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Contemporary population genetic structure and phylogeography of pink salmon
Pink salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuscha are the most abundant Pacific salmon, ranging widely across drainages of the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea from Japan in Asia to Washington State in North America. The species are ... -
Contemporary racism and the Asian American experience: The impact of lifetime racial microaggression stress on psychological functioning and risk behavior in Asian American young adults
Asian Americans are considered a “model minority” in the United States, conferring an implied status of privilege among racial minority groups. This stereotype results in misperceptions about the incidence and consequences ... -
Contemporary Sanctuary in Germany: Bavaria and the Intricacies of Church Asylum
This thesis analyzes the case study of Germany and explains why there is a larger prevalence of church asylum in Bavaria than in other German states. Due to a variety of factors, this research examines how church asylum ... -
Contemporary Vocal Technique in the Choral Rehearsal: Exploratory Strategies for Learning
(2014-04-30)University of Washington Abstract CONTEMPORARY VOCAL TECHNIQUE IN THE CHORAL REHEARSAL: EXPLORATORY STRATEGIES FOR LEARNING Brian J. Winnie Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Geoffrey Boers, Director of Choral Activities ... -
Contending with Binary Oppositions in Musical Aesthetics through Eros
Throughout history, musical aesthetics has been characterized by binary oppositions. For example, some argue music’s expressivity is rooted in its internal, formal configurations while others do so by pointing to music’s ... -
Contending with the Challenges of HIV Genetic Diversity: The Role of Epitope Variant Recognition in Immune Control of HIV
(2014-02-24)Despite over 30 years of intensive research, the development of an effective HIV vaccine has remained elusive. One of the most significant challenges in designing an HIV vaccine is contending with the extensive sequence ... -
Content-based Similarity Search in DNA Data Storage Systems
As global demand for digital storage capacity grows, storage technologies based on synthetic DNA have emerged as a dense and durable alternative to traditional media. Existing approaches leverage robust error correcting ... -
Contentious Representations: Interpretations of the Representation of French Regional Architecture 1914-1939
This work attempts to trace the evolution of French regionalism during the first half of the twentieth century from the Great War into the interwar period. By examining key social and cultural factors surrounding architecture ... -
Contentious Subjects: Non/violence as Topic and Trope in the Occupy Movement
Why was there such heated disagreement within the Occupy movement around the word nonviolence, and why was this disagreement so generationally marked? Why were the social movements in the 2011 global wave of unrest so ... -
A Contest of Legitimacy: The Supreme Court, Congress, and Foreign Law
(2013-02-25)Before 2003, the Justices on the United States Supreme Court routinely, if infrequently, cited foreign or international jurisprudence in their written opinions. Neither the media, nor members of Congress paid much, if any ... -
Contesting dismemberment: rumor, revolt, and empire in Peru and the Philippines (1920-1930)
In an effort to disrupt traditional borders of Area Studies, this dissertation studies two regions rarely put into conversation with each other—Southeast Asia and Latin America—in comparative perspective to study the ... -
Context Dependent Communication and Its Effects on Employee Needs Fulfillment, Creative Processes, and Well-Being
Communication with employees is a prime influence mechanism through which authority figures affect important individual and organizational outcomes. In this dissertation, I argue that the communication style of authority ... -
Context in Question Answering
Question Answering (QA) has seen a massive surge in interest, and a correlated improvement in modelperformance, over the past half decade, even surpassing humans on some datasets. Many models for this task rely on some ... -
Contexts That Inform Racial Awareness and Affect Teaching Practice: A Study of White Bilingual Teachers
This qualitative study examines the varying contexts that inform racial awareness and teaching practice for White bilingual teachers. These contexts include the teacher education program in which the teachers were trained, ... -
Contextual Influences on Impulsivity and Associations with Alcohol Use
Impulsivity is a central risk factor for multiple types of psychopathology including substance abuse. However, research has primarily focused on trait impulsivity as a marker for who may be most at risk, and less is ... -
Contextual Scripture Recommendation for Writers
Recommendation of book passages, quotes, or citations based on a given text can aid writing, research, literary analysis, and the incorporation of legal references (e.g. laws, previous cases). Each of these applications ... -
Contextualizing Multicultural Visions from the Foot of the Mountain
Many White students will grow up to become economic and political leaders, policy makers, employers, and executives of U.S. society. If White students are taught by teachers well versed in multicultural education, these ... -
Contextualizing Sanctuary Cities: A Descriptive Analysis into America’s “Most Welcoming Spaces”
Sanctuary cities are jurisdictions that implement various local-level policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Inspired by the literature exploring the historical and legal process by which they ... -
Contextualizing the Music of Jehan Alain: Three Lenses on Variations sur un thème de Clément Jannequin
French organist and composer Jehan Alain (1911-1940) was one of the first to bring modernism to organ composition. His music is known for its highly creative, even fantastical, approach to form, rhythm, timbre and mode. ... -
Contingencies between organizational identification and professional employee performance
(2007)Organizational identification research demonstrates only weak support for the central hypothesis that organizational identification motivates employees to pursue organizational goals. I show that the influence of organizational ...