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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
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