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Portland's Artisan Economy: The Arts and Crafts Sector, Melissa Cannon
Building Stories: Modernity, Socialization and Failure in Works of Franz Kafka and Hannah Arendt, Chris Carpenter
When Again Comes Back to You, Robert Benjamin Carver
Nursing Student Anxiety in Simulation Settings: A Mixed Methods Study, Mary Louise Cato
Increasing Evidence Based Reasoning in an 8th Grade Classroom Through Explicit Instruction, Erol Chandler
Data Driven Feed Forward Adaptive Testing, Chaitrali Santosh Chandorkar
Developing a Strategic Policy Choice Framework for Technological Innovation: Case of Chinese Pharmaceuticals, Leong Chan
The Technology Analysis of Vacuum Cleaning Robots, Apisit Charoensupyanan, Byung Sung Yoon, Edwin Garces, and Sheng-Te Tsai
An Evaluation of the Nontarget Effects of Transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis Maize on Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in the Soil Ecosystem, Tanya Elizabeth Amy Cheeke
Spectrum Regrowth for OFDM-based LTE and WIMAX Systems, Bosi Chen
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Amphibian Chytrid Fungus Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis Occupancy in Amphibian Habitats, Tara Chestnut
Spectroscopic Studies of Cu2+ and Zn2+ Binding to Prodigiosin Analogs, Karen Chichetu, Papireddy Kancharla, Shilah Bonnett, and Kevin Reynolds
A Framework for Strategic Thinking, Yonghee Cho, Kevin van Blommestein, and Bing Wang
The Strategic Effects of Counterinsurgency Operations at Religious Sites: Lessons from India, Thailand, and Israel, Timothy L. Christopher
Optimal Network Topologies and Resource Mappings for Heterogeneous Networks-on-Chip, Haera Chung
Industrial and Environmental Pressures Affecting Fante-Speaking Artisanal Fishers of Anomabo, Ghana: A Case Study, Dylan Clark
Postwar Reconstruction in Liberia: The Participation and Recognition of Women in Politics in Liberia, Roland Tuwea Clarke
Best Practices for Managing Organizational Downsizing: Portland State University Research Administration, Michael Clark
Disruptions in the Dream City: Unsettled Ideologies at the 1905 World's Fair in Portland, Oregon, Kat Cleland
Epic, Benjamin Clemenzi-Allen
Shaping School Culture: to Support Moving from a Targeted-Assistance to Schoolwide Title I Program, Paul Edward Coakley
Not Quite Formal: Theorizing the Informal Labor Market Experiences of “Documented” Immigrant Workers, Carrie Cobb
Constructing the Norte Grande: Chilean Infrastructure in the Northern Border Region, 1915-1929, William Cohoon
Russian Nationalists' Misconception of the Turkestan Cotton Industry, 1911, William Cohoon
Map-based Probabilistic Infinite Slope Analysis of the Stephens Creek Watershed, Portland, Oregon, Ryan Andrew Cole