This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2011
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)
Evolutionary Dynamics in Molecular Populations of Ligase Ribozymes, Carolina Diaz Arenas (Dissertation)
Thermodynamic Effects of 5' and 3' Single Strand Dangling Ends on Short Duplex DNA, Rebekah Dickman (Thesis)
Puppet Theater in the German-Speaking World, Connor Bartlett Doe (Thesis)
Assessing Portland's Smart Growth: A Comprehensive Housing Supply and Location Choice Modeling Approach, Hongwei Dong (Dissertation)
Symmetric Near-Field Probe Design and Comparison to Asymmetric Probes, Jeffrey Jon Doughty (Thesis)
Hierarchical Image Analysis and Characterization of Scaling Effects in Remote Sensing, Craig David Ducey (Thesis)
Down the Drain: A Story of Sewage, Lisa Ekman (Closed Thesis)
Exploring Prehistoric Salmon Subsistence in the Willamette Valley using Zooarchaeological Records and Optimal Foraging Theory, J. Tait Elder (Thesis)
Exploring School Engagement as a Protective Factor for Youth At Risk of Joining Gangs, Lorraine M. Escribano (Dissertation)
Dying to Know, Carla Fran Feinstein (Closed Thesis)
Achieving Congruence: Building a Case for Implementing a District-Wide Interim Benchmark Assessment that is Aligned with a Balanced Literacy Framework, Theodore Feller (Dissertation)
A Structural and Functional Analysis of Codeswitching in Mi Vida Gitana 'My Gypsy Life,' a Bilingual Play, Gustavo Javier Fernandez (Thesis)
Northeast Asia and the Avoidance of a Nuclear Arms Race, Samuel Fogleman (Thesis)
Performance Measures for Managerial Decision Making: Performance Measurement Synergies in Multi-Attribute Performance Measurement Systems, Robert Andrew Fowke (Dissertation)
The Pulpit at the End of the Rainbow: How Queer Clergy Enter Into and Maintain Religious Occupations, Brian Gregory Gerow (Thesis)
Medical Image Segmentation Using a Genetic Algorithm, Payel Ghosh (Dissertation)
Diatom-Based Stream Bioassessment: the Roles of Rare Taxa and Live/Dead Ratio, Nadezhda Dimitrova Gillett (Dissertation)
About a Girl, Haili Jones Graff (Closed Thesis)
Extensible Scheduling in a Haskell-based Operating System, Kenneth William Graunke (Thesis)
Simplified Reversed Chloroquines to Overcome Malaria Resistance to Quinoline-based Drugs, Bornface Gunsaru (Dissertation)
Writing Chinuk Wawa: A Materials Development Case Study, Sarah A. Braun Hamilton (Thesis)
Anatomy of Mishima's Most Successful Play Rokumeikan, Mami Harano (Thesis)
American Belly Dance and the Invention of the New Exotic: Orientalism, Feminism, and Popular Culture, Jennifer Lynn Haynes-Clark (Thesis)
Climatic and Spatial Variations of Mount Rainier's Glaciers for the Last 12,000 Years, Michael Leslie Hekkers (Thesis)
The Foundation to Collaborate: Understanding the Role of Participant Interests, Tia S. Henderson (Dissertation)
Polyaniline Nanofibers as the Hole Transport Medium in an Inverse Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell, Ian Brock Hesselsweet (Dissertation)
Working Mothers' Decisions, Experiences and Feelings about using On-Site Childcare, Stephanie LaRae Hixson-Somanchi (Dissertation)
Efficient Encoding Of Vocalizations In The Auditory Midbrain, Lars Andreas Holmstrom (Dissertation)
On Family and Fences: Tracing Melungeon Roots in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and Tennessee, Ron Horton (Thesis)
Examining the Effects of Climate Change and Urban Development on Water Demand: A Multi-Scale Analysis of Future Water Demand in Hillsboro, Oregon, Lily Arielle House-Peters (Thesis)
Removing Textured Artifacts from Digital Photos Using Spatial Frequency Filtering, Ben Huang (Thesis)
3-D modelling of IC interconnect using OpenAccess and Art of Illusion, Navaneeth Prasannakumar Jamadagni (Thesis)
Music and Conflict Resolution: Exploring the Utilization of Music in Community Engagement, Mindy Kay Johnston (Thesis)
Addressing Automated Adversaries of Network Applications, Edward Leo Kaiser (Dissertation)
Biomechanical Assessment of Parkinson's Disease, Edward A. Katz (Thesis)
An Empirical Assessment of the CAN SPAM Act, Alex Conrad Kigerl (Thesis)
Investing and Vesting International Students' Expressive Resources in Social Capital at Portland State University, Mami Kikuchi (Thesis)
Model-Based Material Parameter Estimation for Terahertz Reflection Spectroscopy, Gabriel Paul Kniffin (Thesis)
Regional Integration in East Asia, Amaleia E. Kolovos (Thesis)
Parental Differential Treatment (PDT) of Siblings: Examining the Impact and Malleability of Differential Warmth and Hostility on Children's Adjustment, Brianne H. Kothari (Dissertation)
Identifying Best Quality Management Practices for Achieving Quality and Innovation Performance in the Forest Products Industry, Scott A. Leavengood (Dissertation)
The Moderating Effect of Role Quality on the Relationship between Work-Family Conflict and Well-Being: A Longitudinal Study, Jenna Risa LeComte-Hinely (Thesis)
A Wind River Romance, Megan Breen Leigh (Thesis)
An Automata-Theoretic Approach to Hardware/Software Co-verification, Juncao Li (Dissertation)
Practical Type Inference for the GADT Type System, Chuan-kai Lin (Dissertation)
Theodore Roosevelt on Labor Unions: A New Perspective, Louis B. Livingston (Thesis)
Vertical Noise Structure and Target Detection Performance in Deep Ocean Environments, Zizheng Li (Thesis)
Between Non-intervention and Protection: A study on the case of Darfur and the Responsibility to Protect, David Ryan Lucas (Thesis)
Sour Grapes While You're Down and Out: Self-Serving Bias and Applicant Attributions for Test Performance, Kyle Garret Mack (Thesis)
Guild's Lake Courts : an impermanent housing project, Tanya Lyn March (Dissertation)