Purpose: The intent of this thesis is to propose a collaborative landscape level management strategy for the Saline Valley Salt Tram (SVST). This unique aerial tramway was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1974 and was the f . . .

On December 30, 2004, my father murdered my mother. The wound left by my mother’s absence has never fully healed. This work is my attempt to describe what it felt like to lose everything in one day, to try and find my place in a new family, and to mov . . .

The author studied the effects of bacterial invasion on biofilm structure of another bacterium. Myxococcus xanthus and Bacillus subtilis were grown on 1.5% CYE agar. The cultures were incubated at 31° C for 3-4 days to give the colonies time to grow . . .

This thesis consists of creative fiction by the author.

The proliferation of Information and Communications Technologies is a gamechanger for international relations, and the classical theories are not suited for application in cyber studies. The current literature on cyber studies, is fragmented, and lack . . .

A wide variety of assessment procedures have been utilized to ascertain the typical personality traits of student activists of both the right and left. Also, much research concerning nocturnal dreams has been conducted, but few investigations have dea . . .

According to Byron Massialas the traditional image of a teacher has been one of an older maiden lady who has de voted her entire life and love to teaching children. She was not likely to be outspoken on political issues nor influential in educati . . .

The discovery of antitoxins to both diphtheria and tetanus toxins dramatically introduced two immunological phenomena to twentieth-century science. First, biologically active molecules, such as toxins and enzymes, may have the potential to be neutr . . .

A dual purpose furnace was constructed and used to obtain F 16 3center densities up to 6 X 10 centers/cm in natural sodium chloride by additive coloration methods. The sample crystal was heated to temperatures around 600° C in a vacuum of 45 mm me . . .

The city of Exeter is in a rural area of Tulare County near the center of the San Joaquin Valley, California. The economy is agriculturally oriented with an emphasis on citrus. Exeter Union High School, located in the city of Exeter, is a single hi . . .

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that commonly causes serious nosocomial infections. P. aeruginosa’s virulence is derived from its large genome that allows adaptations to many environments and high antibiotic resistance. Gene sequ . . .

The project contained herein has three purposes: to establish the existence of a need for housing; to establish that there is a corresponding need to define and explore alternatives to those approaches now in use; and to establish the existence . . .

The purpose of this introductory course is to serve as a guide and manual to the Arab instructor. It is an aid to help solve the problems of teaching English as a foreign language. The differences in structure and sounds and in the cultures reflec . . .

That people assimilate and react in multl-cultural environments is a fact that is observable even in present day United States. The way people solve and adapt to this problem determines the survival, extinction or amalgamation of each separate cul . . .

This study attempted to demonstrate whether or not nursing personnel adequately turn, cough and deep breathe postoperative patients. Criteria were established for adequately carrying out these procedures and then nursing, performance was measured. . . .

Since the advent of electronic data processing equipment, white- collar jobs have been subject to a high degree of subdivision. This division process has reduced many formerly interesting and responsible jobs to mere repetitive tasks. Thus, the env . . .

In the history of American education, patterns of pedagogy have always reflected the values and self-assessments of the larger society which fostered and sustained them. Though initially rooted and set in theocratic values, by the end of the eight . . .

This paper is a general study of the quintets of Padre Antonio Soler. It briefly surveys the material itself: its instrumentation, its technical aspects, and its form. The paper further attempts to relate the quintets to the period in music history i . . .

Penicill ium exnansum is a common fungus occurring in the organic debris in soil. It can also be found in food products, such as grains, cereal products, eggs and chickens (Raper and Thorn, 194-9). However, it is most common in ripe fruits suc . . .

Discovery of career fields in metalworking by the student is one of the primary goals of vocational-technical education at the community college. Through the offering of specially selected metal- working courses, the student is given the opportunit . . .

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In Social Psychology, attention has been given to interpersonal response traits which affect the social behavior of persons. Krech, Crutchfield, and Ballachev have called attention to such traits which characterize the social conduct of people. They . . .

This study was undertaken to investigate seasonal acclimatization in two populations of Hyalella azteca as measured by their oxygen consumption. One population was taken from a high Mg habitat and one from a low Mg environment. No significant seasonal . . .

This pilot study was designed to test the null hypothesis that tnere is no significant difference between the information obtained by the indigenous Mexican Health Worker on the initial visit to a Mexican patient and that obtained by the professional . . .

Since its inception with the flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903, aviation has undergone great advances both in military and civilian aircraft. The need for better and faster aircraft has placed the aviation industry in a most desirabl . . .

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The purpose of this paper is to study the factors that determined the emergence of leftist radicalism among Brazilian students in the 1960®s. The present research starts from the assumption that during this period, when Brazil was undergoing political . . .

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Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) is a very useful tool to study atomic structure where energy level differences are on the order of I Oyev to lOOyev. The first successful experiment was performed by Zavoisky in 19^5 (Ref. I). Since then numero . . .

Many programs operate successfully for several years, yet do not seem to have an impact on other programs in need of the same success. This thesis will attempt to bridge that gap by describing the inception, development, implementation, and project . . .

Die casting is the metal working process by which molten metal is forced into steel molds, under pressure, in order to form simple or complex parts with a rapid cycle and little labor. Die casting is the fastest of all casting processes; it is most . . .

We describe the power graphs of split metacylcic groups of order 2(2kp). We do this by looking at the order of the elements in the group and containment relationships among subgroups of maximal subgroups. Through finding the power graphs of this family . . .

Psycho linguistics, as the term implies, is concerned with the integration of psychological and linguistic knowledge. Although the term had been used prior to the 1950s, the disciplines of psychology and linguistics were relatively autonomous unti . . .

A large body of research demonstrates significant enhancement of retention when encoding episodes are temporally spaced versus massed together. Researchers use either a ‘restudy’ or a ‘retrieval’ method of encoding during relearning trials, but the . . .

Superstitious ritualistic behaviors provide athletes a level of control in a sports context where they lack it (Cohn, 2000). Superstitions are personal in nature; thus, the individual should also be considered as a potential component of superstitious . . .

Discussion of purpose, intent. Segments of American society are differentiated from each other by such things as amount of income, quantity and quality of material possessions, areas of occupation, place-type of residential dwelling, and social s . . .

We show that, in the spaces Lp(0,∞) (1 ≤ p < ∞), the bounded weighted backward shift operator (Tx)(t) = wx(t + a) and its unbounded counterpart (Tx)(t) = wtx(t + a) (w > 1 and a > 0) are chaotic. We also extend the unbounded case to the space C0[0,∞) . . .

Contemporary Young Adult Dystopias and Utopias alike are now a part of our popular culture, and in effect, have begun to lose credibility in the academic setting, especially within the secondary classroom. Yet, I argue, YA dystopian literature is an . . .

This investigation was designed to examine potential relationships between communicative disorders and socioeco- nomic status. Widely-held assumptions associate upper- or upper-middle socioeconomic status with stuttering, middle socioeconomic stat . . .

Captive breeding is a critical management strategy in the recovery and preservation of certain threatened and endangered species. Programs that implement captive breeding must maintain a balance between preserving the genetic purity and genetic dive . . .

During the Cold War, United States government officials used a “soft power” strategy to conduct foreign policy known as public diplomacy. The consensus found in historical scholarship links a “state-private” network between U.S. government officials . . .

The 1954 Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education Topeka marked the beginning of desegregation in schools across the country. While the primary target of the court ruling was the South, school districts in the North and West also suff . . .

High school students who have left their comprehensive high school site for a form of alternative education and successfully returned to their original site for a period time before graduating have beaten the odds. It is absolutely necessary to supp . . .

The purpose of this thesis was to conduct a visual rhetorical analysis of several images of Barack Obama crying. This study proposed four research questions intended to explicate the significance and meaning of the images: (1) What are the potential . . .

We take a close look at the nature of expansive mappings on certain metric spaces (compact, totally bounded, and bounded), provide a finer classification for such mappings, and use them to characterize boundedness. We also furnish a simple straightforwa . . .

About Gertrude Stein there has been much controversy, little competent criticism, but many prejudiced utterances. There has been extravagant praise and damaging accusation. Was she a literary fraud? A clinical case of megalomania? Just a rich and garr . . .

This thesis focused on the problem of adapting pistachio cultivation to warm winters such as the Central Valley of California is likely to face in the future. Warm winters negatively affect pistachio yields through two known mechanisms: bloom as . . .

There has been an extensive amount of effort to combat tobacco use, yet the emergence of electronic cigarettes threatens to jeopardize the current progress. This study sought to determine statistically significant differences in electronic cigarette . . .

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of additional time allotment in a remedial reading class on a selected group of students in grades two through five in Wasco, California. The study was designed to find the effect of the additi . . .

This thesis seeks to examine the extent to which Californians and the Southern Pacific Railroad were at odds during the twenty-year span from 1874–1894 through the framing of Frank Norris’s 1901 work, The Octopus, a representational yet highly sensa . . .