Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Self-Efficacy’s Mediating Role on the Relationship Between Personality and Depression in the Unemployed, Christina Tran
Relationship between Depression, Rumination, and Emotionally Valenced Working Memory Performance, Dewey Tran
Creating an Inclusive Library: Approaches for Increasing Engagement and Use with Students of Color, Ngoc-Yen Tran, Michael Aguilar, and Adriana Poo
Creating an Inclusive Library: Approaches for Increasing Engagement and Use with Students of Color, Ngoc-Yen Tran, Michael Aguilar, and Adriana Poo
Precision motion control of rotary flexible link manipulators using polynomial input trajectories and feedback control, Phuc Tran and Saeid Bashash
An Advanced Malware Detection System Based on NLP to Generate Genetic Markers, Quang Duy Tran, Jaehyun Lim, and Fabio Di Troia
Using Moss as an Inexpensive Air Pollution Bioindicator for Environmental Equity in Santa Clara Country, California, Tam Dan Tran
Enhancing Cross-Cultural Communication in Low-Resource Language Conversational Agents, Hardi V. Trivedi
The College-Going Experiences of Mexican American Participants Who Graduated from a College Preparatory Program, Miguel A. Trujillo and Yolanda Anyon
Combining genomic and field analyses to reveal migratory status in a burrowing owl population, Lynne A. Trulio, Debra A. Chromczak, Philip G. Higgins, Sandra Menzel, Christen M. Bossu, and Kristen Ruegg
Changes in Family Dynamics and Adolescent Adjustment During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Kim M. Tsai and Dahyeon Jung
Novel Audio Mosaic Using LPC-Coefficient and Excitation-Codeword Permutations, Morris C.H. Tsai, Hsiao Chun Wu, Scott C.H. Huang, and Shih Yu Chang
The Effects of Stress on Attentional Networks, Alice Tsvinev
Design Concepts in Information Retrieval: Creating User-centered Systems, Search Engines, and Sites, Virginia Tucker
Breast Cancer Knowledge and Mammography Use Among Asian American Women Aged 40 and Older: Using the Transtheoretical Model Approach, Wei Chen Tung and Yinghan Chen
Human papillomavirus vaccination: a quantitative cross-sectional study of perceived barriers, influential advisors, and acculturation among Chinese college students aged 18–26 in the USA, Wei Chen Tung, Yinghan Chen, Xiaoyan Yang, and Crystal Lam
Implications for Home Health Care: Perceived HPV Vaccination Barriers and Recommended Sources among Hispanic/Latino College Students, Wei Chen Tung, Itzel Corral Gonzalez, Denise Dawkins, and Ho Jui Tung
Redefining Reference Services in the 21st Century, Johanna Tunon
Selective Laser Melting and Mechanical Characterization of Superalloys Made from Recycled Parts, Hugo Tupac-Yupanqui and Amir Armani
Annihilation dynamics during spiral defect chaos revealed by particle models, Timothy J. Tyree, Patrick Murphy, and Wouter Jan Rappel
Attention modulates perceptual learning of non-native-accented speech, Christina Y. Tzeng, Marissa L. Russell, and Lynne C. Nygaard
Pixels of Passion: The Revolutionary Impact of Indie Games, Sharanya Udupa
Beneath I-280: Excavating a Neighborhood Lost to San José Freeways, Leila Ullmann and Gordon Douglas
Improving the Diversity and Fairness in Job Recommendations using the Stable Matching Algorithm, Jatin Unecha
Can machines have emotions?, Anand Jayprakash Vaidya
The Conceivability Challenge for Essentialism in the Epistemology of Modality, Anand Jayprakash Vaidya
Conferralism, Anand Jayprakash Vaidya and Michael Wallner
Advancing Discourse Analysis in Multiparty Meetings: Comprehensive Classification of Argument and Relation Types, Vishal Vaitla
Fake Malware Generation using GANs as API Calls, Saieswar Reddy Vaka
A Survey of Nurse Preceptor Preferences Regarding Training Topics: A Descriptive Study, Janice Yao Valadez
Exploring the Use and Misuse of Large Language Models (LLMs), Hezekiah Paul D. Valdez
Ethnoracial Risk Variation Across the Psychosis Continuum in the US A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Els van der Ven, Thomas M. Olino, Katharina Diehl, Stephanie M. Nuñez, Griffin Thayer, Miranda A. Bridgwater, Sabrina Ereshefsky, Christie Musket, Sarah Hope Lincoln, R. Tyler Rogers, Mallory J. Klaunig, Emily Soohoo, Jordan E. DeVylder, Rebecca E. Grattan, Jason Schiffman, Lauren M. Ellman, Tara A. Niendam, and Deidre M. Anglin
Racial Bias in Risk Allocation and Resource Utilisation: A Contributing Factor to Ethnic Minority Overrepresentation in Missing Person Investigations?, Amy van Langeraad, Fiona Gabbert, and Adrian J. Scott
Domain Switch on Sentiment Analysis using Gradient Reversal Layer, Hemish Veeraboina
Scalable Container Caching Optimization with Action Masking for Serverless Edge Computing, Manikanta Sanjay Veera
E-SMOTE: Entropy Based Minority Oversampling for Heart Failure and AIDS Clinical Trails Analysis, Sainath Veerla, Anbu Valluvan Devadasan, Mohammad Masum, Mohammed Chowdhury, and Hossain Shahriar
Invisible Wounds: Testimony of Microaggressions From the Experiences of Clinicians of Color in Training, José Manuel González Vera, Melanie M. Domenech Rodríguez, Cynthia M. Navarro Flores, Alejandro L. Vázquez, Guadalupe G. San Miguel, Mary Phan, Elizabeth Grace Wong, Korena S. Klimczak, Jaclyn Bera, Lesther Papa, and Juan Estrada
“A Secret in Plain Sight”: Origin Stories From the Amy Morris Homans Cotillion, Maria J. Veri, Diane L. Williams, Jackie Hudson, Roberta S. Bennett, Karen P. DePauw, Emily H. Wughalter, and Linda Zwiren
Mosaic Atlas: Interview with Arjun Verma, Arjun Verma and Sukanya Chakrabarti
Shared Decision-Making Communication and Prognostic Misunderstanding in the ICU, Judith B. Vick, Benjamin T. Berger, Peter A. Ubel, Christopher E. Cox, Hyun Bin You, Jessica E. Ma, Marie C. Haverfield, Bradley G. Hammill, Shannon S. Carson, Catherine L. Hough, Douglas B. White, and Deepshikha Charan Ashana
Habitat Characterization of American Badgers (Taxidea taxus) of Northern California, Mitchell Victoria
Social Services, Law, and Crisis Management Curriculum Offered in Library and Information Studies, Michele A.L. Villagran, Bobbie S. Long, and Dale Monobe
Mitigating urban heat island and enhancing indoor thermal comfort using terrace garden, Girish Visvanathan, Kailas Patil, Yogesh Suryawanshi, Vishal Meshram, and Shrikant Jadhav
Better things to do or doing nothing at all? – the implications of incomplete share repurchase programs, Julian U.N. Vogel
Mosaic Atlas: Interview with Linh Amanda Vong, Linh Amanda Vong and Jan English-Lueck
Assessing Policy Effectiveness Using AI and Language Models: Applications for Economic and Social Sustainability, Chandrasekar Vuppalapati
Data science inscription of the Jyotirlingas!, Chandrasekar Vuppalapati
Data Science Inscription of the Jyotirlingas! Volume 2, Chandrasekar Vuppalapati
The Relationship of Acculturation with the Health Numeracy and Associated Health Behaviors of Filipino-Americans, Ashwini Wagle, J. Cuaresma, and Giselle A.P. Pignotti
Advanced Thermogravimetric Analyses of Stem Wood and Straw Devolatilization: Torrefaction through Combustion, David R. Wagner
Emphasizing the Social in Sociotechnical Approaches to the Digital Curation of Visual Information, Travis L. Wagner, Zack Lischer-Katz, James A. Hodges, Victoria Van Hyning, Mace A. Jones, and Amelia Acker
Genius, Instrumental Music, and “Great Mistakes”: Amadeus Wendt and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Sarah Clemmens Waltz
Fresno County Afterschool Transportation Education, Christian Wandeler and Felipe Mercado
Does California High-Speed Rail Promote Accessibility for Station Cities?: Case Study of Fresno and Merced, Chih-Hao Wang and Na Chen
Validation of Satellite-Based Cloud Phase Distributions Using Global-Scale In Situ Airborne Observations, Dao Wang, Ching An Yang, and Minghui Diao
REDQT: a method for automated mobile application GUI testing based on deep reinforcement learning algorithms, Fengyu Wang, Chuanqi Tao, and Jerry Gao
The Effect of a Neonatal Palliative Care Education Program in Increasing Knowledge and Communication Self-efficacy Among NICU Nurses, Shiou-Huei Joy Wang
COVID-19 vaccination-related tinnitus is associated with pre-vaccination metabolic disorders, Weihua Wang, Anusha Yellamsetty, Robert M. Edmonds, Shaun R. Barcavage, and Shaowen Bao
Implanted Guard Ring Edge Termination with Avalanche Capability for Vertical GaN Devices, Yifan Wang, Matthew Porter, Ming Xiao, Albert Lu, Nathan Yee, Ivan Kravchenko, Bernadeta Srijanto, Kai Cheng, Hiu Yung Wong, and Yuhao Zhang
Protect the Children, Body and Soul, Kenjus T. Watson, Tiffani Marie, Ersie Anastasia Gentzis, and Dante Dixson
Breaking the Cycle: Countering Popularity Bias for Diverse Content Discovery, Brandon J. Weaver
Controlling Popularity Bias in Sequential Recommendation Models, Brandon Weaver, Melody Moh, and Teng Sheng Moh
Analysis of historic and current New Jersey deer population densities in Kelly and Ray (2023), G. Kent Webb
SAASC Presents: No Results Found – Uncovering Hidden Lives: Gender Bias in Archives and Special Collections, Thera Webb
Structure of the South-Central Skagit Gneiss Complex: Implications for Rheological Response to Magmatic Flare-Ups, Jeffery Wegener
Hubbard parameters for programmable tweezer arrays, Hao Tian Wei, Eduardo Ibarra-García-Padilla, Michael L. Wall, and Kaden R.A. Hazzard
No Bones About It: Sex Is Binary, Elizabeth Weiss
Sheet resistance prediction of laser induced graphitic carbon with transformer encoder-enabled contrastive learning, Yupeng Wei, Gerd Grau, and Dazhong Wu
Conditional variational transformer for bearing remaining useful life prediction, Yupeng Wei and Dazhong Wu
State of health and remaining useful life prediction of lithium-ion batteries with conditional graph convolutional network, Yupeng Wei and Dazhong Wu
Remaining useful life prediction using graph convolutional attention networks with temporal convolution-aware nested residual connections, Yupeng Wei, Dazhong Wu, and Janis Terpenny
A Test of the Behavioral Model of Tic Disorders Using a Dynamical Systems Framework, Brianna C.M. Wellen, Krishnapriya Ramanujam, Mark Lavelle, Matthew R. Capriotti, Jonathan Butner, Matthew J. Euler, and Michael B. Himle
The Limitations and Future of Isotope Analysis in Forensic Anthropology, Kris Weller
Cosmogenic radionuclides in meteorites from the Otway Massif blue ice area, Antarctica: An unusual, well-preserved H5 chondrite strewn field, Kees C. Welten, Marc W. Caffee, Monika E. Kress, Marlene D. Giscard, A. J.Timothy Jull, Ralph P. Harvey, and John Schutt
The light of the world: La Luz del Mundo, liminality and NRM studies, Donald A. Westbrook
Anticultism in France: Scientology, Religious Freedom, and the Future of New and Minority Religions, Donald A. Westbrook
BDSM Safety in Pornography: Its Perceived Accuracy and Impact on Practitioners’ Safe Word Practices, Bryce G. Westlake
Innovations from the launch of the child sexual abuse reduction research network, Bryce G. Westlake, Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar, Russell Brewer, Sarah Napier, Katie Logos, and Julia Davidson
Selective Partitioned Regression for Accurate Kidney Health Monitoring, Alex Whelan, Ragwa Elsayed, Alessandro Bellofiore, and David C. Anastasiu
Kinetic Characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ArnA, Keely N. White
Poor nutrition status associated with low patient satisfaction six months into treatment for head and neck/esophageal cancer treatment: A prospective multicenter cohort study, Adrianne M. Widaman, Andrew G. Day, Maggie A. Kuhn, Rupinder Dhaliwal, Vickie Baracos, Merran Findlay, Judith D. Bauer, Marian de van der Schueren, Alessandro Laviano, Lisa Martin, and Leah Gramlich
Private landowner interest in prescribed fire in California: findings from workshops in the Sierra Nevada, Kate M. Wilkin, Amanda M. Stasiewicz, and Susan D. Kocher
(Un)Doing Diversity Work in a "Diverse" Space: Examining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in Historically Black College and University Athletics, A. Lamont Williams, Marcis Fennell, and Yannick Kluch
The Switch Up: BlackCrit, The Heritage, and the Wave of Athletic Racial Capitalism, A. Lamont Williams, Amanda Schweinbenz, and Ann Pegoraro
Book Review: Creating Inclusive Libraries by Applying Universal Design: A Guide by Carli Spina, Katrina Williams
Why VR? Exploring the Intersection of Virtual Reality and Information Science, Rachel D. Williams, Catherine Dumas, Anthony Chow, Darra Hofman, and John MacLeod
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Analysis Tools for Timely Audits: Two Case Studies of Carlsbad Libraries, Sarah Wilson
Introduction to Quantum Computing: From a Layperson to a Programmer in 30 Steps (2nd ed), Hiu Yung Wong
Psychology of Aging: A Biopsychosocial Perspective (2nd Edition), Erin Woodhead
Mental Health and Aging, Erin L. Woodhead
Personality and Emotional Development, Erin L. Woodhead
Preface, Erin L. Woodhead and Brian P. Yochim
Psychology of Aging: A Biopsychosocial Perspective, SECOND EDITION, Erin L. Woodhead and Brian P. Yochim
Decadal Evolution of Ice-Ocean Interactions at a Large East Greenland Glacier Resolved at Fjord Scale With Downscaled Ocean Models and Observations, M. Wood, A. Khazendar, I. Fenty, K. Mankoff, A. T. Nguyen, K. Schulz, J. K. Willis, and H. Zhang
For sustained digital advantage, find a huge customer problem and create the processes that will solve it, Robert Chapman Wood
Resilience Through Social Support: An Intersectional Analysis of Sexual Minority Women’s Social Resources for Wellbeing, Angie R. Wootton, Paul R. Sterzing, Amy A. Mericle, Laurie A. Drabble, Linda R. Cahoon, and Tonda L. Hughes
Win-Win Ecology: Can Mosses Promote Dudleya Germination to Restore California Quarries?, Kate L. Worrell
Sample Sizes for 10 Types of Qualitative Data Analysis: An Integrative Review, Empirical Guidance, and Next Steps, Amber Wutich, Melissa Beresford, and H. Russell Bernard
Ab initio investigation of the martensitic phase transitions in ternary high temperature shape memory alloys PdxNi0.5-xTi0.5, Zhigang Wu, Hessam Malmir, Othmane Benafan, Santosh Kc, and John W. Lawson
