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Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Emerging Lexical Organization from Intentional Vocabulary Learning, Adam Jones
Industrial Decline in an Industrial Sanctuary Portland’s Central Eastside Industrial District, 1981-2014, Allison Jones
Gresham Opportunity Framework Plan, Belinda Judelman, Carlos Gonzalez, Hayley Pickus, Lori Parks, Mike Simpson, and Pamela N. Phan
Advances in Piecewise Smooth Image Reconstruction, Ralf Juengling
Understanding VCs: Exit and Time, Jiali Ju
The Catholic Church: Shaping the Roles of Medieval Women, Ashley N. Just
Effects of the First Language on Japanese ESL Learners' Answers to Negative Questions, Kosuke Kanda
The Spread of Exotic Plant Species at Mount St. Helens: the Roles of a Road, Disturbance Type and Post-Disturbance Management, Lindsey Karr
A Thirst for More, Erika Donnelly Kauppi
Agricultural Classification of Multi-Temporal MODIS Imagery in Northwest Argentina Using Kansas Crop Phenologies, Jarrett Alexander Keifer
Mimicking Metabolism of a Reversed Chloroquine Antimalarial, Kelsie Lynn Kendrick
Social Media Recruiting, Monticha Khammuang and Yongjun Lee
Eco-Innovation: Innovation Goes Green, Momtaj Khanam, Monticha Khammuang, and Nikesh Gajavelly
MediBox, Bronson Kim, Chris Halverson, Devon Straub, Rose Adrian, and Theo Nyguen
An Investigation into Zionism’s Inner Leadership, Zia L. Klocke
Comics and the Complicit Reader: Closure as a Transgressive Technique in Transmetropolitan, Kyle Knox
The Smart Clock, Cory Koehler, Addison Loda, Hannah Posey-Scholl, and Isak Rask
The Uncanny Valley in Pet-like Robots, Paweena Kongsansatean, Tien-Hao Wang, and Yi-Tseng Lin
Exploring Pedestrian Responsive Traffic Signal Timing Strategies in Urban Areas, Sirisha Murthy Kothuri
Friends or Foes?: Examining Social Capital of International NGOs and Food Security Programs, Mariah Ann Kraner
Tillamook County Waste Disposal Technology Assessment, Arvind Kumar, Ryan Menze, Joe Smith, and Jerrod Thomas
Detection of Variable Retention Time in DRAM, Neraj Kumar
Interpretable Machine Learning and Sparse Coding for Computer Vision, Will Landecker
Interpretation of Chemical Environments by RNA and the Implications to the Origins of Life, Brian Larson