Master's Projects from 2017
Comparing Authentic and Cryptic 5’ Splice Sites Using Hidden Markov Models and Decision Trees, Pratikshya Mishra
Predictive TCAD for NBTI stress-recovery in various device architectures and channel materials, Subrat Mishra, Hiu Yung Wong, Ravi Tiwari, Ankush Chaudhary, Narendra Parihar, Rakesh Rao, Steve Motzny, Victor Moroz, and Souvik Mahapatra
Do you really trust “privacy policy” or “terms of use” agreements without reading them?, Abbas Moallem
Using Stable Isotope Analysis to Infer Breeding Latitude and Migratory Timing of Juvenile Pacific-Slope Flycatchers (Empidonax Difficilis), Emily Bailey Moffitt
Computational Analysis of Cryptic Splice Sites, Remya Mohanan
A Framework for Recommendation of Highly Popular News Lacking Social Feedback, Nuno Moniz, Luís Torgo, Magdalini Eirinaki, and Paula Branco
The Influence a Multiple Teaching Modalities Course on Knowledge and Self-Confidence of Newly Trained Emergency Nurses, Anna C. Montejano
Narcissistic Traits of Police Officers in America, Paloma Moran
Art/CS 108, Introduction to Game Studies, Section 1, Spring 2017, James Morgan
Art/CS 108, Introduction to Game Studies, Section 2, Spring 2017, James Morgan
Benefits of SAA Membership and ACA Certification, Sammie L. Morris and Brenda Gunn
Crafting Autonomy: A Reevaluation of the Pedestal in the Sculpture of Arlene Shechet, Nicole Cherubini, and Francesca DiMattio, Sara Morris Morris
CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action, Scott Myers-Lipton
Parental input to children with ASD and its influence on later language, Aparna Nadig and Janet Bang
Power of the Faculty: Consequences of No Confidence Votes for College Presidents, Daniel Nadler, Mei-Yan Lu Ph.D., and Michael Miller
Analysis of Periodicity in Botnets, Prathiba Nagarajan
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
The NVIDIA AI City Challenge, Milind Naphade, David Anastasiu, Anuj Sharma, Vamsi Jagrlamudi, Hyeran Jeon, Kaikai Liu, Ming-Ching Chang, Siwei Lyu, and Zeyu Gao
Multi-Valued Sequences Generated by Power Residue Symbols over Odd Characteristic Fields, Begum Nasima, Yasuyuki Nogami, Satoshi Uehara, and Robert Morelos-Zaragoza
Time-based, Low-power, Low-offset 5-bit 1 GS/s Flash ADC Design in 65nm CMOS Technology, Mehdi Nasrollahpour
Performance Measures to Assess Resiliency and Efficiency of Transit Systems, Hani Nassif, Kaan Özbay, Devajyoti Deka, Peng Lou, Chaekuk Na, Sandeep Mudigonda, Yuan Zhu, Ender Faruk Morgul, Bekir Bartin, and Ayman El-Awar
Black Box Analysis of Android Malware Detectors, Guruswamy Nellaivadivelu
IN THE GREEN CLASSROOM—TAX POLICY OF ENVIRONMENTAL TAX RULES AND INCENTIVES: NEW DIRECTIONS IN TEACHING AND RESEARCH, Annette Nellen
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
Designing Road Diet Evaluations: Lessons Learned from San Jose’s Lincoln Avenue Road Diet, Hilary Nixon, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, and Cameron Simons
Classification Methods in Context at Theological Libraries: A Case Study, Chloe G. Noland
A Murder of Saviors, Keenan Norris
Chi-Raq Does Not Exist: Chicago Migration Narratives in Context of Popular Media Depictions of the Chi, circa 2016, Keenan Norris
Preconception Care of Women on Prescribed Opioids, Rebecca-Maria Norwick
A Chatbot Framework for Yioop, Harika Nukala
Femicide in Mexico: A Comparative Discourse Analysis of State and Non-State Actors, Joshua Nunes
HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors From Marine Brown Alga: A Literature Review, Eric Nunez Aguilar
Biotemplating pores with size and shape diversity for Li-oxygen Battery Cathodes, Dahyun Oh, Cagla Ozgit-Akgun, Esin Akca, Leslie Thompson, Loza Tadesse, Ho-Cheol Kim, Gökhan Demirci, and Robert Miller
Creativity and Personality Research: Themes and Future Directions, Patricia O’Rourke, James C. Kaufman, Gregory J. Feist, and Roni Reiter-Palmon
An Evaluation of eScience Lab Kits for Online Learning, Diana Orozco
Graffiti Abatement Program in the City of East Palo Alto, Oscar Ortiz
Advances in Global Leadership, Volume 10, Joyce S. Osland, Mark E. Mendenhall, and Ming Li
Click to save and return to course: online education, adjunctification, and the disciplining of academic labour, Robert Ovetz
Higher Education and the Zerowork Paradox, Robert Ovetz
Tactics and Strategies for Successfully Fighting Charter Schools, Robert Ovetz
An Open Source Discussion Group Recommendation System, Sarika Padmashali
Constraining the Physical State of the Hot Gas Halos in NGC 4649 and NGC 5846, Alessandro Paggi, Dong-Woo Kim, Craig Anderson, Doug Burke, Raffaele D'Abrusco, Giuseppina Fabbiano, Antonella Fruscione, Tara Gokas, Jen Lauer, Michael McCollough, Doug Morgan, Amy Mossman, Ewan O'Sullivan, Ginevra Trinchieri, Saeqa Vrtilek, Silvia Pellegrini, Aaron Romanowsky, and Jean Brodie
Factors That Affect Turnover Intention of Registered Nurses in the Acute Hospital: A Meta-Analysis from 2006-2016, Helen Pagilagan
Policy-agnostic programming on the client-side, Kushal Palesha
The HI content of isolated ultra-diffuse galaxies: A sign of multiple formation mechanisms?, E. Papastergis, E. Adams, and Aaron Romanowsky
Language, Immigration and Acculturation in the Short Stories of Ha Jin, Louis J. Parascandola and Rajul Punjabi
Multi Language Browser Support, Swapnil Mohan Patil
Equity of success in CLASP courses at UC Davis, Cassandra Paul, David Webb, Mary Chessey, and Wendell Potter
Moving, Moved and Will be Moving: Zeno and Nāgārjuna on Motion from Mahāmudrā, Koan and Mathematical Physics Perspectives, Robert Alan PAUL
Preparing mental health first responders: College counselors supporting residence life professionals, Matthew Paylo, Jake Protivnak, Kyoung Choi, and Matthew Walker
Sexual recombination and increased mutation rate expedite evolution of Escherichia coli in varied fitness landscapes, George Peabody, Hao Li, and Katy Kao
Green vs. White: An Examination of of Media Portrayals of Radical Environmentalists and White Supremacists, Laurence Pedroni
Suicide Prevention: Do San Francisco AFSP Community Walks Reduce Hopelessness?, Tyson Peltz
Pedretti’s Occupational Therapy: Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction, Heidi McHugh Pendleton and Winifred Schultz-Krohn
Evolving a Truthful World Wide Web, Vishnu Pendyala
Addressing Uncertainty on the Web, Vishnu S. Pendyala
In Pursuit of Truth on the Web: Soft Computing for Truth Finding, Vishnu S. Pendyala
Math Never Lies: Machine Learning for Fact Finding, Vishnu S. Pendyala
Mining For Medical Expertise, Vishnu S. Pendyala
The Case for a Humanitarian Web Made Possible by Big Data Analytics, Vishnu S. Pendyala
Towards Automated Healthcare for the Masses Using Text Mining Analytics, Vishnu S. Pendyala
Automated Medical Diagnosis from Clinical Data, Vishnu S. Pendyala and Silvia Figueira
Disrespecting the Minimum Wage: How States Limit the Opportunity for Restaurant Workers to Support Themselves, Samantha Pereira
“BLUFF” WITH AI, Tina Philip
Changing hearts and minds: Results from a multi-country gender and sexual diversity training, Tonia Poteat, Chulwoo Park, Diego Solares, John K. Williams, R. Cameron Wolf, Noah Metheny, Andrea Vazzano, Juan Dent, Ashley Gibbs, Bareng Aletta Sanny Nonyane, and Nora Toiv
Translanguaging: Definitions, Implications, and Further Needs in Burgeoning Inquiry, Luis E. Poza
ARIA A11Y ANALYZER: Helping Integrate Accessibility into Websites, Jayashree Prabunathan
Invisible outsiders: Developing a working alliance with Appalachian clients, Jake Protivnak, Cassandra Pusateri, Matthew Paylo, and Kyoung Choi
Time-Efficient Hybrid Approach for Facial Expression Recognition, Roshni Velluva Puthanidam
Transportation Construction Work-Zone Safety Impact on Time-Related Incentive Contracting Projects, Jae-Ho Pyeon and Do Kim
Designing a Course for Peer Educators in Undergraduate Engineering Design Courses, Gina Quan, Chandra Turpen, Ayush Gupta, and Emilia Tanu
ABCA' Tetrablock Terpolymers: Synthesis and Morphology, Madalyn Radlauer, Seijiro Fukuta, Megan Matta, Joshua Van Benschoten, and Marc Hillmyer
Clay Bodies: Crafting the Future with 3D Printing, Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello
Hairline Drawing, Rael San Fratello, Ronald Rael, Virginia San Fratello, and Barrak Darweesh
A Strategy for Improving the Performance of an SVMBased Protein Structure Scoring Algorithm, Krithika Raghavendran
A LTIHub for Composite Assignments, Sunita Rajain
Ultramafic geoecology of South and Southeast Asia, Nishanta Rajakaruna, M. Galey, Van Der Ent, and M. Iqbal
Network Traffic Anomaly-Detection Framework Using GPUs, Meera Ramesh
Latino Male College Students' Identities, Psychological Stress, and Coping Mechanisms, Ana E. Ramirez
Environmental and Climate Justice along the Brahmaputra River in Northeast India, Costanza Rampini
Preparation and Characterization of a (Viologen) Containing Main Chain PEG-Carbon Nanotubes Phase for Hybrid Supercapacitor Application, Kanishka Rana
Adding Differential Privacy in an Open Board Discussion Board System, Pragya Rana
Opportunities and Challenges for Self-monitoring Technologies for Healthy Aging: An In-situ Study, Mirana Randriambelonoro, Yu Chen, Onur Yuruten, and Pearl Pu
TV White Spaces in Public Libraries: A Primer, Kristen Rebmann, Emmanuel Te, and Donald Means
Deflation and Consumer Expenditures, Ali M. Reza
Preliminary Findings Using Growth Mindset and Belonging Interventions in a Freshman Engineering Class, Jinny Rhee, Camille Johnson, and Clifton Oyamot
#BlackGirlMagic: Examining the Role of Community Othermothering for Black Sportswomen in the United States, F. Michelle Richardson and Akilah R. Carter-Francique
Collective Uplift: Examining the Mutual Interests of BGLOs and Intercollegiate Athletics, F. Michelle Richardson, Jasmine M. Hamilton, Akilah R. Carter-Francique, S. Carreathers, C. L. Flowers, and Joyce Olushola-Ogunrinde
Knowledge Borders: Temporary Labor Mobility and the Canada-U.S. Border Region, Kathrine E. Richardson
“‘Relentless Geography’: Los Angeles’ Imagined Cartographies in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange,”, Cristina M. Rodriguez
Mildred Doris Rodriguez Interview, Mildred Doris Rodriguez
