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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Natural Area Stewardship Volunteers: Motivations, Attitudes, Behaviors, Corinne Handelman
Loss of Cul3 in Primary Fibroblasts, Paula Hanna
Caught in the Act, William P. Hannon
Thinking Through Consciousness, Erica Hanson
Equivalence Checking for High-Assurance Behavioral Synthesis, Kecheng Hao
The South Kelso Revitalization Plan, Ashley Harris, Aaron Lande, Chris Myers, Beth Otto, John Verssue, and Kate Williams
The Linguistics of Sentiment Analysis, Laurel Hart
Racial Hegemony in America: The Struggle for identity Among the Black Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southern United States, Natasha Hartsfield
Women of the Scientific Revolution: The Forgotten Scholars, Sema Hasan
Expression of Growth Arrest and DNA Damage Protein 45-alpha (gadd45-alpha) and the CCAAT/enhancer binding protein-delta (C/EBP-delta) in Fishes Exposed to Heat and Hypoxia, Daniel Omar Hassumani
Neighborhood Identity and Sustainability: A Comparison Study of Two Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon, Zachary Lawrence Hathaway
Shock Effects in CML‐0175: The “Wow” Stone, Kristy Hauver
Methods for Efficient Synthesis of Large Reversible Binary and Ternary Quantum Circuits and Applications of Linear Nearest Neighbor Model, Maher Mofeid Hawash
Exploring Realism and Magical Realism in Slum Novels of the Global South, Benjamin Hawkins
Fear and Loathing in Indochina: An analysis of the American refusal to sign the Geneva Accords, 1954, Evangeline L. Heath
Beyond "Rockhood" - Stigma, Diversity, and Renewal in a Suburban Portland Neighborhood, Alison Hébert
Hardcore Punk for a Hardcore President: The Action and Response to Ronald Reagan, Julian Heninger
3-D Terahertz Synthetic-Aperture Imaging and Spectroscopy, Samuel C. Henry
The Invisible Victims: Children of Incarcerated Mothers, Holly Hernandez
Investigations into the Regional and Local Timescale Variations of Subglacial Drainage Networks, Justin Hiester
Automated Channel Assessment for Single Chip MedRadio Transceivers, Mark Alexander Hillig
Evaluating Alternative High Schools: Program Evaluation in Action, Drew Samuel Wayne Hinds
The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia, Olivia Hinerfeld
"A Most Extraordinary Noise": the Retention of African Slave Musical Culture in Colonial New Orleans' Congo Square, 1718-1860, Alexis Hlavaty