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The Spread of Exotic Plant Species at Mount St. Helens: the Roles of a Road, Disturbance Type and Post-Disturbance Management, Lindsey Karr
A Thirst for More, Erika Donnelly Kauppi
Agricultural Classification of Multi-Temporal MODIS Imagery in Northwest Argentina Using Kansas Crop Phenologies, Jarrett Alexander Keifer
Mimicking Metabolism of a Reversed Chloroquine Antimalarial, Kelsie Lynn Kendrick
Social Media Recruiting, Monticha Khammuang and Yongjun Lee
Eco-Innovation: Innovation Goes Green, Momtaj Khanam, Monticha Khammuang, and Nikesh Gajavelly
MediBox, Bronson Kim, Chris Halverson, Devon Straub, Rose Adrian, and Theo Nyguen
An Investigation into Zionism’s Inner Leadership, Zia L. Klocke
Comics and the Complicit Reader: Closure as a Transgressive Technique in Transmetropolitan, Kyle Knox
The Smart Clock, Cory Koehler, Addison Loda, Hannah Posey-Scholl, and Isak Rask
The Uncanny Valley in Pet-like Robots, Paweena Kongsansatean, Tien-Hao Wang, and Yi-Tseng Lin
Exploring Pedestrian Responsive Traffic Signal Timing Strategies in Urban Areas, Sirisha Murthy Kothuri
Friends or Foes?: Examining Social Capital of International NGOs and Food Security Programs, Mariah Ann Kraner
Tillamook County Waste Disposal Technology Assessment, Arvind Kumar, Ryan Menze, Joe Smith, and Jerrod Thomas
Detection of Variable Retention Time in DRAM, Neraj Kumar
Interpretable Machine Learning and Sparse Coding for Computer Vision, Will Landecker
Interpretation of Chemical Environments by RNA and the Implications to the Origins of Life, Brian Larson
Predicting the Optical Response of a Generalized Multilayer Thin Film, A.J. Lawrence and Erik J. Sánchez
The Socialization of Women and Its Effect on the Wage Gap Within the United States, Kaitlin Lawrence
Assessment of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis on Invasion Success in Brachypodium sylvaticum, Caitlin Elyse Lee
"What Does This Graph Mean?" Formative Assessment With Science Inquiry to Improve Data Analysis, Andrea Dawn Leech
Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute) Ecological Knowledge of Piñon-Juniper Woodlands: Implications for Conservation and Sustainable Resource Use in Two Southern Nevada Protected Areas, Brian John Lefler
Hierarchical Decision Model (HDM) to Determine the Best Place to Live after Graduating from College, Anna-Lena Lentz, Paul Atkinson, Anjan Bharthepudi, and Sudarat Poocharat
Optimizing Data Movement in Hybrid Analytic Systems, Patrick Michael Leyshock