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- Creator:
- Forbes, Megan DuVarney
- Description:
- When the United States purchased the Virgin Islands in 1917, they established a naval government and denied civil rights and citizenship to the native people. Rothschild Francis, a self-educated Virgin Islands native, took it upon himself to demand the citizenship and self-government that the United States had historically bestowed upon new territories. Utilizing his extensive knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, Francis appealed to the U.S. government by writing congressional legislation, establishing his own political newspaper, giving speeches in both the Virgin Islands and in New York City, and by challenging discriminatory court decisions by naval judges. He also addressed the issues of racial prejudice that the U.S. Navy brought to the shores of St. Thomas. Francis’ editorials in his newspaper, the Emancipator, his congressional legislation, and his public replies to his critics provide thorough evidence of his views on the importance of self-government, and of the strategies he employed to gain rights for his people. Francis maintained a consistent message about the importance of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the power of democracy. Francis adamantly supported American government, even while he challenged the U.S. to apply democracy equally in the Virgin Islands. His fourteen years of campaigning for Virgin Islanders’ citizenship and self-government laid the groundwork for the rights that Virgin Islanders have today.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of History
- Creator:
- Nealer, Austyn
- Description:
- Speed is one of the most crucial elements an athlete must possess to be successful. In the sport of soccer, the ability to accelerate faster than your opponent can result in being first to reach a ball on a breakaway or stopping a counter attack. A unique way to train explosive movements is to evoke post-activation potentiation (PAP) within the working muscles. PAP is based on an increase in phosphorylation of the myosin filaments and an increase in motor-neuron recruitment or firing rate. Traditionally, an overload stimulus with a long rest period is used to evoke PAP, but a model utilizing an overspeed stimulus with shorter rest periods has been less researched. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of varied rest intervals following assisted sprinting on bodyweight sprint time. Twenty-four female soccer players were split into two groups: recreational and collegiate athletes. All participants attended five sessions and performed a dynamic warm up then executed one 20 m sprint (with 5 m splits) at 30% bodyweight assistance (BWA). They then rested for 30 s (R30), 1 min (R1), 2 min (R2), or 4 min (R4) in random order, followed by one bodyweight sprint with no assistance. Baseline sprint times were measured without BWA in the initial session of testing. Results revealed no difference for full 20 m sprint time in either group. However, sprint time was significantly decreased from 0-5 m following 1 min and 2 min of rest only for the athlete group. Therefore, trained athletes should wait one or two minutes after 30% BWA sprinting to perform a bodyweight sprint for increased speed.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Kinesiology
- Creator:
- Hackbarth, Joseph
- Description:
- The purpose of this study was to identify whether the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act enacted through Senate Bill 1440 had a positive influence on transfer students at a California State University campus. It compared and contrasted the similarities and differences among students admitted to the university as both traditional transfer students and those admitted under the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act (SB1440). A traditional transfer student, for the purposes of this study. was defined as any upper division student transferring with a minimum of 60 units who did not earn an associate degree for transfer (ADT). This study closely followed Thomas’ (2012) research on bachelor’s degree completion and the Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S). Similar to the ADT in California, the A.A.S. was an alternative transfer pathway into the public university system in Iowa. While the A.A.S. study had the benefit of data from a mature transfer pathway, this was not the case with the California ADT. The effectiveness of the California program has not yet been determined up to this point. The guiding question that drove this study was whether the ADT pathway was a viable method for achieving higher levels of student admissions and, ultimately, degree completion. Two distinct groups of transfer students derived from the data examined included: traditional transfer (non-ADT) and transfers iv with the ADT. The ADT, through quantitative analysis, has shown promise in terms of shortening the time to graduate, increasing graduation means, and narrowing the achievement gaps between student groups.
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Educational Leadership
- Creator:
- Rosengarten, Jakob
- Description:
- Blood flow restriction (BFR) during low intensity resistance exercise (LIRE) has been shown to increase muscle activation (MA). It is unclear if this is due to increases in motor units recruitment (MU) or firing rate. PURPOSE: To investigate the neuromuscular effects of BFR of the lower body during LIRE using electromyography (EMG) and mechanomyography (MMG). METHODS: Ten males (age = 27.1 ± 3.1 years; height = 177.6 ± 6.2 cm; mass = 86.9 ± 13.0 kg) performed 3 knee extensor maximal voluntary isometric contractions (MVIC). Occlusion (OCC) was then applied to the right thigh while performing two sets (set 1 = 30 ± 7.96 repetitions; set 2 = 13.7 ± 11.29 repetitions) of 5 s isometric knee extensions at 30% of MVIC. Each set was carried to failure, with 2 s of rest between repetitions. The same procedure was repeated without occlusion (NONOCC), matched for repetition performed during OCC. An accelerometer was used to collect MMG data from the vastus lateralis during the MVICs and both sets. RESULTS: MMG frequency was lower for OCC collapsed across time and set (p < 0.05). For MMG amplitude, there was a significant condition by set interaction (p < 0.05). MMG amplitude was significantly higher for the OCC condition than for the NONOCC condition during Set 2 (p < 0.05). EMG amplitude was higher for OCC during both sets (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: OCC exhibited higher MA based on EMG amplitude and higher values for MMG amplitude. This suggests higher MU recruitment, rather than firing rate, was used to increase MA during BFR.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Kinesiology
- Creator:
- Green, Chanel S.
- Description:
- The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study is to understand how dance, dramaturgy, aesthetic, and somatic practices are manifested in the daily work of educational leaders in dance. The study explored the art of leadership by investigating the experiences of dance educational leaders. It examined how dance, dramaturgy, somatic practices, and aesthetic knowledge influenced their leadership development. The participants for the study have five or more years in educational leadership in dance, affiliation at a university, or affiliation with a leadership organization, and at least ten years of professional dance experience. Participants shared their experience through one-on-one semi-structured interviews. Observations of each of the participants were also conducted that demonstrated how dance, dramaturgy, aesthetics, or somatic practices could be applied to leadership. The findings indicated that leadership skills can be developed from dance experience. Based on the data from the interviews and observations, leadership is an art and knowledge and experience in dance can be applied to leadership and leadership education. Findings also revealed the importance of somatic practices and the importance of leaders being in touch with their bodies and practicing somatic or embodied practices. Dance forms and artistic methods are beneficial to leadership.
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Educational Leadership
- Creator:
- Katona, Aaron
- Description:
- Measuring geomorphic indices is tedious and laborious, whereas Arc-GIS is inflexible, requires a license and substantial time to learn. This project demonstrates that geomorphic indices may be measured rapidly and accurately using Google Earth. First, Google Earth’s efficacy is shown by replicating parts of several previous studies. Then, mountain front sinuosity, valley floor width to height ratio, basin elongation ratio, basin area, fan area, basin relief, stream concavity index, range crest/piedmont profile, and range front strike are measured along the western White/Inyo Mountains using Google Earth. The geomorphic analysis indicates tectonic uplift rates increase northward. Interpretation of multiple geomorphic indices moves the Montgomery/Hammil and Hammil/Central section boundaries of the White Mountains fault zone (WMfz) to Birch Creek and Sacramento Canyon, respectively. South of the Waucoba Lake Beds, the westside-down of the WMfz ends and tectonic basin polarity shifts to east-side-down normal faults along the Sierra Nevada with the strike-slip Owens Valley fault zone beneath the Owens Valley. This tectonic change also coincides with the southwest extension of the Deep Springs fault (DSf) and the Big Pine volcanic field. I hypothesize that the DSf extends below the Waucoba Lake Beds and is important component of Owens Valley tectonics. Normalized longitudinal profiles reinforce previous work that indicated that tectonics is the primary control on fluvial system and lithology exerts greater control as tectonic activity lessens.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Geological Sciences
- Creator:
- Oberly, Thalia Giselle
- Description:
- Understanding modifiable risk factors is a critical step towards developing ethnoracially sensitive, targeted prevention efforts aimed at reducing cervical cancer incidence and mortality among Hispanic women. Existing theoretical/conceptual models of health disparities are limited by lack of specificity and failure to consider unique challenges associated with each ethnoracial group, as well as unique demands, stigma, or contexts associated with specific diseases. Using a combination of theoretical models, this review attempts to propose a comprehensive model of cervical cancer health disparities among Hispanic women that includes disease- and population-specific risk factors as related to primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of the disease. Several aspects of Hispanic culture and experiences appear to be significantly impacting Hispanic women’s cervical cancer preventive practices, diagnosis disclosure and post-diagnosis social support seeking. Cultural phenomena such as marianismo, an emphasis on chastity, fatalismo, and familismo along with other factors such as immigration status, language barriers, health insurance status, and social isolation appear to be important in identifying causes and correlates of observed cervical cancer health disparities and treatment. Several possible points of culturally sensitive intervention are identified to ameliorate cervical cancer health disparities among Hispanic women.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Psychology
- Creator:
- Davis, Michelle Ariel
- Description:
- Miscommunication of sexual consent is often attributed to the reinforcement of gender role norms, sexual scripts, sexual assertiveness, indirect resistance, and a neoliberal society. Dyads in the early stages of dating may be more prone to the miscommunication of sexual interest because the couple has not established a sexual script of their own and they may not have strong communication skills. The purpose of this study was to ask whether females in heterosexual dyads who scored higher levels of sexual assertiveness are involved in fewer unwanted sexual experiences than women who scored lower levels of sexual assertiveness. Most research on sexual experiences looks at consent through a dichotomous lens of either approved consent or coercion (rape). This study attempted to uncover the grey area of unwanted sexual contact and how women respond to those unwanted experiences. Unwanted sexual contact (USC) is happening frequently enough to be concerning (60% of participants). Fondling was found to be the most common form of USC with frequency of USC decreasing as the severity of harassment increases to oral, vaginal, and anal. Women reported most forms of coercion as verbal or related to alcohol intoxication. The most common outcome of instances of USC was for women to say nothing and to allow it to happen. This study found that women with more sexual partners also experienced more instances of USC but developed greater sexual assertiveness later in life. Heightened sexual assertiveness decreased instances of USC.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Communications
- Creator:
- Al Quraishi, Murtdha Hashim Hassoon
- Description:
- Improving the engineering properties of soil through soil modification has been implemented in practice for a number of years. However, construction over soft soil sites has remained a major challenge for projects all over the world because the ground shaking amplifies as it travels through soft soils and will result in an increase in the pseudospectral acceleration. Design of infrastructure depends on the seismic shaking levels from an earthquake. If the amplification of the ground motions can be reduced, the design of the infrastructure can be more economical. For this research, a laminar box was constructed, fitted with a drainage system and filled with a soft clay soil. The laminar box can freely deform during shaking tests and is more representative of free-field conditions. However, previous studies were performed using a rigid box. After the soft clay was consolidated to a pressure of the effective vertical pressure of 10 kPa, accelerometers were installed into the soft clay and a series of unidirectional 1-G shake table tests were conducted with different seismic shaking levels on both models with unimproved and improved soil profiles using deep soil mixed soil–cement panels. The improved deep soil mixed soil–cement panels were constructed at 10% and 20% replacement ratios (RR), which is defined as the ratio of the plan area of the soil-cement to the plan area of the soft clay profile. The present research shows that the deep soil mixed soil–cement panels effectively reduced the pseudospectral accelerations of ground shaking with the installation of panels having both the 10 % RR and 20% RR. On average, a reduction in pseudospectral acceleration was observed to be about 63% for 10 % RR and 59% for 20% RR.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Mohamed, Wurod Qasim
- Description:
- Advanced wireless communication systems are expected to support high data rates and reliable transmission. A key technology that achieves the required high spectral efficiency is the application of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing techniques. MIMO systems use multiple transmit antennas to send a signal to the multiple receive antennas exploiting multipath propagation. The OFDM technique is applied to combat the frequency-selective fading environments and to increase the data rates The essential techniques used by MIMO to improve the performance of the wireless communication systems are spatial multiplexing and space time coding. In this thesis, I investigate and develop a signal detection and decoding technique called parallel processing decoding algorithm. The technique uses BPSK and QPSK modulations in Rayleigh flat fading environments and frequency-selective fading channels. Using a parallel decoding algorithm, the receiver can extract all received symbols independently and simultaneously. This technique increases processing speed and prevents error propagation at the receiver, present in other decoding techniques. The key advantages of parallel both a higher channel capacity and a better signal to noise ratio, are achieved. Also, it was seen that the bit error probability, BER, of the proposed decoding method decreases dramatically with increasing the difference between receive and transmit antennas number.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Electrical Engineering