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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Family Linked Workplace Resources and Contextual Factors as Important Predictors of Job and Individual Well-being for Employees and Families, Jacquelyn Marie Brady
Loss of NRF2 results in decreased neuronal arborization and synaptic density and causes exacerbated age-related cognitive impairment., Mikah Brandes, Nora Gray, Maya Caruso, Jonathan Zweig, Amala Soumyanath, and Joseph F. Quinn
Hydrologic Trends and Spatial Relationships of Stream Temperature and Discharge in Urbanizing Watersheds in the Portland Metropolitan Area of the Pacific Northwest, Emma Lee Brenneman
Local Radiance, Scott Peter Britell
Survivorship and growth of seedlings and saplings in urban forests, Nancy Broshot, William W. McCuen, and Austen F. Bassler
Our Vision of Health for Future Generations: an Exploration of Proximal and Intermediary Motivations with Women of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Danica Love Brown
Emergence and complexity in public health, Lela Brown
Evaluation of a Novel Remote Displacement Sensor Prototype Using Video and Laser-Based Technology for Civil Infrastructure Applications, Nicholas J. Brown
Racial Capitalism and Expropriation in American Welfare Reform, Sam A.G. Bruns
Stratification of Protein Expression across the Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Disease Axis to Inform an Early Detection Platform, Sarah Bumatay
International Comparison of Oncology Centers' Webpage Messaging, Nicole Burke
Forest Structure, Composition, and Regeneration after High-Severity and Rapidly Repeated Wildfires in the Central Cascade Range, Sebastian Upton Busby
Maximizing Community Resiliency Through LINC, Ariel R. Bushnell
How Schools Encourage Incarceration: The School-to-Prison Pipeline and How It Fails Our Children, Madeline S. Buss
The Invasion Ecology of Ivy (Hedera spp.) in Portland's Forest Park, Eric Paul Butler
Recommendations for ivy management in Forest Park, Eric P. Butler, Carole Hardy, and Brandon M. Hadzinsky
Working Paper No. 23, Hyman Minsky and Financial Instability, Gabriel Caballero
The Drive-Inn: Producer Space for Visionaries, Portland, Corey Cabrera, Melissa Meagher, Clayton Crowhurst, Jacob Pavlik, Jarrod Howard, and Spencer Stegmann
The World of Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technology, Ryan Caldwell and Kate Kula
Paints-R-Us Term Project, Tyler Campbell, Skye Gilbreth, Michael Oluwole, Elijah Raffo, and Brad Unruh
Simulation of Human Balance Control Using an Inverted Pendulum Model, Joshua E. Caneer
From Bird-Woman to Mermaid: The Shifting Image of the Medieval Siren, Claire Cannell
Radical Doulas Make "Caring a Political Act": Full-spectrum Birthwork as Reproductive Justice Activism, JaDee Yvonne Carathers
Jet Rebound from Hydrophobic Substrates in Microgravity, Karl Jeffrey Theodore Cardin