Historians have long disagreed over the proper way to include Mormonism within the traditional narrative of American religious history. While some historians have almost exclusively focused on the similarities between early Mormonism and the dominant . . .

This thesis investigates the theoretical behavior of magnetic monopoles in a variety of scenarios. The scenarios covered will be the Dirac string model, Wu-Yang topological model, and the Cabibbo-Ferrari two-potential approach. For the Cabibbo-Ferrari . . .

The primary purpose of this paper is to make a study of local government reform methods and techniques. The King County Charter Movements of 1952 and 1968 allow a unique opportunity to study the techniques used and tools available to reformers in thei . . .

One of the most important concerns of physical educator’s in our public schools should be that students develop positive attitudes towards active participation in physically wholesome activities. This will tend to lead them to seek similarly valuable . . .

The purpose and problem of this thesis is to discover what educators, or those interested in public education, mean When they use the terms “moral,” “spiritual,” and religious values in education.

Historical geography defined in its simplest terms is concerned with the past landscapes of a portion of the earth's surface. Therefore, the purpose of this study will be to recreate the past landscapes of the three distinct periods--open range, homes . . .

This study was conducted to establish the measure of adequacy of the summer biology courses of the Fresno City Schools. The specific intent was to conduct a study that would measure the adequacy as objectively as possible. The data collected were anal . . .

This study examines the differences in body mass index (BMI) and body perception between White and Hispanic female students attending California State University, Fresno. White and Hispanic/Latino cultures have differing ideals of body size. This stud . . .

The Goraori acetylthiocholine technique was used to investigate the distribution of cholinesterase in fourth instar larvae of Culiseta inornate (Nilliston). Fixed and especially prepared larvae were incubated in the substrate solution for the required . . .

For many years, the need for emergency housing has been a critical problem within the Fresno Metropolitan Area. By definition, emergency housing can be interpreted as being the providing of temporary shelter and services to an individual or individual . . .

As an African-American child growing up in the South, I have lived and moved among white society for so long that I wear them as a second coat, a second skin even. Growing up, white wasn�t just a language to learn, it was a whole dominant culture to e . . .

Thus was the conception of a work which was to become the heart of an entire literary movement and one of the major influences in German Literature. Novalis stood above his beloved Sophie's grave on that thirteenth day of May, 1797, and had the vision . . .

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a special reading project conducted in some elementary schools of the Fresno City Unified School District.

The relevance of the study beyond the felt need expressed by the community can be seen in areas of community planning, public health, correctional reform, law and social work. Primary to this multi-faceted scope and beyond the practical applications f . . .

This thesis explores childhood emotional neglect among college freshmen. A qualitative study was conducted among Fresno State University students at a freshman college standing and themes were derived from their narratives. The thesis is split into 5 . . .

There are definitely two basic reasons why a guidebook of this nature should he developed. First, if an individual reaches a point in his profession when he has developed a successful style of performing within that profession, it becomes his duty to . . .

The most widely spoken language In China Is Mandarin-Chinese. There are several varieties of Mandarin-Chinese, of which the most widely spread are the Peking Mandarin (north) and the Nanking Mandarin (south). The regions that do not use some variety o . . .

Zebrafish is an important model species to study vertebrate development. One particularly interesting aspect of fish ontogeny, which zebrafish larvae exhibit, is the high tail beat frequency up to 10 times higher than that of adult fish. Larvae theref . . .

The eleventh-century miniature family portrait of Christian King Gagik- Abas is the only known Armenian painting of a Bagratuni dynastic family. Established interpretation of the image suggests that indicators of rank and status are displayed within t . . .

For this study, the researcher sought to gain further insight into the higher education aspirations of the Salvadoran population living in the United States. Utilizing a qualitative, narrative inquiry research method, the researcher conducted semi-str . . .

Deep Learning is a branch of Machine Learning which involves complex learning with massive data sets. It is implemented with Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). The ANNs, in turn, are inspired by the biology of the Human Brain. ANNs mimic the functioni . . .

Mites and leafhoppers are important pests of grapevines and can sometimes be hard to control. In this study, various levels of deficit irrigation were applied to Merlot grapevines during the summer to determine if mite and leafhopper populations could . . .

Most city planners will undoubtedly acknowledge the commitment of their profession to local and national housing goals. These goals have for years been partially expressed by local programs to raise the quality of housing to a minimum standard for all . . .

Evelyn Millis Duvall, Ph.D., has long been recognized as a powerful spokesman in the field of family relations. In this paper, it will be the desire of the writer to consider much of what she has written regarding the adolescent or teenage period of l . . .

Many teachers have voiced their dissatisfaction with the type of in-service growth programs which they have been experiencing. This study was designed to provide basic information which could be used in improving the organization, financing, location, . . .

In 1926, a religious counter-revolutionary movement began in Mexico known as the Cristero Rebellion. Mexican Catholics across western-central states rose-up against the government, upset in the implementation of what they considered to be anticlerical . . .

The following study chronicles how flow from individuals participating in fantasy sports affects consumer behavior, and how marketers can use this to improve the overall experience of fantasy sports. Using a modified version of Hoffman and Novak s Con . . .

One of the major economic problems now confronting California farmers is locating the sources of sufficient funds to finance the rapid increase in the operating capital required for efficient production in agriculture. Changes in production techniques . . .

Although many factors to the overall effectiveness of a high school counseling program, it is generally accepted that students from socioeconomically disadvantaged homes present a special problem for school guidance personnel. The purpose of this stud . . .

Thus the problem for study focused on the medical characteristics of patients referred for discharge planning which might yield some tentative answers regarding the nature of resistance encountered in discharge planning. If differences are determined . . .

This collection of essays explores physical movement and the role it has played in my life. Subjects include raising my hyperactive son, my attraction to foreign travel, my career as an orientation and mobility teacher for the visually impaired, and m . . .

The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes of involuntary mentally ill patients at Patton State Hospital toward services developed within the provisions of the Lanterman, Petris, Short Act, which became law on July 1, 1969. The act had a . . .

A calorimeter is used to make measurements of the internal energy of a material in order to probe its thermodynamic properties, such as crystalline lattice stiffness, electronic effective mass, phase transitions, and entropy. Rare-earth metallic compo . . .

Cuba tuvo el privilegio, y a la vez honor, de haber producido dos de los mas grandes poetas modernistas y al mismo tiempo precursores de este gran movimiento: Jose Marti(1853-1895) y Julian del Casal (1863-1893)• Sin embargo, teniendo en cuenta el hec . . .

During the 1920's, China was torn by multiple civil wars—wars among provincial or regional military governors, called tuchuns, or more commonly, warlords. During the 1930's, several Chinese Communist historians charged that various tuchuns had been un . . .

A singular knot is an immersion of a disjoint union of circles into three-dimensional space that admits only nitely many singularities that areall transverse double points. A singular knot diagram is a projection of a singular knot into a plane, and c . . .

The problem is to determine “what techniques and procedures most effective orient and indoctrinate high school seniors and college freshmen to the advantage of enrollment in the Air Force reserve officers training Corps”. The problem was especially ac . . .

The 200-mile long San Joaquin Valley of California has a population of approximately one million persons in its seven counties. This valley is regarded as one of the world's most productive agricultural regions.''* Although one of the wealthiest agric . . .

A recent paper by Erik Verlinde [1] argues that gravity should be viewed not as a fundamental force, but as an emergent thermodynamic phenomenon due to some yet undetermined microscopic theory. Using well-established thermodynamic principles along wit . . .

We are developing a method for the production of rare-earth (RE) nanoparticles, (NPs). A reliable production method will ease future investigation of emergent electrical and magnetic properties that may arise when applying quantum confinement to rare-e . . .

In the sultry warmth of the Mediterranean afternoon a crowd of people slowly fills the small tables and more secluded booths of the Cafe La Dolce Vita. The city is Beirut, Lebanon: cosmopolitan in the midst of a region heavy with the past, the regiona . . .

The goal of this study is to provide a grammatical sketch of Somali. This sketch should provide a basis from which a more complete grammatical analysis can be made. The format adopted for this study is essentially traditional. No full details are inco . . .

A large body of literature has examined human risky decision making behavior. Previous research has shown that equivalent decision making situations differing only in how they are framed (gain or loss) can influence how someone will make a decision. E . . .

Higher education in the United States has experienced a loss of financial support, accompanied by an increasing criticism of cost and a questioning of effectiveness regarding student success (Gelman, Holland, & Soring, 2018). The level of knowledge an . . .

The purpose of this particular study was to examine selected aspects of services provided and population served by the Valley Children's Guidance Clinic and Fresno County Department of Mental Health, Pediatric Service, and to offer a general compariso . . .

It was the purpose of the this study (1) to determine the trends of delinquency in Kern County during the twenty years between 1934 to 1954; (2) to point out the areas of delinquency in which there is need for extra study and work by social and commun . . .

The aim of this study is to clarify some of the syntactic formalisms involved in Setsuzoku-shi and Setsuzoku-joshi. Japanese conjunctions are not clearly classified and also they are treated in the parts of speech under different classes by different . . .