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Theses from 2018
Learner power! The Benefits of Metacognition and Transparency on Education Justice, Insights from Neuroscience of Learning, Camille O. Nava
Decision Making Process for Household Travel Mode Choice, Jacqueline Nayame
Using Reservoir Computing to Build a Robust Interface with DNA Circuits in Determining Genetic Similarities Between Pathogens, Christopher Neighbor and Christof Teuscher
"On the Murder of Rickey Johnson": the Portland Police Bureau, Deadly Force, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1940 - 1975, Katherine EIleen Nelson
How Should We Manage Urban Gardens, Mykl Nelson and Gail Langellotto
Reconciling the Opportunities and Obstacles of Motherhood Following Corrections Involvement, Summer Brooke Newell
The Influence of Spanish Mines on Roman Victory in the Second Punic War, Fisher W. Ng
Perceived Overqualification and Withdrawal Among Seasonal Workers: Would Work Motivation Make a Difference?, Anthony Duy Nguyen
Biochemical Reservoir Computing, Hoang Nguyen and Christof Teuscher
Relative Contribution of Plaques, Tangles, and PKAN Neurons in Patients with Cognitive Impairment, Vy H. Nguyen
Exiters of Religious Fundamentalism: Reconstruction of Identity, Social Relationships and Support, and Meaning Related to Well-Being, Andreea Alexandra Nica
Quantifying Spatial Potential Access Equity in an Agent Based Simulation Model of Buprenorphine Treatment Policy in the United States, Alexandra Elizabeth Nielsen
US Forest Service Seasonal Field Work Optimization Issue, Donavon Nigg, Erica Merckling, Jacqueline Nayame, and Konstantin Tuv
A Comparative Examination of the Hyperbole in Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami and Fudotoku Kyoiku Koza by Yukio Mishima, Jitsuya Nishiyama
Cultivation of the Backwater: Weirs as a Window into Historical Ecology and Ecosystem Engineering in the Lower Columbia, Michelle N. North and Virginia L. Butler
Campus Sexual Assault and (In)Justice: an Inquiry into Campus Grievance Professionals' Roles, Responsibilities, and Perspectives of Justice, Liane Kehaulani O'Banion
The Saint of Orléans: Her Legacy, Riona K. O'Donnell
Marie de France's Courtly Love: The Liberation of Women Through Romance, Tiffany K. Ong
R.I.P (Race in Portland), Christian J. Orellana Bauer
Relating Hume's Epistemic Theory of Causality to Habituation in Contemporary Neuroscience, Sydnie Mika Osaki
Impure Blood: The Menstrual Taboo in the Christian Church During the Thirteenth Century, Madeleine F. Ott
Laser-Scribed Graphene Micro-Supercapacitors, Kimi D. Owens
The Influence of Individual Differences on Eco-Driving Training Transfer and Spillover: a Correlational Study of Proactive Personality and Motivation, Timothy Oxendahl
The Intersections of Good Intentions, Criminality, and Anti-Carceral Feminist Logic: a Qualitative Study that Explores Sex Trades Content in Social Work Education, Meg Rose Panichelli