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Increasing Access and Capabilities of CubeSats for Investigation of Earth Trojan Asteroids
This thesis develops the requirements of a low-cost spacecraft mission to the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L4 and L5 to search for Earth Trojan asteroids, and develops and demonstrates a specialized communication system needed ... -
Increasing Access to Solar Energy in Seattle, Washington through the Framework of Energy Democracy
This thesis explores solar energy accessibility in Seattle, Washington. I examine current purchase and installation costs for solar energy for single family homes in Seattle, as well as existing barriers to solar energy ... -
Increasing Capacity to Conduct Research with Electronic Health Records (EHR) across Diverse Sites in a Practice Based Research Network
Background: Electronic health records (EHRs) have been widely adopted in clinical settings for patient care and billing purposes, creating a large repository of patient data. However, many clinical organizations and ... -
Increasing Farmers Market Access among Low-Income Shoppers in Washington State: Understanding the Role of Peer-to-Peer Programs
OBJECTIVE: To describe a sample of peer-to-peer (P2P) farmers market programs, explore perceptions about the impacts of P2P programs, and to evaluate the factors that contribute to the success of this initiative. The study ... -
Increasing Food Acceptance in the School Setting for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Using High Probability Requests Sequences
(2013-11-14)Behavioral feeding difficulties occur at a high rate in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and can have a serious impact on their overall health and development. Although there are a number of studies demonstrating ... -
Increasing implementation of effective teaching: A professional development model of least-to-most supports for special educators
(2013-11-14)Professional development serves as means of transferring skills and knowledge to in-service educators (Reid, 2010) and of aiding practitioners in maintaining a current knowledge base (Grimes, Kurns, & Tilly, 2006; Jacobson, ... -
Increasing the affinity between a targeted axonal import (TAxI) peptide and its target receptor hLamR
An efficient delivery approach for trafficking therapeutics into central nervous system (CNS) is a critical unmet need. Previously, we identified a target axonal import (TAxI) peptide that delivers protein cargo into the ... -
Increasing the efficiency of targeted genome engineering by directly manipulating DNA double strand break repair pathways
Targeted genome engineering is a technology that has the potential to vastly improve clinical medicine, as well as biological research. With the ability to design enzymes targeting any given DNA locus of interest, and ... -
Increasing Transitions to College for Returning Adults with Low Academic Skills
(2012-09-13)University of Washington Abstract Increasing Transitions to College for Returning Adults with Low Academic Skills Teresa J. Cox Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Emeritus Dr. Steven G. Olswang Educational ... -
Incremental Housing as a Strategy to Address Coastal Hazard-Related Housing Precarity and Vulnerability for Rural Low-Income Households: A Case Study in Westport, WA
As the population vulnerable to extreme weather events and climate change impacts, low-income communities are the most in need of affordable, climate change-resilient housing. However, traditional models for affordable ... -
Indelible Practices of Hope: Worldbuilding 1990s Los Angeles
Indelible Practices of Hope: Worldbuilding 1990s Los Angeles explores the ontological implications of one generation’s cultural practice for communities of color in a diverse, multilingual urban hub. Defining hope as the ... -
Independence and older American women: a concept exploration and analysis
(2000)The goal of many public and private programs in the U.S. is to help older Americans maintain their independence. Assessments of independence are sometimes reduced to a single outcome: living alone. There is no consensus ... -
An Independent Assessment of Phonetic Distinctive Feature Sets used to Model Pronunciation Variation
(2014-04-30)It has been consistently shown that Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) performance on casual, spontaneous speech is much worse than on carefully planned or read speech by as much as double the word error rate, and that ... -
The indepth magnetotelluric experiment on the Tibetan Plateau and its implications
(2001)This dissertation focus on the application of the magnetotelluric method to tectonic studies on the Tibetan Plateau. The framework of this thesis composes three parts. The first part concentrates on magnetotelluric data ... -
Indian-hating in American literature, 1682-1857
(1989)The New England Puritans set out to "irradiate an Indian wilderness," but rightly feared they were being "Indianized" as well. Their Indian captivity narratives, ostensibly celebrations of passive submission to the will ... -
Indigenizing Southern California Indian Basket Studies: Unpacking Issues of "Mission" and "Tradition"
(2012-09-13)This thesis provides a much needed examination of early and contemporary basket weaving practices in Southern California from an indigenous perspective and through an art historical lens. It deconstructs outdated ... -
Indigenous Capitalism through Tourism?: A Case Study of Economic Development in Native Southeast Alaska
(2013-07-25)On the coasts of the United States, dense human populations tend to occur alongside valuable natural resources and important ecosystems. In these areas, efficient management of competing uses frequently relies on economic ... -
Indigenous Connectedness as a Framework for Relational Healing within Alaska Native Child Welfare
This study was embedded within the Alaska Native child welfare context to fill a gap in the literature that further theorized and made evident the key concepts and mechanisms of Indigenous child wellbeing. Twenty-five ... -
Indigenous Contributions to Arctic Biodiversity Conservation
A significant percentage of the earth’s surface is owned, used, and managed by Indigenous peoples, securing Indigenous communities a critical role in current and future biodiversity conservation efforts. Within the Arctic, ... -
Indigenous Immigrant Youth’s Understanding of Indigeneity: Language, Power Inequities, and Self-Understanding
This qualitative study seeks to address the question of how indigenous immigrant youth from Latin America make sense of indigeneity in their countries of origin and in the United States. For the last couple of decades, ...