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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Archipelago, Caleb Chase McPeak
Multicultural Team Success:The Secret Recipe, Jacqueline McPherson, Jesus Martinez, Julien Pessey, and Philip Bottjen
Perceived Dangerousness of the Job and Well-Being Among Correctional Officers: the Role of Perceived Stress and Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors (FSSB), David Duane Meier
Identification of Markov Processes within a Wind Turbine Array Boundary Layer, Matthew Scott Melius
Interspecific variation in leaf-level biogenic emissions of the Bambuseae, Andrea Natalie Melnychenko
Working Paper No. 09, Martin Heidegger: A Compromised Man, Mark Miller
Experiential Self-Referential Processing & Autobiographical Memory Retrieval: A Preliminary Look, Kathryn L. Mills
Being An Effective Communicator In A Team, Ashish Mishra, Jared Omulindi, Philip Jaffe, and Wenwei Xu
Thinking Aloud in the Science Classroom: Can a literacy strategy increase student learning in science?, Lindsey Joan Mockel
The Effects of Experimentally Induced Psychological Stress on Memory Recall, Mohamed A. Mohamed
Tracking Fish and Human Response to Abrupt Environmental Change at Tse-whit-zen: A Large Native American Village on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, Kathryn Anne Mohlenhoff
Rural Water, Daniel Ray Mollet
Development of Dynamic Thermal Performance Metrics for Eco-roof Systems, Seth Sinclair Moody
Type Classes and Instance Chains: A Relational Approach, John Garrett Morris
The Life and Thought of Mormon Apostle Parley Parker Pratt, Andrew James Morse
Understanding Travel Modes to Non-work Destinations: Analysis of an Establishment Survey in Portland, Oregon, Christopher D. Muhs
Remember Who You Are: The Story of Portland Dykecore, Mel Mundell
An FPGA Implementation of a High Performance AER Packet Network, Sirish Kumar Munipalli
The Impact of Social Capital on Innovation Intermediaries, Songphon Munkongsujarit
Climate Change Impact on the Spatio-Temporal Variability of Hydro-Climate Extremes, Mohammad Reza Najafi
Time after Time: Exploring Temporality and Identity in Wong Kar‐wai’s Days of Being Wild, In the Mood for Love, and 2046, Julie Nakama
The Production of Organic Nitrates in Portland Oregon and the Columbia River Gorge, Holly Ann Neill
Self-Timed DRAM Data Interface, Rajesh Nerkar