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- Creator:
- Coward, Alice L. and Rosales, Darci C.
- Description:
- Social work champions social justice a belief that everyone is entitled to equal opportunity. Post secondary education should be open to all students. Individuals have a right to higher education and should not be discriminated against based upon their race, ethnicity, class, or gender. Accessibility for underrepresented minority (URM) students is a goal of the Academic Excellence Workshop (AEW) intervention program for Math Engineering and Science Achievement (MESA) majors at Santa Rosa Junior College. This project is a macro evaluative study of the program. Literature looking at the historical content of the MESA Program, Philip Michael Triesman's founding study, and the differences between four year and community college attenders as they relate to access, retention, persistence, and degree attainment were reviewed. The empirical research was derived from archival data gathered from MESA enrollment forms and academic transcripts. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used on the gathered data. The researchers hypothesized that participation in the AEW would positively impact URM student's grade point average in math, engineering, and science courses. Using an independent t-test, the researchers found no significant evidence to support the hypothesis. The research study was limited and did not take into consideration the secondary benefits of participating in the AEW that could influence student's academic success, retention, and persistence in STEM courses. The researchers conclude that future evaluations of AEW programs would benefit from a holistic approach incorporating both quantitative and qualitative research methods.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Social Work
- Creator:
- Anhar, Michael N.
- Description:
- The central issue of creating ideal conditions for teaching and learning has been extensively examined from multiple perspectives. However, while the growing prominence of the student-centered perspective in particular has led to a considerable body of knowledge about student-centered education (i.e., pedagogy), there exists a lack of explicit knowledge about student-centered communication (i.e., interaction). To address this gap in the literature, a convenient sample of faculty members from the Communication Studies and English Departments at CSU Sacramento audio recorded one of their own class meetings. Transcripts of these recordings were analyzed in order to develop a taxonomy of the types of student-centered verbal messages teachers express in the university classroom and complimentarily to determine which message types yield substantive student verbal responses. Investigative efforts resulted in the emergence of a 4-category taxonomy of student-centered verbal messages and the tentative selection of a core category of messages that discernibly albeit rarely yielded substantive student verbal responses. Most usefully, the final analysis of this study revealed that instructors who are serious about cultivating substantive student verbal responses ought to focus on expressing verbal messages that elicit student input while simultaneously avoiding response inhibiting practices, which effectively silence students.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Anderson, Summerlynn Jean
- Description:
- Memory research has shown mixed results concerning how emotional information is processed (see Christianson, 1992, for review). One individual difference found to relate to emotional processing (Belsky et al., 1997; Laible, 2004) and understanding (de Rosnay & Harris, 2002) is attachment security. Further, because coping strategies are believed to reflect behavioral outcomes of emotion regulation (Contreras et al., 2000), how children cope with emotional situations may also predict their memory for such experiences. The present study aimed to examine attachment qualities and coping strategies as individual differences predicting recall of emotional and attachment-related events. Children ranging from 7.5- to 12.5-years of age viewed a slideshow exhibiting stories that varied in emotion and attachment relatedness. The following week, children were asked to freely recall the pictures and stories, and they completed attachment and coping measures. Results showed children's attachment security predicted recall of high attachment-related events, specifically separation scenarios. To understand better these results, attachment security was divided into subscales for parental availability and children's dependency. Findings indicated that children who perceived the parent as more available recalled more attachment-related stimuli, specifically those involving separation. These results indicate that attachment-related events may be processed differently than emotional, but less attachment evoking events, and that memory for such events may be influenced by individual differences in attachment security, particularly how available the child perceives the caregiver.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Graduate and Professional Studies in Education
- Creator:
- Alaniz, Dolores
- Description:
- This thesis investigates implementation of the California Case Management System (CCMS) in Sacramento County. CCMS is the information technology system used by California courts, and is funded through the Trial Court Funding Act of 1997 and the Trial Court Facilities Act of 2002. The system is evaluated using an implementation analysis framework and a set of best practices criteria for information technology transitions. It is recommended that the Legislature require the Administrative Office of the Courts adopt a reporting structure and process to increase accountability, mitigate risks, justify appropriations, and report budgetary expenditures. Sources consulted included case studies, project management reports, books, professional journals and scholarly articles.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Public Policy and Administration
- Creator:
- Aggarwal, Nidhi
- Description:
- Virtualizing physical resources of a computer system can improve resource sharing and utilization. Virtualization is the pooling and abstraction of resources in a way that masks the physical. nature and boundaries of the resources from the users. The goal of this project was to analyze primarily the performance aspects of virtualization and understand security implications. This project report presents an overview of virtualization and discusses the key technologies behind it. The report then analyzes the key features of the Intel® Virtualization Technology and AMD® SVM Technology for hardware virtualization, outlining the new instructions and hardware extensions introduced. A detailed performance analysis of various virtual environments and technologies are presented. Initially, comparison between physical and virtual environment is made at the architectural level by analyzing the perl, anagram and gee benchmarks using Simics execution environment. Then, the report presents the performance data for another benchmark (SPEC2006) for three different Virtual Machine Monitors (VMMs) and provides a detailed performance analysis of the VMMs. A detailed analysis of Xen is included based on the profiling done using Xenoprof to highlight the causes behind the performance bottlenecks. Finally, security aspects of virtualization are discussed and analyzed.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Computer Engineering
- Creator:
- Teleten, Larisa and Afshar, Neda
- Description:
- High turnover and low job satisfaction are long standing problems within the nursing profession. Attempts at rectifying these trends have included more recently, mentor-based residency programs of various lengths and kinds. This study examines the results of local and national responses to a standardized pre-post survey meant to measure job satisfaction among residency program participants at two distinct points along the new employee continuum. Survey results from participants in the University of California, Davis Medical Center (UCDMC) program were compared to the results at 39 other University Health System Consortium (UHSC) institutions. At UCDMC, participation in the mentoring program was totally voluntary. Nurses were recruited to join the program during their hospital orientation. Invitations were followed up by email and VOCERA contact within one week of orientation. RN participants included new graduates, transfers to new specialty floors and new RN hires from a wide demographic spectrum. Survey scores for UCDMC nurses at the six-month mark were compared to the results at other UHSC institutions and found to be above the McCloskey/Mueller Satisfaction Scale (MMSS) mean in each of seven subscale areas under consideration. Within the organization itself, it was found that UCDHS nurses at the six-month stage registered positive changes in all but one of the satisfaction subscale areas. The exception was the praise and recognition subscale, which declined at six months. The results of the study confirm that praise and recognition are significant factors in RN perceptions of job satisfaction. Residency programs offer great promise for decreasing nursing turnover and increasing job satisfaction. Given the results of the UCDMC study, additional research into the ways that praise and recognition influence job satisfaction and, ultimately, retention should be further explored. An additional policy recommendation to HRSA would be to encourage a more standardized approach to data collection among its funded programs.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Nursing
- Creator:
- Adhikari, Ramesh K.
- Description:
- This study examines empirically the potential causal link between financial development and output growth in each of sixteen countries that have experienced sustained economic growth in the postwar period within a multivariate vector autoregressive (VAR) framework. I use three time series methodologies such as usual Granger causality approach, modified causality test of Toda· and Yamamoto (1995) and vanance decompositions to examine interrelationships between variables in the VAR system for the same data set. I find mixed results on the direction of causality and the results vary with respect to the type of test employed. Using annual time series data from 1960 to 2004 and a Granger causality approach, I find no evidence of causality in either direction in twelve countries, bi-directional causality in two countries, one-way causality from growth to finance in two countries and no one-way causality from finance to growth for any of the countries examined. Although the results are somewhat sensitive to the type of causality tests employed, the general conclusion is that financial development and output growth are causally independent at annual frequencies. This casts doubts on claims that financial development leads output growth. Therefore, more empirical studies and the need for broadening the econometric approach are called for before making any general conclusion about this relationship.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Viani, Alessandro
- Description:
- Arsenic is a toxic metalloid that is present in the Earth’s crust in small amounts, over time becoming exposed due to both natural and manmade processes. The arsenic exposed in the ground can be subject to weathering such as rainfall, allowing the arsenic to become mobilized. A manmade source of arsenic is wood that has been pressure treated with chromated copper arsenate (CCA), a compound that protects the wood against insects and fungi. Over time, the wood can start to break down, allowing the arsenic to leach out into the surrounding soil. Once in the soil, plants can uptake the arsenic, which can lead to accumulation in the edible portions such as the leaves and berries, potentially harming humans and animals which consume them. In this study, the zeolite chabazite was used to sorb arsenic from the soil, reducing the amount available for uptake by the plant. Using radishes, with both non-modified and iron modified chabazite mixed in with the soil, the arsenic concentration in the radishes was reduced from 36.111±9.601 mg/kg in the leaves to 15.345±5.837 mg/kg and 14.116±2.403 mg/kg for the non-modified and the iron modified chabazite, respectively. It was also found that chabazite particle size had a significant effect on arsenic adsorption, further reducing the arsenic concentration in leaves from 15.345±5.837 to 7.713±0.569 mg/kg for the non-modified chabazite, and from 14.116±2.403 to 6.179±2.083 mg/kg in the iron modified chabazite with reduced particle size. Additionally, sawdust from CCA treated wood was incorporated into soil, as to model uptake of arsenic resulting from leaching. The data for the sawdust plantings suggests complex ion interactions between the chabazite and the CCA treated wood, which may make remediation of soils contaminated with CCA more difficult. Furthermore, the component ions of CCA, chromium, copper and arsenic leach from the wood at different rates. Chabazite may have different affinities for each of these ions, creating less adsorption capacity for arsenic, potentially leading to higher concentrations in the plants. In addition to the planting studies, leaching studies were performed, assessing the maximum amount of arsenic that the iron modified chabazite could adsorb from aqueous solution. The adsorption was modeled using Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms. Using data from the isotherms, it was found that the adsorption of arsenic by iron modified chabazite does not follow the Langmuir model, but fits the Freundlich model well.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Da, Kesar and Whitlow, Dylan
- Description:
- The use as well as misuse of methamphetamines remains a significant social issue in the United States. Little is known about the impact stigma has on treatment recommendations for women who use methamphetamine, particularly mothers. This research attempts to understand if CSUS undergraduate social work students have preconceived gender bias when working with individuals who are drug abusers, particularly mothers who use methamphetamine. This study utilizes a vignette embedded, randomized cross sectional experimental survey with a quantitative descriptive research design in order to identify any potential gender bias and stigmatization of women methamphetamine users. Data was collected from 91 CSUS BASW students and electronically inputted and analyzed using the SPSS system. While there were no significant associations between gender of the client or the status of motherhood when recommending treatment for methamphetamine users, the data did suggest that personal experience with drug addiction as well as previous personal experience with drug addiction is associated with a greater probability of recommendation of treatment. Personal experience also influenced the student’s perception of whether they perceived the client’s problem were caused by his/her choice. The project concludes with an in-depth discussion of findings as well as implications for social work and recommendations for further research.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Social Work
- Creator:
- Quispe, Carlos E.
- Description:
- The potable water distribution system hydraulic model described in this project is in Placer County and was developed to evaluate future Water Conservation Programs (WCP). In the order to complete this goal, the hydraulic model was assembled and then calibrated using an operational calibration. The model is comprised of pipes, junctions, pumps, pressure reducing valves, and tanks/reservoirs. The model is supported by information from a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), and the calculation of water demand, water production, and the diurnal curve. The model aimed to replicate the behavior of many of the facilities such as tank levels, flow in pipes, and pressure in valves that were collected in SCADA; however, it is recommended to follow up with a field calibration to correct some inconsistencies in the model’s results for a few facilities. The model helped to evaluate future dynamics of tank levels, flows in the pipes, and pressure, velocities, and water age in the system due to water conservation programs. The hydraulic parameters above mentioned changed due to less water demand, and the settings in valves must be changed to maintain the network in operational conditions. Overall, the results of water conservation programs in summer season that reduce water demand are encouraging because they show that water age issues improve after the implementation in most of the pressure zones. Minimum pressure in nodes under 35 psi are higher after the water conservation programs take place because tank levels are higher, raising the hydraulic gradient line (HGL).
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Civil Engineering