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Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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"An Idolatry of Sound" : Nature, the Natural, and the Castrato's Body in the Eighteenth Century, Caitlin Elizabeth Pala

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Lyrically Informed Performance: a Creative Study of Desire and Motivation in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Musical Collaborations, Fiona Palazzi

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The Interactive Effect of Temperature and Salinity in the Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), Rachel Marie Palmer

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Benchmarking Cloud Computing Options Using DEA, Munisha Parikh, Sanjai Raj, Mary Muhly, Ambica Sogal, and William Bramblett

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Gentrification and Aging-in-Place: Examinations of the Older African American Population in Portland, OR, Chanelle P. Parris

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Evaluating the Utility of Theories of Social Integration in Understanding Areal Suicide Rates in the United States, Nathan Finch Parsons

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Exotic Dancers Experiences with Occupational Violence in Portland, Oregon Strip Clubs, Harley J. Paulsen and Ericka Kimball

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Searching for Medieval Lesbianism and "Lesbianistic Intimacy" Within Asexual Christian Religious Orders of the Middle Ages: G. unice sue rose and C. super mel et favum dulciori, Isabelle Paylor

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A Resource Constrained Shortest Paths Approach to Reducing Personal Pollution Exposure, Elling Payne

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Impact of Professional Development on Accessible Early Literacy Content for Preschool Children with Disabilities in Public Library Storytime, Melissa Pebly

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Portland Oregon's "Right to Return" Policy & its Relation to Urban Renewal: a Community Psychology Approach, Diadira J. Pedro-Xuncax

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Working Paper No. 24, Economic Thought During Japan’s Meiji Era, Karson M. Pence

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Working Paper No. 37, The American Opium Trade, Karson M. Pence

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Fated Extraction, Elaina Perez

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Working Paper No. 27, Processes in Capital Accumulation Leading Towards Inequality, Matthew Perez

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The United States' Relationship With the Insanity Defense Before and After United States v. Hinckley, Natalie R. Peterman

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DOHaD and the Latina Paradox, Chelsea Peterson, Kellie Pertl, Lulu Gonzalez, and Molly Sax

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Study of Physical Literacy and Physical Fitness in School Children, Natalie T. Pexton

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Working Paper No. 39, Neoliberalism as a Variant of Capitalism, Justin Pilarski

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Working Paper No. 40, The Rise and Fall of Georgist Economic Thinking, Justin Pilarski

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Building Reuse as a Sustainable Practice in Architecture, Mykalene J. Piva

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The Effect of Dynamic Kinetic Selection on an Evolving Ribozyme Population, Patrick David Poletti

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A Drop in The Bucket: Evaluating Modern Print News Coverage of Drought in the U.S., Jessica Pollard

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A Visual Exploration of Walking in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI), Bryana Popa

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Working Paper No. 42, Commodity Production as an Explanatory Variable in the Outbreak of the American Civil War, Andrew Pope