Master's Projects from 2024
California Carbon Sequestration and Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Regulation in an Era of Climate Change: Technology and Policy, Robert A. Mason
Cycling tribes: lifestyles, values, and aesthetics, Matthew Masucci and Mark Falcous
What Can We Do to Help? Understanding Policies and Practices of Schools Related to Unexcused Absences, Shelly K. Masur
Plasma-Water Interaction: Measuring RONS to Investigate the Plasma-Wound Interaction Process, Sharon Mathew, Sonya Sar, and Sohail Zaidi
Are California’s Local Jurisdictions Disproportionately Directing Growth Toward Existing Disadvantaged Communities? Evidence from the Southern California and San Francisco Bay Area Regions, Shishir Mathur and Christopher Ferrell
Predevelopment revolving loan funds to develop affordable housing: Program features and how they can be strengthened, Shishir Mathur, Hilary Nixon, and Shreya Chokshi
Insulin Signal Transduction Mediates Ethanol-Induced Feeding Dysfunction in a Fly Model of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Manae Matsubara
The Impacts of Recreational Infrastructure on Mammal Use of Riparian Zones in Northern California Regional Parks, Emily A. Matthews
Stereo-video landers can rapidly assess marine fish diversity and community assemblages, Kinsey E. Matthews, Ryan T. Fields, Kathleen P. Cieri, Jacklyn L. Mohay, Mary G. Gleason, and Richard M. Starr
The NASA Raman spectroscopic database: Ramdb version 1.00, A. L. Mattioda, L. Gavilan, C. L. Ricketts, P. K. Najeeb, A. Ricca, and C. Boersma
Measures of nutrition status and health for weight-inclusive patient care: A narrative review, Kasuen Mauldin, Giselle A.P. Pignotti, and John Gieng
A Subcortical Model for Auditory Forward Masking with Efferent Control of Cochlear Gain, Braden N. Maxwell, Afagh Farhadi, Marc A. Brennan, Adam Svec, and Laurel H. Carney
Construction, Emplacement, and Structure of Cretaceous Plutons in the Ebbetts Pass Region, North-Central Sierra Nevada Batholith, California, Hollianne C. McClure
A Dictionary of Modern Consternation, Brook McClurg
The Indirect Benefits of a Transit Apprenticeship and its Potential Value as a Flexible Postsecondary Pathway, Kathleen F. McConnell and Priya Raman
Into the Deep: Effects of Natural and Artificial Substrates in the Deep Sea, Sydney E. McDermott
Mitigating Risk: Predicting H5N1 Avian Influenza Spread with an Empirical Model of Bird Movement, Fiona McDuie, Cory T. Overton, Austen A. Lorenz, Elliott L. Matchett, Andrea L. Mott, Desmond A. MacKell, Joshua T. Ackerman, Susan E.W. De La Cruz, Vijay P. Patil, Diann J. Prosser, John Y. Takekawa, Dennis L. Orthmeyer, Maurice E. Pitesky, Samuel L. Díaz-Muñoz, Brock M. Riggs, Joseph Gendreau, Eric T. Reed, Mark J. Petrie, and Chris K. Williams
The Effects of Full-Body Photo-Editing on Female Body Image, Claire E. McElhern
Morphological and ecological evidence for the recognition of Anacolia baueri (Bartramiaceae) as distinct from A. menziesii, John Mclaughlin and Benjamin E. Carter
Comparison of Likelihood Ratios from Probabilistic Genotyping for Two-Person Mixtures across Different Assays and Instruments, Dennis McNevin and Mark Barash
Temporal Dynamics in Diabetes Prediction: A Sensor-Driven Time-Series Exploration, Monica Meduri
Mosaic Atlas: Interview with Nasser Meerkhan, Nasser Meerkhan and Jan English-Lueck
A natural language processing approach to Malware classification, Ritik Mehta, Olha Jurečková, and Mark Stamp
An Exploration of Information Processing In Diffusion Models, Paul Mello
Workplace support for physicians during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Did it affect burnout?, Joy Melnikow, Guibo Xing, Marykate E. Miller, Sabrina Loureiro, Andrew J. Padovani, Robin Whitney, and Richard L. Kravitz
Remote Work and the Desire for Meaningful Work: The Unexpected Moderating Effects of Age and Childrearing, Adriana Rae Meredith
Sketching Instruction in Engineering Design with an Intelligent Tutoring Software, Hillary E. Merzdorf, Donna Jaison, Tracy Anne Hammond, and Vimal Kumar Viswanathan
Isabella Whitney: Poems by a Sixteenth-Century Gentlewoman, Maid, and Servant, Shannon Miller
Cluster Analysis for Concept Drift Detection in Malware, Aniket Mishra
Comparing Shade and Impervious Surface Area with Extreme Heat and Environmental Equity: An Analysis of the Urban Heat Island Effect in Santa Clara County, California, Jamsheed R. Mistry
Archeota Spring/ Summer 2024, Emily Mizokami, Ali Phelps, Celina Lozano, Araceli Argueta, Chelsey Abbott, Danielle Bonsignore, and Sarah Lewis
Dashboard design, Abbas Moallem
Human behavior in cybersecurity privacy and trust, Abbas Moallem
Empirical Study of Machine Learning for Intelligent Bearing Fault Diagnosis, Armin Moghadam and Fatemeh Davoudi Kakhki
Flexible capacitive pressure sensor based on warp knitted spacer fabric, Meghdad Kamali Moghaddam, Meysam Moezzi, Tohid Torabi, and Fred Barez
DEEP-LEARNING APPROACHES TO PREDICT REMAINING USEFUL LIFE OF HARD DISKS, Rohan Mohapatra
Deep-Learning Approaches to Predict Remaining Useful Life of Hard Disks, Rohan Mohapatra
A framework for scientific data indexing, searching and sharing, Apoorva Mohite
Correction to: Response of regional circulation features to the Indian Ocean dipole and influence on Central Africa climate (Climate Dynamics, (2024), 10.1007/s00382-024-07251-w), Foupouapegnigni Moihamette, Wilfried M. Pokam, Ismaila Diallo, and Richard Washington
Correction to: Response of regional circulation features to the Indian Ocean dipole and influence on Central Africa climate (Climate Dynamics, (2024), 62, 6, (1-21), 10.1007/s00382-024-07251-w), Foupouapegnigni Moihamette, Wilfried M. Pokam, Ismaila Diallo, and Richard Washington
Response of regional circulation features to the Indian Ocean dipole and influence on Central Africa climate, Foupouapegnigni Moihamette, Wilfried M. Pokam, Ismaila Diallo, and Richard Washington
Formula 1 Commentary Generator using Generative Artificial Intelligence, Hiral Moliya
A Fresh Take: Seasonal Changes in Terrestrial Freshwater Inputs Impact Salt Marsh Hydrology and Vegetation Dynamics, Maya S. Montalvo, Emilio Grande, Anna E. Braswell, Ate Visser, Bhavna Arora, Erin C. Seybold, Corianne Tatariw, John C. Haskins, Charlie A. Endris, Fuller Gerbl, Mong Han Huang, Darya Morozov, and Margaret A. Zimmer
Correction to: A Fresh Take: Seasonal Changes in Terrestrial Freshwater Inputs Impact Salt Marsh Hydrology and Vegetation Dynamics (Estuaries and Coasts, (2024), 10.1007/s12237-024-01392-1), Maya S. Montalvo, Emilio Grande, Anna E. Braswell, Ate Visser, Bhavna Arora, Erin C. Seybold, Corianne Tatariw, John C. Haskins, Charlie A. Endris, Fuller Gerbl, Mong Han Huang, Darya Morozov, and Margaret A. Zimmer
IS KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT (FINALLY) EXTRACTIVE? – FULLER’S ARGUMENT REVISITED IN THE AGE OF AI, Norman Mooradian
Knowledge Ethics: Conceptual Preliminaries Scope and Justification, Norman Mooradian
Full-Body Haptic and Spatial Audio Cueing Algorithms for Augmented Pilot Perception, Michael T. Morcos, Spencer M. Fishman, Umberto Saetti, Edward N. Bachelder, and Martine Godfroy-Cooper
TikTok as social communication tool to encourage participation in volunteering projects, Belén Moreno-Albarracín and Tania Blanco-Sánchez
Handbook of Understanding Terrorism: Forensic Social Sciences Case Studies, Stephen Morewitz
Klinische und psychologische Perspektiven der Feststellung von Fremdverschulden, Stephen Morewitz
Klinische und psychologische Perspektiven des Foulspiels (German Edition), Stephen J. Morewitz
Enhancing Restaurant Sales Prediction: The Dynamic Forecasting Engine, Rahul Sanjay Morishetti
Book Review: The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope, Daniel Greene, Boheme Morris
Time-To-Failure Prediction of Fine-Grained Soil Slopes Subject to Weather-Driven Deterioration, Arm M. Morsy
Neural Network-based Blocking Prediction for Dynamic Network Slicing, Nitin Datta Movva and Genya Ishigaki
How Remote Working and Placelessness Affect Future Planning for Innovation Districts: A Systematic Review of the Literature, Ladan Mozaffarian, Ahoura Zandiatashbar, and Ariadna Reyes-Sanchez
Mosaic Atlas: Interview with Annalee Mraz Bartra, Annalee Mraz Bartra and Sukanya Chakrabarti
Electron-Induced Chemical Transformations in Polymer Films: Understanding the Role of Electrons in EUV Lithography, Maximillian Mueller
Embodied energy injustice and the political ecology of solar power, Dustin Mulvaney
Not Automation Failures, but Automation Interface Failures, Randall J. Mumaw
Entrepreneurial emotional bias from mass shootings: Evidence from Kickstarter, Hyejin Mun, Yeongin Kim, Yasin Ceran, and Chul Ho Lee
Mosaic Atlas: Interview with PC Muñoz, PC Muñoz and Jan English-Lueck
Knowledge Graph-based Multiple-Choice Question Generation, Durga Muralidharan
Breakdown of Boltzmann-type models for the alignment of self-propelled rods, Patrick Murphy, Misha Perepelitsa, Ilya Timofeyev, Matan Lieber-Kotz, Brandon Islas, and Oleg A. Igoshin
Code Quality Enhancement: Evaluating AI Code Generation with Software Metrics, Sirisha Krishna Murthy
Teaching Children Programming Concepts Through Video Games, Kayla Musleh
They Shut Me Up, Cassandra Myers
Enhancing Qwen2.5-Coder: A Deep Dive into Fine-Tuning using PEFT for Superior Code Outputs, Lohith Nagaraja
Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Muscle Dysmorphic Disorder Inventory (Mddi) Among Transgender Women, Jason M. Nagata, Emilio J. Compte, F. Hunter McGuire, Jason M. Lavender, Tiffany A. Brown, Matthew R. Capriotti, Annesa Flentje, Micah E. Lubensky, Juno Obedin-Maliver, and Mitchell R. Lunn
SDEBuddy - Code Documentation using Large Language Models, Nischay Nagendra
Distributed Spacecraft with Heuristic Intelligence to Monitor Wildfire Spread for Responsive Control, Sreeja Nag, Vinay Ravindra, Richard Levinson, Mahta Moghaddam, Kurtis Nelson, Jan Mandel, Adam Kochanski, Angel Farguell Caus, Amer Melebari, Archana Kannan, and Ryan Ketzner
Explaining the Maliciousness of URLs using SHAP and LIME, Ayush Nair
Mosaic Atlas: Interview with Aliah Najmabadi, Aliah Najmabadi and Milina Jovanovic
Optimized Community Detection across Distributed Heterogeneous Servers, Akash Narang
Estimating Models for Engineering Costs on the State Highway Operation and Protection Program (SHOPP) Portfolio of Projects, Elhami Nasr, Tariq Shehab, Nigel Blampied, and Vinit Kanani
Mosaic Atlas: Interview with Fego Navarro, Fego Navarro and Milina Jovanovic
Ethnographic methods: Training norms and practices and the future of American anthropology, Rosalyn Negrón, Amber Wutich, H. Russell Bernard, Alexandra Brewis, Alissa Ruth, Katherine Mayfour, Barbara Piperata, Melissa Beresford, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Pardis Mahdavi, Jessica Hardin, Rebecca Zarger, Krista Harper, James Holland Jones, Clarence C. Gravlee, and Bryan Brayboy
Fine-tuning Large Language Models for Folder Structure Generation, Likhith Nemani
Assessing GTFS Accuracy, Gregory L. Newmark
Measurement and Prediction of Transit System Performance Using Probe Data Generated through DSRC and non-DSRC Technologies, Gregory L. Newmark
Evaluating a microalga (Schizochytrium sp.) as an alternative to fish oil in fish-free feeds for sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria), Katherine A. Neylan, Ronald B. Johnson, Frederic T. Barrows, David P. Marancik, Scott L. Hamilton, and Luke D. Gardner
Mitigating the Risk of Reentrancy Attack in Smart Contract Development, Eric Ngo
Piloting a Novel Computational Framework for Identifying Prosthesis-Specific Contributions to Gait Deviations, Jacques Ezechiel N'Guessan, Muhammad Hassaan Ahmed, Matthew Leineweber, and Sachin Goyal
Enhancing the Security Infrastructure of IoT-Enabled Smart Parking Networks, Bao G. Nguyen
Mosaic Atlas: Interview with Chiêu Quân Nguyen, Chiêu Quân Nguyen and Milina Jovanovic
Detecting Malicious Websites by using Deep Q-Networks, Khanh Nguyen and Younghee Park
Antibiofilm Activity of PDMS/TiO2 against Candida glabrata through Inhibited Hydrophobic Recovery, Khoi Nguyen Nguyen, Leena Sao, Kevin Kyllo, Danitza Hernandez, Samantha Salomon, Kalp Shah, Dahyun Oh, and Katy C. Kao
TCAD Structure Input File Generation Using Large Language Model, Le Minh Long Nguyen, Albert Lu, and Hiu Yung Wong
Deception Detection Models from Speech, Tien Nguyen
Deception and Lie Detection Using Reduced Linguistic Features, Deep Models and Large Language Models for Transcribed Data, Tien Nguyen, Faranak Abri, Akbar Siami Namin, and Keith S. Jones
Use of a California Wetland: Harbor Seal (Phoca Vitulina) Haul-out Patterns in Elkhorn Slough, Emma Nicholson
Resume Content Generation Using Llama 2 With Adapters, Navaneeth Sai Nidadavolu
Resume Content Generation Using Llama 2 with Adapters, Navaneeth Sai Nidadavolu and William B. Andreopoulos
User Assessment of Passive Exoskeleton in Manual Material Handling, Arnold Nieto, Hardik Vora, Fatemeh Davoudi, and Armin Moghadam
Applicative Recursion and Nominal Licensing, Yining Nie