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Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Speciation of Diaryliodonium Salts in Solution and Their Reactivity Towards N-nucleophiles (Phthalimide and Amines) and O-nucleophiles (Phenols and Phenoxide), Souradeep Basu (Dissertation)
Short Warm-Side Wet-Bulb Temperature Distribution Tails Lead to Accelerated Increases in Extreme Threshold Exceedances Under Global Warming, Yianna Sotirios Bekris (Thesis)
A Critical Discourse Analysis of How Youth in Care Describe Social Support, Jared Israel Best (Dissertation)
Exploring Structure-Function Relationship in Small-Molecular Catalysts Using Computational and Experimental Methodologies, Avik Bhattacharjee (Dissertation)
Possibilities for Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion, Jeffrey Edward Black (Dissertation)
Perspectives of Students with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disability in College Inclusion Programs on their Preparation for Working in Competitive Integrated Employment, Eva R. Blixseth (Dissertation)
The Connections Between Innovation, Culture, and Expertise in Water Infrastructure Organizations, Alice Brawley-Chesworth (Dissertation)
In Sickness and in Health: Parasites of Stranded Pacific Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina richardii) in Northern Oregon and Southern Washington, Cecily Douglas Bronson (Thesis)
Effects of Green Crab (Carcinus maenas) Across Variable Densities of Eelgrass (Zostera marina), Kimberly Alexis Brown (Thesis)
An Experimental Study of Norton and Thule Cooking Pot Performance, Caelie Marshall Butler (Thesis)
TermOil, Jay Butler (Closed Thesis)
An Automated Zoom Class Session Analysis Tool to Improve Education, Jack Arlo Cannon II (Thesis)
Improvement Science: Improving Employee Engagement, Ryan S. Carpenter (Dissertation)
Model.Disclose(): Examination of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Disclosure at Work, Timothy Allen Carsey (Dissertation)
Examining Demographic and Environmental Factors in Predicting the Perceived Impact of Cancer on Childhood and Adolescent Cancer Survivors, Nazan Cetin (Dissertation)
The New Shiny Penny? Regenerative Agriculture Beliefs and Practices Among Portland's Urban Agriculturalists, Melia Ann Chase (Thesis)
Planning and Real-Time Resource Allocation in Freight Logistics Systems Utilizing Emerging Transportation Technologies, Darshan Rajesh Chauhan (Dissertation)
Health Literacy and People Diagnosed with Mental Illness, Beckie Child (Dissertation)
High School Persisters and Alternative Schools, Hyuny Clark-Shim (Dissertation)
Must Be Present to Win: Principals' Perspectives on Exclusionary Discipline, William Jeremy Cohen (Dissertation)
Temperature and Predator Effects on Green Crabs (Carcinus maenas) and Their Distribution in South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Elissa Connolly-Randazzo (Thesis)
Legislative Procedures and Perceptions of Legitimacy, Megan Elizabeth Cox (Thesis)
The Iroquois Indians in Ohio, 1600–1763, Woody Crow (Thesis)
Transforming Learning Communities, Transforming Ourselves: A Qualitative Investigation of Identity Processes in a Participatory Action Research-themed Undergraduate Course, Julia Sara Dancis (Dissertation)
Winter Tale: a Novel, Kari Davidson (Closed Thesis)
Culture of Care and Prosocial Leadership: Autoethnography of an Elementary School Principal Navigating Covid-19, Ashley Marie Davis (Dissertation)
Scenario Acceleration Through Automated Modelling: A Method and System for Creating Traceable Quantitative Future Scenarios Based on FCM System Modeling and Natural Language Processing, Christopher W.H. Davis (Dissertation)
Examining Probation Lengths in Philadelphia, PA, Madeline Grace Davis (Thesis)
The Haunted Refuge Trilogy, Mark Devendorf (Closed Thesis)
Urban Nesting Biology, Population Viability and Ecology of the Willow Flycatcher, Empidonax traillii, Stephanie Alexandra Byrne Doorly (Thesis)
System Design for the Quantification of Microbial Motility in Extreme Environments, Megan Marie Dubay (Thesis)
Framing the Green New Deal and Climate Change: A Content Analysis of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, Danielle Elizabeth Duffy (Thesis)
The Practice of Traditional Grading: A Site for Inquiring into Teacher Identity Friction in a U.S. High School, Sarah Emily Dutton-Breen (Dissertation)
Does Instructional Autonomy Matter? Exploring Job Satisfaction for Math and Non-Math Teachers in Low, Middle, and High SES Schools, Hannah Sean Ellefritz (Thesis)
Analyzing Classroom Discourse to Investigate Structuring Equitable Mathematical Talk in Small Groups and Whole-Class Discussions, Brittney Marie Ellis (Dissertation)
What's Care Got to Do with It? Expulsion Practices in Family Child Care, Josephina Paulina Emmrich (Dissertation)
The Salve of Not Knowing, Elizabeth Jane Entity (Closed Thesis)
Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land: Dwelling and Residential Alienation in Santa Monica's Rent-Controlled Housing, Lauren E.M. Everett (Dissertation)
Cultural Capital and Community Cultural Wealth: A Study of Latinx First Generation College Students, Affiong Eyo-Idahor (Dissertation)
Mass Capacity Analysis of Stormwater Control Measures Using Synthetic Stormwater with Silica, Organic and Hydrocarbon Constituents, Craig Michael Fairbaugh (Thesis)
Development of a Configurable Real-time Event Detection Framework for Power Systems using Swarm Intelligence Optimization, Umar Farooq (Thesis)
Aerosolization of Catalytic RNA for Prebiotic Transport and In Situ Reactivity, Brennan Roland Farrell (Thesis)
A Multi-Species Study on Several Types of Visitor Effects on the Behavior and Physiology of Animals at the Oregon Zoo, Laurel Berylline Fink (Dissertation)
Mapping Ecosystem Service Flows of Estuary Restoration Projects on the Oregon Coast to Identify Impacted Stakeholders, Shersten King Finley (Thesis)
Stratigraphic and Geochemical Evaluation of Distal Flows of the Columbia River Flood Basalts in the Greater Vale Area, Southeastern Oregon, Lena Marie Fox (Thesis)
Equidistant Sets in Spaces of Bounded Curvature, Logan Scott Fox (Dissertation)
Investigation of Basal Imnaha Basalt Flows and their Relationship to the Picture Gorge Basalt of the Columbia River Basalt Group, Luke James Fredenberg (Thesis)
Scaling EPA-RIMM with Multicore System Management Interrupt Handlers, Alexander K. Freed (Thesis)
Immigration Federalism in the United States: Constructing a Contemporary Institutional Framework Centered on Local Communities through a Case Study Approach, Sara Kuehlhorn Friedman (Dissertation)
Electron Backscatter Diffraction Analysis of Olivine in Ureilite Meteorites: Evaluation of the Partially Magmatic Catastrophic Disruption Model of the Ureilite Parent Body (UPB), James Karl Frye (Thesis)
Synthesis of Diaryl and Alkyl-Aryl Ethers via Diaryl Iodonium Reagents, Rory Tennessee Gallagher (Dissertation)
In Favor of Bringing Game Theory into Urban Studies and Planning Curriculum: Reintroducing an Underused Method for the Next Generation of Urban Scholars, Brian McDonald Gardner (Thesis)
Feminostalgia, Alexis Garrett (Closed Thesis)
Leaving College Without a Degree: The Student Experience at an Urban Broad Access Institution, Andrea Marie Garrity (Thesis)
The Process of Establishing a Blooming Chemistry Tool for Use in Undergraduate Chemistry Education and Research, Emryse Geye (Thesis)
Climate and Intraspecific Geographic Variation of Nests and Eggs in the Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus, Samantha Marie Gillette (Thesis)
Radical (Re)Positioning of Students as Cocreators of Curriculum: A Participatory Action Research Study of Undergraduate Student-Instructor Partnerships in Online Learning Environments, Kari Eleana Goin (Dissertation)
Amplifying Arab American Heritage Language Students' Voices: A Multiple Case Study on Translanguaging Practices and Identity Negotiation in University Arabic Classrooms, Lina Gomaa (Dissertation)
The Daughters of the Fronde: French Aristocratic Women and the Subversion of Bourbon Absolutist Culture, 1661-1727, Jordan David Hallmark (Thesis)
Clarifying and Measuring Inclusive Leadership, Kelly Mason Hamilton (Dissertation)
Post-Fire Erosional and Hydrological Processes Promoting Debris Flow Initiation in a Douglas Fir and Western Hemlock Forest in the Riverside Burn Area, Oregon, Morena Nicole Hammer (Thesis)
"We've Created Cheap Energy off the Backs of Salmon": Dam Removal Politics and Alliances in the Lower Snake River Basin, Krista Harrington (Thesis)
Unpaired Style Transfer Conditional Generative Adversarial Network for Scanned Document Generation, David Jonathan Hawbaker (Thesis)
Examining the Role of Social Support and Neighborhood Deprivation in the Relationship Between Multiple ACEs and Health Risk Behaviors, Marin L. Henderson-Posther (Dissertation)
The Comb, Rosanna Nafziger Henderson (Closed Thesis)
An Examination of Educator Perspectives on Career and College Pathways for Black, Indigenous, and Students of Color with Disabilities, Rachel Anne Herrick (Dissertation)
Japanese Gender Trouble in Revolutionary France: Ikeda Riyoko's Shōjo Manga The Rose of Versailles, Saki Hirozane (Thesis)
A Walk in the Park: A Spatial Analysis of Crime and Portland Parks, Cheyenne Pamela Hodgen (Thesis)
Toward Analyzing the Diversity of Extractive Summaries, Aaron David Hudson (Thesis)
Helminths of Thomomys Species (Rodentia: Geomyidae) of Oregon, Malorri Rene Hughes (Dissertation)
Eating Real Mexican: Identity, Authenticity, Americanization, Health, and Food Culture in the United States After 1900, Alexandra H. Ibarra (Thesis)
Inverse Modeling of Atmospheric CH4 and δ13C-CH4 Measurements from Surface Observation Sites to Understand Trends in Global Methane Emissions Over More Than Three Decades, Sayantani Karmakar (Thesis)
Development of a Configurable DERMS Test System in GridAPPS-D, Sean James Keene (Thesis)
Treatment Disparities in Emergency Medical Services: The Influence of Race/Ethnicity, Obesity, and English Proficiency, Jamie Kennel (Dissertation)
NMR Analyses of Flavored E-cigarette Liquids Before and After Aerosolization, Paul Joseph Kerber (Thesis)
Orthotrichum lyellii as an Active Moss Biomonitor: Examining the Interplay between Ambient PM10, Bulk Deposition and Heavy Metals in an Urban Environment, Scott Bradley Kiel (Thesis)
Materials and Methodologies for Spectroscopic and Optical Analytical Applications in Cultural Heritage Conservation Science, Lyndsay Nichole Kissell (Dissertation)
Confederate Statues in University Opinion Newspaper Articles: An Analysis of Themes and Attachment, Jamie Nicole Knopf (Thesis)
Developing an Energy Service Interface Specification, Jaime T. Kolln (Thesis)
Applying Biomimetic Passive Dynamics to a Quadruped Robot Leg, Emma Krnacik (Thesis)
Stakeholder Participation and Influence at State Public Utility Commissions, Genevieve Theresa Kruse (Dissertation)
Splitting Gaussian Densities to Minimize Variance Along a Direction of Nonlinearity, Amit Kumar (Thesis)
Intersections of Masculinity, Culturally Relevant Factors, and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Among Asian American Men, Jason Z. Kyler-Yano (Dissertation)
Development of a Testing Station for Grid-Interactive Smart Inverter Systems, Yudong Lan (Thesis)
Testing the LS/CMI for Predictive Accuracy: Does Age Matter?, Sandra Stephanie Lawlor (Thesis)
Transportation Mode Choice Behavior in the Era of Autonomous Vehicles: The Application of Discrete Choice Modeling and Machine Learning, Sangwan Lee (Dissertation)
Sleeping to Support: An Examination of the Relationship Between Leader Sleep and Positive Support Behaviors, Jordyn Jan Leslie (Thesis)
Highly Power Dense DC to Three-Phase AC Modular Converters with Tiny Module Capacitors, Wiwin Hartini Lew (Thesis)
Making Curry with Rice: An Optimizing Curry Compiler, Steven Libby (Dissertation)
Stoneware and Earthenware from the Beeswax Wreck: Classification of the Dubé Collection and Discussion of the Interpretation of the Materials in Protohistoric Sites, Vanessa Renee Litzenberg (Thesis)
Spatial Analysis of Burn Severity and Streamflow Response in the Western CONUS, Will Brendan Long (Thesis)
Coming to Know the Local Environment: Children's Experiences in Rautamai Gaunpalika, Nepal, Elsie Nicole Love (Thesis)
Rooted in Deepbone, Kynna Elizabeth Jane Lovin (Closed Thesis)
Linear Nearest Neighbor Flocks With All Distinct Agents, Robert G. Lyons (Dissertation)
The Effects of Language Proficiency on Narrative Macrostructure in Spanish-English Bilinguals, Jenny Magallon (Thesis)
Domain Knowledge as Motion-Aware Inductive Bias for Deep Video Synthesis: Two Case Studies, Long Mai (Dissertation)
Work-Related IPV Among Latinos: Exploring the Roles of Fatherhood Status, Gendered Expectations, and Support for Intimate Partner's Employment, Adrian Luis Manriquez (Thesis)
The Meaning and Measure of Deliberative Systems, Darren Michael McCormick (Thesis)
Multimodal Imaging of Structural Concrete Using Image Fusion and Deep Learning, Sina Mehdinia (Dissertation)
Interwar Weimar Film and Masculinity: Challenging the Presumed Crisis of Interwar German Gender Discourse from Selected Films from 1925-1931, Brandon Metcalf (Thesis)