The purpose of this thesis is to determine how the genetic disease pycnodysostosis determined the artwork and subject matter of the modern artist Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec as he paralleled himself with the social outcast living in bohemian Montmartre . . .

The City of Paris Dry Goods Company was a pioneer business in San Francisco, California during the Gold Rush in 1850. The company’s founders were brothers Emile and Felix Verdier whose French traditions influenced the newly forming region. The family . . .

The results at the polls seem to demonstrate that the attitudes of the voters is either approval or disapproval dependent upon the voters' attitudes toward the total educational program of their respective districts. Evidence produced through this re . . .

According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA, 2019), approximately 3.3 million dogs enter shelters every year. Researchers have identified behavioral factors influencing adoption and found that poor interaction wit . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

Architecture is a cultural object. It symbolizes the objects of its cultural background "inheritance." It is a human product serving common human activities. Art expresses values, science deals with facts; architecture does both. One may ask if it is . . .

The use of soil-incorporated herbicides can be an effective means for controlling weeds. Effectiveness of a soil-applied herbicide will depend essentially on the extent to which it can be concentrated in a region where effects are desired. Therefore, . . .

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From the time that shopwork was first introduced in schools, the possibility of accidents has weighed heavily upon the shop teacher. There is probably no other problem which is of more increasing concern than safety. This concern includes safety in t . . .

A study and evaluation of the Orion nitrate selective ion electrode was made in the range of zero to sixty parts per million nitrate, to see how reliable this method could be made for the analysis of well waters and public water supplies, in the p . . .

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The study was made to determine and describe the characteristic problems and nutritional educational needs of the chronic alcoholics who are being rehabilitated at the Alcoholic Recovery Center in Evansville, Indiana. As means of conducting this s . . .

Geologic mapping of part of the Saddlebag Lake roof pendant in the east-central Sierra Nevada, California, reveals two rock sequences that have been folded by three deformations. The older sequence, called the Lewis sequence, is composed of marine . . .

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Care of the patient in the psychiatric hospital has been the focus of intense interest during the past few decades. A variety of approaches to patient care have been described and attempted beginning with the concept of many restrictions, progressi . . .

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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 . . .

Lambertsen has stated that the definition of nursing may be that of a dynamic, therapeutic and educative process meeting the health needs of society. Yet, she stated, nurses have devoted relatively little attention to health promotion, prevention . . .

The major purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of the Career Opportunity trainees' attitudes and their performance on the job. For the purposes of this study, the major areas of concern were the subjects' open- mindedness and job . . .

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 . . .

During 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 . . .

The importance of having a learner's many senses involved during instruction has been recognized and accepted by modern educators. Because of the nature of the subject matter, instruction in automotive and power technology courses permits the . . .

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 . . .

This study developed from an interest in following the academic progress of students, who had been intensively studied as kindergarten children. Much interest has been shown in recent years in finding students at an early age who will experien . . .

In his Introduction to the English Novel, Arnold Kettle points to a dilemma that is shared by almost all of the heroines of English fiction from Moll Flanders onwards: "What is a young woman of spirit and intelligence to do in the polite but bar . . .

The intent of this study was to investigate what kinds of gains, if any, children made while participating in an aesthetically oriented reading program. The hypothesis formulated for the study was that students will show significant gains in rea . . .

There 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 . . .

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 . . .

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. . . .

The 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 . . .

Sandy 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 . . .

Fewer 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 . . .

There 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 . . .

During 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 . . .

Bladderworts, 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 . . .

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 . . .

This 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 . . .

This 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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

The 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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

Consumer 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 . . .

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 . . .