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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 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 Perfect Circle Rimmed With Gold 

      Siciliano, Samantha
      In Virginia Woolf’s essay on the Victorian phantom known as the Angel in the House (borrowed from Coventry Patmore’s poem celebrating domestic bliss) she wrote, “It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.” A Perfect ...
    • 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 Soft-Boiled Potato 

      Porter, Matthew
      It’s about as fun as watching paint dry. This play takes place in the home of aging drag queen Mizz Coral Durant as her borders with reality dissolve along with her relationship with man- servant Joey Boy. As the character ...
    • 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 Tiny Miniature World Where the Proportions Are Slightly Off 

      Burandt, Marina Rose
      I continually saw visions of a massive, black-roofed carnival structure being destroyed in the middle of the ocean. It stood on thin, wooden posts encrusted in mussels, and was intertwined with slides and rollercoasters ...
    • A Two-layer Authentication Using Voiceprint for Voice Assistants 

      Chang, Yun-Tai
      Voice assistants are a ubiquitous service of contemporary daily life. Their intuitive use and 24-hour-a-day convenience make them popular and have more users. However, the security of voice assistants does not increase as ...
    • 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. ...
    • ACRAS A Hybrid Graphical User-Authentication System 

      Harasimowicz, H Ryan
      The traditional text-based password is ubiquitous in today's computing environment, yet creation and maintenance of both usable and secure passwords remains one of the largest challenges in modern computing. This project ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...