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Traveler, Sejoong Kim and Shreyas Harish
Out in "The Numbers": Youth and Gang Violence Initiatives and Uneven Development in Portland's Periphery, Dirk Kinsey
EcoFaucet, Sema Kirkewoog
The Influence of Biomimicry on Sustainability, Sema Kirkewoog
Clarisonac Strategic Plan, Sema Kirkewoog, Colette Marthaller, Konstantin Tuv, and Lipishree Vrushabhendra
Novel Compound, 84F2, Inhibits Calmodulin Deficient RyR2, Robert Carl Klipp
Managing: a Novella, Ivy J. Knight
Summus Deus: a Collection of Short Stories, Marisha Knutson
Design Door, Kate Noelle Kobielsky
Elucidating Mild Cognitive Impairment: a Review of Diagnostic Research, Jason K. Koch
An Efficient Pipeline for Assaying Whole-Genome Plastid Variation for Population Genetics and Phylogeography, Brendan F. Kohrn
An Examination of Franz Edmund Creffield and the Holy Rollers, 1900-1907, Sophie Koh
Knowledge Spaces and the Politics of Pedagogy: Politicizing Portland State University's Environmental Education Paradigms, Sasha Kramer
Forget Nostalgia, Jon Jerome Krill
Soputan Volcano, Indonesia: Petrological Systematics of Volatiles and Magmas and their Bearing on Explosive Eruptions of a Basalt Volcano, Syegi Lenarahmi Kunrat
Adoption Criteria Evaluation of Smart Vacuum Cleaners for Home Use, Hakan Kutgun
A Weapon Optimization Tool for Modern AirDefense Capabilities of Naval Platforms, Hakan Kutgun, Chris Chase, and Timothy Valentine
Establishing the Conservative Genre: The Beginning of Political Censorship or Business as Usual?, Vi Rose La Bianca
Intraminority Support For and Participation In Race-Based Collective Action Movements: an Intersectional Perspective, Jaboa Shawntaé Lake
High-Quality Chemical Vapor Deposition Graphene-Based Spin Transport Channels, Lester Florian Lampert
Regulating Pavement Dwellers: the Politics of the Visibly Poor in Public Space, Lauren Marie Larin
Invertebrate Community Composition Across Inundation Regimes and Its Potential to Reduce Plant Stress, Inez Ilicia Lawson
Tools for Nonfiction Developmental Editors, Jacoba Lawson
Clickbait Science: A Review of Rhetorical Patterns Within the Royal Society, Bryan T. Le
Microfinance: the Impacts of a Poverty Reduction Approach and Financial Systems Approach on Poor Rural Households in Vietnam, Cardin A. Le