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Victor‐Lévy Beaulieu and Québec's Linguistic and Cultural Identity Struggle, Anna Marie Brown
Regression Analysis: Real Estate Comparison Between Two Neighborhoods in Oregon and Texas, Neil Brown
Construction Contractor Selection: Comparing and Contrasting Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Neil Brown and Alex Julien
Portland, Oregon's Long Hot Summers: Racial Unrest and Public Response, 1967-1969, Joshua Joe Bryan
Antifascism Across Borders: Neus Catala and the Spanish Exile Resistance Networks in France, 1939-1945, Julia A. Buck
Phantom Islands A Collection of Short Stories, Marie Buckner
Dance Lessons, Kaitlyn Burch
The Effects of Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Religion on Formal End-of-Life Planning, Tina Dawn Lillian Burdsall
Rural Revolution: Documenting the Lesbian Land Communities of Southern Oregon, Heather Jo Burmeister
The Effect of the Bicycle Detector Symbol and R10-22 Sign on Cyclist Queuing Position at Signalized Intersections, Stefan W. Bussey
Analyzing the Foodshed: Toward a More Comprehensive Foodshed Analysis, Meara Butler
Optics and Spectroscopy in Massive Electrodynamic Theory, Adam Caccavano
A Survey of Systems for Predicting Stock Market Movements, Combining Market Indicators and Machine Learning Classifiers, Jeffrey Allan Caley
Macroeconomic and Political Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in the Middle East, Robin Barnaby Calver
Spatial Analysis of Climate and Winegrape Production in Winegrape Growing Regions of Oregon, United States of America, Willow Devin Campbell
An Experimental Investigation of Nest Reuse and Nest Site Selection in an Open-Cup Nesting Passerine, Sarah A. Cancellieri
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