• Integrating Hazard Mitigation Strategies into the City of Westport’s Comprehensive Plan Update 

  Stanton, Helen

  This thesis is the conclusion of an almost 18-month long process of producing a draft Comprehensive Plan update for the City of Westport, Washington. The key focus of the Comprehensive Plan update was to integrate hazard ...

• Walkability and Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection: Understanding the relationship and how it can work on the United States Air Force’s Main Operating Bases 

  Fenner, Andrew S

  United States Air Force bases are mandated to be both walkable as well as defensible (AT/FP, Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection). These two concepts are, however, often in conflict, with walkability being understood as needing ...

• Bayesian Hierarchical Models and Moment Bounds for High-Dimensional Time Series 

  Li, Yicheng

  In this dissertation, I explore two statistical tasks involving high-dimensional time series.The first task is to forecast high-dimensional time series using Bayesian hierarchical models (BHM). The data under modeling is ...

• Latent Variable Models for Indirectly or Imprecisely Measured Networks 

  Lee, Wesley

  In many scientific settings, networks are important structures used to represent the relationships between actors in a population of study. The most common methods for measuring networks are to survey study participants ...

• A Multifactorial Model of Risk for Dyslexia 

  O'Brien, Gabrielle

  There are many competing theories about the causes of dyslexia, a learning disability in which an individual without apparent neurological or circumstantial barriers struggles to become a fluent reader relative to their ...

• The Good, The Bad, and The Taxed: How Taxes Shape Morals in Markets 

  Guler, Selen

  This study addresses the effects of the new tax on sweetened beverages, which has been gaining currency across the United States and beyond. I use evidence from a factorial survey to show how taxing a morally debated ...

• Sartorial Code-Switching: Vestiary Identity Performance and Female Celebrity in Paris, 1832-1939 

  Cenatiempo, Dantzel

  This dissertation is a case study of dress and appearance as a power technique in the lives of four women—George Sand, Sarah Bernhardt, Colette, and Josephine Baker—who rose to prominence in Paris between the July Monarchy ...

• Todos somos monstruos: Distopía, injusticia e hibridez en tres obras de la narrativa latinoamericana contemporánea 

  Kinzer, Kent

  While the monster has traditionally played the role of the villain and has symbolized the Other, I propose that it also represents the self. These beings may be protagonists or narrators whose ordeals highlight the ...

• Landscapes of Survival: The Politics of Emotions in the Aftermath of Neoliberal Crises 

  Duran Real, Angela Duran

  Landscapes of Survival is an investigation of the affective life of neoliberalism. It takes the financial crises of 2001 in Argentina and 2008 in Spain to argue that while both events have precipitated circumstances inherent ...

• Multi-state occupancy modeling and optimal allocation of survey resources for Common Loons in Washington State 

  Sipe, Hannah Anderson

  Common Loons (Gavia immer) are a state listed sensitive species in Washington State; however, little is known about the distribution of the Common Loon or the habitat associations of this species. This is complicated by ...

• Modeling individual lodgepole pine mortality from mountain pine beetle outbreak in a spatially explicit framework 

  Buonanduci, Michele Susan

  Outbreaks of native bark beetles (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) are key natural disturbances that shape the structure and function of conifer forests across the northern hemisphere. While drivers of bark beetle outbreaks have ...

• Beliefs and Values about gene therapy and gene editing in patients with hemophilia and their family members 

  Vasquez-Loarte, Tania Catalina

  Hemophilia is an inherited lifelong debilitating disease for which current treatment is non curative. Currently, the promise of gene therapy and gene editing as potential cures are undergoing research. However, we don’t ...

• Relationship Between Motherhood Status, Motherhood Desire, and Psychological Outcome Measures in Previvors, Women with BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations 

  Oestreich, Elizabeth A.

  Previvors are women who have not yet had breast cancer but have a known BRCA1 or BRCA2 (BRCA will be used for both) mutation. Depression screening tools and cancer worry surveys are important markers of overall psychological ...

• Global Language Control in Bilingual Language Processing 

  Seo, Roy

  The majority of research on language processes has been conducted using monolingual English speakers, although more than fifty percent of current world population is bilingual. As a consequence, our understanding of language ...

• Mediating and Moderating Effects of Child Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Reactivity in the Association Between Early Childhood Adversity and Later Adjustment 

  Klein, Melanie R

  Early childhood adversity has been shown to predict mental health problems, although the influence of adversity on child adjustment varies significantly (Caspi et al., 2002). Biologically based individual differences in ...

• Interaction and Nonlinear Effects of Temperament Reactivity and Regulation on Adjustment Problems in Preadolescence 

  Halvorson, Max Andrew

  Dimensions of child temperament related to reactivity and self-regulation are often studied in relation to child adjustment. Yet despite theory on interactive and nonlinear effects of dimensions of temperament, few studies ...

• The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity and Perceived Discrimination on Anxiety and Depression 

  Corey, Mariah Diane

  Key models of depression and anxiety across ethnic groups emphasize the role of ethnic identity (EI) as protective and perceived discrimination (PD) as a risk factor for psychopathology. Some research suggests EI may buffer, ...

• The Impact of Color-Coded Uncertainty on Understanding and Decision-Making 

  Gulacsik, Gala

  Currently, severe weather risk is communicated using “Watches” and “Warnings,” although their effectiveness is debated. Indeed, research suggests that explicit numeric probabilities improve people’s understanding of risk ...

• Gender encoding in gender diverse and gender conforming children 

  Glazier, Jessica

  Previous research suggests that encoding people’s gender may be universal, even in childhood. The present research provided a new test of this possibility by asking whether gender diverse children (i.e., children whose ...

• Social Support and Internalizing Psychopathology in Transgender Youth 

  Durwood, Lily J.

  In recent years, an increasing number of families have allowed their children to socially transition to live in transgender identities; little is known about factors associated with such children’s wellbeing. The present ...

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