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Assessing Behavioral Health Services in Oregon's Rural Health Clinics, Sanya M. Surya

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Is Education Regulation the Solution to Help Lower Substance Use Rates and Substance Use Disorder in Oregon Youth?, Sophia R. Swain

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A Fifty-Year Assessment of Historical Planning Processes and Green Space Distribution (1975-2025): A Case Study of Portland, OR, USA, Quadri Olatunbosun Taiwo

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Quantitative Analysis Using MRI of Patients That Are High Risk for Pancreatic Cancer, Aqsa Tarik

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Impacts of Parent Separation Within Siblings: A Literature Review, Araceli Tello Hernandez

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The Impact of NICU Death on Bereaved Mothers, Jennie Terranova

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Pesticides as Multiple Stressors to Bivalves and Echinoderms, Alexandra Gabrielle Tissot

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Mourning Doves: Father's Daughter, Julia Trujillo

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The Great Eighty: A Selection of Chapters, Loie VanDenBergh

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The Impact of COVID-19 on the United States Higher Education System, Phoenix Daniel Van Wormer

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Trauma in the Middle Ages: The Viking Experience of Trauma through Saga, Kagan L. Vogt

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Investigating Hedgehog Signaling and TH17-Mediated Inflammation in Blau Syndrome: Insights into Chronic Inflammation, Benjamin Volinski

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The Impact of Emotions on Informal Learning Experiences in the Workplace, Jennifer L. Walavalkar

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From Prison Cells to Parliament: How the H-Block Hunger Strikes Transformed Sinn Féin to Enable Peace in Northern Ireland, Madeleine E. Wallenberg

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Examining the Anxiolytic Effects of Flavonoids in Passionflower: A Gut-Brain Axis Perspective, Khelen R. Walsh

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Comparing Acuity of Patient Care at Student Run Free Medical Clinic Locations, Hana Warmflash, Olivia Krol, and Alex Foster

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Evaluating The Elder Justice Act: Challenges In Funding, Implementation, And Coalition Dynamics, Annabelle Weberg

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Working Paper No. 89, Towards a Veblenian View of the Digital Realm, Tanner Weber

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Identity, Bodies, and Time: Analysis of Transgender Education Curricula in K Through 12 Grades, Dean Weiler-Zilberman

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Investigating Key Structures in Protective Scenes for LLMs, Eben M. Weisman

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Retention Intervention Program Success: An Inquiry Into Learning Organization Structural and Cultural Elements in California Community Colleges, Paul Vernon Wickline

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Alloparenting and Male Infant Care Behaviors in Varecia rubra (red-ruffed lemur), Noelle Wilcox

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The McDaniels Center for the Digitally Disrupted: A Novel, Tyler Wildeck

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Displaced: An Ethnography of Language and Identity Loss, Ariel Caroline Wilsey-Gopp

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Activity Levels Among Older Adults in a Life Plan Community, Emily D. Winters