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Submissions from 2019
Decision making for Sector of Government R&D Investment: USA and South Korea Cases, Jongyoung Jo
Measuring the Association Between Perceived Stress and Incidence of Infectious Disease or Illness in College Students in Portland, OR, Trinity E. Joroski
Material Parameter Estimation of Thin Wafers with Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy, Kirk R. Jungles
Folding Mobile Devices, Ketsaraporn Kaewkhiaolueang, Jeffrey Pinkerton, and Ryan Ruark
A 30-Year Climatology of Meteorological Conditions Associated with Lightning Days in the Western United States, Dmitri Alexander Kalashnikov
Review of Kodak’s Strategic Management of Technology. Why Kodak Failed?, Nasim Karami
Japantown PDX, Euri Kashiwagi
Impacts of Enhanced Prenatal Care on Cost, Substance Use Engagement and Foster Care Outcomes among Pregnant Women with Substance Use Disorder, Menolly R. Kaufman
Working Paper No. 21, The Union of Democracy and Socialism: Towards an Intellectual Biography of Karl Kautsky, Leo Kendall
Language Planning and Policy in Education: the Case of Senegal, Serena Khader
Hospital Efficiency using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Waseem Khalaf, Obianuju Obiano, and Nasim Karami
Evaluating Project Assessment Techniques for High-Profile Transportation Projects Development and Delivery: Case of State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) in the United States, Rafaa Ibrahim Khalifa
Exploring and Expanding the One-Pixel Attack, Umairullah Khan and Walt Woods
Exploring and Expanding the One-Pixel Attack, Umairullah Khan, Walt Woods, and Christof Teuscher
Uber as a Technology Platform: Directions and Challenges, Shahram Khorasanizadeh
Reside Vancouver: An Anti-Displacement Plan, Jihyeon Kim, Malia Knapp-Rossi, Jeff Lance, Joseph Meyers, Aster Moulton, and Tay Stone
A Cover is Worth 1000 Words: Visibility and Racial Diversity in Young Adult Cover Design, Jenny Kimura
The Many Wives of General August V. Kautz: Colonization in the Pacific Northwest, 1853-1895, Nicole Ann Kindle
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Associations Across Multiple Saltmarsh Plant Species Mitigating the Impacts of Sea-Level Rise, Rayna Koberstein and Catherine E. de Rivera
Stormwater Treatment Effectiveness of Established Bioretention Facilities in Portland, Oregon, Emma Rose Kohlsmith
Bleached Chondrules and the Possible Influence of Aqueous Alteration, Robert P. Kostynick
The Applications of Grid Cells in Computer Vision, Keaton Kraiger
Working Paper No. 19, Werner Sombart and National Socialism, Jenica M. Kramer
Working Paper No. 20, Veblen and the Question of Sexual Selection, Jenica M. Kramer