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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Neighborhood Commercial Corridor Change: Portland, Oregon 1990-2010, Kelly Ann Howsley-Glover
Scenario Development and Analysis of Freshwater Ecosystem Services under Land Cover and Climate Change in the Tualatin and Yamhill River Basins, Oregon, Robert Wesley Hoyer
Bent, Genevieve Hudson
Circle Technology: Business Strategy, Nan Hu, Sean McGraw, Judith Estep, and Corey White
Truth and Memory in Two Works by Marguerite Duras, Rachel Deborah Hunter
Working Paper No. 32, Canada and the United States: A Comparison of their Philosophical Bases, Lorraine M. Hutton
Novellus Strategy Case, Maria M. Ibarra and Noshad Rahimi
Selection of Mobile Communication Plans, Castillejos Ignacio, Ha Jejung, Koosawangsri Rachanida, Rahimi Noshad, and Wang Bing
Work Stress Reactivity and Health Outcomes: A Study of Nurses, Laurie Marie Jacobs
Google Self-driving Cars, Abhishek Jain, Jing Jiang, Jonathan Lui, Rohit D'Souza, and Standley Limarta
Optical Microscopy – Preliminary Classification of Two R Chondrites, Niina Jamsja
Searching the Silence: Finding Black Women’s Resistance to Slavery in Antebellum U.S. History, Loucynda Jensen
Call Center Optimization and Staff Scheduling Utilizing the Eland A Model, Jing Jiang, Zeina Boules, and Mel Cooper
TRM for Household Refrigerator, Jing Jiang, Justin Thompson, Nameer Al-Mulla, and Zina Boulos
The Role of Wood Microsites at Timberline-Alpine Meadow Borders for Conifer Regeneration, Adelaide Chapman Johnson
Establishing Foundations for Investigating Inquiry-Oriented Teaching, Estrella Maria Salas Johnson
Public Space and Urban Life: A Spatial Ethnography of a Portland Plaza, Katrina Leigh Johnston
Investigating Some Correlates of Hegemonic Masculinity and Criminal Motives among Residents in Juvenile Correctional Facilities, Caitlin D. Jones
An Examination of Gentrification and Related Displacement of Black Residents in Portland's Boise Neighborhood, 1990-2010, Jordan Jordan
Animot: Human ↔ Subhuman ↔ Nonhuman, Chelsea R. G. Kachman
The Clerical Wife: Medieval Perceptions of Women During the Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Church Reforms, Cara Kaser
Statistical Analysis of Stormwater Device Testing Protocols in Portland, Oregon, Zahra Kavianpour Isfahani
How Old Regimes Help New Economic Growth, Bondon Kawamoto
Every Town Is All the Same When You've Left Your Heart in the Portland Rain: Representations of Portland Place and Local Identity in Portland Popular Lyrics, Meghan Andrea Kearney
The Effect of Temperature on Phenotypes of the Invasive European Green Crab: Physiologic Mechanisms that Facilitate Invasion Success, Amanda Kelley