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Associations between Traumatic Brain Injury and Tinnitus Severity among U.S. Military Veterans, Austin L. Prewitt, Tess A. Gilbert, and Kathleen F. Carlson
What Makes Inclusion Work: an Autoethnography on Coordinating an Inclusive Youth Advocacy Program, Megan Price
Psychoterratic States: Designing the New Language of Climate Change, Savannah C. Quarum
Examining the Popularity Concept in the Initial Public Offering (IPO) Market, Preston Rad
Pig Iron to Wrought Iron: Lake Oswego's Transformation from Iron Smelting to the Privatization of Oswego Lake, Mathew K. Ragsdale
Exploring the Factors Influencing Big Data Technology Acceptance, Mohammad Nayemur Rahman
Short- and Long-term Impacts of a Deliberative Pedagogy in Introductory Biology and Chemistry Courses, Liz Rain-Griffith
Weekend Spanish Immersion Camp: a Non-Traditional Teaching World Language to Middle School American Students, Jorge Oscar Ramirez
Archaeological Feature Identification Through Geochemical Analysis of Arctic Sediments from the Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Northwest Alaska, Patrick William Reed
The Next Step: A Guide to Framing and Designing Permanent Supportive Housing for Caritas Housing, Julianne Reno, Ryan Dyar, N. Janine Gates, Joshua Ollinger, and Hugo Hamblin-Agosto
Leveraging Model Flexibility and Deep Structure: Non-Parametric and Deep Models for Computer Vision Processes with Applications to Deep Model Compression, Anthony D. Rhodes
A Numerical Investigation of Microgravity Evaporation, Daniel Peter Ringle
Delayed True Vocal Fold Closure During Compression Phase of Cough in Individuals with Unilateral Vocal Fold Immobility, Sandra Rios-Ayala and Deanna Britton
Investigating the Mental Health and Well-Being Effects of Neo-Pagan Spiritual Practice, Emma Ritter
Do Fungal Symbionts of Salt Marsh Plants Affect Interspecies Competition?, Vanessa Robertson-Rojas
Inclusion for Speech-Language Pathology Minority Graduate Students, Teresa Michelle Roberts
Discourse Analysis on Foregrounded Information in Audiological Resources for Parents of Deaf Children, Sierra Robinson and John Hellermann
Self-Disclosure and Physiological Responses among Adults who Stutter, Sulema Rodriguez and Megann McGill
A Computer Science Academic Vocabulary List, David Roesler
History and Memory in the Intersectionality of Heritage Sites and Cultural Centers in the Pacific Northwest and Hawai'i, Leah Marie Rosenkranz
Assessing Adaptive Capacity to Climate and Population Change at the Urban-Rural Interface: Human-Water System Dynamics in the Hood River Valley, Oregon, Alexander Reid Ross
A Survey of the Bees of Portland and Their Floral Preferences, Erica Rudolph, Stefanie Steele, Joshua Page, Diandra Diamond, and Susan Masta
Crime Risk near Reported Homeless Encampments: a Spatial Analysis, Kortney Lynn Russell
Designing a More Effective MRI Contrast Agent: Investigation into Various Functionalization Strategies for Targeted Imaging, Lauren Nicole Rust