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Theses/Dissertations from 2017
A Conservationist Takes Flight: the Early Career of William Lovell Finley, 1887-1911, Carey Elizabeth Myles
Development of Physics Curriculum for Pre-Health Students, Elliot Eckman Mylott
Performance Analysis of DroughtHPC, Yasodhadevi Nachimuthu
Adoption and Use of Mobile Banking, Sadaf Salek Naeini, T. Gordon Chen, and Asrar Ahmed Syed
Analyzing Dam Feasibility in the Willamette River Watershed, Alexander Cameron Nagel
The Relationship of Neighborhood Factors, Parental Behaviors and Peer Relations and Their Effects on Delinquency, Eric Naramore
Designing In-Headset Authoring Tools for Virtual Reality Video, Cuong Nguyen
Physics Based Approach for Seafloor Classification, Phu Duy Nguyen
Yummy Banh Mi Sandwich: Apps For Food Cart, Tin Nguyen
Water Purification Technologies: From a Residential Scale Perspective, Tin Nguyen, Abdalilah Owaishiz, and Mark Ryan
A Pilot Study on Methods to Introduce Teachers to New Science Standards, Noelle Frances Garcia Niedo
Choosing the Best “Follow-Me” Drone Camera System for the Outdoor Sports Enthusiast, Donavon Nigg, Sarah Alobaidi, Rushikesh Jirage, Tejas Deshpande, and Haitham Alkharboosh
Shifting Advertising Agency Structure and Evolving Technology, Sarah A. Norris
Patients and Nurses and Doctors Oh My!: Nurse Retention from a Multi-Foci Aggression Perspective, Kevin Oliver Novak
Diversity and Inclusion in Pacific Northwest Theatre & Strategies to Improve the Success of These Pursuits, Madelyn M. Odegaard
Holocaust, Memory, Second-Generation, and Conflict Resolution, Leslie O'Donoghue
Elution Tailing of Nonaqueous Phase Liquids in Porous Media, Louisa Orr
The Failures of Equal Protection: an Examination of the Supreme Court's Three-Tiered Test in Equal Protection Claims, Jazmyn A. Ortiz
Integer Partitions and Why Counting Them is Hard, Jose A. Ortiz
An Analytical System for Determining Disciplinary Vocabulary for Data-Driven Learning: an Example from Civil Engineering, Philippa Jean Otto
A Statistical Investigation of Lower Columbia River Water Temperature, 1915-2003, Corina Christina Mae Overman
Nonverbal Communication in Business Setting Between Japan and the U.S., Chi Dao Ozawa
Home Is Where the Gator Is: a collection of memoir and essays, Rachel Heather Palmer
Design and Experimental Investigation of 500kV Current Transformer Seismic Retrofit Utilizing Structure Rocking and Supplemental Damping with Self-Centering, Ilya S. Palnikov
Living Between Worlds: Arrival and Adjustment Experiences of the Somali Community in Portland, Oregon, Neil A. Panchmatia