This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
How Does Student Understanding of a Concept Change Throughout a Unit of Instruction? Support Toward the Theory of Learning Progressions, Brian Jay Dyer (Thesis)
Heritage and Health: A Political-Economic Analysis of the Foodways of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah and the Bishop Paiute Tribe, April Hurst Eagan (Thesis)
Designing Innovative Alternatives to Traditional High Schools: What Leaders Need to Know, Chester Roy Edwards (Dissertation)
Joint Angle Tracking with Inertial Sensors, Mahmoud Ahmed El-Gohary (Dissertation)
The Historical, Political, Social, and Individual Factors That Have Influenced the Development of Aging and Disability Resource Centers and Options Counseling, Sheryl DeJoy Elliott (Thesis)
Impact of Teachers' Planned Questions on Opportunities for Students to Reason Mathematically in Whole-class Discussions Around Mathematical Problem-solving Tasks, Sarah Elizabeth Enoch (Dissertation)
Self-Disclosure and Self-Efficacy in Online Dating, Andrew Christopher España (Thesis)
Microbial Biomineralization of Iron, Wen Fang (Thesis)
I'm Not Gonna Be Like That Guy: Exploring the Montana Meth Project Through the Eyes of That Guy, Jaysen Nicole Ferestad (Thesis)
Elementary Teacher Candidates' Images of Mathematics, Diverse Students, and Teaching: An Exploratory Study With Implications for Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education, Bernd Richard Ferner (Dissertation)
A New Low in Getting High: Illegal Drug Use and Crime, Erica Jean Ferrelli (Thesis)
Why Occupy?: Principal Reasons for Participant Involvement in Occupy Portland, Danielle Filecia (Thesis)
Metaphor Use in Interpersonal Communication of Body Perception in the Context of Breast Cancer, Jennifer Mary Fillion (Thesis)
Impact of Teacher Feedback on the Development of State Issued Scoring Guides for Science Inquiry and Engineering Design Performance Assessments, Timothy Paul Fiser (Thesis)
First Bacterial Endosymbionts Found in the Phylum Ascomycota, Eileen Elizabeth Fitzpatrick (Thesis)
Disjointed Cosmopolitanism: Climate Change and Lived Experience in Portland, Oregon, Stephen Wayne Flinn (Thesis)
Social-Ecological Dynamics of Coral Reef Resource Use and Management, Sarah J. Freed (Dissertation)
Grounding Zone Processes: Ice Mechanics and Margin Lakes, Kamb Ice Stream and Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica, Mason Joseph Fried (Thesis)
Reward-driven Training of Random Boolean Network Reservoirs for Model-Free Environments, Padmashri Gargesa (Thesis)
Gene Expression Life History Markers in a Hatchery and a Wild Population of Young-of-the-Year Oncorhynchus mykiss, Ian D. F. Garrett (Thesis)
Martin Luther's "Two Kingdoms Theory": An Analysis through the Lens of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity, Janet Leigh Gesme (Thesis)
The Consolidation of the Consociational Democracy in Lebanon: The Challenges to Democracy in Lebanon, Micheline Germanos Ghattas (Dissertation)
Global Learning Outcomes of a Domestic Foreign Language Immersion Program, Kathleen Ann Godfrey (Dissertation)
Evidence Supporting Treatment Practice Based Delineation of Stormwater Runoff Zones, Jacob J. Gorski (Thesis)
Le Développement du moi et le procédé thérapeutique dans les œuvres de Chrétien de Troyes, Clément Guillaume (Thesis)
Battery Energy Storage Systems to Mitigate the Variability of Photovoltaic Power Generation, Heath Alan Gurganus (Thesis)
Emotion Regulation and Strain in Corrections Officers: Examining the Role of Recovery Experiences and Coping Mechanisms, Frankie Guros (Thesis)
Modeling the Distribution of Bobcats and Areas of Reintroduction for Fisher in the Southern Washington Cascades, Shiloh Michael Halsey (Thesis)
Natural Area Stewardship Volunteers: Motivations, Attitudes, Behaviors, Corinne Handelman (Thesis)
Caught in the Act, William P. Hannon (Closed Thesis)
Equivalence Checking for High-Assurance Behavioral Synthesis, Kecheng Hao (Dissertation)
Expression of Growth Arrest and DNA Damage Protein 45-alpha (gadd45-alpha) and the CCAAT/enhancer binding protein-delta (C/EBP-delta) in Fishes Exposed to Heat and Hypoxia, Daniel Omar Hassumani (Thesis)
Neighborhood Identity and Sustainability: A Comparison Study of Two Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon, Zachary Lawrence Hathaway (Thesis)
Methods for Efficient Synthesis of Large Reversible Binary and Ternary Quantum Circuits and Applications of Linear Nearest Neighbor Model, Maher Mofeid Hawash (Dissertation)
3-D Terahertz Synthetic-Aperture Imaging and Spectroscopy, Samuel C. Henry (Dissertation)
Investigations into the Regional and Local Timescale Variations of Subglacial Drainage Networks, Justin Hiester (Thesis)
Automated Channel Assessment for Single Chip MedRadio Transceivers, Mark Alexander Hillig (Thesis)
Evaluating Alternative High Schools: Program Evaluation in Action, Drew Samuel Wayne Hinds (Dissertation)
An Investigation into Teacher Support of Science Explanation in High School Science Inquiry Units, Rebecca Sue Hoffenberg (Thesis)
An Archaeology of Capitalism: Exploring Ideology through Ceramics from the Fort Vancouver and Village Sites, Dana Lynn Holschuh (Thesis)
Here, We Are Walking on a Clothesline: Statelessness and Human (In)Security Among Burmese Women Political Exiles Living in Thailand, Elizabeth Hooker (Thesis)
English Loan Words in Japanese: Exploring Comprehension and Register, Naoko Horikawa (Thesis)
Neighborhood Commercial Corridor Change: Portland, Oregon 1990-2010, Kelly Ann Howsley-Glover (Dissertation)
Scenario Development and Analysis of Freshwater Ecosystem Services under Land Cover and Climate Change in the Tualatin and Yamhill River Basins, Oregon, Robert Wesley Hoyer (Thesis)
Bent, Genevieve Hudson (Closed Thesis)
Truth and Memory in Two Works by Marguerite Duras, Rachel Deborah Hunter (Thesis)
Work Stress Reactivity and Health Outcomes: A Study of Nurses, Laurie Marie Jacobs (Dissertation)
The Role of Wood Microsites at Timberline-Alpine Meadow Borders for Conifer Regeneration, Adelaide Chapman Johnson (Dissertation)
Establishing Foundations for Investigating Inquiry-Oriented Teaching, Estrella Maria Salas Johnson (Dissertation)
Public Space and Urban Life: A Spatial Ethnography of a Portland Plaza, Katrina Leigh Johnston (Thesis)
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)