This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
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)
Wax, Jac Jeanette Nelson (Closed Thesis)
The Peer Network as a Context for the Socialization of Academic Engagement, Linda Mary Newton-Curtis (Dissertation)
Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) Scarcity and Zooarchaeological Data Quality in Northwest Coast Archaeological Sites, Reno Nims (Thesis)
A Systems Approach to Stress and Resilience in Humans: Mindfulness Meditation, Aging, and Cognitive Function, Barry S. Oken (Dissertation)
Japanese Dialect Ideology from Meiji to the Present, Nao Okumura (Thesis)
Accuracy of Wave Speeds Computed from the DPG and HDG Methods for Electromagnetic and Acoustic Waves, Nicole Michelle Olivares (Dissertation)
Does the School Day Matter? The Association Between Adolescent School Attachment and Involvement and Adult Criminal Behavior, Madeline O'Neil (Thesis)
The Efficacy and Feasibility of a Context-Specific Autism Behavior Rating Tool with Real Time Data Collection Methods from the Perspectives of Clinicians, Educators, and Parents, Kathleen Marie Panaccione (Dissertation)
Investigations into the Effects of Water Exchange and the Structure of Lanthanide Chelates, Katherine Marie Payne (Dissertation)
A Large Mansion of Many Apartments, Erin Perry (Closed Thesis)
Gritos en el Desierto: Denuncia y Resistencia en las Obras de las Escritoras Wayuu Estercilia Simanca Pushaina y Vicenta María Siosi Pino, Lindsay H. Perwak (Thesis)
Pharmaceutical Contaminants as Stressors on Rocky Intertidal and Estuarine Organisms: a Case Study of Fluoxetine, Joseph Richard Peters (Thesis)
Chasing After the Tangle, Eleanor Anne Piper (Closed Thesis)
A Multi-Agent System for Adaptive Control of a Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle, Michal Podhradský (Dissertation)
Sedimentologic Changes in the Deposits of an Evolving Lahar-Flood in 2006, Hood River Basin, Mount Hood, Oregon, Matthew Ray Poole (Thesis)
Growing STEM Education on the Playground: A Case Study of the Factors That Influence Teachers’ Use of School Gardens, Megan Poole (Thesis)
To Disappear, Rachel Chenven Powers (Thesis)
The Cave, Thea Prieto (Closed Thesis)
Is Scholarship Advancing?: An Analysis of Fifteen Years of Framing Research, Joseph Zachary Provencher (Thesis)
The Mediating Effects of LMX on the Relationship Between Supervisor and Employee Age Differences, Satisfaction, and Retirement Intentions, Amy Christine Pytlovany (Thesis)
An Orphanage in Mexico: Four United Nations' Human Rights of Children and Wolins' Prerequisites for Efficient Group Care Through the View of the Manager and Staff, Lucia Beatriz Quesnel Galván (Dissertation)
Torsional Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Beams Using CFRP Composites, Ranj Rafeeq (Thesis)
Complete Design Methodology of a Massively Parallel and Pipelined Memristive Stateful IMPLY Logic Based Reconfigurable Architecture, Kamela Choudhury Rahman (Dissertation)
Investigating the Potential of Land Use Modifications to Mitigate the Respiratory Health Impacts of NO2: A Case Study in the Portland-Vancouver Metropolitan Area, Meenakshi Rao (Dissertation)
An Assessment of Post-Encroachment Times for Bicycle-Vehicle Interactions Observed in the Field, a Driving Simulator, and in Traffic Simulation Models, Ali Razmpa (Thesis)
Formulation of Colloidal Suspensions of 3-mercaptopropionic acid capped PbS Quantum Dots as Solution Processable QD "Inks" for Optoelectronic Applications, Chase Collier Reinhart (Dissertation)
Teacher Mindfulness in the Middle School Classroom: Reliability and Validity of a New Scale, Nicolette Paige Rickert (Thesis)
Escritos para desocupados (2013) de Vivian Abenshushan: de contraensayos, libros aumentados y vanguardias de liberación, Gloria M. Robayo Trujillo (Thesis)
On Both Sides of the Tracks: Light Rail and Gentrification in Portland, Oregon, Nathan Eric Rochester (Thesis)
Seeing the Forest for the Roads: Auto-Tourism and Wilderness Preservation in Mount Hood National Forest, 1913-64, Taylor Elliott Rose (Thesis)
Behavior of Prestressed Concrete Beams with CFRP Strands, Yasir Matloob Saeed (Thesis)
Narratives of Native American Women and Tribal Courts: the Framing of the Violence Against Women Act of 2013 in Mainstream, Native American, and Tribal Press Coverage, Alesha Marie Sangster (Thesis)
Orthomorphisms of Boolean Groups, Nichole Louise Schimanski (Dissertation)
Creating a Learning Continuum: A Critical Look at the Intersection of Prior Knowledge, Outdoor Education, and Next Generation Science Standards Disciplinary Core Ideas and Practices, Trisha Leigh Schlobohm (Thesis)
Practical Wired Digital Communications Link Analysis, Raymond Matthew Schmelzer (Thesis)
Understanding Neighborhood Satisfaction for Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities: a Mixed Methods Study, Amy Leigh Shearer (Thesis)
Algorithm for Premature Ventricular Contraction Detection from a Subcutaneous Electrocardiogram Signal, Iris Lynn Shelly (Thesis)
The Role of Recovery from Work in Work Stress-Related Drinking, Brittnie Renae Shepherd (Thesis)
A Community Engaged Approach to Address Intimate Partner Violence among Sexual Minority Women, Rachel Marie Smith (Thesis)
More than Meets the Eye: Latino Students in a Two-Way Immersion Program and Stereotype Threat, Edgar Ubaldino Solares Vega (Dissertation)
BEE CAUSE: Is Legislative Action Protecting Bees from Neonicotinoids Justified?, Ursula A. Squire (Thesis)
Exploring the Impact of an LD Diagnosis on the Self-Determination of Women in Poverty, Cynthia Jakes Stadel (Dissertation)
Field Geology and Petrologic Investigation of the Strawberry Volcanics, Northeast Oregon, Arron Richard Steiner (Dissertation)
Photoemission Electron Microscopy for Analysis of Dielectric Structures and the Goos-Hänchen Shift, Theodore Axel Stenmark (Thesis)
Domestic News, Summer R. Stewart (Closed Thesis)
Transgender Patients' Experiences of Discrimination at Mental Health Clinics, Corrine Ann Stocking (Thesis)
Democratization, Political Performance, and Income Distribution in Argentina and Brazil, Nicholas Paul Stowell (Thesis)
An Investigation into Intermediate Grades Teachers' Noticing of the Mathematical Quality of Instruction, Krista Lynn Strand (Dissertation)
The Intermediate Value Theorem as a Starting Point for Inquiry-Oriented Advanced Calculus, Stephen Raymond Strand II (Dissertation)
The Design, Implementation, Evaluation and Results of a Race Car for the Collegiate Formula SAE Electric Competition, Quinn Jasha Bryan Sullivan (Thesis)