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Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Effects of Alcohol and Stress on Cognitive Performance, Erick Arambula
Latino Representation On Primetime Television In English and Spanish Media: A Framing Analysis, Gabriela Arellano
The Progressive Jail: An Exploration of Carceral Living Conditions and Employment/Educational Life Plans, Inessa Arutunyan
The Relationship Between Perceptions and Actual Use of Workplace Flexibility and Employee Engagement, Katherine Baer
Nocturnal Drying in Elevated Coastal Terrain of Central California: A Fire Weather Perspective, Richard Bagley
Inhibition of Virulence by Targeting LuxI-type Synthases and Volatile Free Fatty Acid Profiling of Streptomyces, Anthony Balistreri
Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Collaborative Forest Restoration in the Sierra Nevada, Michael Boero
A Method for Detection of Local Dimension in Point Cloud Data, Catherine Boersma
Illegal Dumping as an Indicator for Community Social Disorganization and Crime, Amory Anne Brandt
Knight's Tours and Zeta Functions, Alfred James Brown
The Effect of Video Game Play on Human Performance: An Investigation of Cognitive Skill Transfer Mechanisms, Preston Brown
Isolated Incidents: A Short Story Collection, Justin Bryant
Structural Analysis of Eocene Dike Swarms in and Near the Duncan Hill Pluton, North Cascades, Washington, Kathleen Bryant
Construction and Emplacement of Cretaceous Plutons in the Crystal Range, Southwest of Lake Tahoe, California, Brad Buerer
Mobile Doppler LiDAR Observations of the Convective Boundary Layer Over California, Christopher Paul Camacho
A Complete Study Of N,N’ bis(1 phenylpropyl) 2,6 pyridinedicarboxamide, Victoria Y. Chang
Library Synthesis of Thiol-linked Hybrid Inositol Glycans, Scott Chan
The Perception of Trust Between Athletic Trainers and Musical Performing Artists, Jenna Lea Chinburg
Construction of Bacterial Strains Containing a Plasmid Producing an Opossum-Based Anti-Venom Peptide for Low Cost Production of the Peptide, Angela Cifelli
MINE: El Despojo de María Zacarías Bernal de Berreyesa, Jenny Clendenen
Life History Aspects and Taxonomy of Deep-Sea Chondrichthyans in the Southwestern Indian Ocean, Paul Joseph Clerkin
Design and Analysis of Bio-inspired Nacelle for Current Energy Turbine, Michael Coe
True Confessions of a Kindergarten Teacher, Jennifer Lynne Creech
Surfactant Effect on Hydrate Crystallization Mechanism, Kevin Dann
Examining a Hierarchical Linear Regression Model of Overgeneral Memory: Methodological Issues, CaR-FA-X Model Mechanisms, and Memory Encoding as Represented by Cognitive Attributional Style, Carrie Adrian Davis
The Relationship between Food Insecurity and Academic Performance among San José State University Students, Bethany Dudley
Recombinant Expression and Potential Autocatalysis of Aedes aegypti Trypsin-like Serine Proteases (AaSPII and AaSPIV), Diane Francine Eilerts
Diet Induced Obesity Alters Muscle Spindle Afferent Function in Adult Mice, Lubayna Elahi
Spatial Distribution of Artesian Conditions within the Niles Cone Basin, Alameda County, California, Anthony Wade Fisher
Unified Software Engineering Reuse: A Methodology for Effective Software Reuse, Charles Allen Flood
Gauge Theory, Connections, and Holonomy: Background for the Ambrose-Singer Theorem, Joseph Fluegemann
The Impact of a Changing Climate on the Frequency of Sudden Stratospheric Warming Events, Ashley Fortin
Portrait of a California Mystic, Lisa Francesca
A 3D Framework for Characterizing Microstructure Evolution of Li-Ion Batteries, Jeffrey David Gelb
A Qualitative Analysis of a Team's Experience of Coping with Bereavement After the Death of a Head Coach, Matthew Paul Gonzalez
Devil in a White Dress: Marie-Antoinette and the Fashioning of a Scandal, Sarah Lorraine Goodman
Convolutional Neural Network Acceleration on GPU by Exploiting Data Reuse, Sindhuja Gopalakrishnan Elango
Intelligent Threat-Aware Response System in Software-Defined Networks, Kunal Ketan Goswami
The Geometry of Möbius Transformations and an Introduction to Riemann Surfaces, David Peter Goulette
The Common Lot of Nature: The Stoic Concept of Death in the Writings of St. Ambrose, Nathan Michael Falls Hall
Authentication and Encryption of Aerial Robotics Communication, Maojie Han
Youth Sport Development Pathways and Experiences of NCAA Division I Women's College Soccer Players, Emily Hardell
The Sediment Analysis of a Prehistoric Shell Midden From Nevis, West Indies, Erika Harvey
Design of a 2.4 GHz CMOS LNA for Bluetooth Low Energy Application Using 45 nm Technology, Chin-To Hsiao
Transformational Leadership as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Personality and Deviant Behaviors, Cirenia Huerta
Analysis and Design of a Time-to-digital Converter-based Digital Phase Locked Loop, Muhammad Ali Khaliq
A High Performance Modulator Design for OFDM Systems, Gibran Khan
Development of DNA assembly and error correction protocols for a digital microfluidic device, Yuliya Khilko
In Colbert We Trust: Teenagers and Comedic Persuasion, Peter G. Kistler
A Taxonomic Revision of Eastern North Pacific Softnose Skates (Arhynchobatidae: Bathyraja Ishiyama), James Desmond Stanley Knuckey
Generation as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Global Leadership Competencies and Global Leadership Effectiveness, Alexander Lay
The Moderating Effect of Gender and Tenure on the Relationship between Perceived Supervisor Support and Organizational Commitment, Megan Evelyn Little
Doppler LiDAR Measurements of Boundary Layer Heights Over San Jose, California, Matthew Robert Lloyd
Hmong in America: An Emergence of the American Identity, Nkauj hli Melinda Lo
Exploration of Solvent Effects on the Mechanism of the Pfeiffer Effect, Jamie Lee Lunkley
Temporal and Spatial Impacts of Water Control Structures on the Benthic Infaunal Community of a Tidally Restricted Wetland in Elkhorn Slough, CA, Christine Marie Mann
Homology Modeling and Docking of Acyl Homoserine Lactone Synthase in Gram-Negative Bacteria, Francisco McGee
Aldo Rossi: The City as the Locus of Collective Memory and the Making of the Public City in Cold War Italy, Sonia Melani Miller
Using Stable Isotope Analysis to Infer Breeding Latitude and Migratory Timing of Juvenile Pacific-Slope Flycatchers (Empidonax Difficilis), Emily Bailey Moffitt
Crafting Autonomy: A Reevaluation of the Pedestal in the Sculpture of Arlene Shechet, Nicole Cherubini, and Francesca DiMattio, Sara Morris Morris
Simulation of Laser Induced Thermal Damage in Nd:YVO4 Crystals., Richie Nagi
Remains of the 19th Century: Deep Storage of Hydraulic Mining Sediment Along the Lower Yuba River, California, Tyler Kou Nakamura
Time-based, Low-power, Low-offset 5-bit 1 GS/s Flash ADC Design in 65nm CMOS Technology, Mehdi Nasrollahpour
Simulated Annealing-Based Optimal Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) Controller Design: A Case Study on Nonlinear Quadcopter Dynamics, Kristofer Kevin Nemirsky
Biochemical and Enzymatic Studies of the Midgut Serine Protease AaSPVII from the Aedes aegypti Mosquito, James ThienToan Nguyen
The Faculty of Discernment, Nahida Sultana Nisa
Femicide in Mexico: A Comparative Discourse Analysis of State and Non-State Actors, Joshua Nunes
Green vs. White: An Examination of of Media Portrayals of Radical Environmentalists and White Supremacists, Laurence Pedroni
Network Traffic Anomaly-Detection Framework Using GPUs, Meera Ramesh
Preparation and Characterization of a (Viologen) Containing Main Chain PEG-Carbon Nanotubes Phase for Hybrid Supercapacitor Application, Kanishka Rana
A Feminist Focus Group Analysis of Women's Experiences in Postpartum Yoga Classes with Babies Present, Ky Carnell Russell
Quantifying the Functional Consequences of Spanish [s] Lenition: Plural Marking and Derived Homophony in Western Andalusian and Castilian, Mary Catherine Moran Ryan
A Full Factorial Analysis of Polymerization Conditions of Sodium Alginate Beads to Determine the Effect on Diffusivity and Concentration Limit of Tryptophan and Glucose, Allison Schulkins
The Moderating Effect of Perceived Job Mobility and Procedural Justice on the Transformational Leadership-Organizational Citizenship Behavior Relationship, Katarina Marie Schulz
A Multi-method Study of Metamorphism and Fluid Flow During Contact Metamorphism of the May Lake Interpluton Screen, Yosemite National Park, California, Susan Marie Scudder
A Parallel Processing and Diversified-Hidden-Gene-based Genetic Algorithm Framework for Fuel-Optimal Trajectory Design for Interplanetary Spacecraft Missions, Dhathri Harsha Somavarapu
A Boundary-Based Measure for Gerrymandering, Carson Sprock
Comparative Study of Broadband Photometry Relations for Ultra-Diffuse and Normal Galaxies in the Coma Cluster, Maria Babakhanyan Stone
The Moderating Effect of Leader-Member Exchange on the Relationship between Job Characteristics and Organizational Commitment, Caitlin Sullivan
Eductional Persistence In Latino Male Students Attending University: Their experiences and identity development, Michelle Swartz
Affective and Cognitive Effects of Awe in Predicting Hopelessness and Brooding Rumination, Eldita Tarani
Alpha v Beta 8 (αvβ8) on Dendritic Cells Regulates Th17 Differentiation during Bordetella pertussis Infection in Mice, Marlene Taylor
Academic Barriers for Migrant Middle School Students in Salinas, California, Alexa Terhorst
Effect of Land Use Types on the Distribution of Carnivore Species in Santa Clara County, CA., Logan Thompson
Unravelling the paleotopography and extent of Eocene-Oligocene gravel deposition by ancient Sierran drainage systems, Christina Marie Tipp
Evaluation of Oyster Shell Enhancement on Western Snowy Plover Breeding Success, Karine Tokatlian
Milk, Beer and Other Stories, Au-Co Nghi Tran
Escaping Frankenstein: Achieving stealth identity and embodiment through exercise, Daniel Vega
Automated Classification to Improve the Efficiency of Weeding Library Collections, Kiri Lou Wagstaff
Taxonomic Revision of the Short Nose Chimaeras (Genus Hydrolagus) from the Southern African Region, Kristin Walovich
Developmental Effects of Nicotine Exposure in Drosophila Melanogaster, Lisa Janet Wong
The Role of Extended Producer Responsibility Policy and its Influence on Design for Environment within the Electronics Industry, Kristina Zeynalova
