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 th . . .

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 un . . .

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 simila . . .

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 neuro . . .

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 . . .

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, . . .

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 . . .

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 miscomm . . .

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 . . .

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 D . . .

Plankton are a diverse group of organisms that live in large bodies of water. They are a primary source of food for fishes and other larger aquatic organisms. The distribution of plankton plays a significant role in the marine ecosystem. Therefore, th . . .

Many model-based approaches have been suggested to improve and accelerate the development process of complex distributed embedded systems (DES) from design to deployment. In this approach, abstract models of the system are created and then transformed . . .

Identifying the type of modulation scheme present on a signal is an integral part of any non-coherent receiver, especially in defense. Prior to signal processing, modulation schemes present on a received signal must be accurately identified. Finding a . . .

This study will explore the shifting of Chinese K-12 principals’ understanding of instructional leadership after participating in a professional development (PD) program at an American university. China’s recent educational reform requires school prin . . .

Over half of adults in the United States do not regularly meet the minimum number of minutes per week of moderate–to–vigorous physical activity (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2010). One promising intervention strategy for improving adher . . .

This study was a secondary analysis that examined potential parental and familial predictors of compliance and completion of a family home-based physical activity intervention. Participants (n = 105) were parents of youth with Prader-Willi Syndrome (P . . .

The purpose of the proposed study was to establish the inter-rater reliability of a modified version of the Fullerton Advanced Balance (mFAB) scale. Specifically, five of the 10 test items from the original Fullerton Advanced Balance (FAB) scale were . . .

This study looks at different drug arrest patterns. While extensive research has been done on crime and drug mapping, very little has been done on drug arrests as a whole and even less has been done on specific drug types. This study addresses the fol . . .

Reinforced concrete (RC) walls are the most commonly used structural elements in buildings for resisting lateral forces induced by earthquakes. Therefore, reliable and robust analytical models that can predict their behavior under earthquake actions a . . .

The 21st century is witnessing a tremendous demand for transistors. Life amenities have incorporated the transistor in every aspect of daily life, ranging from toys to rocket science. Day by day, scaling down the transistor is becoming an imperious ne . . .

For decades, studies have shown that people are better able to distinguish ownrace faces compared to other-race faces, a phenomenon known as the Other-Race Effect (ORE). Research suggests that perceptual experience and social context factors may play . . .

The vertical jump is an essential skill in many sports and activities. A maximum height jump is often used to evaluate physical ability and sport performance. Additionally, in sports, assistance from the arms occurs to increase jump height. Therefore, . . .

It is the responsibility of managers to create environments that allow for happy employees to perform at their best. In an effort to advance our understanding of such an environment, this paper investigated two factors associated with positive employe . . .

The southern shield limpet, Lottia pelta (S), is a generalist species that can be found on the feather boa kelp, Egregia menziesii, at particular sites in southern California. When L. pelta (S) inhabits the kelp its phenotype is similar to the special . . .

Listeners’ impressions elicited by speech characteristics of a job candidate may significantly affect the outcomes of an employment interview. The study draws on the theoretical background of the powerless speech style in communication, which suggests . . .

Short duration, high intensity exercise has been implemented in various weightloss programs. However, the effect of plyometric exercise on blood glucose levels is unknown. PURPOSE: To investigate the effect of plyometric exercise on blood glucose. MET . . .

Energy is used in buildings, industries, and transportation and has effects on people’s lives. These effects are nationwide, worldwide, and varied. They comprise the economy of nations, such as the United States’ dependence on foreign oil. Also, human . . .

This thesis demonstrates the benefits of using Graph Signal Processing (GSP) techniques for an intelligent taxis transportation system. Graph Signal Processing, an application arising to handle multiple source signals on a graph, has developed into an . . .

Research of Chinese students in the United States has focused on the adult students who studied in American colleges and universities. Little is known about the younger ones, who are between 13 and 17 and whose stories are equally, if not more, import . . .

Software-defined networking (SDN) introduces centralized control logic, and it separates the data plane from the control plane. Hence, SDN makes it easy for network engineers to monitor traffic, diagnose threats, and insert or change security policies . . .

Past research suggests that various pre-migration and post-migration factors play an important role in the acculturation process of refugees. This study explored premigration and post-migration factors and their relationship to acculturative stress in . . .

Among American college students, there is a widely acknowledged, intimate relationship between alcohol consumption and sex. Though the intuitive understanding has long been that this is a causal relationship wherein alcohol produces a “disinhibitory e . . .

Previous literature on depression has mainly focused on at-risk populations while more resilient populations, such as athletes, remain largely under-examined. Literature on athletes has consistently shown that this group had lower depression levels an . . .

This study utilized the stratigraphic record from the Seal Beach Wetlands (SBW), a coastal wetland in southern California straddling the active Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone, to: 1) Identify evidence of paleoseismic events and 2) Characterize wetland r . . .

The Trivers-Willard Hypothesis states that parental investment is a function of parental condition and that parents invest in the sex of offspring that offers the greatest reproductive returns. Parental investment is a cost/benefit strategy: parents i . . .

The purpose of this study was to examine whether the key personnel are in place for effective implementation of the core components of Response to Intervention in a prototypical elementary school. This is a qualitative study using responsive interview . . .

The study utilizes data from the 2010-2011 Nepal Living Standards Survey and several probit models to estimate the probability of enrollment for school aged children between the ages of five and seventeen for all households, households with and withou . . .

Reinforced concrete (RC) structural walls are the most commonly used structural elements in buildings to resist earthquake loading. Concrete crushing in wall boundaries followed by buckling of longitudinal reinforcement is one of the most common failu . . .

Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology provides a statistical basis for identifying provenance and correlating deformed volcanosedimentary rocks. Uranium-lead (U-Pb) detrital zircon ages from the Schoonover Sequence of the Golconda allochthon (GA) are com . . .

In some special cases, locations of wireless devices within buildings must be determined with reasonable accuracy. Consider the World Trade Center disaster on 9/11/2001. First Responders were spread throughout the World Trade Center without an effecti . . .

This qualitative phenomenological study explored the attrition of 12 Asian Pacific Islander (API) entry-level student affairs professionals and how they made the decision to exit the field. the participants worked between two to five years full-time i . . .

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the possible impact of participation in theatre arts on the social skills development of students with significant cognitive disabilities. The research found that participation in theatre arts had a . . .

Mothers play important roles within the family. For this reason, it is important to study mothers’ experiences of minor, daily stressors and assess how stress impairs families by spilling over to children. Currently, very few studies in the literature . . .

The western black widow spider, Latrodectus hesperus, is a venomous spider that is widely distributed throughout the western United States. Despite species prevalence, research on the black widow spider is sparse. Although notorious for her mating rit . . .

The present study sought to explore possible differential vulnerability in MexicanAmerican males exposed to trauma. A primary aim of the study was to examine the prevalence of PTSD between Mexican-American/Mexican males and non-Hispanic White males. T . . .

This thesis builds on a recently developed Failure Recovery Synthesis (FRS) technique for robotic manipulators, which is mounted on a movable platform to achieve an originally specified task after an arm joint failure. The FRS locks in place the faile . . .

Having a better understanding of how Latinos with chronic pain and obesity cope with pain can be valuable for public health professionals in determining appropriate treatment with this at risk population. Although Latino adults are more likely to have . . .

This thesis explores the musical development of the major themes in Max Steiner’s score for Gone with the Wind. One of the most revered composers of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Steiner scored David O. Selznick’s epic Civil War drama in 12 short weeks with . . .

Although overt racism has diminished considerably over the past few decades, subtler forms of racism continue to perpetuate in contemporary society. The theory of aversive racism is a contemporary form of subtle racism that postulates an individual ma . . .

The current study sought to examine if pictures representative of a moral scenario would increase empathic responses and subsequently affect an individual’s level of moral support for an individual in need. University undergraduates evaluated scenario . . .