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Submissions from 2015
A Strategic Change: The Delta Model—A Strategic Framework for a Networked industry, David Burchfield
Misery Poker, Marina Callahan
The Slow Mo' Main Street Concept Plan, Brandi Campbell, Amanda Davidowitz, Neil Heller, Liz Kaster, Matt Lee, and Kathy Wilson
Cleaning Up the Cities of Tomorrow, Miguel Campos, Jack Chen, Alex Gaiovych, Fernando Lauer, Kaleb Swoverland, Anna Velikoretskikh, and Jason Yu
The Role of Emotional Support Consistency and Child Risk Factors in Predicting Pre-K Cognitive and Social-Emotional Development, Amy Lynn Cannell-Cordier
Landforms along the Lower Columbia River and the Influence of Humans, Charles Matthew Cannon
Challenges, Experiences, and Future Directions of Senior Centers Serving the Portland Metropolitan Area, Melissa Lynn Cannon
Die unbewältigte Vergangenheit: the Third Generation and the Holocaust in Recent Literature and Film, Dana Lynne Capage
Deepwater, Katrina Marie Carrasco
Dynamic Job Satisfaction Shifts: Implications for Manager Behavior and Crossover to Employees, David Ellis Caughlin
Productivity Measurement for Electric Utilities, Nina Chaichi
The Role of Mitochondrial Superoxide Dismutase (SOD2) During a Coxiella Burnetii Infection, Rachel Diantha Champaigne
Global Time-Independent Agent-Based Simulation for Transactive Energy System Dispatch and Schedule Forecasting, Shawn Aaron Chandler
Characterization, DNA Binding and Cleavage Activities of New Prodigiosin and Tambjamine Analogues and Their Cu²⁺ and Zn²⁺ Complexes, Karen Chichetu
A Few More Words to Part, Tony Chiotti
Photoluminescent Silicon Nanoparticles: Fluorescent Cellular Imaging Applications and Photoluminescence (PL) Behavior Study, Sheng-Kuei Chiu
Custom Fluorophores for Investigating the Cellular Uptake Mechanisms and Side-Effects of Pharmaceuticals, Yu-Hsuan Chu
Continuity vs. Discontinuity: The Issue of Race and Forced Labor After Emancipation in the American South, Alexander Elliott Clarke-Ritter
Competitive Resource-based View Strategy -Portland State University Library, Michael Clark
Lonely Color, Ross William Clifford
Training and Application of Correct Information Unit Analysis to Structured and Unstructured Discourse, Audrey Bretthauer Cohen
The British-American Imperial Agenda in Iraq: the Oil and Railway line from Kirkuk to Haifa, 1920-1932, Melinda Cohoon
Post-Revolutionary Mexican Education in Durango and Jalisco: Regional Differences, Cultures of Violence, Teaching, and Folk Catholicism, Lindsey Ellison Collins