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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
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)
The Multilevel Effects of Supervisor Adaptability on Training Effectiveness and Employee Job Satisfaction, Joseph Alvin Sherwood (Thesis)
Investigations of Larval Pacific Lamprey Entosphenus tridentatus Osmotic Stress Tolerance and Occurrence in a Tidally-Influenced Estuarine Stream, Gregory Shell Silver (Thesis)
Caring for the Land, Serving People: Creating a Multicultural Forest Service in the Civil Rights Era, Donna Lynn Sinclair (Dissertation)
Enzymatic Control of the Related Pathways of Fatty Acid and Undecylprodiginine Biosynthesis in Streptomyces coelicolor, Renu Singh (Dissertation)
Investigations of the Air-Water Interface: A Structural Analysis of Metallic Surface Films and Aquatic Surface Films by Comparative Microscopy, Randall William Smith (Dissertation)
Inspiring Action: Measuring the Effect of Motivational Frames on Social Movement Mobilization, Rebecca Louise Smith (Thesis)
Leadership and Decision-Making Skills of High Poverty Elementary School Principals in an Era of Reduced Resources, Kevin Eugene Spooner (Dissertation)
The Performance of Random Prototypes in Hierarchical Models of Vision, Kendall Lee Stewart (Thesis)
A Necessary Introduction to the Peculiar: Stories, Robert Edward Sullivan (Closed Thesis)
Rational Design of Materials for the Protection of Outdoor Metalworks, Natasja Alexandria Swartz (Dissertation)
Combining Systems Methodologies to Reduce Allergen-Related Food Recalls, Jill Marie Sweney (Thesis)
Transformational Leadership, Diversity, and Creativity at Work: A Moderated Mediation Model, Aisha Smith Taylor (Dissertation)
Use of Role and Power in Parent-Teacher Relationships: Perceptions from the Parent Perspective, Sonja Taylor (Thesis)
Tweakable Ciphers: Constructions and Applications, Robert Seth Terashima (Dissertation)
Antimalarial Drug Discovery using Triazoles to Overcome Chloroquine Resistance, Elias Sibhatu Tesfaselassie (Thesis)
Discursive Security: F.B.I. Stings and the Nature of Peace, Adam Testerman (Thesis)
A Study of Microwave curing of Underfill using Open and Closed microwave ovens, Aditya Thakare (Thesis)
Bicyclist Compliance at Signalized Intersections, Samson Ray Riley Thompson (Thesis)
The Influence of Surface Chemistry on the Photoelectrochemical Properties of FeS(2) Photoanodes, Qi Tong (Dissertation)
Reversible Circuits Synthesis Based on EXOR-sum of Products of EXOR-sums, Linh Hoang Tran (Dissertation)
Jews, Sports, Gender, and the Rose City : An Analysis of Jewish Involvement with Athletics in Portland, Oregon, 1900-1940, Kelli Ann Tusow (Thesis)
Pseudocapacitors for Energy Storage, Anuradha Venkataraman (Thesis)
Check-In Frequency with Friends on Location-Based Social Networks: A Look at Homophily and Relational Closeness, Jacqueline H. Vo (Thesis)
Developmental Mechanisms that Support Genome Stability and Embryonic Survival in Stress-tolerant Embryos of the Annual Killifish Austrofundulus limnaeus, Josiah Tad Wagner (Dissertation)
Investigating the Impact of Sibling Foster Care on Placement Stability, Jeffrey David Waid (Dissertation)
Therapy and the Nontraditional Transgender Narrative, Dylan Ellingson Waller (Thesis)
Spectroscopy, NMR, and Electrochemistry Studies of Protonated Aminophenyl/Pyridyl Porphyrins and Their Application in Hydrogen Evolution, Chenyi Wang (Dissertation)
Facile Methods for the Analysis of Lysophosphatidic Acids in Human Plasma, Jialu Wang (Dissertation)
Hydrogeologic Investigation of a Pumice Aquifer, Fremont/Winema National Forest, Oregon, Jonathan Michael Weatherford (Thesis)
Engineering Professional Development: Elementary Teachers' Self-efficacy and Sources of Self-efficacy, Donna Louise Webb (Dissertation)
Insights into the Mental Imagery and Gestural Awareness of Representational Gestures Produced in Everyday Talk: An Exploratory Study of Using Participants' Comments as Data, Sue M. Wendel (Thesis)
Crash Course: The Decisions That Brought Down United Flight 173, Julie Doran Whipple (Closed Thesis)
Defining the Terroir of the Columbia Gorge Wine Region, Oregon and Washington, USA Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Hilary Whitney (Thesis)
Scalable Equivalence Checking for Behavioral Synthesis, Zhenkun Yang (Dissertation)
Nonlinear Analysis and Digital Pre-Distortion of the SC-FDMA Signals in LTE Uplink System, Changwen Zhu (Thesis)
Time-Variant Load Models of Electric Vehicle Chargers, Nicole P. Zimmerman (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Code Switching Between Tamazight and Arabic in the First Libyan Berber News Broadcast: An Application of Myers-Scotton's MLF and 4M Models, Ashour S. Abdulaziz (Thesis)
Evaluation of Energy Policy Instruments for the Adoption of Renewable Energy: Case of Wind Energy in the Pacific Northwest U.S., Remal Abotah (Dissertation)
Determinants of Recent Mover Non-work Travel Mode Choice, Arlie Steven Adkins (Dissertation)
The Nax Language: Unifying Functional Programming and Logical Reasoning in a Language based on Mendler-style Recursion Schemes and Term-indexed Types, Ki Yung Ahn (Dissertation)
Early Childhood Educators' Perception of Oregon's Professional Development System: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study, Ingrid Anderson (Dissertation)
Understanding Male Nursing Student Perceptions of the Influence of Gender: A Qualitative Case Study Approach of Students, Faculty, and Administration in a Pacific Northwest Nursing Program, Jennifer Anne Anderson (Dissertation)
Chemical and Petrographic Survey of Large, Igneous-Textured Inclusions in Ordinary Chondrites, Katherine Armstrong (Thesis)
A 3.6 GHz Doherty Power Amplifier with a 40 dBm Saturated Output Power using GaN on SiC HEMT Devices, Bryant Baker (Thesis)
Analog Implicit Functional Testing using Supervised Machine Learning, Neerja Pramod Bawaskar (Thesis)
Investigating a Role for the CCAAT/Enhancer-Binding Protein δ in the Developing Zebrafish, Alisha Jennifer Beirl (Thesis)
Evaluation of a High School Science Fair Program for promoting Successful Inquiry-based Learning, Julia Nykeah Betts (Thesis)
The orientation of the Pyrococcus furiosus transcription factor TFB2 in the transcription initiation complex, Arati Bhattarai (Thesis)
Bicyclists' Uptake of Traffic-Related Air Pollution: Effects of the Urban Transportation System, Alexander Y. Bigazzi (Dissertation)
Sleep Quality and Quantity of Portland State University Intercollegiate Student-Athletes: A Case Study, Mara Elizabeth Birge (Thesis)