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Submissions from 2019
Pay to Play: Internships, Post-Graduate Education, and the Cost of Working in Publishing, Madison Schultz
An Evaluation of the Established Relationship Between Federal and Local Law Enforcement Agencies Post-9/11, Samantha Schultz
ADHD-Related Impairments in Error-Processing Predict Symptom Change, Amber Schwartz
Characterizing Tilt Effects on Wind Plants, Ryan Scott
Black-White Differences in the Association between Maternal Early Life Adversity and Child Asthma Outcomes from the Add Health Study, Jennifer Seamans, Sarah B. Andrea, Kara Gallemore, Janne Boone-Heinonen, Tam Lutz, and Jodi Lapidus
Insta-Identity : the Construction of Identity through Instagram an Extended Literature Review, Bailey Seibel
Depiction and Function of Madness in Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature, Yeiji Seo
Idioms in Chinese EFL Contexts: a Review of 2004-2018, William Shanahan
The Oregon Coastal Worry: Cellular Division Affected by External Changing Temperatures and Salinity Concentration, Jessica Sheets
Bilingual Adults with TBI and ABI: Current State of Portland Metro SLP Assessment Resources, Sarah Shellard and Sarah Key-DeLyria
Drinking on a Work Night: a Comparison of Day and Person-Level Associations with Workplace Outcomes, Brittnie Renae Shepherd
Foodini Marketing Plan, Dave Sherman, Rita Snodgrass, Bharat Verma, Michael Oluwole, and Oneshin Aiken
The Selection of Parameters in Debris Flow Modeling: A Sensitivity Study Using the Discrete Element Method, Cora Siebert
A study of avian population response after habitat restoration using remote sensing and community science bird observation data, Ashwin Sivakumar, Joe Liebezeit, and Jared Kinnear
Evaluating the Implementation and Dissemination of an Adolescent Sexual Health Program in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities, Megan Skye, Caitlin Donald, and Jennifer Seamans
Spontaneous Recombination of Short RNAs to Increase Length and Complexity in Prebiotically Plausible Conditions, Benedict Arthur Smail
Measuring the Geometric Accuracy of CNC End Mill Manufacturing Process, Daniel M. Small
Test Setup Design and Cyclic Evaluation of Rocking CLT Wall and Floor Restoring Force Lateral System, Aaron Davis Smith
Competitive Strategies for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS’s) in a Multi-Discipline Engineering Firm, Buck Smith
Racial Disparities in a State Based Workers' Compensation System, Caroline Kristine Smith
Development and Validation of the Workplace Mental Illness Stigma Scale (W-MISS), Nicholas Anthony Smith
Educational and Professional Trends of Chief Financial Officers, Lupita S. Solis
Effects of Regulation Intensity on Marijuana Black Market After Legalization, Sikang Song
Development of a Design Guideline for Pile Foundations Subjected to Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Spreading, Milad Souri and Arash Khosravifar
The Impact of Implementing Different Cordon Size Designs on Land Use Patterns in Portland, OR, Asia Spilotros