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Differences In Ninth Graders’ Attitudes Towards Math Depending On Immigrant-Generation Status, Karla V. Santana Martinez and Dara Shifrer
Political Movement Through Cultural Identity: Lessons from the Présence Africaine, Ramona Sapru Henderson
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Deriving Analytical Design Constraints For Absolute & Relative Encoding Schemes In Functional Subnetworks, Cody W. Scharzenberger-Braet and Alexander Hunt
One Ring to Rule Them All: Connecting Johann Herder's Romantic Nationalism & Richard Wagner's "The Ring", Eliana Scheele
Three Chapters From a Dayless World, Alex Schotzko
The Genetic Consequences of Pollen and Seed Transport in the Wind, Elizabeth Hendrickson Scott
Consequences of Spatial Heterogeneity for Turbulent Wake Development, Ryan Scott
Impacts of Stream Habitat Restoration on Macroinvertebrate Assemblages: A Systematic Literature Review, Morgan E. Seitzer
The Longitudinal Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status, Child Separation Anxiety Symptoms, and School Achievement in 1st Grade, Filip-Bogdan Serban-Dragan
Towards a New Discourse on Success in Alternative Education, Samuel Thomas Settelmeyer
Dietary Saturated Fatty Acids Modulate Host Innate Immunity, Amy Lorraine Seufert
A Novel Caching Algorithm for Efficient Fine-Grained Access Control in Database Management Systems, Anadi Shakya
Assessing the Climate Resilience of Quercus garryana in the Portland Metro Region, Jess Rose Nettle Shamek
State-Sanctioned Slavery: The Political Economy of Prison Labor, Avneet Sidhu
Once, I Was Very Very Scared and More: An Exploration into Depictions of Interpersonal Trauma in Children's Literature, Emma K. Siepmann
DNA Barcoding of Deep Sea Fishes from the Oxygen Minimum Zone, Yamini Singh
Assessing the Reliability of the Pairwise Variability Index for Differential Diagnosis of Apraxia of Speech, Celeste Sinko
Going Down an Incline with ChatGPT, Corey R. Sissons
How Reuse Rooms Can Reduce Waste On University and College Campuses, Zoe Slabodnik
Abusive Abbots and Malevolent Monks: Monasteries and Violence in the Early Anglo-Norman Period, Timothy B. Smart Jr.
Neuroscience Educational Interventions For Mental Health Management Within The Neurodiverse Population: A Working Model, Kadi Rae Smith, C.K. Miller, Bill Griesar, and Jeff Leake
Auditory Ace Mobile Application Capstone Review, Layla Smith
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