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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
Mechanisms of Methane Transport Through Trees, Ellynne Marie Kutschera
Undergraduate Research and Metropolitan Commuter University Student Involvement: Exploring the Narratives of Five Female Undergraduate Students, Jolina Jade Kwong Caputo
The Importance of Choice: Political Intermediaries and Democratization in Egypt After the Arab Spring, Matthew Lacouture
Income Disparity for Working Mothers: Eliminating Structural Discrimination Through Public Policy, Marques Lang
Cultural Behavior in Post-Urbanized Brazil: The Cordial Man and Intrafamilial Conflict, Thais La Rosa
Evaluation of Phase Change Materials for Cooling in a Super-Insulated Passive House, Jeffrey Stephen Lauck
A Parabolic Equation Analysis of the Underwater Noise Radiated by Impact Pile Driving, Nathan Laws
Examining the Mechanisms of the Work-Nonwork Boundary Fit and Health Relationship, Jenna Risa LeComte-Hinely
3D Printing Technology: The Radical Innovations and the Discontinuous Impacts Therein, Hyun Joo Lee, Jack Link, Michael Presby, Daniel Schmidlkofer, Ami Solomon, and Amitabha Worcester
Life Post 9/11: Experiences of Korean Americans Ten Years Later, Jay Lee
The Dynamics of Creating Strong Democracy in Portland, Oregon : 1974 to 2013, Paul Roland Leistner
Utilizing Affinity Spaces and Critical Literacies for Multi-Media Language Learning : I Can has l3arning on teh interwebz plz?, Allison Lemcke-Kibby
Fact and Fiction: Liu E’s Treatment of Characters in The Travels of Lao Can, Henry Lem
Between Two Jailers: Women's Experience During Colonialism, War, and Independence in Algeria, Adrienne Leonhardt
Integrating Leader Fairness and Leader-Member Exchange in Predicting Work Engagement: A Contingency Approach, Fangyi Liao-Holbrook
"Do Not Disturb": A Micro-Macro Examination of Intrusions at Work, Bing Chun Lin