigarette Liquids, Robert Paul Jensen (Dissertation)
A Landscape Approach to Determining and Predicting Juvenile Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) Movement Timing and Growth Patterns Prior to Ocean Entry, Amelia Lee Johnson (Thesis)
Starts and Stops: Multimodal Practices for Walking as a Group in an Augmented Reality Place Based Game, Adam McFaul Jones (Thesis)
Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions near Mosier, Oregon, Cullen Brandon Jones (Thesis)
An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Long-Term Mentoring Relationships from the Youth Perspective, Kevin Richard Jones (Dissertation)
The Effects of Anthropogenic Stressors on Mercury Concentrations and Community Composition of Freshwater Zooplankton, Meredith Powers Jordan (Thesis)
Social Capital and Cultural Identity for U.S. Korean Immigrant Families: Mothers' and Children's Perceptions of Korean Language Retention, Su-Jin Sue Jung (Dissertation)
Investigating the Origin and Functions of a Novel Small RNA in Escherichia coli, Fenil Rashmin Kacharia (Thesis)
Improving the Roadside Environment through Integrating Air Quality and Traffic-Related Data, Christine M. Kendrick (Dissertation)
"Like Drinking Water Out of a Fire Hydrant" Medical Education as Transformation: A Naturalistic Inquiry Into the Physician Assistant Student Experience, Patricia Kenney-Moore (Dissertation)
Biofouling Management in the Pacific Northwest and Predation on Native versus Non-native Ascidians, Erin Suzanne Kincaid (Thesis)
Star Academics: Do They Garner Increasing Returns?, James Jeffrey Kline (Dissertation)
Systems Thinking in the Forest Service: a Framework to Guide Practical Application for Social-Ecological Management in the Enterprise Program, Megan Kathleen Kmon (Thesis)
Physics-Based Imaging Methods for Terahertz Nondestructive Evaluation Applications, Gabriel Paul Kniffin (Dissertation)
Event Detection Using Correlation within Arrays of Streaming PMU Data, Jordan Landford (Thesis)
Silicic Volcanism at the Northern and Western Extent of the Columbia River Basalt Rhyolite Flare-up: Rhyolites of Buchanan Volcanic Complex and Dooley Mountain Volcanic Complex, Oregon, Adam M. Large (Thesis)
Killers: Fiction Pieces, John Hudson Leavitt (Closed Thesis)
Stranding Mortality Patterns in California Sea Lions and Steller Sea Lions in Oregon and Southern Washington, 2006 to 2014, Kessina Lee (Thesis)
Perceptions of Hmong Parents in a Hmong American Charter School: a Qualitative Descriptive Case Study on Hmong Parent Involvement, Kirk T. Lee (Dissertation)
Configuring the Urban Smart Grid: Transitions, Experimentation, and Governance, Anthony Michael Levenda (Dissertation)
Cities in Dust, Nicole Levine (Closed Thesis)
Connecting to Nature, Community, and Self: A Conservation Corps Approach to Re-engaging At-Risk Youth in Science Education, Sara Jo Linden (Thesis)
Developing a Hierarchical Decision Model to Evaluate Nuclear Power Plant Alternative Siting Technologies, Marwan Mossa Lingga (Dissertation)
Seismic Behavior and Design of the Linked Column Steel Frame System for Rapid Return to Occupancy, Arlindo Pires Lopes (Dissertation)
Exploring Transnational Economic, Social, and Political Participation of Mexican Immigrants in Oregon, Anabel López Salinas (Dissertation)
The Effects of Frequency of Social Interaction, Social Cohesion, Age, and the Built Environment on Walking, Gretchen Allison Luhr (Dissertation)
Intrastate Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding in Nepal: An Assessment of the Political and Economic Agency of Women, Gyanu Gautam Luintel (Thesis)
Do Forest Commons Contribute to International Environmental Initiatives? A Socio-Ecological Analysis of Nepalese Forest Commons in view of REDD+, Harisharan Luintel (Dissertation)
Anachronisme, rebuts et survivances dans Les escaliers de Chambord et le Dernier Royaume de Pascal Quignard, Etienne Lussier (Thesis)
Tree Graphs and Orthogonal Spanning Tree Decompositions, James Raymond Mahoney (Dissertation)
Desirable Conversations: Sexuality and Women with Intellectual Disabilities, Neera Malhotra (Dissertation)
Geothermometry of Two Cascade Geothermal Systems, Donnel Alexander Malkemus (Thesis)
Apples and Knives (A Novel), Suman Mallick (Closed Thesis)
Determining the Power and Energy Capacity of a Battery Energy Storage System Utilizing a Smoothing Feeder Profile to Accommodate High Photovoltaic Penetration on a Distribution Feeder, Osama Mohammed Abbas Aly Mansour (Thesis)
The Development and Validation of the Social Recovery Measure, Casadi "Khaki" Marino (Dissertation)
Slope Failure Detection through Multi-temporal Lidar Data and Geotechnical Soils Analysis of the Deep-Seated Madrone Landslide, Coast Range, Oregon, Michael Scott Marshall (Thesis)
Hydrogeochemical Evaluation of the Uinta Formation and Green River Formation, Piceance Creek Basin, Northwestern Colorado, USA, Megan E. Masterson (Thesis)
"So Far from Home ..." : a Translation of Jacques Sternberg's "Si loin du monde ...", Brian Scott Mather (Closed Thesis)
Vulnerability and Protective Factors of Stress-Related Drinking: an Exploration of Individual and Day-Level Predictors of Alcohol Involvement, Cameron Trim McCabe (Dissertation)
Language, Memory, and Exile in the Writing of Milan Kundera, Christopher Michael McCauley (Thesis)
An Examination of School Readiness: How Is the Construct Defined for Children Who Are Blind?, Lisa Joann McConachie (Dissertation)
Intercultural Interactions Among Burmese Refugees in Multicultural Middle School Classrooms, Matthew Carl McParker (Dissertation)
Finding the Missing Links: A Comparison of Social Network Analysis Methods, Shawn James Mehess (Thesis)
Assessment of a Mycorrhizal Fungi Application to Treat Stormwater in an Urban Bioswale, Alaina Diane Melville (Thesis)
Information Literacy in the First Year of Higher Education: Faculty Expectations and Student Practices, Meredith Esther Michaud (Dissertation)
Time Spent Away, Andrew Mitin (Thesis)
Immediate and Short-Term Effects of Kinesio® Taping on Lower Trunk Range of Motion in Division I Athletes, Hoshito Mizutani (Thesis)
An Exquisite Loneliness: Ruin and Rebirth in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Mackenzie Rae Myers (Closed Thesis)