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Theses from 2023
Examining Benefits of Early Intervention in Cases of Pediatric Chronic Hypoxia, Kendra Stefan
Developing Public Service Leadership: Understanding the Field Immersion/Comparative Cases Model for Mid-Career Professional Education in Environment and Natural Resources Leadership, Erin M. Steinkruger
Cementation and Groundwater Chemistry in Pleistocene Paleodune Deposits of the Central Oregon Coast, Adrienne Lynn Stephens
Developing and Testing Low-Cost Air Cleaners for Safer Spaces During Wildfires, Brett William Stinson
Understanding Veteran Perceptions about Mental Health and its Treatment, Quinn Turner Stoddard
Examining Mesopredator Detections in the Portland Metropolitan Area, Hunter Storm
Predicting Mesopredator Occupancy in the Portland Metropolitan Area, Hunter Storm, Olyssa Starry, Leslie Bliss-Ketchum, Joe Liebezeit, and Dante Francomano
Global Climate Governance: Does Bilateral Cooperation Matter?, Nataliya Stranadko
FLASH-RT: Using High-Dose Radiation for Clinical Radiation Therapy, Deja Stubbs
Uncovering the Nuance and Complexity of Gentrification in Asian Immigrant Communities: A Case Study of Koreatown, Los Angeles, Seyoung Sung
Beautifully Grotesque: Umezu Kazuo and the Shōjo Experience in Horror Manga, Miko Suzuki
An Examination of the Current Knowledge of Contaminants in Mangroves: Hawaii and Globally, Geoffrey Szafranski
Consensus Panel for Assessing Usability and Acceptability of Mobile Health Autism Screeners, Gabriella Tangkilisan, Luis Andres Rivas Vazquez, Sarabeth Broder-Fingert, Plyce Fuchu, Benjamin Sanders, and Katharine Zuckerman
The Impetus of International Security in European Integration: The Nature of EU Common Security and Defense Policy, Osman Goktug Tanrikulu
Hybrid Photovoltaic + Battery Energy System Grid-tied Converter Capstone Review Thesis, Archer Taylor
A Daily Investigation of the Recovery Paradox: Examining the Dynamic Interplay of Workload, Recovery Experiences, and Microbreaks, Morgan Rose Taylor
Metadata Decentralized: An Examination of Folksonomy in Book Publishing, Dani Tellvik
Humanity in Trauma, Alyssa K. Thompson
Transgender Voices in Composition: Exploring the Relationship Between Gender Identity and Music Composition, Andrew Thompson
Geese, Tia-Theo Thompson
How Are Oregon's Rural Indigenous Communities Overcoming Water Access Issues?, Tyren John Thompson
Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder: Symptomatology in Drug Induced Psychopathology, Eleanor Tietsort
A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of NASA's Instagram Account, Danica Lynn Tomber
Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Radiation Localization, Benjamin Scott Totten
Working Paper No. 78, On Lenin, and the State as a Necessary Tool, J.P. Trafford