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An Examination of Gentrification and Related Displacement of Black Residents in Portland's Boise Neighborhood, 1990-2010, Jordan Jordan
Animot: Human ↔ Subhuman ↔ Nonhuman, Chelsea R. G. Kachman
The Clerical Wife: Medieval Perceptions of Women During the Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Church Reforms, Cara Kaser
Statistical Analysis of Stormwater Device Testing Protocols in Portland, Oregon, Zahra Kavianpour Isfahani
How Old Regimes Help New Economic Growth, Bondon Kawamoto
Every Town Is All the Same When You've Left Your Heart in the Portland Rain: Representations of Portland Place and Local Identity in Portland Popular Lyrics, Meghan Andrea Kearney
The Effect of Temperature on Phenotypes of the Invasive European Green Crab: Physiologic Mechanisms that Facilitate Invasion Success, Amanda Kelley
Food Web Impacts of the Invasive New Zealand Mudsnail in an Estuarine System, Amanda L. Kelley
Science Journals in the Garden: Developing the Skill of Observation in Elementary Age Students, Karinsa Michelle Kelly
Strategic Upgrades: A Vehicle Routing Overview and Implementation for Nokia Siemens Network, Lukas Kessler, Chris Davis, Farzad Moshfegh, and Jerrod Thomas
Can R&D Spending Guarantee Innovativeness?, Momtaj Khanam, Supreet Bose, and Paweena Kongsansatean
Innovation Through Technology Transfer: Comparative Study on China and India, Momtaj Khanam, Sallam Thabet, and Standley Limarta
He’s Just a Man: Power Imbalance Between Female and Male Characters in American Sitcoms, Wenona Kimbro
Tokuya Higashigawa's After-Dinner Mysteries: Unusual Detectives in Contemporary Japanese Mystery Fiction, Jessica Claire Kindler
Green Mind Gray Yard: Micro Scale Assessment of Ecosystem Services, Erin Jolene Kirkpatrick
Catecholamine Interactions with the Cardiac Ryanodine Receptor, Robert Carl Klipp
Live It Up Downtown: A Framework for Housing in Downtown Oregon City, Jennifer Koch, Ryan Farncomb, Ian Matthews, Lina Menard, Kate Drennan, and Derek Abe
How Teams Overcome the Not-invented-here Syndrome, Paweena Kongsansatean, Rodney Danskin, and Standley Limarta
Team Process Report: Team 2, Paweena Kongsansatean, Rodney Danskin, and Standley Limarta
IP in Pharmaceutical Industry Related to TRIPS Agreement and Compulsory Licence in the Developing Countries, Paweena Kongsansatean and Abhishek Jain
Technology Assessment of Insulation Material for Home Construction, Rachanida Koosawangsri, Zeina Boulos, Nameer Al-Mulla, and Mario Bitzer
Biomimetic Robots at War: The Ethical Ramifications of American Military-Industrial Complex, Nina Kostur
The Impacts of Urban Renewal: The Residents' Experiences in Qianmen, Beijing, China, Yongxia Kou
Constructs of Freedom and Identity: The Ethnogenesis of the Jamaican Maroons and the Treaties of 1739, Jessica Krug
Nystagmus-Based Repositioning Device Marketing Plan, Arvind Kumar, Ashish Mishra, Fannie Black, Justin Thompson, Phaneendra Rampalli, and Thanaporn Ngarmnil