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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Principia, Kathryn Borak Watson
Tragic Ways of Killing a Lesbian: a Synchronic Analysis, Taylor D. Watt
"It's All Because I Like the Person That's Teaching Me": Masculinities, Engagement, and Caring Relationships in Secondary Schools, Cristy Lauren Weggelaar
The Relationship between Attachment Style and Hyperperceptions, Nolan E.G. Welch
Literature Review of the Effectiveness of Intercultural Competence in the MEPI Program, Haley L. Wells
Nine Times Out of Ten, You Don't Die, Patrick Ronald Wensink
Concrete Bridge Deck Performance Data and Metrics for the State of Oregon, Jael Wettach-Glosser
The Gouda, the Bad, and the Ugly: Prioritizing Intersections for Pedestrian Safety in Tillamook, OR with Different Risk Estimation Methods, Kelly M. White
The Use of Aromatherapy for the Treatment of Post-Operative Nausea Vomiting, Mikayla J. Whitley
Perceptions of Emotions by Simultaneous Bilinguals Across Various Relationship Contexts, Lisa A. Wickham
Grappling with the African E-Waste Pandemic: Contributing Factors and Future Deterrence, Brittany Nicole Wideman
A Society That Can Heal: An Autoethnography of a Feminist Framework About Shame and How We Can Recover. A Women’s and Queer Identified Outlook to Social Emotion, Jenna L. Williams
Assessing collaborative tree planting efforts to enhance community health outcomes, Joey Williams
Physical and Emotional Sibling Violence and Child Welfare: a Critical Realist Exploratory Study, Katherine Elizabeth Winters
The Role of Stoic Philosophy in Military Leadership and Values, Elliot Witscher
Teaching Geometrical Optics by Modeling Fluidic Lenses Formed by Water-Walking Insects, Erin Woodcock
Sensory Relevance Models, Walt Woods
Reliable Explanations via Adversarial Examples on Robust Networks, Walt Woods, Jack H. Chen, and Christof Teuscher
The Knights Templar: The Course of God and Gold, Aaron Wozniak
Preventing Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis in Salmonid Fish Along the Columbia River Basin, Whitney L. Wright
A Literature Review Evaluating the Efficacy of Meditation as an Adjunctive Method for Managing Chronic Lower Back Pain, Alison M. Wyckoff
The (Mis)use of One-Way ANOVA Testing in Sociology Research Papers and Their Implications, Nancy Yang
Re-Imagining Regulatory Approaches for Methane Emissions, Jongeun You
Liberté, Égalité, Santé: The Evolution of Medicine in Revolution-Era France, Jasmine Yu
Working Paper No. 26, Basic Tenets of the Austrian School of Economics, Vladislav Yurlov