This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The Europeanization of Political Parties: A Study of Political Parties in Poland 2009-2014, Dennis Jan Blew (Thesis)
Modifications to a Cavity Ringdown Spectrometer to Improve Data Acquisition Rates, Gregory Alan Bostrom (Dissertation)
Performance Metrics for Depth-based Signal Separation Using Deep Vertical Line Arrays, John K. Boyle (Thesis)
Localized Ecological and Educational Effects of Environmental Service-Learning in Portland, Oregon, Steven Matthew Braun (Dissertation)
The Response of Zooplankton Communities in Montane Lakes of Different Fish Stocking Histories to Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition Simulations, Jeffrey Thomas Brittain (Thesis)
Using Landsat TM Imagery to Monitor Vegetation Change Following Flow Restoration to the Lower Owens River, California, Lesley Crandell Bross (Thesis)
Developmental Perspectives on Motivational Resilience: Predictors of Eighth-grade At-risk Students' Academic Engagement and Achievement, Heather Anne Brule (Thesis)
Misery Poker, Marina Callahan (Closed Thesis)
The Role of Emotional Support Consistency and Child Risk Factors in Predicting Pre-K Cognitive and Social-Emotional Development, Amy Lynn Cannell-Cordier (Thesis)
Landforms along the Lower Columbia River and the Influence of Humans, Charles Matthew Cannon (Thesis)
Challenges, Experiences, and Future Directions of Senior Centers Serving the Portland Metropolitan Area, Melissa Lynn Cannon (Dissertation)
Die unbewältigte Vergangenheit: the Third Generation and the Holocaust in Recent Literature and Film, Dana Lynne Capage (Thesis)
Deepwater, Katrina Marie Carrasco (Closed Thesis)
Dynamic Job Satisfaction Shifts: Implications for Manager Behavior and Crossover to Employees, David Ellis Caughlin (Dissertation)
Global Time-Independent Agent-Based Simulation for Transactive Energy System Dispatch and Schedule Forecasting, Shawn Aaron Chandler (Thesis)
Characterization, DNA Binding and Cleavage Activities of New Prodigiosin and Tambjamine Analogues and Their Cu²⁺ and Zn²⁺ Complexes, Karen Chichetu (Dissertation)
A Few More Words to Part, Tony Chiotti (Closed Thesis)
Photoluminescent Silicon Nanoparticles: Fluorescent Cellular Imaging Applications and Photoluminescence (PL) Behavior Study, Sheng-Kuei Chiu (Dissertation)
Custom Fluorophores for Investigating the Cellular Uptake Mechanisms and Side-Effects of Pharmaceuticals, Yu-Hsuan Chu (Dissertation)
Lonely Color, Ross William Clifford (Closed Thesis)
Training and Application of Correct Information Unit Analysis to Structured and Unstructured Discourse, Audrey Bretthauer Cohen (Thesis)
Post-Revolutionary Mexican Education in Durango and Jalisco: Regional Differences, Cultures of Violence, Teaching, and Folk Catholicism, Lindsey Ellison Collins (Thesis)
Post-silicon Functional Validation with Virtual Prototypes, Kai Cong (Dissertation)
Investigating Relationships among Work, Family, and Sleep: Cross-Sectional, Daily, and Intervention Effects, Tori Laurelle Crain (Dissertation)
Mistrust: An Exploration of African Americans' Attitudes and Perspectives Toward Healthcare, Adolfo Gabriel Cuevas (Dissertation)
Centralia, Collective Memory, and the Tragedy of 1919, Shawn T. Daley (Thesis)
Untitled, Alexander Scott Dannemiller (Thesis)
Empowering All Who Teach: A Portrait of Two Non-Native English Speaking Teachers in a Globalized 21st Century, Rosa Dene David (Thesis)
Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Use in Collegiate Athletes, Brian Robert Davis (Thesis)
Polymeric Porphyrins as Solar Photocatalysts, Nicholas Upton Day (Dissertation)
A Queer Liberation Movement? A Qualitative Content Analysis of Queer Liberation Organizations, Investigating Whether They are Building a Separate Social Movement, Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis (Dissertation)
Workplace Aggression: A Multi-Study Examination of Work and Nonwork Consequences, Caitlin Ann Demsky (Dissertation)
Betrayal : Short Stories, Mary Ann Dougherty (Closed Thesis)
Evaluating the Effects of a Congestion and Weather Responsive Advisory Variable Speed Limit System in Portland, Oregon, Matthew Blake Downey (Thesis)
Novel Cryptographic Primitives and Protocols for Censorship Resistance, Kevin Patrick Dyer (Dissertation)
Building Resources at Home and at Work: Day-Level Relationships between Job Crafting, Recovery Experiences, and Work Engagement, Allison Marie Ellis (Dissertation)
Ninth Grade Student Responses to Authentic Science Instruction, Michael Steven Ellison (Dissertation)
The Role of Pyrococcus furiosus Transcription Factor E in Transcription Iniitiation, Robyn Lynn Eustis (Thesis)
An Investigation of the Role of Alternate Numeration Systems in Preservice Teacher Mathematics Content Courses, Jodi I. Fasteen (Dissertation)
An Examination of Factors that Catalyze LGBTQ Movements in Middle Eastern and North African Authoritarian Regimes, Michael Anthony Figueredo (Thesis)
Aberration Corrected Photoemission Electron Microscopy with Photonics Applications, Joseph P. S. Fitzgerald (Dissertation)
Impact of a State Evidence-Based Practice Legislative Mandate on County Practice Implementation Patterns and Inpatient Behavioral Health Discharge, Carl William Foreman (Dissertation)
The Role of Environmental Dynamics in the Emergence of Autocatalytic Networks, Joe Fusion (Dissertation)
A Critical Race Analysis of Travel for Transformation: Pedagogy for the Privileged or Vehicle for Socio-Cultural Transformation?, James Arthur Gambrell (Dissertation)
Engineering a Healthier Watershed: Middle School Students Use Engineering Design to Lessen the Impact of Their Campus' Impervious Surfaces on Their Local Watershed, Elizabeth Claire Gardner (Thesis)
Revealing Structural Organization with Liquid Crystal-based Spectral Imaging Polarimetry, James Campbell Gladish (Dissertation)
The Development of Personal Resources in the Academic Domain: Age Differences in the Evolution of Coping and Perceived Control and the Process Structures that Facilitate Academic Engagement, Teresa Marie Greene (Dissertation)
Does Gender Matter? Human Elephant Conflict in Sri Lanka: A Gendered Analysis of Human Elephant Conflict and Natural Resource Management in a Rural Sri Lankan Village, Katherine Eileen Griffin (Thesis)
A Spline Framework for Optimal Representation of Semiperiodic Signals, Farzin G. Guilak (Dissertation)
Thinking About Work at Home: Implications for Safety at Work, Frankie Guros (Dissertation)
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)