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The Italian Reconstruction and Post-War Fashions, Emily Garrison
Barriers to Healthcare Innovation, Parisa Ghafoori, Michael Link, Kruti Narvekar, and Selen Yilmaz
Project Management Office at MTI, Parisa Ghafoori, Priti Maheshwari, and Xiaowen Wang
Digital Fabric, Sudheer Goshi
On the Effect of Heterogeneity on the Dynamics and Performance of Dynamical Networks, Alireza Goudarzi
Open Source Software – Implications on Technology Management, Shreya Goyal, Renu Biradar, Puniti Singla, and Phaneendra Rampalli
"Man Up": A Longitudinal Evaluation of Adherence to Traditional Masculinity Among Racially/Ethnically Diverse Adolescent Inmates, Mary Elisabeth Gray
Selecting a Gaming Console using Hierarchical Decision Modeling, Desirability and Utility analysis, Tim Griffin, Tin Nguyen, Garrett Gilliland, and Michael Uffelman
Business Plan for Bolt and Brush Print and Paint House, Sarah Griffis and Sarah Miller
Fluorescence Detection of Biological Thiols, Yixing Guo
Enhancing the Process of Redistricting in Metro Area Using Operation Research Approach, Meles Hagos, Niharika Jeena, Yuan Xu, Zack Khalifa, and Patrick Pai
Feasible Models of Universal Health Insurance in Oregon According to Stakeholder Views, Terry Richard Hammond
Toward an Age-Friendly Portland, Dawn Hanson, Mark Person, Garrett Phillips, Colin Rowan, Collin Roughton, and Alison Wicks
Late-Holocene Flood History, Flood-Frequency, and Paleoclimate Analysis of the Central Black Hills, South Dakota, Tessa M. Harden
Giving Voice to the Peace and Justice Challenger Intellectuals: Counterpublic Development as Civic Engagement, Tom Harry Hastings
Human Trafficking and Slavery: Towards a New Framework for Prevention and Responsibility, Dana S. Hathaway
On the Sacred Disease: The Historical Significance of Hippocratic Humanism, Rationality and Scientific Procedure, Leah Haykin
A Good Mormon Wife, Kathleen Louise Haynie
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Aged Glacial and Climatic Reconstructions in the Goat Rocks Wilderness, Washington, United States, Joshua Andrews Heard
Causes and Consequences of Mitochondrial Variation in Caenorhabditid Nematodes, Kiley Ann Hicks
Measurement and Simulation of Parallel Plate Waveguide Structures in the Terahertz Region for Sensing and Material Characterization Applications, James Alexander Higgins
Neighborhood Main Streets: A Plan for Revitalizing Milwaukie’s Neighborhood Commercial Areas, Jay Higgins, Allison Moe, Kelly Moosbrugger, Levi Roberts, and Tony Vi
Silk Cryogels for Microfluidics, Christopher David Hinojosa