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2015 ISRB Release Decisions
(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 ... -
A Biologically Plausible Mechanism for Phonology Acquisition in Human Infants
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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 ... -
Adaptive Probabilistic Topic Models for Social Networks
(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
(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
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
(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
(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 ... -
Alternative Emergency Services: Identifying the Specialized Needs of Homeless Vehicle Residency in King County Washington
(2019)Vehicle residency is a subpopulation of the homeless who primarily live out of their car, RV, or van. In academic literature, homelessness has been highly researched in many fields, but little research has focused specifically ... -
An Evaluation of Complex Adaptive Evolvable System Simulation
Building models has been a human activity for centuries. Through the ages man has discovered patterns in how objects function together in the exchange of information, materials, and energy. We know these groups of objects ...