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Theses/Dissertations from 2025

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Layout-Aware Quantum Circuitry and Algorithmic Extensions to Grover's Algorithm, Ali Al-Bayaty

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The Confluence of Millenarianism and Sabbateanism in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands, Madison J. Alexander

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Shock Effects Including Maskelynite Formation in Three Shergottite Meteorites From Mars, George Ayeh Anim

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"Our Vision Is That Black Mothers and Birthing People, Fathers, and Partners Are Safe, Honored, and Respected Throughout Pregnancy and Parenthood": Black Birth Workers' Agenda for Black Maternal Health in Oregon, Sarah Marguerite Applin

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The Necessity of Improved Pica Assessment Tools and Screening Practices for Harm Reduction, Deborah Arakelian

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Universal Health Care, Oregon, Jennifer S. Arnold, Bethany Clouse, and Alec Martin

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Teaching From Past Example: Various Interpretations of Livy's Rape of Lucretia, June Baeck

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Monitoring and Modeling Legacy Tree Response to Restoration Treatments in the Klamath Mountains, Oregon, USA, Isaac Joseph Ball

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Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Factors of Participation in Physical Activity and Resistance Training in Adolescent Girls: A Narrative Review, Ben Banse-Fay

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Indigenous Futures: Decolonizing Conservation and Restoring Ecological Sovereignty, Jasmine Beach

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Oregon’s Compulsory Education Act: Americanism, Nativism, and Assimilation, Andrea M. Bell

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Tree-equity and Environmental Justice Discourses Among Urban Forestry Professionals in Portland: Current Impacts and Future Implications, Axcelle Deone Bell

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Risk Factors for Substance Use Among Serious and Violent Offenders Undergoing Reentry, Elizabeth Bozarth

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Near Real-Time Prediction of Ground PM2.5 Concentrations Across Oregon Using GEOS-CF and Machine Learning Models, Long T. Bui

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How to Kill a Human: Creating an Immersive Learning Game, Théo Caldwell and Nathan Bonnell

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Working Paper No. 93, The Father, the Son, and the ‘Sulphuric’ Spirit: Reflections upon Gunnar Myrdal's Early Writings Dealing with J. M. Keynes, Plus the ‘Great Recession’, Niccolo Cellini

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Association between Arsenic and other heavy metal exposures through drinking water and food with lung function and respiratory symptoms: A cross-sectional study, Sofia I. Chapela Lara and Seth O'Neal MD, MPH for the Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru

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How the Cheating of East and West Germany Reveals a Global Trend of Doping in International Sports, Olivia L. Cheng Miss

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Tweeting the Past, Present, and Future of Social Welfare: Public Political Speech, Cultural Resonance, and Debates about Defunding the Police, Kevin Noel Cherry

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Translating Legalese: Deconstructing Lease Language for New Renters, Erin E. Clarke

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The Intersecting Association of Speaking a Non-Dominant Language and Lower Healthcare Access on Self-Reported Depression Among U.S. Adults: A Cross Sectional Study using NHANES Data (2015-March 2020), Vincenzo J. Cornacchione and Corey Linver

Urban Wildlife in Your Backyard: Community Experience and Impacts with Coyotes (Canis latrans), Outdoor Cats (Felis catus), and Songbirds, Clarissa E. Cressotti

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Reflecting Life Back: The Influence of Mirrors on Human World History, Helen F. Cruz-Uribe Bandstra

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Becoming a Learner: An Autoethnography, Joshua Dickinson

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Model Explanations for Gender and Ethnicity Bias Mitigation in AI-Generated Narratives, Martha Otisi Dimgba