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Student Work 2007-2009, Avalon Kalin
The Pursuit of Pleasure: An Intersection between Aristotle's Poetics and Sixteenth Century Renaissance Music, Eliza M. Kamerling-Brown
Development and Initial Application of Low-Molecular Weight Organic Acids and Inorganic Ionic Species in Aerosol Particulate Matter via Ion Chromatography, Clarissa D. Karpinski
Achieving Better Decision Making in Virtual Teams, Swati Kar, Shruti Agrawal, Imran Mirza, and Pramod Kumar
Team 2: Process Report, Swati Kar, Shruti Agrawal, Imran Mirza, and Pramod Kumar
Thirty Years Later: A Community Memoir of the 1984 Sikh Massacres, Ravleen Kaur
A Method for Achieving Analytic Formulas for Three Body Integrals Consisting of Powers and Exponentials in All Three Interparticle Hyllerass Coordinates, Chris M. Keating
North Portland Greenway Trail Strategic Plan, Lewis Kelley, James DuBois, Savannah Erzen, Gena Gastaldi, Lisa Harrison, and Nick Stoll
The PID-5 Does Not Contain Validity Scales. Do You Care?, Carisha Kelsey and David G. Fischer
Expressionist Art and Drama Before, During, and After the Weimar Republic, Shane Michael Kennedy
A Multivariate Modeling Approach for Generating Ensemble Climatology Forcing for Hydrologic Applications, Sepideh Khajehei
Strategic Management of Technology, Rafaa Khalifa
Should Intel Invest in 450mm Technology? Determining the Competitive Advantage of Fully Adopting 450mm Ahead of Other Firms, Sammy Khalil
Knowledge Discovery Using Patent Analysis, Monticha Khammuang
Strategic Analysis: Alibaba’s Strategy for the US Market, Monticha Khammuang
Impact of a Psychology of Masculinities Course on Women's Attitudes toward Male Gender Roles, Sylvia Marie Ferguson Kidder
Rethinking Autism, Communication, and Community Involvement: Exploring Involvement in Online Communities, Communication Preference, Autistic Identity, and Self-Determination, Colleen Anne Kidney
Design of a Hardware Platform for GPS-Based Orientation Sensing, Daniel Eugene Kirkpatrick
Person First Planet: A Comprehensive Review of Person First Language, James Kirszenbaum
Power Structure, Nathaniel Klein
The Cultural Gap: Deaf Community and Speech-Language Pathologists, Megan Knight
Get Your Run On: Coding a Website, Kadie Kobielusz
Smarter Cycling, Cory Koehler, Richard Smith, Sarah St. Clair, Alex Taylor, Aubrey Masten, and Konon Phillips
Building Social Sustainability from the Ground Up: The Contested Social Dimension of Sustainability in Neighborhood-Scale Urban Regeneration in Portland, Copenhagen, and Nagoya, Jacklyn Nicole Kohon