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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Understory Diversity and Succession on Coarse Woody Debris in a Coastal, Old-growth Forest, Oregon, Shannon Lee Mcdonald
State Need-Based Aid and Four-Year College Student Retention: A Statewide Study, Kara Lynn McFall
Academic Advising Structures that Support First-year Student Success and Retention, Brett Leland McFarlane
Lost in the Margins? Intersections Between Disability and Other Non-Dominant Statuses with Regard to Peer Victimization and Psychosocial Distress Among Oregon Teens, Marjorie Grace McGee
Mexico, Drug Trafficking Organizations, Realism, and Human Security, Nicole McGee
Neighboring in Strip City: A Situational Analysis of Strip Clubs, Land Use Conflict, and Occupational Health in Portland, Oregon, Moriah McSharry McGrath
Sexting Unleashed: The Social Phenomenon According to Youth Sexters, Jessica Marie McGraw
The Effectiveness of Team Buildingand Communications in VirtualTeam, Sean McGraw, Ryan Menze, Alaa Nour, and Melinda Pizzarro
The Effectiveness of Team Building: A Process Reportand Communications in VirtualTeam, Sean McGraw, Ryan Menze, Alaa Nour, and Melinda Pizzarro
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