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CPM Schedule Density: A New Predictor for Productivity Loss
This dissertation addresses construction labor trade stacking, which oftentimes creates adverse labor inefficiencies, delay and cost overruns on construction projects. Present industry practice holds that Critical Path ... -
Cracking One Open: Building Inside Out, A Cooperative Distillery In Georgetown.
(2012-05-31)This thesis involves the design of a cooperative distillery on the former site of the Rainier Cold Storage building, which was originally part of the large complex of buildings comprising the Seattle Brewing & Malting ... -
Cracking the Code: Navigating and Subverting Dominant Class Rule in Computer Science and Engineering
(2013-11-14)My dissertation investigates the reproduction of gender-differentiated outcomes in sites of technology production and why Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) remains highly segregated. Computer technology both reflects ... -
Cracking the Code: Teaching Piano Students the Art of Musical Interpretation, with Practical Applications for All Levels
The ability to interpret a musical score and deliver an expressive performance is highly prized, both by teachers and students. However, there are relatively few resources which directly address the teaching of musical ... -
Craft and Cosmogonies: The Reception of Hesiod in Plato’s Timaeus-Critias
The poems attributed to Hesiod and composed in the 8th century BCE were highly influential in Socrates’ and Plato’s Athens of the 5th to early 4th centuries BCE. This dissertation examines Plato’s reception of the poetry ... -
Crafting a Third Space: Teacher Beliefs and Practices in Curriculum Reform for Multicultural Education
This qualitative case study examined South Korean elementary teachers’ beliefs about the goals of multicultural education in relation to practices and contexts within social studies instruction. The first research question ... -
"Crafting" the Race House of the Domestic Individual: Political Subjectivities, Hierarchy and Value in the Crafting and Do-It-Yourself Labors of Domestic Fiction, 1850 - Present
`Crafting' the Race House of the Domestic Individual: Political Subjectivities, Hierarchy and Value in Crafting and Do-It-Yourself Labors of Domestic Fiction, 1850 - Present is an interdisciplinary cultural studies project ... -
Craftsmen, Identity, and Status in the Literature of Flavian Rome
This dissertation integrates material, literary, and social historical perspectives on crafts to show how Flavian era authors reflect on the status and social value of their writing. The poet Martial is the focus of this ... -
Cratering Characteristics of the Europa Kinetic Ice Penetrator
This thesis further develops the Europa Kinetic Ice Penetrator (EKIP) landing technique for airless bodies, as well as characterizes the effect EKIP would have on Europa’s surface. Damage to the extremophile Planococcus ... -
Crazy Hex Girlfriend: A Solo Performance of My Own Design
Crazy Hex Girlfriend is a solo performance that questions the compulsory nature of the heterosexual experience in contemporary American society, and the cascading effects it has on an individual’s relationship to internalized ... -
Created Differences: Rhetorics of Race and Resistance in Intellectual Property Law
(2013-07-25)Intellectual property law, specifically that governing trademarks, copyrights, and patents, is increasingly dominated by a narrative of "theft" in which racialized thieves steal knowledge produced by white creators, ... -
Created in the Image? Holocaust Perpetrators in Israeli Fiction
(2013-02-25)This dissertation studies aesthetic, political and ethical dimensions of the representation of Holocaust perpetrators in Hebrew and Israeli fiction published since the mid-1940s. Drawing on recent scholarship by Holocaust ... -
Creating a Greater Connection: Volunteer Training in Seattle-area Museums
(2013-07-25)<bold>Abstract<bold> Creating a Greater Connection: Volunteer Training in Seattle-area Museums Nicole Lillian Ohlandt Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Wilson O'Donnell Museology Graduate Program →This thesis will seek ... -
Creating a Performance Culture? Informal Institutions and Education Reform
(2014-02-24)Performance management, despite its popularity as a strategy to improve public service quality, has had mixed results. One reason is that successful reform depends not just on changes in formal systems but also on changes ... -
Creating a Public: Love Suicide on the Osaka Stage, 1703-1722
This dissertation investigates how the representations of love suicide on stage at the dawn of the eighteenth century called forth an urban, commoner public in Osaka. As a result of the repeated bans on publishing print ... -
Creating a Smartphone Application for Image-Assisted Dietary Assessment among Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
In the United States, the population of those aged 65 or over numbered 44.7 million in 2013 and is anticipated to reach approximately 74 million people by 2030. More than one in four people in the United States aged 65 ... -
Creating an Empire: Local Political Change at Angamuco, Michoacan, Mexico
Regime change is a critical social process that has occurred throughout human history and yet much is still unknown about how political developments shape local communities. This dissertation examines the impacts of the ... -
Creating and Transcending Territorial Boundaries in Late Holocene Pacific Coast Communities
(2013-02-25)In this research, I investigate precontact territorial behavior in the San Juan Islands, Washington and San Nicolas Island, California. Drawing on economic defensibility models, I generate hypotheses for change over time ... -
Creating animation for presentations
(2003)In recent years the use of computer-generated slides to accompany live presentation has become increasingly common. There is a potential for using computer graphics to increase the effectiveness of this type of presentation. ... -
Creating Discomfort: Exploring the Use of Emotional Immersive Experiences to Address Social Issues in Museums
This study investigated current design practices used to engage visitors in emotional immersive experiences to address social issues in museums, particularly focusing on why a program or exhibit developer might use this ...