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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
The First Crusade: The Forgotten Realities, Jonathan Chang
“A Curiosity Which Has Many Eyes”: Ante-Nicene Church Fathers’ Attitudes Towards Bathing, Lilian C. Chan
Pro-Life PDX! An Exploration of Values and Feminism in Portland's Pro-Life Community, Belen H. Chapin
Daycare Center Selection using Hierarchical Decision Model, Maria Chavarria
Editor's Introduction, Robert Cheney
Masthead, Robert Cheney
Decision Model for Mobile Phone ODM (Original Design Manufacture) Vendor Selection, Juchun Cheng
Multicultural Conflict Resolution Strategy, Juchun Cheng, Roli Eyetsemitan, Bobby Romanski, and Konstantin Tuv
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure: Analysis of HPE’s Decision to Acquire SimpliVity, Juchun Cheng, Bret Hunley, Devender Kaur, and Erica Merckling
Drone Technology and Applications, Juchun Cheng, Shahram Khorasanizadeh, Sivagamasundari Sathappan, and Vidhi Chokshi
Are There Discrete Symmetries in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics, Izzy Pikting Cheung
Evaluating the Best Smart Phone in the Market, Vidhi Chokshi
Communities of Concentrated Poverty: A Proposal for Oregon, Sara A. Chopp
The Edict of Milan and the Early Roots of Christianity in the Roman Empire, Christopher J. Chow
Adaptive Evolution under Favorable and Unfavorable Population Genetic Conditions in Caenorhabditis elegans Nematodes, Stephen Fuller Christy
Identifying Clusters of Non-Farm Activity within Exclusive Farm Use Zones in the Northern Willamette Valley, Nicholas Chun
"If not in this world...": Rereading Power and Possibility in The Silent Partner, Olivia Clarke
The Politicization of Climate Change and the United States Department of Defense, Margaret Cochrane