This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Responsibility to Protect and International Law: Moral, Legal and Practical Perspectives on Kosovo, Libya, and Syria, William R. Blackford (Thesis)
Probabilistic Analysis for Reliable Logic Circuits, Scott Blakely (Thesis)
Changing the Face of the Earth: The Morrison-Knudsen Corporation as Partner to the U.S. Federal Government, Christopher S. Blanchard (Dissertation)
Self-Efficacy in Low-Level English Language Learners, Laura F. Blumenthal (Thesis)
The Fevered Road, Cooper Lee Bombardier (Closed Thesis)
Being Human: How Four Animals Forever Changed the Way We Live, What We Believe, and Who We Think We Are, Jocelyn Mary Brady (Thesis)
Household Water Demand and Land Use Context: A Multilevel Approach, Elizabeth Yancey Breyer (Thesis)
Assessment of Similarity in Chemically Complex Samples, Jessica Elise Brown (Thesis)
Peer Conversations about Inter-racial and Inter-ethnic Friendships, Lana Lee Buckholz (Thesis)
Using Spammers' Computing Resources for Volunteer Computing, Thai Le Quy Bui (Thesis)
Sister Golden Calf: Stories, Dissections, & A Novella, Colleen Burner (Closed Thesis)
Teachers Teaching Teachers: A Sustainable and Inexpensive Professional Development Program to Improve Instruction, Carol L. Campbell (Dissertation)
Lion in Summer & Other Beasts, Jamie Alexandra Carr (Closed Thesis)
The Impact of Wiki-based Collaborative Writing on English L2 Learners' Individual Writing Development, Gina Christina Caruso (Thesis)
Latino Men Managing HIV: An Appraisal Analysis of Intersubjective Relations in the Discourse of Five Research Interviews, Will Caston (Thesis)
The Power of Reflective Professional Development in Changing Elementary School Teachers' Instructional Practices, Carolina Christmann Cavedon (Thesis)
Understanding Biliteracy: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Bilingual Reading Specialists, Tatiana Margarita Cevallos (Dissertation)
Towards Constructing Interactive Virtual Worlds, Francis Chang (Dissertation)
Classroom Engagement as a Proximal Lever for Student Success in Higher Education: What a Self-Determination Framework within a Multi-Level Developmental System Tells Us, Una Ji Chi (Dissertation)
Behavioral Observation and Paternal Investment of Eastern Kingbirds at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Christopher Michael Chutter (Thesis)
The Role of Diversity in Peer Influences on Students' Academic Engagement, Hyuny Clark-Shim (Thesis)
Gender and Prescription Painkiller Misuse: Findings from the 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, Robin Jo Clough (Thesis)
"Dangerous Subjects": James D. Saules and the Enforcement of the Color Line in Oregon, Kenneth Robert Coleman (Thesis)
Using Art to Teach Students Science Outdoors: How Creative Science Instruction Influences Observation, Question Formation, and Involvement, Christina Schull Cone (Thesis)
The Impact of the Tax Revolt and School Reform on Oregon Schools during the 1990s, Beth Cookler (Thesis)
Community level impacts associated with the invasion of English ivy (Hedera spp.) in Forest Park: a look at the impacts of ivy on community composition and soil moisture, Sara Rose Copp (Thesis)
Black and Blue and Read All Over: News Framing and the Coverage of Crime, Kalistah Quilla Cosand (Thesis)
The Effects of Organizational Justice and Exercise on the Relationship between Job Stressors and Employee Health, Ana Cristina B. Costa (Dissertation)
Synthesizing the Vertical and the Horizontal: A World-Ecological Analysis of 'the Industrial Revolution', Part I, Christopher R. Cox (Thesis)
Reciprocal Effects of Student Engagement and Disaffection on Changes in Teacher Support Over the School Year, Cailin Tricia Currie (Thesis)
In Her Place, Maria D'Alessandro (Closed Thesis)
Understanding Sexual Assault Survivors' Willingness to Participate in the Judicial System, Mildred Ann Davis (Dissertation)
Quantifying the Impacts of Initial Condition and Model Uncertainty on Hydrological Forecasts, Caleb Matthew DeChant (Dissertation)
Ariège’s Development Conundrum, Alan Thomas Devenish (Thesis)
The Boiling Springs Lake Metavirome: Charting the Viral Sequence-Space of an Extreme Environment Microbial Ecosystem, Geoffrey Scott Diemer (Dissertation)
The Ground Slate Transition on the Northwest Coast: Establishing a Chronological Framework, Joshua Daniel Dinwiddie (Thesis)
Opportunities for Incidental Acquisition of Academic Vocabulary from Teacher Speech in an English for Academic Purposes Classroom, Eric Dean Dodson (Thesis)
Calcium Transport Inhibition, Stimulation, and Light Dependent Modulation of the Skeletal Calcium Release Channel (RyR1) by the Prototropic Forms of Pelargonidin, Thomas Joseph Dornan (Dissertation)
Guiding the Work of Professional Learning Communities: Perspectives for School Leaders, Daniel Paul Draper (Dissertation)
A Case Study of Collaborative Governance: Oregon Health Reform and Coordinated Care Organizations, Oliver John Droppers V (Dissertation)
Characterization and Modeling of Nonlinear Dark Current in Digital Imagers, Justin Charles Dunlap (Dissertation)
Exploring Connections Between Efforts to Restrict Same-Sex Marriage and Surging Public Opinion Support for Same-Sex Marriage Rights: Could Efforts to Restrict Gay Rights Help to Explain Increases in Public Opinion Support for Same-Sex Marriage?, Samuel Everett Christian Dunlop (Thesis)
Managing for Resistance and Resilience of Northern Great Lakes Forests to the Effects of Climate Change, Matthew Joshua Duveneck (Dissertation)
Macroinvertebrates and Excessive Fine Sediment Conditions in Oregon Coastal Streams, Patrick M. Edwards (Dissertation)
Elaborating Patient Agency in Breast-Cancer Care: A Grounded Theoretical Analysis of Patients Asserting Treatment Preferences, Rachel Sofia Erdman (Thesis)
Illuminating the Experiences of Single Fathers, Heidi Rosa Esbensen (Thesis)
Mediating Academic Success: Race, Class, Gender and Community College Persistence, Schaylee Marie Esparza (Thesis)
The Impact of Economic Integration within the European Union as a Factor in Conflict Transformation and Peace-Building, John Umo Ette (Thesis)
Home, Timothy Dermot Faiella (Closed Thesis)
An Analysis of Bicycle-Vehicle Interactions at Signalized Intersections with Bicycle Boxes, William Robert Farley (Thesis)
Analyses of Bus Travel Time Reliability and Transit Signal Priority at the Stop-To-Stop Segment Level, Wei Feng (Dissertation)
Confined Mesoscopic Fluid-like Films Analyzed with Frequency Modulation and Acoustic Detection, Rodolfo Fernandez Rodriguez (Dissertation)
The Design, Implementation, Assessment, and Evaluation of a Power Systems Protection Laboratory Curriculum, Jennifer Ferris (Thesis)
Synthesis of Irreversible Incompletely Specified Multi-Output Functions to Reversible EOSOPS Circuits with PSE Gates, Robert Adrian Fiszer (Thesis)
The Small Volume Autonomous Water Sampler (SVAWS): An Innovative, Cost- Effective, Adaptable Protocol, Nicholas B. Fitzgerald (Thesis)
School District Bond Campaigns: Strategies That Ensure Successful Outcomes, Linda L. Florence (Dissertation)
Exploring Communicative Aspects of Client Satisfaction, Loyalty, and Retention in a Private, Non-profit Organization: A Qualitative, Interview-Based Study of Catholic Charities, Amanda Michelle Fortin (Thesis)
Predicting Bicyclist Comfort in Protected Bike Lanes, Nicholas Mark-Andrew Foster (Thesis)
Hey Mammal, Megan Elizabeth Freshley (Closed Thesis)
A Study of Small Talk Among Males: Comparing the U.S. and Japan, Chie Furukawa (Thesis)
Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS): Which ROS is Responsible for Cardioprotective Signaling?, Anders Olav Garlid (Thesis)
Experimental Investigation of Lateral Cyclic Behavior of Wood-Based Screen-Grid Insulated Concrete Form Walls, John Stuart Garth (Thesis)
'This Would Be Much Funner in Person': A Qualitative Grounded Theory Analysis of Cybergrooming, Maurice Jason Gauz (Thesis)
Advances in Aquatic Target Localization with Passive Sonar, John Thomas Gebbie (Dissertation)
Optical Properties of Nanostructured Dielectric Coatings, Brandon Giatti (Thesis)
Some Neglected Aspects of the Rococo: Berkeley, Vico, and Rococo Style, Bennett Gilbert (Thesis)
Safety in Maize: Subsistence Agriculture in a Zapotec Migrant Town, Fiona Joy Gladstone (Thesis)
The Half-History of Spiro Elisha White, J. W. Griffith (Closed Thesis)
A Cross-Sectional Study of Student-Athlete Needs Satisfaction and Well-Being, Abigail M. Gunnink (Thesis)
The Effect of Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA)-Containing Phosphatidylcholine (PC) on Liquid-Ordered and Liquid-Disordered Coexistence, Yongwen Gu (Dissertation)
Selective Indicators for Optical Determination of Disease Biomarkers, Lovemore Hakuna (Dissertation)
Anisotropy of the Reynolds Stress Tensor in the Wakes of Counter-Rotating Wind Turbine Arrays, Nicholas Michael Hamilton (Thesis)
Stories of Success: Understanding Academic Achievement of Hispanic Students in Science, Amanda Harris (Dissertation)
Assessing Generic and Program-Specific Dose-Response Relations Between Engagement in Contemplative Practices and Reductions in Teachers' Occupational Stress and Burnout, Jessica Leigh Harrison (Thesis)
Training Set Design for Test Removal Classication in IC Test, Nagarjun Hassan Ranganath (Thesis)
"Vitalité": Race Science and Jews in France 1850-1914, Kendra Beth Hendrickson (Thesis)
Strontium, Lead, and Oxygen Isotopic Signatures of Mid-Miocene Silicic Volcanism in Eastern Oregon, Emily Nancy Hess (Thesis)
Fig : A List Of Eight Unclean Animals, Heather Napualani Hodges (Closed Thesis)
The Antimalarial Activity of PL74: A Pyridine-Based Drug Candidate, Cheryl Anne Hodson Shirley (Dissertation)
Seasonal and Sex Differences in the Effects of Melatonin on Brain Arginine Vasotocin in Green Treefrogs (Hyla cinerea): Relationship to Melatonin Receptor 1a, Christina Marie Howard (Thesis)
Confessions of a Forager, Lauren Elaine Hudgins (Closed Thesis)
Applications of Remote Sensing to the Study of Estuarine Physics: Suspended Sediment Dynamics in the Columbia River Estuary, Austin Scott Hudson (Thesis)
From the Whiteboard to the Web: Equipping Administrators to Recruit, Hire, and Induct Top Quality K-12 Online Teachers, Daniel Keith Huld (Dissertation)
The Values, Beliefs, and Attitudes of Elites in Jordan towards Political, Social, and Economic Development, Laila Huneidi (Dissertation)
Himilco, and Other Stories, Jonathan Caldwell Hunsberger (Closed Thesis)
Moving Beyond Regulatory Mechanisms: A Typology of Internet Control Regimes, Richard Reid Hunt (Thesis)
Participation, Information, Values, and Community Interests Within Health Impact Assessments, Nicole Iroz-Elardo (Dissertation)
An Assessment Model for Energy Efficiency Program Planning in Electric Utilities: Case of the Pacific of Northwest U.S.A., Ibrahim Iskin (Dissertation)
Accountability Models in Policy Design: Understanding the Explanatory Power of the Four Major Accountability Models in Policy Tool Choices, David Seiler Jarvis (Dissertation)
System-wide Performance Analysis for Virtualization, Deron Eugene Jensen (Thesis)
Design and Prototyping of an Antenna-Coupled Cryotron, Shauna Jensen (Thesis)
Bicycle Level of Service: Where are the Gaps in Bicycle Flow Measures?, Pamela Christine Johnson (Thesis)
The Role of Network Position for Peer Influences on Adolescents' Academic Engagement, Price McCloud Johnson (Thesis)
Emerging Lexical Organization from Intentional Vocabulary Learning, Adam Jones (Thesis)
Advances in Piecewise Smooth Image Reconstruction, Ralf Juengling (Dissertation)
Effects of the First Language on Japanese ESL Learners' Answers to Negative Questions, Kosuke Kanda (Thesis)
A Thirst for More, Erika Donnelly Kauppi (Closed Thesis)
Agricultural Classification of Multi-Temporal MODIS Imagery in Northwest Argentina Using Kansas Crop Phenologies, Jarrett Alexander Keifer (Thesis)
Mimicking Metabolism of a Reversed Chloroquine Antimalarial, Kelsie Lynn Kendrick (Thesis)
Attachment and Adolescent Offending: An Examination of the Links between Sexually Abusive Behavior and the Level of Attachment to Parents and Peers, Lee Anna Knox (Dissertation)