This study was conducted to examine if perceived mental illness affects the quality of life in senior citizens who live at the Bonnie Brae Village apartments, a subsidized housing unit in Los Angeles, California. Researchers administered the Quality o . . .

This paper explores and examines Katniss Everdeen, the star of Suzanne Collins' hit trilogy, as a modern interpretation of Judith Butler's "Drag Queen" as discussed in Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Through the analysis of th . . .

The healthcare industry has entered an era of intense competition and rapid change with the advent of government regulated prospective payment for hospital care. Now, more than at any time in the history of the healthcare industry, has it become imper . . .

The objective of this graduate project is to plan for evaluation of a health education program in the village Health and Sanitation Project in Thailand (VHSP). The evaluation design that was suggested in this graduate project in evaluating the effecti . . .

Abstract Use of color coded behavior charts to encourage social skills with a developmental and behavioral disordered child: An exploratory study By Alexis Olson Master of Social Work Purpose: To explore the use of color coded behavior charts to encou . . .

Metal is not a spontaneous medium. Creating a form is a cooperative venture between the artist and the material. It requires time, much planning, patience and sensitivity to the response of the metal to the touch of the tool. With the complementary te . . .

Gas flows around high-speed high altitude aircraft and within rocket thrusters contain regions where the particle velocities deviates significantly from the Maxwellian distribution. The gas in these regions is said to be in non-continuum and is best d . . .

Turnover in public child welfare agencies is a nationwide issue related to poor outcomes for children in foster care. The purpose of this proposed graduate project is to evaluate the retention strategies of California county child welfare agencies. Re . . .

The purpose of this research was to examine whether perceived mutual respect in schools (between teachers, administrators, and students) can moderate the relationship between environmental stressors (i.e., peer victimization, ethnic discrimination, pa . . .

Health, Education, .and Welfare Secretary, Joseph Califano recently appealed to school superintendents across the nation to heighten students' awareness of the hazards of cigarette smoking. The high incidence of coronary heart disease, chronic broncho . . .

The purpose of this study was to show how a reading Program, which took into consideration certain negative attitudes that could be blocks to further learning attempted to reverse the failing attitudes of students and bring about more positive attitud . . .

This study investigated the effects that a training program would have on the knowledge of an Employee Assistance Program. The training was designed for supervisory and management personnel. The research questians were: (1) Will supervisors' knowledge . . .

Recent studies suggest that species identity is of great importance in determining how herbivores structure coral reef communities. This study provides evidence that echinoid species differentially shape the community through unique feeding strategies . . .

Sampling was performed in the Los Angeles City Hall parking facility to determine the levels of carbon monoxide (CO) to which the employees are exposed. Sampling was done on 5 non-consecutive days during the summer of 1976. The sampling device used wa . . .

The deuterium isotope effect was used to investigate the rate limiting process in the combustion of nitramine propellants. Model propellant formulations containing either octahydro-1 ,3,5, 7-tetranitro-1 ,3,5,7-tetrazocine (HMX), hexahydro-1 ,3,5-trin . . .

The purpose of this investigation was to determine interrelationships and identify factors among: 1) perceptual motor tasks as measured in a controlled laboratory situation, and 2) basic abilities common to sports skills. One-hundred-eleven 8, 9, and . . .

Reseda Boulevard is a major public asset that reflects the character of the neighborhood and its people. However, those who travel through using vehicles (whether by automobile or bus) ultimately contribute to the traffic volume that becomes a signifi . . .

The purpose of this study was to test if CSUN students would purchase more fruit if the price was reduced. This study explored the role of price in fruit purchases on a multicultural college campus. Evidence suggests that college students are not cons . . .

Rainfall and other variables with similarly skewed distributions are hard to characterize climatically due to their extreme variability. In the past, the arithmetic mean has been used. The main limitation of the mean is that it is too greatly influenc . . .

This study focused upon the role of interpreters employed in public high school hearing-impaired programs in seven Western states. The purpose of this study was threefold: 1. To identify the percent of time interpreters are engaged in performing a var . . .

The goal of the Visible Algorithms Project at California State University, Northridge is to develop a series of CAI packages that simulate walkthroughs of common algorithms. Initially these CAI packages were developed in a "terminal/machine dependent" . . .

The feeding behavior of five species of tellinaceans was studied in four locations in California, USA. The organisms were studied in areas where they occurred sympatrically with other tellinaceans and in other areas where no other tellinaceans were pr . . .

This work is an implementation of the Christofides Algorithm for the travelling salesman problem in an application. Consider, a person running errands. If they go about it in an intuitive manner, it may happen that the person may find themselves going . . .

Purpose: The objective of this research study is to explore the relationship between the age of transition and family acceptance with individuals who identify as transgender. Hypothesis: If the age of transition is younger than 18, then transgender in . . .

In case-control epidemiological studies, where the risk of a disease in the general population is assumed to be unknown, multiple relative risks are obtained for two multivariate models- (1) multiple logistic risk function, (2) the multiple linear reg . . .

The slip rate and rupture history of the Garnet Hill strand, San Andreas Fault, remain the least understood of the Holocene-active strands of the San Andreas Fault system in the northern Coachella Valley. Here I report new trenching data that constrai . . .

The finite element method has, in recent years, proved to be an increasingly powerful tool for the engineer. The finite element method may be defined as a process whereby a continuum with infinite degrees of freedom may be approximated by an assemblag . . .

Teachers have a difficult time instructing a class while a student classified withan Emotional/Behavioral Disorder (E/BD) is having an emotional outburst or exhibiting problem behaviors. In these instances, collaborative teaching or differentiated ins . . .

This project documents the artwork created by three contemporary women art collectives including: Mujeres de Maiz (MdM)/ Women of the Corn based in East Los Angeles, California, United States of America; Hormigas Bordadoras (HB)/ Embroidery Ants from . . .

Students with children have been identified as one of the most vulnerable groups experiencing hunger on higher education institutions. To facilitate the access to WIC services in the fall 2016 semester CSUN in collaboration with NEVHC-WIC opened the f . . .

The question is posed: Do digital matched filtering techniques offer a viable method for machine-based decoding of International Morse code in a noisy environment? The history of the Morse code is explored to provide motivation for the structure of th . . .

In this project the design and implementation of an 8085 microprocessor based telephone controller is presented. The system consists of an automatic telephone dialing system, a digital timer and a remote control system. The automatic dialing section a . . .

The problem of designing Finite Impulse Response (FIR) digital filters belongs to the class of optimization problems known as linear programming (LP) problems. These problems can be solved by an iterative procedure known as the simplex method. The met . . .