The use of restraints on individuals with special needs has been increasing over the past decade, especially among law enforcement agencies. Even though, improper use of restraints can lead to severe harm and even death there are no federal guidelines . . .

Hunger is related to food restriction such as food availability, affordability, and accessibility. These are direct causes of food insecurity. Due to these factors many turn to community services such as food banks. The purpose of this study was to co . . .

Aluminum injection molds, primarily used in the past for prototypes are being investigated for use as production molds with the advent of a new generation of aluminum materials specifically tailored for this application. This project investigates the . . .

A review of literature demonstrated the national significance of John Muir’s accomplishments to the conservation movement in the United State as well as the significance of the home site and ranch. Student field trips to the John Muir National Histori . . .

This was an exploratory qualitative study of practitioners’ perceptions of relapse. The data collected was through voluntary individual interviews of eleven practitioners. The data was coded and overall themes emerged. The interviewees’ basic definiti . . .

My idea in this, my first woodwind quintet, was to compose five movements or vignettes that would feature a different instrument in each of its sections. While the five instruments comprising a woodwind quintet blend well together, each has its own di . . .

The analysis of Power Systems under fault condition represents one of the most important and complex task in Power Engineering. The studies and detection of these faults is necessary to ensure that the reliability and stability of the power system do . . .

Adaptive Delta Pulse Code Modulation is a well known encoding scheme used for speech processing. This project focuses on the simplification in the technique so that the hardware complexity can be reduced for the portable speech recording devices. The . . .

Creating activities that challenge toddlers has been difficult for teachers to develop. California has designed foundations as a resource for preschool teachers to construct and implement activities that assist children in social-emotional development . . .

The Hmong are a distinct ethnic group from Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and China. During the Vietnam War, many Hmong in Laos assisted the Central Intelligence Agency in the United States’ “Secret War” operations in Laos against communist forces. After th . . .

A collection of fairy tales, myths, legends, and wonder for adults.

With the amount of wireless impact in today’s society, filter design is a very important and integral aspect of modern communication systems. The main purpose of filtering is to improve the signal to noise ratio, SNR, , which describes how much noise . . .

Autobiographical writing is a vehicle for self-discovery; not only self-explanation, but the re-membering of specific incidents in our lives which, when examined after the fact, allow us to question what we believe to be true. This project explores ho . . .

This project presents head monitoring movement system. It has potential application for monitoring patients head after surgery and operations. Sometimes it is very important to monitor patient’s head position after surgery not to have movement of more . . .

Electrical power systems is a large interconnected network that requires a careful design to maintain the system with continuous power flow operation without any limitations. Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System (FACTS) is an application o . . .

Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries in the global economy (Cusack & Dixon, 2006). Currently, the Department of Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration at California State University, Sacramento does not have a tourism class that . . .

This project explores the human creation of behavioral patterns, patterns that do not serve an individual’s best interest. The formation of these patterns is not a factor of age, gender or sexual preference. The characters in the following stories com . . .

Historically, society has presented women as secondary to men. As the times change so have the roles of men and women. Vietnamese American women bear the struggle of living two worlds, but in one location, America. Before Vietnamese refugees and immig . . .

California has a large teenage population and a high number of teenage pregnancies. Predominately poor and low-income teens account for about 83% of mothers who give birth and become unmarried adolescent parents. Teen parents face a variety of complex . . .

A hardware queue is one way to facilitate inter-processor communication. Such a queue is used in a simulated dual-core system in this project. Simulation data is gathered and analysis is done to compare the performance of a dual-core system that uses . . .