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- Creator:
- Kwok, Kammy Kam-Yi
- Description:
- Fraction concepts are notoriously difficult for children to grasp and thus, much effort has been spent examining the effective instructional strategies. Many studies suggest that instructional practices in elementary mathematics should emphasize the use of manipulative materials to solidify children’s conceptual understanding. The purpose of the present study was to examine the similarities and differences in the way 3rd grade fraction concepts are taught in U.S. and Korean classrooms. Specifically, this study will compare Korean teacher’s lesson plans with U.S. teacher’s lesson plans. It was hypothesized that (a) Korean teachers will use more varying modes of representations (i.e., concrete and pictorial representations) than U.S. teachers, (b) more of the Korean lesson plans will include the use of both discrete and continuous items, compared to U.S. lesson plans, and (c) Korean teachers will be more consistent in applying the CPA instructional approach in their lesson plans, compared to U.S. teachers.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Keaveney, Hiroki Kimiko
- Description:
- The purpose of my research is to tell a story about a queer interracial couple that used Christianity to create a relationship, in a climate of homophobia and antimiscegenation. Pauli Murray and Irene Barlow’s partnership began in the 1950s and ended in the 1970s. I argue that Christianity was the foundation of this taboo love. I situate the couple within a larger history of Protestant American queers using religion as a means of intimacy and identity formation pre-1980s. In chapter 1, I trace how Murray and Barlow’s Christian love strengthened them in their relationship. In chapter 2, I examine how Murray used the Episcopalian faith to connect with Barlow after she died. I conclude with reflections about contemporary understandings of marriage, Christianity and the LGBT community.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Ethnic Studies
- Creator:
- Smith, Arnetta
- Description:
- Using content analysis and a combination of manifest and latent coding to decipher meaning from messages found in media, From the Margins: Representations of Africana Queer Women in Visual Media is a qualitative thesis that examines the representation of masculine of center Africana queer women in visual media and answers the research questions: how do films and television series represent masculine of center Africana queer women and how do previous depictions of Africana women and men in film and television influence contemporary representations of MOC Africana queer women? This project focuses on two types of visual mediums from the past twenty years (1994-2014): films and television series. The first chapter introduces the project and discusses the justification for research. The next chapter examines and analyzes prior literature on social constructions, media socialization effects, and representation of populations. The “Methods” chapter outlines the entire research process. The “Results” chapter presents the themes found within the data. The last chapter, “Discussion” exposes prevalent tropes and implications found within the data.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Ethnic Studies
- Creator:
- Plotitsa, Alex
- Description:
- A magic labelling of a set system is a labelling of its points by distinct positive integers so that every set of the system has the same sum, the magic sum. The most famous class of examples are magic squares (the sets are the rows, columns, and diagonals of a matrix). It follows from a recent paper by Matthias Beck and Thomas Zaslavky that the number of n by n magic labellings is a quasipolynomial function of the magic sum, and also of an upper bound on the entries in the square. The contribution of this thesis is to develop software that allows computation of a large class of examples of generating functions for such counting functions. The software will utilize previously developed programs THAC (developed at SFSU) and Latte (developed at UC Davis) to compute intermediate results required by the overall computation. The symbolic algebra program Maple (developed at the University of Waterloo, Canada) will be used for final algebraic manipulation to achieve the final result which is the generating function of a counting function. While there are other methods to compute these types of counting functions, it is believed that the approach used in this thesis is novel and no such software exists.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Boyer, Chase James
- Description:
- The intergenerational origins of emerging adult dating violence have been explored through many perspectives, but explanations have failed to account for the influential roles of multiple members of the family. Structural equation models explored whether the relationship between exposure to marital discord in adolescence and couple dating violence in emerging adulthood was mediated by (a) harsh parenting (i.e., maternal and paternal) in late adolescence and (b) emotional adjustment in emerging adulthood (i.e., internalizing and externalizing). Participants included 206 parents and emerging adults (60% female, Mage =22.38 years, SD =0.72) recruited when youth were in 7th grade. Across time, father- and mother-initiated violence predicted more maternal and paternal harsh parenting, respectively. Earlier maternal harsh behavior predicted later youth internalizing and externalizing. Mother-adolescent harshness and youth externalizing mediated the relationship between father’s marital violence and youth dating violence. Implications of these findings for clinical interventions and policy are discussed.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Hassett, William Charles
- Description:
- The Leo Pargil, Renbu, and Yalashangbo gneiss domes are among the western and eastern most in the chain of north Himalayan gneiss domes. The processes of gneiss dome formation are still debated, but there is a growing consensus that they result from the diapiric rise of pooled melt from a mid-crustal, ductile channel. Under the channel flow model, the ductile channel is exhumed towards the southern Himalayan range front and is exposed as the Greater Himalayan Sequence (GHS). Gneiss domes should have a petrogenetic relationship to the GHS if the channel flow theory is correct. Geochemical investigation of gneiss domes can therefore help to determine their provenance and mode of origin. U-Pb dating, REE analyses, and Pb isotope data of these three gneiss domes suggest that they have a shared parent material, and that this parent material is most likely derived from the GHS. Results from this study are therefore consistent with the channel flow model, and strengthen arguments in favor of channel flow in the Himalayas along the length of the orogen.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Earth & Climate Sciences
- Creator:
- Bell II, Chris Edward
- Description:
- This thesis examines selected works of two representative Black writers of the 18th century who used writing to fight oppression and advocate for the emancipation of African Americans from slavery. The specific writers are Phillis Wheatley (poetry) and Richard Allen (prose). This study explores the works of these writers in the context of what Dr. Dorothy Tsuruta posits as “art for life’s sake”, Arthur Danto as "Disturbatory Art" and Trey Ellis as “art that shakes you up” (Tsuruta 2008; Ellis 2014). To this end, I examine the rhetorical mode of the selected literary works which is defined as “saying something in a certain way for a certain reason with the self and the audience in mind” (Tsuruta 2008). In bringing a 21st century angle of vision to 18th century race themed poetry of Wheatley, I contextualize them rightfully as social protest literature. This fact was disputed in the 1960s when Wheatley's poetry was ostracized by the Black Arts Movement, which understandably championed poetry that sounded the strident tone of the times. Amiria Baraka declared "Black Art must be the Nationalist's vision given more form and feeling, as a razor...cut (1969). In simultaneously bringing attention to the race themed prose of Richard Allen, I contextualize his work as sounding a 1960s Black Arts strident tone, though written in the 1700s. This study of 18th century protest literature, as forebears of Black literary activism today, contributes to the African American literary legacy, correcting a dearth of research in these areas of study.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Ethnic Studies
- Creator:
- Baleria, Gina Carole
- Description:
- The purpose of this qualitative study was to discover how a single intervention focused on civil, respectful conversation across difference might influence marginalized college students’ sense of belonging and privileged college students’ level of curiosity from the participating community college students’ perspective. The study investigated four main questions: How does a semi-structured, relational micro-intervention focused on civil, respectful conversation across difference influence college students’ sense of belonging and level of curiosity? How do responses to the micro-intervention differ between historically privileged and historically marginalized students? Straus and Corbin’s (1990) assertion that qualitative research methods can be effectively employed to improve our understanding of little-known practices was applicable to the research presented here. The researcher used a phenomenological approach, exploring and describing the lived experiences of students who participated in an engagement with their other through interviews (Creswell, 2014; Giorgi, 2009; Moustakas, 1994). Findings have been organized into five themes: 1) Otherness, Rapport, Familiarity, & Connection; 2) Student Response to Structure & Story Sharing; 3) Micro-Intervention Expectations; 4) Micro-Intervention Experiences & Influence; and 5) Perceived Value of Micro- Intervention. Within each of these themes, the researcher explored both the major findings and key outliers that have the potential to be instructive for further research. These key findings indicate that semi-structured, relational micro-interventions across difference can influence sense of belonging and level of curiosity, as well as lay the groundwork for small-scale relationships or sustained relationships to grow through the fostering of rapport, recognition, and connection.
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Huntley, Brenna Rae
- Description:
- Women are underrepresented in tech organizations, despite ongoing efforts to increase employee representation. The present vignette study investigates the effects of microaggressions and supervisor responses at a fictitious tech startup on perceptions of organizational attractiveness. Participants were 58% women and recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk (N = 827) and were compensated $0.50 for completion of the study. A significant main effect was found for gender such that, on average, men (M= 3.51, SE = .05) rated the organization as more attractive than women (M= 3.38, SE = .04) across vignette conditions F(l,821) = 4.33,p = .038, tip2= .005. In addition, ratings differed significantly by condition F( 1,821) = 4.27, p = .014, r|p2=.010. Bonferroni post-hoc testing indicated that the main differences lie between the Helpful Response (M= 3.56, SE = .06) and Unhelpful Response (M= 3.34, SE = .05) conditions.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Leech, David Alberto
- Description:
- This thesis recasts the traditional arguments for how to interpret both the Daoist work, the Zhuangzi, as well as Socrates’ daemon using Islamic thinker Henri Corbin’s concept of the imaginal. Examining the outward manifestation of masterful skill is used as a method for better understanding states that purport to go beyond discursive reasoning. The significance of the work is in proposing and arguing for a different ontological plane that sages have access to and this in turn, gives them the skillful ability to solve the multitudes of dilemmas that people bring to the sages.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Elhaderi, Jason K.
- Description:
- This thesis examines the state of quantum programming languages (QPLs) and QPLsby- extension, and presents one such Python-based QPL-by-extension called pypSQUEAK Orienting concepts from the twin threads of quantum computing — quantum mechanics and computer science — are established. We find that the quantum random access machine (QRAM) is an especially fruitful model for the consideration o f QPL design. Next, pypSQUEAK is presented through a series of increasingly sophisticated examples. Implementations of two classic quantum algorithms, the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm and the quantum Fourier transform, are presented. Afterward, we use pypSQUEAK to investigate the effects of various error correction schemes on the fidelity of noisy quantum communications channels. This is accomplished via a Python module implementing three common error-correcting codes: the bit flip code, the phase flip code, and the Shor code. In the presence of bit flip noise, phase flip noise, and amplitude damping, we find that there axe regimes where error correction has a statistically significant impact on fidelity. However, we find no significant impact on fidelity when employing error correction in a depolarizing channel.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Bradley, Colleen
- Description:
- Curse Tablets and the Romanization of Britain focuses on the underutilized defixiones of Britain in order to better understand the social history of Roman Britain. The Greco-Roman practice of creating curse tablets was adopted by the Britons, but with significant modifications, including their use, language, and physical properties. The tablets indicated that the Romano-British religion retained far more of its Celtic nature than previously thought. The tablets also give rare insight into the daily life of Roman Britain.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Franklin, Vidrale Antoinette
- Description:
- Through narrative inquiry, a qualitative study of the lived experiences of six African American female elementary school principals in two urban districts was conducted within the theoretical frameworks of Black feminist and critical race theories. The study examined how race and gender influence the role of African American female elementary principals, the challenges they encounter and the support structures they utilize to sustain in their positions. The data reveal that race and gender statuses were significant factors in shaping their roles as school site administrators and that these women face unique challenges related to their identification as Black and female. Additionally, each story reveals how professional networks, family and spirituality support them in their efforts to lead urban schools. This dissertation provides three pillars which can be used to effectively support African American female elementary school principals in their complex roles as urban school leaders.
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Schynert, Kendra Elizabeth
- Description:
- A novel that explores the collapse of narrative through the viewpoints of two main characters. One of the protagonists is semi-aware of the collapse and is in the process of using his extensive literary knowledge to understand and fix the narrative. The other protagonist, though sensitive and empathetic, doesn't immediately understand that the world is breaking around him.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Creative Writing
- Creator:
- Franks, Duane Ray
- Description:
- Fluid intake during exercise is essential for athletic performance and health. Some athletes overcompensate by drinking in excess, resulting in hyponatremia. ACSM guidelines have identified that sweat rate is individual, influenced by several factors, and that the goal of fluid intake should be to limit sweat loss to less than 2% change in body weight. Developing a simple mathematical equation that uses heart rate to predict sweat rate could prove valuable in improving athletic performance and preventing heat related illness. 11 male and 6 female trained cyclists volunteered to perform 2x30 minute cycling trials at 55 and 75% heart rate reserve intensity. Body mass was recorded before and after each trial to determine sweat losses. Pearson coefficient determined no significant correlations between heart rate and body mass loss at 55 or 75% HR intensities (p >0.05). Significant difference was found in body mass change between 55 and 75% intensities (p < 0.05).
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Kinesiology
- Creator:
- Fisher, Jarrad Nathaniel
- Description:
- Floodplains are an important part of a healthy function stream system. Restoring floodplain within impaired stream systems can increase biotic diversity, minimize flood hazards, provide sediment storage and improved water quality, reduce channel incision, and improve instream habitat for aquatic and riparian species. Assessing restoration projects gives valuable insight into the successes and limitations of human constructed remediation efforts and is key to understanding how these degraded systems react to human induced change. Terrestrial LiDAR surveys, longitudinal profiles and cross sections, and habitat mapping were conducted before and after the installation of the Butano Creek Floodplain Restoration Project to assess the geomorphic responses that have occurred in Butano Creek San Mateo County, California. A net sediment storage gain of 760.8 m3 was recorded within the surveyed areas of Butano Creek channel, 125.5 m3 of sediment was recorded as stored within the floodplain, and total pool volume increased 2,421 percent. The methods for assessing stream restoration projects presented in this study can be useful tools for resource managers, conservationists, watershed stewards, and other professionals who want to further our understanding of these complex systems and the impacts of human restoration efforts.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Earth & Climate Sciences
- Creator:
- Wood, Philip
- Description:
- This instrumental piece was inspired by my experiences as a trumpet player. I have employed serial methods to create energies, colors, textures, and patterns of tension and release that reflect life and my own daily transformations.
- Resource Type:
- Musical Score
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Music
- Creator:
- Zhang, Chensong
- Description:
- This thesis is concerned with the optical trapping and analysis of biological specimens. The change in momentum of light due to the interaction between light and matter generates force. Optical trapping permits the manipulation of microscopic objects, detection of nanometer displacements, and piconewton forces without any mechanical contact. There are multiple methods to analyze the optical forces exerted on the specimens. Preferable methods are calculating forces through viscous drag force and power spectral density. Trap parameters in the detection of bacterial motility are intractable. Hence, the analysis of the autocorrelation function for the bacterial motion has been purposed and has successfully shown a similar result in bacterial ethanol toxicity in the presence of alcohol. The optical trap is a tightly focused beam and induces damage to the specimen. More significantly, photoninduced damage by optical trapping is dependent on bacterial growth conditions. This thesis strives to use to optical trapping to analyze bacterial damage in a single cell experiment.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Moore, Casey
- Description:
- We test the IDL package EZ_Ages for validity on spectra with low signal to noise ratios. EZ_Ages is a program, written by Genevieve Graves, that calculates age, [Fe/H] and abundance ratios for unresolved spectra. We dilute high signal to noise ratio globular cluster spectra to lower signal to noise ratios. We run Monte Carlo simulations on the low signal to noise ratio spectra to gain statistical uncertainties in age and [Fe/H]. A threshold signal to noise ratio is found that yields uncertainties to within the limitations of the software. EZ_Ages is applied to a set of dynamically hot galaxies with spectra obtained from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and two UCD candidate galaxies observed by SF SUDS at KPNO. The results are analyzed and conclusions are drawn on the validity of the software.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Lansang, Mie A.
- Description:
- The specific activity of an engineered threonine protease within trypsin framework containing an Asp/His/Thr catalytic triad was substantially increased by optimizing the amino acid residues at position 42 and 58 (Cys42-Cys58; a disulfide bridge in the wild-type trypsin). Combinations of Ala, Ser and Val were introduced at this site while simultaneously substituting the active site Ser195—> Thr using site-directed mutagenesis. Although the catalytic efficiency (kcat/KM) was four to six orders of magnitude lower than that of wild-type trypsin, all variants exhibited activity towards peptide substrates (Z-GPR-AMC and Z-GPRpNA). Compared to the S195T single variant, the C42V/C58V/S195T triple variant (WT-Tn) exhibited an 11,000-fold increase in kcat/KM due to a larger kcat and smaller Km, This result suggests that increasing both van der Waals’ volume and hydrophobicity in the ST' subsite is essential for the activity of the Asp/His/Thr triad trypsin variant.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Rutledge, Brian Gregory
- Description:
- Since 2007, the small South African city of Grahamstown has argued about what to call itself. This local name change debate has been part of a slow process of post-apartheid cultural transformation. Using the name Grahamstown as a starting point, this two-part thesis critiques an unrelated pair of academic fields: place-naming studies and South African history. To question the prevailing framework in place-naming studies—which assumes a cultural divide between Europeans and everyone else—the first half looks at the original naming of Grahamstown, occurring in 1812. It argues that scholars have immensely exaggerated the coordinated nature of European place-naming practices. The second half questions the recent preoccupation in South African historiography with studying the production of history. To counter the trend, this thesis offers a narrative account of how South Africa's national place-naming authority came into existence. It argues that the best way for historians to benefit society is to provide historical context for on-going public debates, like the state-driven renaming projects of the post-apartheid era. Historians, in short, should strive to inform the public.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Davis, Michelle Nicole
- Description:
- The purpose of this study is to develop an understanding and define the concepts of resiliency, burnout and informational support as related to social work professionals, and career longevity. Examining levels of resiliency in direct service providers can contribute to the knowledge around career longevity and address factors that may lead to, or prevent burnout (Adams, 2008). Data for this study was obtained from a convenience sample of social work professionals and social work students through a cross sectional online survey that requested general demographic information and responses to the Resiliency Scale, the Maslach Burnout Inventory and the Informational Support Sub Scale. A total of eighty-nine respondents participated in this study; fifty social work students, and thirty-nine professionals. Results of this study indicate that respondents who socialize are less likely to experience burnout and that the older a person is, the lower they score on a measure of burnout.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Social Work
- Creator:
- Cundiff, McLaren Rianne
- Description:
- In this thesis, the practice of museum records digitization and the impact of digital recordkeeping systems on existing analog records and recordkeeping is assessed, because as records are digitized, the interaction of the two recordkeeping systems is often overlooked. A literature review was conducted, examining topics such as the nature of museum records, the history of museum recordkeeping practices, and the distribution of responsibility for museum records, followed by a national survey of 150 accredited institutions. The results of the survey are discussed, and several conclusions and recommendations are then presented. It is concluded that museum professionals are illequipped to work with new recordkeeping technologies, and that current standards and best practices do not address the existence of complimentary recordkeeping systems. Finally, to integrate organizational records into digital recordkeeping systems, museums professionals must develop new recordkeeping standards and be better trained in emerging technologies.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Art
24. Fabric
- Creator:
- Wimbish, Jason
- Description:
- This post-apocalyptic creative work explores the systematic racism that is woven in to the fabric of society by focusing on the interpersonal relationships of one family that struggles to live against the effects of a nation reeling from the structural effects of its all but extinct ethnic populations. It examines social understandings of language, taboos, and how meaning is defined and assigned in culture. It challenges what it means to be.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Creative Writing
- Creator:
- Taylor, Shawn Demetrius
- Description:
- This thesis investigates the nascent AfroGeek culture, not as a way to make geek culture (science fiction, fantasy, horror, technology) culturally and racially acceptable, but to prove that AfroGeek culture is post-colonial action taken to become visible, and to have agency, within mainstream geek culture. By comparing the impact and influence of three specific streams of AfroGeek culture: the literary, music, and film, I will argue that AfroGeek culture is an aesthetic, a form or propaganda, and a site for post-colonial resistance.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Humanities
- Creator:
- Tarnate, Ella Lorraine
- Description:
- This paper suggests that conceptual replications are key to making science cumulative by helping generalize findings and ensuring intersubjectivity. Attempts were made to conceptually replicate previously proposed findings (e.g., Quoidbach et al., 2015) that accumulating travel experiences may undermine a person’s ability to savor pleasant, but more ordinary experiences. In line with the original experiment, we manipulated participants’ perceptions of feeling well-traveled and subsequently measured how much they savored their experience going through a virtual tour of a tourist attraction in Boston. Study la and lb successfully replicated the original manipulation, making participants feel a sense of being well-traveled. However, Studies 2, 3, and 4 failed to replicate the original findings that feeling abundantly traveled hindered savoring. We discuss the importance of conceptual replication in the current debated topic.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Mars, Diana Greenough
- Description:
- The pyrite phase of iron disulfide (FeS2) has attracted interest as a visible light absorption layer for photovoltaic cells because of its low band gap and large absorption coefficient. A one-step hydrothermal approach was employed to synthesize pyrite thin films for solar applications. X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy were used to characterize the films and confirm the presence of the pyrite phase. Films consisting of primarily the pyrite phase were synthesized, although crystal growth and surface roughness were difficult to control.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Creator:
- Miller, Wilson Joseph
- Description:
- Grammaticalization theory is used to analyze language change cross-linguistically and in historical linguistics as lexical items move from open class content to closed class functional words. With natural language as the data, this analytic framework is used to perform a diachronic and synchronic analysis of “ass”—which has grammaticalized in colloquial American English into an intensifying clitic. The diachronic analysis focuses on the linguistic shifts “ass” underwent as a result of polysemy, metonymy, syntactic reanalysis and decategorialization, semantic bleaching, and pragmatic influences. The synchronic analysis is performed in lieu of the historical shifts to explicate descriptively the parameters for grammatical usage in contemporary language performance, focusing on the topics of syntax, semantics, phonology, and morphology.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- English Language and Literature
- Creator:
- White, Andrew William
- Description:
- This paper examines the relationship between the Slow Cinema movement and the action film genre. By analyzing the work of Jean-Pierre Melville, I will display the ways in which many of his films can be classified as action films while sharing qualities synonymous with Slow Cinema. As a result, Melville can be considered a precursor to a new cinematic movement which I am proposing: “Slow Action”. Gradually developed over the past several years, Slow Action is the child of the Slow Cinema movement and the action genre. Hsiao-Hsien Hou’s The Assassin (2015) and Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin (2013) are prominent and highly regarded examples of this movement and, in this paper, I will engage in a close analysis of their cinematic qualities as a way of defining said movement. In appropriating these qualities, Slow Action films manage to challenge the conventions of action cinema, as well as the notion that such a challenge can only be mounted from outside of its sphere of influence.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Cinema Studies
- Creator:
- Chen, Jei-Ying
- Description:
- Postulated by Bayer (1955), the calcaxonian gorgonians may have close affinity to the pennatulaceans based on the resemblance of axial structure observed under polarized light microscopy. To further confirm the phylogenetic relationship between the two groups of octocorals, this study applied both polarized light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy to examine the extinction patterns of sclerites and axial skeletons in macro- to ultrastructural scale from the total of thirteen genera of calcaxonian octocorals and nineteen genera of sea pens. The results show significant similarities between calcaxonian gorgonians and sea pens on scleritic crystal orientations and organization of axial structures, together with the inferred phylogeny of forty-six taxa (seventeen gorgonians and twenty-nine pennatulaceans) using ND2 mtDNA sequence data, all strongly support Bayer’s postulation and reveal the sister group relationship between the Ellisellid calcaxonian gorgonians and the pennatulaceans. The X-ray microanalysis was also carried out for inter-family comparison of the axial chemical composition between calcaxonian gorgonians and sea pens for the implication of phylogeny, however the results shown that the axial chemical composition is largely determined by ambient seawater instead of biologically intrinsic differences, therefore it did not provide much resolution to gain plausible phylogenetic implication in consequence.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Youngquist, Alyssa Lauren
- Description:
- This study aimed to replicate and extend research on adolescent bullying and victimization by determining gender differences, associations among bullying, anxiety, and self-esteem, as well as relationships between bullying and time perspectives. Selfreport surveys were collected from 406 adolescents from a public high school. Findings indicated several major results. First, males reported significantly more bullying, victimization, and bully-victimization compared to females. Relationships between bullying, psychological outcomes, and time perspective also differed by gender. For females, victimization and bully-victimization was positively related to anxiety, whereas males had a positive relationship with anxiety for all bully statuses. For females, the intensity of all bully statuses was negatively associated with self-esteem. For males, only victimization and bully-victimization were negatively correlated with self-esteem. Regarding time perspective, female victimization, bullying, and bully-victim status were related to time attitudes in theoretically expected directions, but less associations were shown across time attitudes for males. Future frequency was negatively related to bullying and bully-victimization for females, but not for any status for males. However, for males, bullying was associated with time orientation, where more victimization, bullying, and bully-victimization were reported by participants with an orientation toward the past. In contrast, bullying was associated with time relation for females. Specifically, bullying and bully-victimization was associated with the perspective that time periods were unrelated. Implications and future directions are discussed.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Psychology
32. Unzippered earth
- Creator:
- Rosinus, Diana Laurel
- Description:
- A zipper represents ordered/ patterned construction and, when undone, ordered deconstruction. It calls to mind themes of sexuality, creation, repetition, man-made linear constriction (and freedom from it). Our world is constructed of pattern: sound, shape, color. Even time and sexuality exist within natural pattern. It is my desire to deconstruct these elements, which are naturally webbed but often conventionally understood as linear, and place them back together in new, tight webs of language so that they may shine in their interconnectivity. A world created and understood by deconstructing and reconstructing natural patterns is an Unzippered Earth. It is my belief that great human and spiritual resonance lies in this place.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Creative Writing
- Creator:
- Wono, Katrina Adrianto
- Description:
- Site-specific recombination introduces topological changes on DNA molecules. The tangle method of Ernst and Sumners allows computation of all possible enzymatic mechanisms. In 2005, Vazquez and colleagues showed that the three mechanisms proposed for the action of XerC/XerD on unknotted plasmids could be interpreted as different projections of a 3D object. Here we extend and formalize this idea by entrapping tangles inside a regular tetrahedron. We use the tangle method to analyze TnpI experiments from Bernard Hallet’s group. Using the tetrahedron approach, we show that in certain cases two of the different mechanisms are viewed as different projections of the same 3D object. Using band surgery we confirm the topology of the products of TnpI recombination. Hallet’s group hypothesized that TnpI inversion on an n-torus knot produced an (n — 3)-twist knot (n odd, n >7). We confirm this hypothesis when n = 7 and find a counterexample for n = 9.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- McWhirter, Richard Caleb
- Description:
- In this thesis we use zonal velocity data at the “cloud layer,” the visible atmospheric surface of Jupiter, and temperature data at 10 constant pressure surfaces above the cloud layer to numerically integrate two versions of the thermal wind equation to determine the mean zonal (east-west) velocity (u) on Jupiter as a function of latitude (λ) and pressure (p) in the region —60° < λ < 60°, 1 < p < 1000 mbar. These calculations are performed in the context of the debate regarding the nature of Jupiter’s jets. We determined that our results are valid far from the equator (| λ| > 30°) and suggest that the jets in this region are as deep as the geostrophic approximation holds, and that near the equator the data is too noisy to quantitatively trust our results, let alone extrapolate below 1000 mbar. Nevertheless, our results at the equator are qualitatively consistent with observations of the quasiquadrennial oscillation in the upper stratosphere.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- McWhirter, Richard Caleb
- Description:
- In this thesis we use zonal velocity data at the “cloud layer,” the visible atmospheric surface of Jupiter, and temperature data at 10 constant pressure surfaces above the cloud layer to numerically integrate two versions of the thermal wind equation to determine the mean zonal (east-west) velocity (u) on Jupiter as a function of latitude (λ) and pressure (p) in the region —60° < λ < 60°, 1 < p < 1000 mbar. These calculations are performed in the context of the debate regarding the nature of Jupiter’s jets. We determined that our results are valid far from the equator (| λ| > 30°) and suggest that the jets in this region are as deep as the geostrophic approximation holds, and that near the equator the data is too noisy to quantitatively trust our results, let alone extrapolate below 1000 mbar. Nevertheless, our results at the equator are qualitatively consistent with observations of the quasiquadrennial oscillation in the upper stratosphere.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Creator:
- Craun, Dustin
- Description:
- Race as an organizing principle, and Whiteness in particular, is perhaps the Western worlds most significant and lasting invention and ideology. Each of the Western worlds three main organizing principles: Christianity, race, and nationalism have been used to construct manichiean world’s of ‘good’ and ‘evil,’ black and white, and ‘us’ and ‘them.’ In this thesis it is my goal to map some of the ways in which White benevolent innocence has been constructed historically and contemporarily to affirm the identity of the Western conquering forces, while reassuring White people of their ‘inherent goodness,’ and ‘innocence’ that has constructed a false consciousness amongst White people. In making this argument I look at the philosophical roots of White Benevolent Innocence, I study the racialization of the city of Denver through the lens of the Sand Creek Massacre and then I look at the discourse of developmentalism in Africa. Finally, I attempt to come up with some ideas as to how to end the continual usage and reuse of White benevolent innocence, with a hope of epistemologically delinking from white supremacy.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Ethnic Studies
- Creator:
- Noyes, Sarah Elizabeth
- Description:
- Previous research has shown that individuals high in emotion recognition abilities are more accurate in obtaining information about other people’s internal states, and they can use this information to respond appropriately in social situations. To assess whether emotion recognition abilities are related to romantic relationship outcomes, a validated performance measure of emotion recognition was administered to 87 participants in a university setting. Participants also completed self-report measures of relationship satisfaction and quality. In addition, the present study examined whether communal responsiveness, empathy, and conflict resolution style were mediators that explained the association between emotion recognition abilities and relationship outcomes. Results showed that engaging in less conflict mediated the relationship between negative emotion recognition abilities and romantic relationship satisfaction. Discussion focuses on possible explanations for the results and suggested directions for future research.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Andrews, Miles Taylor
- Description:
- Are border controls coercive? Applying the “enforcement approach” to coercion, I show, provides a positive answer to this question. Thus, I side with Arash Abizadeh in his debate with David Miller over the nature of coercion and the legitimacy of border controls. After first countering Miller’s reasons for rejecting the argument, I aim to defend Abizadeh’s (2008) argument against a state’s right to unilaterally control its borders by framing the debate in several important ways. I highlight the ways in which state coercion differs from individual coercion by adopting an approach to coercion that emphasizes power differentials and the choice to use them through the enforcement apparatus of the state based on a monopoly on the use of physical force or violence. This, I take it, is the core of my paper, because it provides a solution to the Abizadeh-Miller debate over whether border controls are coercive in a way that honor both of their respective concerns. Finally, I argue that the enforcement approach, in neatly bringing together these various lines of reasoning, suggests a defense of the democratic justification thesis based instead on the way coercion interacts with the liberal-democratic value of equality, in addition to autonomy.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Lai, Gabrielle
- Description:
- Cross-national comparisons have shown that mathematical performance of East Asian children surpasses their U.S. peers as early as five-years-old (Siegler & Mu, 2008). Many cultural factors (e.g., number names, parental input, and preschool mathematics) have been proposed to explain the performance gap (Geary et al., 1996). However, it is still unclear if the superior math performance of young East Asian children is limited to certain types of mathematical skills and knowledge. The present study examined U.S. and Singapore 4-year-olds’ performance on conventional (i.e., TEMA-3) and nonconventional math tasks (i.e., estimation, measurement, non-verbal calculation, and pattern recognition). Results of this study have shown that Singaporean preschoolers outperformed U.S. preschoolers on the conventional task as well as most of the nonconventional. These findings suggest that Singaporean children’s advanced proficiency in learned mathematical competencies extends to many other general aspects of mathematical skills. Such findings emphasize the importance of early mathematics education and further accentuate the need for changes in the educational and instructional approach towards early childhood mathematics development in the U.S.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Nguyen, Philip
- Description:
- The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between transgenerational trauma and ethnic identity development for second generation Vietnamese American college students to develop a more nuanced understanding of the ways in which Vietnam War-related trauma informs the "ved experiences of this population. This research is exploratory in its aim and primarily seeks to address the question of: How is inherited trauma expressed and understood in the lives of second generation Vietnamese American college students on individual, familial, and community levels? How do transgenerational transmissions of trauma, or trauma inheritance, impact the ethnic identity development of second generation Vietnamese American college students? Through a qualitative, ethnographic analysis utilizing semi-structured, in-depth interviews, this research attempts to capture and frame the narratives of second generation Vietnamese American college students and the processes that contribute to “becoming Vietnamese American” through the lens of centering transgenerational transmission of trauma.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Asian American Studies
41. Semisweet
- Creator:
- Zolotow, Nina
- Description:
- Full-length novel about candy, time traveling and death, with metaphorical implications (and chocolate). A programmer, whose mother recently died, discovers that candy makes her time travel in her own life, disrupting her reality. Gradually the present becomes more compelling than past.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Creative Writing
- Creator:
- Wang, Ching-Yi Miranda
- Description:
- This study captures the dynamics of online social networking among SFSU Math graduate students over time by applying the usage of cliques. The study started by collecting data from Facebook, then applying graphical representations and small-world network models to the data. The network was then analyzed by finding the cliques, calculating the dynamics of the cliques, and comparing them to the corresponding random graphs.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Mathematics
- Creator:
- Ebashi, Ai
- Description:
- This project will explore the relationships between space and non-space, signifiers and signs, sonic and visual rhymes, and the Eastern and the Western linguistic point of views. While emphasizing the materiality or pictorial aspects of the kanji characters, 1 hope to introduce to American or English-speaking readers who use the phonographic writing system (in which each symbol stands for a single sound) the logographic writing system (in which each character stands for a specific meaning) by means of creative translation and poetry. The empty, white background on each page is intended not only to facilitate the apprehension of the text, but also to represent the “space,” which I have talked about in the prologue, using the enso circle.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Creative Writing
- Creator:
- Cybulski, David Mark
- Description:
- This study combines two research areas: (a) the interaction between knowledge and systematic processing (Barker & Hanson, 2005) and (b) motivated social cognition (Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, Sulloway, 2003) . Students from San Francisco State University (n = 130) were given an online survey concerning Presidential candidate preferences both before and after induction of systematic cognition through the use of an Analytic Hierarchy Processing tool, as well as a test of political knowledge, a Need-for-closure scale (Webster & Kruglanski, 1994), and a Wilson-Patterson Attitude Inventory Conservatism scale (Wilson, 1989). The primary hypothesis - that induced systematic cognition would cause political preferences to become more moderate for those with high levels of political knowledge and more extreme for those with low levels - was not supported. The secondary hypothesis - that need-for-closure would be positively correlated with extremism - was not supported. Implications of these findings, study limitations, and suggestions for future work are discussed.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Hallett, Ashley Danielle
- Description:
- The aim of this thesis is to investigate and identify if a certain element of a video game's soundtrack, whether it be the dialogue, sound effects, or music, develops more immersion in a player than the others. The preliminary research of this Thesis offers recommendations for future studies and experiments as well. Two video game soundtracks were examined by the researcher and then reviewed for the aesthetic and immersive qualities within each of the individual elements.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts
- Creator:
- Plake, Clayton Jared
- Description:
- The following is a Marxist psychoanalytic incursion into the films of Alfred Hitchcock. I use Freud’s work with the dead father and figurations of paternal absence to explore the way in which erotic relationships in The Lodger, Rope, and Vertigo reflect ideological paradigm shifts connected to specific historical contexts and social concerns. In my introduction, I lay the groundwork for my scholarship and situate it within contemporary critical discourse surrounding Hitchcock’s work. I then proceed to explore representations of police power and ruling-class oppression in The Lodger, the fascistic dimension of post-World War II American ideology as it is reflected in Rope, and early Cold War-era ideology as it finds expression in Vertigo. In my conclusion, I challenge the notion that Hitchcock’s films present the view that ideology’s hold is inescapable, and that careful reconsideration of his films from a more expressly Marxist perspective reveals the possibility of resistance.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- English Language and Literature
- Creator:
- Guerveno, Sylvan
- Description:
- This piece in two movements is a symphonic poem loosely based on a film script that I read. The first movement is almost seven minutes long and explores the struggle of a man haunted by the disappearance of his young daughter. The second movement lasts over one and a half minutes and reflects his peace upon finding her alive years later, sadly just before his own death. While the second movement is played largo, the first one fluctuates between several tempi. I created a juxtaposition of lyrical themes and dissonant backgrounds by employing three significant twenty century techniques: clusters, extended instrumental techniques, and free chromaticism.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Music
- Creator:
- Smith, Justin Zachary
- Description:
- Jack London’s 1913 novel John Barleycorn is the closest we have to an autobiography of the fabled author. The accuracy of his descriptions of his adventurism and of himself has been challenged, despite the fact that many have embraced his heroic self-myth. This has created a conundrum in which London’s standing as a folkloric celebrity has obscured his writing itself. This is also true for Beat writer Jack Kerouac, for whom London’s myth had an enormous impact. In Kerouac’s creation of his own self-myth, he found a readership that misunderstood his philosophy, driving him to alcoholism, which he recounts in his 1962 novel Big Sur. I argue that autobiographical accuracy is irrelevant in the works of the two writers, that their self-myths are components of an ‘American Mythological Tradition’ in literature in which the tramp, the sailor, and even the barroom god have displaced the sandaled hero of Classical mythology.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- English Language and Literature
- Creator:
- Cook, Booker
- Description:
- This study examines the influence that histories written and taught from a comprehensive approach have had on Black men. This is important because research shows that Black men are targeted disproportionately with demoralizing innuendo and negative labeling which affects their ability to focus and achieve. This master’s thesis explains how corrective information may be an antidote that reverses the harmful effects of abusive language.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Ethnic Studies
- Creator:
- Nosratieh, Bita
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Francisco
- Department:
- Mathematics