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Celtic Romanization: Cultural Assimilation or Cultural Exchange?, Shawn Lee
Socioeconomic Disparities in the Provision of Outdoor Time in Portland, Oregon Public Elementary Schools, Sabine L. Lefkowitz
Hardware/Software Interface Assurance with Conformance Checking, Li Lei
Unequal Medicine: The Impact of Patient Mistrust on the Racial Differences in Reproductive Health Outcomes, Ashley Lenherr
Ordinary Women/Extraordinary Lives: Oregon Women and Their Stories of Persistence, Grit and Grace, Shannon Moon Leonetti
Technological Forecasting Based on Segmented Rate of Change, Dong-Joon Lim
Tilikum Bridge Grand Opening Event Project, Needa Lingga and Lee Sipprell
The Role of Translesion DNA Polymerase(s) in the Survival of Escherichia Coli Exposed to UVA Light in the Presence of Psoralen and Angelicin, Dena Livingstone
Independent Publishers and Transition to Nonprofit: Distress Call or Mission-Based Evolution?, Meagan Lobnitz
Activist Doctors: Explaining Physician Activism in the Oregon Movement for Single-Payer Healthcare, Jennifer Cullen Loomis
Neurobiology of Seasonal Life-history Transitions, Ashley Rae Lucas
Phenotypic and Mutational Consequences of Mitochondrial ETC Genetic Damage, Michael James Lue
3D Printing in Healthcare: An Engineering and Technology Management Perspective, Minh Lu, Sowmini Sengupta, Yen Tran, and David Wigen
Bicrystallography in two dimensions: A graphical procedure and comparison of its results to experiments, Andrew M. Maas and Peter Moeck
CreoPop Marketing Plan, Abdullah Al Madan, Lakshmi Ashary, Alexander Blank, Joao Ricardo Lavoie, Felix Maier, and Furkan Yildirim
Technological Innovation and Strategic Analysis on the Smart Grids of Cisco, Abdullah Al Madan and Pei Zhang
F.I.S.H. (Finding Information about Safety and Health), Ben Makuch, Edward Szczepansk, Sasha Leamy, Connor Walker, Himanshu Nagpal, Harriet Adkins, and Elle Sandifer
Working Paper No. 06, Towards a Veblenian Theory of Economic Development: Drawing from Imperial Germany, Cesar Maldonado
Working Paper No. 07, Evsey Domar and the Keynesian Tradition, Cesar Maldonado
Geotechnical Statistical Evaluation of Lahore Site Data and Deep Excavation Design, Aiza Malik
Poor Dead Jar, Alexa Rae Mallernee
Mechanisms of Adaptation in the Newly Invasive Species Brachypodium sylvaticum (Hudson) Beauv., Gina Lola Marchini
Steps Towards Deciphering the Post-Polyketide Synthase Tailoring Steps in the Phoslactomycin Biosynthesis Pathway, Patience Marimo
Motivations of Yoga Teachers and the Impact of Training and Teaching, Casadi "Khaki" Marino