This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Lackland, Matthew Eugene Rebholz (Closed Thesis)
Critical Analysis of Anti-Asian Hate in the News, Benardo Douglas Relampagos (Thesis)
Community Adaptations to Wildfire Risk in Central Oregon, USA: an Empirical Study of Inclusionary Practices in Collaborative Wildfire Risk Mitigation, Liam Resener (Thesis)
The Radical Relationality of Complex Partnerships: Community-Member Experiences in Critical Community-Based Learning, Amie Riley (Dissertation)
Land of Unwashed Clothes, Samantha Rivas (Closed Thesis)
A Bayesian Network-Based Methodology for Improved Bridge Load Rating and Asset Management, Jeffery Mark Roberts (Dissertation)
Prosecutors or Helpers: An Institutional Ethnography of Child Protective Services Casework, Anna Maria Rockhill (Dissertation)
The Use and Influence of Health Indicators in Municipal Transportation Plans, Kelly Christine Rodgers (Dissertation)
Son Otros Tiempos: Generational Experiences of Male Friendships Amongst Mexican and Mexican American Men, Marisela Rodríguez Molina (Thesis)
Confronting Web3 Technology: Opportunities, Challenges and Community Formation, Christopher-John Rogers (Thesis)
In Their Words: Prospective Teachers' Experiences as a Context for Investigating Their Views of Authority in a Mathematics Classroom, Brenda Lynn Rosencrans (Dissertation)
Comparing the Performance of Different Machine Learning Models in the Evaluation of Solder Joint Fatigue Life Under Thermal Cycling, Jason Scott Ross (Thesis)
Kurdish Filmmaking in Turkey: History and Narratives, Omar Sadik (Thesis)
The Factors Contributing to the Resilience of Thailand's Social Welfare Nonprofit Organizations Since the Onset of the Country's Prolonged Political Crisis in 2005, Narttana Sakolvittayanon (Dissertation)
Disentangling Groundwater Dynamics at Oregon's McKenzie River Headwaters, Taylor Nicole Salazar (Thesis)
Stress-Reduction from Positive Support: Impacts of Receiving Partner Capitalization Support on Veteran Stress/Work Stress, MaryAnn Dona Samson (Thesis)
Race and Income as Predictors of Trust in Flood Mitigation Strategies, Wendy Nathaly Sangucho Loachamin (Thesis)
Do Men Strategically Leverage Women's Intersecting Identities? Intersectional Symbolic Inclusion as an Electoral Competition Strategy in Polarized Turkey, Elif Sari Genc (Dissertation)
Diversity in Recruitment: The Role of Realistic Website Job Previews for Racial and Ethnic Minority Applicants, Jennifer Saucedo (Thesis)
Antecedents of FSSB: Evaluating the Demographic Basis of Support, Erika Ann Schemmel (Thesis)
Investigating Interpersonal and Community Drivers of Taenia solium Prevention to Reduce Acquired Seizure Disorders in Northern Peru: An Analysis of Social Networks, Social Capital, and Community-Identified Barriers and Facilitators, Angela Gayle Spencer (Dissertation)
Collaborative Action in Informal Social Networks of Wildfire Managers in Northwestern Wyoming, Hannah Lynn Spencer (Thesis)
Communion Anthropoid, Joshua Stanek (Thesis)
Developing Public Service Leadership: Understanding the Field Immersion/Comparative Cases Model for Mid-Career Professional Education in Environment and Natural Resources Leadership, Erin M. Steinkruger (Dissertation)
Cementation and Groundwater Chemistry in Pleistocene Paleodune Deposits of the Central Oregon Coast, Adrienne Lynn Stephens (Thesis)
Developing and Testing Low-Cost Air Cleaners for Safer Spaces During Wildfires, Brett William Stinson (Thesis)
Understanding Veteran Perceptions about Mental Health and its Treatment, Quinn Turner Stoddard (Thesis)
Global Climate Governance: Does Bilateral Cooperation Matter?, Nataliya Stranadko (Dissertation)
Uncovering the Nuance and Complexity of Gentrification in Asian Immigrant Communities: A Case Study of Koreatown, Los Angeles, Seyoung Sung (Dissertation)
Beautifully Grotesque: Umezu Kazuo and the Shōjo Experience in Horror Manga, Miko Suzuki (Thesis)
The Impetus of International Security in European Integration: The Nature of EU Common Security and Defense Policy, Osman Goktug Tanrikulu (Dissertation)
A Daily Investigation of the Recovery Paradox: Examining the Dynamic Interplay of Workload, Recovery Experiences, and Microbreaks, Morgan Rose Taylor (Dissertation)
Geese, Tia-Theo Thompson (Closed Thesis)
How Are Oregon's Rural Indigenous Communities Overcoming Water Access Issues?, Tyren John Thompson (Thesis)
A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of NASA's Instagram Account, Danica Lynn Tomber (Thesis)
Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Radiation Localization, Benjamin Scott Totten (Thesis)
Beyond First Thoughts: Understanding the Essence of Equitable Decision-Making, A Phenomenological Study, White Practitioners as Equitable Educational Decision-Makers, Zinnia Un (Dissertation)
"We Just Have to Trust the People in White Lab Coats": Analyzing Distrust in Vaccine Hesitant Comments on the HHS Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities Proposed Rule, Hima Bindu Lakshmi Vedantham (Thesis)
A Case Study of Mexican Immigrant Parents' Involvement in Their Children's Education, Evelia Vega (Dissertation)
Defining Dementia-Friendly Communities From the Perspective of Those Affected, Iris Alexandra Wernher (Dissertation)
The Contested Exempla of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Victoria Theresa White (Thesis)
From the Water, Ambra Wilson (Closed Thesis)
Not on the Menu: Customer Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry, Fernanda Wolburg Martinez (Thesis)
Stakeholder Engagement in Urban Public Transportation Agencies in the United States, Tyler Joseph Wolfe (Dissertation)
Design and Analysis of High Performance Magnetic Gears for Magnetomechanical Thrusters, Ho Yin Wong (Dissertation)
Resistance to DNA Interstrand Crosslinks in Escherichia coli Arises through Prevention Rather than Repair, Travis Kim Worley (Thesis)
Modeling of Signals and Spectra: 5G and Beyond, Xianzhen Yang (Dissertation)
Comparing True Maternal and Paternal Care in Pair-Living, Ex-Situ Varecia rubra (Red Variegated Lemurs) Contextualized Among Other Primate Cooperative Breeders, Payton Elizabeth Zuver (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Efficient Capture of CO2 and Its Selective Reduction to Formic Acid Using Tin-Based Nanomaterials, Emmanuel Oluwaseun Abdul (Dissertation)
Modeling and Analysing the Impact of Heat Pump Water Heaters on Distribution Systems Using GridLAB-D, Midrar Adham (Thesis)
Everything She Left Behind, Karina LaChelle Agbisit (Closed Thesis)
Gender Equity and State-Mosque Relations in Middle East North Africa: A Case Study of Tunisia, Joy Amarachi Agbugba (Thesis)
A New Approach to Machine Learning Hardware Classifier Design Based on Functional Decomposition of Multi-Valued Functions, Saad Mohammad Al-Askaar (Dissertation)
Effects of Pore-Forming Peptides (Melittin and Magainin 2) on the Phospholipid Bilayer Interior, Elmukhtar Ehmed Alhatmi (Dissertation)
Developing an Assessment Model for Entrepreneurship Ecosystems Using Hierarchical Decision Model: Case Study of Riyadh City, Mustafa Kamal Almuzel (Dissertation)
A Biomimetic Model for Oxidative Metabolism of Thiopurine Drugs, Oluyemi Oludare Alo (Dissertation)
A Privacy-Preserving Strategy for the Trust Layer of the Energy Grid of Things Distributed Energy Resource Management System, Mohammed Abdullah Alsaid (Thesis)
Collective Proving Activity in a Synchronous Online Environment, Tenchita Alzaga Elizondo (Dissertation)
Characterization of High Mobility Channels for Use in Quantum Computing Devices, Payam Amin (Dissertation)
Efficiency in the Upper Deschutes Basin: Understanding the Hydrosocial Implications of Irrigation Canal Piping, Rebecca Anderson (Thesis)
Patricia Carpio Whiting: Women, Environmentalism, and the Oregon Legislature in the 1970s, Kim L. Andrews (Thesis)
Curating Conflict: The Material Record of the Philippine-American War at the Oregon Historical Society, Silvie M. Andrews (Thesis)
Heat, Wildfire and Energy Demand: An Examination of Residential Buildings and Community Equity, Chrissi Argyro Antonopoulos (Dissertation)
Transformative Ecoliteracy Development in Postsecondary Education: Cultivating Intentional Relationships Through Garden-Based Learning, Shevawn Armstrong (Thesis)
Measuring Morality in the 2020 US Presidential Election, Scott Edward Atkins (Thesis)
Comparative Foreign Aid Analysis: Replacing the Competition Between Donors with Complementary Aid Policies, Emily Melinda Baker (Thesis)
An Investigation into Magnetic Gears and Magnetic Springs for Marine Hydrokinetic Power Generators, Hossein Baninajar (Dissertation)
A Distributed Trust Model Simulator for Energy Grid of Things Distributed Energy Resource Management System, Abdullah Barghouti (Thesis)
Using Intrinsically-Typed Definitional Interpreters to Verify Compiler Optimizations in a Monadic Intermediate Language, Dani Barrack (Thesis)
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)