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- Creator:
- Gray, Tabitha Kay
- Description:
- This thesis is based on a content analysis of military and civilian websites providing sexual assault prevention and response resources. In 2014 I downloaded a purposive sample of 130 webpages and coded the narratives using ATLAS.ti qualitative data analysis software. Adopting a theoretical lens informed by the literature on master and collective action frames, I compared military and civilian resource narratives. I found that while a duty-oriented master frame was most common in the military online sexual resources, civilian organization websites were more likely to adopt a multicultural feminist frame. In my analysis I discuss the contradictions inherent as a military hypermasculinized institution deploys frames that align with its given structure and culture, while through a multicultural feminist lens these very systems are inculpated. To this extent, this frame analysis suggests issues that must be addressed in future discussions and decisions on military–produced resources for sexual assault prevention and response resources.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Voigt, Claudia
- Description:
- Old-growth coastal redwood stands and the habitat they provide are the conservation target of Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) in northern California. In recent years there has been greater access to location information about record-sized trees, and visitors have created networks of social trails in redwood groves, including one grove that has no formal access. Coupled with increasing visitor numbers, this has caused an alarming increase in recreational impacts in redwood groves. By providing visitors access to groves, managers accept that there will be ecosystem impacts, but data is needed to evaluate the degree of impact on trees, soil and understory vegetation. I assessed impacts of social trails around old-growth redwood trees in three alluvial flat groves with different use intensities in RNSP. In 2015 I mapped old-growth redwood trees and social trail networks around these trees. I randomly sampled 20 to 30 trees per site and collected baseline data on the spatial extent of disturbance and selected vegetation and soil indicators. Tree size (measured as diameter) proved to be significantly positively related with trampling disturbance around trees in two of the sites, while in the highest-use site, distance from the formal trail was most strongly related with disturbed area. The findings of this study will serve as initial baseline conditions for recreational impacts in these stands. RNSP can use the study design developed for this thesis to monitor changes in trail-related visitor impacts in old-growth redwood stands of management concern.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Natural Resources
- Creator:
- Kennedy, Jean-Paul
- Description:
- Throughout their global distribution, bats vary in their use of microhabitats along the vertical strata of forests. Ground-based detection techniques typically cannot sample canopy strata in taller forests as it falls beyond detection and netting range. High-flying bats, those that exploit the canopy and above-canopy edge, may avoid capture or be under-represented in assessments using these methods. To improve our understanding of how bats use forests, I assessed bat activity and species stratification along the vertical gradient near Bull Creek in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, Humboldt County, northern California. Humboldt Redwoods State Park is the tallest forest in the world, containing 70 percent of known trees over 107 m. Two coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens, trees were equipped with full spectrum automated bat detector units at treetop (108 m), middle crown (50 m), and ground level (5 m) from April 2008 to November 2009, excluding December and January. I sampled 1,365 detector nights and recorded 3,796 echolocation sequences containing one or more calls. I identified the presence of 12 species: Corynorhinus townsendii, Eptesicus fuscus, Lasionycteris noctivagans, Lasiurus blossevillii, L. cinereus, Myotis californicus, M. evotis, M. lucifugus, M. volans, M. thysanodes, M. yumanensis, and Tadarida brasiliensis. Two species, L. blossevillii, and T. brasiliensis, were undocumented in previously published surveys from redwood forests. I recorded the highest amount of activity at the treetop and least at the middle crown for both trees (65% and 43% at treetop, 7% and 23% at middle crown and 28% and 33% at ground level). I observed a greater number of species present at ground level compared to middle crown and treetop detectors at both trees. However, the data revealed a difference in the species composition of calls recorded at each level. Non-Myotis species composed 95% of the calls at the treetop, 87.5% at middle crown, and 21% at ground level. Calls from all Myotis species averaged 71% of all calls recorded from the ground level compared to less than 4% at both middle crown and treetop detectors. There was a marked decline, but not an absence of activity, during late fall through early spring. The combination of a temperate climate and observations of larger, migratory species during November, February, and March suggests the potential for resident populations or inland migrants overwintering in these forests. My findings illustrate the need to consider the full vertical habitat when designing bat habitat use studies, as species composition varies across the vertical gradient in forests.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Baer, Cheryl LS
- Description:
- Rock & Roll burst upon the scene at the same time the Civil Rights Movement picked up momentum in the 1950s. While one might claim this was just a happy coincidence, it was actually a logical progression in music influenced by the same factors pushing the Civil Rights Movement forward. World War II, technology, migration of workers to urban centers, prosperity, and social anxiety of a changing society all affected the development of Rock & Roll and Civil Rights. Philip Ennis, author of The Seventh Stream: The Emergence of Rocknroll, Alan Dundes, in his book, Interpreting Folklore, and Reebee Garofalo, author of “Popular Music and the Civil Rights Movement” all present arguments that music both reflects and influences the social interactions and social movements of a period. Rock & Roll in the 1950s and 1960s expresses the social anxieties of the Civil Rights Movement. Ennis theorizes that Rock & Roll was the natural consequence of World War II and its aftermath as technology forged ahead impacting the arts, economics and politics of post-war America. Popular music actually provides important socio-political indicators of any social phenomenon as it gains national recognition. According to Garofalo, the trajectory of the Civil Rights Movement can be traced through an analysis of trends in popular music from the 1950s through the early 1970s. Changes in musical form, tone, instrumentation, production style, personnel and eventually changes in lyric content reflected social political changes. Rock & Roll is the derivative of musical forms that originated in the African-American culture and struggle for equality. African American music through the years reflects the institutionalized racial slavery, segregation and discrimination and the struggle for equality. Spirituals, blues, jazz, gospel, rhythm & blues, and country all contribute to Rock & Roll. David Szatmary, author of A Time to Rock: A Social History of Rock ‘n’ Roll, ties the development of rock music to the civil rights struggle. The Civil Rights Movement gained strength as coalitions were formed between black churches and secular organizations like the NAACP and CORE. This paralleled the joining of Gospel with Rhythm & Blues to create Rock & Roll. As the Civil Rights movement matured from gaining legal civil rights in the South, through a period seeking a color-blind society and then into Black Power, Rock & Roll was a social barometer to the movement. In Anti-Rock: The Opposition to Rock ‘n Roll, Linda Martin and Kerry Segrave identify the sources of both racial and sexual anxiety as expressed in Rock & Roll. Arnold Shaw, in his book, Black Popular Music in America, furthers the connection of African Americans to Rock & Roll as they gain economic, political and civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s. In Flowers in the Dustbin, Jim Miller delineates conflicts engendered by cultural stereotypes and collective self-expression with freedom as the prize. The threat integration posed to white Americans by the Civil Rights Movement was magnified as Rock & Roll gained popularity with white teenagers. Identifying correlations between the evolving musical style of Rock & Roll and the societal changes, attitudes and expectations engendered through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s is be the focus of this thesis project. The second part of this thesis project presents curriculum designed to build empathetic understanding of historical events among incarcerated teens. Teenagers isolated from political, economic and social power, find a sense of group membership and understanding in popular music. The thrust of curriculum development in this project will build on those strengths to engender an empathetic understanding of the struggles, transitions and accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement with the evolution of Rock & Roll. Building an understanding of the Civil Rights Movement is an important part of the National History Standards and California State History Standards.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Teaching American History and Social Science
2445. A kinematic analysis and comparison of a martial arts standing spin kicks and jumping spin kicks
- Creator:
- Perez, Daniel R.
- Description:
- The study examined the martial arts spin kick when performed with a vertical jump and without a vertical jump. Seven black belt martial artists each participated in one 2-hour testing session that included performing six kicking trials consisting of three standing spin kicks and three jump spin kicks. Each participant’s standing spin kick trial and jump spin kick trial which had the greatest heel marker linear velocity at target impact was used for statistical analysis. Standing spin kick and jump spin trials were digitally recorded using 8 MX3+ Vicon motion capture cameras. The height and linear velocity of the kicking leg heel marker, and the joint angular velocity of the kicking leg hip, knee, and ankle markers were measured at target impact and compared using a repeated measures MANOVA (α = .05) in order to determine what differences, if any, exist between the two variations of the kick. The MANOVA statistical analysis reported no significant difference in heel marker height or linear velocity between standing and jumping spin kicks at target impact. There was no significant difference in joint angular velocity for the hip, knee, and ankle markers at target impact between the standing and jumping kicks.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Kinesiology
- Creator:
- Chen, Yaming
- Description:
- Experimental matings of hatchery Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) demonstrate that age at maturity is an inherited trait: generally, older aged parents produce progeny that mature at older ages than those produced by younger aged parents. On natural spawning grounds, larger and older males generally dominate in behavioral contests with younger and smaller males and females prefer mates that at least match their body size. I therefore hypothesized that completely random mating of Chinook salmon at hatcheries, often recommended as a strategy to maximize genetic diversity, should lead to unintended long-term selection for younger age at maturity. Using an age- and sex-structured model incorporating matrices of age- and sex-specific maturation probabilities for each possible mating type, I explored the theoretical long-term consequences of alternative hatchery mating strategies. Model results showed that completely random mating does indeed result in long-term selection for younger age at maturity, even when jacks are excluded as spawners. If instead females are mated only with males that exceed their size, then long-term selection for young age at maturity can be greatly reduced. Using the same age- and sex-structured model, I calculated approximate equilibrium age and sex structures for wild population models that incorporated male competition as well as female choice. A wild population model incorporating size-dependent mating success produced an equilibrium age and sex composition close to the wild Chinook salmon population upon which it was based. The size-dependent mating strategy very crudely mimics the natural spawning behaviors of Chinook salmon and could be feasibly implemented at large-scale production facilities. The importance of adopting such a mating strategy is heightened by continuing size-selective ocean fisheries that shift the age structure of spawning populations toward younger ages, contributing to additional long-term selection for younger age at maturity.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Fisheries
2447. The Messenger_Spring1990
- Creator:
- Burcell-Price, Suzanne
- Description:
- Spring of 1990 edition of the Messenger
- Resource Type:
- Newsletter
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Creator:
- Howell, David W.
- Description:
- Point data that are collected during a soil survey are aggregated into conceptual map units and portrayed on maps. There is no extensive geographic method to provide information about the relationships between soil-forming factors and soil properties. These relationships are developed and used intuitively by soil scientists during a soil survey to guide map creation. This project tested the use of statistical modeling techniques and point soil data collected in a National Cooperative Soil Survey project to estimate the functional relationships between soil-forming factors and soil properties. These relationships could help increase efficiency and reduce cost of sampling in adjacent soil survey projects. Point soil data and generalized linear models were used to estimate these relationships. A geographic information system was used to algebraically combine classified soil-forming factor data layers. The resulting maps are a continuous estimation of the probability of the presence of three different soil properties. The probability maps were combined with mapped soils to compare the probabilities to mapped likelihoods of soil properties. One of the models appeared to provide reliable insights into relationships. The other two did not. Additional soil-forming factor data are needed.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Natural Resources
- Creator:
- Cummings, Paul
- Description:
- The subject of this work is the life and career of Hans Richter (1843-1916), an eminent Austro-Hungarian conductor who specialized in interpretations of German Romantic music written during the second half of the nineteenth century. Primary focus will be on the first ten years (1877-86) of his thirty-five-year career as a conductor in England. The Richter Concerts, his series of London orchestral performances between 1879 and 1902, receive the most detailed coverage, while his activities as conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (1875-98) are only covered where relevant. Among the areas discussed are the repertoire performed at his concerts, its reception by music critics and the public, and the similarities between Richter's London and Vienna repertoire. Richter's efforts on behalf of British music will also be considered, in terms of his direct support for native composers and his contribution to the elevation of performance standards at English concerts. His relationships with composers will be explored as they relate to performances of their music.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Music
- Creator:
- Gilles, Mary Anne
- Description:
- Interviews were conducted at thirteen Northern California museums, which were selected because of their Native American collections and programming. The purpose of the field research was to determine the philosophies of the museums in connection with two questions: "Who owns Native American Artifacts" and "Are Native Americans involved in museum programming?" The introduction discusses the current political controversy concerning museum policies of holding artifacts which may have been wrongly taken from other cultures. It was found as a result of the field research that only one of the Northern California museum administrators interviewed felt that the artifacts belonged to the originating culture, and six out of the thirteen museums visited had involved Native American leaders in their interactive programs in the last few years. Various interactive programs are described which show great creativity in the involvement of Native American presenters-- artists, story-tellers, writers, weavers, historians, dancers, and spiritual leaders. The field researcher found an unexpected relationship between the association of museums with colleges or universities and an increased use of Native Americans in high quality museum programming. This relationship can be explored in further research. Recommendations are made to educate museum professionals in the area of political sensitivity to Native American leadership and ownership of artifacts.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Humboldt
- Department:
- Sociology