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Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Stratospheric Polar Vortex Variability in the Northern Hemisphere: the Effects of Climate Change on Polar Vortex Trends and Future Projections, John Earl Rogers

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Papers Please: Immigration, Enforcement, and Remmitances, Jose A. Rojas-Fallas

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Reference-Dependence Performance: Managing and Meeting Expectations, Jose A. Rojas-Fallas

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Measurements of N₂O and SF₆ Mole Fraction and N₂O Isotopic Composition between 1978 and 1997 in Archived Air Samples from Cape Meares, Oregon, Terry Clinton Rolfe

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Constructing Winning NBA Teams Using Mixed Integer Programming, Andrew Rondema, Matt Yamamoto, Mert Cihan Tonkal, Mahamadou Sissoko, and Manolo Lopez

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Neuroprotective Effects of Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators Against Amyloid Beta Toxicity and the Pathways that Provide Protection, Maggie Rose

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Medicaid Patients' Use of Dental Benefits, Merit Roshdy

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Graceful Infrastructure: Harvesting America's Wind Corridor, Samuel Rothacker

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Recognizing and Addressing Risk Ambiguity in Sea Level Rise Adaptation Planning: a Case Study of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Mary Ann Rozance

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Bleeding into Space: Environmental Violence, Serialized Trauma, and Extradiegetic Space in Brian Wood’s Comic The Massive, Dustin C. Rozier

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“Let me have my untrammeled growth” Gender, Education, and The Colonized Intellectual in Nervous Conditions, Dustin C. Rozier

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Evaluating the Educational Impact of Ballot Measure 11 Workshops & Youths’ Perceptions of Justice, Ginger Ruddell

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Sahrawi Self-Determination Within Existing Borders: Adapting the Right to Self Determination to Modern International Norms, Alma Ruedas

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Situational Context of Police Use of Deadly Force: a Comparison of Black and White Subjects of Fatal Police Shootings, Shana Lynn Meaney Ruess

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Emergency Management Appropriations in Non-Event Municipalities, Andrew Russo

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Working Paper No. 33, Behavioral Assumptions in Jevons and Menger, Yvan Saastamoinen

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Process-Based Modeling of the Dairy McKay Watershed to Inform Monitoring for Agricultural Best Management Practices, Brittany Saeman

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Relationship Between Empathy and Language Proficiency in Adult Language Learners, Mika Sakai

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Predictive Validity of a New Self-report Measure of Individual Skin Type Through Characterization of Skin Melanin Using Reflectance Photospectroscopy, Mark Sanchez, Lisa Marriott, Teala Alvord, R. Samatham, and S. Chang

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Mixing of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers across Sauvie Island, Oregon based on stable isotopes (δ18O and δD) of surface water, Mae Saslaw

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Decision Making on Pursuing Computer Science Masters in United States, Chaitali Sunil Sawant

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Examining the Development and Classroom Dynamics of Student Disaffection Over Multiple Time Periods: Short-term Episodes and Long-term Trajectories, Emily Anne Saxton

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The Spatial and Temporal Evolution of the Portland and Tualatin Basins, Oregon, USA, Darby Patrick Scanlon

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Next Generation Science Standards and Physics First: a Case Study of High School Teachers' Beliefs and Practices, Stephen Godfrey Scannell

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Very High Frequency Bipolar Junction Transistor Frequency Multiplier Drive Network Design and Analysis, Daniel Dale Schaeffer