• Training Wheels: Designing Traffic Playscapes into Seattle’s Safe Routes to School Program 

  Panganiban, Justin Matibag

  Safe Routes to School (SRTS) is the nation’s leading program for creating safe environments for children to walk and bike to school. Across federal, state, and local levels, the program focuses on the “6 E’s” (education, ...

• Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Coastal Military Installations: Design and Planning Principles for Naval Facilities Engineering Command 

  Caponigro, Michelle Sheree Breshears

  Climate change has become a major focus of the Department of Defense (DOD), and each service is required to look at adaptation from an operational and logistical perspective. Resiliency within installations in the United ...

• Reflections on Recovery: Analyzing disaster recovery frameworks for the cities of Seattle and Wellington through a lens of reflexive sociology 

  Ripley, Samuel

  University of Washington Abstract Reflections on Recovery: Analyzing disaster recovery frameworks for the cities of Seattle and Wellington through a lens of reflexive sociology Samuel Ripley Chair of the Supervisory ...

• Community Resilience of the Korean New Village Movement, 1970-1979: Historical Interpretation and Resilience Assessment 

  Kim, Chung Ho

  This dissertation investigates the Korean New Village Movement (Saemaul Undong, New Rural Community Movement, or the KNVM) driven by the strong top-down leadership of President Park, Chung-hee in the 1970s. As a reaction ...

• Scalable Methods for the Inference of Identity by Descent 

  Grimson, Fiona

  Identity by descent (IBD) describes the shared inheritance of DNA and underlies genetic similarity between individuals. Estimated IBD graphs describing the IBD relationships among individuals have many uses in statistical ...

• Perceptual and Neurophysiological Effects of Treated and Untreated Hearing Loss in Older Adults 

  McClannahan, Katrina Sue

  The purpose of this dissertation work was to examine the impact of auditory deprivation in the form of age-related hearing loss (ARHL) and auditory stimulation in the form of hearing aid use, on the neural registration and ...

• The statistical analysis of wildfire growth 

  Podschwit, Harry Richard

  Understanding and quantifying wildfire behavior is of interest to the scientific community, as well as public health and fire management professionals. To achieve this end, there is a demand for statistical descriptions ...

• Spatial Models as Powerful Tools for Climate Change Ecology 

  Phillips, Austin Joseph

  Many scientists suggest that the Earth has entered a new geologic epoch, the Anthropocene, defined by human influence on nearly every physical and biological system. Climate change is perhaps the most widespread human ...

• How does preparation influence cognitive control? Informative cues guide cortico-subcortical systems for conflict resolution. 

  Ceballos, Jose Miguel

  Behavioral research has demonstrated that the demands placed on cognitive control mechanisms are significant reduced when cues give the opportunity to prepare for the upcoming processes. Currently, the neurocognitive bases ...

• Models of human causal learning: review, synthesis, generalization. (A long argument for a short rule) 

  Beam, Colin Stuart

  This dissertation is composed of three major components. The first reviews models of causal learning with special emphasis given to Bayesian approaches. The second component joins algorithmic and computational models by ...

• Bilingual Language Control: Separating Preparation and Production 

  Seo, Roy

  The role of reparatory process in bilingual language control has been largely overlooked, as traditional language switching paradigms don’t separate cued preparation from production. The current study employed a novel ...

• Child Maltreatment and Emotion Regulation Networks 

  Peverill, Matthew

  Child maltreatment has been strongly associated with a variety of later life psychopathology. Investigations in to mechanisms of this association have explored neurodevelopmental disruptions in brain networks associated ...

• An image segmentation, lineage and analysis tool for bacteria: Applications in cell proliferation and cytoplasmic dynamics. 

  Stylianidou, Stella

  Because of the stochastic nature and significant cell-to-cell variation of many biological processes, it is essential to analyze a significant number of cells to understand such processes at the single cell level. Such ...

• A Piezoelectrically Tuned RF-Cavity Search for Dark Matter Axions 

  Boutan, Christian Robert

  The Axion is a well motivated hypothetical elementary particle that must exist in nature if the strong CP problem of QCD is explained by the spontaneous breaking of a Peccei-Quinn symmetry. Not only would the discovery of ...

• Ion Photon Entanglement in a Parabolic Mirror Trap 

  Chou, Chen-Kuan

  Single trapped ion qubits are excellent candidates for quantum computation and information, and they also possess the ability to coherently couple to single photons. Efficient fluorescence collection is the most challenging ...

• Diametric Changes in Ventral Striatal Dopamine Release Regulate Drug-Taking and Drug-Seeking Behavior 

  Burgeno, Lauren M.

  The overall goal of this dissertation work was to determine how drug-cue elicited phasic dopamine neurotransmission changes over prolonged drug use, in both drug-taking and drug-seeking contexts. My initial work, done in ...

• Predicting Maternal-Fetal Disposition of Drugs Using In Vitro and In Silico Tools 

  Zhang, Zufei

  During pregnancy, physiological and ADMET changes in the maternal-fetal dyad can significantly alter drug pharmacokinetics (PK) in the mother and may necessitate dosing regimen adjustments. One clinically important example ...

• Sediment dynamics and deposits along the fluvial–marine transition: Tidal river to mangrove coast 

  Fricke, Aaron T

  Rivers supply the vast majority of sediment that reaches the global ocean. As many rivers approach the sea, they experience tidal influence in the absence of salinity, along a reach known as the tidal river. As a result, ...

• Trends in Prices of Fresh vs. Ultra-Processed foods: Analyses of Seattle-King County Prices from 2004-16. 

  Hawk, Terry

  Introduction: The availability of safe, affordable, nutrient-rich food for purchase is a key component of food equity. However, foods higher in nutrients and lower in energy tend to be associated with higher per- calorie ...

• Self-Reported Perceptions and Practices of University Students Who Adhere to Special Restrictive Diets: A Pilot Study 

  Fiordalis, Toni Lynn

  Background: The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends consuming a variety of foods from each of the major food groups to support a healthy diet. However, usage of special restrictive diets that exclude specific foods ...

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