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    • Factors Affecting Genetic Engineering Policy Outcomes 

      Scully, Denise (2015)
      The safety and sustainability of genetically engineered (GE) crops is an ardently debated topic. Serious concerns have surfaced regarding environmental impacts and health implications (VanHosen, 2015; Diamanti-Kandarakis ...
    • Factors in thorium fuel adoption 

      Ferguson, Scott (2011)
      The purpose of this study is to determine whether the United States government should support the research, development, and implementation of thorium‐based nuclear reactors as a primary supplier of electricity for the ...
    • Family Violence and Financial Aid: A Trauma-Informed Policy Analysis of Financial Aid’s Responsiveness to Students Experiencing Violence in the Home 

      Laughlin, Kyra (2019)
      Independence is a cornerstone of pursuing higher education. Applying for college, registering for classes, deciding on a major, completing coursework, and maintaining a passable grade point average to graduate, are all the ...
    • Fancy Dinner Date: Conversing with Artists' Books to Spark Creativity 

      Dimmit Smyth, Laura; Hurst, Leslie; Parker, Suzan (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2021)
    • Feather Coat 

      Zhuang, Yuan
      I take up the ancient Chinese folk story “Zhu-Qing,” told to me by my mother when I was a child and its story of a magical robe that I imaginatively came to remember as a feather coat. Whoever would put on this black feather ...
    • Federated Learning for Intrusion Detection Systems in Medical Cyber-Physical Systems 

      Schneble, William
      Medical Cyber-Physical Systems (MCPS) are networked systems of medical devices with seamless integration of physical and computation components. MCPS are increasingly used in healthcare environments to deliver high quality ...
    • Feeling the Heat: Climate Change Adaptation Policy in Snohomish County 

      Corbman, Jessica (2020)
      This capstone was conducted to determine what changes will need to be made in Snohomish County to prepare for a changing climate, specifically with regard to adaptation rather than mitigation strategies. This project focuses ...
    • The Feminology of Spirit 

      Featherly, Lynarra Joan
      The work of the Feminology, in both process and product, is work born out of sifting through, listening and selecting-out from Hegel’s language in the preface to his Phenomenology of Spirit. The Feminology, then, is poetry ...
    • Field-Based Job Dispatch and Migration 

      Jayabalan, Somu (2013-04-17)
      AgentTeamwork-Lite is a mobile-agent-based job scheduling and monitoring framework that has been developed in the concept of field-based job dispatch and migration where agents migrate over a computing-resource field to ...
    • Fighting Post-Tenure Fatigue: Reclaiming Your Time and Redefining Leadership 

      Lam, Nia; McKinney, Michelle (2023)
      Fighting Post-Tenure Fatigue: Reclaiming Your Time and Redefining Leadership offers insights, strategies and personal examples of how two mid-career librarians have managed to navigate academic librarianship as first-generation, ...
    • Find the Right Images 

      Brown, Nicole E; Bussert, Kaila; Hattwig, Denise; Medaille, Ann (American Library Association, 2016)
      It can be difficult to know where to look for images and how to navigate the millions of choices available. The resources, strategies, and activities in this chapter will build your repertoire of approaches to finding ...
    • Finding a Better Stove: Cookstove Use in “Last Mile” Villages in Guatemala 

      Hopkins, Deborah (2017)
      This project aims to explore cooking practice behaviors among indigenous Guatemalan women in select rural villages. Women across Guatemala place their health, and that of their children, at risk every time they prepare a ...
    • Fourteen 

      Queen, Talena Lachelle
      <italic>Fourteen<italic> takes on difficult topics such as chattel slavery, sexual violence, racism and discrimination. I use music, tangents and a prejudicial preference for the number fourteen as tools to aid my telling. ...
    • The fourth time is the charm: charter school legislation in Washington State 

      Wiggins, Ericka (2011)
      Washington State is amongst a handful of states without charter school legislation. Even in the absence of such legislation, the idea of charter schools is no new phenomenon in Washington. State residents voted against the ...
    • Fractured Poetics and Creation 

      Phillips, Billy Solon
      The imaginations is the human being's core intellectual generative power, but is neglected in Western life. Being more important it is also more dangerous than previously realized. Fractured Poetics and Creation is a ...
    • Freedom to Fracture: Universal Human Rights as a Security Threat to a Multi-ethnic Russian Federation 

      Baker, Celia Anne
      This paper explores universal human rights as a security threat, as identified by the Russian Federation in security doctrines created during Putin’s third presidential term. Unlike other analyses of Russian security ...
    • Fresh Techniques: Getting ready to use hip hop in the classroom 

      Rowland, Danielle (2016)
      A workbook-style reflection exercise prompts readers to consider potential uses of hip-hop in their own library instruction in a culturally responsive manner.
    • Fresh Techniques: Hip Hop and Library Research 

      Berger, Alyssa; Ellenwood, Dave (ACRL Publications, 2016)
      This chapter describes two classroom activities that use hip hop to teach information literacy concepts, including evaluating and using background information and primary sources. The activities draw on critical pedagogy ...
    • Funding Homeless Services: COVID19 and Beyond 

      Schmidt, Genevieve (2022)
      This research project will primarily analyze fiscal and policy changes as well as shifts in general practice occurring at Catholic Community Services of Western Washington (CCSWW) during the COVID19 pandemic, with a specific ...