This study addresses the prevalent issue of factors contributing towards gang related activities amongst Southeast Asian youth gangs. The research study involves a sample of 10 participants, 5 ex-gang members and 5 legal and educational professionals, . . .

The purpose of this project was to address the effectiveness of Turning Point Community Programs (TPCP) Integrated Service Agency (ISA) in providing mental health services. A literature review was conducted to assess the need and challenges for outcom . . .

Sustaining the self-determination of professional purpose in non-profit mental health work is imperative to the wellbeing of an agency, employee, and the client. Numerous research studies have shown that an increase in employee job specific knowledge . . .

Hoarding is a disorder that has recently gained public attention due to the disastrous effects the behavior can have on those who suffer from it, as well as on the community. Despite growing awareness, research on the topic is still somewhat limited. . . .

The classic European model of education sees students as containers waiting to be filled. The problem with this model is that it promotes a Eurocentric memorize and recall style of learning. As a result, students assume a small and inactive role in th . . .

The purpose of this project is to provide an injury prevention manual for youth baseball athletes and their coaches. The manual will provide knowledge about shoulder injuries, shoulder anatomy, injury prevention exercises and additional resources for . . .

As the United States continues to experience an enormous influx of refugees and immigrants, it generates a number of challenges for the social work profession. From the perspective of social work, each group must be understood in terms of its own cult . . .

In today’s complex business world, a company’s management team is faced with increased pressure to deliver bottom line results. Companies today are finding that to deliver these results they must have an organization that is not only efficient, but al . . .

This report will present steps taken in order to develop a “Platform Readiness Test Plan”. The platform readiness test plan will provide assistance to the original equipment manufacturers (OEM) in testing and validating their motherboard robustness pr . . .

Although federal and state laws mandate individuals with disabilities and their families receive services, there is no set policies and procedures in place to ensure true accountability. Therefore, many individuals with disabilities find themselves re . . .

Nowadays database management systems are the most crucial factors in managing and storing the data. Security enforcement in a database is very important to assure that the data stored is properly secured. Most of the database management systems are oc . . .

Because of advances over the past 100 years in medical technology, end of life medical decision making has become a complex process. Licensed nurses are charged with the responsibility to explain implications of medical interventions, assist patients . . .

Cultural factors continue to be unstudied by researchers creating a cultural gap between mental health professionals and the Latino clients they serve. This descriptive-qualitative content analysis study examines, from a mental health professional per . . .

Latinos under utilize mental health services; however, studies indicate they encounter mental issues due to their life experiences. As the Latino population continues to increase, there should be attempts to reduce the barriers that prevent Latinos fr . . .

Few community organizations exist for serving the mental health and wellness needs of Asian Americans. One such organization, the Transcultural Wellness Center (TWC), located in Sacramento, California, provides a breadth of services to Asian and Pacif . . .

This qualitative exploratory study examines the impacts of the 2009-2010 budget crisis on public health agencies that provide physical health services to medically indigent women. The purpose of the study was to explore the fiscal impacts on public he . . .

Teenage pregnancy continues to be a social problem today due to its continuing rise that has an adverse impact on the teenager, their families, taxpayers and society as a whole. Many teenaged girls frequently encounter numerous risks and challenges fr . . .

The general problem forming the basis of this project was the challenge of incorporating the community and students in the creation of a ceramic tile mural. Schools in general have a diverse student body. Creating a mural together involved learning to . . .

Sexual offending is a serious problem among male adolescent sex offenders. Through literature review regarding adolescent sex offenders, it was found that there are common behavioral problems among male adolescent sex offenders. The purpose of this st . . .

Clients with severe mental illness benefit from a regular fitness routine. Individuals that live with severe mental illness can reduce symptoms, improve overall health, and increase self-esteem through a fitness regimen. Although mental health clients . . .

This Alternative Culminating Experience for a Master of Arts in Education: Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis on Arts in Education follows Pathway III: Teacher Researcher. The project was designed as a way for the author to better her teachin . . .

This quantitative study investigated the attitudes toward seeking psychological help as predicted by degree of acculturation, severity of self-reported problems, and beliefs about the cause of mental health problems among West African immigrants in No . . .

There is historic evidence that many African Americans encounter difficulties when going the process of becoming foster or adoptive parents. Often many of them are screened out from the process or they find that the paper work is overwhelming and intr . . .

Face recognition is one of the most important fields of the modern biometric applications. Face recognition system uses two sub-systems named face detection system and image database system. Face recognition can be of feature based and image based. Fe . . .

California is a diverse state with a tremendous wealth of knowledge from different racial groups. For one group, the Hmong, these students are marginalized in the educational system because the knowledge and background experiences they bring to school . . .

The purpose of this project was to explore the curricula and sexual health education programs taught to adolescents in public schools. This researcher reviewed the literature that has been documented on sex education programs taught nationally, along . . .

The major concern of the world at this time is the growing rate of energy consumption and the resulting act of increasing pollution. We are living in an era where it is not possible to stop the growth or decrease the use of energy, whether it relates . . .

Wireless Sensor Devices are becoming a more attractive choice as a sensor platform compared to hardwired sensor devices because of the ease of installation and freedom in sensor placement. Wireless Sensor Devices are usually installed in mass quantity . . .

The project is a social skills curriculum for students with High Functioning Autism.

Music is art, language, and culture in motion. Second language learners can release themselves into a world of L2 learning to experience the beauty of art, language, and culture through music and its analysis. Active L2 music listeners will have expos . . .

There are a large number of people who are suffering for tremor and undergoing various kinds of inconveniences to perform daily tasks. In this project, we focused on the writing task of tremor patients and developed three prototype pens for the patien . . .

It is my firm opinion that a clever reader can discern far more about a fictional character than that character himself might know, and an even better reader can discern at least as much about the writer. As such, any body of creative work is bound to . . .

This project attempts to take an Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) approach when creating a women’s recycled-art collective. The ABCD approach is discussed in depth by John Kretzmann and John McKnight in the book Building Communities from the I . . .

This research effort expands the research and development of SACOG’s mixed-use index (or “mix index”) originally developed in 2007 to better understand the relationship between land use diversity with vehicle-miles of travel (VMT). While it is not wel . . .

This project develops a method for path planning and tracking of a moving target by a wheeled robot. The main kinematics variables updated in each step are the orientation and relative position of the robot and the target. A discrete extended Kalman f . . .

The goal of the project is to monitor the services running on the CCDC (College Cyber Defense Competition) network, using Nagios which uses plugins to monitor the services running on a network. Nagios is configured by building configuration files for . . .

The purpose of this project was to develop a program manual and job club curriculum for PRIDE Industries Disabilities Services Program Manager, Qualified Rehabilitation Professionals, Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors, other professionals, and stud . . .

To design a circuit that measures and controls the pressure of the generated steam to the required level. Also, that keeps track of sun path to get maximum exposure of sunlight and thus getting optimum energy level from solar radiation. This system ha . . .

Research has found that classroom lessons that promote active learning increase the quality and amount of student learning. Given the high demands on instructors, it is difficult to find time to create specific activities for each topic in the subject . . .

This research study explored and examined the relationship between personal religious orientation and its effect on Hmong traditional/cultural aspects. Key variables were collected from the Hmong people living in Sacramento pertaining to religious cha . . .

Music is a means of communication and expression that plays an essential role in the lives of most people in the world and throughout history. In fact, there is no known culture that exists today or any in the past that haven’t used music. The United . . .

Design and validation of NTRU public-key cryptosystem is a relatively new Public Key Cryptosystem. Public Key Cryptography or Asymmetric Cryptography is used in areas of digital signatures and key exchange. RSA is an acclaimed Public Key cryptosystem . . .

This study explored the effectiveness of a short term stress management and relaxation workshop in reducing stress levels and in increasing the aptitude for the building of social capital capacity. The researchers used secondary data from the pre and . . .

This research project addresses the current barriers to health care from the perspective of the transgender population in the Sacramento area. This study involves a sample of 34 transgender participants, eighteen years of age or older, who were survey . . .

The achievement gap between low-income African-American children and their white counterparts is considerable in grades three, four, and five. In the low-income, urban regions of the Sacramento area, this gap is considerable; white school-aged student . . .

The Department of Justice (DOJ) Facilities Protection Unit (FPU) Training Manual is intended for the security officers assigned to the unit. The manual sets forth the guidelines and job duties, which govern the FPU security officers. Section topics ar . . .

Training to ride a bicycle in a race requires a rider to maintain different cadences for the give situation. One situation where most riders try to maintain a cadence is hill climbing. In order to train for hill climbing a rider needs to have hills to . . .

Truck Data Warehouse (TDW) System is a web-based application developed at the California State University Sacramento for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). The TDW System allows Caltrans to use this web-based application system to . . .

This report details the different stages of the recently initiated Phase I clinical trial of a new modality of cancer treatment in India. The clinical trial involves the addition of hyperthermia or heat treatment to existing treatment techniques such . . .

The main objective of this project is to analyze nonlinear effects in optical fiber and to discuss how these effects cause dispersion in input signals. This project also discusses the pros and cons of nonlinear dispersion. Nonlinear dispersion may be . . .

Throughout history, music has powerfully influenced social justice movements and attitudes in every corner of the world. But the human race continues to struggle today with prejudice and unfairness manifested in many forms, around the globe, and music . . .

Mentoring is most broadly defined as the one-to-one relationship between a pair of unrelated individuals, usually of different ages, who come together so the more experienced person can share life experiences with the other (Karcher, 2005). Given that . . .

The purpose of this research is to explore influences and identify similar characteristics related to trauma that contribute to chronic pain in individuals. This is an exploratory, qualitative study and was conducted using a Grounded Theory design. Th . . .

The purpose of this project is to gather and document the existing criteria, rules, and practices used by the Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs) in California for physical interconnection of Distributed Generation (DG) and to identify existing technical . . .

The purpose of this project was to determine if treatment outcomes in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) differed by maternal level of Emotional Availability at pre-treatment in mother-child dyads with a maltreatment history. Secondary data inclu . . .

A cyber defense competition is a competition where teams compete and learn how to defend and maintain computer security. The competition provides ground to learn the real time scenarios like defending security loopholes and adding new software or serv . . .

This project is a culminating experience for a Master of Arts in Education: Curriculum and Instruction with an Emphasis in Arts Education. It creates a curriculum to present jazz, blues, and improvisation to fifth grade students. The author researched . . .

The object of the project is to design, simulate and fabricate a broadband microstrip balun operating at a center frequency of 5 GHz and wide bandwidth of 3.5 GHz. In this project report, I present one design with the capacitor in the middle of couple . . .

The purpose of this online learning module project is to explore health disparity by exploring the World Health Organization’s social determinants of health model. The solid facts highlight the ten most common factors impacting health outcomes along w . . .

The problem is a majority of teachers are not creating effective learning centers in classrooms. The purpose of the project is to create a guide for teachers on how to start and use learning centers effectively in a classroom. It is clear that social . . .

This project focuses on a physiotherapy technique in which a therapist uses the thumbs to apply force to the spinal column of a patient. A therapy session consists of a series of bouts. Because the thumbs tire quickly, the bouts usually are short, abo . . .

The intent of this project is to explore whether the Two Dimensional Chunk Extraction algorithm for the Self-Splitting Modular Neural Network is more effective than the original algorithm. This experiment uses the same data and compares the results of . . .

The increased use of nonlinear electronic equipment has become a concern in most utility power systems. Nonlinear loads draw current discontinuously during the cycle of the input voltage waveform and produce low power factors when harmonics are taken . . .

The purpose of this project was to develop the framework for a Landscape Maintenance District Master Management Plan (MMP). Key elements of the Master Plan would be developed and applied to a pilot study within the Dunsmuir Landscape Maintenance Distr . . .

The Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum (Committee for Children, 2005) lacks a gendered harassment component. According to Harris Interactive and Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, the absence of gender is problematic. For students . . .

This paper presents an analytical review on the SMUD’s combined cycle power plant modification project (in Rancho Seco, CA) with solar energy utilization to supplement the steam turbine power generation process. During summer, the change in ambient te . . .

The purpose of this project was to optimize the bonding parameters to develop an adhesive wafer bonding process that produces a defect free and relatively strong bond using SU-8 as an intermediate adhesive layer at the lowest possible processing tempe . . .

Sex crimes are an increasing phenomena that are changing society on many levels. Research exploring the statistics of reported sexual abuse has often led to a misconception of what an abuser is and what types of victims are susceptible to the abuse. T . . .

The records of the Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing arrived at the California State Archives in several accessions, some marking the records as restricted and others not. This created a potentially confusing situation for researchers h . . .

The stories in this collection are my attempt at breaking the artificial boundaries between so-called literary fiction and genre. They do this by eschewing traditional realist fetishes such as linearity, free will, imagined or spoken violence, and the . . .

This research project is exploratory-quantitative in nature, specifically to address acculturation and assimilation issues surrounding the resettlement process of the present wave of Slavic immigrants and refugees from the former Soviet Union to Sacra . . .

The purpose of the project is to explore the relationship between the cultural competency of social workers investigating abuse and neglect of children in Sacramento County, the removal of those children from their parents and how this affects the dis . . .

This project is an Alternative Culminating Experience for a Master of Arts in Education: Curriculum and Instruction with an Elective Emphasis on Arts in Education. It follows Pathway III: Developing a curriculum, program, or performance related to art . . .

A manual is needed to explore how interventions such as culturally relevant treatment programs can contribute to the abstinence and recovery of Native American youth. Additional studies are needed that use experimental designs with a treatment and con . . .

The California state budget crisis of 2008 required state legislators to make numerous fiscal cuts to public health care services. These services play an integral part in the development of children between the ages of zero and five years. The purpose . . .

Develop an on-boarding program specifically for new leaders to Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) corporate that would improve their socialization into the culture of CHW. Sources of Data Employee surveys, company websites, management interviews, needs as . . .

The welfare reform legislation of the 1990’s was implemented with the goal of ending long-term reliance on human assistance programs by encouraging self-sufficiency. The passing of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation A . . .

The multi-core era brings new challenges to the programming community. Parallelization requirements of applications in mainstream computing and applications in emergent fields of high performance computing, such as informatics, must be explored. With . . .

The focus of this project is to carry out an accurate simulation study of a 3- element array of rectangle horn antennas forming a focused near field beam. This study has useful application for clinical hyperthermia which is the therapeutic treatment o . . .

Student transcripts are a critical component of admission, transfer credit processing, and graduation processing. The majority of transcripts come into the University in paper form through multiple points of entry and are processed in multiple areas d . . .

The service-learning project documented in this study researched the benefits of arts in education, effective strategies for instructing English language learners (ELL), and successful service-learning methods in an effort to give educators and prospe . . .

Abuse in foster care is one of the reasons why children in foster care do not experience stable foster placements. Another reason for placement disruption is limited caregiver capacity to care for the children and provide permanency. These circumstanc . . .

“Combination of cryptography and Steganography for secure communication” is an application, which combines both Cryptography methods (i.e. Encryption, decryption) and Steganography techniques to make the communication more secure. The outcome of this . . .

Creating educationally useful and legally defensible Individualized Education Program (IEP) documents is one of the main skills demanded of special education services providers. Through periodic reauthorizations of federal special and general educatio . . .

This project was designed to create a dance performance which focused on research based choreography while portraying the historical, cultural and emotional significance of color. Various activities were used in order to help dancers gain a greater se . . .

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex neuro-developmental disorder that severely compromises functioning in multiple developmental domains (Rogers et al., 2006). Children with ASD often show deficits in the social domain (McClellan & Katz, 1 . . .

It is usually observed that small to medium sized organization with many assets do not have a have a reliable and efficient system for tracking orders, their usage within along with inventory of supplies, equipment and assets. As a result, often there . . .

Three Story Builder books and a parent handbook were designed to improve literacy in students who are first learning to read, and students who are at risk of reading failure. They can also be used to support phonological awareness and decoding skills . . .

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender homeless youth experience or perceive barriers to accessing social services at rates higher than those of their heterosexual counterparts. This occurs for a variety of reasons including societal homophobia (Floyd . . .

The issue addressed in this study concerns whether a positive youth development program, sensitive to Black youth, effectively negates structural and cultural pressures. The environment in this study is important because it is a predominantly Caucasia . . .

The changing cultural composition in the United States has contributed to the acknowledgment of the need for the counseling profession to develop multicultural perspectives and competencies. However, research shows that current counselor training prog . . .

BPEL stands for Business Process Execution Language; it is a standard executable language for specifying interactions with web-services. “BPEL is [1] essentially a workflow graph that describes interactions between various web services, dependencies a . . .

Sharing of information is done in many ways and one such way is the online mock tests. The online practice tests are the model tests that are designed exactly like the online competitive exams. This will help people who are preparing to ace competitiv . . .

In today’s environment, people operate in a hectic environment than ever before. For Lawyers and certain practices, the ability to do online scheduling of appointments may work well. Hence, a web-based scheduling calendar is developed for all the empl . . .

This project is undertaken in an effort to develop awareness among the community regarding the elderly and their impacted health due to the excessive use of prescription drugs. It is hoped that the information provided here will help in improving the . . .

The intent of the project is to study the MySQL design limitations and tradeoffs; and produce a solution of how to tackle these limitations and tradeoffs. Thereby improving the efficiency of the MySQL queries and making the system fast. The goal of th . . .

Many people enjoy outdoor activities, such as riding dirt bikes or all terrain vehicles, camping, and hunting. Sometimes these excursions occur over several days, and it is not always very easy to keep clean. Although water may be available, such as a . . .

How do historic preservation activities in Napa, California relate to the theory and practice of preservation? How does Napa’s history fit into broader themes of history, and how does Napa’s historic architecture illustrate that history. Sources of Da . . .

Steganography is the art of hiding messages inside an image file/Audio file or a Video file such that the very existence of the message is unknown to third party. Cryptography is used to encrypt the data so that it is unreadable by a third party. Keep . . .

This project investigates the use to solar energy to heat Anheuser Busch’s storage facility in Fairfield, California, specifically using solar (Trombe) wall and an evacuated tube collector design considerations. This warehouse is currently using 25 st . . .