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The formation and outcome of corporate venture capital investments between incumbents and new ventures
This dissertation examines the formation and outcomes of interorganizational partnerships between industry incumbents and new ventures. New ventures are often a powerful competitive force threatening established firms, but ... -
Formation of Chimeric Genes by Copy Number Variation as a Mutational Mechanism in Schizophrenia
(2013-07-25)Chimeric genes are caused by structural genomic rearrangements that fuse together portions of two different genes to create a novel gene. Chimeras may differ from their parent genes in localization, regulation, or function. ... -
Formless being for flute, clarinet, bassoon, french horn, percussion, piano and string quartet
Formless being can be thought of as a piece with a circular structure whose segments are cut short, just as the idea reaches its full development. An idea is presented and developed, pressing forward through the movement, ... -
Formulation of Spectral Stiffness Microplane Model for Uni-Directional Composite
This thesis presents a general constitutive model to simulate the orthotropic stiffness, pre-peak nonlinearity, failure envelopes, and the post-peak softening and fracture behaviors of uni-directional composites. The ... -
Fostering Food Systems Transformation: An Examination of Planning in the Central Puget Sound Region
My two primary research questions were: How and to what extent does planning in the Central Puget Sound Region address food systems issues? and What is the relationship of food systems planning to food sovereignty? I ... -
Fostering Science Identity for Latino High School Students
High school plays a key role in raising Latino students’ science identity. Using the 2009 High School Longitudinal Study (HSLS:09) data from National Center Education Statistics (n = 1,658), this study investigates ecological ... -
Fostering students' participation in writing activity in three urban classrooms
(2002)Research on classroom writing has often paid scant attention to the role of the teacher in children's literacy development. This study investigated how teachers planned for and involved their diverse students in classroom ... -
Four Problems in Probability and Optimization
(2014-02-24)This thesis studies bootstrap percolation, a problem in probability, as well as several topics in the application of sums of squares to combinatorial optimization. In the chapter on percolation, we bound the critical ... -
Fourteen
<italic>Fourteen<italic> takes on difficult topics such as chattel slavery, sexual violence, racism and discrimination. I use music, tangents and a prejudicial preference for the number fourteen as tools to aid my telling. ... -
Fourth graders' literal and inferential reading comprehension: effects of readability and answer format
(2000)The goal of reading is to gain meaning from text. Subsequently, reading comprehension skills become a much greater focus in third or fourth grade as children begin reading text to learn. A text's meaning is a combination ... -
Fourth Year Dental Students' Confidence Level in Treating Pediatric Dental Patients
University of Washington Abstract Fourth Year Dental Students’ Confidence Level in Treating Pediatric Dental Patients Tiara B. Brown Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Assistant Professor Ana Lucia Seminario, DDS, PhD, ... -
Fractured Poetics and Creation
The imaginations is the human being's core intellectual generative power, but is neglected in Western life. Being more important it is also more dangerous than previously realized. Fractured Poetics and Creation is a ... -
Fragmentation and wholeness in the novels of Luisa Josefina Hernandez and Gerlind Reinshagen
(1999)Themes of fragmentation and wholeness are the twentieth-century version of the eternal questions of disconnection and the search for unity inherent in the human condition. Where the literature of earlier ages has posited ... -
A Fragmented Memory Project: Archaeological and Ethnographic Museums in Turkey, 1960-1980
(2013-02-25)This dissertation examines the long neglected archaeological and ethnographic museums in the provinces of Turkey that were built between early 1960s and early 1980s, with respect to the troublesome relationship of the ... -
Fragmenting History: Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of Empire
By exploring various figures of gendered and sexualized female workers, such as street prostitutes, hostesses, comfort women, teachers, idols, and actresses, this dissertation reveals that women's bodies were highly contested ... -
A Frame-Based Theory of Information Behavior: A Grounded Theory Study
(2013-02-25)Information needs is a difficult phenomenon to understand as well as to define (Case, 2012). Understanding the way people identify their information needs is considered very difficult to assess given that they exist in ... -
A Framework for Developing and Evaluating Comprehensive Urban Forest Management Plans: An Analysis of Washington State Plans
The urban forest is a diverse and dynamic resource that is inextricably linked to the surrounding community. A comprehensive urban forest management plan helps communities create a shared vision and develop a set of goals ... -
A framework for exploring counselors' anti-queer biases
(2002)Despite practice standards and ethical guidelines that direct otherwise, counselors continue to maintain anti-queer biases and practice in discriminatory ways with queer clients. This dissertation offers a framework for ... -
A framework for video annotation, visualization, and interaction
(2007)Existing approaches to interaction with digital video are complex, and some operations lack the immediacy of interactive feedback. In this thesis, I present a framework for video annotation, visualization, and interaction ... -
Francesco Furini: "Paintings of Exceeding Beauty" in Seicento Florence
Francesco Furini, one of the most intriguing artists to emerge from Seicento Florence, is primarily remembered for his depictions of the female nude. A discussion of his use of the model and citation of antique sculpture ...