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Theses from 2017
Innovator or Butcher?: Herophilean Research Methods in Early Ptolemaic Alexandria, Annastasia C. Conner
Improved Scoring Models for Semantic Image Retrieval Using Scene Graphs, Erik Timothy Conser
Off Center Any Other Time, Kellie Constance Cook
Detecting Change in Rainstorm Properties from 1977-2016 and Associated Future Flood Risks in Portland, Oregon, Alexis Kirsten Cooley
Technology Planning for Aligning Emerging Business Models and Regulatory Structures: the Case of Electric Vehicle Charging and the Smart Grid, Kelly R. Cowan
The Effect of Plasma on Graphene Quality in an Inductively Couple Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition Reactor, Brendan Coyne
Is Fast Fashion a Concern of the Everyday Teen?, Mariah N. Cruz
Tainted Benevolence: Sources of Funding for the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine from 1898-1915, Lucy Cummins
Issues in Urban Trip Generation, Kristina Marie Currans
Equity and Access to Health Care in Rural Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, Jessica Currier
Introduction to Daswani Tailors and Background of Interviewee, Guy Cutting, Vishaali Daswan, Laurence Keefe, and Letsogile Mponwane
“Big Data and Privacy”, Maoloud Dabab and Rebecca Craven
Load Forecasting for Northwest Natural Gas, Andrew Dang, Justin Moore, Niguel Morfin, Mohammed Al-Hadi, and Maoloud Dabab
Low Power, Low Data Rate Transmitter for HF Ionospheric Communications, Minh-Nhut P. Dang
Copper Nanowires Synthesis and Self-Assembly for Interconnect Applications, Srikar Rao Darmakkolla
The Cul3 Ubiquitin Ligase: an Essential Regulator of Diverse Cellular Processes, Brittney Marie Davidge
FlipScreen.ai, Christopher Davis
Witchcraft and the Performance of Womanhood in L.M. Alcott's Behind a Mask, Jovian M. Davis
Energy Forecasting, Michael Davis
Why Do Animals Do What They Do, When They Do It? Characterizing the Role of the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis in Seasonal Life-History Transitions, Catherine Anne Dayger Forbes
"To be novelized": an Investigation of Autofiction & How it Operates in Gwenaelle Aubry's No One, Ava Dean
Two-Photon Excitation, Fluorescence Microscopy, and Quantitative Measurement of Two-Photon Absorption Cross Sections, Fredrick Michael DeArmond
A Study of Diverse, Inquiry-based Science Education in Portland, Oregon, Alivia R. DeGagne
Inhibiting Infectivity of the Spindle Shaped Virus Using Silver Nanoparticles, Diana S. Demchenko