This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Animot: Human ↔ Subhuman ↔ Nonhuman, Chelsea R. G. Kachman (Closed Thesis)
Statistical Analysis of Stormwater Device Testing Protocols in Portland, Oregon, Zahra Kavianpour Isfahani (Thesis)
Every Town Is All the Same When You've Left Your Heart in the Portland Rain: Representations of Portland Place and Local Identity in Portland Popular Lyrics, Meghan Andrea Kearney (Thesis)
The Effect of Temperature on Phenotypes of the Invasive European Green Crab: Physiologic Mechanisms that Facilitate Invasion Success, Amanda Kelley (Dissertation)
Science Journals in the Garden: Developing the Skill of Observation in Elementary Age Students, Karinsa Michelle Kelly (Thesis)
Tokuya Higashigawa's After-Dinner Mysteries: Unusual Detectives in Contemporary Japanese Mystery Fiction, Jessica Claire Kindler (Thesis)
Green Mind Gray Yard: Micro Scale Assessment of Ecosystem Services, Erin Jolene Kirkpatrick (Thesis)
Catecholamine Interactions with the Cardiac Ryanodine Receptor, Robert Carl Klipp (Thesis)
The Impacts of Urban Renewal: The Residents' Experiences in Qianmen, Beijing, China, Yongxia Kou (Dissertation)
Mechanisms of Methane Transport Through Trees, Ellynne Marie Kutschera (Thesis)
Undergraduate Research and Metropolitan Commuter University Student Involvement: Exploring the Narratives of Five Female Undergraduate Students, Jolina Jade Kwong Caputo (Dissertation)
Cultural Behavior in Post-Urbanized Brazil: The Cordial Man and Intrafamilial Conflict, Thais La Rosa (Thesis)
Evaluation of Phase Change Materials for Cooling in a Super-Insulated Passive House, Jeffrey Stephen Lauck (Thesis)
A Parabolic Equation Analysis of the Underwater Noise Radiated by Impact Pile Driving, Nathan Laws (Thesis)
Examining the Mechanisms of the Work-Nonwork Boundary Fit and Health Relationship, Jenna Risa LeComte-Hinely (Dissertation)
Life Post 9/11: Experiences of Korean Americans Ten Years Later, Jay Lee (Thesis)
The Dynamics of Creating Strong Democracy in Portland, Oregon : 1974 to 2013, Paul Roland Leistner (Dissertation)
Integrating Leader Fairness and Leader-Member Exchange in Predicting Work Engagement: A Contingency Approach, Fangyi Liao-Holbrook (Thesis)
"Do Not Disturb": A Micro-Macro Examination of Intrusions at Work, Bing Chun Lin (Dissertation)
Seeing Crucibles: Legitimizing Spiritual Development in the Middle Grades Through Critical Historiography, Audrey Lingley (Dissertation)
Nonlinearity Analysis and Predistortion of 4G Wireless Communication Systems, Xiao Li (Dissertation)
No Place for Middlemen: Civic Culture, Downtown Environment, and the Carroll Public Market during the Modernization of Portland, Oregon, James Richard Louderman (Thesis)
The Use of Music as a Pedagogical Tool in Higher Education Sociology Courses: Faculty Member Perspectives and Potential Barriers, Jerry C.L. Loveless (Thesis)
Baldwin I of Jerusalem: Defender of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, John Francis Lowe (Thesis)
The Effects of Green Smoothie Consumption on Blood Pressure and Health-Related Quality of Life: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Emiko Maeda (Thesis)
War's Visual Discourse: A Content Analysis of Iraq War Imagery, Mary Elizabeth Major (Thesis)
Grief Lives Online: An Empirical Study of Kübler-Ross' Categories of Bereavement on MySpace Profiles, Ilona Yurivna Malenkovich (Thesis)
Incorporating Chemical Activity and Relative Humidity Effects in Regional Air Quality Modeling of Organic Aerosol Formation, Marguerite Colasurdo Marks (Thesis)
Exploring Tissue Engineering: Vitamin D3 Influences on the Proliferation and Differentiation of an Engineered Osteoblast Precursor Cell Line During Early Bone Tissue Development, Shelley S. Mason (Dissertation)
A 40 GHz Power Amplifier Using a Low Cost High Volume 0.15 um Optical Lithography pHEMT Process, Kenneth W. Mays (Thesis)
Kinetics and Mechanism of S-Nitrosation and Oxidation of Cysteamine by Peroxynitrite, Wilbes Mbiya (Thesis)
Substituent Effects on Reactivity and Allergenicity of Benzoquinone, Wilbes Mbiya (Dissertation)
Ghosts of a Life Long Past, Seth William McBride (Closed Thesis)
Understory Diversity and Succession on Coarse Woody Debris in a Coastal, Old-growth Forest, Oregon, Shannon Lee Mcdonald (Thesis)
State Need-Based Aid and Four-Year College Student Retention: A Statewide Study, Kara Lynn McFall (Dissertation)
Academic Advising Structures that Support First-year Student Success and Retention, Brett Leland McFarlane (Dissertation)
Lost in the Margins? Intersections Between Disability and Other Non-Dominant Statuses with Regard to Peer Victimization and Psychosocial Distress Among Oregon Teens, Marjorie Grace McGee (Dissertation)
Neighboring in Strip City: A Situational Analysis of Strip Clubs, Land Use Conflict, and Occupational Health in Portland, Oregon, Moriah McSharry McGrath (Dissertation)
Sexting Unleashed: The Social Phenomenon According to Youth Sexters, Jessica Marie McGraw (Thesis)
Archipelago, Caleb Chase McPeak (Closed Thesis)
Perceived Dangerousness of the Job and Well-Being Among Correctional Officers: the Role of Perceived Stress and Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors (FSSB), David Duane Meier (Thesis)
Identification of Markov Processes within a Wind Turbine Array Boundary Layer, Matthew Scott Melius (Thesis)
Interspecific variation in leaf-level biogenic emissions of the Bambuseae, Andrea Natalie Melnychenko (Thesis)
Thinking Aloud in the Science Classroom: Can a literacy strategy increase student learning in science?, Lindsey Joan Mockel (Thesis)
Tracking Fish and Human Response to Abrupt Environmental Change at Tse-whit-zen: A Large Native American Village on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, Kathryn Anne Mohlenhoff (Thesis)
Rural Water, Daniel Ray Mollet (Closed Thesis)
Development of Dynamic Thermal Performance Metrics for Eco-roof Systems, Seth Sinclair Moody (Thesis)
Type Classes and Instance Chains: A Relational Approach, John Garrett Morris (Dissertation)
The Life and Thought of Mormon Apostle Parley Parker Pratt, Andrew James Morse (Thesis)
Understanding Travel Modes to Non-work Destinations: Analysis of an Establishment Survey in Portland, Oregon, Christopher D. Muhs (Thesis)
Remember Who You Are: The Story of Portland Dykecore, Mel Mundell (Closed Thesis)
An FPGA Implementation of a High Performance AER Packet Network, Sirish Kumar Munipalli (Thesis)
The Impact of Social Capital on Innovation Intermediaries, Songphon Munkongsujarit (Dissertation)
Attitudes toward Science (ATS): An Examination of Scientists' and Native Americans' Cultural Values and ATS and their Effect on Action Priorities, Adam T. Murry (Thesis)
Climate Change Impact on the Spatio-Temporal Variability of Hydro-Climate Extremes, Mohammad Reza Najafi (Dissertation)
The Production of Organic Nitrates in Portland Oregon and the Columbia River Gorge, Holly Ann Neill (Thesis)
Self-Timed DRAM Data Interface, Rajesh Nerkar (Thesis)
Effects of Molecular Structure of the Oxidation Products of Reactive Atmospheric Hydrocarbons on the Formation of Secondary Organic Particulate Matter, Including the Effects of Water, Negar Niakan (Thesis)
Teachers' Negative Comments Toward Youth in Foster Care with Disabilities: How Do They Relate to Youths' Problem Behaviors, School Attitudes, and School Performance?, Sunghwan Noh (Dissertation)
Building Bridges with Social Capital in the European Union, Peter Andrew Noordijk (Dissertation)
Characterization of Nano-scale Aluminum Oxide Transport Through Porous Media, Sasha Norien Norwood (Thesis)
Exploring the Effects of Multi-Level Protective and Risk Factors on Child and Parenting Outcomes in Families Participating in Healthy Start/Healthy Families Oregon (HS/HFO), Peggy Nygren (Dissertation)
Fated to Pretend?: Culture Crisis and the Fate of the Individual, Rebecca Jade Ok (Thesis)
From Company Town to Company Town: Holden and Holden Village, Washington, 1937-1980 & Today, Mattias Olshausen (Thesis)
A Summer in the Land of Milk, Louis Charles Opatz (Closed Thesis)
Self-Presentation and Identity in the Roman Empire, ca. 30 BCE to 225 CE, Rhiannon Ysabel-Marie Orizaga (Thesis)
Factors Influencing Social, Cultural, and Academic Transitions of Chinese International ESL Students in U.S. Higher Education, Akiko Ota (Dissertation)
Real Witness, Lynn Michelle Otto (Closed Thesis)
Just-In-Time Power Gating of GasP Circuits, Prachi Gulab Padwal (Thesis)
Division of Labor within the Household: The Experience of Bosnian Immigrant Women in Portland, Oregon, Miro Paljevic (Thesis)
Exploring Online Community Among Rural Medical Education Students: A Case Study, Ryan Tyler Palmer (Dissertation)
Beyond Sustainable Bounds: Changing Weather, Emigration, and Irrigation in a Farming Village of Sichuan, China, 1945-2012, Joseph Lynn Parker (Closed Thesis)
Fostering Strengths in Incarcerated Youth: The Development of a Measure of Psychological Empowerment in Oregon Youth Authority Correctional Facilities, Lindsey Brianna Patterson (Dissertation)
Coordinating Job Release Dates with Workdays: a Job Shop Application to Utilities Field Service Scheduling, Ryan Lawrence Pelkey (Thesis)
Modeling Fecal Bacteria in Oregon Coastal Streams Using Spatially Explicit Watershed Characteristics, Paul Bryce Pettus (Thesis)
Innovation Measurement: a Decision Framework to Determine Innovativeness of a Company, Kenny Phan (Dissertation)
Application of GIS and Spatial Analysis of Golden Eagle Fatalities Caused by Wind Turbines at the Altamont Pass Wind Resource, Andrew James Pinger (Thesis)
The Impact of Knowledge Inflows on the Performance of National Laboratories in Technological Latecomer Countries, Pattravadee Ploykitikoon (Dissertation)
Finding the Gifted Child's Voice in the Public Elementary School Setting: A Phenomenological Exploration, Keely S. Porter (Dissertation)
Air-quality and Climatic Consequences of Bioenergy Crop Cultivation, William Christian Porter (Dissertation)
Methyl Halide Production by Calcareous Periphyton Mats from the Florida Everglades, Ann Eileen Raffel (Thesis)
Can Cross-Race Mentoring Help Minority Students and Break Down Prejudice? Mentoring Experiences in Higher Education, Jennifer Brooke Rainer (Thesis)
Solar Data Analysis, Mike C. T. Ray (Thesis)
Track I Diplomacy and Civil Society in Cyprus: Reconciliation and Peacebuilding During Negotiations, Elicia Keren Reed (Thesis)
Red Flag Warning, Jill McKenna Reed (Closed Thesis)
Ecomorphology and Mating Behavior of Two Species of Night-stalking Tiger Beetles, Omus audouini and O. dejeanii, Robert Kent Richardson (Dissertation)
Arsenic in the Soils of Northwest Oregon, Tracy Ryan Ricker (Thesis)
Elvis Plays Texas, John Michael Ritchey (Closed Thesis)
Soil Development and Vegetation Response to Removal of a Small Dam, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, Stephanie Kay Rohdy (Thesis)
Bicycle Traffic Count Factoring: An Examination of National, State and Locally Derived Daily Extrapolation Factors, Josh Frank Roll (Thesis)
The Effect of Teacher-Identified Classroom Management, Monica Rose Root (Thesis)
Characterization of Secondary Organic Aerosol Precursors Using Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography with Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (GC×GC/TOFMS), Melissa Jordan Roskamp (Thesis)
Thousands or Millions: Stories, J. Peter Roth (Closed Thesis)
A Unique Support for Sexual-Minority Identity Development: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of a Long-Term Formal Mentoring Relationship Between an Adult and a Youth From the Gay Community, Christian L. Rummell (Dissertation)
Ecology of White-Cheeked Crested Gibbons in Laos, Julia Cleverly Ruppell (Dissertation)
Forming a New Art in the Pacific Northwest: Studio Glass in the Puget Sound Region, 1970-2003, Marianne Ryder (Dissertation)
Who Owns This Body? Enslaved Women's Claim on Themselves, Loucynda Elayne Sandeen (Thesis)
Public Opinion and the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, Peggy Jo Ann Sandeen (Dissertation)
Quantum Circuit Synthesis using Group Decomposition and Hilbert Spaces, Michael S. Saraivanov (Thesis)
Arsenic Mobility and Compositional Variability in High-Silica Ash Flow Tuffs, Courtney Beth Young Savoie (Thesis)