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    • 2015 ISRB Release Decisions 

      Young, Kate (2017)
      This research evaluates the Washington State ISRB and its release determinations for community custody offenders. Documents relating to offender custody and the release hearing process are analyzed for content and variables ...
    • 6-foot pine: life and romance in the chrondemic age 

      Watson, Cliff
      6-foot pine: life and romance in the chrondemic age is a hybrid work of speculative fiction that interrogates attraction and connection in a near-future time of chronic pandemics while under the persistent choking ravages ...
    • A Biologically Plausible Mechanism for Phonology Acquisition in Human Infants 

      Strange, Maxfield Taylor
      Infants go through a serial developmental process in language acquisition, which is observable as specific linguistic milestones: by around six weeks of age, infants coo; by about six months they begin to babble, entering ...
    • A Joint Model Provisioning and Request Dispatch Solution for Mobile Inference Serving at the Edge 

      Prasad, Anish Nagendra
      With the advancement of machine learning (ML), a growing number of mobile clients rely onML inference for making time-sensitive and safety-critical decisions. Therefore, the demand for high-quality and low-latency inference ...
    • A Nursery Rhyme from Another Summer 

      Thorlin, September Leigh
      Abstract: This thesis was written as an experimental memoir on abuse and recovery. It explores these topics through poetry, prose, and experimental non-fiction.
    • A Sequence Based Approach for Predicting Clinical Events 

      Zahid, Anam
      The data associated to each patient increases almost linearly as the patient flows through the continuum of care. Analysis of the data collected during a patient’s admission to the hospital reveals that it grows vertically ...
    • A Sequentialization of Features Approach to Complex Event Sequence Prediction 

      Hon, Chun Pan
      Sequence based prediction takes an ordered list of events as input and makes predictions about the next event. Most existing work on sequence based prediction assumes that the sequences are simple, i.e. consisting of symbols ...
    • A Study of Correlations Between Trait Affect and Phishing Susceptibility 

      Smith, Samantha Emily
      Although phishing emails have been in use for decades, these social engineering attacks are still prevalent because they keep working; in fact, they are a leading cause of data breaches. In this research, I attempt to ...
    • A System for Secure and Categorized Video-Sharing 

      Prakasam, Neil
      Online video sharing is a phenomenon which continues to be increasingly utilized by the entirepopulation. Preserving the privacy of videos shared online is of utmost importance, but there is one use case that hasn’t yet ...
    • A Woman’s Mutation 

      Voss, Julie Isabelle
      A Woman's Mutation is a collection of essays and fragments about becoming a mother in the United States as a French woman in the middle of a pandemic. It touches on the subjects of mental health, motherhood doubts, legacy, ...
    • A[not]her Nature 

      Taylor-Hough, Deborah Lynne
      A[not]her Nature is a collection of collage poems (centos) written in response to environmental issues. The language in many of these poems is drawn from, or responds to, seminal works of nature writing in an attempt to ...
    • Accelerating large-scale simulations of cortical neuronal network development 

      Kawasaki, Fumitaka (2012-09-13)
      Cultured dissociated cortical cells grown into networks on mult-electrode arrays are used to investigate neuronal network development, activity, plasticity, response to stimuli, the effects of pharmacological agents, etc. ...
    • ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education 

      Hattwig, Denise; Burgess, Joanna; Bussert, Kaila; Medaille, Ann (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2011-10)
      The importance of images and visual media in contemporary culture is changing what it means to be literate in the 21st century. Today's society is highly visual, and visual imagery is no longer supplemental to other forms ...
    • Adaptive Probabilistic Topic Models for Social Networks 

      Shayandeh, Arta (2012-09-13)
      Online social networks such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook generate tremendous amount of text and social interaction data. On one hand, the increasing amount of available information has motivated computational research ...
    • Adversarial Example Resistant Hyperparameters and Deep Learning Networks 

      Hulderson, Eric Joseph
      Carefully crafted input has been shown to cause misclassifications in machine learning based classification systems resulting in the phenomenon of adversarial examples. Hyperparameters, the settings used to build and train ...
    • Advocating Social Policy Reform: Universal Basic Loan and US Welfare Schemes 

      Balbon, Jean (2018)
      This study reviews the history of US poverty and social policies and analyzes alternative solutions and reforms to current income support systems. It examines welfare schemes that aims to reduce wealth and income inequality ...
    • Agent Based Parallelization of Computational Geometry Algorithms 

      GOKULRAMKUMAR, SARANYA
      The Multi-Agent Spatial Simulation (MASS) library is a parallel programming library that utilizes agent-based modeling (ABM) to parallelize big data analysis. In this research, we aim to build on the previous research using ...
    • AGENT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY 

      Paronyan, Satine
      The Multi-Agent Spatial Simulation (MASS) library is a parallel programming library that uses agent-based modeling (ABM) parallelization approach over a distributed cluster. The MASS library contains several applications ...
    • Alabama Judicial Override: Is One Greater than Twelve? A Post-Furman Look at Potential Disparities in Capital Sentencing in Alabama 

      Lindekugel, Adrian (2015)
      From low level drug offenses to capital murder, arrests and sentencing remain disproportionate in the United States. As a response to the Supreme Court’s Furman v. Georgia ruling against arbitrary sentencing in capital ...
    • An alternative approach to emergency preparedness: a descriptive case study evaluation 

      Nogawa, Grover (2011)
      The Seattle Neighborhoods Actively Prepares (SNAP) program offers an alternative approach to emergency preparedness from more conventional programs. Program participants, staff and other associated individuals in this ...