• Design Guidelines and Development Policies for an Adaptable Historic Urban Street: The Case of West Street in Quanzhou, Fujian, China 

  Pan, Meicheng

  Providing guidance and rules is a widely used way to manage the character and quality of urban space. However, in some cases, where the current character of the built environment emerges from diverse individual contribution ...

• The Impact of Light Rail Transit-Oriented Development on Residential Property Value in Seattle, WA 

  Wang, Ze

  University of Washington Abstract The Impact of Light Rail Transit-Oriented Development on Residential Property Value in Seattle, WA Ze Wang Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Qing Shen Department of Urban Design ...

• Redefining Urban Alleywalls: Urban Design for Active Public Space in Maynard Alley, Chinatown-International District, Seattle 

  Liu, Jialing

  The network of alley is valuable social resource especially in dense urban area with limited space for public life. Projects are emerging across the world to turn the previous ignored “back of buildings” into safe, clean, ...

• Business Signage Control in Seattle's Chinatown International District, Pursuing Healthy Balance of Preservation and Commercial Vitalization in a Historic Commercial Districts 

  Cartier, Misa Murohashi

  Chinatown International District (Chinatown-ID) is a historic commercial neighborhood in the City of Seattle (the City). The neighborhood is characterized with historic mixed-use buildings from the early 20th century, and ...

• Policy and Design Guidelines for Trees in a Growing Seattle 

  Moll, Elizabeth

  Trees are important for a healthy urban environment and must be promoted through design and policy guidelines in Seattle. Seattle is a city that is growing and aiming to increase density by reducing sprawl and accommodating ...

• Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through Alterations to the Public Right-of-Way 

  Faulkner, Katherine

  The climate system is warming, and the primary cause of this warming since the mid-20th century is likely to be the increase in emissions of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. This thesis examines strategies that reduce ...

• Bayesian Methods for Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks 

  Young, William Chad

  The recent explosion in the availability of gene expression data has opened up new possibilities in advancing our understanding of the fundamental processes of life. To keep up with the increasing size of the datasets, new ...

• Finite Sampling Exponential Bounds 

  Greene, Evan

  This dissertation develops new exponential bounds for the tail of the hypergeometric distribution. It is organized as follows. In Chapter 1, it reviews existing exponential bounds used to control the hypergeometric tail. ...

• Finite Population Inference for Causal Parameters 

  Loh, Wen Wei

  Randomized experiments are often employed to determine whether a treatment X has a causal effect on an outcome Y. Under the Neyman-Rubin causal model with binary X and Y, each patient is characterized by two binary potential ...

• Likelihood-Based Inference for Partially Observed Multi-Type Markov Branching Processes 

  Xu, Jason

  Markov branching processes are a class of continuous-time Markov chains (CTMCs) frequently used in stochastic modeling with ubiquitous applications. Bivariate or multi-type processes are necessary to model phenomena such ...

• Peer Relationships in School-Age Children with Autism: Concurrent and Longitudinal Predictors 

  Rodda, Amy

  This study investigated contributors to peer competence and friendship quality in 26 children with autism (age M=11.7 years, SD=.72; 20 boys, 6 girls) and 25 children with typical development (TD; age M=10.2 years, SD=1.5; ...

• The Role of Perceived Social Support, Resilience, and Depression on Communicative Participation in Head and Neck Cancer Survivors 

  Faust, Lauren Ginelle

  Objectives: The purpose of this study was (1) to investigate the relationships among the psychosocial variables of perceived social support, resilience, and depression in adults diagnosed with head and neck cancer (HNC), ...

• Age-Specific Fertility Dynamics: Sub-Saharan African Fertility in a Global Context 

  Pantazis, Athena

  Persistent high fertility in sub-Saharan Africa has been of concern to demographers and global health experts for decades. Sub-Saharan African fertility levels and trends are singled out as markedly higher and different ...

• The Privacy Paradox: Privacy, Surveillance, and Encryption 

  Rider, Karina

  In most privacy studies, privacy is assumed to be antithetical to surveillance. However, some critics have warned that privacy-based criticisms may actually facilitate surveillance by narrowing the terms of the debate in ...

• The Adolescent Empathy Paradox and Juvenile Offending 

  O'Neill, Katherine Krushinski

  I propose the persistent gender gap in juvenile offending is linked to adolescent orientation to a gendered generalized other and empathic development. Empathic ability is inversely associated with juvenile offending and ...

• Conflict and Stability in the Neoliberal Era: Explaining Urban Unrest in Latin America 

  Underwood, Patrick

  Despite significant advances in macro and micro level theories, explanation and prediction of urban unrest remains challenging. This dissertation contributes to ongoing efforts to improve understanding of urban unrest ...

• The Meanings of New Money: Social Constructions of Value in the Rise of Digital Currencies 

  Shaw, Lynette

  In the wake of the Great Recession, a novel monetary object was introduced to the world: Bitcoin. As its collective valuation has risen into the billions (USD), it has brought with it a sustained disruption to some of the ...

• Foreclosure Counseling with Latino Households: Policy Assumptions in a Changing Demographic Landscape 

  Rodriguez, Maria Ylcelis

  Social work practice and scholarship was historically rooted in the development and analysis of policy (Rodriguez, Ostrow, & Kemp, 2016). Yet, little work has extended our knowledge base on the factors surrounding the ...

• Native Women, Intimate Partner Violence, and Drug Use and Consequences: Prevalence and Associations Among Tribal College and University Students 

  Schultz, Katie

  Background: Research has demonstrated high rates of problematic substance use in college and American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) samples and disproportionately high rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) among Native ...

• Afrofuturism as Applied to Self-Perception: an Experimental Vignette Study 

  Huddleston, Kayla M.

  There exists an urgency for social workers to find new and compelling approaches in the field of social work. In an effort to address that call for innovation and quest for knowledge, this research was an exploration of ...

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