• Benefits of crowdsourcing for libraries: A case study from Africa 

  Lynch, Renee; Young, Jason; Boakye-Achampong, Stanley; Jowaisas, Chris; Sam, Joel; Norlander, Bree (Technology & Social Change Group, 2020-09)

  Many libraries in the Global South do not collect comprehensive data about themselves, which creates challenges in terms of local and international visibility. Crowdsourcing is an effective tool that engages the public to ...

• One Bad Formula Can Spoil Everything: A Simple Adjustment That Would Improve the UN's Gender Inequality Index 

  McDonald, Max; Koblitz, Neal (2019)

  A simple change in one part of the definition of the United Nations Gender Inequality Index (GII) could go a long way toward making it less problematic and more useful. In the definition of the GII we propose to replace ...

• Raw Data for "Daily Mitochondrial Mitochondrial Dynamics in Cone Photoreceptors" 

  Giarmarco, Michelle (2020-10-15)

  Cone photoreceptors in the retina are exposed to intense daylight, and have higher energy demands in darkness. Cones produce energy using a large cluster of mitochondria. Mitochondria are susceptible to oxidative damage, ...

• Ferry Vessel Propeller Wash Measurements 

  Kastner, Sam; Thomson, Jim; Horner-Devine, Alex; Stearns, Chris (2019-10)

  We investigated the hydrodynamic causes of severe erosion at the Washington State Ferries ferry terminal in Kingston, WA, where a cliff-like bathymetric feature has shifted shoreward in recent years, forcing repairs on the ...

• Collision rates of planetesimals near mean-motion resonances 

  Wallace, Spencer (2020-07)

  In circumstellar discs, collisional grinding of planetesimals produces second-generation dust which can be observed through thermal emission. While it remains unclear when second- generation dust first becomes a major ...

• Connecting African libraries and development organizations: Perceptions and possibilities 

  Lynch, Renee; Young, Jason; Jowaisas, Chris; Boakye-Achampong, Stanley; Sam, Joel (Technology & Social Change Group, 2020)

  While perceptions of African libraries as development partners remain low and limited by development organizations, it is possible to change these perceptions. Quantitative data are necessary but insufficient in demonstrating ...

• Sea Surface Temperature Contrast in Tropical World: Part 1 Mean State 

  Hartmann, Dennis L (2020-10-12)

  Warming experiments with a uniformly insolated, non-rotating climate model with a slab ocean are conducted by increasing the solar irradiance. As the climate warms, the surface temperature contrast between the warm, rising ...

• EXPLORING WEATHER-RELATED CONNECTED VEHICLE APPLICATIONS FOR IMPROVED WINTER TRAVEL IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST 

  Shi, Xianming; Wang, Yinhai; Wang, Haizhong; Akin, Michelle (2020)

  The objectives of this project were to investigate how connected vehicle (CV) data could be integrated with existing infrastructure data, and how the integrated data could be utilized to improve decision-making for highway ...

• Efficient Extraction and Evaluation of Complex Pavement Markings from Mobile Laser Scan Data 

  Olsen, Michael; Jung, Jaehoon (2020)

  Pavement markings are an important traffic control device, enhancing both the safety and efficiency of various modes of transportation by aiding vehicles, bicyclists, and pedestrians in effectively navigating the transportation ...

• Taming and Tapping the Bikeshare Explosion: A Review of shared micro-mobility laws 

  Lowry, Michael; Pimentel, David (2020)

  This project analyzed the various laws pertaining to shared micro-mobility systems, such as bike-share and scooter-share. In order to examine the relevant laws in all 50 states, the research team developed a list of questions ...

• CARING FOR WASHINGTON’S OLDER ADULTS IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: INTERVIEWS WITH ORGANIZATION LEADERS ABOUT THE STATE OF SOCIAL AND HEALTHCARE SERVICES 

  Berridge, Clara; Parsey, Carolyn M; Ramirez, Maggie; Freitag, Callie; Johnson, Ian; Allard, Scott W (2020-10-09)

  The COVID-19 pandemic presents significant and costly disruptions to social service and health care systems. Eight in ten deaths from the COVID-19 virus in the U.S. have occurred in people age 65 and older (CDC, 2020). In ...

• Long-term measurements of ocean waves and sea ice draft in the central Beaufort Sea 

  Thomson, Jim (2020-10)

  An ongoing program has measured ocean surface waves and sea ice draft at two sites in the Beaufort Sea (western Arctic Ocean) since 2012. This report presents the measurements and processed data products available from ...

• Automated atlas-based segmentation for skull base surgical planning 

  Konuthula, Neeraja (2020-09-09)

  Purpose: Computational surgical planning tools could help develop novel skull base surgical approaches that improve safety and patient outcomes. This defines a need for automated skull base segmentation to improve the ...

• Accelerating invasions and the asymptotics of fat-tailed dispersal 

  Liu, B. R.; Kot, M. (2019)

  Integrodifference equations (IDEs) are used in ecology to model the growth and spatial spread of populations. With IDEs, dispersal is specified with a probability density function, called the dispersal kernel, and the shape ...

• Why older adults and their children disagree about in-home surveillance technology, sensors, and tracking 

  Berridge, Clara; Wetle, Terrie Fox (2019)

  Background and Objectives: Despite the surveilling nature of technologies that allow caregivers to remotely monitor location, movements, or activities, the potential differences in comfort with remote monitoring between ...

• Monitoring the monitors: Medicaid integration of passive remote monitoring technology 

  Berridge, Clara (2019)

  Implementation of passive remote monitoring is advancing faster than our knowledge base about appropriate and ethical use. For all the media and research attention these technologies are getting, there has been very little ...

• Promoting SBIRT Training for Social Work Students Across Field Settings 

  Tajima, Emiko A; McCowan, Kristin J; Lindhorst, Taryn; Haggerty, Kevin P; Rivara, J'May B; Schack, Steve; Ramey, Anastasia; Jackson, T Ron (2019)

  We report on our experience of implementing an interprofessional social work SBIRT training program in which didactic content was integrated with field education opportunities to practice SBIRT in various practice settings. ...

• AGGREGATION 

  Bender, Emily M.; Howell, Kristen; Xia, Fei; Zamaraeva, Olga; Goodman, Michael Wayne; Crowgey, Joshua; Packard, Woodley; Lockwood, Michael Wayne; Lepp, Haley; Ramaswamy, Swetha; Bateman, Emma; Heath, Jeff; Inman, David; Burrel, Alex; Zhang, Claude; Flickinger, Dan; Oepen, Stephan; Drellishak, Scott; Poulson, Laurie; O'Hara, Kelly; Fokkens, Antske; Hou, Joshua; Mills, Daniel P.; Song, Sanghoun; Halgrim, Scott; Wax, David; Gracheva, Varya; Trimble, TJ; Curtis, Chris; Dermer, Laurie; Haeger, Mike; Nielsen, Elizabeth; Nordlinger, Rachel (2020)

  The AGGREGATION Project aims to bring the benefits of grammar engineering to language documentation without requiring field linguists to become grammar engineers. We achieve this by automatically creating precision grammars ...

• Structured Collection Notes and Dashboard for Electronic Collections Management 

  Grant, Erin; Romaine, Siôn; Schockmel, Nick (International Group of Ex Libris Users, 2020-09)

  The University of Washington Libraries uses a variety of metadata sources, including the Alma CZ, the OCLC KB, vendor records, and manual cataloging, to provide access to ebook and streaming media collections. Information ...

• Detection and Classification Capabilities of Two Multibeam Sonars 

  Cotter, Emma D (2020-09-07)

  Supplemental data for: Detection and Classification Capabilities of Two Multibeam Sonars, by Emma Cotter and Brian Polagye, accepted for publication in Limnology and Oceanography Methods (2020)

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