This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Exploring Relationships Between Entrepreneurship Education and Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions: A Mixed Method Study of Entrepreneurial Pedagogies at Chilean Universities, Paulina Andrea Gutierrez Zepeda (Dissertation)
Investigation in to the Effect of Spin Locking on Contrast Agent Relaxivity, Julian Saunders Haigh (Dissertation)
Evaluating Global Sensitivity Analysis Methods for Hydrologic Modeling over the Columbia River Basin, Maysoun Ayad Hameed (Thesis)
The Scholarship of Student Affairs Professionals: Effective Writing Strategies and Scholarly Identity Formation Explored through a Coaching Model, Lisa Janie Hatfield (Dissertation)
Staying on Script: Sexual Scripts and Sex Education, Elizabeth Carol Hauck (Thesis)
The Erosion of Coastal Sediment and Regeneration of Rhizophora mangle Following Anthropogenic Disturbance on Turneffe Atoll, Belize, Heather Lyn Hayden (Thesis)
Metaphorical Framing of Obesity, Ryan Paul Hofer (Thesis)
Age Determination of Modern and Archaeological Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytcha) Using Vertebrae, Anthony Raymond Hofkamp (Thesis)
Applying GPS and Accelerometers to the Study of African Savanna (Loxodonta africana) and Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) Welfare in Zoos, Matthew Robert Holdgate (Dissertation)
Effects of Selective Logging and Roads on Instream Fine Sediments and Macroinvertebrate Assemblages in the Clackamas Basin, Oregon, Paula Elizabeth Hood (Thesis)
Using Socratic Questioning as an Instructional Tool to Help High School Students at Grade Twelve Improve Their Perceptions of the Writing Process, Rana Houshmand (Dissertation)
Naturally Occurring Background Levels of Arsenic in the Soils of Southwestern Oregon, Heather Ann Hurtado (Thesis)
A Corpus Based Analysis of Noun Modification in Empirical Research Articles in Applied Linguistics, Jo-Anne Hutter (Thesis)
A Genetic and Biochemical Analysis of Sulfolobus Spindle-Shaped Virus 1, Eric Alexander Iverson (Dissertation)
Evaluation of Data-Path Topologies for Self-Timed Conditional Statements, Navaneeth Prasannakumar Jamadagni (Dissertation)
A Metal-Free Approach to Biaryl Compounds: Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation from Diaryliodonium Salts and Aryl Triolborates, Kuruppu Lilanthi Jayatissa (Thesis)
Questions of Citizenship: Oregonian Reactions to Japanese Immigrants' Quest for Naturalization Rights in the United States, 1894-1952, Alison Leigh Jessie (Thesis)
Safety at Half-Signal Intersections in Portland, Oregon, Todd Robert Johnson (Thesis)
The Islands In-Between, Lindsay M. Kalama-Smith (Closed Thesis)
A Method for Achieving Analytic Formulas for Three Body Integrals Consisting of Powers and Exponentials in All Three Interparticle Hyllerass Coordinates, Chris M. Keating (Thesis)
Effects of Aerial Exposure on Preservation of Low-Temperature Calothrix Biosignatures in Silica Sinter from Queen's Laundry, Yellowstone National Park, USA, Shana Kendall (Thesis)
Expressionist Art and Drama Before, During, and After the Weimar Republic, Shane Michael Kennedy (Thesis)
A Multivariate Modeling Approach for Generating Ensemble Climatology Forcing for Hydrologic Applications, Sepideh Khajehei (Thesis)
Impact of a Psychology of Masculinities Course on Women's Attitudes toward Male Gender Roles, Sylvia Marie Ferguson Kidder (Thesis)
Rethinking Autism, Communication, and Community Involvement: Exploring Involvement in Online Communities, Communication Preference, Autistic Identity, and Self-Determination, Colleen Anne Kidney (Dissertation)
Design of a Hardware Platform for GPS-Based Orientation Sensing, Daniel Eugene Kirkpatrick (Thesis)
Building Social Sustainability from the Ground Up: The Contested Social Dimension of Sustainability in Neighborhood-Scale Urban Regeneration in Portland, Copenhagen, and Nagoya, Jacklyn Nicole Kohon (Dissertation)
Sound Effects: Age, Gender, and Sound Symbolism in American English, Timothy Allen Krause (Thesis)
Isn’t Citizen Science a Hoot? A Case-study Exploring the Effectiveness of Citizen Science as an Instrument to Teach the Nature of Science through a Local Nocturnal Owl-Monitoring Project, Tess Marie Kreofsky (Thesis)
In Some Asbestos World, Aaron Kroska (Closed Thesis)
The Effects of Urban Containment Policies on Commuting Patterns, Sung Moon Kwon (Dissertation)
Liberalization, Contention, and Threat: Institutional Determinates of Societal Preferences and the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Morocco, Matthew Thomas Lacouture (Thesis)
Paleological and Ecological Impacts of Virus Silicification, James Robert Laidler (Dissertation)
Modeling the Optical Response to a Near-Field Probe Tip from a Generalized Multilayer Thin Film, A.J. Lawrence (Dissertation)
Hardware/Software Interface Assurance with Conformance Checking, Li Lei (Dissertation)
Ordinary Women/Extraordinary Lives: Oregon Women and Their Stories of Persistence, Grit and Grace, Shannon Moon Leonetti (Thesis)
Technological Forecasting Based on Segmented Rate of Change, Dong-Joon Lim (Dissertation)
Debris Flow Susceptibility Map for Mount Rainier, Washington Based on Debris Flow Initiation Zone Characteristics from the November, 2006 Climate Event in the Cascade Mountains, Kassandra Lindsey (Thesis)
Activist Doctors: Explaining Physician Activism in the Oregon Movement for Single-Payer Healthcare, Jennifer Cullen Loomis (Dissertation)
Neurobiology of Seasonal Life-history Transitions, Ashley Rae Lucas (Thesis)
Phenotypic and Mutational Consequences of Mitochondrial ETC Genetic Damage, Michael James Lue (Thesis)
Poor Dead Jar, Alexa Rae Mallernee (Closed Thesis)
Mechanisms of Adaptation in the Newly Invasive Species Brachypodium sylvaticum (Hudson) Beauv., Gina Lola Marchini (Dissertation)
Steps Towards Deciphering the Post-Polyketide Synthase Tailoring Steps in the Phoslactomycin Biosynthesis Pathway, Patience Marimo (Thesis)
The Impeccable Timing of the Apple Maggot Fly, Rhagoletis pomonella (Dipetera: Tephritidae), and its Implications for Ecological Speciation, Monte Arthur Mattsson (Thesis)
Network Structure, Network Flows and the Phenomenon of Influence in Online Social Networks: An Exploratory Empirical Study of Twitter Conversations about YouTube Product Categories, Nitin Venkat Mayande (Dissertation)
Gender Difference in Working Parents' Perceptions of Work/Family Conflict and the Role of Occupational Prestige, Heather Kirsten McCabe (Thesis)
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Attitudes: An Exploration of a Landscape of Choices, Mersiha Spahic McClaren (Dissertation)
Analysis of Capillary Flow in Interior Corners : Perturbed Power Law Similarity Solutions, Joshua Thomas McCraney (Thesis)
The Design and Validation of a Group Theory Concept Inventory, Kathleen Mary Melhuish (Dissertation)
A Paris Afternoon Or A Wart, Ryan Edward Mills (Closed Thesis)
Got Hair that Flows in the Wind: The Complexity of Hair and Identity among African American Female Adolescents in Foster Care, Lakindra Michelle Mitchell Dove (Dissertation)
A Novel Approach to Flow and Sediment Transport Estimation in Estuaries and Bays, Hamed Moftakhari Rostamkhani (Dissertation)
Chemical Reaction Network Control Systems for Agent-Based Foraging Tasks, Joshua Stephen Moles (Thesis)
"Children Need Protection Not Perversion": The Rise of the New Right and the Politicization of Morality in Sex Education in Great Britain, 1968-1989, Miriam Corinne Morehart (Thesis)
Effective Technology Implementation in Schools: Differing Perceptions of Teachers, Administrators, and Technology Staff, Joseph Stephen Morelock (Dissertation)
Quaternary Chronology and Stratigraphy of Mickey Springs, Oregon, Leslie Allen Mowbray (Thesis)
Design and Synthesis of Novel Chloroquine-based Antimalarials, Kevin Vincent Murphy (Thesis)
Training "In a Good Way": Evaluating the Effect of a Culturally Responsive Pre-training Intervention on Learning and Motivation, Adam Thomas Murry (Dissertation)
Advances in Autonomous-Underwater-Vehicle Based Passive Bottom-Loss Estimation by Processing of Marine Ambient Noise, Lanfranco Muzi (Dissertation)
Improved Gain Stability of a Digital Imager Using a Charge Feedback Amplifier, Elliot Eckman Mylott (Thesis)
A Bell Awakened, Lenore Nash (Closed Thesis)
Measuring the Effect of Vegetated Roofs on the Performance of Photovoltaic Panels in Combined Systems, Hamid Hawi Kadham Ogaili (Thesis)
Glacier Change on the Three Sisters Volcanoes, Oregon: 1900-2010, Justin George Ohlschlager (Thesis)
Leveraging Contextual Relationships Between Objects for Localization, Clinton Leif Olson (Thesis)
Perspectives on the College Readiness and Outcome Achievement of Former Intensive English Language Program (IELP) Students, Meghan Oswalt (Thesis)
Multivalent Rechargeable Batteries, Sudhaprasanna Kumar Padigi (Dissertation)
The Impact of Communication Impairments on the Social Relationships of Older Adults, Andrew Demetrius Palmer (Dissertation)
Formal Modeling and Verification of Delay-Insensitive Circuits, Hoon Park (Dissertation)
School Reform and Coaching: Identifying Structures for Successful Implementation of a Data Informed Decision-Making Program, Kristan D. Parman (Dissertation)
Genes Affecting the Repair and Survival of Escherichia coli Following Psoralen-Induced Damage: a DNA Interstrand Crosslinking Agent, Anthonige Vidya Perera (Thesis)
Supervisor-Specific Outcomes of a Work-Family Intervention: Evidence from the Work, Family, & Health Study, MacKenna Laine Perry (Thesis)
] To Mother, Sophia Pfaff-Shalmiyev (Closed Thesis)
Exploring the Developmental Dynamics of Motivational Resilience Over the Transition to Middle School, Jennifer Rose Pitzer (Dissertation)
Upper Body Posture and Pain in Division I Female Volleyball and Softball Athletes, Brittany M. Plunkett Castilla (Thesis)
Gifted Black and Biracial Students at a Predominantly White Gifted School, Clair Elizabeth Pople (Dissertation)
The Right to Dream: Assessing the Spatiality of a Homeless Rest Site in Portland, Oregon, Stephen Przybylinski (Thesis)
Climate Change Assessment in Columbia River Basin (CRB) Using Copula Based on Coupling of Temperature and Precipitation, Yueyue Qin (Thesis)
Transport of Heat Activated Persulfate and Its Application for In-situ Chemical Oxidation of Residual Trichloroethylene, Lauren Dekker Quig (Thesis)
Desolation is Key: Essays, Heather Fae Quinn-Bork (Closed Thesis)
Coyotes on the Web: Understanding Human-Coyote Interaction and Online Education Using Citizen Science, Zuriel Anne Rasmussen (Thesis)
Intersections of Critical Systems Thinking and Community Based Participatory Research in Developing a Web Site for Autistic Adults, Dora Madeline Raymaker (Dissertation)
School Culture and the Affective Learning Needs of Latino Long-term English Learners, Maureen Ray (Dissertation)
The Biology of Eastern Kingbirds at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: Survival, Reproduction, and Testosterone Secretion, Lucas J. Redmond (Dissertation)
The Forgotten Front: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Camas, Washington, and the Northwest Paper Industry, 1913-1918, Bradley Dale Richardson (Thesis)
Supporting the Aging Workforce: The Impact of Psychosocial Workplace Characteristics on Employees' Work Ability, Jennifer Rae Rineer (Dissertation)
The Horse Latitudes, Matthew Dean Robinson (Closed Thesis)
Sensible Air to Air Heat Recovery Strategies in a Passive House, Santiago Martin Rodriguez-Anderson (Thesis)
The Cognitive Development of Expertise in an ESL Teacher: A Case Study, Lyndsey Roos (Thesis)
Study of Prestige and Resource Control Using Fish Remains from Cathlapotle, a Plankhouse Village on the Lower Columbia River, J. Shoshana Rosenberg (Thesis)
Democratizing the City Through the Colonization of Public Space: A Case Study of Portland Food Not Bombs, Trent Adam Saari (Thesis)
Identity and Investment in the Community ESL Classroom, Jennifer Marie Sacklin (Thesis)
The Scales and Shapes of Queer Women's Geographies: Mapping Private, Public and Cyber Spaces in Portland, OR, Paola Renata Saldaña (Thesis)
Assessing Unique Core Values with the Competing Values Framework: The CCVI Technique for Guiding Organizational Culture Change, Anthony John Santoriello (Dissertation)
Focus on a STEM, Based in Place, Watershed Curriculum: A confluence of stormwater, humans, knowledge, attitudes, and skills, Lecia Molineux Schall (Thesis)
Device, Method, and Algorithm to Assess Changes in Cardiac Output via Intracardiac Impedance Monitoring, Geoffrey Fredrick Schau (Thesis)
Assessing the Impact of Restrictiveness and Placement Type on Transition-Related Outcomes for Youth With and Without Disabilities Aging Out of Foster Care, Jessica Danielle Schmidt (Dissertation)
STEM Education in the Foreign Language Classroom with Special Attention to the L2 German Classroom, Sarah Danielle Schoettler (Thesis)
Fathers Caring for Children with Special Health Care Needs: Experiences of Work-Life Fit, Claudia Sellmaier (Dissertation)
A Town on Fire: The Copperfield Affair of 1914, Daniel Joseph Shepard (Thesis)