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The Lewis Acidity of Imidazole-derived Diaryliodonium Zwitterions, Cyrus Rose
Improved Genome Maintenance and DNA Replication in the Anoxia Tolerant Annual Killifish, Riley A. Roth-Carter
FPDR and Portland: A Concerned Accountant's Perspective, Noah Roth
Student Perceptions: How STEM Students Value Belonging Interventions, Elizabeth Runkel Baez
Synoptic Drivers of Extreme Precipitation in the Upper Yuba Watershed of California, Emma Nichole Russell
The Arab Spring Uprisings in Geopolitical Context, Jake Alan Rutledge
A Hierarchical Decision Model for Evaluating the Strategy Readiness of Quantitative Machine Learning/Data Science-Driven Investment Strategies, Mohammadsaleh Saadatmand
Can Artificial Intelligence Be Used As a Stepping-Stone Towards Face-To-Face Therapy?, Zachary Salcido
Embracing the Oregon Way, Tony Salvador Ph.D.
Differences In Ninth Graders’ Attitudes Towards Math Depending On Immigrant-Generation Status, Karla V. Santana Martinez and Dara Shifrer
Political Movement Through Cultural Identity: Lessons from the Présence Africaine, Ramona Sapru Henderson
Virtual Field Environments Capstone Software Review, Ashton Sawyer
Deriving Analytical Design Constraints For Absolute & Relative Encoding Schemes In Functional Subnetworks, Cody W. Scharzenberger-Braet and Alexander Hunt
One Ring to Rule Them All: Connecting Johann Herder's Romantic Nationalism & Richard Wagner's "The Ring", Eliana Scheele
Three Chapters From a Dayless World, Alex Schotzko
The Genetic Consequences of Pollen and Seed Transport in the Wind, Elizabeth Hendrickson Scott
Consequences of Spatial Heterogeneity for Turbulent Wake Development, Ryan Scott
Impacts of Stream Habitat Restoration on Macroinvertebrate Assemblages: A Systematic Literature Review, Morgan E. Seitzer
The Longitudinal Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status, Child Separation Anxiety Symptoms, and School Achievement in 1st Grade, Filip-Bogdan Serban-Dragan
Towards a New Discourse on Success in Alternative Education, Samuel Thomas Settelmeyer
Dietary Saturated Fatty Acids Modulate Host Innate Immunity, Amy Lorraine Seufert
A Novel Caching Algorithm for Efficient Fine-Grained Access Control in Database Management Systems, Anadi Shakya
Assessing the Climate Resilience of Quercus garryana in the Portland Metro Region, Jess Rose Nettle Shamek
Once, I Was Very Very Scared and More: An Exploration into Depictions of Interpersonal Trauma in Children's Literature, Emma K. Siepmann
DNA Barcoding of Deep Sea Fishes from the Oxygen Minimum Zone, Yamini Singh