Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Milk, Beer and Other Stories, Au-Co Nghi Tran
How Japan’s Cultural Norms Affect Policing: A Side-By-Side Comparison with the United States, Katrina Tran
Cache Management and Load Balancing for 5G Cloud Radio Access Networks, Chin Tsai
Threshold concepts and core competences in the library and information science (LIS) domain: Methodologies for discovery, Virginia Tucker
Pilot test results of a video-based HIV intervention for Chinese college students in the United States, Wei-Chen Tung, Minggen Lu, Rudolph Rull, and Wei Yang
Bicoastal Collective: Chapter Five, Paul Tynan and Aaron Lington
Extensive Globular Cluster Systems Associated with Ultra Diffuse Galaxies in the Coma Cluster, Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, Aaron Romanowsky, Jean Brodie, Charlie Conroy, Shany Danieli, Deborah Lokhors, Allison Merritt, Lamiya Mowla, and Jielai Zhang
The Stellar Initial Mass Function in Early-type Galaxies from Absorption Line Spectroscopy. III. Radial Gradients, Pieter van Dokkum, Charlie Conroy, Alexa Villaume, Jean Brodie, and Aaron Romanowsky
Asthma-Related Hospitalization and Emergency Room Visits in Oakland, Alondra Varela
Book Review: Overcoming Information Poverty: Investigating the Role of Public Libraries in the Twenty-First Century, Anthony McKeown, Mary Vasudeva
Escaping Frankenstein: Achieving stealth identity and embodiment through exercise, Daniel Vega
Understanding India's New Approach to Spatial Planning and Development: A Salient Shift?, Sanjeev Vidyarthi, Shishir Mathur, and Sandeep K. Agrawal
Changing Roles of Legal Information Professionals: Adapting Your Skills to New Challenges, Michele Villagran
Engage with your Cultural side: Cultural Intelligence, Michele Villagran
How Cultural Intelligence (CQ) Makes a Difference in Your Professional Environment, Michele Villagran
Initial Mass Function Variability (or Not) among Low-velocity Dispersion, Compact Stellar Systems, Alexa Villaume, Jean Brodie, Charlie Conroy, Aaron Romanowsky, and Pieter van Dokkum
Exploring the Teaching and Learning of Health Outcomes: Intersections of Race, Place, and Socioeconomic Status, Tammie Visintainer
"Scientists Do What We Do": Empowering Youth of Color as Learners and Doers of Community-Based Scientific Research, Tammie Visintainer
Exploring the Physics Summer Program Experiences of Undergraduate Students Underrepresented in the Physical Sciences, Tammie Visintainer, Andrew R. Elby, Angela Little, Gina Quan, and Ana Aceves
Lifelong and lifewide science learning, Tammie Visintainer and Marcia C. Linn
Headline Generation using Deep Neural Networks, Dhruven Vora
An Assessment and Analysis of the Complexity of the Frontline Nurse Leaders' Role, Robert Alan Vos
An Analysis of Operant Conditioning and its Relationship with Video Game Addiction, Daniel Vu
Smart dairies-enablement of smart city at gross root level, Jaya Shankar Vuppalapati, Santosh Kedari, Ananth Ilapakurthy, Anitha Ilapakurti, and Chandrasekar Vuppalapati
Sunlight Therapy as a Strategy to Improve Vitamin D Status in Skilled Nursing Facility Older Adult Patients: A Pilot Study, Ashwini Wagle, Clarie Hollenbeck, and Jesus Dimas
Effect of Cultural Variations of Spices and Herbs on Improving Meal Pleasure and Increasing Food Intake in Skilled Nursing Facility Residents, Ashwini Wagle, Hema Kundargi, Kasuen Mauldin, and S. Narasimhan
Automated Classification to Improve the Efficiency of Weeding Library Collections, Kiri Lou Wagstaff
The Buffalo, Pumpkin, and Hops: A History of Bill Owens and Craft Beer, Pat Walls
Taxonomic Revision of the Short Nose Chimaeras (Genus Hydrolagus) from the Southern African Region, Kristin Walovich
The use of spectral measurements to age immature blow fly in the larval stage and intrapuparial period, Jodie-A. Warren
Initial investigations of spectral measurements to estimate the time within stages of Protophormia terraenovae (Robineau-Desvoidy) (Diptera: Calliphoridae), Jodie-A. Warren, T. D. Pulindu Ratnasekera, David A. Campbell, and Gail S. Anderson
Spectral Signatures of Immature Lucilia sericata (Meigen) (Diptera: Calliphoridae), Jodie-A. Warren, T. D. Pulindu Ratnasekera, David A. Campbell, and Gail S. Anderson
Reading the Bones: Activity, Biology and Culture, Elizabeth Weiss
Closing talk: Progress and Poverty: The Paradox of Scholarly Communication in the Digital Age, John Wenzler
‘I feel like I don't belong’: Examining the Social and Cultural Experiences of Bicultural and Biracial College Students, Michael West and Cara Maffini
Mass Shootings and the Media: How Race and Ethnicity Influence Media Coverage, Emily Wheeler
Hospitalization Rates and Predictors of Rehospitalization Among Individuals With Advanced Cancer in the Year After Diagnosis, Robin Whitney, Janice Bell, Daniel Tancredi, Patrick Romano, Richard Bold, and Jill Joseph
A Potential Tool for Clinicians; Evaluating a Computer-Led Dietary Assessment Method in Overweight and Obese Women during Weight Loss, Adrianne Widaman, Nancy Keim, Dustin Burnett, Beverly Miller, Megan Witbracht, Keith Widaman, and Kevin Laugero
The Trayline Experience – Simulating Key Components of Centrally Assembled Tray Service in the Classroom, Adrianne M. Widaman
Needs assessment of foodservice management curriculum related to student competency of sanitizing practices in a quantity food production course, A. W. Widaman and J. Kubota
The Self: Kierkegaard and Buddhism in Dialogue, David WISDO
A physical model of the abnormal behavior of hydrogen-terminated Diamond MESFET, Hiu Yung Wong, Nelson Braga, and R. V. Mickevicius
Prediction of highly scaled hydrogen-terminated diamond MISFET performance based on calibrated TCAD simulation, Hiu Yung Wong, Nelson Braga, and R. V. Mickevicius
FinFET NBTI degradation reduction and recovery enhancement through hydrogen incorporation and self-heating, Hiu Yung Wong, Steve Motzny, Victor Moroz, Subrat Mishra, and Souvik Mahapatra
Proposition 64 Legalizes Marijuana in California but the War on Drugs Continues, Jessica Wong
Developmental Effects of Nicotine Exposure in Drosophila Melanogaster, Lisa Janet Wong
Read, Gold, and Green: California Academic Librarians and Open Access Publishing, Lana Wood
Malagasy Time Conceptions, Casey WOODLING
Risk and Protective Factors for Anger and Violent Behavior in U.S. Military Service Members, Miranda Worthen
Under the Care of the City of Fremont: Employees Embrace a Healthier Lifestyle through Worksite Wellness, Kelly Wright
Direct comparisons of ice cloud macro- and microphysical properties simulated by the Community Atmosphere Model version 5 with HIPPO aircraft observations, Chenglai Wu, Xiaohong Liu, Minghui Diao, Kai Zhang, Andrew Gettelman, Zheng Lu, Joyce Penner, and Zhaohui Lin
Supply chain coordination with two-part tariffs under information asymmetry, Chongqi Wu, Kunpeng Lu, and Tianqin Shi
Housing Price prediction Using Support Vector Regression, Jiao Yang Wu
Cascaded Facial Detection Algorithms To Improve Recognition, Edmund Yee
Evaluation of Immigration and Citizenship Program (ICP), Wen Feng Yip
Shoot Them or Send Them Back: Analysis of Public Opinion and Sentiment in News Comments on Syrian Refugees, Zulfia Zaher and Nisha Garud-Patkar
Rethinking Sufism and the Supernatural in Islamic Reform, Arthur Zárate
“Yo No Cruse La Frontera, La Frontera Me Cruzo” (I Didn’t Cross the Border, the Border Crossed Me), Heriberto Zavala
The Role of Extended Producer Responsibility Policy and its Influence on Design for Environment within the Electronics Industry, Kristina Zeynalova
What Motivates Young Adults to Talk About Physical Activity on Social Network Sites?, Ni Zhang, Shelly Campo, Jingzhen Yang, Petya Eckler, Linda Snetselaar, Kathleen Janz, and Emily Leary
Intelligent Web Crawler for Semantic Search Engine, Shujia Zhang
Content Individuation and Evolutionary Content Emergence, Yujian ZHENG
Doctoral Projects from 2016
Barriers to Preoperative Teaching in a Culturally Diverse Healthcare Environment, Rancelle Ablan
Book Review: Critical Literacy for Information Professionals, Ann Agee
Crafting the Question: Get the Most Out of Your Student Response System, Ann Agee
Faculty, Students, and Perceptions of Library Value, Ann Agee and Bernd Becker
A Survey of Viva CalleSJ Participants: San Jose, California 2016, Asha Weinstein Agrawal and Hilary Nixon
A Survey of Viva CalleSJ Participants: San Jose, California 2015, Asha W. Agrawal and Hilary Nixon
What Do Americans Think About Federal Tax Options to Support Public Transit, Highways, and Local Streets and Roads? Results from Year Seven of a National Survey, Asha W. Agrawal and Hilary Nixon
Leadership Where You Might Overlook: Opportunity Calls at a Community College, Jose A. Aguiñaga
The SLUGGS survey: the mass distribution in early-type galaxies within five effective radii and beyond, Adebusola Alabi, Duncan Forbes, Aaron Romanowsky, Jean Brodie, Jay Strader, Joachim Janz, Vincenzo Pota, Nicola Pastorello, Christopher Usher, Lee Spitler, Caroline Foster, Zachary Jennings, Alexa Villaume, and Sreeja Kartha
The CSI Effect: Fact or Fiction?, Kavita Alejo
MAKER: Redesign of a Multipurpose Hardware Tool to Improve its Functionality and Marketability, David Alexander, Vimal Viswanathan, Shraddha Sangelkar, and Johnathan Moody
From Political Liberalism to Para-Liberalism: Epistemological Pluralism, Cognitive Liberalism & Authentic Choice, Musa al-Gharbi
Preliminary Investigation of Commercially Available Pluronics as UV Curable 3D Printing Inks for Tissue Engineering Applications, A'Lester Cordell Allen
Directed Self-Assembly of High-χ Block Copolymers for Advanced Patterning Applications, Gabriela Alva
Earthquake Loss Estimates and Policy Implications for Nonductile Concrete Buildings in Los Angeles, Thalia Anagnos, Mary C. Comerio, and Jonathan P. Stewart
Rethinking Assessment: Information Literacy Instruction and the ACRL Framework, Melissa J. Anderson
Image Spam Analysis, Annapurna Sowmya Annadatha
Assessment of a Writing Workshop Model for First-Year Engineering Students, Patricia Backer
Integration of General Education into the Senior Capstone Class in Engineering, Patricia Backer and Laura Sullivan-Green
Loving the Unlovable Body in Yamanaka's Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre, Christa Baiada
The World's Your Stage: How Performing Artists Can Make a Living While Still Doing What They Love, William F. Baker, Warren C. Gibson, and Evan Leatherwood
The Contemporary Tax Journal's Interview of Dr. Susan Martin, Shilpa Balnadu
The Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, Shilpa Balnadu
To Win or Not to Win! Article on Prize and Awards, Shilpa Balnadu
Word learning from referential gaze versus a moving arrow in children with or without autism, Janet Bang and Aparna Nadig
Learning about Objects from Referential Gaze Versus Arrows in Children with and without ASD, J. Bang and A. Nadig
Exploring Bicycle and Public Transit Use by Low-Income Latino Immigrants: A Mixed-Methods Study in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jesus M. Barajas, Daniel G. Chatman, and Asha W. Agrawal
Trail Vision: Utilizing Leopold As Environmental Equipment For Living, Kendall Elizabeth Barrett
Cooperative strategies in international business and management: Reflections on the past 50 years and future directions, Paul W. Beamish and Nathaniel C. Lupton
An Overmassive Dark Halo around an Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy in the Virgo Cluster, Michael Beasley, Aaron Romanowsky, Vincenzo Pota, Ignacio Navarro, David Martinez-Delgado, Fabian Neyer, and Aaron Deich
Imaging right ventricular function to predict outcome in pulmonary arterial hypertension, Alessandro Bellofiore, Melanie Brewis, Rebecca Vanderpool, Naomi Chesler, Martin Johnson, Robert Naeije, and Andrew Peacock
Reduced haemodynamic coupling and exercise are associated with vascular stiffening in pulmonary arterial hypertension, Alessandro Bellofiore, Eric Dinges, Robert Naeije, Hamorabi Mkrdichian, Lauren Beussink-Nelson, Melissa Bailey, Michael Cuttica, Ranya Sweis, James Runo, Jon Keevil, Christopher Francois, Sanjiv Shah, and Naomi Chesler
[Review of] Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow , Anthony Bernier
Our home by the sea: Critical race reflections on Samuel Chapman Armstrong’s accommodationism through William Watkins’ White Architects of Black Education, Theodorea Regina Berry and Michael Jennings
HIVE - An Agent Based Modeling Framework, Roohi Bharti
Silicon Revolution: Sustainability Disclosures and Performance in the Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry (2010-2014), Swarali Bhat
Silicon Nanowire Transistors, Ahmet Bindal and Sotoudeh Hamedi-Hagh
