Conservation of native fishes in California waterways is of high concern due to increasing numbers of native species gaining threatened or endangered status. Research geared towards the conservation of native species takes on both an environmental and . . .

Due to the scarcity of serial murderers and therefore new data being gathered about them, serial homicide is limited in data. The unsolved serial homicide case of the East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker was compared with the solved serial homicide . . .

Commemoration and the development of national memory is an increasingly important and expanding field in history. As globalization and other forces break down national barriers, people search for ways to differentiate themselves, and are increasingly . . .

Collar height investigations have been isolated to the motion of ankle inversion. The other ankle motions, specifically dorsiflexion, have been under investigated as it pertains to performance. Dorsiflexion range of motion when reduced has been linked . . .

Bird species richness (BSR) is affected by vegetation composition and habitat structure at both local and landscape scales. Urban development plays a pivotal role in avian diversity by inducing changes in the landscape structure and available resource . . .

The Trump administration has spurred a resurgence of Arendtian ideas, namely those associated with a possible rise of totalitarianism, the danger associated with a distrust of the media and the relationship between action, speech, and truth as it rela . . .

This thesis examines two independent studies including the first enantioselective total synthesis of (-)-Tatarinoid B and investigations into developing an asymmetric catalytic 1,2-addition of allyl indium reagents to aldehydes. (-)-Tatarinoid B is on . . .

Over the past fifty years, the world has witnessed an increase in the perpetration of suicide terrorism and with it, the gradual increase in the utilization of female suicide bombers. Prior literature suggests that female suicide bombers are more leth . . .

There is limited research examining the perspectives of co-teachers on the factors that may influence their selection and implementation of specific co-teaching strategies. In practice, the general and special education co-teachers often rely on the o . . .

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of different teaching strategies for English-speaking students learning Chinese as a second language. As Dual Coding Theory (DCT) emphasizes, both visual and acoustic input influence language . . .