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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Politics in the Social Media Era: the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Political Participation During the 2016 United States Presidential Election, Kevin Everett Curry
Effects of Land Development and Season on Heavy Metal Concentrations in Urban Streams, Helen Daigle
The Impact of Online Professional Development on the Assessment Efficacy of Novice Itinerant Teachers of Students with Multiple Disabilities Including Visual Impairments, Jacqulyn Anne Donnenwirth Daniels
Reducing Turnover in Small Businesses through Efficient and Effective Onboarding Techniques, Andrew Davidson
Professional Recruitment Experiences of Community College Transfer Students Pursuing Accounting at Portland State University, Allison J. Davis
Marketing Plan for the LG Rollable TV, Blair Davis, Dana Bakry, Jake Stevens, Marthed Mohammed, Lennae Misiewicz, and Kate Kula
Using HDM to Evaluate Investment Potential of Cryptocurrencies, Christopher Davis
Modeling the Co-Production of Public Sector Innovation: Strategic Dimensions of Organizational Innovation within the Public Maritime Ports of the Pacific Northwest, Christopher R. Davis
Isomers of Heteroleptic Derivatives of Nickel(II) Tris-Pyridinethiolate, Matthew McAllister Davis
Being American: an Illustrated Conversation on Identity, Elea Christine Davison
Basics of Bessel Functions, Joella Rae Deal
Building Climate Empire: Power, Authority, and Knowledge within Pacific Islands Climate Change Diplomacy and Governance Networks, Ashlie Denée Denton
The Gender Gap in Postsecondary Enrollment Intentions: the Mediating Role of Student Attitudes and Behaviors, Paul J. Deppen III
Development of a Liquid Contacting Method for Investigating Photovoltaic Properties of PbS Quantum Dot Solids, Vitalii Alekseevich Dereviankin
Opportunities in Physics Education: Low-Cost Position Tracking for Use in Kinematics Labs, Paul R. DeStefano, Cora Siebert, Roberto Perez-Franco, Thomas Allen, Gabriel Mukobi, and Ralf Widenhorn
Characterizing Temperature Variability States Across Southern South America and Associated Synoptic-Scale Meteorological Patterns, Judah Adam Detzer
Dual Immersion Leadership: a Case Study of Three K-5 Principals Who Show Success with Emergent Bilinguals, Ivonne Karina Dibblee
Relationship between Anisotropy and Dispersive Stress in Wind Plants with Variable Spacing, Tamara S. Dib
Murmuration, Braeden Dillenbeck
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Justice Reinvestment Legislation in Oregon: Analyses of State and County Implementation, Christopher Wade Dollar
An Argument and Survey on Artemisia Gentileschi’s Allegory of Fame, Rachel Done
The Sino-Russian Embrace: Resiliently Asymmetrical, Ryan Donovan
“Living Day by Day” Refugees of Color Navigate Gentrification and Racism in Portland, Oregon: a Sense of Place, Serena Dressel
Understanding ASEAN : An Alternative Approach to International Relations Theory in Asia, Ryan Grimstad Driver