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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 ... -
Enantioselective Diamination of Alkenes, Hydroamination of 1,3-Dienes, and the Development of NHC Palladium Complexes
(2014-04-30)Nitrogen containing heterocylces make up a vast majority of biologically relevant small molecules. Using transition metal catalysts to directly synthesize functionalized amine heterocycles is a valuable and efficient tool ... -
Enchanted Modernisms: Global Literary Afterlives of the Spirit, 1922–1949
This dissertation focuses on the persistence of spirituality as an active, constitutive force in the literary productions of modernism and modernity on a global scale. Its key objectives are twofold: first, to demonstrate ... -
Enclosing the Citizen: The Role of Telos, Areté, and Techniques of Power in Western Social Systems and K-12 Education
This thesis discusses the ways that the evolving notions of the citizen in Western philosophical traditions has been deeply informed by the ancient Hellenic concepts of arete, telos, and logics of categorical thinking. I ... -
Encoding and decoding models of functional MRI responses in human visual and auditory cortex.
Computational models of brain activity serve to not only uncover the organizational principles of the brain, but also quantify the neural processes underlying our perceptual experiences. This dissertation investigates the ... -
Encounters Across Difference: The Digital Geographies of Inuit, the Arctic, and Environmental Management
There is broad consensus amongst scholars across a wide range of disciplines that digital technologies are having profound effects on micro- and macropolitical processes across the world. However, research into digital ... -
Encounters With the Modernist Food-Object
This interdisciplinary dissertation seeks to remedy scholarly neglect of the topic of food within literature and art of the early twentieth century, particularly within transatlantic forms of modernism. I argue that the ... -
ENCOURAGING HEALING IN HOSPITALS : AN INTEGRATIVE APPLICATION OF EVIDENCE-BASED DESIGN
(2014-02-24)This thesis is an exercise in evidence-based design for a long-term acute care facility proposed in Chicago, IL, USA. The design concentrates around the patient room floor, exploring industry changes with regard to ... -
The End of Innocence: Women of Color Literature, Utopia, and the Cultural Politics of U.S. Cold War Racial Liberalism
(2013-07-25)This project studies the centrality of the utopian and dystopian narrative form in U.S. political culture after the protracted racial crisis of the 1960s. This dissertation explores two main lines of inquiry. The first ... -
End-of-Life Communication in End-Stage Liver Disease
(2013-07-25)University of Washington Abstract End-of-Life Communication in End-Stage Liver Disease: Three Empirical Studies Paula Cox-North Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Associate Professor Ardith Doorenbos School of Nursing ...