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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
"My Teacher Says I'm an Overachiever, but I Think He's an Overexpecter" : Teacher Expectations, Self-Concept, and Academic Success, Jennifer Lea Campbell
The Aero District, Hillsboro, Oregon, LaTaunynia Campbell, Teresa Davis, Jesse Pollard, Kelsey Trostle, and Brandon Willingham
Wind Energy and Wind-Energy-Inspired Turbulent Wakes: Modulation of Structures, Mechanisms and Flow Regimes, Elizabeth H. Camp
Babel from Scratch: Examining the Impact and Usage of Constructed Languages in Literature, Estephan G. Campisi
North PDX Connected: Final Report, Taylor Campi, Mohammed N. Hotak, Hector Rodrigues Ruiz, Leeor Schweitzer, and Mike Serritella
Volcanic Glass as a Paleoenvironmental Proxy: Comparing Preparation Methods on Ashes from the Lee of the Cascade Range in Oregon, USA, Tessa Boe Carlson
Expressing the β-glucosidase Gene as a Reporter in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus, Arman Carrasco
Assessing the Effects of Climate Change and Fuel Treatments on Forest Dynamics and Wildfire in Dry Mixed-Conifer Forests of the Inland West: Linking Landscape and Social Perspectives, Brooke Alyce Cassell
City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services Community Watershed Stewardship Program, Baroness C. Castra Nemici
Precipitation Impacts on Groundwater Levels in the Ephemeral Holgate Lake: A MODFLOW Inquiry, Amory Cervarich
A Hierarchal Decision Model to Determine the Most Promising Tier-2 Space Agency, Smarajit Chakraborty
Software Defined Radio Based Modulated Scatterer Antenna Measurement, Aditya Channamallu
Veganism through a Racial Lens: Vegans of Color Navigating Mainstream Vegan Networks, Iman Chatila
Early Life Sleep Disruption Alters Dendritic Spine Density and Morphology in Prairie Voles, Alex Q. Chau
Spatial Fields of Knowledge: How Public Library Architecture Performs Under Public and Context, Sofia Chavez Cruz
An Exploration of Linear Classifiers for Unsupervised Spiking Neural Networks with Event-Driven Data, Wesley Chavez
Generating Adversarial Attacks for Sparse Neural Networks, Jack H. Chen and Walt Woods
Watershed Resilience to Climate Change: Hysteresis behaviors of Discharge-Turbidity Concentration Relationship, Junjie Chen and Heejun Chang
Naturalizing Knowledge: The Project of Evolutionary Epistemology, Dmitriy Cherchenko
Hierarchical Random Boolean Network Reservoirs, Sai Kiran Cherupally
Impacts of Mindfulness Training on Mechanisms Underlying Stress Reduction in Teachers: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial, Jaiya Rae Choles
Exploring Technology Forecasting and its Implications for Strategic Technology Planning, Yonghee Cho