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Kamagasaki: The Legacy of Poverty and Uprising in Urban Spaces
(2013-03-19)Osaka has long been a hub of labor and industry in Japan. The Kamagasaki district near the famed Osaka Loop Line became the epicenter of day labor, even originating its own type of labor market – yoseba. Formally renamed ... -
KEEP OUT! Teen Strategies for Maintaining Privacy on Social Networks
(University of Washington Department of Communication, 6/10/2011)Teens are one of the biggest users of online social networks today. Social networks such as Facebook allow teens to carry out some of the developmental work of adolescence virtually. Teens can “hang out” with friends, ... -
Keeping A Flow Profile: The Fluid Dynamics and Biomechanics of Trilobite Genal Spines
(Friday Harbor Laboratories, 2012-08)Arthropods are well known for being extraordinarily diverse. Variation of form and niche-occupation in arthropods relies on specialized appendages and regionalization of a common bauplan. In the marine realm, ancient ... -
Kelp gametophyte recruitment in articulated coralline algae of the San Juan Islands
(2021)Kelp species dominate rocky intertidal communities in the Salish Sea and overlap in distribution with a diverse array of articulated coralline algal species. Little is known about the microscopic gametophyte phase of kelp’s ... -
Kelp gametophyte recruitment in articulated coralline algae of the San Juan Islands
(2021)Kelp species dominate rocky intertidal communities in the Salish Sea and overlap in distribution with a diverse array of articulated coralline algal species. Little is known about the microscopic gametophyte phase of kelp’s ... -
Kelp gametophyte recruitment in articulated coralline algae of the San Juan Islands
(2021)Kelp species dominate rocky intertidal communities in the Salish Sea and overlap in distribution with a diverse array of articulated coralline algal species. Little is known about the microscopic gametophyte phase of ... -
Kelp raft distribution and associated animal communities in San Juan channel
(Friday Harbor Labs, 2012-12)Nereocystis creates floating debris when broken from the bottom. With currents and wind this flotsam on occasion entangles to form a raft of Nereocystis. Rafting Nereocystis floats throughout the San Juan Islands channels. ... -
Kings of Bachata : Aventura, Migration and Dominican Nationalism in a Transnational Context
(2009-12)Since the 1960’s, Dominican bachata music has been associated with the poorest, blackest sectors of Dominican society. Recently, however, young Dominican music groups in New York City, most famously Aventura, have popularized ... -
Kitsap Military Family Resource Document
(2023-06)For anyone who is a part of the U.S. Armed Forces they know how difficult this unique lifestyle can be, whether they are the service member or the child of one. Many of the issues that military families face on a daily ... -
Kodokan judo 講道館柔道
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La Censure sous le Second Empire: la Condamnation des Fleurs du Mal et l’Innocence de Madame Bovary
(University of Washington Libraries, 2017)My research focused on literary censorship during the Second Empire France by examining two censorship trials: the 1856 trial of Gustave Flaubert’s realist novel Madame Bovary and the 1857 trial of Charles Baudelaire's ... -
La Lucha por el Agua, la Lucha por la Vida: The Political Economy of Water Privatization in Cochabamba, Bolivia
(2006-05)This paper examines the failure of the attempt to privatize the water utilities in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia. A large popular uprising against dramatically rising costs for water was not effectively managed by a weak ... -
La Niña’s effect on the primary productivity of phytoplankton in the equatorial Pacific
(2011-03)This study examined whether La Nina had increased phytoplankton productivity in Hawaiian ocean waters. Dissolved oxygen was measured at four stations with inconclusive results. -
A Lagrangian study of the surface circulation of a fjordic system: the effects of preceding weather conditions and local geomorphology
(2010-05)Variation in the surface and near surface circulation patterns of Effingham Inlet, a fjord on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, were measured using Lagrangian drifters over two days during the early spring of ... -
Land and Livelihoods: NGOs, Conflict, and Extraction in Peru
(2015)Examining the events that occurred over a decade ago in Tambogrande, Piura - notable for its successful community-led revolt against a large mining corporation - allows for retrospection on Oxfam America’s past efforts ... -
Landslide Ages and Implications for a Marine Terrace at Rialto Beach, WA
(2020-03)Holocene landslides and marine terraces at Rialto Beach, on the Olympic coast of Washington state, may provide clues about the response of the Pacific coastline and adjacent hillslopes to Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) ... -
Landslide generated tsunamis: A smoking gun in Saratoga Passage, Puget Sound, Washington
(2008-07-01)The Puget Sound region with its high, steep bluffs is subject to landslides. An area of Puget Sound off Camano Island, near Onamac Point, was studied to determine if sediments there were a result of a landslide. The volume ... -
Landslide Hazard Map of Kirkland, WA
(2016-12)Landslides are one of the most significant geohazards in the Puget Sound region and have a history of causing extensive damage to development (Baum, Harp, and Highland, 2007). Mapping landslide hazard areas is imperative ... -
Landslide Hazard Study of Mercer Island, Washington
(2018-06)Landslides are ubiquitous in the Puget Lowland of northwest Washington State for several reasons. These factors include many ìcoarse-over-fineî geologic contacts, steep bluffs and ridges, and a wet climate for much of the ...