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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Is Scholarship Advancing?: An Analysis of Fifteen Years of Framing Research, Joseph Zachary Provencher
The Divine Viscera: Medicine and Religion in the Islamic Golden Age, Isabella A. Pua
The Mediating Effects of LMX on the Relationship Between Supervisor and Employee Age Differences, Satisfaction, and Retirement Intentions, Amy Christine Pytlovany
An Orphanage in Mexico: Four United Nations' Human Rights of Children and Wolins' Prerequisites for Efficient Group Care Through the View of the Manager and Staff, Lucia Beatriz Quesnel Galván
Torsional Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Beams Using CFRP Composites, Ranj Rafeeq
Complete Design Methodology of a Massively Parallel and Pipelined Memristive Stateful IMPLY Logic Based Reconfigurable Architecture, Kamela Choudhury Rahman
Factors Affecting Big Data Technology Adoption, Nayem Rahman
Barriers to Transitional Housing Access among Homeless Male Adults in the City of Portland, Alexander T. Raines
Operation Research Final Team Project, Akash Ramakrishna, Bhavana Ramesh, Devdeep Aikath, and Lei Wei
Market Plan: Edible Water Bottle for Pepsico, Akash Ramakrishna, Bhavana Ramesh, Asrar Ahmed Syed, Apeksha Gupta, and Dmitriy Moskovkin
Website Development Proposal for a Sportswear Company, Akash Reddy, Obinna Charles Mbagwu, Qin Guo, and Yaser Alnasri
Formulation of Colloidal Suspensions of 3-mercaptopropionic acid capped PbS Quantum Dots as Solution Processable QD "Inks" for Optoelectronic Applications, Chase Collier Reinhart
Teacher Mindfulness in the Middle School Classroom: Reliability and Validity of a New Scale, Nicolette Paige Rickert
Standing on the Street Corners of Capitalism : Translations of Tawara Machi's Chocolate Revolution Tanka, Jared Ridabock
The Implications of Contract Manufacturing for a Company’s Brand Equity, Jeremy Riley
Engineered Mushing Cooker, Aimee Ritter
Escritos para desocupados (2013) de Vivian Abenshushan: de contraensayos, libros aumentados y vanguardias de liberación, Gloria M. Robayo Trujillo
On Both Sides of the Tracks: Light Rail and Gentrification in Portland, Oregon, Nathan Eric Rochester
Seeing the Forest for the Roads: Auto-Tourism and Wilderness Preservation in Mount Hood National Forest, 1913-64, Taylor Elliott Rose
The Russian-German Exiles in Kazakhstan: 1940 & 1990 Migrations, Irina Rudenko
Gretchen Kafoury: The Personal is Political, Corinne Rupp
Behavior of Prestressed Concrete Beams with CFRP Strands, Yasir Matloob Saeed
Differences in How Boomers and Millennials Experience Listening to Recorded Music, Pablo Saldana