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Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Black and Blue and Read All Over: News Framing and the Coverage of Crime, Kalistah Quilla Cosand
The Effects of Organizational Justice and Exercise on the Relationship between Job Stressors and Employee Health, Ana Cristina B. Costa
Downtown Portland Waterfront Activation Strategy, Rachel Cotton, Janai Kessi, Eve Nilenders, Lauren Russell, Andrew Yaden, and Jeremy Young
Pilot Season, Kelly Cousineau
Synthesizing the Vertical and the Horizontal: A World-Ecological Analysis of 'the Industrial Revolution', Part I, Christopher R. Cox
Reciprocal Effects of Student Engagement and Disaffection on Changes in Teacher Support Over the School Year, Cailin Tricia Currie
In Her Place, Maria D'Alessandro
Mindfulness and Test Performance after Stereotype Activation: a Randomized Experiment, Charles J.Z. Daniel
Understanding Sexual Assault Survivors' Willingness to Participate in the Judicial System, Mildred Ann Davis
Quantifying the Impacts of Initial Condition and Model Uncertainty on Hydrological Forecasts, Caleb Matthew DeChant
Ariège’s Development Conundrum, Alan Thomas Devenish
The Boiling Springs Lake Metavirome: Charting the Viral Sequence-Space of an Extreme Environment Microbial Ecosystem, Geoffrey Scott Diemer
The Ground Slate Transition on the Northwest Coast: Establishing a Chronological Framework, Joshua Daniel Dinwiddie
Opportunities for Incidental Acquisition of Academic Vocabulary from Teacher Speech in an English for Academic Purposes Classroom, Eric Dean Dodson
Introduction, Sarah Nicole Donaldson
The Secret Life of the Cross-Cultural Fairy Tale: A Comparative Study of the Indonesian Folktale "Bawang Merah, Bawang Putih" and Three European Fairy Tales, Sarah Nicole Donaldson
Platonic Forms and Unicorns: Plato's Philosophy in Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn, Jade Donigan
Calcium Transport Inhibition, Stimulation, and Light Dependent Modulation of the Skeletal Calcium Release Channel (RyR1) by the Prototropic Forms of Pelargonidin, Thomas Joseph Dornan
If It Wasn't This: Collected Short Stories, Kevin Dorn
Guiding the Work of Professional Learning Communities: Perspectives for School Leaders, Daniel Paul Draper
A Case Study of Collaborative Governance: Oregon Health Reform and Coordinated Care Organizations, Oliver John Droppers V
Characterization and Modeling of Nonlinear Dark Current in Digital Imagers, Justin Charles Dunlap
Exploring Connections Between Efforts to Restrict Same-Sex Marriage and Surging Public Opinion Support for Same-Sex Marriage Rights: Could Efforts to Restrict Gay Rights Help to Explain Increases in Public Opinion Support for Same-Sex Marriage?, Samuel Everett Christian Dunlop
Love's Labour's Lost: A History of the Question "Why is there No Socialism in the United States?", Alexander M. Dunphy