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Theses from 2017
The Impact of Religious Diversity Management Strategies on Employee Attitudes, Moises E. Rios Jr.
User Centered Design Methods as Applied to Manufacturing Methanol Cookstoves for Mushers in Arctic Climates, Aimee Ritter
Symposium on Homelessness, Jan Roberson, Taylor Campi, Alexandre Pomar, Molly Harvis, Matthew Ulsh, Julia Taylor, Amanda Rapinchuk, and Aaron Kaufman
A Collaborative Work: The Role of University Students and Dissidents in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution, Milena Rogers
Urban Connections: A Comparison of Connectivity Assessment Methods, Natalie M. Rogers
Papers Please: Immigration, Enforcement, and Remittances, Jose A. Rojas-Fallas
Sounding the Atmosphere during the First World War: American Meteorological Practice in the Signal Corps Meteorological Service, 1917-1937, Ian M. Rollins
Software Configuration Management in Mixed Risk Environments, Bobby Romanski
A Technology Roadmap for Autonomous Bus Service in the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet), Bobby Romanski, Dave Sherman, Deemah Alassaf, Jacqueline Nayame, and Janet Rosenthal
Transcriptomic Regulation of Alternative Phenotypic Trajectories in Embryos of the Annual Killifish Austrofundulus limnaeus, Amie L. Romney
The Role of a Stage Manager: the Importance of Communication, Respect, and Trust within Production Work, Ever Daniel Rosales
Developmental Trauma Disorder & Effective Therapeutic Interventions, Ellena C. Rosenthal
Exploring the Impact of Wearable Activity Devices and Social Media Technology in Fitness Participation, Janet Rosenthal
Influence of the Presidential Inaugural Address on Audience Perceptions of Candidate Image and the State of the Nation, Kyle Alexander Rush
Flux Focusing Axial Magnetic Gear, Robert J. Rutherford
Assessment of Minimum Viable Product Techniques: A Literature Review, Mohammadsaleh Saadatmand
Dynamics of Competition and Strategy, Mohammadsaleh Saadatmand
What is known about High-frequency trading, Mohammadsaleh Saadatmand
Intimate Partner Violence Impact Panels for Batterer Intervention: a Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Restorative Justice Process, Kate Louise Sackett
Stream Sedimentation Patterns in an Urban Beaver System: Fanno Creek, Oregon, Alexandra Joan Santora
Strategic Management Analysis – Apple Watch, Sivagamasundari Sathappan
Vagrant of the El Camino: a Memoir, Jacob Kevin Sauvageau
"Neither of the Boxes": Accounting for Non-Binary Gender Identities, Erin Patricia Savoia
Synthesis of Linear Reversible Circuits and EXOR-AND-based Circuits for Incompletely Specified Multi-Output Functions, Ben Schaeffer
A Probe for Characterization of Natural Phenomena Using the Modulated Scattering Technique, Daniel D. Schaeffer