• Planning in postmodern era: navigating normativity and political implications of ‘planning for/in uncertainty’ 

  Jon, Ihnji

  This dissertation primarily aims to address the question of what should be “the role of public policy/planning” in today’s era of uncertainty, compounded by climate change and natural hazards events in addition to ...

• Columbia City Stakeholders’ Perception of the Proposed Citywide URM Retrofit Mandate 

  Haas, Rose

  The City of Seattle faces the threat of a major earthquake in the near future. Unreinforced masonry buildings, or URMS, are visually appealing, represent the City’s rich history, and often provide low cost commercial spaces ...

• The impact of peer-to-peer ridesharing on travel mode: Empirical study of Uber effects on travel mode in Seattle 

  Chen, Yefu

  Peer-to-peer ridesharing, as a new travel mode, could be a potential solution to two major transportation issues: congestion and air pollution by reducing inefficient driving and promoting public transit ridership. Uber, ...

• Examining opportunities to improve the pre-construction schedule performance of Seattle Public Utilities scope in Seattle Department of Transportation capital projects 

  Herrera, Marlon Dylan

  This study discerns and analyzes opportunities to improve the schedule performance of the City of Seattle’s water, sewer, and drainage improvements that are delivered through transportation capital projects. This issue is ...

• Retail Spaces in Mixed-Use Developments: Supporting Small Businesses and Creating Place in Seattle’s Neighborhoods 

  Lee, James Adam

  At a time of breakneck development in Seattle, mixed-use developments are seen as a way to provide increased housing options for the city’s newcomers, concentrate and strengthen existing commercial corridors, and protect ...

• Approaches to Scenario Planning at the Intersection of Urbanization and Climate Change 

  Moore, Lauren Ashley

  What could comparative analysis of scenario planning reveal about the effects of various approaches to uncertainty on the outcomes of scenario planning, and what can such analysis reveal about the opportunities, challenges, ...

• Topics on Least Squares Estimation 

  Han, Qiyang

  We revisit and make progress on some old but challenging problems concerning least squares estimation. Two major problems are addressed: (i) least squares estimation with heavy-tailed errors, and (ii) least squares estimation ...

• Discovering Interactions in Multivariate Time Series 

  Tank, Alex

  In large collections of multivariate time series it is of interest to determine interactions between each pair of time series. Classically, interactions between time series have been studied using linear vector autoregressive ...

• Nonparametric inference on monotone functions, with applications to observational studies 

  Westling, Theodore

  In this dissertation, we study general strategies for constructing nonparametric monotone function estimators in two broad statistical settings. In the first setting, a sensible initial estimator of the monotone function ...

• Model-Based Penalized Regression 

  Griffin, Maryclare Carney

  This thesis contains three chapters that consider penalized regression from a model-based perspective, interpreting penalties as assumed prior distributions for unknown regression coefficients. In the first chapter, we ...

• Estimation and Testing Following Model Selection 

  Meir, Amit Nathan

  The field of post-selection inference focuses on developing solutions for problems in which a researcher uses a single dataset to both identify a promising set of hypotheses and conduct statistical inference. One promising ...

• Bayesian Methods for Graphical Models with Limited Data 

  Li, Zehang

  Scientific studies in many fields involve understanding and characterizing dependence relationships among large numbers of variables. This can be challenging in settings where data is limited and noisy. Take survey data ...

• Using Smartphone Applications to Support Cognition in Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Treatment Study 

  Cornell, Catherine

  Cognitive impairment from Parkinson’s disease can limit performance in daily activities, reduce participation in social/leisure activities, and increase caregiver burden. A 5-week treatment program was developed to train ...

• Attentional Blink Effects of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Stimuli in Aphasia 

  Lalli, Sophia K

  Aphasia literature has shown that aphasia is not a loss of language, but an impairment in the language processing system. Recent literature has suggested this breakdown in language performance must be explained by underlying ...

• Evaluating a Novel Rating Tool to Measure Healthcare Providers' Accommodations for People with Communication Disorders: A Cognitive Interview Study 

  Myres, Alexis

  Effective communication between healthcare providers and their patients is essential to quality healthcare and has been linked to numerous positive health outcomes. Individuals with communication disorders are at increased ...

• The Role of Trust in Treatment Uptake for Hearing Loss in Older Adults 

  Mosley, Cornetta

  Untreated hearing loss in older adults is a growing public health problem. Many of the barriers contributing to the low uptake of hearing healthcare (e.g., stigma, accessibility, affordability) have been cited in the ...

• Effects of word prime repetition treatment on anomia 

  Walton, Logan

  Repetition priming involving masked primes has been suggested as a method for targeting implicit lexical retrieval processes to facilitate improved word retrieval for individuals with aphasia and anomia. This study was ...

• Health-related quality of life in individuals with Parkinson’s disease 

  Friedlander, Clare

  Motor impairment, cognitive decline and speech disruption are prevalent consequences of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and have been shown to impact quality of life. However, the relative influence of each of these domains on ...

• Infants’ Use of Temporal Cues in the Segregation of Concurrent Sounds 

  Oster, Monika-Maria

  Infants have greater difficulties processing speech in the presence of competing sounds than adults. The mature auditory system solves this task in part by separating sounds that have different acoustic characteristics ...

• Civic Participation in Indonesia: Islam, Community, and Rural Development 

  Mondesir, Raphael

  Indonesia entered the 21st century on the brink of imminent social change. The downfall of the Suharto government in 1998 marked the end of authoritarianism and led to a democratic transition whose first step consisted ...

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