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Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Dynamic Through-Silicon Via Clustering in 3D IC Floorplanning for Early Performance Optimization, Sucheta Mohapatra
Animal Magic, Secret Spells, and Green Power: More-Than-Human Assemblages of Children's Storytelling, Angela Molloy Murphy
Perceptions of Police Use of Force at the Intersection of Race and Pregnancy, Emma Elizabeth Lee Money
The Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Debate: Do Savings Provisions Influence Arbitration Outcomes?, Ryan Manning Moore
Identifying and Connecting with Diverse SFF Readers, Denise Morales Soto
Design of a 7-MHz Portable Direct Conversion Transceiver with Digitally Controlled Keying, Abram Morphew
The Role of the Psychologist in Supporting Fat Patients in the Medical System, Tessalyn Morrison, Esther Freeman, Jaimie Oller, and Carrie Fuentes
Faculty Use of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) for Internationalization at Home, Sally Strand Mudiamu
Optimized Xanthene-based Probes for Pancreatic Cancer Imaging, Ian Ruramai Munhenzva
Experimenting with a Biologically Plausible Neural Network, Dmitri Murphy
Social Saints in the City: Race, Space, and Religion in Chicago Women's Settlement Work, 1890-1935, Johanna Katherine Murphy
Working Paper No. 43, Towards a Veblenian Theory of Instincts, Duane Murray
Initial Decision Framework for the Implementation of Virtual Teams, Duane Murray, Jeffrey Pinkerton, Yaya Sirimongkarakorn, Mohammed Thawab, and Mohammed Zaid
The Campaigns of Alexander: How Arrian’s Character of Alexander Influences How He is Portrayed in Writing, Peyton M. Myers
Meta-Analysis of Tobacco Control Policies for Reducing Tobacco Consumption, Arya Kevin Naghdi
The Epidemiology of Firearm-Related Injuries Presenting at the Two Level-1 Trauma Centers in Oregon from 2009-2019, Kamil Narayan, Kathleen F. Carlson, and Susan DeFrancesco
Minimum Complexity Echo State Networks for Genome and Sequence Analysis, Christopher John Neighbor
A Public Health Recommendation Countering the Online Anti-Vaccination Movement, Grace M. Neumann
Oregon Longitudinal Child Abuse and Neglect Linkage Replication Project, Abigail Newby-Kew, Suzanne Zane, Lynn Marshal, John Putz, and Jared Parrish
Workflow Critical Path: a Data-Oriented Path Metric for Holistic HPC Workflows, Daniel D. Nguyen
The Utility of Multiplex Closeness Centrality for Predicting Item Difficulty Parameters in Anomia Tests, Khanh L. Nguyen
Factor Structure of the Short Form of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-15) in an Early Adolescent, Non-clinical Population, Phuc Toan Nguyen
A Major Motion Picture or Just a Picture? An Analysis in Movie Tie-Ins vs. Original Cover Art, Vivian Nguyen
Expanding the Search for Cancer-emitting Volatile Organic Compounds: A Review and Caenorhabditis Elegans Behavioral Assay, Yuman Ng and Suzanne Estes
Literatura Viva: Formas de conocer la literatura y agricultura desde Chiapas, Jesse Nichols