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ThesisSparks, Geneviève CristineThis study examined the relative contribution of total mercury (THg) and methylmercury (MeHg) from upstream historical mercury-mining districts to Lake Berryessa, a reservoir with water quality impaired by mercury. The third and fourth largest histori . . .
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ThesisTracy, Lindsay JeanineCalifornia has utilized the initiative system since 1911. During this time, the initiative system in California has evolved into the ‘fourth’ branch of government. Initiatives play an important role in government by providing the voting public with a . . .
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ThesisSwanick, DevinThe duck curve is a power demand curve that is named for its shape, and represents the demand on utility power generation. Recently, the peaks and valleys of the duck curve have been diverging. As more solar power is generated, mid-day supply becomes . . .
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ThesisBarrios, Dayna YvonneNative Americans have endured many hardships throughout history. In modern times, tribal disenrollment is becoming an epidemic for many Native communities. Disenrollment is a non-traditional concept where an individual, or family, is stripped of their . . .
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ThesisCohen, Carrie DeeIn 1956 an assortment of approximately 232 objects, photo albums, books, and personal papers were donated to the Sacramento State College Department of Anthropology. The Beardsley Collection, as it is now known, was amassed around the turn of the 20th . . .
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ThesisFoy, Matthew SThis research seeks to explore the complex realities underpinning the ‘magnet myth’ of social services, “the notion that a city’s progressive politics, forgiving nature, and the increasing access to services attracts more homeless to a region” (OMG 20 . . .
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ThesisGolia, Francesca MariaEleonora de Fonseca Pimentel was no ordinary woman. Eighteenth-century Neapolitan intellectuals recognized her passion for learning and her poetic talent and welcomed her into their salons and academies at a very early age. Even the Bourbon monarchs o . . .
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ThesisThompto, ChelseaMy artistic practice is centered on my lived experience as a transwoman. I draw upon witnessing shifts in my gendered privilege and the level of acceptance I experience within society, which mirror my shift between gender identities. It is the occupyi . . .
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ThesisThompson, Janel DyanAccurate determinations of age at death from adult human skeletal remains is highly problematic due to various influences (e.g., rates of growth and degeneration, environment, genetics, disease, activity level, etc.). Therefore, critical testing and a . . .
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ThesisRichardson, Paul N.This thesis analyzes the effect of foreign and domestic oil demand and supply shocks, global economic activity shocks, and monetary policy shocks on U.S. macroeconomic aggregates. A factor augmented vector autoregressive (FAVAR) model is used to maxim . . .