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Theses from 2016
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
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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
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