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Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The Effects of Yoga Therapy on the Quality of Life for a Paraplegic Individual, Allison Renee Purdy
Use of International Hydrographic Organization Tidal Data for Improved Tidal Prediction, Songwei Qi
Development of a Nephelometry Camera and Humidity Controlled Cavity Ring-Down Transmissometer for the Measurement of Aerosol Optical Properties, James Gregory Radney
Data Warehouse Governance Best Practices, Nayem Rahman, Sowmini Sengupta, and Fahad Aldhaban
Calibration of Cookstove Sensors using Linear Regression, Laila Rahmatian
Characterization of the Red Bluff Landslide, Greater Cascade Landslide Complex, Columbia River Gorge, Washington, James Robert Randall
Technology Roadmapping for Composite Technology in Saudi Arabia, Term Project, Emad Razzaghi, Mousa Alharbi, Zakariya Khalifa, and Mohamed Borgan
Jacques Ranciere’s Politics of Literature, Writing and Aesthetics in the Letters of John Keats, Darcie Hart Riedner
Social Job Characteristics and Older Workers: Effects on Job Satisfaction and Job Tension, Jennifer Rae Rineer
Desegregation and Curricular Reform: The Context of Portland, Oregon's African American Baseline Essays and the Struggle to Desegregate Hearts and Minds, Christopher H. Riser
A Performance Assessment of Two Multi-component Water Quality Facilities in the Columbia Slough and Fairview Creek Watersheds, Chris Robinson
It’s Not What You Do, It’s Who You Are: Adjectives as Identity-Conferrers, C.B. Rodgers
Public Participation in Emergency Management, Jason Alexander Rood
Instant Canons: Film Festivals, Film Criticism, and the Internet in the Early Twenty-First Century, Morgen Ruff
NPD Target Setting for LCD Technology Using TFDEA, Neil Runde and Dong-Joon Lim
Economical Feasibility of Green Construction, Claudiu Rusnac, Baraa Abudawod, Asem Alluhibi, Shailabh Mazari, Ahmed Bohliqa, Jiali Ju, and Adam Bobek
Oral Health Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors: Investigation of an Educational Intervention Strategy with At-Risk Females, Susan Romano Rustvold
Biosynthesis of Marineosin, a Spiroaminal Undecylprodiginine Natural Product, Shaimaa Mohamed Salem
Captive Still Life, Magdalen Lorenz Samuelson
Electrokinetic Properties of Lipid and Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Membranes in Aqueous Electrolyte and in the Presence of Lipophilic Ions, Laura Elizabeth Satterfield
Defining CCL20’s Role in Carcinogenesis, Melanie Schafer
American Cuerpos, Devan Schwartz
Origin of surface undulations at the Kamb Ice Stream grounding line, West Antarctica, Fiona Bronwyn Seifert
The Role of Habitat Restoration and Conservation in the Changing Socio-economic Conditions of Grant County, Oregon, Kristen Lauren Senkyr
An Analysis of the Impact of Global Warming on Hurricane Activity in the United States, Jesse Senzer