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Events from 2020
Expanding the Search for Cancer-emitting Volatile Organic Compounds: A Review and Caenorhabditis Elegans Behavioral Assay, Yuman Ng and Suzanne Estes
Literatura Viva: Formas de conocer la literatura y agricultura desde Chiapas, Jesse Nichols
Does My Favorite Murder Inform Listeners' Favorite Media?, Dani Nicholson
Novel View Synthesis in Time and Space, Simon Niklaus
Aryne-Guided C-H Functionalization of Benzenoid Rings Using Diaryliodonium Salts, Aleksandra Nilova
Ecosystem Engineering in the Backwater Wetlands of the Lower Columbia: Feature Specific Testing of the Virginia Lake Stake Alignment, Michelle Noel North
Rapid Repair of Seismically Vulnerable Bridge Columns Following Earthquake Induced Damage, Gregory H. Norton
Understanding Fare Evasion Defendant Compliance: an Assessment of Criminal Records, Nataly Nunez Vasquez
Aggregated Water Heater System (AWHS) Optimization for Ancillary Services, Manasseh Obi
Effectiveness of Focused Water Conservation Messaging in the Clackamas River, OR, Rikki Carroll Oden
Mixed Plate: Exploring Multiracial Student Identities Within Higher Education, Haley K. M. Okamoto
Late-Night Political Comedy's Impact on Audience Political Attentiveness, Public Opinion, and Civic Engagement, Molly J. Olmstead
The Almohad: the Rise and Fall of the Strangers, David Michael Olsen
Modeling Spatiotemporal Patterns of PM2.5 at the Sub-Neighborhood Scale Using Low-Cost Sensor Networks, Philip Jeffrey Orlando
Identification of Degradation Products Formed from Glycerol and Terpenes in Aromatherapy Vaporizers, Alisha Ortiz
Identification of Degradation Products formed from the Thermolysis of Glycerol and Terpenes in MONQ Aromatherapy Devices, Alisha Ortiz and Robert Strongin
Interests and Priorities in Sockeye Salmon Management: How Are Policies Enacted and Interpreted on Three Alaskan Rivers?, Jake P. Palazzi
Analyzing Network Topology for DDoS Mitigation Using the Abelian Sandpile Model, Bhavana Panchumarthi and Monroe Ame Stephenson
Creating an Ethics of Love: Encountering Nonduality through Buddhism and Phenomenology, Dakota Parmley
Modeling and Visualizing Power Amplification in Fiber Optic Cables, Gil Parnon
Development of a High-Throughput Assay for Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Identification, Kim Paulin and Marilyn R. Mackiewicz
Challenges and Practices for Effective Knowledge Transfer for New Members in ad hoc Virtual Teams, Alekhya Penmasta, Gopichand Nandamuri, Mohamed Sheikh, Sobha Rani Chittila, and Thanvi Vemulapally
Dynamic Assessment for Evaluating Bilingual Children's Potential for Language Development Over Time: a Pilot Study, Camryn R. Perez
Sense of Belonging from a Distance: How Online Students Describe, Perceive, and Experience Belonging to the Institution, Marleigh Luster Perez
Battle of the Buttercups: Investigating Hybrid Zone Dynamics in a Ranunculus Species Complex, Jessica Persinger