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Topological Quantum Computing with Majorana Zero Mode Qubits: Theory and State of the Art
(2020)Topological Quantum Computing (TQC) has been proposed as a strong candidate for universal quantum computation, due to its inherent capability for fault-tolerance in the form of error detection and correction, and robustness ... -
Towards a measurement of the nuclear magnetic octupole moment of barium-137
(2011)A description of a 2051 nm laser system designed and built for use in a number of proposed experiments is presented. Results of spectroscopic measurements of the 6S1/2 to 5D3/2 transition in 138Ba+ are discussed. The ... -
Novel Ion Traps for Enhanced Fluorescence Collections and Single Photon Sources Based on Barium Ions
(2010)Efficient ion-photon interface is critical for ion-photon and ion-ion entanglement generation, which are the fundamental building blocks for loophole-free Bell inequality violation tests based on ion qubits, and for the ... -
Experiments with remote entanglement using single barium ions
(2010)Barium ions are trapped and Doppler cooled in a linear Paul trap with the goal of demonstrating state initialization, single-qubit operations and detection. Rabi rotations are demonstrated on the 6S1/2 ↔ 6P3/2 transition ... -
Barium Ions for Quantum Computation
(2009)Barium ion is investigated as a hyperfine qubit. 137Ba+ is trapped in a linear Paul trap and laser cooled. Isotope selective photoionization is employed to improve trapping from an isotopically inpure source. Optical ... -
A Just Transition Framework for Resilience - Evaluating Strategies for Seattle’s Duwamish Valley Resilience District
This thesis develops a framework for evaluating policies that advance climate justice within the emerging Duwamish Valley Resilience District in Seattle, Washington. The Duwamish Valley is a legacy industrial area and ... -
What’s Going on in Rat City? An Analysis of Queer Space in White Center
This paper assesses ongoing change occurring in White Center, an unincorporated community directly south of Seattle. Beginning in the 1970s, several waves of immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Central America came to ... -
Determinants of Housing Underproduction in Washington State Counties: Analyzing the Impact of Policy, Demographic, and Economic Factors
The urbanized regions of the State of Washington are widely known for being difficult cities to find an affordable place to live. The purpose of this thesis is to identify factors contributing to housing underproduction ... -
Statistical Methods for the Analysis and Prediction of Hierarchical Time Series Data with Applications to Demography
This dissertation develops new methods for the analysis and prediction of hierarchical time series data with a focus on applications to demography. The first two projects aim to estimate and project the potential effect ... -
Socio-Spatial Vulnerability to Heat: A Study of Mortality in Washington Neighborhoods During the 2021 Western North America Heat Wave
This study is a spatially and temporally relevant analysis of mortality and heat patterns within Washington neighborhoods during the 2021 Western North America Heat Wave. Utilizing geocoded mortality data from the Washington ... -
Pro-Social Behaviors and Social Media Usage During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This study will examine the association between sources of social media exposure and adherence to pro-social behavior in the context of the United States (e.g., mask-wearing, attitudes towards vaccination, and uptake of ... -
Plague & Persecution in San Francisco and Honolulu Chinatown
This study explains why the responses to bubonic plague outbreaks in San Francisco and Honolulu's Chinatowns differed during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Both cities, unprepared for the plague, resorted to drastic ... -
Characterizing and forecasting fish recruitment in a changing world
Recruitment, the entry of young fish into a stock, is an important process in population dynamics models, which form the basis for many stock assessments. As such, recruitment has been a focus of research among fishery ... -
From Mark-Resight to Management: Bayesian Hierarchical Models for Endangered Bird Populations
Producing reliable estimates of demographic rates is critical to our understanding of wildlife population dynamics and can provide valuable information for prioritizing conservation and management efforts. Precise and ... -
Molecular Epidemiological Investigations of HIV Transmission Patterns Among People Who Inject Drugs in Kenya
In Kenya people who inject drugs (PWID) have a 4-fold greater prevalence of HIV and at least 10-fold greater prevalence of hepatitis C compared to the general population. While preliminary epidemiological evidence suggests ... -
Examining the Association Between an Endolysosomal Polygenic Risk Score and Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a highly heritable but polygenic common neurodegenerative disorder. Recent discoveries of AD risk susceptibility loci by genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have small overall effects, and ... -
The Role of HPV E6 Oncoprotein as a Biomarker in Anal Cancer Screening in Persons Living with HIV
Early detection and prevention of anal cancer in high-risk groups such as persons living with HIV (PLWH) is of utmost importance. Most cases of anal cancer are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), especially by HPV subtypes ... -
Examining relationships between long non-coding RNA and warfarin pharmacogenes
Inter-individual variability in warfarin metabolism and response is influenced by multiple factors, including genetic variations in important pharmacogenes such as VKORC1 and CYP2C9. LncRNA (long non-coding RNA) plays roles ... -
Limits of Restored Vision: Using Psychophysics to Predict What Sight Restoration Technologies Can Provide
Sight restoration technologies targeting vision loss caused by retinal degeneration have shown significant progress in the past 30 years. Light perception can be achieved through electrical or optogenetic stimulation, ... -
Weaponization of Diversity Rhetoric: An Insidious Route to Justifying Inequity
Do White egalitarians (i.e., those low in social dominance orientation) weaponize diversity rhetoric to justify racial inequities? Two preregistered studies examine the weaponization of diversity rhetoric – the appropriation ...