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Perceived Addiction to Pornography, Level of Distress and their Correlates, Paul Grimes
The "ADaM Cube" : Categorizing Portland, Oregon's Urbanization Using GIS and Spatial Statistics, Jeremy Grotbo
Women as Transformational Leaders: Learning to Lead in the Community College, Jennifer R. Grove-Heuser
From Protest to Press: An Examination of Paradigmatic Changes in News Making and their Effects on Social Movement Evolution, Melinda Guillen
Forecasting Super-Efficient Dryers Adoption in the Pacific Northwest, Apeksha Gupta, Husam Barham, Joao Lavoie, Tania Lilja, and Tin Nguyen
Isolated Water Circulation and Filtration System, Adrik Gurganus, Mellonie Mwawai, Wysteria Cedillo-Nielsen, Morgan Rekart, and Zander Hoffman
Factors Driving the Concentration of Ephemeral Flow, Gretchen Anne Guyer
Team Building Challenge in New Product Development Teams, Gaya Haciane, Hanni Church, Liyan Xiao, and Rassaniya Lerdphayakkarat
Public Administration’s Identity Crisis and the Emerging Approach that May Alleviate It, Joseph A. Hafer
A Low-Cost Apparatus for Laboratory Exercises and Classroom Demonstrations of Geometric Optics, William Vincent Tex Hahn
Cross-Cultural Understanding, Sajjad Haider
Wake Character in the Wind Turbine Array: (Dis-)Organization, Spatial and Dynamic Evolution and Low-dimensional Modeling, Nicholas Michael Hamilton
Big Data Analytics, Shihab Hanayneh, Jon Roschke, Sadaf Salek, Amir Shaygan, Juliana Suzuki, and Timothy Valentine
Formation of Double Ridges on Europa due to Viscoelastoplastic Deformation above Crystallizing Cryovolcanic Intrusions, Dougal Hansen
Discrete Stability of DPG Methods, Ammar Harb
Mangrove Enhancement as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI): Potential Ecosystem Service Shifts Following Colonization, Andrew S. Harwood
Washington County Affordable Housing Development Strategy, Mary Heberling, Hayley Mallen, Danelle Peterson, Jill Statz, and David Tetrick
Modeling of Historic Columbia River Flood Impacts Based on Delft 3D Simulations, Lumas Terence Helaire
Pre-Roosting Assemblages in Birds: An Observation of American Crows in the Portland Park Blocks, Katherine Hendricks
Still Lives and Set Pieces, Sean Francis Hennessey
The Dispute Over Seeds: Indigenous and Peasant Struggles for Food Sovereignty in Chiapas, Mexico., Carol Hernandez-Rodriguez
Mind the Gap: Gender's Effect on Quality of Elected Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom, Alyssa Lenore Herr
Using Blind Source Separation and a Compact Microphone Array to Improve the Error Rate of Speech Recognition, Jeffrey Dean Hoffman
Oregon College of Art and Craft (OCAC), Scott Holden, Alex Joyce, Nate Raynor, and Bob Sassa
Cost of Commuting: A Review of Determinants, Outcomes, and Theories of Commuting-Related Stress, Damon M. Holland