• Are King County Metro’s Fare Policies Just? An Examination of Racial Bias in Fare Enforcement 

  Gamble, Isis Moon

  In 2019, King County Metro auditors found that fare enforcement disproportionately impacts people experiencing houselessness and housing insatiable riders. These findings resulted in a policy change in an attempt to make ...

• Statistical Methods for Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire Analysis and Comparison 

  Olson, Branden

  B and T cell receptors, also known as adaptive immune receptors, perform key roles in adaptive immunity. These proteins identify and deal with foreign invaders like viruses or bacteria, allowing for robust and long-lasting ...

• Statistical Methods for Geospatial Modeling with Stratified Cluster Survey Data 

  Paige, John

  The production of fine-scale, pixel level maps have become increasingly common in the current era of precision public health. This has led to the use of cluster level spatial models by major organizations such as WorldPop ...

• Design and implementation of digital aids to empower struggling readers 

  Donnelly, Patrick

  Decades of research have established effective curricula for struggling readers. In the digital age, educational technologies expand access to apps and resources to supplement classroom instruction, but most lack scientific ...

• Can computational models of reading aloud account for how individuals who are d/Deaf and hard of hearing read? 

  Doering, Piper Pesha

  Purpose: This paper proposes modifications to two current computational models of reading aloud - the Dual Route Cascaded (DRC) Model and the Connectionist Dual Process (CDP++) Model, that are specific to individuals who ...

• Linguistic Predictors of Anomia Treatment Outcomes 

  Zimmerman, Reva M

  Many people with anomia (PWA), or word-finding difficulties, seek treatment to ameliorate their deficits; however, it is unclear why some PWA experience significant acquisition, generalization, and maintenance of the skills ...

• Confidence Game: Fiscal Crisis, Market Confidence, and the Remaking of Jamaica’s Post-Recession Political Economy 

  Stephens, Andre

  The deregulation of global financial markets has increased the propensity for economies, especially those in the developing world, to experience fiscal crises. Scholars have noted the potential for these crises to pit the ...

• The admiration of fathers: using factorial vignettes to explore differential assessments of parenting quality 

  Omar, Audrey

  Informal evidence suggests the existence of a fatherhood premium in social rewards (e.g. compliments and praise). The goal of this study is to assess the existence of a social premium for fathers, and examine its relationship ...

• The Right To Work For Less: The Effect of Right-to-Work Laws on Unfair Labor Practice Filing at the NLRB 

  Haskett, Breon

  This study investigates the impact of right-to-work laws on the filing of unfair labor practice complaints at the National Labor Relations Board in the U.S. I analyze a unique dataset I collected of the census of unfair ...

• Where We Go and What We Carry with Us: An Autoethnographic Study of the Marginalization and Resiliency of Appalachian Indigenous Communities of West Virginia 

  Shuman, Abandon GawinWaya

  University of WashingtonAbstract Where We Go and What We Carry with Us: An Autoethnographic Study of the Marginalization and Resiliency of Appalachian Indigenous Communities of West Virginia Abandon GawinWaya Shuman Chair ...

• “El fútbol era una cosa de machos”: Las masculinidades en las “fut-ciones” peruanas contemporáneas 

  Hidalgo Campos, Jesus Juan Pablo

  In “Atiguibas”—a short story originally published in 1992—Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro describes the soccer atmosphere he experienced in Lima as a child in the late 1930s. The narrator portrays the old National ...

• Accounting for model uncertainties in statistical forecasts of wildfire parameters 

  Podschwit, Harry Richard

  Gauging the magnitude of model uncertainty and incorporating model uncertainty into predictions is of critical importance when models are used to inform wildfire-related decisions, where ignoring potential risks threaten ...

• Findings of UTS for LS in an Integrated Healthcare System 

  Crain, Philip Raymond

  Introduction: Lynch syndrome (LS) is associated with an increased risk of colorectal (CRC) and endometrial (EC) cancers. Universal tumor screening (UTS) of all patients diagnosed with CRC and EC is recommended to increase ...

• A Qualitative Study of Mental Health Problems Among Children Living in New Delhi Slums 

  Martin, Prerna

  Children living in urban slums in India are exposed to chronic stressors that increase their risk of developing mental disorders, but remain a neglected group. Effective mental health interventions are needed; however, it ...

• Thinking About Women as Similar to Men: Implications for Perceptions of Masculine Workplace Cultures 

  Vianna, Laura

  Thinking of women as very similar or very different than men may affect how we judge masculine work cultures and how much we think women fit in such workplaces. In study 1 participants (N= 703) primed with gender-similarities ...

• Older Adults Who Smoke: Do They Engage with and Benefit from Web-based Smoking Cessation Interventions? 

  Kwon, Diana M.

  Introduction: Older adults (OA) comprise +12% of US adult smokers; this fraction may increase as OA are projected to double over 40 years. OA quit rates are comparable to those of younger smokers; yet OA face barriers to ...

• Risky Choices on Behalf of Others 

  Demnitz, Raoni

  The goal of this dissertation was to compare risky choices on behalf of others relative to the self and whether accountability plays a role. To that end, three hypotheses were proposed: the risk-as-feelings hypothesis: ...

• Cat and Human Personality 

  Darling, Saethra

  Recent decades have seen a surge of interest in animal personality. Most recently we have begun to investigate the personalities of pet animals, and while most work has been done with pet dogs, research into cat personality ...

• The Relation Between Stress and Impulsivity During the First Year of College 

  Seldin, Katherine

  Previous research has established that acute and chronic stress negatively impact mental health. People are thought to become more impulsive in response to stress, but there is a paucity of literature examining how stress ...

• Offshoring Militarism: U.S. Military Aid and the Limits of American Foreign Policy 

  Schwab, Eric J.

  This dissertation examines the determinants, effects, and implications of contemporary United States foreign policy tools, with a focus on U.S. foreign aid programs which provide military equipment, weapons, and security ...

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