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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
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
Route Optimization using R: Completing the McMenamins Passport, Bret Hunley, Caitlin Mohnike, Page Bailey, Radha Shrikhande, and Tyler Stahl
Pollution, Prisons, and the Power of Women: Does Women's Leadership in Government Decrease Emissions Caused by the Prison Industrial Complex?, Chanel Ison and Julius McGee
New Directions for Kabuki Performances in America in the 21st Century, Narumi Iwasaki
The Ripples of Vanport: Navigating Competing Narratives, Curtis J. Jewell
Species Diversity in the Hypertragulid (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) Population of the John Day Basin, Oregon, Lana K. Jewell
Robespierre: A Self-Destructed Revolutionary, Sophie M. Johnson
Decision making for Sector of Government R&D Investment: USA and South Korea Cases, Jongyoung Jo
Measuring the Association Between Perceived Stress and Incidence of Infectious Disease or Illness in College Students in Portland, OR, Trinity E. Joroski
Material Parameter Estimation of Thin Wafers with Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy, Kirk R. Jungles
Folding Mobile Devices, Ketsaraporn Kaewkhiaolueang, Jeffrey Pinkerton, and Ryan Ruark
A 30-Year Climatology of Meteorological Conditions Associated with Lightning Days in the Western United States, Dmitri Alexander Kalashnikov
Review of Kodak’s Strategic Management of Technology. Why Kodak Failed?, Nasim Karami
Japantown PDX, Euri Kashiwagi
Impacts of Enhanced Prenatal Care on Cost, Substance Use Engagement and Foster Care Outcomes among Pregnant Women with Substance Use Disorder, Menolly R. Kaufman
Working Paper No. 21, The Union of Democracy and Socialism: Towards an Intellectual Biography of Karl Kautsky, Leo Kendall
Language Planning and Policy in Education: the Case of Senegal, Serena Khader