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Employment, crime, and context: a multi-level analysis of the relationship between work and crime
(2001)This dissertation examines the influence of work on criminal behavior. It stems from the perspective that work, at both the individual and community level, can shape attitudes, influence behavior and structure lifestyles. ... -
Empowering Data Analysis with Program Synthesis
Data manipulation and visualization support data scientists' efforts to explore and understand data throughout the exploratory analysis process. Nowadays, experienced data scientists can use programming languages like SQL ... -
Empowerment, Stigma, and Structural Factors and their Influences on Sexual and Reproductive Health Care of Young Women
Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in East and southern Africa face parallel epidemics of HIV incidence and unintended pregnancy. AGYW in Kenya, specifically, confront unique challenges to sexual and reproductive ... -
Emulated Autoencoder: A Time-Efficient Image Denoiser for Defense of Convolutional Neural Networks against Evasion Attacks
As Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have become essential to modern applications such as image classification on social networks or self-driving vehicles, evasion attacks targeting CNNs can lead to damage for users. ... -
En versus facio: Rewriting Augustan Elegy in Latin Epitaphs, Maximianus, and Louise Labé
This dissertation examines the reception of Augustan elegy using three case studies: verse epitaphs from imperial Rome, Maximianus’s late antique Elegies, and sixteenth-century French author Louise Labé’s à légies. Through ... -
Enable Placental Extracellular Vesicle Isolation Using Binary Temperature-responsive Reagent System
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell-secreted lipid bilayer vesicles which play important roles in human cell signaling. In recent years, the researches regarding the placenta derived EVs which are secreted from the ... -
Enabling Brain-Computer Interface Co-Adaptation with Performance-Related Signals
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) have the potential to positively impact the lives of many people with sensorimotor disabilities due to neurological conditions, such as spinal cord injury and stroke. Through BCIs, individuals ... -
Enabling Community-Driven Proteomics
As the field of proteomics matures, it faces several computational challenges. This dis- sertation describes three new computational methods to address some of these challenges: Metapeptides, Param-Medic and GLEAMS. ... -
Enabling Deep Geometric Learning on Cryo-EM Maps Using Neural Representation
Advances in imagery at atomic and near-atomic resolution, such as cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), have led to an influx of high resolution images of proteins and other macromolecular structures to data banks ... -
Enabling Electroceuticals
Disorders affecting the health of millions have traditionally been treated using combinations of invasive surgery and then pharmacological interventions. While successful to a degree, surgery is both expensive and risky ... -
Enabling End-Users to Create Real-World Robot Applications through Visual Programming Interfaces and Automation
Interactive robots in human environments have the potential to improve our daily lives by providing education, eldercare, entertainment services, and more. However, creating new applications and behaviors for such robots ... -
Enabling Equitable Design in Architecture: Tool Development for Actionable Information
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement, architecture firms nationwide have committed to more equitable practice. Discussions on diversity in the architectural profession have become common, ... -
Enabling Multidimensional Ion Mobility Separations Using Structures for Lossless Ion Manipulations
This dissertation describes the development and application of multidimensional ion mobility (IM) techniques using the modular Structures for Lossless Ion Manipulations (SLIM) architecture. IM is an analytical technique ... -
Enabling Novel Sensing and Interaction with Everyday Objects using Commercial RFID Systems
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises an interconnected network of smart devices that will revolutionize the way people interact with their surrounding environments. This distributed network of physical devices will open ... -
Enabling Techniques for Biomedical Research
This dissertation discusses a variety of elements including the study of open microfluidic capillary systems, the generation of hydrogels with lumens and cell culture using these systems, and an UW IRB-approved study ... -
Enabling Technologies for Broadband In-Band On-Channel Digital Radio
(2013-04-17)Due to inadequate spectrum resources and increasing demands for high quality multimedia services, traditional analog broadcasting is being migrated into digital radio around the world. This dissertation focuses on the ... -
Enabling the Next Generation of 21 cm Cosmology: Precision Analysis Techniques for Radio Cosmology Observations
Detecting the EoR will require extremely precise measurements. The signal is very faint and is obscured by intervening emission, or foregrounds, that are 4-5 orders of magnitude brighter. Thus far, analyses have not achieved ... -
Enabling the reuse of World Wide Web documents in tutorials
(1997)The World Wide Web is a rich source of material that could be used for educational purposes. Advantages of reusing these existing materials are avoiding the duplicated effort of creating new versions of material that is ... -
Enabling Tools for Disease Diagnosis, Imaging and Intervention
The ability to create and use tools differentiates humans from all the other living beings. As a result, tools have been playing an important role in human history. Millions of years ago, our ancestors created the very ... -
Enantiodromia
Multiplicity and the bridging of opposing realities is a central theme in my work. This multiplicity speaks to a physical disconnection between places as well as to a mental state of disassociation. Through process I enable ...