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Labor Solidarity or Union Democracy. A Different Lens on Why Private Sector Unions are Struggling to Survive in the United States
(2015)Comparison of the constitutional provisions of the top ten United States labor unions provides understanding of the formal internal union policy mechanisms available to navigate between union locals and their internationals’ ... -
Late Teacher Hiring in Washington State: The Role of Collectively-Bargained Contract Provisions on Late Hiring
(2012)The practice of late hiring has detrimental and disruptive effects on school district and state finances, teacher morale, and student outcomes. While there are many direct and indirect causes of late hiring, a majority of ... -
Latinx Migrant Workers in United States Today: A Quantitative Report on the Latinx Migrant Experience and the Impact of American Immigration Policy on Their Work and Wealth
(2020)The field of Latinx studies grows every day as more Latinx immigrants arrive in the US. Current knowledge on immigration describes a harrowing path towards citizenship as immigrants disproportionately face discrimination ... -
Lesbian Infertility: Queering Assisted Reproductive Technology and Examining Policy Impacts on the LGBTQ Community
(2019)Infertility affects one out of every ten couples attempting conceive. According to a recent study; “ten percent of women (6.1 million) in the United States ages 15-44 have difficulty getting pregnant and staying pregnant” ... -
Libya's Rapid Collapse of the Health Care System After 2011: A Comparison of the Six Aims of Health Care Quality Between the United States and Libya
(2020)This study examines Libya’s post-war healthcare between the years of 2011 to 2020 through self-reports of Libyan respondents regarding the healthcare quality they were provided in Libya and the U.S measured by the Institute ... -
Long-term success for low-income entrepreneurs: An independent evaluation of the Washington Community Alliance for Self Help (C.A.S.H.) Individual Development Account (IDA) program
(2011)The Individual Development Account (IDA) program at Washington Community Alliance for Self Help (C.A.S.H.) encourages low-income entrepreneurship through microenterprise development in King County, Washington. Like many ... -
Love & Courage: Historic Fiction
The main section of Love & Courage is a collection of seventeen short fiction stories inspired by gravestone inscriptions found in Scotland, England, and Wales during independent research study abroad travels in 2013; and ... -
Love Poems to the Poet's Body
This is an abstracted narrative of recuperation. These poems attempt to salvage a body marked by physical and cultural violence. Beginning with a series of "love poems" that address the body as an other, the poems move ... -
Manor of Memory
Memory begins in neurons, racing back and forth from the hippocampus to the cortex of the brain. This book explores how malleable and unreliable memory can be; how it manifests in the body: mentally, physically, emotionally; ... -
"~" A Mash-Up: A Poetics of Defiance in the Age of the Internet of Everything
A-Mashup. I borrow this word from the pop/rock music scene where the word `DJ' now refers to someone who has multiple turntables at her fingertips, along with her computer, so she can `mash' the music together. My fingers ... -
MASS CUDA: ABSTRACTING MANY CORE PARALLEL PROGRAMMING FROM AGENT BASED MODELING FRAMEWORKS
Agent based modeling is the practice of simulating complex interactions by modeling the behavior of a single agent in the interaction, then observing the emergent behavior that occurs when many of those Agents interact. ... -
The Mckinney Vento Program and the Marysville School District
(2020)The Mckinney Vento program is a federal program that removes barriers for homeless students and helps assist them staying in school, as well as providing funding under Title I. A needs assessment of the McKinney Vento ... -
Mediating Residents' Trust in Police Through Collective Efficacy Processes
(2018)Urban area neighborhoods are no stranger to the vastly changing economic and social structures that persist in their communities; in principle and in practice, in the United States, a residents’ place matters. The purpose ... -
The Military Justice Improvement Act: A Struggle for Reform
(2020)This study investigates the evolution of military sexual trauma (MST) and military sexual assault (MSA) laws under Article 120 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) to decide what elements encouraged Congressional ... -
Mobile Agent based Intrusion Detection for Smart and Connected Medical Devices
The advent of wearable and implantable devices have fostered recent advances in healthcare. Medical devices equipped with wireless connectivity to remote monitoring features are increasingly becoming connected to each other ... -
Modernizing the electric power grid: an analysis of the US Smart Grid policies
(2012)This research project investigates whether states receiving Recovery Act funding are adopting policies that align with the objectives defined by Title XIII, Sec. 1301 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 ... -
Navigating Economic Self-Sufficiency in Washington State: The Capabilities Approach and Employment Services for Refugee Women
(2019)By the end of 2015, global mass displacement reached a record high of 65.3 million people, of whom 21.3 million were classified as refugees (Zong & Batalova, 2017). A refugee, as defined by the United Nations, is a person ... -
NemoCluster: Graph Clustering Algorithm for Structural Variant Detection
Structural Variant detection is a problem of significant interest in the biomedical field due to the strong link between these variants and genetic and degenerative diseases. A large body of programs and approaches exist ... -
A Net-Zero Community: A Resource Manual for Sustainable Development and Public Policy
(2018)This resource manual outlines the concept of a net-zero carbon and energy community focusing on sustainable development frameworks, methods, community components, and examples of current efforts in Washington State. This ...