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Native American and First-Nations Canadian and Physical PFAS Accumulations: A Literature Review, Laurel Liebeseller
Exploring Attrition and Linguistic Shifts: The Impact of COVID-19 and Anti-Asian Discrimination on the East and Southeast Asian Diaspora, Amy Wan-Ling Lin
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Marshlands and Monasteries: The Impact of Weapon Deposition on Medieval British Christianity, Maia Lippay
Concolic Testing for Scripting Languages, Zhe Li
Economic Impacts of Industry Shifts: Evaluating the Decline of the Coal Industry in Indonesia's Transition to Renewable Energy, Sebastian Ming Lopez
Technologies for Wearable Seizure Detection: A Systematic Review, Rhema Losli
Is This My Place? Contributing Factors to Community College Students' Longitudinal Sense of Belonging and the Connection of Sense of Belonging to Student Success, Kelly Elizabeth Love
Faint Glimmers: Redrawing the Housewife in Yamada Murasaki's Talk to My Back, Ceres Lovelace
Yang-Baxter Equations, David Lovitz
Understanding the Importance of Social Emotional Learning in Children and the Link Between Mental Health, Lynette Marie Lubiak
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