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Theses from 2020
Racial Gatekeeping in Country & Hip-Hop Music, Cervanté Pope
Pathos, Fall 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
Pathos, Spring 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
Pathos, Winter 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, April 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, February 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, January 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, June 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, March 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, May 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, November 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, October 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
Balancing Security, Performance and Deployability in Encrypted Search, David Joel Pouliot
Water 4.0, Arthur Preston
Associations between Traumatic Brain Injury and Tinnitus Severity among U.S. Military Veterans, Austin L. Prewitt, Tess A. Gilbert, and Kathleen F. Carlson
What Makes Inclusion Work: an Autoethnography on Coordinating an Inclusive Youth Advocacy Program, Megan Price
Psychoterratic States: Designing the New Language of Climate Change, Savannah C. Quarum
Examining the Popularity Concept in the Initial Public Offering (IPO) Market, Preston Rad
Pig Iron to Wrought Iron: Lake Oswego's Transformation from Iron Smelting to the Privatization of Oswego Lake, Mathew K. Ragsdale
Exploring the Factors Influencing Big Data Technology Acceptance, Mohammad Nayemur Rahman
Short- and Long-term Impacts of a Deliberative Pedagogy in Introductory Biology and Chemistry Courses, Liz Rain-Griffith
Weekend Spanish Immersion Camp: a Non-Traditional Teaching World Language to Middle School American Students, Jorge Oscar Ramirez
Archaeological Feature Identification Through Geochemical Analysis of Arctic Sediments from the Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Northwest Alaska, Patrick William Reed
The Next Step: A Guide to Framing and Designing Permanent Supportive Housing for Caritas Housing, Julianne Reno, Ryan Dyar, N. Janine Gates, Joshua Ollinger, and Hugo Hamblin-Agosto
Leveraging Model Flexibility and Deep Structure: Non-Parametric and Deep Models for Computer Vision Processes with Applications to Deep Model Compression, Anthony D. Rhodes