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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[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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Albanian Sworn Virgins: A Visual Representation of their Transformation
(University of Washington Libraries, 2016)This piece of art is a flipbook, analogous to the ones children play with as they make cartoon balls bounce with the quick flipping of pages between their thumb and index finger. However, instead of a playful scene, this ... -
‘All of this Belongs to Us’: Land, Horses, and Indigenous Resistance on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1900-1950
(University of Washington Libraries, 2016)In the early 1900s, the Yakima Indian Agency welcomed non-Native ranching operations onto Yakama tribal lands, taxing rangelands, and resulting in widespread overgrazing. By the 1920s, agency concern for the welfare of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Acute Myeloid Leukemia
This thesis is inspired by the position paper ”Predictive, personalized, preventive, par- ticipatory (P4) cancer medicine” [1]. The basic concept of P4 medicine was “The right patient with the right drug at the right dose ... -
Assessing the Economic Impacts of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Five Economically Depressed Counties in Southwest Washington State
(2015)An economic impact analysis of the earned income tax credit for tax year 2013 using the IMPLAN input output model demonstrates that $36,200,241 dollars in EITC expenditures from recipients creates 267 jobs, $9,360,085 ... -
Audio Screen: Unsighted Game Mechanics for Mobile Devices
Historically, most video games lean primarily on visual communication, making them inaccessible to the blind. Non-sighted gaming is beginning to gain some momentum, particularly with the proliferation of mobile devices, ... -
Autoorthography: an exploration of identity poetics with poetry
This paper explores a poetics of hiding through explorations of language, identity, and literary influences. My preliminary findings are presented as poetic prose, scientific descriptions and small memoirs. Though fragmented, ... -
Bag of Flesh: MFA Thesis
Bag of Flesh: MFA Thesis is a collection of short stories and poems centered on dysfunctional personalities. Using a range of voices, the book explores issues of identity and selfhood in restrictive societies. By employing ... -
Barriers to Temporary Inter‐District Water Transfers in the Yakima River Basin: Irrigation District Perspective
(2016)Water marketing, or mechanisms to acquire and redistribute water such as temporary water transfers, can represent a valuable response to drought for irrigation districts. The Department of Ecology, the US Bureau of ... -
The Beauty of Molokai'i
The Beauty of Molokai'i combines four diverse elements to explore identity and story through associative language and imagery. These four elements include experimental prose/poetry, surrealistic dream journeys, traditional ... -
Beyond Access. Assessing Institutional Barriers for Underrepresented Minorities in STEM & High Employer Demand Majors
(2015)Access to higher education in Washington State public institutions has reached an unprecedented level for underrepresented minorities (URM); completion rates in STEM and high demand majors however lag behind other groups. ... -
Black Medicine
Black Medicine is a novella that combines elements of both the Western genre and the Gothic ghost story. The intention of the tale was to place the claustrophobia of Gothic ghost stories within the open spaces of the Western ... -
Blade Against the Heart
An account of the adventures of Luke Muston, a protégé of Italian sword master Vincentio Saviolo, as he tries to find a place for himself in London in 1592. While it follows the pacing and rhythms of historical romance, ...