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Layout-Aware Quantum Circuitry and Algorithmic Extensions to Grover's Algorithm, Ali Al-Bayaty
The Confluence of Millenarianism and Sabbateanism in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands, Madison J. Alexander
Shock Effects Including Maskelynite Formation in Three Shergottite Meteorites From Mars, George Ayeh Anim
The Necessity of Improved Pica Assessment Tools and Screening Practices for Harm Reduction, Deborah D. Arakelian
Universal Health Care, Oregon, Jennifer S. Arnold, Bethany Clouse, and Alec Martin
Teaching From Past Example: Various Interpretations of Livy's Rape of Lucretia, June Baeck
Monitoring and Modeling Legacy Tree Response to Restoration Treatments in the Klamath Mountains, Oregon, USA, Isaac Joseph Ball
Indigenous Futures: Decolonizing Conservation and Restoring Ecological Sovereignty, Jasmine S. Beach
Oregon’s Compulsory Education Act: Americanism, Nativism, and Assimilation, Andrea M. Bell
Tree-equity and Environmental Justice Discourses Among Urban Forestry Professionals in Portland: Current Impacts and Future Implications, Axcelle Deone Bell
Risk Factors for Substance Use Among Serious and Violent Offenders Undergoing Reentry, Elizabeth Bozarth
Near Real-Time Prediction of Ground PM2.5 Concentrations Across Oregon Using GEOS-CF and Machine Learning Models, Long T. Bui
How to Kill a Human: Creating an Immersive Learning Game, Théo Caldwell and Nathan Bonnell
Association between Arsenic and other heavy metal exposures through drinking water and food with lung function and respiratory symptoms: A cross-sectional study, Sofia I. Chapela Lara and Seth O'Neal MD, MPH for the Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru
How the Cheating of East and West Germany Reveals a Global Trend of Doping in International Sports, Olivia L. Cheng Miss
Tweeting the Past, Present, and Future of Social Welfare: Public Political Speech, Cultural Resonance, and Debates about Defunding the Police, Kevin Noel Cherry
The Intersecting Association of Speaking a Non-Dominant Language and Lower Healthcare Access on Self-Reported Depression Among U.S. Adults: A Cross Sectional Study using NHANES Data (2015-March 2020), Vincenzo J. Cornacchione and Corey Linver
Urban Wildlife in Your Backyard: Community Experience and Impacts with Coyotes (Canis latrans), Outdoor Cats (Felis catus), and Songbirds, Clarissa E. Cressotti
Reflecting Life Back: The Influence of Mirrors on Human World History, Helen F. Cruz-Uribe Bandstra
Becoming a Learner: An Autoethnography, Joshua Dickinson
Model Explanations for Gender and Ethnicity Bias Mitigation in AI-Generated Narratives, Martha Otisi Dimgba
Comparative Soil Health in Urban Agrofrestry: A Case Study on Detroit's Perennial Agriculture Sites, Nia Dubon-Robinson
Face Value: Cosmetics as a Unit of Historical Analysis, Sophie Durocher