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Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Negotiating Meaning with Educational Practice: Alignment of Preservice Teachers' Mission, Identity, and Beliefs with the Practice of Collaborative Action Research, Jan Marie Carpenter
Hombres en Accion (Men in Action): A Community Defined Domestic Violence Intervention with Mexican, Immigrant, Men, Rosemary Carmela Celaya-Alston
Team Four Process Report, Erin Elizabeth Chapman, Emy Loanzon, Nagajyothi Murala, and Nuttavut Praechareonwatana
Somatization and Engagement in Mental Health Treatment, Teresa Chianello
Risk Management System for PMT Restaurant, Bundit Chotivanawan, Yi-Lung Hsieh, Yu-Hsiang Lin, Inthrayuth Mahaphol, Ujjal Pathak, and Napong Tanatammatorn
Mitochondrial Inheritance and Natural Phenotypic Variation Among Caenorhabditis briggsae Populations, Anna Luella Coleman-Hulbert
Trim Algorithm Analysis, Rafael Colon
PMT² Unveils New PMTablet, Rafael Colon, Stevan Jovanovic, Jay Justice, Mukundan Thirumalai, and Paul Tibbot
Determination of Optimal Home Investment Properties Using Hierarchical Decision Modeling, Trevor Combs, Tam Nguyen, Tom Shott, Matthew Trippel, and Nadja Wolfangel
Do Parents Matter? Parental Attachment and Its Effect on Becoming Independent in Emerging Adulthood, Cara Joy Copeland
Local food and land-use in Washington County, Oregon, Joshua James Cousins
Use of Media Technologies by Native American Teens and Young Adults: Evaluating their Utility for Designing Culturally-Appropriate Sexual Health Interventions Targeting Native Youth in the Pacific Northwest, Stephanie Nicole Craig Rushing
Influence of Wetland Landscape Structure on Duck Nest Success at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon, Daniel Robert Craver
Community Development for a White City: Race Making, Improvementism, and the Cincinnati Race Riots and Anti-Abolition Riots of 1829, 1836, and 1841, Silas Niobeh Crowfoot
Designing Exhibits For Gender Equity, Toni Nicole Dancu
Spousal Crossover Effects of Job Demands on Health, Rachel Jane Daniels
Energy Wiz Spray-on PV for Solar Windows: The Marketing Plan, Karen Dasmarinas
A Library and its Community: Exploring Perceptions of Collaboration, Phoebe Vincenza Daurio
Current Assessment and Treatment Practices for Children with Autism and Suspected Childhood Apraxia of Speech: A Survey of Speech-Language Pathologists, Elsa Jayne Dawson
The Creative Use of Dance/Movement Therapy Processes to Transform Intrapersonal Conflicts Associated with Sexual Trauma in Women, Emily Fern Dayton
Hydrologic Data Assimilation: State Estimation and Model Calibration, Caleb Matthew DeChant
Activism and Identity: How Korea's Independence Movement Shaped the Korean Immigrant Experience in America, 1905-1945, Sara Elizabeth Deede
Decision Model for Selection of Technologies to Reduce IT Operations Energy Cost in a Mid Size Firm, Robert DeLay, Lokesh Honnappa, Vorakarn Chiamsiri, Dinesh Soysa, and Yonghee Cho
Securing SaaS, Robert DeLay, Chih-Hsun Lin, Fei Huang, and Sashvat Sai
General Purpose GPUs in High Performance Computing, Brian Delgado and Nelson Ijih