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Books from 2017
The Pacific Sentinel, April 2017, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, December 2017, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, February 2017, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, March 2017, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
The Pacific Sentinel, May 2017, Portland State University. Student Publications Board
Progressive Era Aftermath-analysis of Municipal Housekeeping: Bertha K. Landes and Dorothy McCullough Lee, Mary Potter
Building a Multivariable Linear Regression Model of On-road Traffic for Creation of High Resolution Emission Inventories, James E. Powell
TriMet 2.0 - Redesigned Experience for Visitors to Portland, Sneha Prabhu, Page Bailey, Hans VanDerSchaaf, and Achala Kaushikkar
Examination of Human Impacts on the Biodiversity and Ecology of Lichen and Moss Communities, Hannah Marie Prather
Certifying Loop Pipelining Transformations in Behavioral Synthesis, Disha Puri
The Role of Financial Literacy Among University Transfer Students and the Impact on Perceived Social Mobility, Melissa Pyle
Rasputin and the Fragmentation of Imperial Russia, Jessie Radcliffe
Investigation into Effects of Instability and Reactivity of Hydride-Passivated Silicon Nanoparticles on Interband Photoluminescence, Christine Marie Radlinger
Big Data Analytics for a Sustained Competitive Advantage, Nayem Rahman
College Affordability, Rabeeb Rahman
Deposition Velocity Dependence on Urban Morphology, Rawand Muzafar Rasheed
Relationship Between Social Anxiety & Facebook Surveillance, Jordan J. Rasmussen
Empathy in the Multicultural Classroom, Selene Rasmussen
Generalized Differential Calculus and Applications to Optimization, R. Blake Rector
Evaluating Knowledge of Developmental Disabilities Among WIC Participants, Carolina Regalado Murillo, Katharine Zuckerman, Alison Chavez, and Julie A. Reeder
Reducing Stigma Associated with Schizophrenia, James Reling
Journey through Energy Demand Forecasting using ARIMA model, Adrian Reyes
Bayesian Optimization for Refining Object Proposals, with an Application to Pedestrian Detection, Anthony D. Rhodes
Sustaining the Human Spirit of the High School Principal Leading for Equity, Ryan David Richardson
Investigating the Role of Small Noncoding RNAs in Vertebrate Anoxia Tolerance, Claire Louise Riggs