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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Rooftop PV Impacts on Fossil Fuel Electricity Generation and CO2 Emissions in the Pacific Northwest, Daniel Albert Weiland (Thesis)
Negotiating the Inclusion of Nanoscience Content and Technology in Science Curriculum: An Examination of Secondary Teachers' Thinking in a Professional Development Project, Jennifer Gayle Wells (Dissertation)
Grouped to Achieve: Are There Benefits to Assigning Students to Heterogeneous Cooperative Learning Groups Based on Pre-Test Scores?, Arman Karl Werth (Thesis)
Materialism, Personal Food Projects, and Satisfaction: A Phenomenological Study of Urban Gardening in Portland, Oregon, Robin René Wikoff (Dissertation)
"Game Over" for the Climate: The Keystone XL Pipeline on TV News, Elisabeth Wilder (Thesis)
Pinhole Neutral Atom Microscopy, Philip James Witham (Thesis)
The Spatial Distribution of Tobacco Pipe Fragments at the Hudson's Bay Company Fort Vancouver Village Site: Smoking as a Shared and Social Practice, Katie Ann Wynia (Thesis)
Measuring the Effects of Environmental Certification on Residential Property Values - Evidence from Green Condominiums in Portland, U.S., Xi Yang (Thesis)
Hypothetical Would-Clauses in Korean EFL Textbooks: An Analysis Based on a Corpus Study and Focus on Form Approach, Soyung Yoo (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
"We Were Privileged in Oregon": Jessie Laird Brodie and Reproductive Politics, Locally and Transnationally, 1915-1975, Sadie Anne Adams (Thesis)
Insight into the Reactivity of Metastasis Inhibitor, Imidazolium trans-[tetrachloro (dimethyl sulfoxide)(imidazole)ruthenate(III)], with Biologically-active Thiols, Risikat Ajibola Adigun (Dissertation)
Biological Treatment of Leachates of Microaerobic Fermentation, Manar Arica Alattar (Thesis)
Building on the Strengths of Indigenous Knowledge to Promote Sustainable Development in Crisis Conditions from the Community Level: The Case of Palestine, Jehad Yousif Alayasa (Dissertation)
Negative Transfer in the Writing of Proficient Students of Russian: A Comparison of Heritage Language Learners and Second Language Learners, Daria Aleeva (Thesis)
Let's Try to Change It: Psychiatric Stigmatization, Consumer/Survivor Activism, and the Link and Phelan Model, María Jimena Alvarado Chavarría (Dissertation)
Informal Learning Choices of Japanese ESL Students in the United States, Brent Harrison Amburgey (Thesis)
The Lived Experience of High School Policy Debate in Oregon, Ameena AnnaMaria Amdahl-Mason (Thesis)
The Effects of Hypoxia and Temperature on Developing Embryos of the Annual Killifish Austrofundulus limnaeus, Skye N. Anderson (Thesis)
Perceived Isolation, Social Integration, and Health Behavior: A Daily Process Examination of Responses to Loneliness, Sarah Noel Arpin (Thesis)
Voicing Oppositional Conformity: Sarah Winnemucca and the Politics of Rape, Colonialism, and "Citizenship": 1870-1890, Jennifer Bailey (Thesis)
Using Dataflow Optimization Techniques with a Monadic Intermediate Language, Justin George Bailey (Thesis)
Anna of Denmark: Expressions of Autonomy and Agency as a Royal Wife and Mother, Anastasia Christine Baker (Thesis)
Application of Inter-Die Rank Statistics in Defect Detection, Vivek Bakshi (Thesis)
A Fault-Tolerant Alternative to Lockstep Triple Modular Redundancy, Andrew Lockett Baldwin (Thesis)
Insights and Blind Spots: A Qualitative Analysis of Risk in Psychiatric Security Review Board Hearings, Abby Kealani Balfour (Thesis)
Engaging Global Service: Organizational Motivations for and Perceived Benefits of Hosting International Volunteers, Erin Leslie Barnhart (Dissertation)
Dynamics of Channel Complexity and Nitrate Retention in Upper Fanno Creek, Oregon, Robert Allen Bean (Thesis)
Rebound: The Resurrection of a Hometown Team, Stephen W. Beaven (Closed Thesis)
Teacher Stress and Coping: Does the Process Differ According to Years of Teaching Experience?, Jeffry Childs Beers (Thesis)
Examining Health Information Technology Implementations: Case of the Patient-Centered Medical Home, Nima A. Behkami (Dissertation)
Increasing Social Work Students' Political Interest and Efficacy: The Experience and Impact of a Social Welfare Policy Course from the Students' Perspective, Christie Dianne Bernklau Halvor (Dissertation)
Out the Valley, Chelsea Jean Bieker (Closed Thesis)
Experimental Study Of Fault Cones And Fault Aliasing, Vedanth Bilagi (Thesis)
Figurative Language in the Immigration Debate: Comparing Early 20th Century and Current U.S. Debate with the Contemporary European Debate, Ensieh Biria (Thesis)
Exploring Support Network Structure, Content, and Stability as Youth Transition from Foster Care, Jennifer E. Blakeslee (Dissertation)
Understanding the Experience of Air Force Single Parents: A Phenomenological Study, Samantha Everhart Blanchard (Dissertation)
Toward the Complete Characterization of Atmospheric Organic Particulate Matter: Derivatization and Two-Dimensional Comprehensive Gas Chromatography/Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry as a Method for the Determination of Carboxylic Acids, Alexandra Jeanne Boris (Thesis)
Externally-Expressed Fluorescence across Sexes, Life Stages, and Species of Spiders, Erin Brandt (Thesis)
Sustainable Operations at Portland State University: Relevant Organizational Issues and a Path Forward, Molly Mae Bressers (Thesis)
Cinerati, Anna Marie Brown (Closed Thesis)
Where Is the Rain-on-Snow Zone in the West-Central Washington Cascades?: Monte Carlo Simulation of Large Storms in the Northwest, Matthew John Brunengo (Dissertation)
Are We Cool Yet?: A Longitudinal Content Analysis of Nerd and Geek Representations in Popular Television, Christopher Louis Cardiel (Thesis)
Assessing the Relationship Between Intercultural Competence and Leadership Styles: An Empirical Study of International Fulbright Students in the U.S., Chris Taylor Cartwright (Dissertation)
A Survey and Analysis of Solutions to the Oblivious Memory Access Problem, Erin Elizabeth Chapman (Thesis)
Evolved Design of a Nonlinear Proportional Integral Derivative (NPID) Controller, Shubham Chopra (Thesis)
Finding the Past in the Present: Modeling Prehistoric Occupation and Use of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, Catherine Anne Clark (Thesis)
The effects of temperature on the dispersion and reaggregation stages of development in the annual killifish, Austrofundulus limnaeus, Timothy Grant Cleaver (Thesis)
Drowning In It: State Crime and Refugee Deaths in the Borderlands, Brandy Marie Cochrane (Thesis)
Examining the Effect of Maternal High-Fat Diet Consumption on the Physiology and Pancreas Development of Fetal and Juvenile Nonhuman Primate Offspring, Sarah Michelle Comstock (Dissertation)
Street Art, Ideology, and Public Space, Tiffany Renée Conklin (Thesis)
Agency, Consolidation, and Consequence: Evaluating Social and Political Change in New Orleans, 1868-1900, Christopher Joseph Cook (Thesis)
Dazai's Women: Dazai Osamu and his Female Narrators, Jamie Walden Cox (Thesis)
The Crossover Effects of Supervisor Work-Family Positive Spillover on Employee Sleep Deficiency: Moderating Effects of Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors (FSSB), Tori Laurelle Crain (Thesis)
Transgressing Sexuality: An Interdisciplinary Study of Economic History, Anthropology, and Queer Theory, Jason Gary Damron (Thesis)
Interpersonal Conflict and Employee Well-Being: The Moderating Role of Recovery Experiences, Caitlin Ann Demsky (Thesis)
Stream-Associated Amphibian Habitat Assessment in the Portland-Vancouver Metropolitan Region, Andrew Evans Dietrich (Thesis)
Groundwater Surface Trends in the North Florence Dunal Aquifer, Oregon Coast, USA, Sarah Rebecca Doliber (Thesis)
Shaping the Future Past: Finding History, Creating Identity in the Kwan Hsu Papers, Lisa Chere' Donnelly (Thesis)
A Historical and Archaeological Study of the Nineteenth Century Hudson's Bay Company Garden at Fort Vancouver: Focusing on Archaeological Field Methods and Microbotanical Analysis, Elaine C. Dorset (Thesis)
Reexamining the Global Cold War in South Africa: Port Usage, Space Tracking and Weapons Sales, Rebecca Nicole Eisenberg (Thesis)
The role of psychological resources in the relationship between work stressors and proactive behavior, Allison Marie Ellis (Thesis)
Long-term Responses of Phalaris arundinacea and Columbia River Bottomland Vegetation to Managed Flooding, Tina Schantz Farrelly (Thesis)
A Data-Descriptive Feedback Framework for Data Stream Management Systems, Rafael J. Fernández Moctezuma (Dissertation)
Development and Implementation of Acoustic Feedback Control for Scanning Probe Microscopy, Rodolfo Fernandez Rodriguez (Thesis)
At the End of the Peninsula, Jonathan David Fine (Thesis)
Implementer Perspectives: The Implementation of a School-Based Mentoring Program, Amanda Angela Fixsen (Dissertation)
Assessing Environmental Inequality in Portland, Oregon: An Exploration of Local Environmental Justice Struggles, Jordan Douglas Folks (Thesis)
Intimate Partner Violence During the Transition from Prison to the Community: An Ecological Analysis, Margaret Joy Freeland Braun (Dissertation)
Atheist Scripts in a Nation of Religiosity: Identity Politics within the Atheist Movement, Jacqueline Frost (Thesis)
Digital Fabric, Sudheer Goshi (Thesis)
On the Effect of Heterogeneity on the Dynamics and Performance of Dynamical Networks, Alireza Goudarzi (Thesis)
"Man Up": A Longitudinal Evaluation of Adherence to Traditional Masculinity Among Racially/Ethnically Diverse Adolescent Inmates, Mary Elisabeth Gray (Thesis)
Fluorescence Detection of Biological Thiols, Yixing Guo (Thesis)
Feasible Models of Universal Health Insurance in Oregon According to Stakeholder Views, Terry Richard Hammond (Dissertation)
Late-Holocene Flood History, Flood-Frequency, and Paleoclimate Analysis of the Central Black Hills, South Dakota, Tessa M. Harden (Dissertation)
Giving Voice to the Peace and Justice Challenger Intellectuals: Counterpublic Development as Civic Engagement, Tom Harry Hastings (Dissertation)
Human Trafficking and Slavery: Towards a New Framework for Prevention and Responsibility, Dana S. Hathaway (Thesis)
A Good Mormon Wife, Kathleen Louise Haynie (Closed Thesis)
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Aged Glacial and Climatic Reconstructions in the Goat Rocks Wilderness, Washington, United States, Joshua Andrews Heard (Thesis)
Causes and Consequences of Mitochondrial Variation in Caenorhabditid Nematodes, Kiley Ann Hicks (Dissertation)
Measurement and Simulation of Parallel Plate Waveguide Structures in the Terahertz Region for Sensing and Material Characterization Applications, James Alexander Higgins (Thesis)
Silk Cryogels for Microfluidics, Christopher David Hinojosa (Thesis)
Reconceptualizing Organizational Commitment Using the Theory of Reasoned Action: Testing Antecedents of Multiple Organizational Behaviors, Thu Gia Hoang (Dissertation)
Fostering Hope and Closing the Academic Gap: An Examination of College Retention for African-American and Latino Students who Participate in the Louis Stokes Alliance Minority Participation Program (Learning Community) While Enrolled in a Predominately White Institution, Aisha La'Chae Hollands (Dissertation)
Extending Relativistic Programming to Multiple Writers, Philip William Howard (Dissertation)
A Qualitative Study of Language Beliefs and Linguistic Knowledge in Preservice Teachers Using the Intercultural Communicative Competence Framework, Kimberly K. Ilosvay (Dissertation)
Making Education Accessible: A Dual Case Study of Instructional Practices, Management, and Equity in a Rural and an Urban NGO School in Pakistan, Zafreen Jaffery (Dissertation)
Use of Two-Dimensional Agarose-Gel Analysis to Characterize Processing of UV-Irradiated Plasmids and the Composition of the Replisome Following UV-induced Arrest, Harout Arthur Jeiranian (Dissertation)
Exploring Ethnic Differences in the Predictors and Outcomes of Academic Engagement During Middle School, Robin Margarett Johnson (Thesis)
Investigating the Holocene History of Eliot Glacier, Mount Hood, Oregon, Nadia Sittara Jones (Thesis)
Evaluation of Voltage Instability Countermeasures in Constrained Sub-transmission Power Networks, Peter Gibson Jones (Thesis)
Iktomi: A Character Traits Analysis of a Dakota Culture Myth, Marianne Sue Kastner (Thesis)
The Role of Compliment Topics in Compliment Response, Hiroko Katsuta (Thesis)
Reservoir Evolution Following the Removal of Marmot Dam on the Sandy River, Oregon, Mackenzie Karli Keith (Thesis)
Material Characterization of Zinc Oxide in Bulk and Nanowire Form at Terahertz Frequencies, Forest Emerson Kernan (Thesis)
Involvement in the Online Autistic Community, Identity, Community, and Well-Being, Colleen Anne Kidney (Thesis)
Relative Heart Ventricle Mass and Cardiac Performance in Amphibians, Gregory Joseph Kluthe (Thesis)
Supranationalism in the Fight Against Transnational Threats: A Comparative Study of ASEAN and EU Policy Responses to Human Trafficking, Nicholas M. Klynn (Thesis)
Measurement and modeling of passive surface mount devices on FR4 substrates, Rahulkumar Sadanand Koche (Thesis)
Euthanasia, the Ethics of Patient Care and the Language of Propaganda, Elizabeth Maria Krapf (Thesis)