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A Musical Interpretation of the Past : America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan Re-told through the Craft of Folk Songs, Haley H. Heynderickx
English Education in Thailand and Singapore : Differences in English Education, Use and Identity, Chelsey Hice
Communicating with Technology in our Workplace, Amelia Hill
Metaphorical Framing of Obesity, Ryan Paul Hofer
Age Determination of Modern and Archaeological Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytcha) Using Vertebrae, Anthony Raymond Hofkamp
Applying GPS and Accelerometers to the Study of African Savanna (Loxodonta africana) and Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) Welfare in Zoos, Matthew Robert Holdgate
Effects of Selective Logging and Roads on Instream Fine Sediments and Macroinvertebrate Assemblages in the Clackamas Basin, Oregon, Paula Elizabeth Hood
Naturally Occurring Background Levels of Arsenic in the Soils of Southwestern Oregon, Heather Ann Hurtado
A Corpus Based Analysis of Noun Modification in Empirical Research Articles in Applied Linguistics, Jo-Anne Hutter
Diversity within Asian Americans: Barriers to the Public Discussion of Discrimination, Samantha I. Ing
Words that Help: a Journey through Expressive Writing, Jaede Ishikawa
A Genetic and Biochemical Analysis of Sulfolobus Spindle-Shaped Virus 1, Eric Alexander Iverson
Retracing Foucault: Neoliberalism and the Occupy Movement, Jaycob Izso
Towards Graphene Remote Plasma Interfacial Growth and Auger Spectra Simulation, Alex Jacobson
Evaluation of Data-Path Topologies for Self-Timed Conditional Statements, Navaneeth Prasannakumar Jamadagni
The Need and Tools for Successful Innovation, Henry Janzen, Yongjun Lee, Sridharkumar Paneerselvam, and Puvra Chhatre
SLH Property Management: Web Based Portals Project, Henry Janzen, Sridharkumar Paneerselvam, and Yongjun Lee
A Metal-Free Approach to Biaryl Compounds: Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation from Diaryliodonium Salts and Aryl Triolborates, Kuruppu Lilanthi Jayatissa
Questions of Citizenship: Oregonian Reactions to Japanese Immigrants' Quest for Naturalization Rights in the United States, 1894-1952, Alison Leigh Jessie
Christianity's Influence on Attitudes toward Homosexuality in the Roman Empire, Jennie Jiang
Safety at Half-Signal Intersections in Portland, Oregon, Todd Robert Johnson
Container Houses, Tran Joseph, Anissa Rosbaugh, Sydne Scott, and Hanan Yassin
Examining the Responses of Police when Interacting with the Mentally Ill: A study of Portland Police Bureau’s Behavioral Health Unit, Marina Kabot-Sturos
The Islands In-Between, Lindsay M. Kalama-Smith