Interest in conducting this study began to emanate during a six year period of working in the Richmond Unified School District, Richmond, California, as a classroom teacher in grades four and six. This particular school was 99 per cent Black. Duri . . .

Few firms which operate in existing industries can claim to have become a top ten competitor practically overnight after entering the industry. Constraints from established customer relationships, intensive capital requirements, little experience, and . . .

This study was concerned with determining whether personality variables as defined and measured by the Children's Personality Questionnaire were better able to predict classroom success than was a Wechsler Intelligence Quotient. The study sampled . . .

It was the assumption of this study that a review of the literature on the education of gifted children and data collected from selected school districts about their programs for such students in grades kindergarten through six would reveal inform . . .

The focus of this study is the unincorporated town of Locke, California. Locke is a small Chinese community in Sacramento County, approximately sixty-five miles northeast of Oakland and twenty-five miles southwest of Sacramento. The town occupies . . .

Much time and effort is spent in teaching young children. New and different teaching approaches, methods, curriculum, and curriculum materials are constantly being developed to encourage and facilitate learning. However, how often is the attitude . . .

This study was designed to determine specific computation rates for basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts which may be regarded as mastery levels in that they predict that students who reach those levels will continue to . . .

It has been my personal experience to know that the average consumer is unfamiliar with all aspects of leasing an automobile. He does not know how to compare the cost of leasing with the cost of financing or paying cash. He does not know, after de . . .

The purpose of this thesis was to test whether or not Boss's theory, called Daseinsanalyse can, without error, be fully sufficient an explanation of a person's behavior. In essence, the study centered around three main problems: First, the definit . . .

This study examines cooperative learning in a technology-rich educational environment. It was hypothesized that students who had more experience working collaboratively would be more favorable to the activities in the study than their counterparts . . .

Audiences have been turning to dystopian classics as evidence of dark times ahead for the United States, and guidance on how to respond to oppressive times. This thesis explores how political dystopian media can be a warning to what can happen in a wo . . .

Phosphate (Pi) starvation is a major issue that affects crop production worldwide. Pienriched fertilizer is used to compensate; however, the world’s mined rock phosphate is a limited and non-renewable resource that is expected to deplete in the next . . .

Teachers today are faced with the problem of having to handle, in the regular classroom setting, the reading difficulties of many of their students. Frequently they will attempt to carry out the remediation of the various skills during regular gro . . .

This thesis focuses upon the life of Anna Morrison Reed, though it does not claim to be a definitive biography of her. Rather, it is a study of California in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with Reed as its principal player. Ann . . .

Although Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) predicts higher likelihood of adverse life experiences, there is very little research exploring the impact of ADHD in girls and women of color. Due to their unique experiences/environments in co . . .

Charter schools are continuing to marginalize a group of students—students with disabilities. Pardoned from many state regulations, charter schools appear to have difficulty executing their responsibilities around special education (Center for Law and . . .

Do siblings of children afflicted with cancer express specific psychological, emotional, and behavioral reactions? If so, what themes are expressed, verbally and/or behaviorally? Do personality and temperament characteristics influence the frequen . . .

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between personality (measured in terms of two primary, independent dimensions) and changes in body composition; more specifically, are psychological modifications ancillary effects of we . . .

This differential study was designed to determine whether professional students are less secure and less self-confident than average students. Maslow's Security-Insecurity Inventory, a modified version of Gough's Adjective Check List, and a questi . . .

It was the purpose of this study to determine whether significant differences in the strength of personality needs do exist between persons who elect to teach in schools serving populations of widely differing income levels. A group of teachers ( . . .

In C. elegans, response to mechanical stimuli is mediated by two mechanosensory circuits. One circuit functions in the anterior to promote backward movement and another circuit functions in the posterior to promote forward movement. The posterior neur . . .

The particular motivation which is explored in this thesis is theological, and specifically, Christian. The relevance of this perspective will be carefully described. At this point it should be said that the main relevance of this thesis is to po . . .

The problem of this thesis was to write a children's book about body and self image development through movement and to become involved in a heuristic method of design in order to experience and record the ongoing creative process. I Like to Be M . . .

The Early Bronze Age in northwestern Iran is known to be the period of rise and development of the Kura-Araxes culture and one of the widespread cultures in the Near East. While Kura-Araxes material culture, settlement patterns, and architecture hav . . .

The restaurant industry and the use of online feedback tools have been steadily growing over the last decade. Bad restaurant service accounts for a major reason why patrons decide not to return to an establishment. As a frequent restaurant-goer with . . .

Osteology is the study of skeletal structures &, though that may seem vague, the study of bones can be applied to a vast array of fields & careers. The primary challenge of developing educational programs is determining who can or should benefit from . . .

Calvarial sutures are fibrous articulations between the bones of the skull. These fibrous joints separate the sites at which the bones undergo active osteogenesis while remaining patent for neurocranium expansion to accommodate the growing brain. Prem . . .

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not engaged couples taking part in a Family Life Education Program could become better prepared for marriage by learning to communicate with each other according to specific rules governing ver . . .

This study is a quantitative content analysis of the media coverage of the rollout phase of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), popularly known as Obamacare. This study falls within the broad paradigm of political communication research. The rollout phas . . .

The purpose of this study was to investigate the issues and concerns that were present with Latino students in a community college. The desired outcome was to identify the problems or barriers Latino students faced while in college and to come up . . .

This study has modeled spatial distribution of precipitation in the San Francisco Bay Area using geostatistical analysis in a GIS to aid regional water resource managers and planners. The main objectives of this study were: (1) use geostatistical me . . .

The purpose of this study was to determine the unit costs to the San Ramon Valley Unified School District for 1970-71, of maintaining several classes, courses, and related activities within the Business and English Departments at Monte Vista Hig . . .

High elevation meadows in the Sierra Nevada of California, USA represent mixing zones between surface water and groundwater. Quantifying exchanges between stream water and groundwater, and the residence time of water stored in meadow sediments allows . . .

Foliar endophytic fungi (FEF) have been found living asymptomatically within the leaf tissues of all land plants sampled thus far. Hawaii presents a unique landscape for examining the ecology and evolution of these cryptic fungal symbionts. The iso . . .

The author investigated the usage of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) within the context of a sequential mixed methods research design in order to examine the relationship between home language and factors which facilitated or hinde . . .

This thesis details an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco that began in 1900, and the author higlights the dangers that social division and racism pose to social health, analyzed through the lens of the this plague epidemic.

Technology is changing the way people communicate with each other. Although there are benefits associated with technology, there are also downsides. The purpose of this study is to provide an understanding of the changes in expectations and satisfac . . .

This thesis consists of creative fiction by the author.

This thesis consists of three works of creative writing by the author: "Lilit," "Emily," and "Girls."

This study was designed to determine the professional viewpoints of the teachers of the Pleasanton Elementary School District with special reference to the particular types of school facilities and organization of space considered to be the best w . . .

During the latter part of the nineteenth century, the United States business community manifested a deep interest in Latin America. This interest spawned from a series of recessions, and perhaps more important, from the industrial over-production . . .

The findings of Alderman (1), Phillips (7), and Richards (9) show that performance (mainly involving skill) can be impaired by performing a sufficiently heavy related preliminary exercise. Caplan (3) has been the only person to investigate the inf . . .

Contingent claims analysis is a method of determining the value of an asset or security when its value at some future point in time is uniquely determined by the value of another asset or security on that same future date. This requires some inform . . .

The purpose of this study was to: 1) describe psychological and physiological benefits of Transcendental Meditation, 2) describe how Transcendental Meditation can become an integral part of one's life style and belief system, and 3) relate Transce . . .

This thesis deals with genocide, and the reason this writer has chosen it as a topic is because he has found it to be a phenomenon which is not characteristic of just the 20th century. Too often the extermination of the Jews and Kulaks in the 20th . . .

This thesis details the reaction of San Francisco's Reform Jewish community to Zionism between 1909 and 1919.

The author intends to show in this paper that Lewis Carroll's use of language reflects agreement with some assumptions underlying the Romantic theory of language and with other assumptions implicit in the Utilitarian theory of language. In creating . . .

Human figure drawings were scored for 30 deaf subjects ages 5 to 15 using the Goodenough-Harris Draw-A-Person method (DAP) in an investigation of the validity of this test as a measure of intellectual maturity in deaf children. DAP standard scores . . .

The purpose of this study was to record simultaneously temperatures from body subcutaneous areas, flipper subcutaneous areas and the gut lumen in several species of unrestrained pinnipeds in order to document the use of peripheral heat control in . . .

To better understand how the brain works, it is necessary to study how axons and dendrites (neurites) regulate their outgrowth and maintain their shape. Directed membrane trafficking is crucial to neural development and morphogenesis. RAB-10, a sma . . .

This study examined at the effects of embedded instruction using progressive time delay instructional programs to teach four elementary school students with moderatesevere disabilities within the general education setting. Students were taught in an . . .

Ethnic Studies has emerged as highly impactful for bolstering academic expectations and outcomes for students of color in K-12 education. In 2018, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) implemented a mandatory elective ninth-grade Ethnic Studies cours . . .

In the San Francisco Bay Area, institutions of higher education are in abundance. Universities, state colleges, and private colleges have a large representation, but it is the community colleges that rank highest in number throughout the counties . . .

It was the purpose of this study to investigate the perceptions of the certificated personnel of the Hayward Unified School District in regards to the Winton Act. The goal of this thesis, in other words, was to determine the influence of the Winto . . .

This thesis discusses the subject of job attitudes of three departments within a major United States airline. The three departments studied are Accounting, Engineering and Purchasing. The primary purpose of this study is to determine their respect . . .

“Arresting Vang Pao” reveals how American foreign policy created a feedback loop of nativism at home and abroad, through immigration policy constructed in a reaction to foreign wars, based upon the promotion and defense of a national identity, defi . . .

The author's orientation and approach to this thesis mirrors that of Renascence, a critical and scholarly journal published by Marquette University that focuses on Christian thought and values in the study of literature. Why did a major poet, one wh . . .

Why research and write about the life of Antonina Vallentin? When a respected informant, usually not effusive about women's erudition, told me that Vallentin was a woman of great culture, my interest was piqued. The Twentieth Century Authors: A Bio . . .

Zymomonas mobilis is a candidate microorganism for industrial bio-fuel fermentation due to its hardy continuous growth capabilities, high ethanol/sugar tolerance, and fast production rate. However, the inability of Z. mobilis to utilize cellulose a . . .

This study analyzes Hewlett Packard's performance from a financial perspective. First background information of the company, its industry, and competitors are given. Then the study uses financial ratios and stock market returns for the years 1989 . . .

The purpose of this evaluation was to determine whether the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) personality profile of a sample of Turkish college women was significantly different from the MMPI profile of a sample of American colle . . .

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of geographic mobility on student achievement. During the fall of 1971, 630 eleventh grade students in Livermore, California high schools were administered .a questionnaire to determine the nu . . .

The purpose of this study is to test whether or not Gestalt group therapy could significantly help 10, overweight, mature women gain enough insight into their emotional make-up to elicit any change in their eating patterns that would effect weight . . .

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not the positive self concept of a group of para professional Rehabilitation aides was related to their success on the job. A twenty-five item questionnaire was administered to the entire popu . . .

The passage of the U.S. Civil Rights Acts of 1964 has brought pressure to bear on the users of written examinations as a means of personnel selection. This is due, in part, to the alleged discriminatory composition of the test. The bias is usually . . .

The intent of this research project is to recognize the questions I had as a youth looking for my Filipino American identity and to begin a conversation about how much there is to know about Filipino American history. This research is intended to a . . .

There are basic ideas about gender‘s impact on market work, work that takes place in the paid labor force and care work that takes place in the home. Women, particularly mothers, live and work in a world shaped by assumptions and stereotypes about the . . .

Rapidly purifying RNA can be crucial to completing qualitative and qualitative experimentation, especially for the study of secondary and tertiary structures. It has been demonstrated that high quality oligonucleotides can be synthesized and purified . . .

Fifty years ago, a neighborhood in San Jose, California disappeared. The neighborhood, an enclave of second and third generation Italian and Mexican immigrants, was the unfortunate casualty of an ambitious urban renewal project. In 1960 San Jose’s . . .

Located along the Pacific-North American plate boundary, the San Francisco Bay Area is home to more than seven million people and no fewer than a dozen active faults. As documented in the United States Geological Survey (USGS) publication: Earthquake . . .

The potential for FTIR to be utilized as a tool for rapid identification and serotyping is an alluring prospect with a high likelihood of utilizing online collaboration as a method of constructing and growing a global library for microbiological cl . . .

It was the purpose of this study to develop an estimate of the effectiveness of the Park Elementary School Four-Quarter Plan in terms of educational achievement and financial efficiency, particularly in comparison with another Hayward elementary s . . .

The 1991-1993 years exhibited explosive growth in the mutual fund arena. Not since 1986 has the mutual fund industry seen this kind of activity. Much of this activity occurred because of the lowering of interest rates and the strong demand for highe . . .

The purpose of this research is to identify Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) therapeutic agents. Recent statistics showed that 20% of the breast cancer patients in the U.S. have been diagnosed with subtype TNBC (92736). Unfortunately, no promisi . . .

Organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are additive flame retardants frequently found in consumer products and in indoor environments. OPFRs and PBDEs are known to transfer from consumer products, to dus . . .

This study of teacher attitudes toward elementary school counselor-interns, hypothesized that it is difficult for counselor-interns to work effectively with students if communication is lacking between counselor-interns and teachers. There were t . . .

The purpose of this study...is to develop an easily understandable and workable cash management model that can be utilized by small businesses. When considering cash management, one must necessarily concern himself with the future. Being concerned . . .

This thesis details the author's original composition, "Spring's Awakening." The complete score of the work is included in the thesis.

The intention of this research study is to explicate the relationships between work and non-work activities and how the uses of leisure time might be affected by membership in a particular occupation, with regard to the compensatory function. Com . . .

The preparation of key intermediates in the synthesis of new conformationally restricted methylene tethered adenosine nucleosides is reported. To access 11, our target nucleoside, the novel carbaxaldehyde intermediate 14 is expected to undergo an i . . .

Nihonmachi is located in the Western Addition area of San Francisco. At one time the Nihonmachi community encompassed over twenty city blocks, but today it is only recognized to be four city blocks. Most of the structures in the area were built bef . . .

American Puritan thought on the question of resistance to secular political authority is considered here in the context of its origin and background. The political conservatism of Puritan leaders during the first two decades in the Massachusetts B . . .

This study was designed to investigate the relationship between oral reading rate and comprehension and the relationship between oral reading rate and competency in reading sub-skills, using first grade students. Oral reading rate was measured as . . .

Uranium mobility in subsurface environments is a core area of study concerning the long-term storage of nuclear waste in deep geological repositories. Montmorillonite, the dominant component of the abundant geological material bentonite has highly des . . .

This study involves 50 of the 143 students who completed the ninth grade at Woodrow Wilson Junior High School, Oakland, California, in 1969 and graduated from Oakland Technical High School in June, 1972. It is an attempt to determine the effective . . .

Human pegivirus (HPgV) is a persistent lymphotrophic virus that replicates in CD4+ and CD8+ T cells and B cells. Clinical studies have shown Human Immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) patients co-infected with HPgV have increased CD4+ T cell counts, . . .

The analysis of a banking institution as an investment opportunity must entail the following areas of study: 1. The general economic conditions. 2. The spread--the difference between the interest rate the bank must pay to attract deposits and th . . .

If there is anything which seems to characterize Federal government operations it is its propensity to do business as usual. There is always the promise of improvement, but the tendency for each administration is to mismanage and thereby add to th . . .

People modified their cars to extract possible performance or appearance from the basic, original and factory products through alteration, addition or well designed replacement of parts. People want their cars to be different from the majority. Unde . . .

Previous articles have studied the impact that the recent increase in litigation has had on Big Eight accounting firms and their policies and procedures. This paper examines litigations against a Big Six firm to determine if the litigation explosion . . .

This thesis examines features and artifact assemblages from an archaeological site known as 201 Folsom Street, CA-SFR-000193/H. The thesis presents analysis of this site though a study of archival research, recovered artifacts, buried features and i . . .

The purpose of this study is to analyze the rhetoric of Mrs. Shirley Chisholm in the Democratic presidential primary in California, from the informal announcement of her candidacy at the National Welfare Rights Organization's Third Biennial Conven . . .

The primary goal of this thesis is to analyze, develop and document guidelines for multi-campus University and College use in the construction and implementation of Automated Registration Information Systems CARIS). These proposed guidelines achie . . .

This qualitative study describes trauma affecting the Asian and Pacific Islanders (API) population to provide a deeper understanding of how these different ethnic population groups express symptoms of traumatic events and how these experiences impac . . .

The purpose of this study is to define the functional role of the Afghanistan elementary school inspectors in terms of their official duties and their perceived professional roles. This study was conducted in the context of Afghanistan's 1972-1973 . . .

Modification of cytokine expression is one means by which human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) could attenuate normal immune responses, including those generated against HIV itself. Aberrant cytokine expression may precede and even stimulate pathophy . . .

The study discusses the problem of whether behavior change occurs in twelve male inmates of a correctional institution as a result of a weekend marathon experience. The study is designed so that the subjects set up individual criteria for behavior . . .

Augmented Reality is an emerging technology that is actively being defined by narratives through advertising. This study analyzes storytelling strategies used in 2 online video advertisements on YouTube: Masters of the Sun and Wonderscope. The videos . . .

President Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated on March 4, 1913. At this time General Victoriano Huerta was in control of the Mexican government. Former President Francisco I. Madero had been forced to resign his office on February 19, 1913, as a result . . .

This research paper is focused on the cultural change Twitter has inflected on politics. The ObamaCare as a discursive phenomenon on Twitter provides some valuable insights on the current state of our political culture. This political issue combine . . .