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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Photoluminescent Silicon Nanoparticles: Fluorescent Cellular Imaging Applications and Photoluminescence (PL) Behavior Study, Sheng-Kuei Chiu
Custom Fluorophores for Investigating the Cellular Uptake Mechanisms and Side-Effects of Pharmaceuticals, Yu-Hsuan Chu
Continuity vs. Discontinuity: The Issue of Race and Forced Labor After Emancipation in the American South, Alexander Elliott Clarke-Ritter
Competitive Resource-based View Strategy -Portland State University Library, Michael Clark
Lonely Color, Ross William Clifford
Training and Application of Correct Information Unit Analysis to Structured and Unstructured Discourse, Audrey Bretthauer Cohen
The British-American Imperial Agenda in Iraq: the Oil and Railway line from Kirkuk to Haifa, 1920-1932, Melinda Cohoon
Post-Revolutionary Mexican Education in Durango and Jalisco: Regional Differences, Cultures of Violence, Teaching, and Folk Catholicism, Lindsey Ellison Collins
Post-silicon Functional Validation with Virtual Prototypes, Kai Cong
Culture is a Language, Can't You Read?: Reading Gay Rights as Human Rights, Jen Corbridge
A Bird Flies Into a Pane of Glass Again and Again and Again, Zachary Cosby
Predicting U.S. Onshore Wind Generation, Joshua Couch
U.S. Supported Corporations and Modern Imperialism: America's Takeover of Hawaii, Lance D. Crafton
Investigating Relationships among Work, Family, and Sleep: Cross-Sectional, Daily, and Intervention Effects, Tori Laurelle Crain
Come Out Come Out Wherever You Are: A Content Analysis of Homeless Transgender Youth in Social Service Literature, Shannon Crossley
Mistrust: An Exploration of African Americans' Attitudes and Perspectives Toward Healthcare, Adolfo Gabriel Cuevas
Attributes of True and False Statements of Criminal Defendants, Camilla Cummings, Olivia Preston, Nicolette Wise, and Shawn A. Johnston
Centralia, Collective Memory, and the Tragedy of 1919, Shawn T. Daley
Untitled, Alexander Scott Dannemiller
Empowering All Who Teach: A Portrait of Two Non-Native English Speaking Teachers in a Globalized 21st Century, Rosa Dene David
Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Use in Collegiate Athletes, Brian Robert Davis
Polymeric Porphyrins as Solar Photocatalysts, Nicholas Upton Day
Digitally Enhanced Classrooms: Understanding the Effect of Individualized Technology on Language Arts Instruction in Elementary Schools, Celine De Clercq
A Queer Liberation Movement? A Qualitative Content Analysis of Queer Liberation Organizations, Investigating Whether They are Building a Separate Social Movement, Joseph Nicholas DeFilippis