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Death with Dignity: Queer Representation in Deathcare Systems, Esmé Ringelstetter
Youth Mental Health and Help-Seeking Behaviors, Azya Ripley
Corporatizing Violence: Targeted Repression of Indigenous Dissent in Democratic States, Laikaika Layne Rivera
The Influence of Plato’s Symposium: Love and Beauty Throughout Media & Culture, Anna E. Roberts
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Second Language Impacts On First Language Processing, Natalie Robison, Sarah C. Creel, Sarah Elkington, Judith Kelholt, Amy Lin, and Carolyn Quam
Attrition and Assimilation: The Neural Mechanisms of Mandarin-English Bilingualism, Natalie Paige Robison
Seguir Adelante: A Qualitative Exploration of Latino Farmworkers' Work and Non-Work Resources, Faviola Robles Saenz
The Health Risks of Deportation: Impacts of Family Separation on Relationships and Wellbeing in Latinx Communities, Shantay Rhea Rocha
Annual Killifish: Eye Development and Retinal Cell Regeneration, Carmen Z. Rodriguez
Living on the Outskirts of Things: Women and Nonbinary People of Color with Cognitive Disabilities Describe Their Employment Experiences, Laura Spura Rodriguez
Applying Positive Unlabeled Learning Techniques and Using the Kullback-Leibler Divergence to Improve Geothermal Surveying Assessments, Martín Thomas Rodriguez
Publication Bias in the Output of Generative AI, Esperanza Y. Rodriguez Rodriguez
The Lewis Acidity of Imidazole-derived Diaryliodonium Zwitterions, Cyrus Rose
Improved Genome Maintenance and DNA Replication in the Anoxia Tolerant Annual Killifish, Riley A. Roth-Carter
FPDR and Portland: A Concerned Accountant's Perspective, Noah Roth
Student Perceptions: How STEM Students Value Belonging Interventions, Elizabeth Runkel Baez
Synoptic Drivers of Extreme Precipitation in the Upper Yuba Watershed of California, Emma Nichole Russell
The Arab Spring Uprisings in Geopolitical Context, Jake Alan Rutledge
A Hierarchical Decision Model for Evaluating the Strategy Readiness of Quantitative Machine Learning/Data Science-Driven Investment Strategies, Mohammadsaleh Saadatmand