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New 4-Aminoquinoline Compounds to Reverse Drug Resistance in P. falciparum Malaria, and a Survey of Early European Antimalarial Treatments, Katherine May Liebman
Twenty-Four Self-Portraits, Doris Lim
Riveting Rosie's Riveting Struggles: Women Shipyard Workers in WWII, Stephanie Lippincott
Making Way for Clearer Sound, Barbara Little, Jacob Stearn, and Jake Elsewhere
Rivers of Steel: The Economic Development of Seattle During the Rail Age, 1870-1920, Neil T. Loehlein
The Risks of the Rose City: Assessing the Social Vulnerability of Communities to Multiple Environmental Hazards in the Portland Metropolitan Area, Daniel R. Logan
Substation Bay Modeling and Seismic Sensitivity Study, Robert C.H. London
Cascades Island Lamprey Passage Structure: Evaluating Passage and Migration Following Structure Modifications, Siena Marie Lopez-Johnston
The Cost of Hauling Timber: A Comparison of Raster- and Vector- Based Travel-Time Estimates in GIS, Sara M. Loreno
Associations between Input and Outcome Variables in an Online High School Bioinformatics Instructional Program, Douglas S. Lownsbery
Policies Driving Wind Power Adoption in the Pacific Northwest, Jonathan Lui, Yongwen Gu, and Brandon Martin
Leveraging Digital Technology in Social Studies Education, Sarah Elizabeth Lundy
Towards Improving Drought Forecasts Across Different Spatial and Temporal Scales, Shahrbanou Madadgar
Detecting Rule of Balance in Photography, Uyen T. Mai and Feng Liu
Technology-Based Training for Older Employees: A Literature Review, Daria Maletis
The Objective vs. the Perceived Environment: What Matters for Active Travel, Liang Ma
Streamflow Modeling of Johnson Creek Subwatersheds Using the Precipitation Runoff Modeling System, Theophilus Matthew Malone
For the Hard of Hearing: a Catholic Novelist Confronts Modernity, Louis Benjamin Maltese
Bumps along the long and winding road: Factors related to truck driver turnover and job-induced tension, Layla Rhiannon Mansfield
Revisiting Volcanology and Composition of Rhyolites and Associated REE Rich Mafic Clasts of the Three Fingers Caldera, SE Oregon, Phillip Ira Marcy
A Habitable Madness: Inclusion of Feminist Thought in the Development of Mad Theory, Casadi "Khaki" Marino
Victimization, Separatism and Anti-intellectualism: An Empirical Analysis of John McWhorter's Theory on African American's Low Academic Performance, Marlon DeWayne Marion
The Role of Mate Preference and Personality on Reproductive Performance in an Ex-Situ Conservation Breeding Program for the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), Meghan S. Martin