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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
A Study of the Intelligibility, Comprehensibility and Interpretability of Standard Marine Communication Phrases as Perceived by Chinese Mariners, Lillian Christine Holland
We’ll Want It When We Say We Want It: How the Market Speaks to the Publishing Industry via Crowdfunding, and Why Publishers Should Listen, Alan Scott Holley
The Use of Anti-Bullying Policies to Protect LGBT Youth: Teacher and Administrator Perspectives on Policy Implementation, Michelle Lauren Holliday
When Enough is Enough: The Impact of Parental Involvement in Children's Participation in Organized Sports, Dorothy K. Hollins
Listening to Lasers: Photoacoustic Gas Sensing, Michael Hopkins
A Numerical Modeling Investigation on Calving and the Recession of South Cascade Glacier, Annika Noel Horlings
The Nature of Kinematic Waves in Glaciers and their Application to Understanding the Nisqually Glacier, Mt. Rainier, Washington, Brita Ilyse Horlings
The Application of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy to Immediately Diagnose the Protective Quality of Coatings on Artistic and Architectural Metalwork, Kathryn Nicole Hosbein
The Role of Portland State University as a Community Partner in Addressing Homelessness, Jennifer Hoskins
Substantive Representation by the Unelected: The Role of Staff Gender on Mayoral Priorities in U.S. Cities, Sara M. Hottman
Geography of Gender and the Gender of Geography in the Roman Imagination, Austin Howard
Social Dilemmas and Teams, How to Work Through Them?, Allen Wei Chen Hsu, John Bauer, Rashi Tiwari, Shivani Purwar, and Xuran Dai
The European Coal and Steel Community: the Path Towards European Integration, Nicholas Hudson
How Lust Was Lost: Genre, Identity and the Neglect of a Pioneering Comics Publication, Robert Hulshof-Schmidt
Gun Control in the United States: an Analysis of Federal and International Policies and Applications, Claire Hummer
Wholesale Peak Demand Pricing, Jarek R. Hunger
Assessing Sense of Place and Geo-literacy Indicators as Learning Outcomes of an International Teacher Professional Development Program, Nancee Hunter
Trespass, Veronika Ivanova
Bertolt Brecht: Philosophical Inquiry through Epic Theatre, Jaycob Izso
Development of Middle School Teachers' Knowledge and Pedagogy of Justification: Three Studies Linking Teacher Conceptions, Teacher Practice, and Student Learning, Carolyn McCaffrey James
The Effects of Phosphonic Acids in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Keith Edward James
Teaching the Middle East in Portland Public High Schools, Nicholas C. Jenkins
Thermal Decomposition of Electronic Cigarette Liquids, Robert Paul Jensen
A Landscape Approach to Determining and Predicting Juvenile Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) Movement Timing and Growth Patterns Prior to Ocean Entry, Amelia Lee Johnson