This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2022
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)
The Jane Stories, Katherine Elizabeth Mitchell (Closed Thesis)
Silos in Higher Education Institutions: Shifting from Organizational Phenomena to a Practical Framework for Equitable Decision-making, Mandi Sue Mizuta (Dissertation)
Scientology's FAQ: Sciencing, Tech-romancing, Simulacra, & Simulation an Estranged Content Analysis, David Scott Morrill (Thesis)
Higher Education Futures: The Transformative Potential of Using Critical Foresights Practices & Arts Based Research in Our Brittle, Anxious, Non-Linear, and Incomprehensible (BANI) World, Sheila Christine Mullooly (Dissertation)
Seismic Performance Design Criteria of Existing Bridge Bent Plastic Hinge Region and Rapid Repair Measures of Earthquake Damaged Bridges Considering Future Resilience, A K M Golam Murtuz (Dissertation)
Investigating Active Learning through the Lens of Student Engagement, Nicole Naibert (Dissertation)
Dustoff, Ryan D. O'Connell (Closed Thesis)
Masculinity Instability and Ideologies as Predictors of IPV Perpetration: The Mediating Role of Relationship Power, Emma Christine Marioles O'Connor (Dissertation)
A Day Late and a Dollar Short: Examining Perceptions of Which Exonerees Deserve Compensation, Alexandra Pauline Olson (Thesis)
Professional Development for Special Education Paraeducators: How to Effectively Train Classroom Staff to Support Students with Complex Instructional and Behavioral Needs, Cara Olson-Sawyer (Dissertation)
The Benefits of Social Support on Health and Well-Being in Military Populations: Examining Mechanisms, Source of Support, and the Reach of a Workplace Well-Being Intervention, AnnaMarie Sophia O'Neill (Dissertation)
Reconceiving the Relationship Between the Built Environment and Walking Behavior: Examining the Samples, Scales, and Methods in Travel Behavior Research, Jaime Pablo Orrego-Oñate (Dissertation)
The Effect of Peer Relationships and Cyberbullying Victimization on Young Adults' Propensity to Cyberbully, Taaj Weraphorn Orr (Thesis)
An Assessment Model of the Healthcare Entrepreneurship Ecosystem to Foster Solutions for Underserved Communities, Abdalilah Saleh Owaishiz (Dissertation)
An Analysis of the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Tulsa Remote Program, As an Effective Economic Development Strategy, Kristen J. Padilla (Thesis)
A Bayesian Latent Scale Model for Multivariate Longitudinal Data, Kruti Pandya (Dissertation)
K-12 Racial Equity Work in the Predominantly White Pacific Northwest: Interracial Conversations, Counter-Stories, and Considerations, Bradley Justin Parker (Dissertation)
Critical Awareness, Reflection, and Action in Head Start Leadership: A Critical Consciousness Case Study of Head Start Leaders, Christopher Pearce Agudelo (Dissertation)
Augmentative and Alternative Communication Use, Service Delivery Experiences, and Communicative Participation for People with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Betts Peters (Dissertation)
Surfer's Journal, Ann M. Petroliunas (Closed Thesis)
Selected Hybrid-Genre, Short Story, and Fiction Work, Elizabeth F. Pickard (Closed Thesis)
Do Motives Matter? The Role of Motivation in Shaping the Impact of Mindfulness Training on Teachers' Psychological Distress and Wellbeing, Cristi N. Pinela (Dissertation)
Linking Conservation and Environmental Justice: Exploring Relationship-Building Between a Land Trust and Four Pacific Northwest Tribes, C. Noel Plemmons (Thesis)
Effectiveness of Air Pollution Mitigation Systems: Transport, Transformation, and Control of Ozone in the Indoor Environment, Pradeep Ramasubramanian (Dissertation)
A Tale of Two-Hybrids: Investigating the Interactomes of Cullin-Associated Proteins, Elyse Reitter (Thesis)
Random Lasing in Nano-Crystalline Zinc-Oxide Films, Benito Reynaldo Resendiz (Thesis)
"I Just Had to Do Most Everything": Gender, Settlement and American Empire in the Far West, Hannah Alexandra Reynolds (Thesis)
Dog Music, or, An Invitation to a Haunting, Andrew Joseph Richman (Closed Thesis)
Geographies of Urban Unsafety: Homeless Women, Mental Maps, and Isolation, Jan Radle Roberson (Dissertation)
The Fig King of Fresno: The Botanical Heist That Reshaped California's Landscape, Jacob Walz Roberts (Closed Thesis)
You Will Be Loved: a Mixtape, Ariana M. Rosales (Thesis)
A Three-Dimensional, Analytical Wind Turbine Wake Model: Flow Acceleration, Empirical Correlations, and Continuity, Zein Ahmad Sadek (Thesis)
Wealth and Peace: The History and Political Economy of Montesquieu's Doux Commerce, Adam W. Saltzman (Thesis)
A Snapshot of Japanese Family Conversation and Language Maintenance Effort, Yuya Sano (Thesis)
The Impact of New Light Rail Service on Employment Growth in Portland, Oregon, Lahar Santra (Thesis)
Observation and Control of Photoemission and Electric Field Enhancement of Plasmonic Antennas through Photoemission Electron Microscopy, Christopher M. Scheffler (Dissertation)
Bombyx Mori, David Kysung Seung (Closed Thesis)
Same Game, Different Rules: Pointillist Imperialism and the New Cartography of Great Power Competition, Andrew Jesse Shaughnessy (Thesis)
Hesitant Claim to Life, Brent Shenton (Closed Thesis)
Keeping in Touch While Sheltering in Place: A Comparative Case Study on the Complex Emotions Experienced by Older Adults When Introduced to ICTs and Video Conferencing Services, Marisa Susan Soltz (Dissertation)
A Typology of Foster Home Quality Elements in Relation to Foster Youth Mental Health, Paul Sorenson (Dissertation)
Proper Orthogonal Decomposition of Reynolds and Dispersive Stresses in Turbulent Boundary Layers Over Multi-Scale Rough Patches, Catherine Virginia Spivey (Thesis)
Well of Endings, Jason Michael Stieber (Closed Thesis)
The Myths They Make of Us, Kaitlin Stone (Thesis)
"I'm Very Enlightened:" Assisting Black Males Involved in the Criminal Justice System to Deal With and Heal From Racism, Darnell Jackie Strong (Dissertation)
Dress and Identity: Using Sartorial Artifacts to Explore Identity at Fort Vancouver, Dana Marie Sukau (Thesis)
Erasure through Engagement: The Community Resettlement of Isle de Jean Charles, Meghan Elizabeth Sullivan (Thesis)
Agenda Setting and Europe's Common Immigration Policy, Jamie P. Surface (Dissertation)
Modeling Postfire Effects on Snow Albedo and Forest Recovery Over a Chronosequence of Burned Forests in the Triple Divide Region of the Rocky Mountains, Anton J. Surunis (Thesis)
Geochronological and Geochemical Investigation into Rhyolite Volcanism of the High Lava Plains and Columbia River Basalt Group Provinces of Eastern Oregon, USA, Vanessa Marie Swenton (Dissertation)
Words Matter: A Linguistic Analysis of Cluniac Views on the Use and Abuse of Violent Force, Amanda K. Swinford (Thesis)
The Rise of Neo-Fascist Populism and Islamophobia in the West, Mohamed Tawfiq Said Tabib (Thesis)
Spatial and Seasonal Variations of Microplastic Concentrations in Portland's Freshwater Ecosystems, Rebecca Talbot (Thesis)
More Than Words: Articulating the Multisensory Experiences of Protected Area Visitors in Southern Nevada, Sara Nicole Temme (Thesis)
Learning From Machines: Insights in Forest Transpiration Using Machine Learning Methods, Morgan Tholl (Thesis)
Increasing Collaboration to Improve Student Outcomes: Improvement Science, Cassandra Diane Thonstad (Dissertation)
Methodologies for Quantum Circuit and Algorithm Design at Low and High Levels, Edison Tsai (Dissertation)
Examining Emergency Citizen Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Emergent Groups Addressing Food Insecurity in Portland, Oregon, Aliza Ruth Tuttle (Thesis)
Most Recent Rupture on the Boulder Creek Fault Triggered Bedrock Landsliding in the Nooksack Watershed, Whatcom County, Washington, Abigail Catherine Underwood (Thesis)
Robust Design Methodologies Under Performance Variations for More Than Moore Technologies: CNFETs & 3DICs, Satya Keerthi Vendra (Dissertation)
Building a Turbulent Jet: Measuring/Modeling Lagrangian Dispersion, Particle Trajectory Dynamics and Intermittency, Bianca Fontanin Viggiano (Dissertation)
The Plant Water Management Experiments, Marc Benjamin Wasserman (Thesis)
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Colonization Response to Dike Removal in the Salmon River Estuary, Elinore Webb (Thesis)
Le Gout Qui Reste: Cultural Identity and Belonging in Ook Chung's Kimchi, Taurean James Weber-Laurencio (Thesis)
In Their Own Words: Examining the Educational Experiences, Expectations, and Values of Oregon Low-Income, Single Black Mothers, Reiko Mia Williams (Dissertation)
The Mechanisms Connecting State Marijuana Policies to Parent, Peer, and Youth Drug Perception Leading to Youth Marijuana Use, Eunbyeor Sophie Yang (Dissertation)
"Damn, man. The time that I lost": Power and the Process of Diagnosis for Women with Chronic Illnesses, Kaitlin Roquel Yeomans (Thesis)
Maturity Model for Customer-Centric Approach in Enterprise: The Case of E-commerce and Online Retail Industry, Soheil Zarrin (Dissertation)
Church of Sasquatch, Scott Zeigler (Closed Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Adoption and Use of E-Grocery Shopping in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Transport Systems and Beyond, Gabriella Abou-Zeid (Thesis)
Improved Predictive Modeling Techniques for Non-Linear Solder Material Behavior, Arman Millian Ahari (Thesis)
The Effect of Viscosity on The Puddle Dynamics in Low Gravity Environment, Taif Hamed Saleh Al Juboori (Dissertation)
The Longitudinal Effects of a Family and Sleep Supportive Intervention on Service Member Anger and Resilience, Shalene Joyce Allen (Thesis)
Power Distribution System Tools for Analyzing Impacts of Projected Electric Vehicle Load Growth Using GridLab-D, Shahad Alomani (Thesis)
Nature-Based Solutions in Environmental Planning: Ecosystem-Based Adaptations, Green Infrastructures, and Ecosystem Services to Promote Diversity in Urban Landscapes, Lorena Alves Carvalho Nascimento (Dissertation)
Assessment of the Blockchain Technology Adoption for the Management of the Electronic Health Record Systems, Saeed Mohammed Alzahrani (Dissertation)
Walking as a Way of Knowing: An Autoethnography of Embodied Inquiry, Lauriel-Arwen Amoroso (Dissertation)
Online Activism and Real Life Environmentalism, Emily Grace Anderson (Thesis)
Improving Bicycle Crossings at Unsignalized Intersections through Pavement Markings: Analysis of the City of Portland Innovative Strategy, Frank Boateng Appiah (Thesis)