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Submissions from 2024
Lawfare as a Policy Tool in Sino-American Relations: The Case of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, Zachary S. Souders
The Mosaic Programs of the Basilica of San Vitale and the Great Palace of Constantinople: A Unique Reinvention of Roman Pasts, Justine Spencer
MmWave RAT Optimization: MAC Layer Initial Access Design and Transport Layer Integration, Suresh Srinivasan
Social Media and Perceptions of Supreme Court Legitimacy, Ryan Stadler
DFT Based Modeling of the Heavy Atom Effect in Triplet Photosensitizers: From Fundamental Mechanics to Rational Design, Bret Andrew Steinkamp
The Influence of a Ubiquitous Filter Feeder on Coastal Microbial Communities, Melissa Steinman
The Influence of a Ubiquitous Filter Feeder on Coastal Microbial Communities., Melissa Steinman, Moritz S. Schmid, Robert K. Cowen, Su Sponaugle, Kelly R. Sutherland, and Anne W. Thompson
“The Tin Pan-tithesis of melody”: A Socio-Musical History of Eastern European Jews in New York 1880-1920, Jascha Stern
Expressive and Instrumental Social Capital Facilitates Network Connections for Community College Transfer Students in STEM, Makenna R. Stone
Authority with Procedural Justice: The Establishment and Enforcement of Expectations of Public Trust, Paris Desiree Eikanger Stoops
Impact of Intersecting Vulnerabilities on Functional Outcome and Health-Related Quality of Life after Traumatic Brain Injury: A Prospective Cohort Study, Rekesh Subedi, Tatiana Hoyos-Gomez, Luis Tinoco-Garcia, and John Cervantes Cervantes
Adaptive Sampling for Seabed Identification from Ambient Acoustic Noise, Matthew Sullivan
Neuroscience-based Harm Reduction Education for College Students in Portland, OR, Catriona Swallow
Removal as a Control Method for Trachemys scripta elegans and the Response of Chrysemys picta bellii, Jacob Swanson
Investigating Removal as a Control Method for Trachemys scripta elegans and the Response of Chrysemys picta bellii, Jacob Daniel Swanson
Predation of Appendicularians on Prochlorococcus, Carey Sweeney
Variability of Grazing by Appendicularians on Prochlorococcus, Carey Sweeney
Geochemistry and Geochronology of the Steens and Monument Dike Swarm: Implications and Relationships to Magmatic Storage and to Lava Flows of the Picture Gorge and Steens Basalt, Rachel Anne Sweeten
A Marxist Analysis of Women's Labor in the Soviet Union, Shania Sweet
Education and Tolerance of Homosexuality in Diverse Islamic Contexts, Camila Swift
Digital Comics Subscription Service Usage and Its Impact on Printed Comic Buying Habits: The Digital Comics Subscription Loop, Isaac Swindle
Portraits of Agency and Power: Exploring Andean Women in Guamán Poma's Chronicle, Ruby Sygar
Culture or Power: The Eruption of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon, Danielle Tagakou Talla
Understanding Variation in Provider Referral Rates to Early Intervention for Children with Developmental Delays, Gabriella Tangkilisan, Zoe Kilmer, Michelle Owens, Benjamin Sanders, and Katharine Zuckerman