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- Creator:
- Cook, Erin Lynn.
- Description:
- Fly is a collection of short stories. The title suggests the main thematic
element present, that of movement from or desire for some kind of freedom from
a person, situation, or mind‐set faced by the characters. Some stories deal with
this idea directly, most indirectly. There is also a certain play with the narrative
in two of the stories that suggests the idea of flying away from the traditional
narrative structure. In “80/20:Fact/Fiction” for example, there is a narrator
breaking through the present push of the story frame to expand the narrative
into the margins as footnotes. In this story, a discussion of where truth stems
from and how it is identified is explored. The story “Bird” also plays with
traditional narrative. An outside narrator is telling an unnamed character the
more traditional story line. Several stories play with conceptual and physical
manifestations allowing the stories to “fly” from the concrete into the abstract.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Fine Arts
- Creator:
- Marg, Klaus Richard.
- Description:
- The VO2 slow component (SC) is a slow, time-dependent rise in VO2
during constant-load exercise exceeding gas-exchange-threshold (GET).
Approximately 86% of the VO2 SC reportedly originates from working peripheral
muscles, with the remainder originating from the central systems. The effects of
caffeine on these systems during heavy exercise are unclear. Metabolic,
cardiovascular, respiratory, and electromyographic parameters were evaluated in
nine competitive cyclists (VO2max = 57.5 ± 4.9 ml·kg-1·min-1) performing constantload, heavy exercise in control and caffeinated conditions. No effect on muscular
activation, arterial pressure, and respiratory exchange ratio was observed. VO2 was
~200 ml/min higher (p < .05) throughout exercise in the caffeinated states, with no
interaction (p > .05) relative to time (i.e., no effect on VO2 SC). Elevated VO2, in
the absence of any other treatment effects, suggests that caffeine during heavy
exercise may up-regulate metabolic processes related to cyclic AMP triggered by
elevated catecholamines.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Kinesiology
- Creator:
- Villanueva, Matthew Gaston.
- Description:
- Purpose: Ten resistance-trained subjects participated in an investigation
aimed to examine the impact of creatine loading with acute caffeine ingestion
(CC) on upper body muscular strength (MS) and the associated neuromuscular
function (NF). Methods: MS was determined from the number of repetitions
completed in the supine bench press (SBP) with a load equivalent to 87.5% of a
previously predicted 1 repetition maximum (RM). NF during the SBP sets was
evaluated from surface electromyographic (EMG) records obtained from the right
long head of the triceps brachii (TRI) and the right pectoralis major (PM) muscles.
From these records, the median power frequency (MedPF), mean power frequency
(MeanPF), and EMG signal amplitude scores (IEMG) were derived. Results:
Paired Sample T-tests revealed no significant difference (p > 0.05) in the number
of repetitions completed, MedPF, MeanPF, and IEMG scores between CC and PL
treatments. Conclusions: CC supplementation does not seem to significantly
affect upper body muscular performance, as well as the frequency, type, and
magnitude of motor unit activation during periods of short-term, high-intensity
resistance exercise.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Kinesiology
- Creator:
- Bright, Ronna.
- Description:
- Although the prevalence rate of intimate partner violence in LGBT+
relationships is similar to that found in heterosexual relationships, specific services
for LGBT+ victims of intimate partner violence are relatively unavailable. In
response to the social context and multiple unique barriers experienced by an
LGBT+ victim seeking assistance, services must be specific and culturally
competent. A qualitative study of interviews with LGBT+ specific intimate partner
violence service providers in California, along with a focus group of LGBT+
community members in the Central Valley, was conducted. The perceptions of
LGBT+ community members were analyzed regarding the context in which
intimate partner violence occurs and the barriers to accessing services by LGBT+
persons, particularly those in the Central Valley. A comparative analysis was
conducted in terms of the types of program elements utilized by LGBT+ specific
and sensitive intimate partner violence service providers. Recommendations were
made for future research and for culturally competent frameworks for service
design and delivery.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Social Work Education
- Creator:
- Scheid, Liz.
- Description:
- As a new mother, I chase the illusion of permanence, but I continue to find
myself living in a world of transition—where everything collides at once—
memory, dream, reality and imagination. As I result, I’m constantly rethinking
truth and meaning from different perspectives.
Please join me in this collection as I explore different tensions, such as;
between intellect and physicality, trying new perspectives, navigating through
different dimensions in an attempt to find meaning, truth, and clarity through
human experiences: love, loss, death, life, relationships, and birth.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Fine Arts
- Creator:
- Grewal, Navjot.
- Description:
- A qualitative study was conducted with five Punjabi women from a
community in Central California to explore their experiences with depressive
symptoms, their coping strategies, and their views on seeking help. Data were
gathered using an interview guide form that outlined depressive symptoms with
follow-up questions to elicit in-depth information. The researcher found that the
women experienced at least two of the depressive symptoms. Prayer, faith, and
meditation were utilized by three of the women as coping strategies. All five
women also discussed having a support system they could turn to for dealing with
their symptoms. They gave insight into the reasons why women from the Punjabi
community would not seek help for their symptoms, including stigmatization,
roles as protectors of their culture in a new country, and lack of education about
symptoms. The women suggested a strong support system to assist other women
in coping with depressive symptoms. The researcher found the role of the Punjabi
woman as an important factor in coping with depressive symptoms, in that these
women viewed their roles as wives and mothers as necessary in coping with the
stresses of living in a new country.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Social Work Education
- Creator:
- Lim, Dianne Yenni.
- Description:
- It is widely believed that particulate matter (PM) present in ambient air is
responsible for a variety of health effects. The presence of quinones in ambient air
has been suggested as a possible cause for the detrimental effects on human health.
Because of the high levels of pollution, it is important to determine the level of
exposure and the corresponding health effects of quinones. Limited research has
been performed using biomarkers but despite their complexity, they show great
promise for measuring personal exposure. In this study, animals were exposed to
quinones through injection or ingestion for varying periods of time. Quinones
were successfully detected in animal urine with general increases in quinone
concentration with exposure. Five quinones were detected in the urine of human
subjects.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Smith, Eric Vincent.
- Description:
- The following four stories involve protagonists who are struggling with
issues of mortality and faith as they try to negotiate their roles in this life and the
more-than-human world in which we all exist. Their anthropocentric beliefs are
intricately intertwined with their ecocentric values, adding further conflict to their
already difficult decisions. The characters do not have glorious epiphanies, but
rather subtle realizations of the inevitableness of death and the preciousness of all
life
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Fine Arts
- Creator:
- Crowley, Jack Arthur.
- Description:
- The Cosunnes Copper Mine is a contact-metasomatic copper deposit
located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains approximately fifteen miles
southeast of Placerville, California. The deposit is located near
the western margin of a large marble and biotite schist body surrounded
by granitic rocks. A small lens of this marble occurs in diorite
along the western edge of these metamorphics. The marble lens was
totally replaced by skarn due to metasomatic reaction between the
marble and post-magmatic hydrothernal fluids under initially hypothermal
conditions. Cooling of the fluid,combined with reaction of the fluid
with the wall rocks, resulted in a series of retrograde replacement
reactions.
There were three zones of skarn formed at the Cosumnes Copper
Mine: a sericite zone formed in the diorite, a pyroxene skarn zone
formed between the altered diorite and the garnet skarn, and the garnet
skarn zone which has replaced the original marble. The skarn was
formed as a primary result of the diffusion process of skarn formation
and to a lesser degree, the infiltration process. The initial skarn
forming fluids were moderately iron rich. The hydrothernal fluids
became progressively more iron rich as they cooled through the mesothermal
range. As the fluids cooled into the epithermal range they became iron
deficient. V/hen mesothermal conditions were reached by the cooling
hydrotherr.-al solutions, extensive bomite-clalcopyrite and molybdenite
mineralization occurred as vein fillings, open space filling and replacements in the skarn zone itself. The final hydrothernal process was
emplacement of massive quartz veins with minor sulfide mineralization.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Creator:
- Licon, Adelita.
- Description:
- This thesis explores how guerrilla movements aided in the formation of women's and feminist groups that emerged in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Chiapas, Mexico. The development of feminism has been attributed to women's participation in the guerrilla movements of these regions. Feminism did not originate from women's involvement in guerrilla warfare; instead it grew from gender inequalities that women suffered in these countries. This thesis argues that feminism in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Chiapas, Mexico, derives from historically unbalanced power structures between the genders and cannot be entirely understood as a derivative from the revolutionary struggles in these regions.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- History