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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Assessing the Effects of Climate Change and Fuel Treatments on Forest Dynamics and Wildfire in Dry Mixed-Conifer Forests of the Inland West: Linking Landscape and Social Perspectives, Brooke Alyce Cassell
City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services Community Watershed Stewardship Program, Baroness C. Castra Nemici
Precipitation Impacts on Groundwater Levels in the Ephemeral Holgate Lake: A MODFLOW Inquiry, Amory Cervarich
A Hierarchal Decision Model to Determine the Most Promising Tier-2 Space Agency, Smarajit Chakraborty
Software Defined Radio Based Modulated Scatterer Antenna Measurement, Aditya Channamallu
Veganism through a Racial Lens: Vegans of Color Navigating Mainstream Vegan Networks, Iman Chatila
Early Life Sleep Disruption Alters Dendritic Spine Density and Morphology in Prairie Voles, Alex Q. Chau
Spatial Fields of Knowledge: How Public Library Architecture Performs Under Public and Context, Sofia Chavez Cruz
An Exploration of Linear Classifiers for Unsupervised Spiking Neural Networks with Event-Driven Data, Wesley Chavez
Generating Adversarial Attacks for Sparse Neural Networks, Jack H. Chen and Walt Woods
Watershed Resilience to Climate Change: Hysteresis behaviors of Discharge-Turbidity Concentration Relationship, Junjie Chen and Heejun Chang
Naturalizing Knowledge: The Project of Evolutionary Epistemology, Dmitriy Cherchenko
Hierarchical Random Boolean Network Reservoirs, Sai Kiran Cherupally
Impacts of Mindfulness Training on Mechanisms Underlying Stress Reduction in Teachers: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial, Jaiya Rae Choles
Exploring Technology Forecasting and its Implications for Strategic Technology Planning, Yonghee Cho
"Tindersluts" & "Tinderellas:" Examining Young Women's Construction and Negotiation of Modern Sexual Scripts within a Digital Hookup Culture, MacKenzie A. Christensen
Electric Water Heater Modeling for Distributed Energy Resource Aggregation and Control, Anne E. Clarke
Using the Syrian Civil War to Measure Hierarchy: Regional Power Transition in the Middle East, Eric Michael Clary
Bounding Box Improvement with Reinforcement Learning, Andrew Lewis Cleland
"Our inside story is something entirely different" : Cultural Illegibility, Layered Time, and Untranslated Gestures in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone, Alexa Climaldi
Subjective Cognitive Functioning Relates to Parenting in Mothers with Chronic Pain, Denae S. Clohessy
Growing Against the Grain: Confronting White Supremacy and Patriarchy in Gardens in the Dunes, Andre Cole
The Limitations of DNA Interstrand Cross-link Repair in Escherichia coli, Jessica Michelle Cole
Implementation of Literature Circles in Oregon Middle Schools, Alissa A. Conant