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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 ... -
The Nicaragua Canal. Is the Assessment in line with National Environmental Law?
(2016)In 2013, the Government of Nicaragua approved the concession for a 173-mile canal to the Hong Kong Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Group. As the Western Hemisphere's second poorest nation, Nicaragua is attracted ... -
No Lost Generations: Refugee children and their human right to education, from the Holocaust to the Syrian Civil War
International law protects the right to education for refugee children, as is stated in multiple treaties and documents, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the Convention Relating to the Status of ... -
Object Manipulation with Tangible User Interface for Head Mounted Augmented Reality Devices
Recent advances in technology enabled a new generation of Augmented Reality (AR) development where the near seamless integration and interaction between computer generated virtual and real-world physical objects can be ... -
Oil Spills and Corexit: Has the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill had an ongoing effect on the cultural and mental health of Louisiana residents?
(2017)In July, 2010 the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded killing 11 people and spilling over 4.9 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. It was the largest offshore oil spill in U.S history. Over 1.8 ... -
On My Mind
University of Washington Abstract On My Mind Carol Anderson Shaw Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Assistant Professor Sarah Dowling School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Science On My Mind engages with complex issues of ... -
Open Government Data. An analysis of the potential impacts of an Open Data law for Washington State
(2015)Open data is a growing movement that encourages Governments to open up as many of their data sets as possible, making it freely available and machine-readable, in order to promote and facilitate Governmental transparency ... -
Ordinary Saints and Monsters
Ordinary Saints and Monsters is a collection of short stories all centered on the topic of abortion in North America. The stories of clinic workers, patients, volunteers, and others connected to the topic are included in ... -
Parent Civic Practice in the Puget Sound Educational Service District
(2018)This study highlights parent voices while documenting Parent Committees at Head Start and Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) Early Learning Programs/Preschool centers. It focuses on Parent Committees ... -
Phrases Of The Moon
Phrases Of The Moon is a collections of prose-poems, parables, riddles, aphorisms, and short stories linked together to form a web of creative mystery and revelation. Kafka, Borges, Mallarmé, and Nabokov are some of the ... -
A Poetics of Miscommunication
An analysis of the concept of miscommunication in and through literature. Primary sources include the novels of Samuel Beckett and Reader-response theory, particularly in the writings of Wolfgang Iser. This thesis problematizes ... -
Police Complaints Intake Process in Law Enforcement Agencies: An Analysis in King County, Washington
(2019)The matter of police-community relations has been a constant strain on the trust between officer and civilian. In King County, Washington, there are over 40 different police agencies serving over two million people. Each ... -
Polishing A Gem On The Surface Of The Sea
(2014)Polishing a Gem on the Surface of the Sea is a hybrid work that is non-fiction, creative fiction, fiction and poetry but, for classification purposes, I label it fiction. The narrative and poetry sections focus on grief, ... -
Pollution from Container Ships in the Port of Seattle: Can Voluntary Shore Power Use Clear the Air?
(2018)International trade is dominated by the maritime shipping industry. Transportation of goods and raw materials is a key component of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The World Bank Group reported in 2003 ... -
POST
POST is a book of poems in three sections that explore many different spatial and temporal aspects of the post especially as they relate to borders and boundaries that mark openings onto landscape and into the earth—from ... -
Predicting Risk of Re-hospitalization for Congestive Heart Failure Patients
(2013-04-17)Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is one of the leading causes of hospitalization, and studies show that many of these admissions are readmissions. Identifying patients who are at a greater risk of hospitalization, can guide ... -
Prediction and Privacy in Healthcare Analytics
In the past decade, the United States federal government has made improving the healthcare system a major focus with legislation such as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the financial incentives for ...