Master's Projects from 2020
Purchasing for a Better Future: Sustainable Procurement in the County of Santa Clara, Mariah Teal Lindberg
The Moderating Role of Emotional Intelligence on the Relationship Between Job Resources and Employee Engagement, Amanda Lipson
To share or not to share: the optimal advertising effort with asymmetric advertising effectiveness, Qingying Li, Hao Ding, Tianqin Shi, and Yanli Tang
When Two or More Rights Make a Wrong: How Conflicts between ethical standards affect ethical behavior, Leonard Lira
The State of Research in Veterans Studies: A Systematic Literature Review, Leonard Lira and Janani Chandrasekar
Assessing Complete Street Strategies Using Microscopic Traffic Simulation Models, Bernice Liu, Alireza Shams, Jonathan Howard, Serena Alexander, Alex Hughes, and Anurag Pande
Characterization of Jinhua ham aroma profiles in specific to aging time by gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry (GC-IMS), Dengyong Liu, Lu Bai, Xi Feng, Yan Ping Chen, Danni Zhang, Wensheng Yao, Hao Zhang, Gaole Chen, and Yuan Liu
Mathematical models of political districting for more representative governments, Hongrui Liu, Ayca Erdogan, Royce Lin, and H. S.Jacob Tsao
A Creative Computing Approach to Film-story Creation: A Proposed Theoretical Framework, Hong Wei Liu, Hong Rui Liu, Hong Ji Yang, and En Ze Yu
Deep Associated Elastic Tracker for Intelligent Traffic Intersections, Kaikai Liu
Zuihitsu: Teaching Aiiieeeee! as Intersectional Ecological Archive, Kenji C. Liu
Assessing the Intraday Variation of the Spillover Effect of Tweets-Derived Ambient Population on Crime, Lin Liu, Minxuan Lan, John E. Eck, Bo Yang, and Hanlin Zhou
Women’s career advancement in hotels: the mediating role of organizational commitment, Ting Liu, Huawen Shen, and Jie Gao
Isolation, characterization and antioxidant of polysaccharides from Stropharia rugosoannulata, Ying Liu, Chao Fan Hu, Xi Feng, Lei Cheng, Salam A. Ibrahim, Cheng Tao Wang, and Wen Huang
Effects of freeze drying and hot-air drying on the physicochemical properties and bioactivities of polysaccharides from Lentinula edodes, Ying Liu, Menglin Luo, Feng Liu, Xi Feng, Salam A. Ibrahim, Lei Cheng, and Wen Huang
Additive manufacturing of zirconia parts with organic sacrificial supports, Wenbin Li, Amir Armani, Devin McMillen, Ming Leu, Gregory Hilmas, and Jeremy Watts
Development of a Quality Control Method and Guidelines for Hot Mix Asphalt Using Recycled Concrete Aggregate, Xiaojun Li, Dingxin Cheng, Kun Zhang, Kanwar M. S. Jakhar, and Uday V. Pericherla
Quantifying the dynamics of water-CO2multiphase flow in microfluidic porous media using high-speed micro-PIV, Yaofa Li, Gianluca Blois, Farzan Kazemifar, and Kenneth T. Christensen
The categorization of Hispanics in biomedical research: US and Latin American perspectives, Jordan Liz
The Price of Good Friendships: Examining the Roles of Relationship Norms and Perceived Controllability in Service Failure Encounters, Zongchao Cathy Li, Weiting Tao, and Linwan Wu
Examining the joint impact of relationship norms and service failure severity on consumer responses, Zongchao Li, Weiting Tao, and Linwan Wu
A Peruvian Tax Lawyer in a U.S. Corporate Tax Class: What Can be Explained and What Cannot be Explained, Fernando J. Loayza Jordán
Pre-active PD: A Therapist Delivered Physical Activity Behavior Change Program for People With Early Stage Parkinson's Disease, Katrina M. Long
Professional Development to Increase Teacher Capacity for the Use of New Technologies, Matthew L. Love, Lisa A. Simpson, Andrea Golloher, Brian Gadus, and Jennifer Dorwin
The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation. By Trevor Owens. [Review], Carli Lowe
Strategies for a Successful Search: Inside the Process of Creating and Applying for an Archivist Position, Carli Lowe and Craig Simpson
Partnering Preservation with Sustainability, Carli V. Lowe
[Review of] Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America by Robert K. Nelson, Carli V. Lowe
Social Change in Everyday Choices, Carli V. Lowe
ADMET polymerization in affordable, commercially available, high boiling solvents, Jolie M. Lucero, Zachary Romero, Angel Moreno, Dale L. Huber, and Chester Simocko
An Evaluation Of Generated Lyrics, Junlan Lu
Aural Shores, Christopher Luna-Mega
Sounds in Pilgrimage, Christopher Luna-Mega
Sounds in Pilgrimage: Soundscapes in the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, Christopher Luna-Mega
Splatter, Christopher Luna-Mega
Under the Sea Ice - electronic version, Christopher Luna-Mega
Forestcover, Christopher Luna-Mega, Danielle Wiebe-Burke, and Schuyler Slack
Online Community for Librarian Researchers: Experience of Academic Librarians, Lili Luo
An AI for a Modification of Dou Di Zhu, Xuesong Luo
National Income Inequality and International Business Expansion, Nathaniel C. Lupton, Guoliang Frank Jiang, Luis F. Escobar, and Alfredo Jiménez
All Things Come to Pass, Brandon Luu
Fast transactive control for frequency regulation in smart grids with demand response and energy storage, Andrew Ly and Saeid Bashash
Understanding the Barriers, Bridges and Bases to Inclusion Instruction for Secondary Students with Mild to Moderate Disabilities, Angela Renee Lyte Crowther
Between confidence and procedural flexibility in calculus, Wes Maciejewski
Let Your Students Cheat on Exams, Wes Maciejewski
Teach as you Practice, Wes Maciejewski
Change Comes from Without: Lessons Learned in a Chaotic Year, Wes Maciejewski, John Bragelman, Marion Campisi, Tim Hsu, Andrea Gottlieb, Jordan Schettler, Trisha Bergthold, and Bem Cayco
Predicting Students’ Performance by Learning Analytics, Sandeep Subhash Madnaik
Knowledge of Palliative Care and Advance Directives among Speech-Language Pathology Students, Nidhi Mahendra and Marian Alonso
Nonfluent Primary Progressive Aphasia: Implications of Palliative Care Principles for Informing Service Delivery, Nidhi Mahendra and Ashlyn Tadokoro
Surface mesovortices in relation to the urban heat island effect over the Saint Louis metropolitan area, Melissa Mainhart, Robert W. Pasken, Sen Chiao, and Matthew Roark
Cultural Variation and Similarities in Cognitive Thinking Styles Versus Judgment Biases: A Review of Environmental Factors and Evolutionary Forces, Christine Ma-Kellams
Using google search volume to inform early detection interventions for public health crises: A policy brief, Christine Ma-Kellams
Gender, behavioral inhibition/activation, and emotional reactions to negative natural and social events, Christine Ma-Kellams and Michael Shengtao Wu
“This Is My Choice. This Is My Life.” How Mexican and U.S. American Culture Affects the Reproductive Health Decisions of Female Adolescents Living in the San Diego/Mexico Border Region, Vivian Maldonado, Ruvani W. Fonseka, and Jay Silverman
“This Is Something I’m Doing for Me:” The Influence of Mexican and U.S. Culture on the Reproductive Health Decisions of Female Adolescents Living in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region, Vivian Maldonado, Ruvani W. Fonseka, and Jay Silverman
Dismal dating: A student’s guide to romance using the economic way of thinking, Ninos Malek and Charity Joy Acchiardo
Evaluating Wildfire Smoke Transport Within a Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Model Using a High-Density Observation Network for an Episodic Smoke Event Along Utah's Wasatch Front, Derek V. Mallia, Adam K. Kochanski, Kerry E. Kelly, Ross Whitaker, Wei Xing, Logan E. Mitchell, Alex Jacques, Angel Farguell, Jan Mandel, Pierre Emmanuel Gaillardon, Tom Becnel, and Steven K. Krueger
Incorporating a canopy parameterization within a coupled fire-atmosphere model to improve a smoke simulation for a prescribed burn, Derek V. Mallia, Adam K. Kochanski, Shawn P. Urbanski, Jan Mandel, Angel Farguell, and Steven K. Krueger
Diurnal timing of nonmigratory movement by birds: the importance of foraging spatial scales, Julie M. Mallon; Marlee A. Tucker; Thomas Mueller; William Fagan; Scott Shaffer; and For full author list, see comments below
Reflections of the Past in the Present: Landscape, People, and Narrative, Kerri Malloy
Conceptualizing Global Indigenous Rights, Kerri J. Malloy
Genocide in Guatemala and Central America, Kerri J. Malloy
Remembrance and Renewal at Tuluwat: Restoring the Center of the World, Kerri J. Malloy
Rising from the Terminal Narrative: Rhetoric of anti-Indian Violence in the United States, Kerri J. Malloy
[Screening for] Gather: The Fight to Revitalize our Native Foodways, Kerri J. Malloy
Understanding Child Noncompliance in the Early Care Setting, Melody Mann
Validity of path thermodynamics in reactive systems, M. Malek Mansour and Alejandro L. Garcia
The Relationship Between Authentic Leadership and Organizational Change Readiness: The Mediating Role of Psychological Safety, Paulina Christine Manzano
The case of Canvas: Longitudinal datafication through learning management systems, Roxana Marachi and Lawrence Quill
Urban Air Mobility System Testbed using CAVE Virtual Reality Environment, Panadda Marayong, Praveen Shankar, Jessica Wei, Hanson Nguyen, Thomas Z. Strybel, and Vernol Battiste
Change in student understanding of modeling during first year engineering courses, Farshid Marbouti, Kelsey Joy Rodgers, and Matthew A. Verleger
Off to a good start: Early Spanish-language processing efficiency supports Spanish- and English-language outcomes at 4½ years in sequential bilinguals, Virginia A. Marchman, Vanessa N. Bermudez, Janet Y. Bang, and Anne Fernald
Knowledge and POWER: A Case Study on Anti-Blackness within Schooling, Tiffani Marie
Remembering an Apocalyptic Education: Revealing Life Beneath the Waves of Black Being, Tiffani Marie and Kenjus Watson
Is Vulnerability an Outdated Concept? After Subjects and Spaces, Elizabeth K. Marino and A. J. Faas
Pre-service teachers learning through service-learning in a low SES school, Risto Marttinen, David N. Daum, Dominique Banville, and Ray N. Fredrick
Impact of Heavy-rail-based Rapid Transit on House Prices: Evidence from the Fremont, CA, Warm Springs BART Extension Project, Shishir Mathur
Impact of transit stations on house prices across entire price spectrum: A quantile regression approach, Shishir Mathur
Promoting Transit-Oriented Developments by Addressing Barriers Related to Land Use, Zoning, and Value Capture, Shishir Mathur and Aaron Gatdula
Design and analysis of a drone mechanism with 3-axis of rotation, Varun Mathur and Raymond K. Yee
Formation of Complex Organic Molecules (COMs) from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs): Implications for ISM IR Emission Plateaus and Solar System Organics, Andrew L. Mattioda, Gustavo A. Cruz-Diaz, Andrew Ging, Michael Barnhardt, Christiaan Boersma, Louis J. Allamandola, Todd Schneider, Jason Vaughn, Brandon Phillips, and Alessandra Ricca
Advocating Heightened Education: Seeing and Inventing Academic Possibilities, Kathleen F. McConnell
Stroke effort and relative lung volume influence heart rate in diving sea lions, Birgitte I. McDonald, Michael S. Tift, Luis A. Hückstädt, Michael Jeffko, and Paul J. Ponganis
Get That S.O.B. Off the Field: A Critical Discourse Analysis of NFL Team Owners’ Responses to President Trump’s Comments About Athlete Protests, Kerry R. McGannon and Ted M. Butryn
Stability of the timing of food intake at daily and monthly timescales in young adults, Andrew W. McHill, Cassie J. Hilditch, Dorothee Fischer, Charles A. Czeisler, Marta Garaulet, Frank A.J.L. Scheer, and Elizabeth B. Klerman
Border and Becoming as Sites of Theory, Michael C. McLane and Scott Jarvie
Evaluating Medical Devices Remotely: Current Methods and Potential Innovations, Anne Collins McLaughlin, Patricia R. DeLucia, Frank A. Drews, Monifa Vaughn-Cooke, Anil Kumar, Robert R. Nesbitt, and Kevin Cluff
Risk and Protective Factors for Preterm Birth Among Black Women in Oakland, California, Monica R. McLemore, Rachel L. Berkowitz, Scott P. Oltman, Rebecca J. Baer, Linda Franck, Jonathan Fuchs, Deborah A. Karasek, Miriam Kuppermann, Safyer McKenzie-Sampson, Daphina Melbourne, Briane Taylor, Shanell Williams, Larry Rand, Brittany D. Chambers, Karen Scott, and Laura L. Jelliffe-Pawlowski
Integration of the WUDAPT, WRF, and ENVI-met models to simulate extreme daytime temperature mitigation strategies in San Jose, California, Ian McRae, Frank Freedman, Ana Rivera, Xinwei Li, Jingjing Dou, Isa Cruz, Chao Ren, Iryna Dronova, Harrison Fraker, and Robert Bornstein
Applications of Oxygen Inserted Silicon Devices in Power and RF, Robert J. Mears, Hideki Takeuchi, Yi Ann Chen, Richard Burton, Shuyi Li, Robert J. Stephenson, Marek Hytha, Nyles W. Cody, K. Doran Weeks, Dmitri Choutov, Daniel Connelly, and Hiu Yung Wong
Exposing the myths of household water insecurity in the global north: A critical review, Katie Meehan, Wendy Jepson, Leila M. Harris, Amber Wutich, Melissa Beresford, Amanda Fencl, Jonathan London, Gregory Pierce, Lucero Radonic, Christian Wells, Nicole J. Wilson, Ellis Adjei Adams, Rachel Arsenault, Alexandra Brewis, Victoria Harrington, Yanna Lambrinidou, Deborah McGregor, Robert Patrick, Benjamin Pauli, Amber L. Pearson, Sameer Shah, Dacotah Splichalova, Cassandra Workman, and Sera Young
Improvement of TCAD Augmented Machine Learning Using Autoencoder for Semiconductor Variation Identification and Inverse Design, Kashyap Mehta, Sophia Susan Raju, Ming Xiao, Boyan Wang, Yuhao Zhang, and Hiu Yung Wong
Distribution of Water Vapor in Molecular Clouds. II, Gary J. Melnick, Volker Tolls, Ronald L. Snell, Michael J. Kaufman, Edwin A. Bergin, Javier R. Goicoechea, Paul F. Goldsmith, Eduardo González-Alfonso, David J. Hollenbach, Dariusz C. Lis, and David A. Neufeld
Novel Load Independent Control Structures for a Resonant LCC EV Wireless Charging Converter, Antonio Menchaca, Christopher Duke, Dan Gelfer, Pang Vang, Van Xiong, Ali Arbabi, Isabelle Badall, Justin Ortiz, and Mohamed Badawy
A Six-Week Group-Based Advanced Quantity Meal Prep Program Improves Cooking Attitudes, Behaviors, and Body Composition, Shannon Mendez, Hsin Yi Tseng, Jamie Kubota, Adrianne Widaman, and John Gieng
Head-up displays vs. head-down displays for vehicle navigation with implemented driving distractions, Jackeline Mendoza and Anil R. Kumar
The Bush Hill Sugar Plantation: A West Indies Case Study in Developmental Capitalism, Marco Meniketti