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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Knowing Without Knowing: Real-Time Usage Identification of Computer Systems, Leila Mohammed Hawana
Why Do Adults Read Young Adult Books?, Monica Hay
Improving Access to Rare Disease Clinical Trials Through Telemedicine, Dylan Haynes, Christina Topham, and Teri Greiling
Closure or Censure? Examining the Determinants of Disclosure of Sexual Assault Among College Students, Whitney Head-Burgess
Student Voice in a Participatory Design Process Focused on Developing Equity-Based STEM Teaching Practices, Frank Heimerdinger
Flood Dynamics in the Portland Metropolitan Area, Past, Present, and Future, Lumas Terence Helaire
DC-RTS Noise: Observation and Analysis, Benjamin William Hendrickson
Assessing the Efficacy of Virtual Experiments in the General Chemistry Laboratory, Cory Jerome Hensen
Untitled Screenplay, Lora A. Herman
No Easy Answer: Representative Bureaucracy and Police Use of Force, Jacob Herrera
Bounce House of 1000 Corpses, Jessica Hiestand
Differential Association of Gender with Suicide Risk among Sexual Minority and Disabled Youth, Cesar E. Higgins Tejera and Willi Horner-Johnson
The Green Gentrification of N. Williams Avenue, Marcco T. Higham
Cannabis Use for Relief of Symptoms in Multiple Sclerosis: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Can Do MS Webinar Attendees, Andrea Hildebrand, Jessica Minnier, and Michelle Cameron
Defining Boundaries: How a City and County Addressed Legalized Recreational Marijuana, Tera Kathleen Hinkley-Bressi
An Evaluation of VGG16 and YOLO v3 on Hand-drawn Images, Lee Hoang
Follow the Bone, Lauren Verdell Hobson
The Future of War: Cyber-Attacks and Aggression in International Law, Jamie Hogan
Investigation of factors limiting age class diversity in native turtles in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, James P. Holley
Attrition and Psychotherapy, Jesse Barrington Homan
Seismic Source Characterization of Faults in the Portland and Tualatin Basins and a Paleoseismic Study of the Gales Creek Fault, OR, Alison Elizabeth Horst
The Process of Establishing Theoretically Grounded Measures of Science and Chemistry Identity for Use in Undergraduate Chemistry Courses, Kathryn Nicole Hosbein
Impact of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles on Nutrient and Contaminant Reduction in Wastewater Treatment Wetlands, Madeline Hubbard
Post-Colonial Fantasy and Intersectional Heroism within Who Fears Death, Miranda Hubbard