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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Chasing After the Tangle, Eleanor Anne Piper
Working Paper No. 35, The Machine Process in Industry and Society: A Veblenian Approach, Emily Pitkin
A Multi-Agent System for Adaptive Control of a Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle, Michal Podhradský
The United States’ Criminal Justice System Divided* : …On the Connection between the Exclusionary Rule and Preserving Civil Liberties, Alexandre Pomar
Sedimentologic Changes in the Deposits of an Evolving Lahar-Flood in 2006, Hood River Basin, Mount Hood, Oregon, Matthew Ray Poole
Growing STEM Education on the Playground: A Case Study of the Factors That Influence Teachers’ Use of School Gardens, Megan Poole
Migration Movement, Robert Porte
Improving Police-Community Partnerships: A Review of the Literature, Portland State University. Criminology and Criminal Justice Senior Capstone
26th Annual Young Historians Conference, Portland State University History Department and Portland State University Challenge Program
Pathos, Fall 2016, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
Pathos, Spring 2016, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
Pathos, Winter 2016, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, April 2016, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, December 2016, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, January 2016, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, June 2016, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, March 2016, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, May 2016, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, November 2016, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: a Content Analysis of Self-Inflicted Face-ism on Instagram, Madeline Powell
To Disappear, Rachel Chenven Powers
Smart Flow Meter: Pitch, Sneha Prabhu and Sema Kirkewoog
Applying Deception Detection to True and False Confessions: a Novel Approach to Conducting Experiments in Legal Psychology, Olivia Preston
The Cave, Thea Prieto