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Submissions from 2017
Print Books and E-Books: How Each Format Plays a Role in Reading Comprehension, Maeko Bradshaw
Combat Experiences, Iso-strain, and Sleep Quality Affect Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress among Working Post-9/11 Veterans, Gilbert Patrick Brady Jr.
"So, you're not doing this right": Perception Versus Reality of Transgender Students' Experiences at Portland State, Charles N. Breyer
Preparing Historically Underserved Students for STEM Careers: the Role of an Inquiry-based High School Science Sequence Beginning with Physics, Jon P. Bridges
The 2016 Presidential Election: Demographic Transformation and Racial Backlash, Skyler Lillian Brocker-Knapp
L2 Motivation in Japanese Elementary EFL Classrooms: a Review of the Literature, Cassandra Brown
Rhyolite Petrogenesis at Tower Mountain Caldera, OR, Elizabeth Ann Brown
Synthesis and Characterization of the 2-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, Robert Browning
Nonword Reading In Children Who Do and Do Not Stutter, Bailey Broxson, Laura Qualls, and Tram Nguyen
Influence of Mixing and Buoyancy on Competition Between Cyanobacteria Species in Upper Klamath Lake, Roberta Joann Brunkalla
“Listen to What your Jotería is Saying”: Coverage of the 2016 Orlando Shooting by English- and Spanish-Language Media, Julian A. Bugarín Quezada
An Exploration of Effective Community College Instructors' Use of Culturally Competent Pedagogies, Aylin Bunk
1-Less-Watt: A Community Based Energy Supplier, David Burchfield
The Doormen, Sean Burns
Do Sarcastic Exchanges with Millennial Employees Influence Performance Appraisal Effectiveness?, Karissa Burright
The Revolution Will Not Be Politicized: Political Expression in the Manga Adaptations of Kanikōsen, Benjamin Robert Burton
The Lloyd Public Space Plan, Stuart Campbell, Àlvaro Caviedes, Ben Kahn, Raina Smith-Roller, Daniel Scheppke, and Layne Wyse
The Interconnection Between Law and Christianity in Medieval England, Maria Isabel Caplazi
Individual and Group Differences in Sound Category Learning, Ben Carlstrom
The Queer Innocence of James Baldwin in Giovanni's Room, Grace C. Carroll
Would You Like Fires with That? Using Stakeholder-Derived Forest Management Preference Maps to Model Landscape-level Fuel Reduction Treatment Effects on Wildfire Spread, Brooke A. Cassell, Robert M. Scheller, and Max Nielsen-Pincus
Exploring the Determinants of Vulnerable Road Users' Crash Severity in State Roads, Àlvaro Alfonso Caviedes Cómbita
Citizens United v The Federal Election Commission, Inverted Totalitarianism and Contemporary Fiction, Cory R. Chambers
Dilemmas in Not Invented Here Syndrome, Surekha Chanamolu, Shihab Hanayneh, Lennae Misiewicz, Marthed Mohammed, and Jacqueline Nayame
Hierarchical Decision Model (HDM) for selecting a Microcontroller (MCU) for Smart Water Meter IoT, Surekha Rani Chanamolu