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Theses from 2023
Ad Natural: A Campaign Advocating for Representation of Diverse Female Body Types in Advertising Practices, Stacey Horton
"Suited to the Wants of the Country": Historical Ceramics from the Fort Vancouver Sutler's Store, Vancouver, Washington, Kaitlyn Nicole Hosken
Toward Efficient Rendering: A Neural Network Approach, Qiqi Hou
Energy Auction with Non-Relational Persistence, Michael Ramez Howard
Indigenous Water Justice: Theory, Gaps, and Opportunities for Application, Ruby Howard
Cultivating Joy: Play, Rest, and Connection in Regenerative Cycles, Tim D. Howe
Tidal Bed Stress Asymmetry and Sediment Transport in Estuaries, Austin Scott Hudson
Left on "Read" and All Alone: Instigated Cyber Incivility, Shame, and Experienced Ostracism at Work, Alison Lucia Hunt
"The Call is Coming from Inside the House": Tracing Experiences in the Institutionally-Centered Process of Establishing Limited Conservatorships in California, Barbara Alison Imle
Pleurotus spp. as Agents of Mycoremediation: A Review, Colin Innes
Client-reported quality of in-facility medication abortion compared with pharmacy-based self-managed abortion in Bangladesh, Laura E. Jacobson MPH, Sarah E. Baum, Erin Pearson, Rezwana Chowdhury, Nirali M. Chakraborty, Julia Goodman, Caitlin Gerdts, and Blair Darney
Hegemonization of Whiteness in the LatinX Community, Ava N. Jakubowski
A West Coast Estuarine Case Study: A Novel, Predictive Approach to Monitor Estuarine Eutrophication, Vedant V. Janapaty
Drivers and Dynamics of Phytoplankton Communities and Harmful Algal Blooms in Mountain Lakes, Lara Stephanie Jansen
Cyclic Behavior of Transitional Fine-Grained Soils in Northern Willamette Valley, Frank Jarman
A Tessellation of Engineers, Grace Jenkins Welsh
Implementing a Functional Logic Programming Language via the Fair Scheme, Andrew Michael Jost
American Institution of Public, K-12 Education: An Institutional Field Under a Complexity Paradigm, Jennifer Jean Joyalle
Model Minority Myth and Oral Health Disparities in Asian Americans of Multnomah County in Oregon, Taylor Kang
Studies on Bonding, Syntheses, and Applications of Diarylhalonium Compounds, Shubhendu Karandikar
History of Hypertension and Urinary Incontinence among adults aged 40 and older: A cross-sectional study from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, Puthyda Keath and Karla Cordova Nicolas
Player Character Conflict in Dungeons & Dragons 5e, Makenzie Kellar
It's a Mean, Mean World: Social Media and Mean World Syndrome, Samantha Kemp
How Photorealistic Images Are Generated, Nahom Ketema