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Theses from 2018
"I Do Not Speak French": Cruising, Magic, and Proust's Queer Sociability, Finn Turner
Effectiveness of Pollinator Enhancements in Portland Community Orchards, Jess Alan Tyler
Effectiveness of Pollinator Enhancement in Portland Community Orchards AKA Pollinators Count!, Jess Tyler and Marion Dresner
Neighborhood Economic Impacts of Contemporary Art Centers, Steve Van Eck
Latinas and Sexual Health: Correlates of Sexual Satisfaction, Christine Marie Velez
An Analysis of LoRa Low Power Technology and its Applications, Gomathy Venkata Krishnan
Annotation-Enabled Interpretation and Analysis of Time-Series Data, Niveditha Venugopal
Representations of Immigrants in Young Adult Literature, Frances Augusta Ramos Verbruggen
Smart Cities: An Analysis of Smart Transportation Management, Bharat Verma, Rita Snodgrass, Bill Henry, and Buck Smith
EPA-RIMM-V: Efficient Rootkit Detection for Virtualized Environments, Tejaswini Ajay Vibhute
Little Russia: Patterns in Migration, Settlement, and the Articulation of Ethnic Identity Among Portland's Volga Germans, Heather Ann Viets
Current and Potential Uses of Green Roofs on Hospitals, Arjun Viray
Combined Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Hydrogen Production Catalysis, Carolyn Noelle Virca
An Exploration of Software Defined Radio and GNU Radio Companion for Use in Drone-to-Drone Communication, Amanda K. H. Voegtlin
Urban Geocomputation: Two Studies on Urban Form and its Role in Altering Climate, Jackson Lee Voelkel
A Technical Translation of Melentiev's Graph Representation Method with Commentary, Asya Volkova
Painting a New Narrative: Facilitating the Social Integration and Personal Empowerment of Schizophrenic Individuals Through Art, Erica M. Vollmer
Composition and Dispersal Dynamics of Vegetation Communities in Urban Riparian Forests, Christa von Behren
Toll-like Receptor 7 Expression and Function on Sensory Nerves, Karol Wai
The Origins of the Alliance Between the United States and the Republic of Korea, Michelle K. Waite
Thietmar of Merseburg's Views on Clerical Warfare, Benjamin Joseph Wand
Early Emerging Pathogen Detection, Mackenzie Wangenstein
Novel 2D Structure Nanomaterials Synthesis and IR Absorption, Suming Wang
Cyanobacteria Ecotypes in the North Pacific, Samantha Ward