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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
An Experimental Study on the Impact of Informal Rape Myth Education to Alter Rape Myth Acceptance Scores in a Non-Student Sample, Leah Noelle Reddy
The Transport of Non-Spherical Particles In a Simulated Ocean Environment, Hannah Reed
A Mutual Charge: the Shared Mission of Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman to Alleviate Global Hunger in a Postwar World, Brian Douglas Reese
The Impact of Domestic and Foreign Forces on Guatemala's Social Services, Brooke Marie Reichert
Design Optimization for a CNC Machine, Alin Resiga
Affordances on Facebook, Stress, and Emotional Support, Caitlin Rose Rethwish
The Fourth Avenue Street Seat: an Exercise in Disbanded Bureaucracy, Rhiannon Reynolds
NORSE and Super-Refractory Status Epilepticus: a Single-Center Retrospective Chart Review, Manaz Rezayee
Choosing the Most Suitable AR-enabled Wearable for Industrial Use, Roland Richards
Rammed Earth in the Portland Metro Area, Samuel D. Richmann
Principal and Teacher Beliefs About the Impact of CBAs on School Performance: Five High Performing High Schools in Oregon, Kevin Jon Ricker
Treading, Not Running, Victoria A. Rielly
Annual Precipitation Influences Denitrification Potential in Portland’s Urban Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Erin N. Rivers and Jennifer L. Morse
Grieving Through Day of the Dead: the Influence of Culture on Processes and Resources, Sadie Layne Rockford
Some Assembly Required: computational simulations of dusty plasma, Isabel J. Rodriguez
Examining Sense of Place for Marginalized Communities in Community Gardens, Jocelyn Rodriguez
Finite Element Analysis of 3D Printed Aircraft Wing, Julian M. Rogers
Domestic Violence and Other Poems, Patrick Sevin Rogers
Modeling Spawning Habitat Potential for Chum (Onchorhynchus keta) and Pink Salmon (O. gorbuscha) in Relation to Landscape Characteristics in Coastal Southeast Alaska, Bernard Timothy Romey
Optimum Suspension Geometry for a Formula SAE Car, Nathan Roner
The Influence of the Stonewall Riots, Leah K. Rosenbaum
Feminism During the Russian Revolution: A Failure on Multiple Fronts, Helen R. Rossmiller
Using Wetlands to Prevent the Surface Accumulation of Aphanizomenon flos-aquae from Upper Klamath Lake, Arick Christopher Rouhe
REDD+ Policy Preferences in Ethiopia: Developing Controls for Attribute Non-Attendance in Choice Experiment Data, Adam Rovang, Sahan T.M. Dissanayake, and Randall Bluffstone
Lessons from the Past: Analyzing a Multipolar World and Shifting Transatlantic Relationships, Andrew Russo