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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Preventing Child Sexual Abuse and Juvenile Offending Through Parental Monitoring, Kelly E. Stewart
Symbiosis in Archaea: Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity of Marine and Terrestrial Nanoarchaeota and their Hosts, Emily Joyce St. John
Damming The Columbia River and its Impact on Celilo Falls, Dalton R. Stormo
Translation of Personal Narrative from Russian to English, Miles J. Strang
The Influence of Hibernation Temperature on Deiodinase 2 in Red-Sided Garter Snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis), Kalera Stratton
"Beneath this Sod": Intersections of Colonialism, Urbanization, and Memory in the Cemeteries of Salem and Portland, Oregon, Kirsten Makenna Straus
Discretization of the Hellinger-Reissner Variational Form of Linear Elasticity Equations, Kevin A. Sweet
Working Paper No. 03, Thorstein Veblen and The Vested Interests, Lauren Sweger-Hollingsworth
Working Paper No. 04, Marx and Religion, Lauren Sweger-Hollingsworth
Working Paper No. 05, Proudhon, Bakunin and Anarcho-socialism, Lauren Sweger-Hollingsworth
Plant community composition patterns in urban parks of Portland, Oregon, Michelle L. Talal and Mary V. Santelmann
OSAA: Football League Assignment in R, Saisanjay Talari
Selection of HR e-Recruitment Solution, Saisanjay Talari
Family, School, and Forms of Capital, Sonja Taylor
A Consideration of Mesopredator Release and New Zealand's Predator Free Plan: a Literature Review, Kaitlin G. Thomas
Statistical Methods and Validation Procedures for Spike Sorting, Michael Thomas
Exploring Small Business Management in Mexico and the United States using Hofstede's Dimensions, Elizabeth R. Thom
Online Frenzy: How Wattpad Can be Used in Traditional Publishing, Taylor Thompson
Optimizing On-Street Parking Supply with Analytical Models, Chawalit Tipagornwong
Identifying Models of Obsidian Distribution in Preclassic Maya Lowlands Contexts, Sabine Tischler
Validity of an atopic dermatitis outcome measure for real-world clinical practice, Christina Topham, Dylan Haynes, Molly Brazil, and Eric Simpson
Capillary Migration of Large Confined Drops in Non-wetting Wedges, Logan John Torres
Beyond Housing, Karen Torres-Olguin
Travel Behaviors of Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Joseph C. Totten
Memcapacitive Reservoir Computing Architectures, Dat Tien Tran