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Democracy, Strategic Interests & U.S. Foreign Policy in the Arab World: A Multiple Case Study of Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan & Saudi Arabia
(2015)What determines U.S. foreign policy in the Arab world? In order to address this question, an inductive multiple case study of Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia was conducted. These four Arab countries were selected ... -
Design and Qualitative/Quantitative Analysis of Multi-Agent Spatial Simulation Library
(2013-02-25)Integrating sensor networks in cloud computing gives new opportunities of using as many cloud-computing nodes as necessary to analyze real-time sensor data on the fly. However, most cloud services for parallelization such ... -
Dieter
Dieter is a fictional account how the sins of the father can continue to reverberate for thousands of years. Told from the point of view of Snow, Hazard's (formally known as Dieter) mid-twenties estranged daughter, the ... -
Discrepancy between role expectations and job descriptions: the impact on stress and job satisfaction
(2011)This study’s purpose is to identify the difference between formal job descriptions and true job expectations (job discrepancy), assess its frequency, and identify its impact to the workplace. This study will explain the ... -
Discrete Gaussian Sampling for Low-Power Devices
Sampling from the discrete Gaussian probability distribution is used in lattice-based cryptosystems. A need for faster and memory-efficient samplers has become a necessity for improving the performance of such cryptosystems. ... -
Distributed agent management in a parallel simulation and analysis environment
This thesis presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of adding features of automatic distributed injection, diffusion, merger, and termination to reactive agents in a parallel simulation and analysis environment. ... -
Distributed Diverging Topic Models: A Novel Algorithm for Large Scale Topic Modeling in Spark
In their 2001 work Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Blei, Ng, and Jordan proposed the generative model of the same name that has since become the basis for most research in the field of topic modeling. The model overcame many ... -
Dynamic load balancing in MASS
(2013-11-14)<bold>Dynamic Load Balancing</bold> (DLB) in Multi-agent Spatial Simulation (MASS) library is a thread-based load-balancing algorithm that calculates the CPU load, per thread, based on the computational time spent by CPU, ... -
Eat This Book: User-centered research and software design using the information diet metaphor to examine media consumption and design an ambient technology display for stashes of to-be-read ebooks
(2013-07-25)There are widespread concerns about how changes in media and technologies are affecting people's media habits. Clay Johnson (2012) proposes using the metaphor of an "information diet" to consider this as a health issue, ... -
Electronic Waste Recycling Programs in the United States: A Comparative Analysis
(2014)Proper recycling of electronic waste (e-waste) allows reuse of finite resources and prevents toxic materials in e-waste from causing harm to humans and the environment. The United States is the only Organization for Economic ... -
Emerging Practices of University Career Centers. What Patterns are Most Conducive to Reducing Underemployment in College Graduates?
(2015)Since the 1970’s concern over underemployment has grown among US college graduates. Contributing factors for underemployment are debated by scholars, yet universities struggle to provide employment prospects that are ... -
Energy-aware Workflow Scheduling and Fuzzy Logic Based Capacity Provisioning in Cloud Environment
The increasing need of large-scale data centers has brought new challenges to the development of energy-efficiency techniques. Although many optimization techniques have been proposed, most of them neglect the characteristics ... -
Environmental Advocacy within Non-Governmental Organizations
(2015)The purpose of this capstone is to understand how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) assess global climate change in their advocacy at the local level. NGOs were identified as participants in political arenas and often ... -
Evaluating the Architecture Centric Traceability for Stakeholders (ACTS) Holistically from the Economic, Social, and Technical Perspectives
Software traceability has the capability of relating various artifacts produced throughout the development to assist with understanding the system from different viewpoints and abstraction levels. The Architecture Centric ... -
An Evaluation of King County School District’s Wellness Policies
(2013)The aim of this study is to evaluate the wellness polices in King County’s nineteen school districts. The evaluation of current wellness policies (2013) was compared to an evaluation done in 2009 by University of Washington ... -
An Exploration of the Relationship Between Perceived Social Support and Academic Achievement Among Former Prisoners
(2015)The literature states the benefits of social support for cognitive and behavioral functioning, personal achievement, academic success, and successful prisoner reentry into the community. However, there are gaps in post ... -
Exploratory Wayfinding in Wide Field Ethnography
This thesis focuses on what wayfinding means in Wide Field Ethnography (WFE), and how to improve wayfinding activities in WFE datasets. WFE datasets are too large, unstructured and complex for researchers to easily understand, ... -
Exploring Issues of Access to Nutritious Foods: Seattle High Schools and Food Environments
(2016)Food-related health problems remain widespread throughout the United States. A growing body of research shows that certain populations are disproportionately affected by issues of access to nutritious foods. Limited access ...