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Submissions from 2011
Team Project Report: Decision Making, Jorge Garcia, Mouhamad Zaher, Duygu Ucar, and Atakan Dirik
Youth Voices of Bounty and Opportunity: High School Students' Experiences With Food and Community, Kara Marie Gilbert
Creativity & Innovation in Europe, Garrett Gilliland, Niharika Jeena, Baraa Abudawod, Ahmed Bohliqa, Yuan Xu, Fannie Black, and Xiaowen Wang
Chronology and Ecology of Late Pleistocene Megafauna in the Northern Willamette Valley, Oregon, Daniel McGowan Gilmour
Exploring Traffic Safety and Urban Form in Portland, Oregon, Kristie Werner Gladhill
Deforestation, Drought and Humans: New Discoveries of the Late Quaternary Paleoenvironment of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Candace Lynn Gossen
A Die-level Adaptive Test Scheme for Real-time Test Reordering and Elimination, Kapil Ramesh Gotkhindikar
On the Effect of Topology on Learning and Generalization in Random Automata Networks, Alireza Goudarzi
Designing and Using Virtual Field Environments to Enhance and Extend Field Experience in Professional Development Programs in Geology for K-12 Teachers, Frank Douglas Granshaw
Who Gender-Bends and Why? A Qualitative Study of World of Warcraft, Clairellyn Rose Gregory
An Exploration Of Heterogeneous Networks On Chip, Allen Gary Grimm
A Feasibility Study of Model-Based Natural Ventilation Control in a Midrise Student Dormitory Building, Steven James Gross
"An I don't give a damn 'bout my bad reputation": The Effects of Family Type and Patriarchy in the Home on Female Adolescent Delinquency and Mental Health, Stephanie-Kaye Guenther
Real Options Methodology in Sportswear Retail Investment Valuation, Hairong Karen Gui
Motivation in Late Learners of Japanese: Self-Determination Theory, Attitudes and Pronunciation, Shannon Guinn-Collins
Solyndra Project Report, Aifang Guo, J. Curtis Edmondson, and Izad Khormaee
Hydrogeology of the McKinney Butte Area: Sisters, Oregon, Joshua Andrew Hackett
Investigating Future Variation of Extreme Precipitation Events over the Willamette River Basin Using Dynamically Downscaled Climate Scenarios, Andrew Jason Halmstad
Scratched Petroglyphs in the Bennett Hills, Idaho, Karla Lucille Hambelton
Landslide Susceptibility in Tryon State Park, Oregon, Tracy E. Handrich
A Multi-Level Study of the Predictors of Family-Supportive Supervision, Ginger Charmagne Hanson
Family-Supportive Supervisory Behaviors as a Moderator of the Relationship between Job Strain and Workers' Blood Pressure, Christopher Scott Harper
Event Ecology: An Analysis of Discourses Surrounding the Disappearance of the Kah Shakes Cove Herring (Clupea pallasi), Jamie Sue Hebert
Erasing the Space Between Japanese and American: Progressivism, Nationalism, and Japanese American Resettlement in Portland, Oregon, 1945-1948, Robert Alan Hegwood