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Submissions from 2019

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Masculinity in Fraternities: Impact on Campus Sexual Violence, Alisha K. Ram

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Informing Subterranean Transit Station Design from Existing and Future Station Typologies; an Informative Exploration of how to Develop Underground Station Design for MAX Light Rail, Antonio P. Ramos-Crosier

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Turning Herbage Into Money: The Economic Inducement and Scientific Legacy of 18th and 19th Century Livestock Improvement in England, Ann M. Ramsey

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Tree Canopy Cover and Potential in Portland, OR: a Spatial Analysis of the Urban Forest and Capacity for Growth, Jeff Ramsey

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Working Paper No. 18, Thomas Piketty on Capital and Inequality, Max Randall

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Non-Contact Distillation, Rawand Muzafar Rasheed

Oncology patients incur significantly higher costs under the current bundled payment model for total joint replacement, Lauren Raymond, Saifullah Hasan, Erik Woelber, Kenneth Gundle, Jonah Geddes, Kathryn Schabel, James Hayden, and Yee Doung

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Geothermometry of H6 and L6 Chondrites and the Relationship between Impact Processing and Retrograde Metamorphism, Michael Tyler Ream

Occupational exposure to noise and hearing change among US Service members, Kelly M. Reavis, Garnett P. McMillan, Kathleen F. Carlson, Jonathan M. Snowden, and James Henry

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The Radical Impact of Madame Delphine Lalaurie on Slavery and the Image of African Americans, 1831-1840, Sophie A. Rehlaender

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Social Anxiety, Heavy Episodic Drinking, and Drinking Motives in Undergraduates, Samantha B. Reis

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Ecodistricts: Models for Sustainable Urban Development at the Neighborhood Scale, Jocelyn Reynolds

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To Disclose or Not to Disclose? Self-Disclosure of Mental Health in the Workplace, Samantha Margaret Reynolds

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The Combined Effects of Parent and Teacher Involvement on the Development of Adolescents' Academic Engagement, Nicolette Paige Rickert

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The Evolution of Slavery-Built Higher Education and Racial Supremacy in American Universities, Olivia A. Ricketts

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Feminist Divide: Do We Know Where the Problem Areas Are?, Jacqueline Rieth

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Business Continuity Planning at Portland State University: an Adaptive Approach to Planning for Service Recovery After a Disruption, Heather Roberts

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Attachment in Higher Education and the Workplace: A Literature Review, Emily A. Robey

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Cycles of Displacement: the Experience of Immigrants and Refugees from East Africa in Northeast Portland, Julianna I. Robidoux

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Facial Image Characterization and Reconstruction Using Singular Value Decomposition, Jessica R. Robinson

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Take Control: A proposed mental health treatment program to be implemented in youth correctional facilities around Oregon based on the evidence-based TARGET program, Zoey S. Rochefort

Tracking Climate Change from a Transportation and Health Perspective, Kelly Rodgers

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Reproduciendo Otros Mundos: Indigenous Women's Struggles Against Neo-Extractivism and the Bolivian State, Gisela Victoria Rodriguez Fernandez

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Numerical Algorithms for Solving Nonsmooth Optimization Problems and Applications to Image Reconstructions, Karina Rodriguez

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Self-Disclosure and Physiological Responses among Adults who Stutter, Sulema Rodriguez