Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Measuring High School Counselor Beliefs on the Importance of MTMDSS Universal Supports Since COVID-19, Ryan J. Carter
Weight of Dreams, Irene Carvajal
The Downfall of Capitalism: Its Exploitation of Mental Health and the Working Class, Joanna Castaneda
Mosaic Atlas: Interview with Leti Castellano, Leti Castellano and Jan English-Lueck
Los Angeles Homeless Encampments: East of Mainstreet, Desarey Castellanos
Implementation of a Peer Support Program to Increase Resilience in Nurse Managers in Acute Care Hospitals: A Pilot Study, Juana Castillo
Curiosity, Connection, & Community in Vertebrate Evolution & Natural History, Jessica Castillo Vardaro
Examining pandemic stress and mental health among a community-based sample of sexual minority women in Los Angeles County, Alison Cerezo, Roberta E. Emetu, David B. Rivera, Isaiah J. Jones, Jacquelyn Chin, Adrian Valadez, and Laurie Drabble
Numerical Modeling of Firebrand Transport, Antonio Q. Cervantes
Pet Loss and Grieving Strategies: A Systematic Review of Literature, Ruth E. Cervantes
Static Taint Analysis via Type-checking in TypeScript, Abhijn Chadalawada
Public Obsceneties, Sukanya Chakrabarti
Security and Routing in a Disconnected Delay Tolerant Network, Anirudh Kariyatil Chandakara
Sleep is required to consolidate odor memory and remodel olfactory synapses, Rashmi Chandra, Fatima Farah, Fernando Muñoz-Lobato, Anirudh Bokka, Kelli L. Benedetti, Chantal Brueggemann, Mashel Fatema A. Saifuddin, Julia M. Miller, Joy Li, Eric Chang, Aruna Varshney, Vanessa Jimenez, Anjana Baradwaj, Cibelle Nassif, Sara Alladin, Kristine Andersen, Angel J. Garcia, Veronica Bi, Sarah K. Nordquist, Raymond L. Dunn, Vanessa Garcia, Kateryna Tokalenko, Emily Soohoo, Fabiola Briseno, Sukhdeep Kaur, Malcolm Harris, Hazel Guillen, Decklin Byrd, Brandon Fung, Andrew E. Bykov, Emma Odisho, Bryan Tsujimoto, Alan Tran, Alex Duong, Kevin C. Daigle, Rebekka Paisner, Carlos E. Zuazo, Christine Lin, Aarati Asundi, Matthew A. Churgin, Christopher Fang-Yen, Martina Bremer, Saul Kato, Miri VanHoven, and Noëlle D. L’Étoile
Enhancing Driver Distraction Detection Through the Synergy of Deep and Traditional Machine Learning, Gowtham Chandrasekaran
Evaluating Automated Truck Platoon (ATP) Deployment for the Los Angeles–Inland Empire Trade Corridor Enhancement, Shailesh Chandra, Aastha Chaudhary, Prakhar Srivastava, and Jose Torres-Aguilera
Gesture Recognition with Deep Learning, Chaz Chang
Effects of constraint-induced movement therapy in young children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy: and adapted model, Megan Chang and A. Anvarizadeh
Multi-Relational Data Characterization by Tensors: Perturbation Analysis, Shih Yu Chang and Hsiao Chun Wu
Theoretical and Algorithmic Study of Inverses of Arbitrary High-Dimensional Multi-Input Multi-Output Linear-Time-Invariant Systems, Shih Yu Chang and Hsiao Chun Wu
Tensor Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm for Multi-Relational Traffic Prediction, Shih Yu Chang, Hsiao Chun Wu, Yen Cheng Kuan, and Yiyan Wu
Variable-Bit-Rate Video Frame-Size Prediction by the Extended Kalman Filter Using Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm, Shih Yu Chang, Hsiao Chun Wu, and Kun Yan
Personalized Multimedia Recommendation Systems Using Higher-Order Tensor Singular-Value-Decomposition, Shih Yu Chang, Hsiao Chun Wu, Kun Yan, Xinjia Chen, Scott Chih Hao Huang, and Yiyan Wu
A Systematic Review: Relationship Between Medication Adherence and Hypertension, Monica Chan
Reviving the Modal Account of Essence1, Rebecca Chan
Graph Based System for Evidential Reasoning, Divyarajsinh Chauhan
An interactive web-based solar energy prediction system using machine learning techniques, Priyanka Chawla, Jerry Zeyu Gao, Teng Gao, Chengchen Luo, Huimin Li, and Yiqin We
Decentralizing the Electric Grid: Giving Power Back to the People, Nicole Chen
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Student Assistants in the Classroom: Designing Chatbots to Support Student Success, Yu Chen, Scott Jensen, Leslie J. Albert, Sambhav Gupta, and Terri Lee
Yelp Restaurant Popularity Score Calculator, Sneh Bindesh Chitalia
Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Biogeochemical Responses in a Tidally Restricted Moro Cojo Slough, Ryan Chiu
CABG vs. PCI: Greater Outcomes for Severe Coronary Artery Disease, Haejin Cho
Reading Nation Waterfall, Anthony Chow
A New Fire Initialization Method for Operational Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Models: Assimilation of Infrared Perimeters and Satellite Detections, Kathleen Nicole Clough
Conceptualizing socio-emotional disablism: a duoethnography of Crohn’s disease and OCD during COVID-19, Kristen L. Cole and Brandi Lawless
Understanding Our Airways: How Lung Structure and Function is Impacted by Respiratory Infections and Immune Responses, Katherine Coll
Exploring the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Number of Reported Missing Persons in Canada during 2020, Alexandria Connolly, Mauranne Ste-Marie, and Kevin O'Shea
The Effect of Covid-19 on The Decision-Making Processes of Local School Governing Boards with Regard to Considering and Enacting State and Federal Policies, J Jesus Contreras
Mary Beth Corrigan, Curator of Collections on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation, Mary Beth Corrigan PhD
Cognitive Dissonance: Analysis of the Theory, Marcus Crespo
Beyond a seat at the table: imagining educational equity through critical inclusion, Rebecca A. Cruz, Allison R. Firestone, and Matthew Love
Thinking Styles, Conspiracist Belief, and the Mediating Role of the Dunning-Kruger Effect in Modeling Belief Change, Lucas C. Cusano
WIKIPEDIA WEB TABLE INTERPRETATION, KEYWORD-BASED SEARCH, AND RANKING, Kartikee Dabir
Classifying World War II Era Ciphers with Machine Learning, Brooke Dalton
Binh Danh: The Enigma of Belonging, Binh Danh
Exploring the Shift in Player Enthusiasm Towards Games, David Daniel
How the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped demographic variation in mental health among diverse engineering student populations, Andrew Danowitz and Kacey Beddoes
Social Justice in India: A Comparative Study of Rawls and Ambedkar, Abinash DARNAL
Archivist in the machine: paradata for AI-based automation in the archives, Jeremy Davet, Babak Hamidzadeh, and Patricia Franks
ML-Based User Authentication Through Mouse Dynamics, Sai Kiran Davuluri
The U.S. Invasion of the Dominican Republic: From Cooperation to Conquest, Andrew DeFabio
Bidiagonal decompositions of Vandermonde-type matrices of arbitrary rank, Jorge Delgado, Plamen Koev, Ana Marco, José Javier Martínez, Juan Manuel Peña, Per Olof Persson, and Steven Spasov
Evaluation of Left Shoulder as Part-Time Travel Lane Design Alternatives and Transportation Management Center Staff Training Module Development, Zhuohang Deng, Zhiliang Luo, Neil Hockaday, Ahmed Farid, and Anurag Pande
Enhancing Facial Emotion Recognition Using Image Processing with CNN, Sourabh Deokar
Features of turbulence during wildland fires in forested and grassland environments, Ajinkya Desai, Warren E. Heilman, Nicholas S. Skowronski, Kenneth L. Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Craig B. Clements, and Tirtha Banerjee
We are Here - Underrepresentation of Asian-American women in TK-12 leadership positions in California public schools and districts, Padmavathy Desikachari
Estimating Air Pollution Levels Using Machine Learning, Srujay Rao Devaraneni
Comparative Analysis of Transformer-Based Models for Text-To-Speech Normalization, Pankti Dholakia
Baseline structural imaging correlates of treatment outcomes in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia, Heather R. Dial, Eduardo Europa, Stephanie M. Grasso, Maria Luisa Mandelli, Kristin M. Schaffer, H. Isabel Hubbard, Lisa D. Wauters, Lindsey Wineholt, Stephen M. Wilson, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, and Maya L. Henry
Autonomous Shuttle Implementation and Best Practices, Dil Samina Diba, Ninad Gore, and Srinivas S. Pulugurtha
Resilience Training for Healthcare Professionals: A Literature Review, Michelle Dictor
Revisiting the Rainbow: Culturally Responsive Updates to a Standard Clinical Resource, Angela M. Dietsch, Richard Mocarski, Debra A. Hope, Nathan Woodruff, and Miechelle McKelvey
Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders and the Workplace, Jennifer Dimoff, Jacquelyn Brady, Stephanie Gilbert, and Roderick MacLeod
Dualism and Psychosemantics: Holography and Pansematism in Early Buddhist Philosophy, Federico DIVINO
Understanding perceived climate risks to household water supply and their implications for adaptation: evidence from California, Kristin B. Dobbin, Amanda L. Fencl, Gregory Pierce, Melissa Beresford, Silvia Gonzalez, and Wendy Jepson
Smart Transportation in Small- and Medium-sized Cities in Central California, Hongwei Dong
Proof-of-Stake for SpartanGold, Nimesh Ashok Doolani
Ethnic Studies Implementation in a K-8 District: Culture, Critical Consciousness and Collective Efficacy, Genvieve Dorsey
Printing of electromagnetic interference shielding materials, Pranay Doshi, Hiu Yung Wong, Daniel H. Gutierrez, Arlene Lopez, Dennis Nordlund, and Ram P. Gandhiraman
Sudden cardiac death in the young: An update for NPs, Julianne Doucette and Ruth Rosenblum
The Societal Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic and a Look Ahead to What’s Next, Marcelle Dougan
Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccination status: A cross-sectional study of California students in higher education, Marcelle M. Dougan and Anji Buckner
Reclaiming Placemaking for an Alternative Politics of Legitimacy and Community in Homelessness, Gordon C.C. Douglas
Academic discourse and peer collaboration in online high school learning environments, Sara Douglas, Emily Slusser, and Mark Felton
Feedback for Continuous Improvement in the Classroom: New Perspectives, Practices, and Possibilities, Brent Duckor and Carrie Holmberg
Examining the Relationship Between Legal Systems and Forensic Science: Current Issues and Proposed Solutions, Rowan Dunton
Negotiating Meaning Systems in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships Addressing Grand Challenges: Homelessness in Western Canada, Sarah Easter, Matt Murphy, and Mary Yoko Brannen
Compassion and Care Through Musical Social Emotional Learning, Scott N. Edgar, Kara Ireland D'Ambrosio, and Elise Hackl
Lessons Learned, Opportunities Developed: Building Administrative and Governance Capacities Through the Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Eras, Frances L. Edwards and J. Steven Ott
Our pride, our joy: An intersectional constructivist grounded theory analysis of resources that promote resilience in SGM communities, O. Winslow Edwards, Eliot Lev, Juno Obedin-Maliver, Mitchell R. Lunn, Micah E. Lubensky, Matthew R. Capriotti, J. J. Garrett-Walker, and Annesa Flentje
Model binding experiments with cucurbit[7]uril and p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene support use of explicit solvation term in governing equation for binding equilibria, Daryl Eggers, Adam Brewer, Kimberly J. Cacatian, L. Allison Camat, Dominic Castagnoli, Nina Chuang, Lillian N. Chung, Thanh Do, Emily Huynh, Thanayuth Jenpichitkulchai, Anoop Kaur, Frank Le, Roy Ong, Duc Pham, and Kevin Shao
Dual Effect of Secondary Solutes on Binding Equilibria: Contributions from Solute–Reactant Interactions and Solute–Water Interactions, Daryl Eggers, Jennifer M. Le, Nhi T. Nham, Duc N. Pham, and Bria M. Castellano
Evaluation of Nanoclay Additives for Improving Resistance to Moisture Damage in Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA), Amro El Badawy and Ashraf Rahim
Reclamation: Resilience of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, Jan English-Lueck, Roberto J. González, and Alan Leventhal
Can Undergraduate Artists With No Training in Forensic Art Produce Accurate Age Progressions?, William B. Erickson, James Lampinen, Charlie Frowd, and Gregory Mahoney
How Can I Help You Today? How First-Generation Latinx/A/O Community College Students Perceive Counseling, Isaac Escoto
Misconduct on Public Transit: An Exploratory Analysis Using the Comments Formerly Known as Tweets, Egbe Etu Etu, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Imokhai Tenebe, Jordan Larot, and Dang Minh Nhu Nguyen
All the Cars I Drove Off Cliffs, Tyler Brett Eveland
State aesthetics and the Other–Nature in disaster memorials, A. J. Faas
Fast Intra Prediction Algorithm for AVS3, Lingfeng Fang, Songlin Sun, and Rui Liu
Examining the Role of Echo-Chambers within Online Incel Communities Using Sentiment Analysis and Group Based Trajectory Modeling, Francesca Florine Fanucchi
Singular Spaces II: From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments, Jo Farb Hernandez
The Effects of Exercise on the Mental Wellness of Children (ages 3-6), Reem Farhat
Motivated Reasoning in Technology Workers, Kory Feath
Metropolitan Transportation Commission Discretionary Transit Funding Methods Evaluation, Christopher E. Ferrell, John M. Eells, David Reinke, and Richard Lee
Defining and Measuring Equity in Public Transportation, Christopher E. Ferrell, David Reinke, John M. Eels, and Matthew M. Schroeder
Haitian Immigrants' Information Needs and Behaviors: Libraries, Information Professionals and Haitians in the United States, Natasha Finnegan
Foreword: The Religious Situation of Black Studies Then and Now, Michael R. Fisher