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Submissions from 2019
A Resource Constrained Shortest Paths Approach to Reducing Personal Pollution Exposure, Elling Payne
Portland Oregon's "Right to Return" Policy & its Relation to Urban Renewal: a Community Psychology Approach, Diadira J. Pedro-Xuncax
Working Paper No. 24, Economic Thought During Japan’s Meiji Era, Karson M. Pence
Working Paper No. 37, The American Opium Trade, Karson M. Pence
Fated Extraction, Elaina Perez
Working Paper No. 27, Processes in Capital Accumulation Leading Towards Inequality, Matthew Perez
The United States' Relationship With the Insanity Defense Before and After United States v. Hinckley, Natalie R. Peterman
DOHaD and the Latina Paradox, Chelsea Peterson, Kellie Pertl, Lulu Gonzalez, and Molly Sax
Study of Physical Literacy and Physical Fitness in School Children, Natalie T. Pexton
Working Paper No. 39, Neoliberalism as a Variant of Capitalism, Justin Pilarski
Working Paper No. 40, The Rise and Fall of Georgist Economic Thinking, Justin Pilarski
Building Reuse as a Sustainable Practice in Architecture, Mykalene J. Piva
The Effect of Dynamic Kinetic Selection on an Evolving Ribozyme Population, Patrick David Poletti
A Drop in The Bucket: Evaluating Modern Print News Coverage of Drought in the U.S., Jessica Pollard
A Visual Exploration of Walking in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI), Bryana Popa
Working Paper No. 42, Commodity Production as an Explanatory Variable in the Outbreak of the American Civil War, Andrew Pope
29th Annual Young Historians Conference, Portland State University History Department and Portland State University Challenge Program
Pathos, Fall 2019, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
Pathos, Spring 2019, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
Pathos, Winter 2019, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, December 2019, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, February 2019, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, January 2019, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, June 2019, Portland State University. Student Publications Board