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Cluster Chondrite Accretion Temperatures Determined with Electron Backscatter Diffraction, Secana Goudy and Alexander Ruzicka
Engaging in a Rural Deaf Community of Practice, Kara Gournaris
Approaches to Contested In-Group Terminology for Mindful Editors, Jasmine Gower
Stratigraphic Evidence of Cascadia Earthquake Induced Relative Sea Level Change at Netarts Bay, Oregon, Jazzy M. Graham-Davis
Use of MDMA & Psilocybin in the Treatment of PTSD, Camden Grant-Howard and Joel Steele
Incivility as a Veiled Display of Workplace Discrimination: the Intersection of Workplace Incivility and Gender-Based Discrimination, Sara M. Grant
Regional Modeling of the Glaciers of the North Cascades Mountains, Washington, USA, Christina Eileen Gray
The Impact of Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Summer Camps on Middle School Students' Understanding of the Nature of Science, Sapoóq'is Wiíit'es Ciarra Solina Greene
From Mantra to Prose: The Influence of the Mundaka Upanishad on Western Poetry and Writing, Walter B. Greene
Manufacturing in Place: Industrial Preservation in the US, Jamaal William Green
Crumpled and Abraded Encryption: Implementation and Provably Secure Construction, Scott Sherlock Griffy
Art Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: a Workbook, Jasmine S. Griswold
Green roof plant coverage and height vary by season and morphotype, but not substrate depth, Ali Grove
Convivial Clothing: Engagement with Decommodified Fashion in Portland, OR, Sarah Guldenbrein
Management of Engineering and Technology: Project Report, Pallavi Gusain, Arundhati Jadhav, Dharshanika Selvakumar, and Waseem Khalaf
Differences in Syntactic Complexity in the Writing of EL1 and ELL Civil Engineering Students, Santiago Gustin
Experiences of Early Childhood Educators Working with Teaching Strategies GOLD®: A Narrative Inquiry, Sarah Kathryn Guyon
Analyzing the Visual Grounding of "Referring Relationships", Kennedy Hahn
An Ocean of Brain Waves: Analyzing Methods to Find ERP Signals in the Noise, Andrea Hamblen, Mallary Owen, Lindsay Robb, Susan Wiggins, and Sarah Key-DeLyria
From Drought to Food-Energy-Water-Security Nexus: an Assessment of Food Insecurity in the Middle East, Maysoun Ayad Hameed
Does X Mark the Applicant? Assessing Reactions to Gender Non-Binary Job Seekers, Kelly Mason Hamilton
Use of Two-replisome Plasmids to Characterize How Chromosome Replication Completes, Nicklas Alexander Hamilton
Defining Cohorts Using Current Procedural Terminology Codes in Metastatic Bone Disease: Accuracy and Implications, Sarah Hanna
Feeding Outcomes in Children with Craniofacial Anomalies, Meghan R. Hansen, Shannon M. Theis, and Deanna Britton