This project addresses the origins and effectiveness of the political party system in America. The major themes of the scholarly research included in this historiography are that political parties are and have been controversial, that political partie . . .

For over a century, salmonids have been stocked in historically fishless, montane lakes for the sole purpose of creating recreational fishing opportunities. Salmonid introductions have had transformative impacts on historically fishless systems where . . .

The purpose of my project is to provide both a report of the 2005 Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) conference and a longitudinal evaluation of the effects that past EYH Conferences have had for middle school girls in Northern California. The goal of each . . .

The majority of world language programs in the United States are offered to students beginning in high school, an earlier start in middle school gives students the opportunity to lengthen their course of study, and attain higher proficiency in a world . . .

A one-dimensional dense snow avalanche model has been developed to predict avalanche runout distances, flow velocity and flow height over general terrain.

In temperate coniferous forests, forest floor fuels have been linked to variation in important effects of fire, most notably mineral soil heating and post-fire tree mortality. To improve the understanding of fire effects, I collected forest floor fuel . . .

This project sought to lay the groundwork for an outreach effort by CASA of Humboldt to better communicate with community professionals (care providers, teachers and school staff, medical and mental health providers, social workers, probation officers . . .

A Geographic Information System (GIS) was used to build the Health Risk Tool, a decision support tool to model objective health risk. The model was developed using Esri ArcGIS 10.0 and Python 2.6. The tool allows users to customize and implement a dyn . . .

The purpose of this study was to understand how alexithymic characteristics relate to help seeking behavior. Additionally, this study sought to measure the levels of alexithymic characteristics between men and women and how they related to help seekin . . .

This investigation attempts to characterize the flow of quality assurance information in Kenya's off-grid lighting market in order to identify key opportunities for improving access to product information throughout the supply chain. While traditional . . .