• An Initial Transportation and Mobility Needs Assessment for the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe 

  Granados, Solana

  The Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe is facing extremely rapid erosion, rising sea levels, and a plausible earthquake and tsunami inundation that together threaten their community and future. In response, the Shoalwater Bay ...

• Spatial Assessments of Seattle Housing Authority’s Senior Housing and their Proximity to Parks, Public Transit Stations, and Medical Facilities 

  Emmons, Alexander

  The built environment has the capacity to enhance or diminish quality of life. This capacity provides the reason and motivation to provide an environment that is able to facilitate the needs of individuals. To accomplish ...

• Planning with Fire: Exploring the Barriers & Opportunities Surrounding Wildfire Fuel Reduction at the Wildland Urban Interface 

  Brown, Jude

  With unprecedented climate change and rapidly shifting wildfire regimes heightening wildfire risk across the Pacific Northwest, our research explores fuel reduction as a holistic wildfire mitigation strategy. Using the ...

• Future street design and urban planning considering Autonomous Vehicles 

  Liu, Tianyi

  Historically, streets were primarily designed for people's public lives, serving as hubs for cultural exchange and social activities. However, the importance of public lives has been marginalized since the advent of cars, ...

• Influence of Street Trees on Frequency of Vehicle Collisions in Seattle 

  McMichal, Richard Reese

  This thesis explores the correlation between street trees and motor vehicle crash frequency in Seattle, WA, focusing on the implications for livability and safety. While previous literature initially suggests a potential ...

• Evaluation of new vehicle technologies and new mobility services as sustainable urban transportation solutions 

  Zou, Tianqi

  Focusing on shared micromobility and the application of vehicle automation to shared mobility, this dissertation develops new approaches to evaluating sustainability impacts of new vehicle technologies and new mobility ...

• Building Justice: Imagining a Political Agenda 

  Koretz, Megan

  Reform of US incarceration facilities is a moral imperative that requires the integration of aspects of community planning, architecture, and legal and political agendas. The complexity of the challenge has only increased ...

• Urban Landscape Complexity as a Driver of Urban Evolution in White Clover (Trifolium repens) 

  Malesis, Anna

  Cities are influencing evolution on contemporary timescales, but the mechanisms driving evolutionary change are not well understood. Previous studies on urban eco-evolutionary dynamics generally assume that urban structures ...

• Bayesian methods for variable selection 

  Porwal, Anupreet

  Choosing a statistical model and accounting for uncertainty about this choice are important parts of the scientific process and are required for common statistical tasks such as parameter estimation, interval estimation, ...

• Statistical methods for genomic sequencing data 

  Min, Alan Ted

  Genomic sequencing data has revolutionized our understanding of the genetic basis of biological processes. The cost of sequencing the first human genome was estimated to be greater than 50 million dollars. However, with ...

• Exponential Family Models for Rich Preference Ranking Data 

  Wagner, Annelise

  Preferences can be found in a wide array of contexts, from recommender systems, to opinion polls, consumer habits, and elections. The specific method of data collection, and the types of data collected can greatly vary the ...

• Dyadic Coordination of Vocalizations and Pauses in Autistic Children and their Caregivers 

  Choi, Eun Ae

  There is emerging evidence that infants with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate differences in dyadic coordination of vocalization and pauses with their caregivers throughout infancy and childhood compared to ...

• Examination of Perceptual Subgroups of Ataxic Dysarthria Through Auditory Free Classification 

  Bouchard, Haley

  AbstractExamination of Perceptual Subgroups of Ataxic Dysarthria Through Auditory Free Classification Haley Bouchard Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Kristie Spencer Speech and Hearing Sciences Ataxic dysarthria ...

• Relationships Between Auditory Discrimination and Adaptation of Vocal Features of Speech 

  Knutson, Madeline Lis

  The current study evaluated relationships between auditory discrimination and adaptation of vocal features of speech. Previous research suggests relationships between auditory discrimination and adaptation of articulatory ...

• Validity and Reliability of Auditory-Perceptual Scales for the Assessment of Stuttering Severity 

  Sokolov, Sima Sheina

  The current study investigated the appropriateness of equal appearing interval scaling, direct magnitude estimation scaling, and visual analog scaling for assessing stuttering severity by determining whether the continuum ...

• Beyond Migration: Examining the Impact of Migration Experience, Gender, and Ethno-Caste Identity on Mental Health 

  Rajouria, Aryaa

  What are the effects of migration on the mental health of migrants in Nepal? How does ethno-caste identity and gender moderate the association between migration and mental health? Taking an intersectional approach, this ...

• Cannabis-Infused Dreams: A Market at the Crossroads of Criminal and Conventional 

  Cadigan, Michele Lindsay

  Moral legitimacy of market activities is important in determining how commodities are traded and market success (Anteby 2010; Fourcade and Healy 2007; Zelizer 1979). Economic sociologists studying morally contested markets ...

• “How they look at it is not how I lived it”: How Research, Policy, and Practice Regarding Family Court Child Custody Decision-making Erase Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence 

  Rousson, Ashley

  Approximately 10-15% of separating families have contested child custody arrangements that require dispute resolution (mediation and/or litigation) with 40-80% of those cases involving intimate partner violence (IPV) ...

• Adolescent and Adult Suicidality as Consequences of Maltreatment Experience and Low Socio-economic Status in Childhood 

  Kim, Moo-Hyun

  This doctoral dissertation aims to explore the intricate relationships between childhood maltreatment, low childhood socio-economic status (SES), and suicidal outcomes. The study draws on data from the Lehigh Longitudinal ...

• El sueño del pongo: Guamán Poma, Arguedas y la gestación de un Pachakuti literario 

  Ramon Joffre, Teresa

  El sueño del pongo fue recopilado por José María Arguedas en 1965. Un campesino cuzqueño le contó la historia, la cual narra la llegada de un sirviente (pongo en quechua) a una hacienda en la cual el patrón (misti) ...

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