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Submissions from 2020
Colonial Articulations: Race, Violence, and Coloniality in Kafka's "Penal Colony", Marshall Pierce
Variability in Historical Fire Patterns of a Moist Mixed-Conifer Forest in the Northern Blue Mountains of Oregon, Laura Marie Platt
Not Coughing, Speaking Through a Dog, Joshua Pollock
An Analysis of the Competitive Advantages and Threats for Micro, Small & Medium-sized Businesses (MSMEs) in Mexico, Jose Luis Pool Sierra
Racial Gatekeeping in Country & Hip-Hop Music, Cervanté Pope
Pathos, Fall 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
Pathos, Spring 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
Pathos, Winter 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, April 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, February 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, January 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, June 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, March 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, May 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, November 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, October 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
Balancing Security, Performance and Deployability in Encrypted Search, David Joel Pouliot
Water 4.0, Arthur Preston
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