The purpose of this project was to determine the role and impact of farm facilities, specifically the greenhouse, at Calaveras High School. Two objectives were created to for this study. The first objective sought to determine if student, parent, and . . .

To allow students to reach the full potential of the three-ring agriculture education model, students must excel in all three categories: FFA (formally Future Farmers of America), Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) and the classroom/laboratory. . . .

For many community college students, maneuvering through their education to a degree completion is difficult and often requires more than the traditional two years. While academic and financial supports are critical to the completion of a degree, succ . . .

In order to assess variation in oral health, hygiene, and diet within the Santa Clara County Valley Medical Center pauper cemetery, pathological conditions of the teeth and jaws were analyzed by ancestry group. Utilizing a biocultural approach for ana . . .

Understanding how culture shapes skeletal development, maintenance, and decomposition is critical to bioarchaeological studies that depend on skeletal assemblages to make conclusions about past populations. Few studies have thus far focused on how soc . . .

In 1956, members of the University of California Survey, Baumhoff, Bennyhoff, Elasser, and Kranz, excavated Payne’s Cave (CA-TEH-193), a site associated with Southern Yana territory. The artifact assemblage indicated a clear pre- and protohistoric occ . . .

The events of September 11, 2001 caused emotional trauma across the United States and elicited myriad reactions within the Nation that effected the lives of every American to some degree. In the months and years following the attacks, there was an ent . . .

The identification of autopsy and dissection on human skeletal remains is challenged by a lack of formal diagnostic criteria for distinguishing between various anatomization activities. The Point San Jose assemblage consists of commingled, fragmentary . . .

Commingling provides a unique challenge in the identification of human remains. The ability to accurately sort the skeletal elements of two or more individuals is vitally important in mass disasters or in other situations in which the bones of one ind . . .

The purpose of this study is to review and garner a better understanding of archaeological law and site protection as implemented by government agencies and affiliates in northern California. In recent years, a 67-year-old man was sentenced to three y . . .

The Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology at California State University, Chico, has a permanent collection that comprises over 2,000 ethnographic objects from around the world. The museum’s limited space results in the majority of the permanent coll . . .

The California State Indian Museum (SIM) in Sacramento, California has a collection of over 12,000 objects in storage, about one third of which are basketry. This basketry collection was not known to me until I started to work there as a graduate stud . . .

Walnut (Juglans) and wingnut (Pterocarya) trees have been declining in response to Thousand Cankers Disease (TCD). The TCD pathogen, Geosmithia morbida, is vectored by a phloeophagous bark beetle, the walnut twig beetle (Pityophthorus juglandis Blackm . . .

Recent human infections with avian influenza viruses (AIV) highlight the need for continued surveillance of AIV in waterfowl. California’s Sacramento Valley is an important wintering site for waterfowl from which avian influenza viruses may be isolate . . .

This study examined the diets of two predatory fish species, the native Sacramento Pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus grandis) and the introduced Striped Bass (Morone saxitilis), within the Sacramento River, CA, USA. Sampling occurred between March and Decembe . . .

Flammulated owls (Psiloscops flammeolus) are small nocturnal owls that are thought to migrate long distances every year from summer breeding grounds in the western United States and southern Canada to winter habitat in Mexico. They are cryptic and elu . . .

95% of the cases of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) are caused by a chromosomal translocation linking the breakpoint cluster region (BCR) gene to the Abelson murine leukemia viral oncogene-1 (ABL1). Downstream of BCR-ABL is growth receptor bound protei . . .

Zebrafish (Danio rerio) is an excellent model organism for studying embryonic vertebrate development due to their conserved genome with humans, external development, and ease of observation under the microscope. The gene SON is found on the twenty-fir . . .

Hematopoiesis is a highly regulated biological process that begins with a singular adult stem cell called the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC). HSCs are responsible for generation of trillions of cells a day, yet the pathways that instruct an HSC to self . . .

Diabetes is a disease in which patients exhibit deficiencies in their ability to secrete or respond to insulin and is affecting both national and worldwide populations. There are two types of diabetes, type I and type II. In type II diabetes patients, . . .

Macrophages are important for protection against infection with influenza viruses, they may also contribute to disease severity during H5N1 influenza virus infection through the virus induced alteration of important antiviral functions. One reason for . . .

Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) is a disease which affects a large percentage of the United States and the risk of developing T2D is increasing according to recent CDC estimates. T2D can be fatal, and although patients are living longer with it, the costs of ca . . .

Panamint alligator lizards (Elgaria panamintina) are a rare lizard species endemic to Inyo County, California. Little is known about the species and it is thought to be of conservation concern. Monitoring efforts for rare species requires conservative . . .

I studied fall and winter habitat utilization of Eurasian Wigeon (Anas penelope), and American Wigeon (Anas americana) using time budgets in the Sacramento Valley, California. Habitat utilization by American and Eurasian Wigeon differed only in the pr . . .

Cooperative or eusocial behavior is not unknown among gall-inducing insects, but the ecological and evolutionary contexts which produce such behaviors vary in their details. In Northern California, the manzanita leaf-gall aphid Tamalia coweni has show . . .

Based on mainstream media reporting, it would seem that in October 2017 the Me Too movement was a result of American actress Alyssa Milano’s prompts following the sexual assault allegations against American film producer Harvey Weinstein. The hashtag . . .

This study uses sensemaking theory as a framework to understand the responses and communication which is used by volunteers when psychological contract violations occur. Nineteen volunteers of the 4-H Youth Development Program were interviewed about t . . .

Rehabilitation robotics is a widely researched area in the field of robotics at the present time. This is the use of a robot to physically assist the user’s limbs in movement during rehabilitation exercises. There is a wide range of diseases and other . . .

Most professions have specific phrases used in order to prove the importance of the statement. In education, the phrase evidence-based practice is employed to show significance to a strategy. Although the term is used to prove a point, many educators . . .

Research shows several effective strategies for helping students struggling with reading. The literature reviewed illustrated ways of using volunteers to help teachers who often do not have adequate time to meet the needs of all their students. This p . . .

The focus of this research was to develop an evidence-based professional development training course on mainstreaming. This course will train general education teachers in Nigeria on techniques and skills needed to identify and instruct students with . . .

Extensive research supports the implementation and maintenance of school-wide positive behavior interventions and supports (SW-PBIS). Research shows the effectiveness of SW-PBIS in reducing referrals, suspension rates, and problem behavior. In additio . . .

This teacher action research study focuses on the experiences of both teachers and students in a multi-age classroom after teaching a combination classroom. A mixed-methods approach was selected for this study including qualitative and quantitative da . . .

This study focuses on the characteristics of first generation college students with an emphasis on alternative education graduates of continuation high schools. The purpose of this study is to identify the institutional agents and pedagogies that incr . . .

The literature on school change commonly suggests that improvements designed and implemented through a collaborative process that involves representatives of stakeholder groups is effective. This study analyzed problems with a previously adopted schoo . . .

This project culminates several years of study and teaching in an independent study environment. A review of the literature shows the number of at-risk students in public school is increasing. Many of these students are choosing independent study as a . . .

This action research project was designed to meet the academic needs of a group of students with learning disabilities in a rural education setting. The study focused on the effects of three comprehension gestures on the students’ reading comprehensio . . .

With the sudden, rapid rise in the number of students diagnosed with special needs, educators and administrators are developing ways to facilitate the development of interpersonal skills and a deeper engagement with the curriculum. Implementing art ed . . .

With No Child Left Behind pushing schools and teachers to improve annual state test scores to show student proficiency, students have suffered from a narrowing of curriculum in order to push students through the standards before testing. Many teachers . . .

ABSTRACT THE EFFICIENCY OF A LOW COST 2-D INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM by © Christopher Steven Peurifoy 2010 Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Engineering Option California State University, Chico Spring 2010 An inertial . . .

Traditionally, emotion was viewed as something occurring only within individuals with those emotions being expressed outwards. Emotion is now being recognized as having relational and embodied components outside of the individual. Emotion as multiface . . .

Representations of queer relationships in literature are often put in the subtext of works, rather than explicitly addressed. Using Passing by Nella Larsen, Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell, and The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, I am examining queer subte . . .

Embedded mentors are trained students who are placed directly into courses to support student learning. While embedded support models are becoming increasingly common, little empirical research has been done to understand who embedded mentors are, wha . . .

New teachers of composition have a lot to gain from developing a critically reflective stance about their teaching. If they can learn to intentionally engage in reflective practices which emphasize student success in relation to their course objective . . .

When We Must Walk in Darkness is a memoir beginning with a Critical Introduction, followed by a collection of vignettes, each one representing a significant moment after my son Tyler’s 2002 near-fatal motorcycle accident. In the Critical Introduction, . . .

Invasion of the Bees and Other Stories is a collection of short stories and flash fictions that explore themes of paternal absence and neglect, female distrust of men, relationship discord, self-sabotage, and various forms of abuse. Firmly footed in t . . .

In literary worlds, as in the actual world, women are often left without a space to call their own. Obliged instead to navigate men’s societal structures and homes, female characters naturally respond to the spaces they inhabit differently than their . . .

In the ongoing discussion of how to support diversity in higher education, language usage and its variation has been one of the most disputed features of writing pedagogy and instruction. The purpose of this research study was to examine how language . . .

The last two decades have brought along much scholarship in regard to monstrosity within literature. This has been thoroughly shown through the ways in which Christians in England have made monsters of other religions. Christians have repeatedly, espe . . .

This thesis argues for the necessity of improved teaching practices in higher education literature courses; suggests a theoretical framework for literary study that engages readers on a personal level as well as within communities of other readers; an . . .

This empirical study analyzes the digital activist ecologies created by women in highly conservative Christian circles using social media to speak against traditionally taboo topics of domestic and sexual violence. This research covers a time of uphea . . .

Black Dogs is a collection of short stories representing my exaggerated interpretations of three themes associated with self-destructive behavior: addiction, codependency, and self-entitlement. Theses individual themes are prominent subject matter in . . .

Kali’s Waters is a collection of short fiction stories that works with themes of religion, loneliness, death, grief, coming-of-age, and human connection. The stories are based in the genre of literary realism, but also work to challenge the norms of t . . .

Dating While Fat: Notes From a Harmed Life is a memoir, collected in four linked stories, exploring the intersection of absurdity and horror at various times throughout the author’s life. “Dating While Fat” is a reflective look back at my life as a fo . . .

The Judas Tree is a collection of poetry that focuses on the act of witnessing tragedy. This collection explores specific events I have observed in both nature and in firefighting. Many of the experiences in the collection were witnessed first-hand. T . . .

An American Dream is made up the first five chapters of a work of fiction that will ultimately become a novel. An American Dream is a novel about John and Matt, two young men who have been friends most their lives, and how this friendship comes to an . . .

This memoir is a coming-of-age story utilizing three main segments: one focusing on a failed relationship with my father, another confronting mortality through the diagnosis of a chronic illness, and a third strand focusing on death through a work exp . . .

Inheritance is a collection of poetry that sets out to redefine the word “inheritance” through three sections. The first section of the collection follows the musical inheritance of the speaker and the impressions of family that have come before him. . . .

This thesis is built on the assumption that in order to be a serious Thoreau scholar, one must move away from Walden (1854) and read his other works. Walden is, to be sure, Thoreau’s most studied book and remains an iconic example of 19th-century Amer . . .

Queens of Sheba is a collection of six personal essays that seek to present both personal story and universal themes. In my essays, I share stories of my family, my father’s dementia, the loss of my first husband, my relationship with food and body im . . .

Terraforming Hell is a collection of poems that explore the dark terrain of reality, the fantastic, and the rift that lies between. It traverses the æther and the dreamstate. Some poems find their footing in the natural world while others walk beyond . . .

We are in need of a more subversive reading of past and present literature and film that allows not only for a feminist literary history, but also for a feminist future in which men are more comfortable responding to and accepting women as equal to th . . .

This thesis argues that, in key nineteenth century texts, humor is a means of fostering group identity and a mode of social critique. The chapter “Boundary Maintenance in Early American Humor” looks at humor as a form of boundary maintenance in both A . . .

October Rain is a collection of poetry that seeks to explore the dynamics of change in human lives, especially loss and grief. Some of these poems follow a young woman as she loses her boyfriend to cancer, and reveal the pain and waves of her grieving . . .

Turquoise Sky is a character-driven piece, with emphasis on the psychological and psychosexual, written in the received Realist tradition of literary mode. It is a plot of decline—and hope—set in the milieu of San Francisco during the early 1970s, and . . .

Good Morning, Colossus is a circus train wreck through the freight cars of my mind. It represents my daily journey as a writer to do battle with myself, to chisel away at my anxiety until I arrive at something I can call a poem. Many of the poems in t . . .

A Fence in the Dark is a collection of poems that explores the relationship between memory and imagination. The poet blends the literary conventions of poetry, novel, and memoir and explores what it means to love with hate, love with fear, love with d . . .

Phytophthora ramorum is an oomycete plant pathogen found in both North America and Europe that is commonly referred to as Sudden Oak Death (SOD). Since its initial detection in California in 1995, SOD has killed over a million trees, primarily tanoaks . . .

I examined the vegetation community and structure of a wet meadow from 2013-2017 across ecological, temporal and spatial scales, immediately following hydrologic restoration. I set out to determine if the natural seedbank can act as a primary source f . . .

California contains some of the most geographically complex patterns of biodiversity on Earth, but much of that diversity has been lost since European settlement. California grasslands, for example, were once dominated by diverse native perennial gras . . .

Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park, located in the Sierra Nevada foothills, outside Nevada City, CA is an example of the effects of hydraulic mining. Soil erosion is a direct result of the exposure created by the process and continues to raise envir . . .

West Coast Swing’s history began around the mid-twentieth century, with roots in Lindy Hop. Despite its fascinating history and its formal status as California’s state dance, however, no academic history of this dance and its community yet exists. Thi . . .

Art education and Socially Engaged Art as a bridge toward community building is an effective method to unite various populations of people in a multicultural and globally connected region. I compare the roles art education and Socially Engaged Art can . . .

In order to determine whether an animation can influence people’s perception of aggression and eeriness, the present investigation tested the interaction between facial width-to-height ratios and the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in an animation that displayed a d . . .

This investigation was designed to explore the effects of verbal narratives (chronological vs. conceptual), graphics (conceptual vs. chronological vs. none) and their interaction on information processing – comprehension, perspective, and judgment—of . . .

Much research and theorizing using an evolutionary framework has been done to study and understand how and why males and females vary in terms of sexual behavior, specifically when it comes to differences in sexual strategy. The body of work on evolve . . .

Wilderness based learning can serve as a powerful medium to environmental education and sustainability education. However, many Outdoor Education programs do not have the tools and resources for effectively facilitating connection to the environment o . . .

Despite the considerable amount of research describing the biomechanics of pitching, little has been done to utilize these observations to develop an understanding of how to improve pitch velocity quantitatively and qualitatively. The purpose of this . . .

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnoses are on the rise yet there is a lack of research on alternative methods of treatments. Exercise and physical activity have proven to assist in the treatment of depression and anxiety (Dunn et al., 2005) an . . .

Endothelial dysfunction, arterial stiffness and hypertension increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Stiff arteries are a consequence of chronic systolic hypertension and atherosclerosis. The resulting increase in peripheral resistance due to a n . . .

To determine the effects of intensity of an acute bout of resistance exercise on glycemic response, nine healthy college-aged (23.9 ± 2.3 years) males participated in two separate bouts (65%, 85% of 1 repetition maximum) of resistance exercise in rand . . .

Nursing students are expected to learn an enormous amount of information, implement interventions and evaluate patient outcomes in their few years of nursing school. Nursing students have limited experiences in the clinical setting to refine their cli . . .

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) is the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). A diagnosis of VAP automatically translates to increased morbidity and mortality rates, length of stay, and treatment costs. A . . .

The Larry P. v. Riles court case of 1979 prohibited the use of intelligence tests in the state of California for the purposes of determining special education eligibility with African American students enrolled in public education. This legislation re . . .

College students often report poor body image and increased levels of social physique anxiety. Exercise has been shown to be a factor that can influence body image and social physique anxiety. This study examined the effects of strength, aerobic, and . . .

This study examines the use of a mindfulness-based SEL intervention for reducing the at-risk social and emotional behaviors in second grade students while also accounting for student gender and ethnicity as factors that may influence at-risk behaviors . . .

A growing national concern for mental health services and an increasing number of students attending university have set the stage for overwhelmed university counseling centers. More and more students across universities are seeking campus counseling . . .

The public goods game (PGG) has been a useful tool for providing insight into cooperation in social dilemmas. Heterogeneity in cooperation suggests that individual difference variables may have predictive value. I hypothesized that social axioms, defi . . .

Interest in collaborative services is on the rise, yet little is known about consumers’ perceptions of these services. The current research study aimed to gain further information on consumers’ and their family members’ perceptions on collaborative co . . .

A lack of research exists examining Mexican American emerging adulthood experiences. This present study attempts to address the influences of acculturation and familism on emerging adulthood. Five hypotheses are presented comparing the Mexican America . . .

The most widely accepted approach in trying to understand the etiology eating disorders is the biopsychosocial model which incorporates a wide range of risk factors. The present study attempts to narrow the scope of risk factors by incorporating three . . .

The current investigation was designed to examine whether metaphors, when presented as a graphic or as a text, help to increase learners’ understanding of unfamiliar concepts in physics—specifically the functionality of electrical circuits. One-hundre . . .

Unemployment among autistic adults is estimated at between 70 and 90 percent and employments outcomes are unfavorable compared to both their non-autistic and other disabled peers. Autistics face many challenges, especially during the transition into a . . .

A comparative sociological, historical, and anthropological analysis of 19th century boarding schools for both Native Americans and the Māori as institutionalized genocide and the resulting impact of multigenerational trauma. Using social boundary the . . .

The number of low income, first generation, minority students who enter into higher education is significantly low (Pew Research Center, 2012; Auerbach, 2004). These students encounter many barriers that prevent them from accessing higher education. T . . .

Long-term mental health systems utilization is caused by inadequate education, untreated mental illness and social isolation, among other factors. These factors are amplified in rural areas, where many people do not have access to quality health care, . . .

Homeless youth are entering housing programs, only to re-enter homelessness. This thesis project is an evaluation of the 6th Street Center for Youth’s housing program in Chico, California, which had never been evaluated before. The program houses home . . .

Organizational culture has been studied in many different disciplines. In Management and Business studies, organizational culture is often viewed as a concept that can be influenced or changed within organizations. Having a System’s Theory basis, many . . .

This study examined the policies of schools of social work within the California State University system regarding how they evaluate for admission and inform in-coming students with criminal convictions of the challenges they may face upon graduation. . . .

As of 2017, California is spending over $70,000 to house each inmate every year in the country with the most prisoners per capita in the world (Legislative Analyst’s Office, 2017). In accordance with realignment policies, restorative justice programs . . .