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Strategic Analysis: Alibaba’s Strategy for the US Market, Monticha Khammuang
Impact of a Psychology of Masculinities Course on Women's Attitudes toward Male Gender Roles, Sylvia Marie Ferguson Kidder
Rethinking Autism, Communication, and Community Involvement: Exploring Involvement in Online Communities, Communication Preference, Autistic Identity, and Self-Determination, Colleen Anne Kidney
Design of a Hardware Platform for GPS-Based Orientation Sensing, Daniel Eugene Kirkpatrick
Person First Planet: A Comprehensive Review of Person First Language, James Kirszenbaum
Power Structure, Nathaniel Klein
The Cultural Gap: Deaf Community and Speech-Language Pathologists, Megan Knight
Get Your Run On: Coding a Website, Kadie Kobielusz
Smarter Cycling, Cory Koehler, Richard Smith, Sarah St. Clair, Alex Taylor, Aubrey Masten, and Konon Phillips
Building Social Sustainability from the Ground Up: The Contested Social Dimension of Sustainability in Neighborhood-Scale Urban Regeneration in Portland, Copenhagen, and Nagoya, Jacklyn Nicole Kohon
Comparison of Monowave and Polywave Transmission and Curing Profile thru Various Composites, Anna Kolpakova
That Mysterious, Remisse Knot: Katherine Philips's Unincorporated Fraternity, Rene Kramer
Sound Effects: Age, Gender, and Sound Symbolism in American English, Timothy Krause
Sound Effects: Age, Gender, and Sound Symbolism in American English, Timothy Allen Krause
Isn’t Citizen Science a Hoot? A Case-study Exploring the Effectiveness of Citizen Science as an Instrument to Teach the Nature of Science through a Local Nocturnal Owl-Monitoring Project, Tess Marie Kreofsky
In Some Asbestos World, Aaron Kroska
The Effects of Urban Containment Policies on Commuting Patterns, Sung Moon Kwon
Compassion Fatigue, the Wellness of Care Providers, and the Quality of Patient Care, Merna Labib
E-Books and Author Payments: The Affect of Digital Publishing on Author Royalties, Missy Lacock
Liberalization, Contention, and Threat: Institutional Determinates of Societal Preferences and the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Morocco, Matthew Thomas Lacouture
Paleological and Ecological Impacts of Virus Silicification, James Robert Laidler
Rent, Sell, or Else?, Ross Lamberth, Justin Krueger, Lakshmi Rajagopal, and Leopoldo Marino
Modeling the Optical Response to a Near-Field Probe Tip from a Generalized Multilayer Thin Film, A.J. Lawrence
Never You Mind What They Say, It's Still Not Okay To Be Gay, Kelley Lawson