This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Investigating Technological Organization at the Buck Lake Site (45PI438) in Mount Rainier National Park Using a Lithic Debitage Analysis, Michael Charles Schurke (Thesis)
Runaway and Homeless Youth: Changing the Discourse by Legitimizing Youth Voice, Donald Dale Schweitzer (Dissertation)
Erosion and Adjustment: A Bourdieuian-Inspired Analysis of Imprisonment and Release, Joshua David Seim (Thesis)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: How a Best-Seller Diffused Online, Melissa Ann Shavlik (Thesis)
Central Stories, Dinah Belle Sheehan (Closed Thesis)
Exploring Sense of Place of Community Gardens in Portland, Barbara E. Shields (Dissertation)
Postfledging Survival and Habitat Use of Spotted Towhees (Pipilo maculatus) in an Urban Park, Amy Ann Shipley (Thesis)
Marginalized Characters in Contemporary American Short Fiction, Timur Shishkin (Thesis)
Spare Block Cache Architecture to Enable Low-Voltage Operation, Nafiul Alam Siddique (Thesis)
Complete and Exact Small Signal Analysis of DC-to-DC Switched Power Converters Under Various Operating Modes and Control Methods, Justin French Simmons (Thesis)
Logic Realization Using Regular Structures in Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA), Rahul Singhal (Thesis)
Evolving Nano-scale Associative Memories with Memristors, Arpita Sinha (Thesis)
Feedbacks of Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Rice Agriculture, Alec Sithole (Dissertation)
The Binfords and Mort Publishing Company and the Development of Regional Literature in Oregon, Jeremy Skinner (Thesis)
Subsurface Igneous Mineral Microbiology: Iron-Oxidizing Organotrophs on Olivine Surfaces and the Significance of Mineral Heterogeneity in Basalts, Amy Renee Smith (Thesis)
The Pursuit of Commerce: Agricultural Development in Western Oregon, 1825-1861, Cessna R. Smith (Thesis)
Parent and Teacher Influences on Children's Academic Motivation, Tatiana Snyder (Dissertation)
Using Brownfields to Think Green: Investigating Factors that Influence Community Decision-Making and Participation, Charissa Ruth Stair (Thesis)
Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Composite Sandwich Links for the LCF System, Max Taylor Stephens (Thesis)
Sustainable Event Management of Music Festivals: An Event Organizer Perspective, Stephanie L. Stettler (Thesis)
Disordered Thought, Disordered Language: A corpus-based description of the speech of individuals undergoing treatment for schizophrenia, Lucas Carl Steuber (Thesis)
Using Archaeological Fish Remains to Determine the Native Status of Anadromous Salmonids in the Upper Klamath Basin (Oregon, USA) Through mtDNA and Geochemical Analysis, Alexander E. Stevenson (Thesis)
Countering Structural Violence: Cultivating an Experience of Positive Peace, Carrie E. Stiles (Thesis)
Citizenship, Duty and Virtue: A Vision of Jefferson's America, Anthony Philip Stine (Thesis)
Pedagogical Catalysts of Civic Competence: The Development of a Critical Epistemological Model for Community-Based Learning, Stephanie Taylor Stokamer (Dissertation)
Whisper, Christina Struyk-Bonn (Thesis)
The Experience of Senior Housing for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Seniors: An Exploratory Study, Kathleen Margaret Sullivan (Dissertation)
Health Care Migration in Japan: Immigration Policy in Terms of Language, Ayumi Susai (Thesis)
Social and Human Capital: Contributing Effects of Incarceration on Neighborhoods, Jacqueline Victoria Swofford (Thesis)
Toward a Taxonomy of Diversity at Work: Developing and Validating the Workplace Diversity Inventory, Aisha Smith Taylor (Thesis)
Scaffolding the Development of Early Self-Regulation: The Role of Structure and Routine in Children's Daily Activities, Cynthia Lynn Taylor (Thesis)
Propagule Pressure and Disturbance Drive the Spread of an Invasive Grass, Brachypodium sylvaticum, Laura Alayna Vician Taylor (Thesis)
Poverty and Conflict: A Self-Perpetuating Cycle in the Somali Regional State (Region 5), Ethiopia: 1960-2010, Bisrat Teshome (Thesis)
Development of an Ultra-Lightweight Buckling-Restrained Brace Using Analytical and Numerical Methods, John Andrew Tinker (Thesis)
Investigating Student Understanding of the Law of Conservation of Matter, Shirley Lynn Tremel (Thesis)
The Edge of the World, and Other Stories, Amreen Ukani (Closed Thesis)
Capital Flows, Political Performance, and Development, Ayesha Umar Wahedi (Dissertation)
Elemental and Isotopic Measurements on Palladium After Heavy Water Electrolysis, Mathieu Jean Valat (Thesis)
The Effect of Role Models on the Attitudes and Career Choices of Female Students Enrolled in High School Science, Stephanie Justine Van Raden (Thesis)
A Certain Kind Of Hunger, Katherine Vetrano (Closed Thesis)
Early Childhood Inclusion: Teacher Perception of the Supports Needed to Fully Include Children with Special Needs, Meredith Villines (Thesis)
Prestructuring Multilayer Perceptrons based on Information-Theoretic Modeling of a Partido-Alto-based Grammar for Afro-Brazilian Music: Enhanced Generalization and Principles of Parsimony, including an Investigation of Statistical Paradigms, Mehmet Vurkaç (Dissertation)
Measurement and Characterization of Terahertz Radiation Propagating Through a Parallel Plate Waveguide, Matthew George Wachsmuth (Thesis)
The Moving to the Beat Documentary and Hip-Hop Based Curriculum Guide: Youth Reactions and Resistance, Jennifer Wallin-Ruschman (Thesis)
Synthesis and Characterization of Glyconanomaterials, and Their Applications in Studying Carbohydrate-Lectin Interactions, Xin Wang (Dissertation)
Diminished Democracy? Portland Radio News/Public Affairs After the Telecom Act of 1996, Rebecca Webb (Thesis)
The Fantastic Machine, Nathaniel M. Weinham (Thesis)
CE-QUAL-W2 Water Quality and Fish-bioenergetics Model of Chester Morse Lake and the Cedar River, Vanessa I. Wells (Thesis)
Self-Efficacy and Drinking with Friends: An Investigation into the Drinking Behaviors of Japanese College Students, Staci Jean Wendt (Dissertation)
The Woods Were Never Quiet, Marie-Monique Wentzel (Closed Thesis)
Wherefore by Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them: An Actor-Network Theory Analysis of Mercy Corps' Peaceful Communities Initiative in Central Asia, John Thomas Westerman (Dissertation)
Improving Hypothesis Testing Skills: Evaluating a General Purpose Classroom Exercise with Biology Students in Grade 9., Michael Gregg Wilder (Thesis)
Analysis and Characterization of Debris Flows in November, 2006, Mount Adams, Washington., Kendra Justine Williams (Thesis)
Factoring Semiprimes Using PG2N Prime Graph Multiagent Search, Keith Eirik Wilson (Thesis)
Total Mercury in Stranded Marine Mammals from the Oregon and Southern Washington Coasts, Nathan J. Wintle (Thesis)
Black/White Health Disparities in the U.S. The Effect of Education over the Life-Course, Elizabeth Melissa Withers (Thesis)
High Speed Wireless Networking for 60GHz, Candy Yiu (Dissertation)
Now Accepting Applications Online: An Examination of Privacy Concerns, Explanations, and Control in Applicant Reactions to Internet-Based Selection Procedures, Clayton Alan Yonce (Dissertation)
Emotion Language and Emotion Narratives of Turkish-English Late Bilinguals, Melike Yücel Koç (Thesis)
Polymer-Based Photoactive Surface for the Efficient Immobilization of Nanoparticles, Polymers, Graphene and Carbohydrates, Jing Yuwen (Thesis)
Molecular Genetic Analysis of CRELD1 in Patients with Heterotaxy Disorder, Samaneh Zhian (Thesis)
Electronic Pillbox Logger for people with Parkinson's Disease, Beenish Zia (Thesis)
High Resolution Measurements near a Moving Contact Line using µPIV, Jeremiah D. Zimmerman (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Dismantling Accoutrement, Michael M. Achterman (Closed Thesis)
Synthesis of Reversible Functions Using Various Gate Libraries and Design Specifications, Nouraddin Alhagi (Dissertation)
Globalization; But Under What conditions? -- The Case of the E.U., Michaelangelo Anastasiou (Thesis)
An Environment-based Education Approach to Professional Development: A Mixed Methods Analysis of the Creeks and Kids Watershed Workshop and Its Impact on K-12 Teachers, Tiffany Bridgette Austin (Thesis)
American Scientists, Americanist Archaeology: The Committee on Radioactive Carbon 14, Keith David Baich (Thesis)
Quasi Steady Capillary Corner Flow, John Alex Baker (Thesis)
Modular, Configurable Bus Architecture for Ease of IP Reuse on System on Chip and ASIC Devices, Naveendran Balasingam (Thesis)
Portland's Independent Music Scene: The Formation of Community Identities and Alternative Urban Cultural Landscapes, Rebecca Elizabeth Ball (Thesis)
The Impact of Humanitarian Photography on the Generation of Sympathy and on Donation Behavior, Marta Barberini (Thesis)
Biogeography of the American Pika (Ochotona princeps) In Oregon and Southern Washington: Illuminating Genetic Relationships Among Disjunct Populations, George Washington Batten III (Thesis)
Effects of Biochar-Amended Soil on the Water Quality of Greenroof Runoff, Deborah Aileen Beck (Thesis)
Changes in Oregon Batterer Intervention Program Characteristics in Relation to State Standards, Ashley Lynn Boal (Thesis)
Confirmation Bias and Related Errors, Geoffrey Ludlow Borthwick (Dissertation)
Development of a Portable Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopic Technique for Measuring Stable Isotopes in Atmospheric Methane, Gregory A. Bostrom (Thesis)
Identity, Nostalgia and Leisure: Technology Use in Second Homes, Françoise Bourdonnec (Thesis)
Love(Other), Wendy Renee Bourgeois (Closed Thesis)
The Transnational Networks of Cultural Commodities: Peruvian Food in San Francisco, Kelsey Ann Brain (Thesis)
Exploratory Eddy Covariance Measurements of Surface Heat and CO2 Fluxes in the Roughness Sublayer of an Urban Environment, Benjamin F. Burnett (Thesis)
Characterization of Novel Functions and Topologies in RNA, Aaron Steven Burton (Dissertation)
Investigation of the sources and sinks of atmospheric methane, Christopher Lee Butenhoff (Dissertation)
The Effects of Ageism Climates and Core Self-Evaluations on Nurses' Turnover Intentions, Organizational Commitment, and Work Engagement, David Michael Cadiz (Dissertation)
Visions and Voices: An Arts-Based Qualitative Study Using Photovoice to Understand the Needs and Aspirations of Diverse Women Working in the Sex Industry, Moshoula Capous Desyllas (Dissertation)
Negotiating Meaning with Educational Practice: Alignment of Preservice Teachers' Mission, Identity, and Beliefs with the Practice of Collaborative Action Research, Jan Marie Carpenter (Dissertation)
Hombres en Accion (Men in Action): A Community Defined Domestic Violence Intervention with Mexican, Immigrant, Men, Rosemary Carmela Celaya-Alston (Dissertation)
Somatization and Engagement in Mental Health Treatment, Teresa Chianello (Dissertation)
Mitochondrial Inheritance and Natural Phenotypic Variation Among Caenorhabditis briggsae Populations, Anna Luella Coleman-Hulbert (Thesis)
Do Parents Matter? Parental Attachment and Its Effect on Becoming Independent in Emerging Adulthood, Cara Joy Copeland (Thesis)
Local food and land-use in Washington County, Oregon, Joshua James Cousins (Thesis)
Use of Media Technologies by Native American Teens and Young Adults: Evaluating their Utility for Designing Culturally-Appropriate Sexual Health Interventions Targeting Native Youth in the Pacific Northwest, Stephanie Nicole Craig Rushing (Dissertation)
Community Development for a White City: Race Making, Improvementism, and the Cincinnati Race Riots and Anti-Abolition Riots of 1829, 1836, and 1841, Silas Niobeh Crowfoot (Dissertation)
Designing Exhibits For Gender Equity, Toni Nicole Dancu (Dissertation)
Spousal Crossover Effects of Job Demands on Health, Rachel Jane Daniels (Dissertation)
A Library and its Community: Exploring Perceptions of Collaboration, Phoebe Vincenza Daurio (Thesis)
Current Assessment and Treatment Practices for Children with Autism and Suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech: A Survey of Speech-Language Pathologists, Elsa Jayne Dawson (Thesis)
The Creative Use of Dance/Movement Therapy Processes to Transform Intrapersonal Conflicts Associated with Sexual Trauma in Women, Emily Fern Dayton (Thesis)
Hydrologic Data Assimilation: State Estimation and Model Calibration, Caleb Matthew DeChant (Thesis)
Activism and Identity: How Korea's Independence Movement Shaped the Korean Immigrant Experience in America, 1905-1945, Sara Elizabeth Deede (Thesis)