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Exploring the Interface of Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Boundary Layer Cloud Physics
Boundary layer clouds are fundamental components of the climate system because of their first order impacts on the global energy balance. While marine boundary layer clouds have received most of the attention in this field ... -
Exploring the Interrelationship of Structure and Process in Family Child Care: The FCCERS-R and "Combined" CLASS
(2013-04-17)This study examined the correlations between two prominent family child care environmental rating scales, the Family Child Care Environment Rating Scale - Revised (FCCERS-R) and the "Combined" Classroom Assessment Scoring ... -
Exploring the Intersection of Race, Adoption, and Evangelical Culture Through a Studio Practice
Media and media consumption is based on perception. Perception comes with biases that exist from upbringing, personal belief systems, and many other things. Exploring the intersections of those ideas is even more exciting. ... -
Exploring the Mechanisms of a Family-Centered Behavioral Intervention for Behavioral Sleep Problems in Young Children
Purpose: The purpose of this dissertation is to address the paucity of knowledge about predictive and causal (both direct and mediating) parent-driven pathways to parent sleep practices in the context of a family with a ... -
Exploring the Mechanisms of Regeneration in Ptychodera flava
Hemichordates are marine acorn worms and a sister group to the echinoderms. Acorn worms share numerous developmental features with the chordates that the echinoderms do not share, suggesting that the common ancestor of the ... -
Exploring the Molecular Design of Ligand Binding Sites by Computational Protein Design
Ligand binding sites in natural proteins, with diverse structural details, provide the foundation for enzymatic activity, antibody-antigen recognition, ligand-induced pathway activation and drug discovery in general. The ... -
Exploring the Motivations and Constraints on Volunteerism from a Preparatory Behavior Perspective Across Two Natural Resource Management Organizations
Many government natural resource management agencies depend on volunteers and, as a result, put a great deal of time and effort into recruiting and retaining them. Of the studies that have examined volunteers’ motivations ... -
Exploring the online and in-person epidemiology and etiology of white supremacy
Racism, a common facet of white supremacy, is increasingly understood to be a major threat to both the health of democracy in the United States and to the public’s health. However, our understanding of white supremacy and ... -
Exploring the Online Farmers’ Market: Neoliberal Venture Capital Meets the Alternative Food Movement
This research examines the recent merger of alternative food networks (AFNs) with technology startup food delivery companies. Rather than situating these new “online farmers’ markets” within a binary alternative-industrial ... -
Exploring the perspectives of inner city Hispanic high school students in regard to their academic success or failure
(1999)Base upon the perspectives of Hispanic inner-city high school students of poverty, this study explored why some students are academically successful and graduate from high school while others from similar circumstances ... -
Exploring the phases of 2+1 dimensional gauge theories through bosonization, holography & more
The dynamics of 2+1 dimensional gauge theories offer insight into the exciting interplay between topology and physics. With the addition of Chern-Simons terms to the action, one can engineer conformal field theories which ... -
Exploring the Photophysics of Engineered and Intrinsic Charge-Carrier Trapping Processes in Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) have been a topic of extensive research over the past few decades, as the materials’ photoluminescence (PL) properties are particularly interesting for a variety of applications. ... -
Exploring the Photophysics of Magnetically Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals
The inclusion of dopant ions in semiconductor materials provides a useful pathway to add optical, electronic, and magnetic functionality which in turn enable the creation of numerous real-world technologies. Magnetic dopants ... -
Exploring the Potentials of Interdisciplinary Studios in the University of Washington College of Built Environments
Interdisciplinary collaboration has become a key strategy in the fields of the built environment to understand and address complex environmental and societal issues. The College of Built Environments at the University of ... -
Exploring the Quality of Communication during Interactions Between Medical Students and Standardized Patients Portraying Communication Disorders
Communication is important in healthcare because it is linked to patient safety. Patients with communication disorders are vulnerable to medical error due to increased communication breakdowns. The University of Washington ... -
Exploring the region-level relationship between non-governmental organizations and maternal and child health in Tanzania
(2013-07-23)Objective: To explore the region-level relationship between Tanzanian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and four maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes - stunting, child vaccination, antenatal care (ANC) visits, and ... -
Exploring the Relationship Between Empathy for Animals and Environmental Self-Efficacy in Zoo and Aquarium Visitors
The interconnected crises of climate change and biodiversity loss necessitate widespread behavior change on the individual and collective levels, and zoos and aquariums are uniquely positioned to galvanize this change. ... -
Exploring the Relationship Between Walkability and the Built Environment: A Case Study of Three Intersections in Seattle's University District
(2012-08-10)The relationship between walkability and the built environment has come to the forefront of urban planning research in recent years. Planners and public health officials alike acknowledge that the built environment can ... -
Exploring the Relationship of Patients’ Opioid Knowledge and the Transitional Experience of Postoperative Pain Management: A Mixed Method Study
Postoperative pain management can be a significant challenge after surgery. It is clear from the literature, however, that adequate discharge teaching does not always happen, or happens when patients are groggy, stressed, ... -
Exploring the relationships between dietary intake of early childhood education (ECE) teachers and nutrition best practices in ECE centers
Background: Early childhood education (ECE) teachers have integral roles in communities as caretakers and educators of young children. Food served in the ECE setting can account for over two-thirds of the diet of children ...