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 . . .