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- Creator:
- Klesczewski, Alexis Nicole
- Description:
- Project (D.P.T., Physical Therapy)--California State University, Sacramento, 2015. and A patient post non-surgical lateral tibial plateau fracture was seen for student physical therapy treatment for 6 sessions from November 4th to December 16th, 2014 at CSU, Sacramento Department of Physical Therapy under the supervision of Lois Boulgarides, PT, DPT, MS. The patient was evaluated at the initial encounter with the use of manual muscle testing, single leg stance time, a complete NeuroCom SMART Balance Master® assessment, and a plan of care was established. Main goals for the patient were to increase lower extremity strength, proprioception, and dynamic balance in order to safely return to recreational basketball, running and hiking with decreased risk of fall or re-injury. Main interventions used were perturbation training, lower extremity graded therapeutic exercises and activities in the form of both direct intervention and a home exercise program. The patient achieved the goals of increased lower extremity strength, a normal single leg stance time and weight bearing squat as measured by the Balance Master®, and achieved clinically meaningful change in all activity and participation-level outcome measures. The patient was discharged home with a home exercise program.
- Resource Type:
- Abstract
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Physical Therapy
- Creator:
- Juarez, James Gregory
- Description:
- Eugenics is a term sometimes casually thrown around in everyday discussions. It even appears in various forms of popular media such as television shows, movies, cartoons, novels, and even Japanese anime. Eugenics did not simply appear in human history as a coincidence. Its history is surprisingly engrained in the history of California itself. This master’s thesis has compiled a condensed history of eugenics to provide readers a solid understanding of the term. It then introduces readers to two significant historical figures as part of society’s amnesia about the existence and history of a eugenics movement: Charles Matthias Goethe and Paul Popenoe. This thesis utilizes various historical sources and artifacts of these two men to bring to life their actions within the twentieth-century eugenics movement. Goethe and Popenoe shared a singular worldview or they both wanted to use eugenics to solve the problems of twentieth-century society, such as: immigration; low IQ values; the population of low humans; opponents of eugenics; conflicted eugenicists of Catholic faith; eugenics organizations not agreeing; and a lack of sharing eugenics scholarship. However, Goethe and Popenoe had different ways of accomplishing their goals through the areas of: eugenics rhetoric; a California sterilization program; an intrinsic value of faith; analogizing low humans; collaboration among eugenics organizations; proliferating eugenics literature; and a global eugenics network. and Thesis (M.A., History)--California State University, Sacramento, 2018.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Liberty, John
- Resource Type:
- Text
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Creator:
- Estrem, Christina
- Description:
- An elderly patient with chronic cerebellar stroke was seen for treatment for physical therapy for 12 sessions from October, 2013 until May, 2014 at an outpatient clinic for patients with neurological pathologies under the supervision of a licensed physical therapist. The patient was evaluated at the initial encounter and a plan of care was established. Main goals for the patient were improved static and dynamic postural control, speed and endurance with ambulation, and improved level of dependence with functional activities. Main interventions used were task specific training in the form of body weight-supported treadmill training and over-ground ambulation with assistive device, static and dynamic balance training, and the utilization of an individualized home exercise program. The patient achieved the following goals: improved range of motion, balance, functional mobility, aerobic capacity, gait, and postural control during ambulation. The patient was discharged to prior living arrangement (home with spouse) with home exercise program.
- Resource Type:
- Other
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
5. Influence of education, family involvement and socioeconomic status on crime and recidivism rates
- Creator:
- Schultz, Jennifer Erin
- Description:
- This project explored the influence education, family involvement and socioeconomic status has on crime and recidivism rates. Successful parolees were interviewed and asked questions regarding their experiences with education, family involvement, socioeconomic status and incarceration. The outcome of these interview heeded seven themes, which were 1) Felt no Connection with School, 2) Feeling of not being a part of their family 3) Growing-up in households that did not express emotions or communicate, 4) Traumatic experiences during adolescent or early teen years, 5) Jail as a break from the streets 6) Vocational classes as crime deterrent while incarcerated, and 7) Terminating criminal behavior because of "being tired." and Project (M.S.W., Social Work ) -- California State University, Sacramento, 2009.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Social Work
- Creator:
- Padua-Dean, Hayley and Vo, Jade
- Description:
- There is growing need for staff buy-in and resources to educate school members on the benefits and methods of implementation of student voice strategies. Although schools strive to increase student achievement and create a safe space for students, the lifestyles and needs of high school students are ever-changing. This means school practices should constantly be updated using the input of the students themselves. While some schools have made attempts to implement select student voice practices, knowledge of the many student voice strategies that can be applied school wide are not widely recognized. A review of the literature serves as data for the understanding of student voice and its associated positive student outcomes. A literature and curriculum review was also conducted to create resources to educate high school staff on the background and implementation strategies regarding student voice. A finding from this experience is that school personnel need to be challenged to reevaluate the presumption that adults have a better understanding than youths on issues regarding how youths learn and what youths need to learn. and Project (Ed.S., Education (School Psychology))--California State University, Sacramento, 2019.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Education (School Psychology)
- Description:
- The California Elections Data Archive (CEDA) is a joint project of the Center for California Studies, and the Institute for Social Research (ISR), at the California State University, Sacramento, and the office of the California Secretary of State. The purpose of CEDA is to provide researchers, citizens, public agencies, and other interested parties with a single repository of local election data. CEDA includes candidate, and ballot measure results for county, city, community college, and school district elections throughout the State. Election data from county election offices and websites are collected and these local election results are entered into an electronic CEDA database. This database is used to generate three standard CEDA reports: 1) County Elections: Candidates, ballot designations, and vote totals for all elected county offices; vote totals and text for county ballot measures. 2) City Elections: Candidates, ballot designations, and vote totals for all elected city offices; vote totals, and text for all city ballot measures. 3) Community College and School District Elections: Candidates, ballot designations, and vote totals for all elective community college and school district offices; vote totals and text for all district ballot measures. Ballot measures for all jurisdictions are coded according to type (e.g., charter amendment, taxes, bond measure, initiative, etc.) and to topic (e.g., education, public safety, governance, etc.). Election data and reports have been archived annually since 1995.
- Resource Type:
- Dataset
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Creator:
- Koontz, Richard Anthony
- Description:
- Thesis (M.S., Mechanical Engineering)--California State University, Sacramento, 2018. and A generic remote control airplane is converted into an autonomous UAV. The aircraft’s dynamic behavior is represented in state space form, with a series of 1st order differential equations. Stability and control derivatives are estimated using software based on theory and empirical data. These estimates are checked using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). A SolidWorks® model of the remote control plane is obtained with the assistance of a 3D scanner. This model is used to estimate mass properties of the airplane, and to export geometric data to ANSYS for CFD. A mathematical model of the aircraft is created in Matlab, and Simulink is used to design the autonomous UAV’s control systems. A control system for the inner loop or plant is designed using a linear quadratic regulator. A guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) system is designed for the outer loop. The performance of the UAV is analyzed in Simulink and results are discussed. Recommendations for continuation of the project are made.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Vogel, Nicholas
- Description:
- During the 2004 election season, conservative elites employed superior agenda-setting techniques and utilized the mass media to sway public opinion on sensitive social issues in hopes of generating electoral success for conservative candidates, particularly President George W. Bush. Conservative elites such as religious leaders, members of Congress, and the Bush/Cheney campaign team, developed frames to describe emotive social issues such as same-sex marriage and stem cell research, with the intention that the conservative viewpoint on these issues would resonate with the public and earn them votes in the election. They succeeded. The mass media in turn, accepted many of the conservative frames, and engaged in widespread transmission of them to the American public. As a result, the Republican Party enjoyed gains in Congress, and President Bush earned reelection. This thesis details what frames rose to prominence in the 2004 election season; namely the so-called "moral" frames regarding issues such as same-sex marriage and stem cell research. This paper will allow the reader to see how framing was used, what frames were utilized, and how conservatives were successful in converting this hard work into votes for their candidates. The nucleus of my argument resides in the second half of this paper; dealing with the problems behind our understanding, as a country, of the significance of the widespread conservative victories in 2004. My research shows that the national exit poll was a flawed measurement of public perception of the social and political issues at hand during the election. The print media failed in its attempt to paint a picture that would explain why many Americans chose "moral values" as the core issue that influenced their vote. Furthermore, the print press contributed to the "moral values" confusion after the election by providing electoral analysis using many of the same conservative frames from the election season. This paper will argue that, based on a faulty exit poll and a lack of electoral analysis by the print media, these "moral" issues were not the reasons for conservative victories in 2004, and the GOP's success in 2004 should not dictate a future change in electoral strategy by the Democratic and Republican parties.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Government
- Creator:
- Romano, Elizabeth Anne
- Description:
- Statement of Problem: There are limited resources which incorporate Spanish literature, dialectology, history and culture while strengthening vocabulary recognition and grammatical concepts. As a teacher of upper-level Spanish classes at the high school level, I found that my classes performed better when I included all of these concepts while simultaneously sharing my personal experiences from my travels with the CSUS Spanish Masters Program. Sources of Information: I researched my information from my Bachelor's program at DePaul University and the California State Graduate Spanish Master's Program, along with class materials already in use. Included in the project are difficult readings and concepts from a multitude of texts, compact discs and photographs; however, the information is then broken down into easier formats to aid understanding. Various reading strategies and practice activities are integrated throughout the text to clarify concepts. End Result: The project encompasses and illustrates the various aspects of the CSUS Spanish Master's Program. The Spain and Guatemala chapters are now part of the Spanish 4/5 curriculum at Ridgewood High School District 234 in Norridge, IL where I teach.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- World Languages and Literatures
- Creator:
- Mitchell, André R. S.
- Description:
- Statement of Problem: The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has been working with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to converge U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). However, there are differences between the two accounting standards. What are the differences between U.S. GAAP and IFRS? How will the differences and the convergence project affect the United State's economy, companies, or the accounting profession as a whole? Sources of Data: 2007 Current Text, International Financial Reporting Standards, The CPA Journal, Journal of Accountancy, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Deloitte & Touche, Yahoo Finance, CFO.com, The Business Times Singapore, Accounting Today, Lawyers Weekly, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, United States Law Firm Group, and Accountancy Ireland. Conclusion Reached: Based on the research performed, there are more similarities between U.S. GAAP and IFRS than there are differences. In addition, some differences ultimately equate to the same conclusion under both accounting standards. The convergence to IFRS should not negatively affect the U.S. economy, companies, or the accounting profession. Furthemore, IFRS typically results in a higher net income than U.S. GAAP.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Business Administration
- Creator:
- Macias, Paul
- Description:
- Statement of Problem: In spring, 2007, I instructed a section of College Composition in which I found myself guiding students toward a rhetorical model based in individual authority, despite my intentions to encourage a more inquiry- or dialogue-based model of authority. This experience caused in me these beliefs: claim to individual authority can be defined and found in student writing; student writing that makes claim to individual authority can be distinguished from student writing that doesn't; and both institutional and instructor texts, as well as instructor discourse, can be correlated with a student writer's tendency to persuade by means of individual authority. Sources of Data: I collected institutional curriculum and four bodies of research from four different College Composition classrooms, each of which includes instructor texts (syllabus and assignment sheet), instructor discourse (oral description of assignment sheet), and student texts (essays in response to assignment sheet). I analyzed two of these bodies of research. Conclusions Reached: Claim to individual authority can be defined and found in student writing. Student writing that makes claim to individual authority can be distinguished from student writing that doesn't. Both institutional and instructor texts, as well as instructor discourse, can be correlated with a student writer's tendency to persuade by means of individual authority.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- English
- 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:
- Dowden, Bradley Harris
- Description:
- The book is designed to improve your critical thinking skills. The skills are a complex weave of abilities that help you get someone's point, generate reasons for your own point, evaluate the reasons given by others, decide what to do or what not to do, decide what information to accept or reject, explain a complicated idea, apply conscious quality control as you think, and resist propaganda. Your most important critical thinking skill is your skill at making judgments─not snap judgments that occur in the blink of an eye, but those that require careful reasoning. More specific topics are how to recognize claims, issues, arguments, and explanations, including how to distinguish them from each other and how to evaluate them. Special attention is given to evaluating information, judging the credibility of sources of information, and writing more clearly and with the appropriate precision for the situation. The book teaches how to distinguish deductive arguments from inductive arguments, and how to recognize and display their logical forms. There is an introduction to Venn diagrams and Sentential Logic. The book also focuses on how to detect the major fallacies of reasoning and how not to be overly critical of other peoples' reasoning. Special attention is given to reasoning about what causes what, and more generally to scientific reasoning and pseudo-scientific reasoning. After every few paragraphs, there are questions for the reader with answers and explanations. The end of each chapter contains a summary, a glossary, and many exercises or examination questions, a quarter of which contain answers and explanations.
- Resource Type:
- Learning Object
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento