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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Stratospheric Polar Vortex Variability in the Northern Hemisphere: the Effects of Climate Change on Polar Vortex Trends and Future Projections, John Earl Rogers
Papers Please: Immigration, Enforcement, and Remmitances, Jose A. Rojas-Fallas
Reference-Dependence Performance: Managing and Meeting Expectations, Jose A. Rojas-Fallas
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
Constructing Winning NBA Teams Using Mixed Integer Programming, Andrew Rondema, Matt Yamamoto, Mert Cihan Tonkal, Mahamadou Sissoko, and Manolo Lopez
Medicaid Patients' Use of Dental Benefits, Merit Roshdy
Graceful Infrastructure: Harvesting America's Wind Corridor, Samuel Rothacker
Recognizing and Addressing Risk Ambiguity in Sea Level Rise Adaptation Planning: a Case Study of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Mary Ann Rozance
Bleeding into Space: Environmental Violence, Serialized Trauma, and Extradiegetic Space in Brian Wood’s Comic The Massive, Dustin C. Rozier
“Let me have my untrammeled growth” Gender, Education, and The Colonized Intellectual in Nervous Conditions, Dustin C. Rozier
Evaluating the Educational Impact of Ballot Measure 11 Workshops & Youths’ Perceptions of Justice, Ginger Ruddell
Situational Context of Police Use of Deadly Force: a Comparison of Black and White Subjects of Fatal Police Shootings, Shana Lynn Meaney Ruess
Emergency Management Appropriations in Non-Event Municipalities, Andrew Russo
Working Paper No. 33, Behavioral Assumptions in Jevons and Menger, Yvan Saastamoinen
Process-Based Modeling of the Dairy McKay Watershed to Inform Monitoring for Agricultural Best Management Practices, Brittany Saeman
Relationship Between Empathy and Language Proficiency in Adult Language Learners, Mika Sakai
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
Decision Making on Pursuing Computer Science Masters in United States, Chaitali Sunil Sawant
Examining the Development and Classroom Dynamics of Student Disaffection Over Multiple Time Periods: Short-term Episodes and Long-term Trajectories, Emily Anne Saxton
The Spatial and Temporal Evolution of the Portland and Tualatin Basins, Oregon, USA, Darby Patrick Scanlon
Next Generation Science Standards and Physics First: a Case Study of High School Teachers' Beliefs and Practices, Stephen Godfrey Scannell
Very High Frequency Bipolar Junction Transistor Frequency Multiplier Drive Network Design and Analysis, Daniel Dale Schaeffer