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Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Effects of Animals on Children's Development of Perspective-Taking Abilities, Mika Maruyama (Dissertation)
A Rabbi in the Progressive Era: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Ph.D. and the Rise of Social Jewish Progressivism in Portland, Or, 1900-1906, Mordechai Ben Massart (Thesis)
"Heaven's Last, Worst Gift to White Men": The Quadroons of Antebellum New Orleans, Erin Elizabeth McCullugh (Thesis)
Who Am I? Well, It Depends: How Frame-of-Reference Imposes Context In Non-Contextualized Personality Inventories, Elizabeth Anne McCune (Dissertation)
Molecular Changes Associated with Anoxia Tolerance in Austrofundulus limnaeus embryos, Camie Lynn Meller (Dissertation)
Spatial Segregation of the Sexes in a Salt Marsh Grass Distichlis spicata (Poaceae), Charlene Ashley Mercer (Thesis)
Library Characterization and Static Timing Analysis of Single-Track Circuits in GasP, Swetha Mettala Gilla (Thesis)
The Function of an Alternate TFB from Pyrococus furiosus and the Orientation of the TFB B-reader within Archaeal Transcription Initiation Complexes, Michael Micorescu (Dissertation)
Fundamental Studies in Selective Wet Etching and Corrosion Processes for High-Performance Semiconductor Devices, Nabil George Mistkawi (Dissertation)
Scalable event tracking on high-end parallel systems, Kathryn Marie Mohror (Dissertation)
S-Nitrosothiols: Formation, Decomposition, Reactivity and Possible Physiological Effects, Moshood Kayode Morakinyo (Dissertation)
Public opinion and public engagement with genetically modified foods : a qualitative study, Celeste Laurana Moser (Thesis)
Participatory Action Research with Dignity Village: an Action Tool for Empowerment within a Homeless Community, Heather Irene Mosher (Dissertation)
Modeling Terahertz Diffuse Scattering from Granular Media Using Radiative Transfer Theory, Kyung Moon Nam (Thesis)
Coal to Oil in China: Scientific Development or Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones?, Joseph John Narus (Thesis)
The MicroPIVOT : an Integrated Particle Image Velocimeter and Optical Tweezers Instrument for Microscale Investigations, Nathalie Neve de Mevergnies (Dissertation)
Meditation in an Emergency, Wendy Lynn Noonan (Closed Thesis)
The Design of a Novel Tip Enhanced Near-field Scanning Probe Microscope for Ultra-High Resolution Optical Imaging, Derek Brant Nowak (Dissertation)
Extraction of Small Boat Harmonic Signatures From Passive Sonar, George Lloyd Ogden (Thesis)
Investigation of Speech Samples from Typically Developing Preschool Age Children: A Comparison of Single Words and Imitated Sentences Elicited with the PABA-E, Matthew William Olsen (Thesis)
A Logic Formulation for the QCA Cell Arrangement Problem, Marc Stewart Orr (Thesis)
Design Space Analysis and a Novel Routing Agorithm for Unstructured Networks-on-Chip, Neha Parashar (Thesis)
Reversible Logic Synthesis Using a Non-blocking Order Search, Alberto Patino (Thesis)
Family relationship quality and acculturation: Examination of their relationship among Latino adolescent sexual offenders, Lindsey B. Patterson (Thesis)
Teacher Evaluation of Item Formats for an English Language Proficiency Assessment, Jose Luis Perea-Hernandez (Thesis)
Initiation zone characterization of debris flows in November, 2006, Mount Hood, Oregon, Rachel Pirot (Thesis)
Re-Engagement as a Process of Everyday Resilience, Jennifer Rose Pitzer (Thesis)
Bilingual Spanish-English Speaking 4-Year-Old-Children: English Normative Data and Correlations with Parent Reports, Brooke Leann Powers (Thesis)
Understanding the Development of Self-determination in Youth with Disabilities in Foster Care, Jennifer L. Powers (Dissertation)
Genomic and Hormonal Components of Altered Developmental Pathways in the Annual Killifish, Austrofundulus limnaeus, Benjamin M. Pri-Tal (Thesis)
Radiative Transfer Theory Applied to Ocean Bottom Modeling, Jorge Quijano (Dissertation)
Genetic patterns of dispersal and colonization during initial invasion and spread of an invasive grass, Brachypodium sylvaticum, Alisa Paulsen Ramakrishnan (Dissertation)
Occurrence and Concentrations of Caffeine in Seawater from the Oregon Coast and Potential Effects on the Dominant Mussel, Mytilus californianus, Zoe Rodriguez del Rey (Thesis)
Room for Me, Crystal Lynn Root (Closed Thesis)
Weder Bürger noch Mensch: Gefangener der Medien und des Rechtsstaats gekoppelte Entmenschlichung mit Radikalisierung Zwei Auffassungen Heinrich Bölls Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann, Tyler Robert Russ (Thesis)
Production, Characterization and Possible Applications of Monoclonal Antibodies Generated against Toluene Diisocyanate-conjugated Proteins, Tinashe Blessing Ruwona (Dissertation)
Investigating Freeway Speed-Flow Relationships for Traffic Assignment Applications, Meead Saberi Kalaee (Thesis)
Child Welfare Workforce Turnover: Frontline Workers' Experiences with Organizational Culture and Climate, and Implications for Organizational Practice, Melanie Dawn Sage (Dissertation)
"Real Americanism" : resistance to the Oregon Compulsory School Bill, 1920-1925, Catherine Marie Saks (Thesis)
Predictors of Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors: Supervisor Job Stress and Work-Family Climate, Brittany E. Sale (Thesis)
Design of Regular Reversible Quantum Circuits, Dipal Shah (Dissertation)
Beyul Khumbu: Sherpa Constructions of a Sacred Landscape, Lindsay Ann Skog (Thesis)
Anaerobic Degradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons at a Creosote-Contaminated Superfund Site and the Significance of Increased Methane Production in an Organophilic Clay Sediment Cap, Kiara L. Smith (Dissertation)
Performance Analysis of Hybrid CPU/GPU Environments, Michael Shawn Smith (Thesis)
Beyond the "Stalled Revolution": Stay-at-Home Fathers, Gender Identity and the Division of Household Labor, Aundrea Janae Snitker (Thesis)
A Comparison of Single Word Identification, Connected Speech Samples, and Imitated Sentence Tasks for Assessment of Children with a SSD, Emily Katherine Snyder (Thesis)
Using Turbidity Monitoring and LiDAR-Derived Imagery to Investigate Sources of Suspended Sediment in the Little North Santiam River Basin, Oregon, Winter 2009-2010, Steven Sobieszczyk (Thesis)
Transformative Teacher Evaluation: Self Evaluation for High Performing Teachers, Carla Ann Sosanya-Tellez (Dissertation)
Leo Strauss and the Problem of Sein: The Search for a "Universal Structure Common to All Historical Worlds", Jennifer Renee Stanford (Thesis)
Current Situations and Roles of the Portland hoshuukoo: From the Perspective of Heritage Japanese Education, Keiko Sugiue (Closed Thesis)
Expressive Motion Synthesis for Robot Actors in Robot Theatre, Mathias I. Sunardi (Thesis)
Numerical Modeling of Electromagnetic Scattering in Explosive Granular Media, Garth Sundberg (Dissertation)
The Development of Embedded DRAM Statistical Quality Models at Test and Use Conditions, Satoshi Suzuki (Thesis)
Broadcast Mechanism for improving Conditional Branch Prediction in Speculative Multithreaded Processors, Renjith Thankappan Achary Retnamma (Thesis)
Rashomon Comes to the Courtroom: the Adoption of the Lay Judge System in Japan, Its Impact on Jurisprudence, and the Implications for Civic Engagement, Bryan Matthew Thompson (Thesis)
Limitation Riders in the Postreform House: A Test of Procedural Cartel and Conditional Party Government Theories, Jessica Scott Tollestrup (Thesis)
Policy Responses to the Closure of Manufactured Home Parks in Oregon, Andrée Tremoulet (Dissertation)
Comparison of Microshear Bond Strength and Morphological Changes Between Active and Passive Application of 4th Generation Etch-and-Rinse Etchant on Enamel, Sophia Tuyet-Nhi Trieu (Thesis)
A Beer Party and Watermelon: The Archaeology of Community and Resistance at CCC Camp Zigzag, Company 928, Zigzag, Oregon, 1933-1942, Janna Beth Tuck (Thesis)
Modeling the Role of Operational Characteristics in Safety Performance of PublicTransportation Systems: The Case of TriMet Bus Collision and Non-collision Incidents., Paul Herman Wachana (Dissertation)
Nihilism Unbound: Strauss, Nietzsche and Foucault as Nihilist Thinkers, Jeffrey Jacob Wade (Thesis)
Model Analysis of the Hydrologic Response to Climate Change in the Upper Deschutes Basin, Oregon, Michael Scott Waibel (Thesis)
Engaging a Systems Approach to Evaluate Domestic Violence Intervention with Abusive Men: Reassessing the Role of Community, Courtenay Silvergleid Wallpe (Dissertation)
Thin Film Group II-VI Solar Cells Based on Band-Offsets, James Keith Walton (Thesis)
Characterization of Mesoscopic Fluid-like Films with the Novel Shear-force/Acoustic Microscopy, Xiaohua Wang (Thesis)
Women and Resistance in the African Diaspora, with Special Focus on the Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago) and U.S.A., Clare Johnson Washington (Thesis)
War, Peace, and Principled Action: A Study of Veterans and the Peace Movement, Laura Kay Wegener (Thesis)
Phylogeographic Patterns and Intervarietal Relationships within Lupinus lepidus: Morphological Differences, Genetic Similarities, Kevin Allen Weitemier (Thesis)
Cyclic Behavior of Screen Grid Insulated Concrete Form Components, Carl Scott Werner (Thesis)
Multi-Criteria Trucking Freeway Performance Measures for Congested Corridors, Nicole Marie Wheeler (Thesis)
La Palabra es Salud: A Comparative Study of the Effectiveness of Popular Education vs. Traditional Education for Enhancing Health Knowledge and Skills and Increasing Empowerment Among Parish-Based Community Health Workers (CHWs), Noelle Wiggins (Dissertation)
Fabrication, Field Emission Properties and Theoretical Simulation of Triode-Type Carbon Nanotube Emitter Arrays, Jianfeng Wu (Dissertation)
Stochastic Orders in Heterogeneous Samples with Applications, Maochao Xu (Dissertation)
Drought Analysis under Climate Change by Application of Drought Indices and Copulas, Wen Yang (Thesis)
Functional Separation of Multimodular Type I PKS Polypeptides by Utilizing Matched Docking Domains From a Heterologous PKS System, John Kam Yan (Dissertation)
Internal Displacement in Colombia: Violence, Resettlement, and Resistance, Juan Esteban Zea (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Preliminary Characterization of Mitochondrial ATP-sensitive Potassium Channel (MitoKATP) Activity in Mouse Heart Mitochondria, Venkat Raghav Aachi (Thesis)
Quaternions, Octonions, and the Quantization of Games, Aden Omar Ahmed (Dissertation)
Comparison of the Focal Properties of Selected Magnetic and Electrostatic Lenses and Tests of Their Theoretical Models, Luis Thomas Almarez (Dissertation)
'Conflict Analysis:' Exploring the Role of Kuwait in Mediation in the Middle East, Abdullah R. Al Saleh (Thesis)
Red de Salud -- Network of health : structural violence, exclusion and inclusion in Venezuela, Steven John Bates (Thesis)
Developing One's Self: Adoption and Identity Formation Through the Eyes of Transracially Adopted Native American Adults, Jody Becker-Green (Dissertation)
Literacy Leadership in Secondary Schools: a Case Study of Teaching and Learning in Two School Districts, Gregory Berry (Dissertation)
Education as Sustainability : an Action Research Study of the Burns Model of Sustainability Pedagogy, Heather L. Burns (Dissertation)
Modeling Subprime Mortgage Delinquency, Default, Prepayment and Loss, Olgay Cangur (Dissertation)
The Role of Water and Other Resources in the Invasion of Rubus Armeniacus in Pacific Northwest Ecosystems, Joshua Sundance Caplan (Thesis)
Primary Care, Males, Masculinity, and Suicide : a Grounded Theory Study, John Thomas Casey (Dissertation)
Electron Transport and Sensor Characteristics of Tin Dioxide Based Nanocrystalline Materials, Allen Chaparadza (Dissertation)
A Phylogenetic Study of the Old World Asclepiadinae (Apocynaceae) Based on Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Sequence Data, David Chuba (Dissertation)
The traditional and the modern : the history of Japanese food culture in Oregon and how it did and did not integrate with American food culture, David P. Conklin (Thesis)
A Positive Development View of Risk-taking : Attachment, mental health, internal control, and life engagement, Lauren Michelle Denneson (Dissertation)
Students Who Are Moms: How Do They Do It?, Rhianna Marie Derscheid (Thesis)
Characterization of Putative Self-Resistance Genes in the Biosynthetic gene cluster of hygromycin A from Streptomyces hygroscopicus NRRL 2388, Vidya Dhote (Dissertation)
Dutch Spatial Planning: The Coordination of Compact Development and Affordable Housing, Andrew James Eickmann (Thesis)
The Incorporation of Direct Democracy : Populism and Initiative Practices as Contested Terrain, Larry Galizio (Dissertation)
A Systematic Approach to Developing National Technology Policy and Strategy for Emerging technologies, Pisek Gerdsri (Dissertation)
Analysis and Classification of Sounds Produced by Asian Elephants (Elephas Maximus), Sharon Stuart Glaeser (Thesis)
Data Assimilation, Adaptive Observations and Applications, Humberto Carlos Godinez Vasquez (Dissertation)
The relationship of group support, majority status, and interpersonal dependency in predicting intimate partner violence, Mary Elisabeth Gray (Thesis)
Computational Techniques for Reducing Spectra of the Giant Planets in Our Solar System, Holly L. Grimes (Thesis)