Part of a retrospective digitization project.

Part of a retrospective digitization project.

Part of a retrospective digitization project.

Part of a retrospective digitization project.

Part of a retrospective digitization project.

Part of a retrospective digitization project.

Part of a retrospective digitization project.

Increased concern about environmental sustainability and air quality management has driven research into novel technologies of generating electrical power. We conducted a number of runs and studies on a modular biomass conversion system to evaluate te . . .

Part of a retrospective digitization project.

Part of a retrospective digitization project.

Part of a retrospective digitization project.

Part of a retrospective digitization project.

Part of a retrospective digitization project.

Direct to Consumer Advertising (DTCA) has flooded media channels since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted pharmaceutical companies the ability to advertise medications to patients in the 1980’s. This has altered how patients receive inform . . .

The College of Natural Science and Mathematics, NSM, at California State University Sacramento has a low retention rate, high failure rate and a large achievement gap for freshmen students. Freshmen students who are part of the underrepresented minori . . .

The aim of the present study was to examine the mediating roles of emotion dysregulation and cognitive and behavioral avoidance in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and psychological distress. A total of 305 participants from a large pub . . .

The goal of this study was to identify who supports the educational planning of girls in grade 9 to predict advanced level math course taking in grade 11. Therefore, this study investigated which supportive figure(s), peers, parents and/or teachers, d . . .

Part of a retrospective digitization project.

Part of a retrospective digitization project.

Part of a retrospective digitization project.

This study examined the effectiveness of topographically similar instructions within the high-probability instructional sequence (HPIS) to increase food acceptance in two adolescent males with autism. Although previous research has demonstrated the HP . . .

Higher education institutions in the United States face a national imperative to boost student persistence and overall educational attainment amidst vacillating fiscal resources and growth in the non-traditional student body. According to Cominole, Ra . . .

Over 29% of all students in public four-year institutions have taken remedial courses (Skomsvold, 2014), and therefore, have not been considered "college-ready" upon entering college (Conley, 2007; Jimenez, Sargrad, Morales, & Thompson, 2016; Jone . . .

With the help of evidence-based research, Western medicine has slowly expanded its practice to non-pharmaceutical modalities. However, minority groups continue to be overlooked and marginalized from returning into their communities after being dischar . . .

The matching-to-sample procedure (MTS) is typically used to teach conditional stimulus-stimulus relations and test for emergent (untaught) relations. Even though MTS has proven to be an effective teaching procedure, successful performance requires pre . . .

The history of Sutter’s Fort from the beginning of the Gold Rush to its reconstruction in the 1890s is important in understanding how the Fort became a dilapidated relic of Sacramento’s past and became a reconstructed monument to pioneer times. The hi . . .

Over the last ten years social media sites, such as Facebook, were widely adopted and used as tools to communicate by people around the world. Since communication via Facebook became increasingly more common, it is important that researchers examine h . . .

Head direction (HD) cells and theta oscillations are thought to be part of a network mediating navigational behavior. Intraseptal infusions of muscimol eliminates theta and produces navigational deficits. The present investigation sought to characteri . . .

This study examined the worker identity of volunteer workers and compensated workers in a Sports Entertainment Organization. Participants included 30 volunteer workers and four compensated workers. Interviews were conducted with the compensated worker . . .

Brief Literature Review: The literature review includes an exploration of the underrepresentation of African-American males in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate majors and the theoretical frameworks that guide those . . .

Within the last few decades, community supervision has expanded enormously within the United States, with evidence-based practice at the forefront of achieving correctional goals. However, fewer studies have examined federal probation programs in this . . .

Although verbal deficits are major concerns for individuals following an acquired brain injury (ABI), behavior-analytic research on language training in neurorehabilitation settings is extremely limited. The purpose of the current study was to systema . . .

This thesis explores, through my auto-ethnography, how low-income womxn of color experience mental illness, which I would rather refer to as mental variances categorized as illnesses by society, and the navigation of the institutions surrounding it. I . . .

The current study evaluated whether participants' performance on visual-visual matching-to-sample (MTS) tasks were differentially affected by learning how to verbally relate the names of visual stimuli. In Experiment 1, we trained eight participants t . . .

Trends in higher education have pointed out a huge gap in persistence and degree attainment at universities among certain ethnic groups. Laws and bills have been passed to ensure people of color have the opportunity to access higher education; however . . .

Exposure to environmental hazards and pollution leads to deleterious health outcomes, and low-income and communities of color are disproportionately burdened. The present study utilizes the publicly available dataset “CalEnviroScreen3.0” to conduct a . . .

Meetup is a world-wide online network that has used the face-to-screen medium of the Internet to support face-to-face social leisure experiences and to build community involvement. This work was developed to investigate Meetup as an innovative social . . .

A review of the literature on compliance with the Clery Act revealed that it has not been studied nationally. Three researchers in the field of higher education have conducted a majority of the research pertaining to the Clery Act. They are: Steven Ja . . .

States have lost their monopoly on force and now face new sources of threat from violent non-governmental organizations (NGO) such as terrorist and separatist groups. This thesis uses the case study of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to analyze . . .

Increased nutrient deposition from excessive fertilizer application, manure production, and other industrial discharges into aquatic environments is altering the structure and function of freshwater ecosystems worldwide. Eutrophication is characterize . . .

Part of a retrospective digitization project.

Those responsible for guiding business students in their learning experiences find themselves vitally interested in focusing attention upon those particular areas in which students are generally the least competent and in which they are likely to enco . . .

Increasingly, the state of California has taken to forming task forces in order to tackle new, wide reaching problems such as climate change. These problems often cut across many different agency jurisdictions; and as no one agency is big enough to ad . . .

This is a summary of my cumulative experience as a graduate student in art studio. It is an explanation of decision-making and thought processes as well as a retrospective insight into my work. The past two years have been in contemplation of what it . . .

There is an impulse to make objects out of familiar mundane materials reminiscent of traditional everyday chore. The act of making is fused with the interest in combining practice with performance and routine with ritual. Natural progression comes int . . .

It was the purpose of this study to determine implications for Sacramento Junior College in the changes in the educational programs of a selected ·group of junior college students. More specifically, the study sought to answer these questions: (l) Wha . . .

Part of a retrospective digitization project.

An abrasive blast booth for helicopters has to be designed on an existing plan in a larger size to fit CH-47 and Black Hawk models with a full recovery media floor that must be designed to withstand the load of helicopters.