This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Memristor-based Reservoir Computing, Manjari S. Kulkarni (Thesis)
Sustainability Education as a Framework for Enhancing Environmental Stewardship in Young Leaders: An Intervention at Tryon Creek Nature Day Camp, Andrea Nicole Lawrence (Thesis)
The Influence of Parental Gender on the Type of Communication between Incarcerated Parents and Their Children, Sarah Renee Lazzari (Thesis)
Nine Months, Esther Lim (Thesis)
Fluorescent Indicators for Disease Biomarkers, Soojin Lim (Dissertation)
Conscientiousness as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Work Autonomy and Job Satisfaction, Kyle Garret Mack (Dissertation)
Life Is Not Short Enough, Michael Magnes (Closed Thesis)
Site Fidelity, Associations and Long-Term Bonds of Short-Finned Pilot Whales off the Island of Hawai`i, Sabre D. Mahaffy (Thesis)
Understanding the Emission from Semiconductor Nanoparticles, Beth Ann Manhat (Dissertation)
Afterswarm, Sarah Marshall (Closed Thesis)
William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, and the Commissioning of the History of William Marshal, Chloe Faith Massarello (Thesis)
Essex under Cromwell: Security and Local Governance in the Interregnum, James Robert McConnell (Thesis)
Metabolic Support of Anaerobiosis in Embryos of the Annual Killifish Austrofundulus limnaeus, Andrew McCracken (Thesis)
The Stringer, Patrick Michael McGinty (Closed Thesis)
Humor-Related Social Exchanges and Mental Health in Assisted Living Residents, Ann Elizabeth McQueen (Dissertation)
Ancient Cataclysmic Floods in the Pacific Northwest: Ancestors to the Missoula Floods, Erica Medley (Thesis)
Where We Belong: A Memoir, Mark Reed Merrill (Closed Thesis)
Site Selection by Migratory Shorebirds in Oregon Estuaries Over Broad and Fine Spatial Scales, Aileen Kilpatrick Miller (Thesis)
Reflective Practice and Readiness for Self-directed Learning in Anesthesiology Residents Training in the United States, Amy Katrina Miller Juve (Dissertation)
An Empirical Study of Particulate Matter Exposure for Transit Users at Bus Stop Shelters, Adam Moore (Thesis)
The Crisis of Cooperation: A Critical Analysis of Russian-Iranian Relations in the Post-Soviet Era, Eric D. Moore (Thesis)
Public Policy and Sexual Geography in Portland, Oregon, 1970-2010, Elizabeth Morehead (Dissertation)
Fundamental Properties of Functional Zinc Oxide Nanowires Obtained by Electrochemical Method and Their Device Applications, Athavan Nadarajah (Dissertation)
The Role of Nucleotide Excision Repair in Restoring Replication Following UV-Induced Damage in Escherichia coli, Kelley Nicole Newton (Thesis)
Crafting a Space: A Feminist Analysis of the Relationship Between Women, Craft, Business and Technology on Etsy.com, Elizabeth Gillette Offensend (Thesis)
Understanding the Role of Patient Activation in the Association between Patient Socio-Economic Demographics and Patient Experience, Katsuya Oi (Thesis)
Safety Effectiveness of Red Light Treatments for Red Light Running, Carl Scott Olson (Thesis)
Inventory and Initiation Zone Characterization of Debris Flows on Mount St. Helens, Washington Initiated during a Major Storm Event in November, 2006, Keith Vinton Olson (Thesis)
Carry That Weight, Candace Jane Opper (Closed Thesis)
Development of an Atmospheric Pressure Laser Induced Fluorimeter (AP-LIF) for NO₂ and Application of AP-LIF for Study of Heterogeneous NO₂ Chemistry, Jeremy Parra (Dissertation)
Narrative Processes in Urban Planning: A Case Study of Swamp Gravy in Colquitt, Georgia, Ronald David Pate (Dissertation)
Motivation in the Portland Chinuk Wawa Language Community, Abigail Elaina Pecore (Thesis)
The Basic Scheme for the Evaluation of Functional Logic Programs, Arthur Peters (Thesis)
Portland's "Refugee from Occupied Hollywood": Andries Deinum, his Center for the Moving Image, and Film Education in the United States, Heather Oriana Petrocelli (Thesis)
Gendering Gardasil: Framing Gender and Sexuality in Media Representations of the HPV Vaccine, Maura Kathleen Pisciotta (Thesis)
Electronic Properties and Structure of Functionalized Graphene, Pavel Plachinda (Dissertation)
Community Earth System Model: Implementation, Validation, and Applications, William Christian Porter (Thesis)
Mining Culture in Roman Dacia: Empire, Community, and Identity at the Gold Mines of Alburnus Maior ca.107-270 C.E., Heather Ann Pundt (Thesis)
The Effects of Yoga Therapy on the Quality of Life for a Paraplegic Individual, Allison Renee Purdy (Thesis)
Use of International Hydrographic Organization Tidal Data for Improved Tidal Prediction, Songwei Qi (Thesis)
Development of a Nephelometry Camera and Humidity Controlled Cavity Ring-Down Transmissometer for the Measurement of Aerosol Optical Properties, James Gregory Radney (Dissertation)
Characterization of the Red Bluff Landslide, Greater Cascade Landslide Complex, Columbia River Gorge, Washington, James Robert Randall (Thesis)
Social Job Characteristics and Older Workers: Effects on Job Satisfaction and Job Tension, Jennifer Rae Rineer (Thesis)
Public Participation in Emergency Management, Jason Alexander Rood (Thesis)
Oral Health Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors: Investigation of an Educational Intervention Strategy with At-Risk Females, Susan Romano Rustvold (Dissertation)
Biosynthesis of Marineosin, a Spiroaminal Undecylprodiginine Natural Product, Shaimaa Mohamed Salem (Dissertation)
Captive Still Life, Magdalen Lorenz Samuelson (Closed Thesis)
Electrokinetic Properties of Lipid and Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Membranes in Aqueous Electrolyte and in the Presence of Lipophilic Ions, Laura Elizabeth Satterfield (Dissertation)
American Cuerpos, Devan Schwartz (Thesis)
Origin of surface undulations at the Kamb Ice Stream grounding line, West Antarctica, Fiona Bronwyn Seifert (Thesis)
The Role of Habitat Restoration and Conservation in the Changing Socio-economic Conditions of Grant County, Oregon, Kristen Lauren Senkyr (Thesis)
The Link Between Image Segmentation and Image Recognition, Karan Sharma (Thesis)
Distributed Solar Photovoltaic Grid Integration System : A Case Study for Performance, Ming Shen (Thesis)
Child Welfare and Delinquency: Examining Differences in First-Time Referrals of Crossover Youth within the Juvenile Justice System, Courtney Nicole Shrifter (Thesis)
Heart Rate and Accelerometry during Singles Footbag Net Play, Christopher Michael Siebert (Thesis)
Stress Reactions of Division-I Track Athletes, Laura Elizabeth Skarda (Thesis)
Effects of Reactive Oxygen Species on Life History Traits of Caenorhabditis elegans, Samson William Smith (Thesis)
The Sea Cow and The Siren, Sara Sutter (Closed Thesis)
Passive Acoustic Vessel Localization, Pasang Sherpa Suwal (Thesis)
Understanding Sand Mining on the Maha Oya: The Conflict Between Economic and Environmental Survival, Meredith Corea Talbert (Thesis)
Local Reception of Religious Change under Henry VIII and Edward VI: Evidence from Four Suffolk Parishes, William Keene Thompson (Thesis)
Preschool Teachers' Perspectives on Caring Relationships, Autonomy, and Intrinsic Motivation in Two Cultural Settings, Xiaoling Tian (Dissertation)
Post-occupancy Evaluation at the Zoo: Behavioral and Hormonal Indicators of Welfare in Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus abelii), Leigha Tingey (Thesis)
Short-Term Plasticity at the Schaffer Collateral: A New Model with Implications for Hippocampal Processing, Andrew Hamilton Toland (Dissertation)
Relativistic Causal Ordering A Memory Model for Scalable Concurrent Data Structures, Josh Triplett (Dissertation)
A Systems Approach to Ecological Economic Models Developed Progressively in Three Interwoven Articles, Takuro Uehara (Dissertation)
Spontaneous Cooperative Assembly of Replicative Catalytic RNA Systems, Nilesh Vaidya (Dissertation)
Apatite Crystal Populations of the 1991 Mount Pinatubo Eruption, Philippines: Implications for the Generation of High Sulfur Apatite in Silicic Melts, Ashley Elizabeth Van Hoose (Thesis)
Risk Factors for Homelessness Among Community Mental Health Patients with Severe Mental Illness, Rupert Talmage van Wormer (Dissertation)
Adolescent Males' Similarity, Emotional Safety, and Change in Strengths-Based Programming, Wendy Elaine Viola (Thesis)
Understanding the Role of Social, Teaching and Cognitive Presence in Hybrid Courses: Student Perspectives on Learning and Pedagogical Implications, Janelle De Carrico Voegele (Dissertation)
Scale Invariant Object Recognition Using Cortical Computational Models and a Robotic Platform, Danny Voils (Thesis)
Differential Susceptibility to Social Network Influences on School Motivation in a Cohort of Sixth Graders, Justin William Vollet (Thesis)
Cultural Hybridization, Glocalization and American Soccer Supporters: The Case of the Timbers Army, Jesse Harold Wagner (Thesis)
A Strategic Model for INGO Accountability Systems, Sarah Elizabeth Wardwell (Thesis)
Mari When It's Light Out and Other Stories, Anna Christine Weatherford (Closed Thesis)
Short Stories, Alisa Eve Welch (Thesis)
Climate Change Effects and Water Vulnerability in the Molalla Pudding River Basin, Oregon, USA, Susan Amelia Wherry (Thesis)
Investigation of Impedance Spectroscopy for Detection of Ovarian Cancer, Allison Mae Whited (Dissertation)
Engaging Community Food Systems through Learning Garden Programs: Oregon Food Bank's Seed to Supper Program, Denissia Elizabeth Withers (Thesis)
Capillarity-Driven Droplet Ejection, Andrew Paul Wollman (Thesis)
Streamflow Analysis and a Comparison of Hydrologic Metrics in Urban Streams, Matthew Lawton Wood (Thesis)
An Investigation of Urban Mobile Source Aerosol Using Optical Properties Measured by CRDT/N: Diesel Particulate Matter and the Impact of Biodiesel, Monica Elizabeth Wright (Dissertation)
Coping with Interpersonal Conflicts at Work: An Examination of the Goodness of Fit Hypothesis Among Nurses, Robert Randon Wright (Dissertation)
Designing New Drugs to Treat Cardiac Arrhythmia, Yanping Ye (Dissertation)
First-Generation Student Success After Academic Warning: An Exploratory Analysis of Academic Integration, Personal Adjustment, Family and Social Adjustment and Psychological Factors, Gabrielle Shoshana Zeisman (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Is Decoding Sufficient to Predict Reading Ability in Kindergarten Through 2nd Grade Students?, Deborah Adkins (Thesis)
A Computational Model of Adaptive Sensory Processing in the Electroreception of Mormyrid Electric Fish, Eran Agmon (Thesis)
Development of an Objective Motor Score for Monitoring the Progression and Severity of Parkinson's Disease, Timothy W. Albers (Thesis)
Perceptions and Voices of South Sudanese About the North-South Sudan Conflict, Machar Wek Aleu-Baak (Thesis)
High Mobility Group Protein 1 (HMGB1) And Its Role As A Global Transcription Regulator In Response To Temperature Fluctuations In The Annual Killifish Austrofundulus limnaeus, Victoria Martin Alla (Thesis)
Leveraging Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) Data to Estimate Link-Based Heavy-Duty Vehicle Emissions, Heba Naguib Alwakiel (Thesis)
A Self-Configurable Architecture on an Irregular Reconfigurable Fabric, Avinash Amarnath (Thesis)
Conceptual Modeling of Data with Provenance, David William Archer (Dissertation)
Robust Circuit & Architecture Design in the Nanoscale Regime, Rehman Ashraf (Dissertation)
Differences in Sexual Dimorphism and Influences of Sexual Dichromatism on Crypsis Among Populations of the Jumping Spider Habronattus oregonensis, Jason Bazzano (Thesis)
Gender, Culture, and Prison Classification: Testing the Reliability and Validity of a Prison Classification System, Aimée Ryan Bellmore (Dissertation)
Low-latency Estimates for Window-Aggregate Queries over Data Streams, Amit Bhat (Thesis)
3D Interdigitated Electrode Array (IDEA) Biosensor For Detection Of Serum Biomarker, Dheeraj Kumar Bhura (Thesis)
Universal Event and Motion Editor for Robots' Theatre, Aditya Bhutada (Thesis)