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The Y model, simultaneous instruction in digital fabrication and representation
(2014-02-24)Digital media and tools are now integral to architectural education and the design process. Nevertheless, much of the pedagogy related to digital media is grounded in, and relies upon, traditional design educational ... -
Y(our) Space: Patterns of Community for Seattle Housing
This thesis argues that a pattern-based approach to the analysis and design of Seattle’s housing strategies can address our need to achieve a greater balance between communal and autonomous life. The fabric of Seattle’s ... -
Y.A.R.M – YARM’s Another Random Motion planner: Enabling Multiple Mobile Robots to Remove Debris in Industrial Environments
Waste Management is essential to the Manufacturing Industry, and debris is a side product of many different kinds of manufacturing processes. Nowadays, mobile robots, and stationary manipulators, with multiple degrees of ... -
Yarrow for Seventeen Stoners AKA Slipper Tree for You and Me
This document is a culmination of artwork, poetry, and a thesis. The dimensional, playful nuances of this documentation, such with its exclamatory emotion icons exercises awareness that looks outside of the conventional ... -
Yearling Chinook salmon ecology and behavior during early-ocean migration
(2014-04-30)High mortality rates of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) in the nearshore ocean environment of the Columbia River (Northwest USA) is one of several key factors limiting recovery of these threatened and endangered fish. ... -
Yeast-based assays for studying the functional impact of missense variants in a rare human disease gene at scale
Advancements in high-throughput sequencing technologies have accelerated the discovery of human genetic variation. However, leveraging genomic information for precision medicine is currently limited by the relatively small ... -
Yeats and Indian philosophy
(1952)Reading Yeats' works - whether in prose or in verse - one is constantly aware of the poet's deep interest in Indian philosophy. There are frequent references to Hinduism, Buddhism, the Upanishads, and Vedic philosophy in ... -
Yellow Face, White Screen: Racial Performance, Media Technology, and Film Aesthetics in American Cinema, 1901-1949
This dissertation studies the mutually constitutive ways in which a multitude of media technologies intersected with the racial formations of the so-called “Oriental” or the “yellow race” in the burgeoning screen culture ... -
Yo Soy, I Am: Chicana Punk Pedagogy in a Composition Classroom
This dissertation presents a case study of a translingual punk pedagogy within an intermediate composition classroom. In it, I share the construction of a composition curriculum that focuses on Chicanx authors engaging in ... -
You Are What You Emote: Gendered Connotations of Facial Expressions Impact Sexual Orientation Judgments
(2013-02-25)Emotional facial expressions - facial expressions such as smiles or frowns that are typically associated with emotions - convey more than just sentiment. Many emotional facial expressions are stereotyped as masculine or ... -
“You are your own driver”: Factors Influencing the Decision to Initiate PrEP Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women within Routine Maternal Child Health and Family Planning Clinics in Western Kenya
Objectives: To understand key influences on decisions to accept or decline pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention among Kenyan adolescent girls and young women (AGYW). Design: Qualitative interviews were ... -
“You guide them but ultimately they make decisions”: Insights into moving beyond the ethical dilemmas of adolescent consent to HIV care and research by stakeholders in Kenya
Objectives: To identify best practices of performing and obtaining consent for HIV care and research involving adolescents, and strategies to promote representative participation of adolescents in HIV care and research in ... -
"You have to reach before you can teach": A study of teacher candidates' journeys of community teaching
Initiatives to involve communities in preservice teacher education programs are not new. Neither are attempts to provide preservice teachers with experiences in communities. However, there are fewer research accounts of ... -
"YOU JUST GOTTA BE GREAT": NARRATIVES OF EXPERIENCE FROM TWO WOMEN CONDUCTING IN THE LUTHERAN COLLEGIATE CHORAL CONTEXT
Many quantitative studies have shown that there is gender disparity in higher education. In college music programs, for example, women make up just 32% of music faculty (Music Data Summaries 2017-2018, Chart 7), even though ... -
You Mean So Much to Me: The Role of the Audience in the Efficacy of Socially Engaged Art
“You mean so much to me.” A term of endearment you might whisper to your lover, or a term of desperation as someone you love is leaving you. But in all honesty, you mean so much to me—and my work would not be the same ... -
Young Children's Authentic Inquiry Practices
This dissertation is comprised of three interlinked studies investigating young children’s authentic inquiry practices. The first article provides a literature synthesis of over two hundred and fifty in-depth cases of K-6 ... -
"Your body, O Empress, is a treasure of marvelous qualities": representations of Middle Byzantine empresses (780-1081)
(2004)This dissertation concerns representations of empresses in Byzantium between 780 and 1081. Although empresses had limited power and authority in Byzantium, they constituted an essential facet of the vision and experience ... -
“Your status cannot hinder you”: The importance of resilience among adolescents living with HIV in Kenya
Background: There are approximately 110,000 adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) in Kenya, of whom 40% have not achieved viral suppression. Despite the increasing availability of adolescent-friendly services, adolescents ... -
Youth Perceptions of Food Environment in the High Point Neighborhood in Seattle, WA
Poor nutrition in adolescence can cause immediate and long-term poor health outcomes. Nutrition in adolescence is shaped by a variety of factors (e.g., family economic resources, food environment, social and cultural norms, ...