• The Wages of Borders: Political Economy, Labor Activism, and Racial Formation in the Imperial-Mexicali Borderlands, 1937-1979 

  Aguirre, Michael (2019-06-12)

  The Wages of Borders: Political Economy, Labor Activism, and Racial Formation in the Imperial-Mexicali Borderlands, 1937-1979, is a historical investigation of the paradoxical formation of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands that ...

• Job Accessibility, Commuting Time and Travel Complexity in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA) 

  Bautista, Dorian Antonio

  Transportation equity is an important dimension of urban sustainability. Specifically, the journey to work, which is still the main source of intra-urban trips in many cities around the world, is a key issue of urban ...

• Reconstructing Developer and Homeowner Decisions to Understand the Complex Assembly of New Residential Patches and Plant Communities 

  Fuentes, Tracy L

  Residential developers and homeowners are urban ecosystem engineers, shaping the structure and function of the residential landscapes, which occupy a large proportion of urban areas. Developers set the template by allocating ...

• Efficacy of Military and Community Compatibility Planning in the Puget Sound Region 

  Cloutier, Daniel

  Washington State’s Puget Sound region is home to three major military installations that work in partnership with neighboring communities to develop land use plans, policies, and regulations supportive of the U.S. Department ...

• Scalable Learning in Latent State Sequence Models 

  Aicher, Christopher

  In this dissertation, we develop scalable learning methods for sequential data models with latent (hidden) states. State space models (SSMs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are popular models for sequential data using ...

• Sensorimotor learning and control in individuals who stutter 

  Kim, Kwang S

  Despite accumulating evidence that stuttering is associated with deficiencies in sensorimotor integration, the exact mechanisms underlying this disorder of speech fluency remain not only unknown but controversial. Since ...

• Investigating the effects of audio-visual spatial congruence on multisensory integration. 

  Kishline, Lindsey

  We live in a complex world wherein we are bombarded by many different sensory inputs. Somehow our brain is able to take all of these complex and overlapping sensory inputs and make order out of our surroundings, creating ...

• Exploring the spatiotemporal dynamics of on-line sentence comprehension in 5-year-olds: The role of semantic context in syntactic processing and behavioral correlates of MEG-recorded brain activity 

  Fish, Melanie

  Despite evidence that the neural mechanisms underlying syntactic and semantic operations develop early in life, these processes are believed to remain functionally interdependent until much later in childhood. However, the ...

• The Net of Privatized Punishment: Examining the Use of Private Probation in Colorado 

  Smith, Tyler John

  The expansion of privatized punishment has raised important questions about the impact that these private actors have on the punishment practices of criminal justice systems. Critics suggest that using private punishment ...

• Economic Insecurity in China: Analyses of Family Economic Resources and Income Instability 

  Fan, Xinguang

  Economic insecurity is a crucial part of economic wellbeing and has negative social consequences. While social scientists have documented the heterogeneity in economic insecurity across social groups, the attention is ...

• Indigenous Connectedness as a Framework for Relational Healing within Alaska Native Child Welfare 

  Ullrich, Jessica Saniguq

  This study was embedded within the Alaska Native child welfare context to fill a gap in the literature that further theorized and made evident the key concepts and mechanisms of Indigenous child wellbeing. Twenty-five ...

• Establishing Initial Data and Assessing the Feasibility of a Community Collaborative to Improve Adherence to Essential Management in Beta-Thalassemia Patients in Pune, India 

  Kejriwal, Sahil

  There are several large endogamous communities in the city of Pune, India that have a high prevalence of β-thalassemia major, which has led to local efforts to address the medical and psychosocial burden of the disease. ...

• A Fourier-Bessel Test of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law 

  Lee, John Greendeer

  This dissertation presents the latest E\"{o}t-Wash group test of the gravitiational Inverse Square Law (ISL) at the shortest possible distances using a stationary torsion pendulum above a rotating attractor. It largely ...

• Development of analytical tools to enrich and identify protein dopaminylation 

  Myers, Emily Jane

  Dopamine homeostasis and oxidative stress are thought to be key players in the etiology of Parkinson’s disease (PD). PD is a disorder characterized by the death of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra and the ...

• Drug Disposition during Pregnancy: Transport, Metabolism, and the Gut Microbiome 

  Han, Lyrialle Wei

  Medication use during pregnancy is increasingly prevalent and medically necessary to maintain maternal health. Yet, a quarter of medications used by pregnant women have unknown safety for the pregnant population. It is ...

• Characterization of Interindividual Variability and Differential Tissue Abundance of UGT2B17: Discovery of a Potential Biomarker and Drug Interaction Prediction 

  Zhang, Hae Young

  UGT2B17 is an androgen- and drug-conjugating enzyme with a remarkably high interindividual variability in its hepatic protein expression. Testosterone is one of its main endogenous substrates, and various clinical associations ...

• Eddy Vertical Structure and Variability: vortex evolution and the geography of geostrophic turbulence 

  Steinberg, Jacob Michael

  Glider observations of submesoscale and mesoscale eddy structure, behavior, and evolution are analyzed revealing both processes of eddy decay and statistical properties of geostrophic turbulence (i.e. mesoscale eddy-eddy ...

• The impact of low-fat and full-fat dairy on symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease. 

  Fernando, Imashi

  Background: Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) is a widely prevalent chronic condition. There is evidence to suggest an association between dairy consumption and symptoms of GERD, even though this is inconsistent and ...

• An Examination of Sleep Pattern Characteristics and Healthy Eating Index Scores Among Students in a Circadian Biology Class 

  Reiley, Tucker

  Introduction Sleep restriction and circadian misalignment are associated with increased risk of chronic disease, as is poor dietary quality. College students are at risk for developing restricted, irregular sleep and poor ...

• The Gould Standard: An Examination of the Pedagogical Philosophies of Mark Gould 

  Venneberg, Daniel Ross

  The purpose of this dissertation is to elaborate upon the teaching methods and pedagogical philosophies of renowned trumpeter, Mark Gould. Gould was co-principal trumpet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra from 1974-2003, ...

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