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DAPHNE: An Experiment in Contemporary Myth
DAPHNE is a short solo-play depicting the final moments of Daphne, a nymph-turned-tree, as she faces down an advancing forest fire and considers what it means to be transformed against one’s will. The piece utilizes classical ... -
Daring to be Dramatic: An Examination of the Live Interpretation of Slavery at Living History Museums
This research identifies how two living history museums, at two different points in time, developed programming that specifically aligns with their property’s historic role in the American slave trade. In order to achieve ... -
Daring to Differ: A Culturally Responsive Research Study of Self
Self-study is an inherent component of culturally responsive teaching, but most scholars and educators do not specifically highlight its process. This is an essential time for teachers to improve their practice and craft ... -
Dark Matter Particle Astrophysics: How Dark Matter Can Affect Subhalos, Neutrinos, and Neutron Stars
Predicted almost a century ago, dark matter explains many astrophysical observations including the motion of matter on galaxy and galaxy cluster scales, the clustering of galaxies, and the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave ... -
Data Analysis for Detecting Intracranial Hemorrhage Using Ultrasound Tissue Pulsatility Imaging
A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a type of injury that affects how the brain functions. TBI can lead to short-term problems or more long-term severe problems including various types of intracranial hemorrhage, some of ... -
Data analysis tools for statistical non-experts
Data analysis is critical to science, public policy, and business. Despite their importance, statistical analyses are difficult to author, especially for researchers with expertise outside of statistics. Existing statistical ... -
Data Analytics Strategy and Internal Information Quality
I examine whether a strategic focus on data analytics improves firms’ internal information quality, the decision-usefulness of information. Using textual analysis of firm disclosures to identify a data analytics strategy, ... -
Data assimilation problems in glaciology
Rising sea levels due to mass loss from Greenland and Antarctica threaten to inun- date coastal areas the world over. For the purposes of urban planning and hazard mitigation, policy makers would like to know how much ... -
Data Classification in High Throughput Screening
Redox flow batteries offer an economical, low vulnerability means to store electrical energy at grid scale. Most commercial flow batteries use concentrated sulphuric acid with vanadium as the active redox material. While ... -
Data Driven Methods for Scaffolding Genomes with Hi-C
High-quality reference genomes are once again in vogue with the publication of the telomere-to-telomere human genome and several challenging plant and animal genomes. Recent efforts in genome assembly have coalesced around ... -
Data Literacies in Informal Settings
As data becomes an integral part of our daily lives, the general public increasingly needs to actively engage with it to understand everyday lives, support personal goals, and engage with social issues. Formal data science ... -
Data Mining the Electronic Medical Record with Intelligent Agents to Inform Decision Support Systems
An intelligent agent framework is used on an ICU EMR to create prediction models for disease onset. Eleven models are created to inspect 5 diseases: acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS); severe acute hypoxemic ... -
Data Models, Query Execution, and Storage for Traditional & Immersive Video Data Management
The proliferation of cameras deployed throughout our world is enabling and accelerating exciting new applications such as virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), autonomous driving, drone analytics, and smart infrastructure. ... -
Data Poisoning Attacks in Transportation and Infrastructure-Enabled Defense Methods
Transportation has been and will continue to be under rapid transformations. One transformation is that the transportation system is increasingly driven by massive datasets, including vehicular data (e.g., from GPS, camera ... -
Data Provenance for Multi-Agent Models in a Distributed Memory
Multi-agent systems (MAS) assist with studying emergent collective behavior of individual entities in social, biological, economic, network, and physical systems. Applied to MAS, data provenance can support agent-based ... -
Data Sampling and Analysis for the Improvement of Estimating Heating Loads in Alaska
Due to the accelerated effects of climate change over the past 10 years, Alaska and the larger Arctic region are in need of decarbonization far more than the rest of the world does. Over 75% of the energy utilized in the ... -
Data Science Approaches for Tracking Electrochemical Reactions and Phase Transformations
Battery characterization techniques give critical information about what is happening inside the battery. However, fully utilizing the data obtained via battery characterization, particularly battery cycling can be difficult, ... -
Data science of the social: How the practice is responding to ethical crisis and spreading across sectors
This dissertation is based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork within the Data Science Environment at the University of Washington. Employing a practice-based approach, it focuses on two processes involved in "data ... -
Data Selection for Statistical Machine Translation
Machine translation, the computerized translation of one human language to another, could be used to communicate between the thousands of languages used around the world. Statistical machine translation (SMT) is an approach ... -
Data Storage and Exploration in a Video Data Management System
Increasingly many scientific and engineering domains rely on video data, which is information dense and relatively easy to collect. At the same time, recent advances in computer vision and machine learning have opened the ...