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Atumpan: The Talking Drum, Richard Afriyie
Ureilite Meteorite Petrofabrics: Evolution and Formation Deformational Conditions, Benjamin Botwe Agyemang
Effectiveness of Peace Education and Recommendations for Implementation in the Sultanate of Oman's School Curriculum, Vision 2040, Mohamed Al Braiki
Assessment of the Readiness of Architectural Design Companies to Adopt Eco-Friendly Nanotechnologies in Sustainable Building Design, Ashwaq Essa Al Khalil
A Hierarchical Decision Model to Evaluate Healthcare Organizations' Readiness for Telemedicine Adoption: Case of Virtual Care Delivery, Salman Mohamad Alshmrani
Adopting Critical Power Grid Infrastructure Technologies: An Organizational Cybersecurity Assessment against Ransomware, Fayez Alsoubaie
C-TRAN Bus Stop Accessibility Action Plan, Grace Alston, Michelle Auster, Zoe Beckley, Noah Crawford, Ryan Gallo, and Angelique Wallmann
Bringing the Focus of Curriculum Back to the Students and What Does This Look Like for Teachers, Gabriella Anaya
Testing Potential Correlations Between Childhood Lead Exposure and Authoritarianism in Adulthood, Kragen Anderson
Historic Parkrose: Planning for Vacant Properties, Rowan Anderson, Julia Cruz Jones, Akasha Lawrence Spence, Clara Lietz, and Cal Storrs
Reimagining the Cully 5 Corners, Samuel Anderson, Noah Brown, Kaitlyn Cook, Nicholas Pelster, Michael Wickham, and Steven Yee
Masthead, Carlos A. Arias
Senator Mark O. Hatfield and the Commitment to Intellectual Rigor and Integrity, Carlos A. Arias
Local and Indigenous Knowledge, Innovation, and Sustainable Development: Creating Sustainable Futures Amidst Crisis Conditions at the Community Level, Carlos Andrés Arias
From Policy to Practice: Analyzing Inclusive Education Strategies in Nigerian Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camps, Chukwuyem Joel Arimie Dr and Williams Okotie Dr
Moderately-High Fat Diet Exacerbates Some but Not All Phenotypes of a Murine LCHADD Model, Ayah Asal
Disability Experiences of University Students: An Interview Study, Cece Austin
Reasoning in Large Language Models Across Multilingual, Long-Context, and Symbolic Settings, Sina Bagheri Nezhad
Adaptive Design Strategies for a Dual-Shaft PVC Shredder, Gavin Balderas
Characterizing the Effect of Plasticity Index on Monotonic and Cyclic Shear Behavior of Natural Low-Plastic Silt Mixtures, Amir Barati-Nia
The Magic Wand: The Transformation of Literary Journals and the Middle Class in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany, Charlotte Bayer
Universal Communications Module: Converting IEEE2030.5 XML Files to ANSI/CTA-2045, Wyatt Bilodeaux
The Revolutionaries of Mt. Tabor: Religion, Radicalism, and Propaganda of the Taborites in Hussite Bohemia, India L. Black-Mitchell