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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Racial Disparities in a State Based Workers' Compensation System, Caroline Kristine Smith
Development and Validation of the Workplace Mental Illness Stigma Scale (W-MISS), Nicholas Anthony Smith
Educational and Professional Trends of Chief Financial Officers, Lupita S. Solis
Effects of Regulation Intensity on Marijuana Black Market After Legalization, Sikang Song
Development of a Design Guideline for Pile Foundations Subjected to Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Spreading, Milad Souri and Arash Khosravifar
The Impact of Implementing Different Cordon Size Designs on Land Use Patterns in Portland, OR, Asia Spilotros
Racial Issues/Tension in the Albina District (Portland, Oregon) Mid - Late 20th Century, Karthik Sreedhar
Relational Thriving in Context: Examining the Roles of Gratitude, Affectionate Touch, and Positive Affective Variability in Health and Well-Being, Alicia Rochelle Starkey
Survey of the native bees of Portland State University, Stefanie Steele, Erica Rudolph, and Susan Masta
"I Don't Want to Be Ashamed, I Want to Learn About My History": Racial Isolation in Portland’s White Schools, Rae R. Stevenson
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