Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship of consultation between archaeologists and Native American groups with respect to cultural resources that exists because of consultation procedures that began being requir . . .

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis I Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a disease that may affect over one million Americans and seventeen million people worldwide. This investigative project contributes information and perspective about MElCFS through a variety of m . . .

Purpose of the Study: The orthodox Catholic Church of Late Antiquity was a very active participant in the political and social turmoil that defined fourth and fifth century Europe. The church had a vested interest in maintaining its position as the on . . .

Purpose of the Study: This thesis is based on the excavations carried out at Cabin B to investigate the foundation for the Friends of the Cowell Lime Works volunteers who are restoring the cabin, to recover a range of artifacts left by the occupants o . . .

Purpose of the Study: The Carrillo Adobe site is a historically significant archaeological site with the potential to yield important information about the prehistory and history of the Santa Rosa area and about interactions between different cultural . . .

This qualitative study attempts to understand the ways in which Filipino Americans gain access into the K-12 public education arena as teaching professionals and their career pathways to administrative positions. It takes into consideration the ethnic . . .

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of the study was to determine whether or not researched based reading instruction would improve the academic scores of English Language Learners in a Title I school. Procedure: To determine the effectiveness of resear . . .

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility and efficacy of shifting the paradigm within a content centered classroom. Advanced Placement United States History typically follows a transmittal model of instruction. . . .

Although mammalian herbivores are well known to have substantial effects on their host plants and entire communities, few studies have considered the individual and interactive effects of multiple herbivores in the same system. This is surprising give . . .

Purpose of the Study: This study examines the role of one family in detail to obtain information about family farming and the development of agriculture in California. Looking at the motivations and experiences of this successful family yields an inti . . .

This thesis explores two ways that Lithuanian-born Yiddish writer Chaim Grade (19101982) deconstructs Jewish history and tradition in order to restore a sense of permanence and center to a community that was destroyed during the Holocaust. The:first w . . .

Purpose of the Study: Social studies has the potential to assist students in becoming active participants in our country's democracy. However, many students may not gain the skills from social studies courses that they should for a variety of reasons. . . .

I undertook a study of the habitat use, distribution. and factors influencing the reproductive success of the threatened California red-legged frog (Rana aurora draytonii) and introduced bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) at Ledson Marsh, Sonoma County, Cali . . .

Purpose of the Study: Several studies have investigated the development of oxygen storage capacity in diving animals, but few studies have examined the development of oxygen store usage in these animals. Northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostri . . .

Purpose of the Study: Westamerica has been experiencing a large turnover in its financial sales staff. The purpose of this project is to identify the motivational orientation of the staff that has remained. From this data recommendations will be made . . .

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study is to characterize the effects of ethanol on the surface adsorption of myoglobin using ultraviolet-visible (UV-VIS) attenuated total internal reflection (ATR) spectroscopy. Further, this project examines . . .

Purpose of the Study: The crime of human trafficking is formally addressed by nonprofit organizations and government agencies in every Bay Area county with the exception of Marin. The purpose of this study is to examine possible instances of sex traff . . .

Intent: The Green Vocations course curriculum is an introduction to a myriad of green career paths. This semester-length course spotlights twelve distinct industry sectors that are experiencing a demand for trained employees with green and sustainable . . .

This study is comprised of two case studies that explore each student's beliefs about mathematics and the student's creation of a mathematical identity. To understand identity, I use Lave & Wengers' (1991) Situated Learning Theory (SLT) as a theor . . .

Biological invasions by non-native species are a global phenomenon that have the capacity to dramatically alter native communities and ecosystems. Despite the alarming rate and scale of these Invasions, surprisingly few studies have explored the effec . . .

Purpose of the Study: Research suggests that students with severe disabilities, particularly autism, learn to use sign language for many reasons. Prior research on using sign language with students with autism suggest that although the participants we . . .

Purpose of the Study: I propose that water deficit is a factor that influences vegetation patterns. In order to investigate this hypothesis I located an especially diverse area of approximately 4 km2 on Mt. Tamalpais where a mosaic of forest, grasslan . . .

Purpose of the Study: The lack of dating techniques for and ethnographic information about petroglyphs has usually led to their exclusion from analyses because they cannot be dated, and therefore, cannot be linked to a cultural sequence. In addition, . . .

This thesis investigates the representation of bodies in young adult literature, using Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games as a contemporary case study. It probes the anxieties that abound in contemporary notions of the body, the ways we are comfortable . . .

The spread of invasive, non-native species is a global phenomenon and has been recognized as a critical source of environmental change. Despite the prominence of these widely-occurring invasions, surprisingly few studies have quantified the impact of . . .

Purpose of the Study: The primary goal of this thesis is to comprehensively document the social history and physical development of Preston, a health-oriented religious colony which existed from 1885-1935. The Sonoma County settlement numbered about 1 . . .

Purpose of Study: The Carrillo Adobe is a site of historic significance for the community of Santa Rosa that has been the subject of sporadic, unsuccessful attempts at restoration. It is occasionally the object of local controversy and is still consid . . .

Purpose of the Study: Chondracanthus Kutzing is a common genus of the red algal family Gigartinaceae. Seven species are currently recognized to occur along the northeastern Pacific. Systematists have in the past and present held conflicting viewpoints . . .

Purpose of the Study: Most of what is known about marine tardigrades is based on research conducted in Europe and along the east coast of the United States. Prior to this study only two cursory surveys of marine sand-dwelling taxa had been conducted a . . .

During prolonged fasting, an animal will derive its metabolic needs from the `catabolism of fat as well as amino acids from lean tissue. Certain organs though are glucose dependent and require a steady supply of carbohydrates. To reduce the degradatio . . .

Herbivores can have large effects on individual plants (e.g. growth rates, tissue chemistry and reproduction), and these effects can in turn influence other taxa using the same host plant, and cascade up to the ecosystem level by altering nutrient cyc . . .

Purpose of the Study: Inter-site analyses have been lacking for the northern Sonoma coast. This study was undertaken to confirm survey data regarding site types, synthesize previous single-site studies, and generate the outline of a chronological sequ . . .

There is something remarkable happening in the field of music education, and it is turning young musicians into agents of social change and social justice. Children are lining up outside of music schools worldwide in order to embark on a journey that . . .

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study is to identify special needs of older Chinese immigrants and to relate those needs to culturally appropriate elder care services in Marin County, California. Based on the identification of these needs, a . . .

The Real Instrument is a conceptual cross-genre novella that explores the wandering consciousnesses (or larger collective conscious) of commuters sharing the same highspeed rail line. This collection of post-modern vignettes is organized into five seg . . .

Purpose of the Study: Classroom based archaeology education programs for elementary age students are often geared mostly to the science curriculum and are based on non-local, aggrandized archaeological sites. Archaeology educational materials created . . .

Purpose of Thesis: Ranching has been the dominant industry on the Point Reyes peninsula from the 1830s to the present, and the material remnants of these activities make up a significant portion of the cultural resources the Point Reyes National Seash . . .

Purpose of Study: The Gunther barbed projectile point type has long been considered as a time marker of the late prehistoric period in Northern California. During the 39 years since its introduction the utility of the type has been diluted by a growin . . .

Purpose Jackson Demonstration State Forest, managed by California Department of Forestry (CDF), must comply with environmental protections codified in the Forest Practice Rules. Within these rules are requirements for the identification and preservati . . .

Purpose: Contained under the umbrella 'Project 2061,' the central framework for the modernization of science education, "science literacy for all Americans," was introduced by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science in 1989. More than twen . . .

Purpose of the Study: Artifacts of Chinese origin have always fascinated the historical archaeologist, both due to their ease of identification and representation of an otherness. Analyses of these artifacts, however, often offer little more than a sh . . .

This thesis investigates ways that Virginia Woolf's novel, Mrs. Dalloway, explores the effects of modernity on the human subject. Using the controlling theme of construction and deconstruction, the thesis investigates Woolf's view of subjectivity from . . .

Purpose of the Study: Between 1875 and 1900, Sonoma county was the site of four utopian colonies, Fountaingrove, Preston, Icaria Speranza and Altruria. These colonies had religious and social reform origins, an agricultural economic base, and a messag . . .

The purpose of the investigation reported here was to assess the feasibility of the use of a special class of device (organic sensor) for real-time contactless measurement of psychological stress or other psychological or physiological state in a huma . . .

Purpose of the Study: Amicitla is a Latin term that means "friendship," and was applied in relationships with other states when no formal commitment was necessary_ It was a flexible term, and varied in levels of importance depending on whom it was app . . .

Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to preliminarily identify the Granada Relocation Center (Amache) as a place that has traditional cultural significance and to evaluate the eligibility of Amache as a traditional cultural property for listing on t . . .

Purpose of the Study: Linguist, story-teller, poet, novelist, illustrator, scholar, homesteader, vaquero, wild-man, sorcerer's apprentice, Jaime de Angulo was a legendary figure in his own time. The scholars and artists he associated with and influenc . . .

Herbivores have diverse impacts on their host plants, affecting recruitment, survival, growth, architecture, fecundity, and other aspects of plant performance. Especially for longer-lived plant species, the effects of any single herbivore species can . . .

The salt ponds and levees of southern San Francisco Bay are a culturally significant landscape wherein culture and nature have been linked over 150 years of industrial salt production through solar evaporation in an extensive wetland ecosystem. This 1 . . .

Purpose of the Study: This curriculum project was implemented pursuant to the provisions of Standard Agreement 4-843-3502, between the California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) and Sonoma State Academic Foundation (SSUAF). According to this . . .