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Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Analog Statistical Design for Manufacturability, Yu-Shan Wang
Beloved and the Water Dancer: A Longitudinal Study of Book Reviews From 1987 and 2019, Tiffany Watson
Reviewing the Potential Link Between Grain-Free Diets and Dilated Cardiomyopathy in Canines, Larissa J. Webster
Impact of Sexual Education on the Contraceptive Behaviors of Female Offenders, Francesca Weckmann and Melissa Thompson
How Does the Effect of Hurricane Katrina Influence Healthcare Infrastructure and Resilience?, Sean Y. Wei
Fem or Foe?: Non-Communal Women Who Report Sexual Harassment Receive Fewer Career Advancement Opportunities, Katherine A. Werth, Larry R. Martinez, Heather A. Firestone, and Timothy A. Carsey
Exploring the Role of Transformational Leaders in the Mentorship of Top-Level Administrators: a Case Study of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) VISN LEAD Program, Frederick Giovanni White Jr.
Automatic Keyphrase Extraction From Russian-Language Scholarly Papers in Computational Linguistics, Yves Wienecke
Centering Children in Co-Parenting, Kristen Wiidanen and Ericka Kimball
Centering Children in Co-Parenting, Kristen L. Wiidanen
Extended Tryptic, Samuel Arthur Willhalm
Post Bellum Wishes, Jennifer Cie Williams
Geospatial mapping methods in RStudio to visualize healthcare data in Oregon, Amy Wilson, Dar'ya Pozhidayeva, and Adrienne Zell
Best Practices for a Translingual Pedagogy: an Undergraduate Perspective, Jacob S. Wilson
Energy Stores and Life-History Transitions in Red-Sided Garter Snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis), Rachel Catharine Wilson
Trauma-informed Care as a Service Approach for Youth Experiencing Houselessness: a Scoping Review of the Literature, Crystal Wink
Synthesis and Assessment of Radiotherapy-Enhancing Nanoparticles, Hayden Winter
Sea Surface Microplastics: an Inshore-Offshore Gradient Off the Olympic Peninsula, Rosemary Wood
Ethics and True Crime: Setting a Standard for the Genre, Hazel Wright
Collecting Plant Phenology Data in Imperiled Oregon White Oak Ecosystems: Analysis and Recommendations for Metro, Kirsten Wright
Asian American Women in Leadership and Abusive Supervision, Mari A. Wu
The Availability of Injury Curricula across Accredited Schools and Programs of Public Health: A Needs Assessment, Tiona Wu, Tess Gilbert, and Kathleen F. Carlson
Narrowing the Cognitive Distance Between Engineers and Customers: a Novel Approach, Based on Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping, Byung Sung Yoon
Testing the Correlation of Trace Element Characteristics with the Petrology and Temperature of Eruption of mid-Miocene Rhyolites in Eastern Oregon, Brianna Christine Young