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Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Quantifying Twentieth Century Glacier Change in the Sierra Nevada, California, Hassan J. Basagic (Thesis)
Bonneville Power Administration and the Creation of the Pacific Intertie, 1958 -1964, Joshua D. Binus (Thesis)
Immigrant Students and the College Classroom Climate in Higher Education, Becky Appley Boesch (Dissertation)
The Use and Interpretation of the Batería III With U.S. Bilinguals, Julie Esparza Brown (Dissertation)
"Do I Really Belong Here?" The Effects of Difference in Paths through Higher Education on Graduate Student Perception on Legitimacy, Tina Dawn Lillian Burdsall (Thesis)
Design and Synthesis of Antimalarial Drugs Based on a Chloroquine Scaffold, Steven James Burgess (Dissertation)
Buried : Unearthing the Secrets of Oregon Truffles, Lucy Burningham (Thesis)
The Institutionalization of Diversity and Gender Equity Norms and Values in Higher Education Settings, Rowanna Lynn Carpenter (Dissertation)
A Novel Approach to the Synthesis of Silicon Nanowires, Joo Chick Chan (Dissertation)
Giving Process its Due : can Collaboration Help Environmental Markets Succeed?, John Robert Cochran (Dissertation)
Staying Within the Margins: The Educational Stories of First-Generation, Low-Income College Students, Diane Lyn Cole (Dissertation)
Organizational Complexity in American Local Governance: Deploying an Organizational Perspective in Concept and Analytic Framework Development, Charles David Crumpton (Dissertation)
Zoonotic Disease Emergence : a Study of Host-Pathogen-Ecosystem Dynamics, Laurie Jeanne Dizney (Dissertation)
Benchmarking Community Investments in Green Building and Green Buying Programs in Five U.S. Cities, Shanna Nicole Eller (Dissertation)
The Role of Mitochondria ATP-sensitive Potassium Channel in Cardioprotection, Ksenia Andrukhiv Everton (Thesis)
Long Form Improvisation - Creating Spontaneous Communities Through Collaborative Comedic Performance, Brad Fortier (Thesis)
The Imago mundi of Honorius Augustodunensis, Nicholas Ryan Foster (Thesis)
The Effects of Climate Change and Urbanization on the Runoff of the Rock Creek Basin, Jon J. Franczyk (Thesis)
Hardware Architectures and Implementations for Associative Memories : the Building Blocks of Hierarchically Distributed Memories, Changjian Gao (Dissertation)
Development of Clinical Judgment in Nursing Students: A Learning Framework to use in Designing and Implementing Simulated Learning Experiences, Paula Marie Gubrud-Howe (Dissertation)
Multi-Level Environmental Governance : a Comparative Case Study of Five Large Scale Natural Resource Management Programs, Shpresa Halimi (Dissertation)
Sustainability From the Perspectives of Indigenous Leaders in the Bioregion Defined by the Pacific Salmon Runs of North America, David Edward Hall (Dissertation)
The Original Build Up of Genetic Information by RNA Recombination, Eric John Hayden (Dissertation)
At Home in the World : the American Middle-Class House as a Twenty-First Century Public Square, Kathleen Holt (Thesis)
Theoretical Investigations and Microarray Applications of DNA multiplex hybridization reactions, Michael Todd Horne (Dissertation)
What's Regulation Got to Do With It? : Examining the Impact of Regulatory Intensity on Facility Environmental Management and Performance, Cody Jones (Dissertation)
Police Organizations : an Empricial Examination of American Sheriff's Offices and Municipal Police Agencies, Matthew Adam Jones (Dissertation)
Measuring Community-Engaged Departments: A Study to Develop an Effective Self-Assessment Rubric for the Institutionalization of Community Engagement in Academic Departments, Kevin Kecskes (Dissertation)
Creating a Theoretical Framework for Understanding Homeland security using Multiple Frame Analysis, Linda Ann Kiltz (Dissertation)
Children with Incarcerated Parents : a Longitudinal Study of the Effect of Parental Incarceration on Adolescent Externalizing Behaviors, Jean Mollenkamp Kjellstrand (Dissertation)
Traumatic Experience Scale for Jurors (TESJ), Michael James Krummel (Dissertation)
Role of Food Neophobia, Food Attitudes and Written Information on the Acceptance of Novel Fish Products : a Cross-Cultural Study, Koei Kudo (Dissertation)
Emerging Governance at the Edge of Constrained Federalism : Public Administrators at the Frontier of Democracy, Gary Lloyd Larsen (Dissertation)
George Lakoff"s Theory of Worldview : a Case Study of the Oregon Legislature, Catherine Law (Dissertation)
Window Queries Over Data Streams, Jin Li (Dissertation)
Physicians Providing Alternative Medicine: Boundary Crossing and the Emergence of Integrative Medicine, Richard Scott Lockwood (Dissertation)
Who Benefits? : a Multilevel Analysis of the Impact of Oregon's Volunteer Mentor Program for Postsecondary Access on Scholarship Applicants, Alisha Ann Lund-Chaix (Dissertation)
Retention of Special Education Professionals : Perceptions of Principal Support, Laurreta Janette Manning (Dissertation)
Developing a Sense of Academic Ownership : a Longitudinal Analysis, Gwen Catherine Marchand (Dissertation)
Organizational Change in Corrections Organizations : the Effect of Probation and Parole Officer Culture on Change in Community Corrections, Shea Brackin Marshman (Dissertation)
Coupling the Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model CE-QUAL-W2 With a Multi-Trophic Fish Bio-Energetics Model for Lake Roosevelt, Washington, Michael Lee McKillip (Dissertation)
Irrelevance, Polymorphism, and Erasure in Type Theory, Richard Nathan Mishra-Linger (Dissertation)
Pre-Service Science Teacher Sense of Self in Developing Multicultural Practice, Yuki Marie Monteith (Dissertation)
Psychological detachment as a moderator in work-family conflict relationships, Lauren Ann Murphy (Thesis)
Advanced Algorithms for VLSI: Statistical Circuit Optimization and Cyclic Circuit Analysis, Osama Neiroukh (Dissertation)
Peroxynitrite Chemistry: Formation, Decomposition and Possible Deactivation Mechanisms by Thiols, Olufunke Modupe Olagunju (Dissertation)
The Oregon University System's Proficiency-Admission Standards System as a Predictor of College Student Persistence-Related Outcomes, Tanya Leigh Ostrogorsky (Dissertation)
Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of Some Selected Organosulfur Oxo-acids, Adenike Otoikhian (Dissertation)
Microbial Colonization of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Chimneys, Antoine Pagé (Dissertation)
More Than Screening Tools? : an Examination of Preliminary Applicant Evaluation Methods, Matthew Eric Paronto (Dissertation)
Semantic Components: A Model for Enhancing Retrieval of Domain- Specific Information, Susan Loucette Price (Dissertation)
Cardioprotective Signal Transduction to Mitochondria, Casey Lee Quinlan (Dissertation)
Development and Investigation of Unique Organic Materials to Detect Disease Biomarkers, George Kiplimo Samoei (Dissertation)
"Railcars Loaded With Crisp Fresh Vegetables" A study of Agriculture at the Tule Lake Relocation Center 1942-1946, Michael David Schmidli (Thesis)
Work-related Outcomes of Financial Stress: Relating Perceived Income Adequacy and Financial Strain to Job Performance and Worker Well-being, Lindsay Ellen Sears (Thesis)
"Whose streets? Our streets!" Urban Social Movements and the Transformation of Everyday Life in Pacific Northwest Cities, 1990-1999, Leanne Claire Serbulo (Dissertation)
Lost in Translation : Ideas of Population Health Determinants in the American Policy Arena, Maria Gilson Sistrom (Dissertation)
The Impact of the Swingshift Options School Alternative Educational Pathway on at-risk Middle School Students' Transition to High school, Carol Rutan Smith (Dissertation)
Structural Bone Density of Pacific Cod (Gadus macrocephalus) and Halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis): Taphonomic and Archaeological Implications, Ross E. Smith (Thesis)
The Reproductive and Conservation Biology of the spotted towhee in Urban Forest Fragments, Sarah Bartos Smith (Dissertation)
Representation without Taxation : China's Rural Development Initiatives For a New Millenium, Minzi Su (Dissertation)
How Organizational Arrangements Affect High Reliability in Public Research Universities: Perceptions of environmental Health and Safety Directors, Rita Finn Sumner (Dissertation)
Challenging the New Penology: A Case-Study Analysis of Correctional Management, Interstate Inmate Transfers, and Administrative Intent, Robert Thomas Swan (Dissertation)
Students' Reasoning about the Concept of Limit in the Context of reinventing the Formal Definition, Craig Alan Swinyard (Dissertation)
Financial Engineering for Energy System Capital Budgeting, Chin-Chuen Teoh (Dissertation)
The Child Care Self-Sufficiency Scale: Measuring Child Care Funding and Policy Generosity across States, Karen Tvedt (Dissertation)
Nanostructered Aminophenylporphyrin Films for Use in Bulk Heterojunction and Inverse Dye-Sensitized TiO₂ Solar Cells, Michael George Walter (Dissertation)
The Washington State Patrol, Accountability-Driven Leadership, and the Organizational Factors that Propelled their Success: An Organizational Analysis, Timothy Carl Winchell (Dissertation)
Design of Radio-Frequency Filters and Oscillators in Deep-Submicron CMOS Technology, Haiqiao Xiao (Dissertation)
Methodology for Developing a Functional Multiscale Architecture Model System Towards Future Integrated Circuits, Yamini Yadov (Dissertation)
Intimate Partner Violence, Supervisor Support and Work Outcomes for Low-Wage Workers, Nanette Lucia Yragui (Dissertation)
CMOL/CMOS Hardware Architectures and Performance/price for Bayesian Memory - The Building Block of Intelligent Systems, Mazad Shaheriar Zaveri (Dissertation)
A Grounded Agent Model of the Consumer Technology Adoption Process, Brent Alan Zenobia (Dissertation)
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Modeling Streambed Heating in Shallow Streams, Robert Leslie Annear Jr. (Dissertation)
The Characterization of tRNA Modifying Enzymes S-adenosylmethionine : tRNA Ribosyltransferase-isomerase (QueA) and a novel Type I GTP cyclohydrolase, Shilah Amal Bonnett (Dissertation)
Contribution of Public Support Agency Programs to Local New Firm Performance, Stephen Baker Braun (Dissertation)
Shift Work in the Long-TermCare Industry : an Examination of Organizational and Individual factors that influence Employee Outcomes, Kristin Elizabeth Charles (Dissertation)
Sensitivity Analysis for Hierarchical Decision Models, Hongyi Chen (Dissertation)
Selected Chemistry of Biologically-Active Thiols : N-acetylpenicillamine and 2-mercaptobenzothiazole in Nitrosothiol Formation and Role in Allergic Contact Dermatitis Respectively, Itai Chipinda (Dissertation)
The Family Fuselloviridae : Diversity and Replication of a hyperthermic virus infecting the archaeon genus Sulfolobus, Adam Joseph Clore (Dissertation)
Radicalism in American Political Thought : Black Power, the Black Panthers, and the American Creed, Christopher Thomas Cooney (Thesis)
Workplace Cognitive Failure as a Mediator between Work-Family Conflict and Safety Performance, Rachel Jane Daniels (Thesis)
Islamophobia and the U.S. Media, Michelle Maria Nichole Diamond (Thesis)
A Multilevel Analysis of Individual and Organizational-Level Effects on Staff Attitudes Towards Use of Medication in Substance Abuse Treatment, John Patrick Fitzgerald (Dissertation)
The Effects of Coypu Myocaster Coypus (Nutria) Trapping on the Water Quality of South Johnson Creek, Beaverton, Oregon, Deborah Jean Frankel (Thesis)
"Questions About Stuff You Don't Normally See on a Map:" A Study of Sixth-Graders' Abilities to Understand Quantitative Thematic Maps, Stephanie Lynn Gaspers (Thesis)
Memory and hypnotism in Wagner's musical discourse, Jonathan C. Gentry (Thesis)
Biosedimentology of Thermal Features in the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka, Russia : Implications for Biosignature Formation, Jessica Christine Goin (Dissertation)
The Changing Paradigm of Emergency Management : Improving professional development for the Emergency Manager, Robert Edward Grist (Dissertation)
Multi-Stakeholder Collaborative Learning and Action Processes for Social Change and Sustainability : The Case of a Regional Food System Effort in the Pacific Northwest, Janet Michelle Hammer (Dissertation)
Using Building Energy Simulation and Geospatial Modeling Techniques in Determine High Resolution Building Sector Energy Consumption Profiles, Shem C. Heiple (Thesis)
Family-Friendly Workplace Culture, Flexibility, and Workplace Support for Dependent Care : the Perspectives of Human Resource Professionals, Katherine June Huffstutter (Dissertation)
Spatial and morphological change of Eliot Glacier, Mount Hood, Oregon, Keith Michael Jackson (Thesis)
Family Participation : Exploring the Role it Plays in Outcomes for Youth with Serious Emotional Disorders, Jodi Lee Kerbs (Dissertation)
Beyond the Classroom Walls: a Study of Out-Of-Class English Use by Adult Community College ESL Students, Tracey Louise Knight (Thesis)
ReVisioning : a Theoretical Model of Teachers' Career Choices, Wendi Bain Laurence (Dissertation)
Ultra Reliable Computing Systems, Chong Ho Lee (Dissertation)
Global Civil Society Finding Collective Voice in Diversity, Kristen Marie Magis (Dissertation)
An Examination of Faculty Experiences with Hybrid Formats, Jo Elsa Meyertons (Dissertation)
Prediction of Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis from Psychosocial Questionnaires, Scott David Mist (Dissertation)