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Submissions from 2021
Agent-based Activity Generation of Runners for City Infrastructure Planning, Quang Le
A ‘Superlicious’ Feast: A Rhetorical Analysis of Davy Crockett’s Almanacs as an Early Form of White National Identity, Darren L. Letendre
Session 2: Panel 1: Presenter 2 (Paper) -- Pope Leo X and the St. Peter’s Indulgence: The Accidental Path to Reformation and Church Fragmentation, Charlotte Levine
Automated Test Generation for Validating SystemC Designs, Bin Lin
Something Old, Something New: How Chapbooks and Crowdfunding can Reduce Financial Risk for Small Publishers, Jennifer Lindsay
"Like I Was an Actual Researcher": Participation and Identity Trajectories of Underrepresented Minority and First-Generation STEM Students in Research Training Communities of Practice, Jennifer Lynn Lindwall
Assessing the Impact of Changing Drought Conditions on Wildfire Emissions in Washington and Oregon, Maggie Liu
Virology: Mutagenizing the Proteolytic Cleavage Site in the Major Capsid Protein in SSV1, Thejanee Liyanaarachchi
Politeness Strategies Used in Invitations in Japanese, Natsuko Llewellyn
Portland’s Stormwater Permitting, Policy & Processes: A Stakeholder & Geospatial Analysis, Mary T. Logalbo and Mary Logalbo
Boy: Creation in a Void, Archer Long
Rockwood Identity Project, Phil Longenecker, Ana Navia, Natalie Chavez, Francisco Ibarra, Max Nonnamaker, and Eric Trinh
The Role of Native Lens α-crystallin in Amyloid Suppression Using β-amyloid as a Model Amyloid Client, Leilani Lopes
Asset-Based Community Development and Participatory Design in an Intergenerational Affordable Housing Community in Oregon, Hannah Lopez
Optimization Modeling for Best Location for New Plant, Erick Lorenzo, Geoff Gifford, Hai Ton, Luciane Dolgos, and Navdeep Singh
Next Generation Sequencing Identifies Population Structure and Signatures of Local Adaptation in Red Alder (Alnus rubra Bong.), Jacob Brent Loveless
Session 2: Panel 2 (Video) -- La Longue Durée of the History of Global Commodities and Practices, Thomas M. Luckett, Tobias B. Boudreau, Ben Iboshi, and Celeste Johnson
Reporting Adherence to Resistance Training in Cancer Survivors and their Partners: A Comparison Between Prescribed and Received Training Dose, Oliver Lumbad and Kerri Winters-Stone
The No-Color of Women: Women and Commemoration in the Treasure Valley of Idaho, Shaina Lynch
Open Crime Maps: How Are Police Departments Doing So Far?, Khaing Sandee Lynn
Characterization and Interpretation of Feldspathic Chromite Assemblages (FCAs) in Four Ordinary Chondrites: an Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) Study, Kimberly Louisa Maccini
High-Stakes Education: Dual Language Immersion in Portland, Oregon, Andrew MacLean
Freedom vs. Security: Analyzing the Connection between States' Prioritization of Security over Civil Liberties and Citizen Support for Democratic Norms, Carlyn Trumbull Madden