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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Gender Difference in Working Parents' Perceptions of Work/Family Conflict and the Role of Occupational Prestige, Heather Kirsten McCabe
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Attitudes: An Exploration of a Landscape of Choices, Mersiha Spahic McClaren
Analysis of Capillary Flow in Interior Corners : Perturbed Power Law Similarity Solutions, Joshua Thomas McCraney
Applying Five Forces in the Competitive Advantage of 3D Printing Technology in the Footwear Industry, Jacqueline McPherson and Ahlam Alsuwaida
The Benefits and Drawbacks of Physical Activity According to Social Media: a Content Analysis of Celebrities' Posts on Twitter and Instagram, Amelia Meisser
Portland State University School of Business Administration (SBA) Renovation + Personal Comfort Investigation, Abolfazl Mekanik, Corey Griffin, and Louise Foster
An Evaluation of the Neighborhood Traffic Management Program of Centennial, Colorado, Rolando Gabriel Melgoza
The Design and Validation of a Group Theory Concept Inventory, Kathleen Mary Melhuish
Avoiding Online Predators: Proactive Measures Companies Can Take to Protect Their Female Consumers, Alexandra Meneely
Margin Expansion Through Cost Reduction Focused Redesign Of A Bicycle, Erica Merckling and Mufeed Yacoub
Forecasting Analog MEMS Microphones with TFDEA, Nick Metzar
The World and Bollywood: An Examination of the Globalization Paradigm, Jonathan R. Miller
The Potential of Serious Games as Mental Health Treatment, Sheena M. Miller
A Paris Afternoon Or A Wart, Ryan Edward Mills
Got Hair that Flows in the Wind: The Complexity of Hair and Identity among African American Female Adolescents in Foster Care, Lakindra Michelle Mitchell Dove
Co-Curriculum and ESL Student Success: A Case Study in an Intensive English Language Program, James D. Mitchell
Green Roofs Support a Wide Diversity of Collembola in Urban Portland, Oregon, Konrad Miziolek
Growing Writers, Katherine Moffitt
A Novel Approach to Flow and Sediment Transport Estimation in Estuaries and Bays, Hamed Moftakhari Rostamkhani
Chemical Reaction Network Control Systems for Agent-Based Foraging Tasks, Joshua Stephen Moles
"Children Need Protection Not Perversion": The Rise of the New Right and the Politicization of Morality in Sex Education in Great Britain, 1968-1989, Miriam Corinne Morehart
Effective Technology Implementation in Schools: Differing Perceptions of Teachers, Administrators, and Technology Staff, Joseph Stephen Morelock
Analyzing Free-Base Nicotine Content in the Particulate Matter of Mainstream Tobacco Smoke Using a Headpace Solid-Phase Microextraction GC/MS Method, Christopher S. Motti
Structure from Motion Elevation Model for Adding Topographic Correction to Ground Penetrating Radar, Leslie A. Mowbray
Quaternary Chronology and Stratigraphy of Mickey Springs, Oregon, Leslie Allen Mowbray