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Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Neighborhood Climate Action Planning Handbook, Hannah Dondy-Kaplan, Erica Timm, Beth Cohen, Dyami Valentine, Mariah VanZerr, and Devin Moller
Me, Mine, and Sometimes Yours: Loyalty and Kinship Structures in the Secret History of the Mongols, Lisa Chere Donnelly
The McKee Preserve Management Options at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, Ashley Marie Edwards
Dutch Spatial Planning: The Coordination of Compact Development and Affordable Housing, Andrew James Eickmann
Effects of Tide Gate Replacement on Water Temperature in a Freshwater Slough in the Columbia River Estuary, Sara Ennis
Downspout Disconnection Suitability and Incentives Analysis for the City of Gresham, Oregon, Brian C. Fletcher
The Incorporation of Direct Democracy : Populism and Initiative Practices as Contested Terrain, Larry Galizio
A Systematic Approach to Developing National Technology Policy and Strategy for Emerging technologies, Pisek Gerdsri
Business Plan for NewDirection, Michael Getman, Subasis Samal, Yulianto Suharto, and Jiting Yang
Risk Response Plan for Precision Castparts Corp Project, Nathan Gibbs, Richard Steeves, and Kabasele Yves Mupemba
Analysis and Classification of Sounds Produced by Asian Elephants (Elephas Maximus), Sharon Stuart Glaeser
Data Assimilation, Adaptive Observations and Applications, Humberto Carlos Godinez Vasquez
The relationship of group support, majority status, and interpersonal dependency in predicting intimate partner violence, Mary Elisabeth Gray
Computational Techniques for Reducing Spectra of the Giant Planets in Our Solar System, Holly L. Grimes
Forecasting Energy Storage Technologies As applied to the North American Electrical Grid, Georgina Harell, Aaron Tsai, and Lawrence Carter
Oregon Physicians' Perception of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Use of Enforcement Discretion Related to the Use of Opioids in the Treatment of Chronic Pain, Robert Dale Harrison
Vegetation, Environmental Characteristics, and their Relationships: Variation within the Annually Flooded Riparian Zones of the John Day River Basin, Oregon, Samuel J. Hartsfield
Building Community and Bridging Cultures: the Role of Volunteer Tutors in Oregon’s Latino Serving Community-Based Organizations, Troy Vaughn Hickman
Working for the "Working River": Willamette River Water Pollution, 1926 to 1962, James Vincent Hillegas
The Impacts of Gentrification on the African American Business Community of Portland, Oregon, Alexandra Hosford
Classical Search and Quantum Search Algorithms for Synthesis of Quantum Circuits and Optimization of Quantum Oracles, Sazzad Hossain
EPORO - Marketing Plan, Yi-Lung Hsieh, Bundit Chotivanawan, Yulianto Suharto, Ho-Min Lai, Yu-Hsiang Lin, Majed Ahmadi, and Jerry Bell
EPORO - Marketing Research Log, Yi-Lung Hsieh, Bundit Chotivanawan, Yulianto Suharto, Ho-Min Lai, Yu-Hsiang Lin, Majed Ahmadi, and Jerry Bell