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Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Preservation of Periodicity in Variational Integrators, Jian-Long Liu
The Relationship Between Organizational Justice and Various Dimensions of Pay Satisfaction, Xinyi Li
Self-presentation and Social Media: A Qualitative Examination of the Use of Instagram by Amateur NPC Female Figure Competitors, Victoria Michelle Lupinetti
Assessing Lesbian Gay Bisexual Resistance in Core Team Sports, Kevin Edward Lynch
Commitment and Employee Development: Comparing Generations X and Y, Adam Mahoney
Personality Traits and Deception Detection Ability Among College Students with Primary Psychopathic Traits, Megan Malmstrom
Resolving the Timing of Late Pleistocene Dome Emplacement at Mono Craters, California, from U–Th and Ar/Ar Dating, Mae Marcaida
The Orange of Seville, Jesse Lee Mardian
Generic Polynomials, Lucas Spencer Mattick
Walt Kuhn: From Spotlight to Studio, the Art of Show Business, Emily May McEwan-Upright
Effects of Summary Length and Line Spacing on Fixations, Decision Time, Correctness, and Preference of Search Engine Results on a Phablet, Anne Marie McReynolds
Relationship Between Employee Personality and Withheld Effort, Brianna Marie Miller
Sex Role Type as a Predictor of Gender Stereotype Use in the Evaluation of Others: Does Being Atypical Preclude Sex Typing of Others?, Jennifer L. Miller
Efficient Message Propagation In Dense Linear Ad-Hoc Networks, Shiva Moballegh
Seeing Success: Biographies of Low-Income Students, Julia M. Morrice
Identity and User Preference in the Presentation and Content of Digital Archives: A Study of the Plumas County Museum’s Haun Collection, Lindsay Morton
An Evaluation of the Disposition of R941000, a Tetrazolone-Telmisartan Analog: A Case Study of the Suitability of Tetrazolone As a Carboxylic Acid Bioisostere, Ryan Brant Murray
Looking Backward, Moving Forward: The Experiences of Indo-Fijian Immigrant Women in California, Ambrita Nand
Synthesis, Structural Characterization And Chromatographic Evaluation Of Silica Hydride-Based Perfluorinated Stationary Phase, Harshada Suyog Natekar
Geographic Variation in the Life History and Morphology of the Pacific Geoduck, Panopea generosa, Gabriela Navas
Modeling Mountain Pine Beetle Habitat Suitability within Sequoia National Park, Andrew Nguyen
The Interactive Effects of Accent, Attire, and Job Status on Employment-Related Decisions, Bonnie Nguyen
BIV TAR RNA Binding Glycine Mutant Tat Peptides: An Integrated Modeling and Binding Assay Approach, Loc Tien Nguyen
Orientations to Happiness, Ethnic Identity, and Life Satisfaction among Older Adults, Hardeep K. Obhi
AEGIS: Validating Execution Behavior of Controller Applications in Software-Defined Networks, Hitesh Maruti Padekar
Reviving Mesopotamia: Genocide and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage in the Nationalist Music of William Daniel (1903-1988), Rashel Pakbaz
Examination of Employee Alignment as a Predictor of Work Engagement, Troy Stephen Pasion-Caiani
Factors Affecting Western Snowy Plover Winter Foraging Habitat Selection in San Francisco Bay Ponds, Benjamin Gabriel Pearl
Formation of Organic Films on Sulfuric Acid Solutions at Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere Aerosol Acidities, Holger Saul Perez
The Moderating Effect of Supervisory Social Support on the Relationship between Second Generation Latinos’ and Asians’ Assimilation Level and Work-Family Conflict, Yazmin Perez-Lopez
Measuring Tsunami Exposure and Pedestrian Evacuation Potential for the City of Alameda, California, Evacuation Playbook Phases, Jeffrey Peters
Symbols and Agents of Papal Ascendancy: the Palazzo Farnese and Cardinals’ Palaces in Renaissance Rome Reconsidered, Heather Kathleen Peterson
We Lost Grace, Michael Angel Quintana
Generational Differences in Perceived Supervisory Support, Ashraf Rayani
Initial Consonant Mutation in Modern Irish: A Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis, Janine Fay Robinson
Modeling black bear-vehicle collision zones in Yosemite National Park, Katie Elaine Rodriguez
The Moderating Role of Perceived Organizational Support on the Relationship between Bullying and Work Behaviors, Zakwan Salahieh
Health Care In The US Department Of Veterans Affairs: Critical Issues And Strategic Progress, Kristin Nicole Sandoval
The Sorcerer King, Jennifer San Filippo
Chloroflexi: the Tale of a Bacterium Present in Human and Environmental Habitats, Jayashree Sanjeeviraman
Testing Job Control's Curvilinear Relationship with Well-being as Moderated by Desire for Control, Abraham Scher
Paying For Your Crime: The Pay-to-Stay Jail Program in California, Carla Sue Schultz
The Effect of Obesity on Muscle Sensory Neuron Function in Mice, Krystle Shamai
An Examination of Authentic Leadership, Perceived Similarity, and Leader-Member Exchange as Moderators of the Relationship between Leader and Follower Resilience, Joseph Edward Smith
A Test Of Educational Methods To Reduce Boating Disturbance To Harbor Seals, Rachel Nicole Solvason
The Maritime Shipping Industry of the Geographic Region Bounded by Aptos and Alviso, California, 1850-1950, Rebecca M. Spitzer
Acute effects of maternal immune activation and its interaction with Gabrb3 on mouse fetal development, Geetha Subramanyam
Using new tag attachments to study humpback whale fine-scale spatiotemporal dive behavior, habitat use, and reaction to ships off Northern California, Angela R. Szesciorka
A Comparison of Alternative Interface Designs for Planning Software, Rachna Tiwary
The Role of Nitric Oxide in Skeletal Simulated Microgravity Response, Luan Tran
Cemetery Seasons, Andrew Wesley Tucker
Burnout Versus Personality: Predicting Volunteer Retention, Conor Thomas Tuohy
Effects of Stress on 9-1-1 Call-Takers and Police Dispatchers: A Study at the San Jose Police Department, Kimberly D. Turner
Petrology and Sequence Stratigraphy Of A Portion Of The Lost Burro Formation, Death Valley, California, Rachel Unger
30 GHz Adaptive Receiver Equalization Design Using 28 nm CMOS Technology, Gustavo Tostado Villanueva
Series and Their Applications to Boundary Value Problems, Jiayin Wang
Design of an Attitude Control System for Spin-Axis Control of a 3U CubeSat, Alexander Joseph Westfall
Understanding Participation In The Underground Economy In Oakland, Ida Wilson
Beasts of Flight, Brian Wood
Effects of small-scale substrate complexity and heterogeneity on rocky intertidal species interactions, Sara E. Worden
Investigation of Population Structure and Distribution of the Invasive Bryozoan Watersipora Species along the California Coast using Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA, Darren James Wostenberg
Computation in a Localization of the Free Group Algebra, Olga Zamoruyeva
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Radio:Reaching Young Adult Audiences, What are the Challenges and Opportunities for Radio Programmers in Cultivating Young Adult Audiences in the Current Media Environment?, Joel David Abramson
Mistakes Were Made, Michael Paul Adams
Low-voltage continuous-time linear equalizer for digital video applications, Poonam Vinayak Agale
Identification of Motivational Drivers of Generation Y Employees, Camille Aguilar
Low Power Analog to Digital Converter Design for Software-Defined Radios, Muhamamd Zain Ali
Creep Behavior of Solder Joints under Combined Shear and Tensile Stresses, Melika Allami
An Analysis of An Andean Cosmovisión: Nature, Culture, Ecology, and Cosmos, Christian Ardeleanu
Predicting Risky Sexual Behavior in College Students: Preliminary Results From the National College Health Assessment at San José State University, Gabriel Krikor Arden
Perceived Underemployment Among The Foreign-Born: Its Outcomes And The Moderating Role Of Psychological Empowerment And Perceived Organizational Support, Ayse Avcil Okuyucu
The Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on the Development of Early Number Concepts, Brittany Meghan Caldwell
Seasonal and sex-specific diet in rhinoceros auklets, Ryan David Carle
Pathway to the Podium: Situating Rhetorical Agency within the Tommie Smith and John Carlos 1968 Mexico City Olympic Protest, Andrew Carter
The Footprints of Saharan Air Layer and Lightning on the Formation of Tropical Depressions over the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, Diana Caroly Centeno
The Tempest, Marina Chappie
Effects of mlc Gene Modulation on Acetate Accumulation in Escherichia Coli Culture, Melvin Chen
Do Parents Rock and Roll All Night? Temporal Egg Turning Behavior In Long-Lived Seabirds, Corey Clatterbuck
Structure, Construction, and Emplacement of Jurassic and Cretaceous Plutons in the Keiths Dome-Echo Lake Area, Southwest of Lake Tahoe, California, Pamela Jamie Clay
Watch the Sky, Kelly Ann Curtis
The Effects of Mapped Meshes on Non-Linear p-Version Finite Element Models using the Single-Pass Adaptive Convergence Method, Shaun Densberger
Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Segmented Flow in Microfluidic Chips, Katrina Jolene Donovan
Networking and Craft in Three Generations of Mail Art, Laura Dunkin-Hubby
Evaluating Methods to Anesthetize Gopher Rockfish (Sebastes carnatus) for Immediate-Release in the Field: Induction, Recovery, and Cortisol Stress Response to Surgical Anesthesia, Jahnava Kiyomi Duryea
WRF-Model Data Assimilation Studies of Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers and Orographic Precipitation Over Northern California, Arthur John Eiserloh
Unequal Error Protection with the RaptorQ Forward Error Correction Scheme, Keshava M. Elliadka
Native American Response and Resistance to Spanish Conquest in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769-1846, Gustavo Adolfo Flores
Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Uvas Creek, California, Downstream of a Reservoir, Carole Ann Foster
Community Structure and Energy Flow within Rhodolith Habitats at Santa Catalina Island, CA, Scott Stanley Gabara
The Legacy of Antonio Sant'Elia: An Analysis of Sant'Elia's Posthumous Role in the Development of Italian Futurism during the Fascist Era, Ashley Gardini
Novel Bacterial Lineages in the Uncultured Candidate Division SR1, Sumreet Kaur Ghotra
Lynn Hershman Leeson's Roberta Breitmore and the Art of Becoming a Woman, Maayan Glaser-Koren
"I speak for the trees": An exploration of environmental advocacy and speaker credibility in Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, Kelly Elyse Alviso Glass
Predicting Oil Spill Impacts on Southern Sea Otters (Enhydra Lutris Nereis): Application of a Mechanistic Movement Model, Emily Ann Golson
The Uncanny Valley, Jessy Rose Goodman
The Response of Bats to Introduced Trout in Naturally Fishless Lakes Sierra Nevada, California, Elizabeth Gruenstein
