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Graduate projectHakim, Kawther.The purpose of this introductory course is to serve as a guide and manual to the Arab instructor. It is an aid to help solve the problems of teaching English as a foreign language. The differences in structure and sounds and in the cultures reflec . . .
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Masters ThesisGates, John VanAtta.A dual purpose furnace was constructed and used to obtain F 16 3center densities up to 6 X 10 centers/cm in natural sodium chloride by additive coloration methods. The sample crystal was heated to temperatures around 600° C in a vacuum of 45 mm me . . .
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Masters ThesisGarner, Jack.The discovery of antitoxins to both diphtheria and tetanus toxins dramatically introduced two immunological phenomena to twentieth-century science. First, biologically active molecules, such as toxins and enzymes, may have the potential to be neutr . . .
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Masters ThesisJaniga, Kathleen.No Abastract or Summary.
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Masters ThesisBishop, Suzanne Germain.According to Byron Massialas the traditional image of a teacher has been one of an older maiden lady who has de voted her entire life and love to teaching children. She was not likely to be outspoken on political issues nor influential in educati . . .
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Graduate projectMacMillan, William.Die casting is the metal working process by which molten metal is forced into steel molds, under pressure, in order to form simple or complex parts with a rapid cycle and little labor. Die casting is the fastest of all casting processes; it is most . . .
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Masters ThesisKerber, George Lawrence.Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) is a very useful tool to study atomic structure where energy level differences are on the order of I Oyev to lOOyev. The first successful experiment was performed by Zavoisky in 19^5 (Ref. I). Since then numero . . .
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Masters ThesisMarney, Kyle LawsonDuring the Cold War, United States government officials used a “soft power” strategy to conduct foreign policy known as public diplomacy. The consensus found in historical scholarship links a “state-private” network between U.S. government officials . . .
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Masters ThesisBondshu, Janice Elaine.A wide variety of assessment procedures have been utilized to ascertain the typical personality traits of student activists of both the right and left. Also, much research concerning nocturnal dreams has been conducted, but few investigations have dea . . .
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Masters ThesisVelazquez, Dulce MariaThere has been an extensive amount of effort to combat tobacco use, yet the emergence of electronic cigarettes threatens to jeopardize the current progress. This study sought to determine statistically significant differences in electronic cigarette . . .
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Masters ThesisPilecki, Dianne.A number of studies have been done on attitudes toward death and dying. In general, conclusions infer that most people, including nurses, have anxiety regarding death. Studies about nurses show that their attitudes about death and dying are reflec . . .
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Masters ThesisKottcamp, Glenn M.Sculpins of the genus Cottus are commonly found in brackish water and streams of the Pacific drainage of North America (Morris, 1961). Though common, they are infrequently encountered being small, bottom dwelling fish, rarely exceeding 1 50 mm S. . . .
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Masters ThesisFringer, Mikaela KimThe objective of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of a functional protein (FP) program in dairy calves raised in a California rearing program. Experiment 1 was conducted from January – March. Upon arrival the dairy origin, body weight . . .
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Masters ThesisMoshier, Shelby PaigeSandy beaches support dynamic and diverse, but physically narrow intertidal ecosystems that are vulnerable to the effects of anthropogenic disturbance, such as coastal dredging and beach nourishment. Our study site in Morro Bay, California has been . . .
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Masters ThesisMuñoz, EvelinFewer than 40% of students that pursue college degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) do not graduate with a STEM degree. The rate of college degree attainment in STEM is about 20% lower for women, people with disabiliti . . .
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Masters ThesisMoreno, JoselynThere are an estimated 10.5 million undocumented immigrants that live in the United States (Krogstad, Passel, & Cohn, 2019). As changes in immigration policies and legislation become harsher and more restrictive, the purpose of this phenomenological . . .
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Masters ThesisHernández, Rocío SolísDuring the 1960s and 1970s, Chicanas/os at Fresno State College formed part of the larger Chicano movement aimed at obtaining civil rights for individuals of Mexican descent living within the United States. Between 1965 and 1975, Chicanas/os enrolle . . .
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Masters ThesisSingh, KrizmaBladderworts, aquatic carnivorous plants, use specialized traps (with a mouth opening of about 0.2 mm in diameter) to complete their feeding strike in less than a millisecond after the trap begins to open. Suction feeding is well understood in animals . . .
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Masters ThesisReyes Fuentes, Karina J.This study provides further insight regarding the aspirations of Latinx mothers and their influence to support more access for Latinx students into higher education. Parental engagement is very rarely seen in higher education spaces. I am interested . . .
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Masters ThesisRamirez Munoz, MarielaThis research study explored the perceptions of university campus climate for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Latinx students, specifically feelings of safety and inclusion. The purpose of this study was to examine how safety . . .
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Masters ThesisNies, Michael DavidThis descriptive study assessed the relationship between infrastructure and health outcomes. This study utilized secondary data from the CalEnviroScreen 3.0 to analyze environmental and health measures from the ZIP codes of 93702, 93706, 93711, and . . .
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Masters ThesisMontes, Yaneth A.The study focuses on the experiences of school counselors and outlines their perspectives on supporting first-generation Latinx students. The study examines the literature surrounding the perceptions on the roles, practices, challenges, and demands . . .
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Masters ThesisMeier, Kaitlin C.Using feminist psychoanalytic and rhetorical theory, this thesis reclaims and reimagines how female relationships and voices are represented in literature by focusing on the ancient myth of Persephone and Demeter in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and t . . .
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Masters ThesisGorden, Mary Amanda.The city of Exeter is in a rural area of Tulare County near the center of the San Joaquin Valley, California. The economy is agriculturally oriented with an emphasis on citrus. Exeter Union High School, located in the city of Exeter, is a single hi . . .
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Masters ThesisLyon, MireyaThe subject of the present research is public criticism of police conduct and professionalism, as well as public perception of an officer’s guilt in shooting situations. The hypothesis driving this research is that people will be more critical of a . . .
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Masters ThesisArlen, Linda.In the last few years educators have experimented with two innovative techniques: non-grading, so that a student never fails, and self-pacing, where a student is allowed to progress at his own rate of speed. These techniques have most often been e . . .
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Masters ThesisAnderson, Gwen.There are various ideas concerning what role guidance should play within the school organisation. One point of view* which stresses the individual in his uniqueness, is concerned with helping youth develop self-concepts involving realistic self-und . . .
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Masters ThesisAmundsen, Edward Lee.For the past several years there have been courses entitled power mechanics, power technology, and transporta- tion and power which have been offered in the field of industrial arts. This new course can be found in the schools at the junior high s . . .
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Masters ThesisWillems, Caroline.During the years until World War II public school education retained many of the moral and spiritual teachings which were found in the earlier private schools. There was much leniency toward prayer and Bible reading in the classroom, as well as towa . . .
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Masters ThesisLopez, RodrigoConsumer demand regarding standards of care, welfare, and production methods are increasingly important for livestock producers. To meet consumer demands, the United States (US) is on a path to increase levels of welfare. Structures added to the envir . . .
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Masters ThesisHendricksen, Laura T.The general morphology of Hidatsa has been studied extensively by a handful of scholars (Matthews, W. 1874; Robinett 1955; Matthews, G. H. 1965; Jones 1979, 1992; Boyle 2007, 2011; Gebhardt & Boyle 2012; Park 2012), but little work has been done on . . .
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Masters ThesisBrito, Patricia DeanneOn July 25, 2018, another wave of feminist political action crashed onto the Chilean shore. Taking to the streets of Plaza Italia, a public space in the capital city of Santiago where protestors often gather, thousands of women sought to demand the . . .
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Masters ThesisYu, Jeanny Chen-Li.Malnutrition is found almost everywhere around the entire globe. In developing countries the problem of malnutrition has been long established as the world's most serious, unsolved health problem. It is mainly a result of an inadequate consumption . . .
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Masters ThesisGraham, Clifford Ray.Posthypnotic amnesia has long been considered an essential characteristic of hypnosis. It was first reported by the Mar- quis de Puysegur in 1784 while experimenting with his famous subject, Victor. Since it was well known that sleepwalkers experi . . .
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Masters ThesisGuyette, Philip.Fluid power is a science so ancient that its beginning precedes written history. The water wheel, in the pre-Christian era, is the first example of fluids in motion used to do work. The ancient Egyptians, in approximately 250 B.C., used the Archim . . .
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Masters ThesisArmstrong, John William.Three out of five wild populations and a laboratory- population of Indian meal moth, Plodia interpunctella (Hubner), were found resistant to malathion. A malathion-susceptible Indian meal moth population, stressed with malathion, showed a 110-fo . . .
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Masters ThesisAycock, Linnea."The Crystal Cabinet," "The Golden Net," and particu- larly The Mental Traveller" have long intrigued students of Blake, but only in the last few years have scholars begun to explore these poems in depth. The value of studying these shorter poem . . .
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Masters ThesisSoundarajan, SanjayUnknown regulatory motif finding on DNA sequences is a crucial task for understanding gene expression and the task requires accuracy and efficiency. We propose DMF, a combinatorial approach that uses hash-based heuristics to skip unnecessary computat . . .
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Masters ThesisArmstrong, Donna.Verbal communication, the sharing through words of knowledge, ideas, and experiences, is considered the essence of humanity. Non-verbal language systems, such as those being taught to chimpanzees (Fleming, 1974) , seem to be judged non-human becau . . .
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Masters ThesisCanfield, Marybelle Moyer.In recent years mankind has been involved in major social problems. In the United States involvement with social problems has existed within persons and within groups, and between persons and between groups. The energies of our populace, whether m . . .
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Masters ThesisBogard, Linda Lee.A few years ago a college degree was the key to a wide variety of career positions. Today, it is not uncommon to hear of the glutted job market in fields such as teaching, social welfare and engineering. Students are looking for positions which wi . . .
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Masters ThesisBarclay, Marilynn.In the early history of tonality, English music theory exhibits distinctly progressive tendencies. This brief comparative study is an attempt to provide a view of the English contributions to the evolving diatonic system.
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Masters ThesisMacías, Patricia AyalaSince 2007, the California State University (CSU) system has partaken in two initiatives in the past: Access to Success and the Graduation Initiative 2015. These initiatives laid the foundation for the most recent initiative, the Graduation Initiati . . .
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Masters ThesisAngeles, JorgeOver the last two decades, processing tomato planting in the San Joaquin Valley has transitioned to the use of transplants, buried drip irrigation, and shallow tillage from the traditional direct seeded, flood irrigated systems. The use of pre-plant . . .
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Masters ThesisYounker, Stephen Allen.On September 1, 1924, F. J. Lee, General Overseer of the Church of God,"'" wrote: "In making up the program for the Assembly, I thought it would be well to have something concerning the young people . . . This is what Charles W. Conn, a former Gen . . .
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Masters ThesisWyman, Wilton.A major problem confronting the tennis instructor at the junior college, college, and university level is the classification and subse- quent evaluation of students enrolled in elementary tennis classes. The instructor should have a means for q . . .
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Masters ThesisWorrell, Joanne.The subject of this study, Peromyscus boylei (the brush mouse), is found from "Honduras northward to Oregon and Utah and eastward to the Ozark Mountains" (Hooper, 1968: 50). In California, it is found characteristically in the Upper Sonoran life zo . . .
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Masters ThesisWinston, William R.Unemployment and the circumstances which surround it have been a long standing problem in this nation. Despite the high degree of interest which government officials have shown in recent years through programs sponsored by the Federal government, . . .
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Masters ThesisWilton, Judith.Mexican Americans are a segment of the rural poor. These low income people face uniquely complex problems. Often they do not speak English; their children are virtually un- touched by existing school programs; their lack of job skills and the incr . . .
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Masters ThesisAved, Barbara Marie.is obvious from the large number of illigitimate births, legally and illegally induced abortions, and legitimate but undesired pregnancies in the United States that contra- ceptive measures are commonly ignored or actively rejected by a substa . . .
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Masters ThesisMiller, Roger Dale.The results of an informal survey of family financial counseling services conducted by the writer primarily suggested this study. Few social service agencies in the greater Fresno area provide family financial counseling services. The agencies obs . . .
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Masters ThesisMillhouse, David.Vesicular-arbuscular (V-A) myeorrhizae play a role in plant nutrition• Many workers have shown that V-A myeorrhizae increase the amount of phosphate uptake by higher plants (27) and may have profound effects when absent from nursery soils (31). Ros . . .
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Masters ThesisMendenhall, Jeffery.Man is a mobile animal and relies on his way-finding ability to maneuver in his surroundings. This mobility is accomplished through cognitive learning (images received by the individual through stimuli produced by the environment.) Cognitive mappin . . .
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Masters ThesisMegas, James Christopher.As societies grow larger and more complex, the individuals who compose them are constantly interacting and conversing. The average citizen must communicate verbally with a multitude of persons in order to conduct one's daily affairs, e.g., spouse, . . .
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Masters ThesisMcLaughlin, Pat.Today quality of patient care is a social issue. There is a demand by the general public for "high level wellness" (Duff and Hollingshead, 1968:20). The best care possible for every individual is seen as a "right" rather than a "privilege." The consum . . .
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Masters ThesisMcIntyre, John.Thomas A. Bailey, in an expanded version of his presidential address to the Organization of American Historians in 1968, stated that "False historical beliefs are so essential to our culture that if they did not exist, like Voltaire's God, they wo . . .
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Masters ThesisMassey, Harold.Improvement of what goes on in the classroom has been the eternal goal of teacher training institutions and inservice programs for teachers working in the classroom. The Stull Bill and all its implications for goal setting, writing the objectives, . . .
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Masters ThesisLundeen, Richard Leith.A number of previous investigations have shown that early exposure to an enriched environment results in superior learning ability in later life (Forgays & Forgays, 1962; Denenberg, Woodcock, & Rosenberg, 1968; Henderson, 1972; and Lundeen, 1973). . . .
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Masters ThesisLinik, Frank Joseph.One of the most significant problems encountered in public school hearing conservation programs, including screening and threshold testing, is the presence of high ambient noise levels in the test environment (Cozad, 1966) . The importance of quie . . .
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Masters ThesisLeung, John Ming-Kui.The writer proposed to study Chinese design concepts and their accompanying impact on Chinese settlements in California because few of their artistic, social and historic elements having an impact on Chinatowns have been systematically documented. So . . .
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Masters ThesisMedeiros, Joseph.Microsporangial development in angiosperms is a well documented process. In contrast, difficulties such as availability of material, prolonged development, and problems in sectioning have made information concerning microsporogenesis in gymnosper . . .
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Masters ThesisBaker, Carol Frances (Crum)Since the early 1950's much research has been carried on relative to creativity demonstrated by human subjects. The work of" many behavioral scientists has opened new avenues of thinking regarding the make-up of human intelligence. J. Paul Guilfor . . .
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Masters ThesisBasora, Daniel.With retail development taking place at various locations within the city, planners and businessmen alike need to concern themselves with the retail locational decisions# The location of a retail operation is particularly important for retail manag . . .
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Masters ThesisBeebe, Joan Marlyn.Tetrahydrofolic acid is composed of reduced pteroic acid and L-glutamic acid linked "by an amide" bond. Tetrahydrof olate coenzymes are involved in the transfer of one carbon fragments, an important class of metabolic reactions essential to the syn . . .
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Masters ThesisBerger, Von.The United States from 1865 to 1915 was represented by continual economic and population growth. It was an era when corporations and business in general were establishing themselves. Domestic and international greatness appeared to be just ahead. . . .
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Masters ThesisBohigian, Gary.It was not by chance that Portugal's Asian empire had a head start of nearly a quarter century before Spain entered its territory. The beginning of Portuguese expansion dated from the recapture of the Lusitanian Algarve from the Muslims in 1249 w . . .
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Masters ThesisBonyhadi, Lorna Jean."All noises are sounds, but ail sounds are not noise." Modern medicine discolrered the dangers of air pollution and water pollution about a century ago and, as a result, has practiced aseptic, antipollution technics. However, medicine has fallen b . . .
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Masters ThesisBrawley, Rod Joel.'This project is designed to guide parents of very young deaf children in the basic steps which must be taken to begin a positive approach to their child's handicap. It is by no means a complete guide for parents in dealing with their infant's hea . . .
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Masters ThesisBurkan, Hamed Sherif.My interest in the oil industry began during the spring of 1965, when I worked with Esso Standard Libya, Inc., an affiliate of Standard Oil of New Jersey, which was explor- ing for oil in the vicinity of my home city, Benghazi. This study was . . .
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Masters ThesisBurkhardt, Charles Joseph.The history of learning to treat mental illness in the most efficient manner is long and varied. Mental illness has probably been recognized by man as long as people have increased their chances for survival by living in a group. When man began to . . .
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Masters ThesisCampbell, Kenneth Reice.The central purposes of education are: (1) to prepare the young to accept constructive pathways to adulthood, (2) to help them engage these pathways successfully, and (3) to assist them in finding personal relevance in the options available to the . . .
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Masters ThesisClayton, Bruce.Mountain meadows offer aesthetic values and provide feed for cattle and wildlife, making it important for both financial and recreational reasons that they be maintained at maximum productivity. At the present, little is known about vegetation str . . .
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Masters ThesisEckman, John.The western foothills of the Sierra Nevada are dotted with small earthen reservoirs which are maintained by landowners primarily as a source of water for livestock. Most of these farm ponds have been stocked with warmwater gamefish such as largemou . . .
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Masters ThesisEngelman, Norman.Powdery Mildew, or oidiurn as it is called in Europe, is the most serious fungus disease of the vine that is present in California according to Jacob (3). It has been found in every vineyard section of the state. In the cooler and more humid region . . .
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Masters ThesisCowin, William.The gradual liberalization of school board policies toward pregnant teachers, the recent implementation of Federal legislation, and growing leniency of the courts are closely related to the changing status of women in America. A short analysis of . . .
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Masters ThesisCramer, DeLois Groth.A problem of relatively recent concern to health science researchers—thanks, perhaps, to new advances in the biological, social, and psychophysiological sciences— is how to isolate and identify relationships between human behavior and individual ( . . .
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Masters ThesisFerrell, Hugh.The effect of delay of reward upon acquisition of an instrumental response was examined using water deprived rats in a straight runway. Following stable performance in the . acquisition (preshift) phase, subjects receiving 0, £ or 16 sec access to . . .
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Masters ThesisFernandez, Julia Batti.The reporting of scientific news has long been a troublesome area .in American journalism; as a result numerous and frequent complaints come from those concerned with journalism and science. Scientists, for example, have often protested the handli . . .
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Masters ThesisFeramisco, Daniel Bryan.The purpose of this experimental study was to modify, construct, test and evaluate thrust augmentation systems using model Ford 707 simulated gas turbine engines. The tests and statistical data show the investigator's alternative hypothesis to be . . .
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Masters ThesisEns, Charles Wesley.In 1923 Lewis devised a general set of rules to define a basic species: all substances containing unshared pairs of electrons are bases. Organic amines (e.g. - R-NH^) with their unshared pair of electrons constitute one of the most important class . . .
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Masters ThesisFiester, Richard.The purpose of this study is to identify the process through an analytical and historical framework for the atonal concepts in the late piano works of Franz Liszt Over the last years the works of Franz Liszt have been evaluated. Through previous g . . .
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Masters ThesisFlores, Norberto.The process of bringing work and laborer together goes back in man's history beyond the records of civiliza- tion. The first large-scale "employment" of people was probably through the institution of slavery. The first source of labor supply . . .
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Masters ThesisForhan, Phillip.With the exception of a few unique areas, the economy of a community is largely dependent on the industrial base. The average residential area cannot, through simple taxation of real properties, support the increasingly myriad demands of local gov . . .
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Masters ThesisFung, Angela Koo.The provision of safe and decent housing has been emerging as a major concern of state and local government in recent years. In 1968 the United States Congress took an action which required a "housing element" as a part of any "comprehensive land . . .
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Masters ThesisGeiger, Jack.The principal means of creating drama for children has been through the dramatic interpretation of standard literary works. Those who are involved with the production of children's dramas in the United States urge the playwright toward such interp . . .
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Masters ThesisGifford, Antonia Josephine.It has long been recognized by nursing staff, their supervisors, and instructors of nursing that aides, technicians, and vocational and registered nurses are prone to take the most expedient methods whenever possible, although this may not be the w . . .
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Masters ThesisGilstrap, Roger Leland.The purpose of this study is not to analyze the dichot- omy between developed and underdeveloped Mexico, but rather to narrow the focus to those regions of Mexico with relatively high concentrations of monolingual speakers of indigenous languages. . . .
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Masters ThesisGraham, Kathryn Morrow.A method utilizing Gas Chromatography is described for the analyses of trace amounts of specified impurities in spectral grade acetone and in spectral grade methanol. Retention indices, I, relative to hexane and octane, and &I, relative to the ret . . .
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Masters ThesisGrendahl, Jan.new concept in medical bacteriology was opened for investigation in 1935 when Kleinberger reported she had successfully separated a cell wall deficient variant from a normal culture of Streptobacillus moniliformis (Kleinberger, 1935). Kleinberger den . . .
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Masters ThesisGross, Thomas.The present study explored the contention that deaf children are deficient in the use of implicit verbal skills presumed necessary for the solution of a complex reasoning problem. Deaf children between the ages of eight and thirteen were matched b . . .
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Masters ThesisAved, Marie.I he diabetic patient is faced with a disease that does not significantly affect his appearance or his sense of well-being after control is achieved. However, this condition will persist for the rest of his life and will require considerable attention . . .
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Masters ThesisGreenamyer, Randolph.Metamorphic and igneous rocks marginal to the Academy Fluton were studied from the pluton contact outward from 1.0 to 2.5 miles. The area mapped covers parts of the Piedra, Academy, Watts Valley and Round Mountain 7.5 minute quadrangles. Igneou . . .
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Masters ThesisHassan, Md. Rani Bin.A study to determine the effects of gibberellic acid (GA) and kinetin on germination, emergence and seedling vigor was conducted on sesame (Sesame indicum L.). Rates of laboratory germination were increased by gibberellic acid and kinetin during t . . .
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Masters ThesisHedman, Janet Helzer.Since the beginning of civilization, man has tried in various ways to improve his appearance. Archaeologists have found hairpins and combs dating from prehistoric times, indi- cating that even then, men and women spent time and effort in arran . . .
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Masters ThesisHill, Harry Jackson.Man's ability to communicate has led to many technological advancements. He nas conquered a large portion of the electro- magnetic spectrum for use in communicating with his colleagues and for transmitting data from computers to man and other c . . .
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Masters ThesisHodge, Ruth Brownell.The Indians of Pre-Hispanic Central America made a great cultural contribution to the world. Although they produced no works of art strictly for the sake of artistic expression, their means of recording history and religion left behind a multitude . . .
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Masters ThesisHolladay, Doris Louise.Creative interpretations have been produced by designers of all types of material objects. It is not that the new objects were of totally new ideas nor of new materials. Each object contained a personal and individualistic style in representing fa . . .
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Masters ThesisHollender, James.The objective of this project was the expansion of this writer's knowledge of organ-building into the area of constructing mechanical action instruments. All prior experience had been solely in the field of electro-pneumatic and direct electric or . . .
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Masters ThesisHolmen, Martin Leland.Tradition has it that the beginning of a paper such as this should serve to convince the reader of the importance of studying violence and the need for further research in the area. In these times, however, it seems trite to quote statistics on th . . .
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Masters ThesisHorgan, Sara Kathryn Anderson.The effects of two mammalian viruses (SV40 and reovirus) were observed on a homeothermic and on a poikilothermic cell line. Propagation of these viruses in both types of cells could indicate shared biochemical receptor sites on the two types of ce . . .