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Cultural Ecologies and Local Policies: A Comparative Analysis, Alexis M. Gonzalez
Justice Impacted Mothers: An Autoethnographic Study Exploring the Impacts of Quality Prison Visitation with Children, Sarah E. Gore
The Relationship Between Perceived Stress, Psychological Distress and Thwarted Belongingness Among Military Service Members, Isaac Greenblatt
Transportation Policy and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: What Counts as Evidence in Tribal Policy Contexts?, Cole Grisham AICP
Influence of Inselbergs on Bat Diversity in Afrotropical Ecosystems, Amanda Lee Grunwald
The Role of Homocysteine Redox Chemistry in Biomolecular Mechanisms, Megha Gupta
Urban Beavers at the Crossroads: How Ecological Knowledge, Sociodemographic, and Spatial Context Shape Public Perception and Coexistence Preferences, Matthew Guziejka
Digital Child Labor Exploitation in Sharenting: Proposing Legislative Solutions for Enhanced Child Protection, Joana Guzman Gonzalez
"I Just Kind of Wish People Knew We Existed:" Rethinking Queer Visibility, Identity, and Belonging in Rural America, Alyson C. Hagen
Financial Metrics as Predictors of Financial Vulnerability and Nonprofit Failure, Yossi Haimberg
Structural Earthquake Resiliency of Rocking Core Systems with Floor Enabled Recentering, S. Taban Hajimirza
Development Scenarios and Wildfire Risk in Central Oregon, Samantha Hall
Development of a Low-Cost Electron Microscope for Educational Purposes, Christopher Halseth
Fathers' Racial Differences in Perceived Workplace-Induced Stereotype Threat: Impacts on Sense of Belonging, Job Satisfaction, and Turnover, Frances Evalyne Kealiimahiaiokalani Hampton
Money at Work: How the Inflation Reduction Act Reshaped the IRS, Richard Hansen
Kinetic Analysis Reveals t6A-protein Specificity for t6A and hn6A tRNA Modifications, Cassandra Mae Harker
Beauty In The Feed: Exploring the Role of Social Media In Women's Body Image and Emotional Satisfaction, Momina Hassan
Unsettling Home: Traces of an Unrepaired Settler-Colonial Past in "Redding, California," 1846-1924, Celeste Hegy
Race, Reflection and Resistance: An Autoethnographic Journey in Social Studies Curriculum Development, Jesse Nicholas Hendryx-Dobson
Let's Talk About Sex, Baby! Gender Roles in Parent-Child Sexual Communication, Alexandra Henrici
A Veblenian Approach to Chaos Theory, Isaiah Henry
Preparing Teachers to Seek Out Student Voice: Grounding the Work in Critical Consciousness, Stephanie MG Herb
Testing Their Limits: Impact and Intentions of Standardized Testing in K-12 Schools, Grace O. Herd
Sustainability of Recycling Perovskite Solar Cells: Economic and Environmental Perspectives, Juan P. Herrera Meza
Leveraging High-Performance Cloud Computing to Model Underwater Acoustic Propagation and Scattering From Time-Evolving Rough Sea-Surfaces Using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method, James Alexander Higgins