Greenhouse crop cultivation using hydroponic techniques permits production of high-quality crops under controlled conditions that require less space, water, labor and time to harvest. In Nigeria, use of hydroponic cultivation is hampered by the availa . . .

While there are prior studies regarding teacher shortage solutions, compilations of study results regarding teacher shortages have been sparse. It is not known how, based on historical evidence, the public educational system has addressed the teacher . . .

“Disruptive behavior in the classroom, poor academic performance, out-ofcontrol emotions: if you work with adolescents, you are well aware of the challenges this age group presents. What if there was a way to calm these students down and arm them with . . .

With the passing of Senate Bill 1000, the City of Santa Ana’s General Plan will incorporate environmental justice related goals, policies, and objectives. The overarching goal for environmental justice is to ensure that all populations are treated equ . . .

In this fast-paced era, people are working day and night to fulfil their needs and achieve their ambition. During this time they are always occupied with work and sometimes even stress. This overload of work and stress even lead to some long-term dise . . .

Viruses have played a central role in the evolution and ecology of cellular life since it first arose. The discovery of viral lineages that infect members of all three domain suggest that these lineages originated at the earliest stages of biological . . .

Introduction: Candidiasis, a life-threatening fungal infection in immunocompromised people, can be treated with AmBisome￿ (AmBi), a liposomal form of Amphotericin B. There have been numerous studies examining AmBi distribution and efficacy in young, n . . .

In this paper, we present an approach to creating 3D models, through the RGB-D data captured by multiple aligned Azure Kinects surrounding an object. To improve the quality of the point clouds of the entire object, a background subtraction method is e . . .

The Traveling Salesman Problem is a popular NP problem in combinatorial optimization which asks, given a list of cities, what is the shortest route a salesperson can travel from one city to another, while having a Hamiltonian cycle. This paper aims to . . .

Ontogenetic growth and phyletic dwarfing are both forms of body size alterations. Despite the former being an example of intraspecific, and the latter, interspecific size change, they are both subject to similar proportional changes known as allometry . . .

This study explores queer women’s spaces created at events in gay bars in Southern California. This study utilizes assumptions of self-presentation in everyday life by exploring how queer women negotiate spatial boundaries linked to front and back sta . . .

Although social networking applications are on the rise, there has been limited research on how social media affects our mental health, especially in sexual minority populations. Gay men often turn to these applications to form relationships with othe . . .

While many researchers have begun to conduct inquiries into international student academic acculturation, it is important for those in the field of post-secondary international education to understand that their own impressions of international studen . . .

According to the U.S. Census bureau, Latinos make up 38.9 percent of the population, and women as a whole make up 50.3 percent of the population in California (U.S. Census Bureau, 2016a) and members of this ethnic group are not graduating from high sc . . .

This case study examined the factors that promote or inhibit Dual Language programs, so we are able to understand the optimum environments for maximizing academic success for Dual Language learners. Bilingual education programs that support multilingu . . .

Climate change disproportionately impacts communities already challenged by structural oppression (David and Enerson, 2012; Wilson, 2018). Many mainstream resilience planning efforts focus on physical infrastructure (Rockefeller Foundation, 2019). The . . .

Crime has always been a threat in the stability of neighborhood and creates direct and indirect costs to homeowners. It is important for home buyers to consider crime as a factor when they decide whether to buy the house. My paper aims to measure the . . .

The goal is that once the study is completed, it will be poised to help and contribute to the health and welfare of the community in the City of El Monte. The study proposes a strong policy for the City of El Monte to put in place initiatives and reso . . .

Self-driving cars have the potential to change our world forever. ey are the synthesis of decades of work in a wide range of fields. With fully autonomous cars just around the corner, the members of C.A.T.E. (Cal Poly Pomona’s Autonomous Touring Expe . . .

In the modern world, petrochemicals are the essential building blocks for everyday products. Although a heavily relied on chemical source, it is finite. As the ever-growing demand for petroleum- derived chemicals rise, other avenues are being consider . . .

Urbanization has increased rapidly during the last two hundred years since the rise of the industrial revolution. As urbanization is expected to expand across the world, concerns have grown for its effects on avian populations, with many studies alrea . . .

Background: Candida albicans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that can cause life-threatening infections in immunocompromised individuals. Due to ethical and budgetary concerns associated with the use of vertebrate animals in research, interest in . . .

Black holes can gain a weak magnetic field from the matter accreting around it. In order to characterize the properties of a black hole with a magnetic field, we are required to study the motion of a test charged particle around a rotating black hole . . .

Gender plays a major role in an organism’s immune response to many pathogens. However, little is known about gender’s effect on Candida albicans (C. albicans) infections. C. albicans is a commensal organism that lives in the mucosa and skin of healthy . . .

Gecko-like synthetic adhesives (GSAs) are dry adhesives that replicate the function of gecko toepads through their microscopic fibrillar structure. To produce GSA molds, we fabricated Si templates using microsphere lithography. We formed a monolayer o . . .

Greenhouse crop cultivation using hydroponic techniques permits production of high-quality crops under controlled conditions that require less space, water, labor and time to harvest. In Nigeria, use of hydroponic cultivation is hampered by the availa . . .

According to the typical interpretation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Dr. Victor Frankenstein is the true monster, rather than the socially maligned monster created from his experiment. While Dr. Frankenstein's complicity in the monster's suffering . . .

The Ronald McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program provides undergraduate students an opportunity to work with a faculty mentor, explore and research in their discipline, while preparing for future graduate school enrollment. The program is name . . .

Photobiomodulation has been shown to reduce pain and expedite wound healing in animals. To determine the influence the canine's age has on the therapeutic effect of photobiomodulation after dental prophylaxis a low energy GaAlInP laser with a continuo . . .

The United States has increased the awareness for gender fluidity through social expressions and movements. The horror community as a subspace of American society reflects the practice of gender fluidity. The horror community utilizes the diverse plat . . .

Viruses have played a central role in the evolution and ecology of cellular life since it first arose. The discovery of viral lineages that infect members of all three domain suggest that these lineages originated at the earliest stages of biological . . .

This study explored the cultural, personal, and professional experiences of six Latino elementary principals in three California school districts. By identifying their experiences, supports, and challenges before and after attaining the principalship, . . .

This phenomenological research study explored the perceptions and lived experiences of African-American administrators related to the underrepresentation of African-American males in district leadership and principal positions. The study was guided by . . .

Enrollment of English language learners (ELLs) in United States schools has increased more rapidly than general enrollment, resulting in an urgent need for teachers to be prepared to meet the needs of ELLs in their classrooms. The purpose of this qual . . .

This multiple case study examined the mentoring supports provided to induction candidate teachers during their first four-month Induction Learning Plan (ILP) Cycle of New Teacher Induction. Although studies (e.g., Darling-Hammond, 2002, 2016; Richte . . .

It is suggested that obesity and diabetes may exacerbate influenza infection and impact the efficacy of vaccination against influenza. The association between these conditions and more severe infection was not reported prior to the 2009 pandemic and h . . .

Crystallography is the analytical technique used to determine the arrangement of atoms within a highly ordered solid system. This method uses X-rays, which have a wavelength around 10-10 Å, to interact with the electrons in the atoms electron cloud to . . .

Nucleic acid Aptamers are short single-stranded oligonucleotides that bind to target molecules with high affinity and specificity. Although they function like antibodies, there are several properties that aptamers possess that make them superior for c . . .

Most Indigenous cultures historically employed regenerative methods in their human-environment relationships, interactions, and resource use. Many of these methods stemmed from the Indigenous concept of kincentric ecology, an approach which guides hum . . .

The extreme environmental conditions found in the International Space Station (ISS) has been shown to weaken the immune system of astronauts during take-off and landing of spacecrafts, while increasing the virulence of microbes by physiological change . . .

The objective of this project proposal is to provide an alternative design of the current pilot water treatment system located in the Civil Engineering Department hydraulics laboratory at the California State Polytechnic University. The existing syste . . .

Micromelo undatus (Bruguière, 1792), represents the only species in the genus Micromelo (Family Aplustridae). This species of "bubble snail" is generally found in warm, tropical and subtropical waters across the globe. Recent work on other globally di . . .

It is important to investigate which flavonoids are involved in the metabolism of xenobiotics to ameliorate the incidence of cancer around the world. Populations around the world are constantly exposed to a diversity of pollutants from the air, water, . . .

Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is the causative agent of anogenital herpes infection, the second most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. There are two HSV serotypes, HSV-1 and HSV-2, which both can cause anogenital infection and a . . .

As the hospitality industry has evolved, hoteliers have been developing and implementing innovative practices to attract customers. As a key component of marketing strategies, promotions drive sales by reinforcing customers’ sense of gratification. In . . .

Industrial Control Systems, or ICSs, are modernizing everyday with new advances in technology. This modernization is being done while old traditions of air gapping, as the main line of defense from security attacks, is still maintained. ICSs are moder . . .

The fungus Aspergillus can cause a serious pulmonary infection referred to as Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis, (IPA) in immunocompromised patients, such as neutropenic patients, with 80% mortality if untreated. Aspergillosis also affects the poultry . . .

Object detection performed by deep neural networks is a popular research task with diverse real-life applications; these target applications will typically have semantic classes outside of the label maps of publically-available, pre-trained models. Th . . .

This article uses 12 years of data from 42 states in the United States, using simple OLS estimates and panel fixed effects models were used respectively to try to study the effect of unemployment rate on divorce rate and other risk factors affecting d . . .

The Yorba Linda Trend is a proposed NE-SW alignment of earthquakes near the western edge of the Los Angeles Basin in southern California first described by Egill Hauksson in the early 1990s (Hauksson, 1990). Most earthquakes in this area exhibit a str . . .