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- Creator:
- Sylos, Judith Estein
- Description:
- The purpose of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of a management by objectives training program for managers and their subordinates in a health care setting. This paper described the present management by objectives performance evaluation system in an emergency department of a large medical center in Los Angeles. The training program was developed to teach how to write performance objectives. The evaluative instruments were developed by the author. Recommendations were made and based on the data obtained. The general findings of the project maybe summarized as A) The questionnaire results indicated that line management and their subordinates felt they clearly understood the present management by objectives performance evaluation system. B) Management in the emergency department was dissatisfied with the present job performance evaluation, because they felt it did not achieve its purpose, while their subordinates were satisfied with the current evaluation procedures. C) The pretest and post test administered during the training program showed that line staff did not really understand the evaluation system while line management did. D) The training program was effective in increasing line management and their subordinates' knowledge about their evaluation system and about writing measurable objectives.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Health Sciences
- Creator:
- Cordero, Oscar
- Description:
- This research examines the barriers of effective and responsive service delivery at a public mental health agency (DMH) and looks at empirical research of transformational leadership to mitigate meeting agency objectives. A case study of the Department of Mental Health is presented highlighting the barriers of effective service delivery. Organizational buy-in to agency objectives are explored in the context of normative public values rooted in democratic principles. Ultimately, it is a combination of transformational leadership and principles of the new public administration that proved to be best at aligning public workers with the universal values of representation, equity, and individual rights that all citizens are entitled to.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Public Administration
- Creator:
- Sobel, Jay
- Description:
- The drinking of alcoholic beverages is an increasingly accepted part of contemporary life. Wide societal acceptance of alcoholic beverages have led to some severe problems. As societal restrictions on the use of alcohol lessen, the need for more positive alcohol education grows accordingly. Personal decisions relating to the use of alcohol are necessary for every person throughout life. The resources to gain the competencies and understanding for making these decisions must be available. This project consists of two parts. Part I is the introduction. The introduction includes: a) Statistical information related to alcohol use and abuse and alcoholism in this country; b) A review of the literature relative to alcohol education for alcoholics and problem drinkers; c) Conclusions drawn from the literature review; d) The justification and description for this project; e) Finally, a discussion of the criteria and sources used to put the information together, used in this project, concludes Part I. Alcohol education for alcoholics is offered by many treatment programs, however, curriculums, guides, or supplements, in this area of alcohol education, for public inspection are absent. Part II of this project consists of a comprehensive series of supplements to a twenty week alcohol education curriculum for alcoholics, problem drinkers, and interested persons in the community. (See more in text.)
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Educational Psychology and Counseling
- Creator:
- Morrigan, Eryn
- Description:
- The Coast Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma coronatum blainvillii) is a native species of special concern in California. One of the major threats to Coast Horned Lizards, particularly in southern California, is habitat loss and fragmentation. Studies have suggested that the Coast Horned Lizard selects habitats in chaparral and coastal sage scrub vegetation with friable sandy soils and low to moderate slope percent rise. The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA), located in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, is within the known range of Coast Horned Lizard inhabitation. Due to ecologically disruptive human activity in and around the SMMNRA, potential Coast Horned Lizard highly suitable habitat may be at risk of fragmentation, decrease in suitability and/or complete loss of habitat. This study identifies areas of high Coast Horned Lizard suitability so that these areas may be further studied in regards to actual species presence and human impact. Habitat suitability models and landscape pattern were analyzed to investigate the extent to which the SMMNRA is suitable for Coast Horned Lizard inhabitation. First, three habitat suitability models were used to classify the habitat suitability of areas in the SMMNRA depending on designated habitat needs such as slope, soil type, and vegetation cover. Then landscape metrics were used to measure habitat fragmentation, particularly for highly suitable areas. In the SMMNRA, 70% of the total land area was found to meet the majority of the habitat suitability criteria (high suitability, HSA) or some of these requirements (high-medium suitability, HMSA) for the Coast Horned Lizard. HMSAs covered from 59% to 66% of the SMMNRA, depending on the model's weighting. Similarities in percent areas were observed between the results for model 1 and model 3. Model 2 showed significantly higher HSA percent (11%) than other models (3%) due to increased vegetation weighting. The landscape patterns and metrics of the SMMNRA showed that most of the area is at least HMSA for Coast Horned Lizards. Fragmentation occurred in areas of human impact but did not prevent the connection of suitable habitats within the interior mountain range. Other factors of suitability should be explored in respect to the SMMNRA to gain a more accurate assessment of Coast Horned Lizard habitat. In addition, field surveys would be needed to confirm actual Coast Horned Lizard presence.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Geography and Environmental Studies
- Creator:
- Harriman, Susan Goyer
- Description:
- This study examined the level of impact an alcoholic family environment has on the development of communicator style in adult children of alcoholic parents. Utilizing self-report measures (the Norton Communicator Style Measure, and a family health history questionnaire), four variables were hypothesized to be key predictors of a unique communicator style associated with adult children of alcoholics. Subjects who self-identified as ACOA's and a randomly selected comparison group of non-ACOA's were submitted to discriminant analysis with an alpha level of .05. Results revealed that two of the four variables, dominance and impression leaving, were significant predictors of ACOA group membership, and as such contributed to the identification of a unique ACOA communicator style. A third variable, communicator image, also correlated significantly with the discriminant function, although it was not selected as a predictor variable due to suppression effects. The fourth variable, openness, was not significant. The discriminant analysis yielded 64% accuracy (chi-square= 3.92, DF=l, p(.05) in terms of correct classification of individual cases into the appropriate group. In essence, this study revealed that ACOA's perceived themselves as exhibiting a style of communication characterized by behavior that is less dominant and less impression leaving than individuals not raised in an alcoholic family setting. In addition, ACOA's tended to perceive themselves as having a less positive communicator image than the comparison group perceived themselves to have. All three of these conclusions essentially confirm observations reported in the literature, and offer an initial framework for the identification and evaluation of an ACOA communicator style.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Polanco Carrasco, Paulina
- Description:
- In this grant proposal, we outline United Veteran Services’ goal “to increase housing retention of veterans by providing and connecting formerly homeless veterans with mental health services that will promote their well-being and help them in re- transitioning into the community. According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, in 2017 the number of homeless veterans rose to 4,828; this signifies an increase of 57% from the previous year. According to data collected from the VA Homeless Operations Management and Evaluation System (2017), one reason for this increase is the fact that one out of ten veterans are being evicted from their unit due to misconduct and violating good neighbor policies, usually stemming from declining mental health. We propose a well-organized agency that will reduce rates of eviction from permanent housing among the veteran population who are experiencing mental health disorders by decreasing the number of incidents that lead to their removal from permanent housing. In addition to housing retention, our agency will help veterans establish coping mechanisms, provide therapy, build support systems, and other necessary tools to help them adapt back into society.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Social Work
7. Healthful living : learning to control unhealthy habits : a behavior change program for the worksite
- Creator:
- Habschmidt, Joan
- Description:
- The major health threats facing the American public today are largely the result of unhealthy habits. Six of the ten factors associated with America's number one killer, cardiovascular disease, are clearly the result of lifestyle. In addition, health care costs have skyrocketed in recent years, and American corporations have absorbed a large share of the financial burden. It was the purpose of this project to design a program to teach people how to control unhealthy habits and how to maintain successful change. The program was designed as a generic model for addressing various unhealthy behaviors, and was intended for group application to occupational and clinical settings. The program design was based on the assumption that in order to achieve lasting lifestyle change, it is necessary to experience the process of change as positive and rewarding. Towards this end, cognitive-behavioral methods shown to influence successful maintenance were utilized to (a) help participants identify and alter patterns that impede change, and (b) assist participants in developing the coping skills necessary for the maintenance of new behaviors. (See more in text.)
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Educational Psychology and Counseling
- Creator:
- Corona, Yvette
- Description:
- As a result of the passage of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), it appears value-based care is the future of healthcare in America. Value-based care focuses on quality instead of quantity and is projected to decrease the burden of healthcare costs and establish new ways to reimburse providers for caring for Medicare patients. Though it is certainly a development from our former fee-for service payment system, there are many opportunities for improvement in the new Quality Payment Program created by MACRA, especially the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). The purpose of this literature review is to discuss the limitations of MIPS and determine possible solutions. Overall, the 2018 performance year showed that more clinicians are receiving a positive payment adjustment in 2020 compared to the 2017 performance year, as well as more rural and small practices. Though these results show that there is progress being made, this analysis discovered that MIPS' complex reporting measures impede meaningful payment and delivery reform and innovation. In addition, vulnerable populations are not being considered as well as those providers who provide care to those populations, and population health-focused quality measures are increasing the reporting burden on providers, causing patient and provider satisfaction to decline. Political dispute and resentment over the future of the Affordable Care Act will continue for years to come, as well as structural modifications to the Medicare and Medicaid programs, finding the most efficient methods to improve care quality, decreasing redundant and wasteful care, and controlling increasing expenses. MIPS' first performance year was in 2017, meaning that it has been a very short period since it was implemented. Additionally, there is a 2-year gap in performance results. Limitations to this research include insufficient data and published research on the subject, as well as the change in presidential committees and the unknown future of the Affordable Care Act.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Downing, Jacqueline Victoria
- Description:
- The use of mirror imaged controls within functionally equivalent control panels has been questioned in various applications, including aircraft control layout, machinery controls, and control room design. The mirror image research has indicated that in some situations mirror imaging may be a superior design in terms of operator performance. One possible variable which may affect mirror imaging of controls is the location at which the operator is focusing attention; external to the panel, or within the panel. The present thesis addressed the question of how the control panel should be arranged and if the locus of attention affected performance. A 2 x 2 x 8 factorial design was used. The first factor was locus of attention with two levels, internal and external locations; the second factor was arrangement with two levels, mirror-image and left-right arrangements; the third factor was trial block with eight trial blocks. This design was used to test these variables under usual operating conditions and under a simulated emergency condition. (See more in text.)
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Isaacson, Shirley
- Description:
- There will come a time, I know, when people will take delight in one another, when each will be a star to the other, and when each will listen to his fellow as to music. Then free men will upon the earth, men great in their freedom. They will walk with open hearts, and the heart of each will be pure of envy and greed, and therefore all mankind will be without malice, and there will be nothing to divorce the heart from reason. Then life will be one great service to man! His figure will be raised to lofty heights-for to free men all heights are attainable. Then we shall live in truth and freedom and in beauty, and those will be accounted the best who will the more widely embrace the world with their hearts, and whose love of it will be the profoundest; those will be the best who will be the freest; for in them is the greatest beauty. Then will life be great, and the people will be great who live that life. Maxim Gorky. The above quotation (Luft,1970) expresses some of the basic yearnings of human beings--to know--to listen--to feel--to be. “Perhaps the hearts of people will never “be pure of envy and greed " and "without malice " but there is a need and a search for human contact and freedom of expression that has moved parts of our society toward the group movement. Carl Rogers considers the encounter group as perhaps the most significant social invention of this century” Rogers, 1968). Maslow (1965) also views group experiences as "genuine contributions for growth and increased psychological soundness”. (See more in text.)
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Jacobs, L. Ronald
- Description:
- Post-secondary educational opportunities for hearing impaired people in the United States are limited in quantity and scope. There are presently three institutions functioning to educate hearing-impaired people eat the undergraduate college level on a large scale basis. Gallaudet College in Washington, D. C. offers a four-year Liberal Arts education to a student body entirely comprised of hearing-impaired people. The National Technical Institute in Rochester, New York operates an integrated prograr.1 with Rochester Institute of Technology. N.T.I.D. students share the educational facilities with normal-hearing students. In addition, the hearing-impaired students receive extensive support services to aid their acclimation to the post-secondary educational experience. A large portion of the N.T.I.D. students are pursuing certificate programs that lead to neither two-year associate degrees nor four-year bachelor degrees. At San Fernando Valley State College in Northridge, California, hearing-impaired students are enrolled in classes with normal- hearing students. They receive the benefit of support-services also. The San Fernando Valley State students do not have the opportunity to select a two-year associate degree program. This school is the only one in the country whose hearing-impaired students are sharing facilities with normal-hearing students and pursuing bachelor degree study. As greater value is placed upon post-secondary education, facilities to serve the hearing-impaired in this capacity must be increased. Educators are now faced with big decisions about what type of program best meets the needs of hearing-impaired students. Are large programs geared exclusively for the deaf the best choice? Is it advantageous to attempt large-scale integration programs such as N.T.I.D? How effectively do hearing-impaired students function in an integrated bachelor degree program? When considering an integrated program, the educator is obligated to examine it in several different perspectives. Not only is the hearing-impaired student to be considered, one must also look at the effects on the normal-hearing student. How does the norma1-hearing student feel about sharing classes with hearing-impaired people? Does the normal-hearing student feel he is short-changed because of specific allowances made to his hearing-impaired classmate? Does he find that the education he formerly received was devaluated in some way through this integration process? Does the normal-hearing student feel that he has reaped an additional educational dividend as a result of having shared an experience with a hearing-impaired person? What happens to the attitudes and preconceived notions about hearing-impaired people after the normal-hearing person has had an opportunity to matriculate with hearing-impaired people and share their experiences? This project is an effort to examine the effects of an integrated post-secondary education program on its normal-hearing participants.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Sitkoff, Nancy
- Description:
- A method for encoding and decoding Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem codes has been investigated. The algebraic theory is presented to help understand the concepts necessary for manipulations of fields and polynomials. This, in turn, helps in understanding the structure of cyclic codes, and more specifically, Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem codes. A computer algorithm is developed for encoding and decoding binary BCH codes. However, this algorithm is limited in the number of random errors it can detect and correct.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Engineering
- Creator:
- Nolasco, Jasmyn
- Description:
- The modern east-flowing Amazon River system is geologically recent, resulting from a major drainage reorganization in the Miocene to Pliocene. Different depositional environments (fluvial/ deltaic/ lacustrine/ tidal-marine) have been proposed for the Andean foreland just prior to the drainage reorganization as recorded in the Madre de Dios Formation exposed in the upper reaches of the Amazon River catchment. The objective of this study is to constrain the stratigraphy, depositional environment and drainage evolution in southern Amazonia through petrographic analysis and provenance of the sand and mud fractions of the three recognized members of the Madre de Dios Formation. Samples were examined from three stratigraphic sections measured previously along riverbank outcrops: Cerro Colorado, Piedras River and Candelaria. Petrographic analyses of 144 smear slides made from muddy samples show the major silt components to be quartz, feldspar and mica, with no identifiable microfossil or pyroclastic debris. Petrographic analyses of thin sections of sand separates from 25 sandy samples show that the sand components include abundant monomineralic (Qm) and polymineralic (Qp) quartz. Sedimentary (Lsa and Lsi) and metamorphic (Lmp, Lmt, Lmf) lithic fragments are common to abundant. Muscovite, potassium feldspar and sodium-plagioclase are less abundant. All of the sand samples are lithic arenite in composition with a recycled orogen provenance. Mineralogical maturity increases up-section, but slightly higher feldspar in member B is likely a function of a change in source area or depositional environment. Sand composition in member C is similar to the modern river sand composition, consistent with the recycling of Madres de Dios Formation sand into the modern river system. There are six main colors of mud in the Madre de Dios Formation and these characterize distinct stratigraphic intervals from I at the base to VI at the top of each section that do not correspond directly to member boundaries. There are no significant changes in mud composition among the three members. Red to orange to brown mudstones, like those that dominate Madre de Dios Formation members A and C, are formed in oxidizing environments generally in continental settings (e.g., fluvial systems). None of the 144 smear slides or the 25 thin sections contained microfossils, and the lack of marine or marginal marine biogenic debris appears to rule out tidal influence for member B. Based on its light olive gray color, interval (IV) in member B may have been deposited in a more reducing environment such as a lacustrine-deltaic setting. Overall, the Madre de Dios Formation exhibits up-section compositional and thickness trends that are indicative of changes in provenance and depositional environment from fluvial (member A) to lacustrine/deltaic (member B) to fluvial (member C).
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Geological Sciences
- Creator:
- Parsons, Patrick Robert
- Description:
- The thesis applies Marxist economic precepts to the function of the newspaper industry, thereby explaining the industry's economic growth and daily operation. Topics from employment to chain ownership are considered and analyzed in terms of their role in the economic process, and relations between such topics are examined. The theory is divided into sub-theories including: the theory of value, the theory of labor, the theory of capital accumulation and concentration, and economies of scale. The thesis explains the premise of each sub-theory and applies it to the industry, using statistics drawn from sources such as government surveys and the industry itself. The production of value is described and the various components of constant and variable capital within the newspaper sector are identified. The use of technology to expand surplus labor is examined in both historic and current forms, and the degree to which surplus labor has been extracted industry wide is detailed using government production figures. The effect of this process on the work force also is discussed, showing a positive relationship between the theory -- which predicts technological displacement – and reality in the newspaper business. The thesis explains how technology is used to promote capital accumulation in the industry and provides statistics to demonstrate the extent of newspaper growth from the mid 19th century to modern times. (See more in text.)
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Journalism
- Creator:
- Gilbert, Sandra
- Description:
- The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the responses (behavior) of preschool children designated as possessing varying levels of self-esteem, to a structured, mildly frustrating experimental task. It was hoped that the investigator would discover three different levels of response (behavior) to the experimental task, corresponding to three levels of self-esteem (high, medium, or low. A secondary purpose was to examine the efficacy of each of the three measures of self-esteem. A third purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of self-esteem in preschool children to such background variables as age, sex, ordinal position, religion and father’s occupation. (See more in text.)
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Family and Consumer Sciences
16. Flowers
- Creator:
- Siriyodhin, Suleeporn
- Description:
- My art pieces are extensions of my personality and values. They reflect my philosophy on life; a philosophy which honors the timelessness of Nature’s beauty. Time itself cannot eclipse Nature’s wonders, and my purpose as an artist is to capture but a minuscule part of Nature’s incredible display of that beauty. With the knowledge that my greatest efforts to emulate Nature would not do justice to her, I proceeded to interpret Nature my way, and not to compete with her. Nature can, with effortless ease, elicit many of our senses. My pieces are only able to appeal to the eyes, the hands, and the heart. Incorporating into my work the feeling that Nature can arouse in all of us is imperative. Turning ideas into reality is exciting and rewarding. To be responsible for an art piece that can be enjoyed by all is extremely gratifying to me. But to achieve this state of mind requires much energy, creativity, confidence, and optimism. For the most part, the end result makes all this effort worth while. To help attain my stated goal I divided my work process into four main areas: Planning and Design, Fabric choice, Color, and Diemsion. Good planning at the beginning makes later problems easier to cope with. It is impractical to diarize on paper every color composition that the mind has conjured up. What the observer sees on paper at the planning stage deals more with the construction, dimension, and coherence between the small pieces of the whole work. The part which deals with the minute color, texture, and tonal harmony is safely stored in my memory, to be used according. (See more in text.)
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Art
- Creator:
- Green, Daniel H., Edmunds, Peter J., and Carpenter, Robert C.
- Description:
- ABSTRACT: On most coral reefs, the percentage cover of scleractinian corals has declined greatly over the last 30 yr; some species that are more resistant to mortality have been less affected than others. Porites astreoides is one species that has become a more prominent component of coral reef communities throughout the Caribbean. Analyses of coral reefs in shallow water (5 to 6 m depth) at 6 locations spanning a 4100 km arc of the Caribbean were used to evaluate the contribution of P. astreoides to contemporary reefs. Photoquadrats recorded in 2003/2004 were used to estimate the percentage cover and colony density of P. astreoides, and colony size-frequency structure was analyzed to gain insight into demographic processes. At all locations, reefs were characterized by <15% coral cover, but 16 to 72% of this cover was P. astreoides, at mean densities of 1.76 colonies per 0.25 m2. Most of these colonies (62%) were ≤50 cm2 in size, demonstrating that the populations were young and influenced strongly by recruitment. Comparison to historical data collected between 1974 and 1992 suggests that the relative percentage cover of P. astreoides in shallow water reef habitats has increased at a rate of 1.5% yr–1, from <20% in the 1970s to 50% in 2003/2004. These findings indicate that community structure of Caribbean coral reefs is changing on a decadal time scale to become dominated by ‘weedy’ corals that form rapidly growing, small colonies that are short lived and quickly replaced.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 0171-8630
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
18. Integrating FPGA with multicore SDR development platform to design wireless communication system
- Creator:
- Joshi, Sanket Prakash
- Description:
- This project uses integrating FPGA with multicore Software Defined Radio development platform to design wireless communication system. It constructs the system on the Matlab/Simulink environment in the way of Model-based Design, and realizes transmitter section with FPGA. Finally it uses Hardware-in-the-loop co-simulation to observe the bits error rate of system under the white Gaussian noise channel disturbance of different SNR values. Software defined radio is a feasible solution for reconfigurable radios, which can perform different functions at different times on the same hardware. The baseband section of a wireless communication system is first simulated and then implemented in hardware. The performance of the baseband transmitter is analyzed using constellation and eye diagrams for different modulation techniques and different signal to noise ratios, while considering an additive white Gaussian noise channel. The performance of the receiver is analyzed by comparing the input and output waveforms. The performance of the system in real time is also analyzed by implementing the system in hardware using Xilinx Spartan 3E FPGA (XC3S500E-4FG320C). A comparison of the simulation results with the results obtained from implementing the system on Xilinx Spartan 3E FPGA (XC3S500E-4FG320C) hardware is presented and discussed. It is shown that the simulation results and experimental results are similar.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Minehan, Thomas G. and Dhanjee, Heemal
- Description:
- 2-(Alkoxy)propenyl bromides are readily prepared from 1,3-dibromo-2-propanol in a two-step sequence involving hydroxyl protection and sodium hydride-induced dehydrobromination. Indium-mediated allylation of aldehydes, ketones, and sulfonimines with 2-(alkoxy)propenyl bromides furnishes the corresponding homoallylic alcohols and sulfonamines in good yields. The products can be easily transformed into β-hydroxy ketones and esters, as well as substituted dihydropyrans, and protected β-amino acids. Chiral 2-(alkoxy)propenyl halides, derived from (−)-menthol and d-glucal, furnish diastereomerically enriched products.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 0040-4039
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Jacobson, Lianne M.
- Description:
- The fitness of an organism depends on its energetics, which includes both the amount of energy entering the individual and the distribution of energy within the individual. The present thesis examined the energetics of a scleractinian coral during and immediately following resource limitation. The first study (Study 1) questioned how long energy reserves could support normal metabolic activity, and whether corals are capable of a downwardly shifting respiration rates (i.e. metabolic depression) to preserve energy reserves during resource limitation. Study 1 provided the first empirical evidence from a single study necessary to parameterize a Dynamic Energy Budget model of a symbiotic coral. A second study (Study 2) investigated if coral recovery from resource limitation is dependent on the source of energy (autotrophic or heterotrophic) or the temperature of the seawater. Study 1 indicates that corals are able to adjust respiration rates, biomass catabolism, and calcification during resource limitation. Study 2 provided no evidence that recovery of biomass is dependent on the source of energy or temperature, however the availability of autotrophic resources enhanced the recovery of calcification and respiration. Both studies investigate how and when a coral adjusts its energetic expenditure and investment, providing insight into how and when a coral is able to perceive a change in its environment.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Balcazar, Citlali
- Description:
- Research shows that social workers' attitudes and feelings about suicide and their level of preparation related to suicide are not being taught or discussed in graduate level programs. According to data, there is very minimum education provided by the social work graduate program regarding the subject of suicide. The Garrett Lee Smith suicide prevention exposure, awareness, and knowledge questionnaire surveyed 35 CSUN MSW students in the year of 2014. This survey provided further information regarding social work students and their linkage to the topic of suicide. There were no significant findings on the attitudes and feelings of students and their linkage to their level of preparation and interest in training. Implications regarding students' attitudes, feelings, preparation and their interest in training about suicide are discussed.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Social Work
- Creator:
- Altschuler, Diana Lynn
- Description:
- The purpose of this project is to facilitate the selection of self-help books by members of the mental health profession. All of the books reviewed were selected to be used as an adjunct to therapy. Professionals in this field usually have insufficient time to review the barrage of potentially useful books available for their clients. Use of these reviews will sufficiently reduce the time required for selection of useful publications. Designed to be a quick and easy source of reference data, the guide topics are listed alphabetically, and there is a separate author list of all reviewed books. There are eleven different topic areas of client concern addressed in this project. They are: Abuse, Aging, Assertion and Self-Esteem, Death and Dying, Divorce, Homosexuality, Parenting, pregnancy, Self-Growth, Sexuality, and Singles. The reviews themselves include the title, author, publisher, date of publication, and number: of pages. Each review consists of two paragraphs. The first is an objective review consisting of the scope of each including any specific presentation approach, and the author's overall intent. The second paragraph is subjective with comments on technical level, reader age recommendation, and readability. There were many books reviewed before the final selections were decided upon. The authors of each selected book wrote about a subject that was important to them and that message comes across clearly in each case. They are written in many different styles, some are full of exercises, some have case studies, and some are poetry. What you as a professional can feel comfortable about is the fact that, as an adjunct to therapy, these books are warm, supportive, and sharing regardless of their style. There is, indeed, a great deal of compassion and understanding of each of the client situations.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Educational Psychology and Counseling
- Creator:
- McIver, Ann Britton
- Description:
- This study proposed that an individualized, self-instructional reading program be devised to provide assistance to university students and that counseling interviews be developed to advise and place students in the program. It further proposed that the vocabulary and comprehension components of the program be evaluated. The review of the literature cited studies made at the college level dealt with individualized reading and its effectiveness at the college level; the instructor-student counseling relationship; reading skills and instructional objectives for effective college reading; and reading practice materials. To develop the self-instructional program, instructional objectives were prepared and coordinated with reading materials and upon this basis, sequential programs in comprehension, vocabulary, and rate improvement were organized. Techniques for counseling interviews were developed for program placement. To evaluate the program, pretests and posttests were administered in vocabulary and comprehension. It was found that a sample of the students who completed the programs in vocabulary and comprehension made significant gains in posttest scores in both areas at the .15 level of significance. It was concluded that a varied and individualized self-instructional program in reading improvement at the university level is feasible and that students working at their own pace and at their own convenience can make significant improvement in such a program. Recommendations were made for further evaluative studies.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Secondary Education
- Creator:
- Anderson, Ute
- Description:
- Previous literature assessed the prevalence of student sex work at five (Sagar, Jones, Symons, Bowring, & Roberts, 2015) to six percent (Roberts, Jones, & Sanders, 2013). Universities should be interested in the well-being of their students and refrain from partaking in the discrimination that student sex workers already experience. A majority of institutions lack official policies or guidance related to student sex work (Lantz, 2005), which curtails efforts to provide adequate resources and services to students involved in the sex industry. This exploratory and qualitative research interviewed students from different universities in Southern California to gain understanding of how student sex workers perceive their ability to coordinate their academic responsibilities with their work and how they describe their needs and challenges. Themes that emerged included sex work as form of empowerment, higher education as tool of transformation, sex work as flexible way to finance education, intersection of sex work and student identify and impact of sex work on interpersonal relationships.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Social Work
- Creator:
- Cochran, Susan D. and Mays, Vickie M.
- Description:
- Although to date most cases of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) have occurred among men, AIDS poses a serious threat for Black and Latina women, particularly for those who are poor and live in geographic areas of higher AIDS incidence. Yet many may not perceive themselves to be at risk from what has generally been portrayed as a "White gay disease.” This article examines patterns of AIDS infection in women and factors associated with risk perception and behavior change. In doing so, the influence of ethnic minority culture on the behavior of individual women is explored.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 0003-066X
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Goffredo, Michael Anthony
- Description:
- Eleven male volunteer subjects age 20-48 years were tested for physiological responses during three modes of incremental exercise; sitting bicycle ergometry, standing bicycle ergometry, and treadmill running. Each subject was tested for maximal oxygen consumption (max vo2 ) and anaerobic threshold (AT) during each of the three modes. AT was determined using routine gas exchange parameters measured at thirty second intervals including; nonlinear increases in Ve and VCO2 , abrupt increases in FEO2 and RQ, and a systematic increase in Ve/V02 without a corresponding increase in Ve/vco2. Standing bicycle ergometry elicited max vo2 values 13.8% greater than sitting bicycle ergometry (p<.01), while showing no significant difference from treadmill running. No significant differences were observed for maximal heart rate during the three modes of exercise. Mean AT value expressed as % vo2 max for sitting bicycle ergometry (57.89%), was significantly less (p<.01) than values observed during either standing bicycle ergometry (68.32%) or treadmill running (73.23%). (See more in text.)
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Kinesiology
- Creator:
- Bitting, Tiffany Marie
- Description:
- This workshop is intended for guardians of adolescents who are returning from a residential care facility. This is a one-day, eight hour workshop. The material covers; 1) the purpose of the workshop, 2) the importance of the workshop, 3) why adolescents receive residential treatment, 4) the residential structure, 5) why adolescents relapse and return to their unhealthy behaviors, 6) how guardians can help their adolescents refrain from relapsing, 7) possible resources guardians can use to better educate and prepare themselves for their adolescents return home, 8) how to integrate the knowledge gained from the workshop in the guardians everyday life, as well as his or her interactions with the adolescent. The goal of this project is to increase and improve family relationships while focusing on parenting skills, communication skills, setting limits, improving expectations, and consistent follow through with positive and negative consequences. It is the hope that by learning such skills, the percentage of adolescents who are readmitted to residential care each year will show a rapid decline.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Educational Psychology and Counseling
28. Baritone's fury
- Creator:
- Castro, Joel Daniel Dillahunt
- Description:
- Many scholars throughout history have spoken about the power and profound effect that music has. Music is a means of reaching across time, languages, and distances to touch the hearts and souls of those listening. During the Renaissance this unique power was called "poetic furor," which was one of the "Divine furors," and was believed to have the power to reunite mortal souls with the divine. It was from this definition and belief that I chose the word Fury and have described it as "an enflaming passion." Thus, Fury is the magical force achieved when both musical skill and emotional intent are united in song. My abstract will explore the repertoire from my Master of Music Voice Recital, Baritone's Fury, and how it relates to "poetic furor." My recital is divided by composer into the following four sets: George Frideric Handel, Franz Schubert, Maurice Ravel, and Charles Ives. The Handel set includes "How Willing My Paternal Love", and "Empio dirò tu sei." The Schubert set contains "Die Forelle", "Ständchen", "Der Atlas", "Geheimes", and "Der Erlkönig." The Ravel set is the three song cycle, Don Quichotte a Dulcinèe, containing "Chanson Romanesque", "Chanson Èpique", and "Chanson à boire." The Ives set includes "Down East", "In the Alley", "The Cage", "Songs My Mother Taught Me", "Memories: A,-Very Pleasant; B,-Rather Sad", and "Autumn."
- Resource Type:
- Thesis and Audio recording
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Music
- Creator:
- Goldstein, Rosalind C.
- Description:
- The purpose of this study was to determine whether people who seek counseling help show characteristics of hypoglycemia. A search of the literature supports the hypothesis: People in counseling could exhibit the characteristics of people with hypoglycemia. An inherent premise which will prevail in this thesis is that individuals need to be physiologically sound prior to on-going counseling. The literature overwhelmingly supports this. A questionnaire was devised and tested out among a select group of people to see if it would elicit the type of responses expected. After the questionnaire was sampled, it was given to two groups. The first group was comprised of fifty individuals involved in psychotherapy at a counseling center in the South Bay area (hereon referred to as the study group). The other group consisted of fifty individuals selected at random from a Los Angeles beach (hereon referred to as the control group). None of these people were in counseling. The questionnaire sought information as to whether people consumed the types of foods and felt the types of symptoms, supported by the literature, as contributing the most to hypoglycemia. It also differentiated between the two most important characteristics of hypoglycemia - - depression and anxiety. It differentiated as to the times the depression and anxiety felt the worst during any one particular day. (See more in text.)
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Educational Psychology and Counseling
- Creator:
- Chtchelkatchev, N.M., Fedorov, S.A., Korolkov, A.E., Beloborodov, Igor S., and Udalov, Oleg G.
- Description:
- A fundamental property of most single-electron devices with a quasicontinuous quasiparticle spectrum on an island is the periodicity of their transport characteristics in a gate voltage. This property is robust even with respect to placing ferroelectric insulators in the source and drain tunnel junctions. We show that placing a ferroelectric insulator inside the gate capacitance breaks this periodicity. The current-voltage characteristics of this single-electron transistor strongly depends on the ferroelectric polarization and shows a giant memory effect even for negligible ferroelectric hysteresis making this device promising for memory applications.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 1098-0121
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Hipp, Veloris
- Description:
- Forty-five highly test anxious college students participated in a pre-test, post-test, follow-up test, comparison group design. Thirty volunteers comprised the treatment groups and 15 participants, who viewed a short film, comprised the comparison group. The two treatment groups, of 15 each, were trained to use convert modeling with and without elaboration. For both groups, the trainer described scenes for the participants to imagine. The elaboration group was encouraged to explain upon the scenes, while the non-elaboration group was instructed to visualize the scenes exactly as described by the trainer. The anxiety level of both treatment groups was lowered, as measured by TAS. The decrease in anxiety showed up at the post-test, showed up more strongly for the elaboration group, but by the follow-up test the non-elaboration group demonstrated as great a reduction in anxiety as the elaboration group. The worry component of the TAS showed a greater reduction for the elaboration group than the non-elaboration group. However, there was a greater decrease in worry for the non-elaboration group as compared to the comparison group. Emotionality, the second component of the TAS, was reduced for the elaboration group contrary to prediction. ~ The ability to image vividly was, perhaps, a useful predictor of decreases in anxiety for the non-elaboration group. However, contrary to prediction there was no reliable correlation between ability to image vividly and improvements in Psychology exam scores. The amount of improvement in Psychology exam scores for students in the elaboration group was reliably correlated with the decrease in their STABS score. This relationship was not found for the other two groups.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Harari, Isaac, Reiner, Robert C., and Djellouli, Rabia
- Description:
- A mathematical and numerical analysis is performed to assess the performance of the second order Bayliss–Gunzburger–Turkel (BGT2) condition when applied to solving low-frequency acoustic scattering problems in the case of elongated scatterers. This investigation suggests that BGT2 retains an acceptable level of accuracy for relatively low wavenumber. A damping effect is incorporated to the BGT2 condition in order to extend the range of satisfactory performance. This damping procedure consists in adding only a constant imaginary part to the wavenumber. The numerical results indicate that the modified version of BGT2 extends the range of satisfactory performance by improving the level of accuracy by up to two orders of magnitude. Guidelines on the appropriate choice of the damping coefficient are provided.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 0377-0427
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Gonzalez, Jesus
- Description:
- Break dancing exists in most people's minds as a dance craze from the 1980', but the phenomena is far from dead. How is it that a popular culture survived its perceived death and actually reconstituted itself in an attempt, although conflicted, to retain elements of its past and spread its art form globally? There is a distinct order that plays out in the way of performances by dancers. Like other elements of hip-hop culture, conflict is a prominent feature of these performances. What meaning do dancers assign these performances and the broader space of the "cypher" where these performances are carried out? What role does conflict play in the process of performing the scripts that dancers adhere to? I conducted an ethnographic project where I used participant observation, and both informal and structured interviews, to gather data about the contemporary breaking scene. The results demonstrate that the scene is rich with meaning where dancers are involved in a struggle to represent their idea of the art forms correct representation. While breakers and b-boys agree that break dancers are less valid and authentic in this representation there are strong views on either side as to which of the former is the more appropriate interpretation of the original incarnation of the scene that was found in the Bronx borough of New York in the late 1970's.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Sigler, Lora Ann
- Description:
- This study will focus on the symbols for chastity contained in the Madonna of Jan Vos. While the painting contains several allusions to this virtue, the discussion will concentrate on just two of those motifs, the tower and the crown. A third motif will be suggested, as well, although it does not appear as clearly as the tower and the crown but is indicated by certain of the compositional elements. The third motif is the Throne of Solomon. The discussion will trace the historical background of the tower and the crown, from antiquity through the early Renaissance, in order to ascertain the importance of those motifs in various art forms and the importance of chastity in genera1 to the moral and social traditions of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Since the purpose of this study is to emphasize the importance of that virtue, during that period, literary and visual sources will be looked at in some depth to support that hypothesis. The donor portrait will also be considered as an indication of the importance of chastity to the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. The history of this art form will be traced in the same manner as those of the tower and crown, and attention will be paid to the shift in attitude toward the portrait which occurred in the early Renaissance. This shift of attitude in art reflected the growing emphasis on the individual and his virtue, and its importance needs to be considered in light of the other aims of this study.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Art
- Creator:
- Liang, Jing
- Description:
- Gastrulation is a fundamental process that mediates formation of ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm in most animals. Revealing the mechanism of gastrulation will provide a better understanding of embryonic development. Due to its transparency, simplicity of the structure and similarities to complex organisms, the NIH-designated sea urchin embryo model was used in this study. By treating sea urchin embryos with characterized α-L-rhamnosidase and observation of archenteron development, I investigated the role of L-rhamnose terminal in the mechanism of sea urchin gastrulation. I showed that the α-L-rhamnosidase treatments used did not contain any detectable contamination and using quantitative protein assay I demonstrated that this enzyme inhibited archenteron development during gastrulation. Denatured and sugar-inhibited α-L-rhamnosidase lost most of its inhibitory activity. The results combined with a previous study using L-rhamnose, provide convincing evidence, I believe for the first time, for a role of L-rhamnose in the gastrulation process.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Squires, Richard L. and Goedert, James L.
- Description:
- Densely populated communities of soft-bottom-dwelling taxa similar to those found today along subduction zones off the coasts of Japan and Oregon have been discovered in very localized deep-water limestones of late middle to late Eocene age along the southwestern margin of Washington. Subduction was prevalent in this area during this time, and compressive forces squeezed subsurface methanerich waters onto the ocean floor, where opportunistic bivalves (especially Modiolus, Calyptogena, and Thyasira), vestimentiferan? tube worms, serpufid tube worms, siliceous sponges, very small limpets, trochid and turbinid archaeogastropods, and other macrobenthos colonized. These assemblages are the earliest recorded biologic communities formed in response to methane seeps in subduction zones.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 0091-7613
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Taube, Timothy Walter
- Description:
- Past research has indicated that attributing outcome to internal factors (e.g. ability and effort) results in greater affect than attributing outcome to external elements (e.g. luck and task difficulty). Further, attribution research has found that ascribing outcome to stable factors (e.g. ability) results in lesser expectancy change than ascribing outcomes to unstable factors (e.g. luck and effort). Previous investigations have also found that females generally attribute to external and unstable factors more than males. This study attempted to determine if these differences between high school males and females still exist and if the degree of athletic involvement affects the attributions. High school age subjects (N = 108) completed five questionnaires each to determine how they attributed outcome following competition in a badminton match. The subjects' questionnaires were divided into 12 groups based on gender (male, female), athletic involvement (3-4 year athlete, 1-2 year athlete, and non-athlete), and outcome (win, loss). (See more in text.)
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Kinesiology
- Creator:
- Mirzoyan, Siruhi
- Description:
- This paper will examine the evolution of the Higher Education Act from the initial passing in 1965 to now. With the implementation of the act, federal financial aid assistance for funding higher education through grants and loans has developed into a topic of public interest with heavy government involvement. Through its multiple amendments and reauthorizations, the Higher Education has morphed from a grant based program into a loan based program. With loans becoming more accessible to disadvantaged communities, career and for-profit institutions take advantage the federal financial aid programs to lure students which is responsible for creating the student loan crisis of today.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Thomas, Gerald Sanders
- Description:
- Central place studies have often identified relationships between functional complexity and population of urban places. Additionally, hierarchies have been found, and threshold populations for various functions identified. This thesis, based on survey data for small unincorporated places in Tulare County, California, shows that although there is a fairly high product moment correlation coefficient between population and the functional complexity of the places studied, that this relationship has little interpretative value because of significant variance around the regression lines. It is also shown that functional and population data are inadequate in identifying a hierarchy of places or threshold populations for various functions. Furthermore, there is not a proportional increase of functional complexity with size of place. It is suggested that other indicators be used to more effectively identify centrality.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Geography and Environmental Studies
40. Humility
- Creator:
- Kellenberger, James
- Description:
- Humility has not always been regarded as a virtue. Aristotle, if he recognized it at all, seems to have regarded it as a vice, a deficiency in regard to magnanimity. In the popular culture of the twenty-first century, while courage is held in high moral esteem, the regard given to humility is more questionable. Humility, however, is not universally dismissed as a virtue. Many see it as having moral value. In fact, a number of contemporary philosophers are relatively clear that humility is a morally valuable trait and so is a moral virtue, although they disagree about its character. For traditional Christianity and Judaism, of course, and for other religious traditions, humility is a religious virtue. However, if humility is a religious virtue, is it different from humility as a moral virtue? Below, we shall start in section II with the question, What is the best way to understand the general notion of humility? In section III it shall be followed by the question, What are the core contrasting states that humility opposes? Third , in section IV we shall ask, Does humility as a religious virtue have a distinctive and abiding character?
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/25734159?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents, 0003-0481
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Radin, Nancy Faith
- Description:
- The decision for an M.A. thesis project in directing came to me as a combined result of the following several factors: my present position. as a teacher in the Performing Arts Department at Beverly Hills High School, my appreciation for the direction of both ensemble and improvisational theatre, my interest in the utilization of non-dramatic literature as the basis for theatrical presentation, my fascination with multi-media production, and my sheer adoration for "Children-like" theatre. Consequently, the literary works of Mr. Shel Silverstein emerged as a prime source to challenge the combination of these theatrical dilemmas. The high school's Little Theatre facility was selected as an ideal location for the presentation of this thesis production entitled "An Evening with Shel Silverstein". Three performances \vere scheduled on Hay 17th and 18th. The production was conceived of as a multi-media theatrical experience, amalgamating original music and slide projections, with the actors on stage. Work for the production began in December, 1978. (See more in text.)
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Theatre
- Creator:
- Karkau, Virginia
- Description:
- The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of the probability of perceiving common visual stimuli normally, for normal subjects, to the proportion of the stimulus available for perception and the effects of certain other variables on this relationship.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- De La Cruz, Robert D.
- Description:
- BACKGROUND: Cerebral palsy (CP) is defined as a group of disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitation that are attributed to non-progressive disturbances occurred in the developing fetal or infant brain (Gage, 2004). CP is known as one of the most common childhood disabilities with an incidence of about 2-3 per 1,000 live births each year (Chang et al., 2010). In most cases of CP, gait and balance play a key role in participating in activities of daily living and other physical activities. The effects of exercise programs on land have been well documented; however, there are very few studies that involved aquatic intervention in the CP population. Aquatic exercise is gradually gaining popularity among the CP rehabilitation field and has been viewed to be beneficial for children with neuromuscular impairments such as CP (Kelly & Darrah, 2005). Water properties can establish an intervention protocol that can help children with CP improve balance and gait function in a supportive environment. The unique quality of buoyancy can reduce joint impact and support postural control (Kelly & Darrah, 2005). Buoyancy enables initiation of independent movement possibilities that are less likely to be achieved on land-based exercise (Fragala-Pinkham et al., 2008). Water resistance can aid children with CP and improve muscular strength (Hutzler et al., 1998). Warm water temperatures have been known to be effective for decreasing muscle tone while exercising in the water (Getz et al. 2007). Few studies have examined the effects of aquatic exercise on gait and balance in children with CP. OBJECTIVE: To examine the gait outcomes of children with CP after 6-week aquatic exercise program. SETTING: All data collection and intervention procedures was held at the Center of Achievement, California State University, Northridge (CSUN). PARTICIPANTS: A total of 4 children was recruited from local schools in the greater Los Angeles ares. Inclusion criteria are: a) diagnosis of spastic diplegic or hemiplegic CP, b) age between 7-17 years old, c) medical clearance for adapted exercise or aquatic exercise, d) ability to walk independently with or without an assistive device, e) Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) levels I-III, f) ability to follow verbal instructions and communicate in English, g) ability to participate in a exercise program in and out of the water for up to 30-40 minutes. INTERVENTION: The children participated in an aquatic exercise program in a 40-minute session, three times per week for 6 consecutive weeks. The aquatic exercise program consists of warm-up, gait and balance exercises, and cool-down. MEASURES: The participants were measured on kinemtaic gait parameters (hip flexion and extension, knee flexion and extension, and ankle plantar-flexion and dorsi-flexion) and spatial-temportal gait variables (% stance and swing phase, velocity, cadence, step width and stride length). RESULTS: There were no trends among participants as a whole. However, individal trends for improvement in kinematic and spatial-temporal variables was observed for each participant. CONCLUSION: Although there were no systematic changes whithin the group after the 6-week intervention, individal changes in ankle, knee, and hip range of motion presented individual improvements based on each particpant’s deviation in gait pattern in which trends for improvemts display that group aquatic exercise is a useful mode of exercise to maintain and improve gait paramerters in children with CP.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Kinesiology
- Creator:
- Liu, Shi-Chung
- Description:
- This project presents a tagged model of the dataflow computer. The first part contains a detailed description of the architecture, and the computer operation of the dataflow computer. In the second part, a dataflow computer assembler with limited assembler directives and program structuring statements is written to conclude this project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Engineering
- Creator:
- Anderson, Thomas
- Description:
- Our team applied theories and practices from our graduate program to develop a strategic plan for a community college. During our initial interview, we learned about a state-funded grant that was awarded to our client to improve student success. We analyzed the program requirements and college action plan to develop objectives for our consulting project. These goals involved developing a strategic plan for student success that was inclusive of student input, conducive to stakeholder buy-in, reflective of industry best practice, and achievable with the program budget. To accomplish this objective, our team conducted PESTEL, Porter's Five Forces, and SWOT analysis to better understand the organization and the industry. We also developed a research plan that included primary data collection through focus groups and surveys and secondary research through field research, databases, and college reports. This helped us identify gaps and opportunities in the college's action plan pertaining to student engagement, onboarding, enrollment management, pricing, and promotional strategy. My individual contribution to the project included facilitating an initial client meeting on the behalf of my group, and serving as the primary point of contact with the client. I prepared the PESTEL analysis, designed and budgeted the implementation plan, and edited our report. Because of my professional affiliation with higher education, my contribution included utilizing my expertise to provide strategic direction to set team objectives, deadlines, and research design. I was a key contributor in delivering a clear project proposal for our client. The strategic implementation plan was presented to the client to further their goal of effectively using their grant award to achieve program objectives. It was a pleasure to have this opportunity to learn more about higher education and the challenging impediments to student success. The team applied our knowledge and research skills to develop a plan for improving and expediting student success at the college. The resulting findings and recommendations are proprietary to the client and shall remain confidential.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Business Administration
- Creator:
- Lawrence, John K., Ruzmaikin, Alexander, and Cadavid, Ana Cristina
- Resource Type:
- Conference paper or proceedings
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Creator:
- Vaystub, David
- Description:
- Developing a growth and marketing strategy for a health and wellness company truly was the ultimate culmination of the Master of Business Administration program at California State University, Northridge. I was able to utilize my toolbox of skills that I have honed during my time in the MBA program. This project required me to step out of my comfort zone by exposing me to an industry I had very little experience with. Working hand in hand with an entrepreneur was extremely eye opening. I can confidently say that learning must be done in and out of the classroom. What is written between the covers of a textbook are important, but nothing can prepare you for the real world other than the real world itself. To develop a growth and marketing strategy for a health and wellness company, our team employed numerous tactics and techniques. We collected primary and secondary data to fully inform ourselves of the company's current situation as well as the landscape of the industry. Through numerous interviews and surveys, we were able to define our target customer's wants and needs. I took on the task of conducting the industry analysis. Using secondary data uncovered through various forms of research, I was able to formulate an in depth understanding of the industry landscape. Ultimately, my findings were utilized to paint a cohesive image that included competitors and opportunities for the health and wellness company that we were tasked with supporting. We then were able to formulate actionable and implementable recommendations that were based on concrete evidence and data. The findings and recommendations from this project are proprietary to the client and shall remain confidential.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Business Administration
- Creator:
- Alshibli, Rami
- Description:
- In this paper, I will discuss the historical context with musical analysis of the form, texture, and the style of each work performed on my master’s recital. The works under consideration are: Lute Suite BWV 996 by Johan Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Gran Sonata Eroica by Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829), un Sueño en la Floresta by Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944), Study no.12 by Heitor Villa Lobos (1887-1959), En Los Trigales and Junto al Generalife by Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999), and All in Twilight by Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996). I chose the program to show the contrast and the variety of the classical guitar repertoire, and to demonstrate the instrument’s capacity in terms of tone, style, and expressivity. Moreover, I will discuss in depth the Gran Sonata Eroica by Mauro Giuliani. There are many controversies regarding the work’s authorship, and I will discuss the possibilities of the work’s plagiarism. Through a historical and musical analysis, I will prove the authenticity of the work by showing that the sonata reflects Giuliani’s composition style, since it includes influences by both the First Viennese School – specifically Beethoven- and the Italian bel-canto style in terms of the formal aspect, melodic, and harmonic structure. Also, I will show how Giuliani developed and expanded musical materials from his other works in the sonata which is an answer to the self-plagiarism allegations.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Music
- Creator:
- White, Tina
- Description:
- This research examine patterns of visitation to Death Valley National Park (DVNP) from 1990 through 2011 to determine if changes have occurred, what those changes are, how they reflect upon DVNP and the U.S. National Park System, and if they mirror trends in global tourism. Three surveys distributed during the 1990s and one from 2010/11 were compared to identify differences in visitor demographics and interests; initial impressions that these had changed significantly over the subject period were not borne out by the data. However, other unexpected patterns were revealed and examined; in particular, the overwhelming number of foreign tourists visiting the Park, primarily Western Europeans, and especially during the summer season. As global tourism is increasing, Asia is becoming a major source of such travelers, but data reviewed in this thesis indicates that DVNP is not a popular destination for these international visitors. This phenomenon warrants attention in terms of the continued attraction and sustainability of this unique environment and invaluable part of the U.S. National Parks System.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Geography and Environmental Studies
- Creator:
- Bezerra, James
- Description:
- Black Market Heart is a collection of writing. It includes fiction, non-fiction, flash fiction, plays, poems, and some stuff that isn't any of that. It is the sort of bizarre and anarchic collection of writing that I have always wanted to produce, but which I likely would not have been allowed to compile outside the sheltered harbor of a writing program. It represents where I have been as a writer and where I am now. My hope is that it also indicates the breadth of my interest and ability as someone who writes words. I have designed this collection as a kind of calling card. My goal is that as a body of work it demonstrates both who I am and how I write. I used Aimee Bender's collection The Girl in the Flammable Skirt as my model and spirit guide. To read Flammable Skirt is to know Bender as an author and to be immersed in the written world she creates for herself. It is my hope that Black Market Heart does something similar for me. This collection includes (but is not limited to): an entirely subjective history of Los Angeles, a story about a duck from outer space, a one-act play about aging punk rockers, an open letter to Gertrude Stein, some completely true information about frogs, a little bit of time travel, a narrative-less story told entirely in documents, an unperformable one-act play wherein the only actor is a monkey, postcards, pirates, Jacques Derrida, and a non-linear love story about organ theft. If none of that sounds terribly interesting to you, there are also some mimes. This collection is also a kind of love note to the written word. I still believe in stories and contend that storytelling is not exhausted simply because some of us have grown cynical or antiseptic about it. I find joy in the interplay of stories and ideas, of form and content. I think often on Italo Calvino's dictums about lightness and swiftness. I think an attentive reader might hear in this collection distant echoes of Charlie Kaufman and Aaron Sorkin, of Lydia Davis and Grace Paley, of Beck and Bukowski, of Steve Erickson and Judith Schalansky (That - by the way - is the guest list for an after party that would certainly end badly, but fabulously so). This collection is also a kind of declaration; a manifesto in advocacy of the frenetic, wanderlusty joy of writing. The relationship of a writer to her text need not be a murder-suicide pact nor a drowning in the shallow bathtub water of Critical Theory. There be monsters out there beyond the margins of our pages - like the empty edges of an incomplete map - and only those among us with an adventurous hope in our hearts will ever survive the shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, and conflagrations (to paraphrase Bertrand Russell) necessary to find them and name them. Writing is exploration. Black Market Heart is a kind of exploration. A kind of love note, a kind of manifesto, a kind of calling card. If none of that sounds terribly interesting to you, then there are always the mimes.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- English