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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Self-Disclosure and Self-Efficacy in Online Dating, Andrew Christopher España
The Significance of a Distinction Between a Sexual Act and a Sexual Identity, Nirvana Fairbanks
Microbial Biomineralization of Iron, Wen Fang
Towards a Tool for Measuring Student Role Mastery, Collin Fellows
I'm Not Gonna Be Like That Guy: Exploring the Montana Meth Project Through the Eyes of That Guy, Jaysen Nicole Ferestad
Elementary Teacher Candidates' Images of Mathematics, Diverse Students, and Teaching: An Exploratory Study With Implications for Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education, Bernd Richard Ferner
A New Low in Getting High: Illegal Drug Use and Crime, Erica Jean Ferrelli
Why Occupy?: Principal Reasons for Participant Involvement in Occupy Portland, Danielle Filecia
Finding RNA-DNA Hybrid Viruses, Jeremy Filip, Geoffery S. Diemer, and Kenneth M. Stedman
Metaphor Use in Interpersonal Communication of Body Perception in the Context of Breast Cancer, Jennifer Mary Fillion
Impact of Teacher Feedback on the Development of State Issued Scoring Guides for Science Inquiry and Engineering Design Performance Assessments, Timothy Paul Fiser
First Bacterial Endosymbionts Found in the Phylum Ascomycota, Eileen Elizabeth Fitzpatrick
The Armenian Problem: What was the United States’ response to the Armenian Genocide?, Alexandra Fleming
Disjointed Cosmopolitanism: Climate Change and Lived Experience in Portland, Oregon, Stephen Wayne Flinn
Shiny, Dale Frakes
Operatic Observation of the Audience: Examining Chapter One of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, Andréa René Franke
Social-Ecological Dynamics of Coral Reef Resource Use and Management, Sarah J. Freed
Grounding Zone Processes: Ice Mechanics and Margin Lakes, Kamb Ice Stream and Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica, Mason Joseph Fried
Finex Cast Iron Works Strategic Plan, Jorge Garcia, Paweena Kongsansatean, Justin Thompson, and Mehdi Toobaei
Elderly Home System Improvement for Medicine Management, Jorge Garcia, Rupha Natarajan, Elizabeth Gibson, Daria Spatar, and Puniti Singla
A Comparative Analysis of Career Growth Models in R&D Organizations, Jorge Garcia, Nayem Rahman, Sowmini Sengupta, and Daria Spatar
Optimization of Staffing Schedule At SHARC, Jorge Garcia, Kshiti Shah, Puniti Singla, Selen Yilmaz, and Sowmini Sengupta
Reward-driven Training of Random Boolean Network Reservoirs for Model-Free Environments, Padmashri Gargesa
A Western Empire, Grace Garrett
Gene Expression Life History Markers in a Hatchery and a Wild Population of Young-of-the-Year Oncorhynchus mykiss, Ian D. F. Garrett