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Identity, Bodies, and Time: Analysis of Transgender Education Curricula in K Through 12 Grades, Dean Weiler-Zilberman
Investigating Key Structures in Protective Scenes for LLMs, Eben M. Weisman
We Who Are Not Cared For: Social Death, the Lie of Educational Equity, and a Radical Replanting Praxis, Chantell Wesley
Retention Intervention Program Success: An Inquiry Into Learning Organization Structural and Cultural Elements in California Community Colleges, Paul Vernon Wickline
Alloparenting and Male Infant Care Behaviors in Varecia rubra (red-ruffed lemur), Noelle Wilcox
The McDaniels Center for the Digitally Disrupted: A Novel, Tyler Wildeck
Displaced: An Ethnography of Language and Identity Loss, Ariel Caroline Wilsey-Gopp
Activity Levels Among Older Adults in a Life Plan Community, Emily D. Winters
Exploring the Pathway from Customer Sexual Harassment to Instigated Incivility in Service Employees, Fernanda Wolburg Martinez
Working Paper No. 103, Russia and the Myriad of Challenges Associatedwith ‘Relative Backwardness’, Jacob Wood
Working Paper No. 100, Social Realism and Socialist Realism, Amanda F. Worman
Working Paper No. 94, Franklin Roosevelt, His New Deal Policies, and The Ending of Laissez-faire, Amanda F. Worman
Letter from the Editor, Lauren R. Yanase
Table of Contents, Lauren R. Yanase
Northern Red-Legged Frog Use of a New Under-Road Crossing and Adjacent Upland Habitat (Lunch and Learn Presentation), Alyson W. Yates
Northern Red-Legged Frog Use of a New Under-Road Crossing and Adjacent Upland Habitat, Alyson W. Yates and Catherine de Rivera
Investigating Water Temperature Dynamics and Hydrologic Interactions in an Urban Stream-Lake System near Portland OR, Matthew C. Yates and Jennifer L. Morse
Investigating Environmental Controls on Temperature Dynamics in an Urban Stream, Matthew Cullen Yates
Functional Ecology of Antarctic Flora, Zoie C. Yetley
The Ossuaries, Charlie D. Young
Primary Health Care: Strengthening Health Systems in Low- and Middle-income Countries, Erin Young
Masthead, Anis Zaman
Message from the Editors, Anis Zaman