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Community Connections: Exploring the Constructive Potential of Facebook for Civic Engagement, Sarah Ruth Martin
Modelling Rainwater-Harvesting System Reliability Based on Historical Precipitation Data for Portland, Mrinali Mathur
Agricultural Management Decisions Impact Isoprene Emission and Physiology of Arundo donax, an Emerging Bioenergy Crop, Jason Charles Maxfield
Designing the Plane While Flying It: A Case Study on Nursing Faculty Development during Academic Electronic Health Records Integration in a Small Liberal Arts College, Karen Elizabeth Maxwell
"Had sh'er haute gamme, high technology": An Application of the MLF and 4-M Models to French-Arabic Codeswitching in Algerian Hip Hop, Samuel Nickilaus McLain-Jespersen
Benevolent Racism? : The Impact of Race and Sexual Subtype on Ambivalent Sexism, Jean Marie McMahon
Adjustment to College among Lower Division Students with Disabilities: An Exploratory Study, Kristy Lee Ann McNulty
Is Self-Sufficiency Really Sufficient? A Critical Analysis of Federal Refugee Resettlement Policy and Local Attendant English Language Training in Portland, Oregon, Domminick McParland
Ranked Similarity Search of Scientific Datasets: An Information Retrieval Approach, Veronika Margaret Megler
Implications of Local and Regional Food Systems: Toward a New Food Economy in Portland, Oregon, Michael Mercer Mertens
Characterization of Methylene Diphenyl Diisocyanate Protein Conjugates, Morgen Mhike
Exploring Reggio-Inspired Documentation: Lived Experiences of Elementary Teachers and Children, Jenifer Marie Millan
Effect of Mycorrhizal Colonization and Light Limitation on Growth and Reproduction of Lima Bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.), Jess Annai Millar
The Let Going: Death, Buddhism and Connection, Laura Anne Miller
Global Resource Management of Response Surface Methodology, Michael Chad Miller
Quiet Little Animals, Mary Milstead
Characterization of Functional Domains of Cul3, an E3 Ubiquitin Ligase, Using Chimeric Analysis, Jennifer Anne Mitchell
Mobile Robot Localization Based on Kalman Filter, Omar Q. Mohsin
Salem-Keizer Transit Flexible Service Plan, Darwin Moosavi, Brenda Martin, CJ Doxsee, Mike Sellinger, Lauren Wirtis, and Matt Berggren
Explorations into the Psycholinguistic Validity of Extended Collocations, J. Arianna Morgan
The Cully Park Inter-Tribal Gathering Garden: Place-making Through Indigenous Eco-cultural Reclamation, Randall Morris
The Rise of Non-Marital Cohabitation: Review and Analysis of Existing Research, Natalia Mosailova
Socio-spatial Transformation and Contested Space at the Street Level in Latin America: The Case of Cali, Colombia, Maria Janeth Mosquera Becerra