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Theses from 2018
Analysis of Avian Diversity and Richness in Relation to Urban Park Size Using eBird, Jordan J. Tippetts
A Hierarchical Decision Model for Ranking the Approval Criteria of Foundation of Industrial Zones in Turkey, Mert Cihan Tonkal
Wideband Absorber Characterization Using Coaxial Airline and Electromagnetic Simulation, Ha Tran, Thanh Le, and Branimir Pejcinovic
Clustering and Multifacility Location with Constraints via Distance Function Penalty Methods and DC Programming, Tuyen Tran, Samuel Reynolds, Thai An Nguyen, and Mau Nam Nguyen
Molecular Probes Selectively Targeting Pancreatic Cancer for Imaging, Brian Viet Truong
Health IT Organization Should Use Security As a Competitive Advantage, Jessie Truong
Silicon Forest, the Tier-2 Stagnation, Jessie Truong, Jose Banos Sanchez, Mohammad Al Gafly, Shreyas Vasanth, and Smarajit Chakraborty
An Investigation of Wapato Along the Lower Columbia River, Maria E. Tunno
Thermally Stable Super-Hydrophobic Surface Creation, Caleb Turner
"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