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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Rooftop PV Impacts on Fossil Fuel Electricity Generation and CO2 Emissions in the Pacific Northwest, Daniel Albert Weiland
Negotiating the Inclusion of Nanoscience Content and Technology in Science Curriculum: An Examination of Secondary Teachers' Thinking in a Professional Development Project, Jennifer Gayle Wells
Grouped to Achieve: Are There Benefits to Assigning Students to Heterogeneous Cooperative Learning Groups Based on Pre-Test Scores?, Arman Karl Werth
Situation Twenty-One, Annamarie White
Benefit-Cost Ratio Analysis: Life Safety and Airport Infrastructure Risk Reduction using Counter Terrorism Measures, Corey White, Kruti Narvekar, Sowmini Sengupta, Srujana Penmetsa, and Zeina Boulos
Project Management, Corey White, Srujana Penmetsa, Jeremiah Donart, Jon McAnnis, and Sean McGraw
The Mask Behind the Man, Alex Whitehead
Materialism, Personal Food Projects, and Satisfaction: A Phenomenological Study of Urban Gardening in Portland, Oregon, Robin René Wikoff
"Game Over" for the Climate: The Keystone XL Pipeline on TV News, Elisabeth Wilder
Managing Desalination Technology: A Study on Florida's Solution to Diminishing Water Sources, Andrew Wilkes, Brandon Martin, Neil Trotman, Paweena Kongsansatean, Sudarat Poocharat, and Anam Pasha
Occupational Crowding by Race in the Pacific Northwest: A Comparative Study of Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington, Moriah Willow
Influential Factors of Parental Substance and Alcohol Abuse on Children’s Academic Achievement, Andrea Winters
Pinhole Neutral Atom Microscopy, Philip James Witham
Community Learning Garden Programs in the Portland Area: How do Learning Gardens Help Low‐Income Families Access Fresh Locally‐Grown Foods?, Denissia Elizabeth Withers
How Businesses Fail in Innovative Technologies, Alexis Wittman, Jacqueline McPherson, Jing Jiang, Julien Pessey, Pongchalerm Tippayasawate, Standley Limarta, and Teddy Wang
E Mau Ana Ka Haʻaheo: A Case Study on Ke Kula Kaiapuni ʻO ʻĀnuenue, Zachary Kealohalaulā Wong
Oviposition Site Choice in a Neotropical Treefrog, Dendropsophus Ebraccatus, Julie Worley
Temperature Dependence of Transcription Initiation in Archaea, Ming-Hsiao Wu
The Spatial Distribution of Tobacco Pipe Fragments at the Hudson's Bay Company Fort Vancouver Village Site: Smoking as a Shared and Social Practice, Katie Ann Wynia
Intel: Strategy for Future, Chin-Jen Yu, Jiangbing Zhang, Pei Zhang, Sujittra Kitalreewan, Winnie Xia, and Yongwen Gu
The Synthesis and Characterization of SNAFR‐5 Derivatives, Jia Li Zhao
Exploring the Application of Reconstructability Analysis to Behavior Expression Data from a Social Network, Martin Zwick and Teresa D. Schmidt