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Relations Between Language And Executive Function In Spanish-Speaking Children., Ana Luz Portillo Jan 2009

Relations Between Language And Executive Function In Spanish-Speaking Children., Ana Luz Portillo

Master's Theses

The literature on the development of executive function (EF) has been largely limited to studies of middle-class English-speaking children. This study extended executive function research to a primarily low socioeconomic status (SES) sample of Spanish-speaking preschool children living in the United States. The purpose of this study was to examine a variety of language measures (vocabulary, grammar, and comprehensive language) in relation to a variety of executive function measures (working memory, inhibitory control, and attention-shifting). Results revealed that Spanish speakers performed on some, but not all, EF measures comparably to higher SES English-speaking peers, in concurrence with previously reported findings. …

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Literary Prose And Poetry In San Francisco's Black Newspapers, 1862--1885., Jan Batiste Adkins Jan 2009

Literary Prose And Poetry In San Francisco's Black Newspapers, 1862--1885., Jan Batiste Adkins

Master's Theses

This thesis addresses the topic of literature of poetry, short stories, travel narratives, and didactic narratives published in the Pacific Appeal and the Elevator newspapers of San Francisco during 1862--1885. Many of the literary writings published in these newspapers were written by residents of San Francisco's African American communities and also residents of other communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. This research not only documents the imaginative writings by African American writers and others interested in the issues facing African American citizens, but it analyzes the trends, structure, tone, themes, imagery, language, and issues during the initial year of …

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Whitefly Fauna Of Clark County, Nevada., John W. Dooley Iii Jan 2009

Whitefly Fauna Of Clark County, Nevada., John W. Dooley Iii

Master's Theses

The research presented here documents the whitefly fauna within the Las Vegas area in Clark County, Nevada, with information on the geology, host and plant communities in the area where the whiteflies were collected. Only specimens of the immature fourth stage (puparium) were observed and collected at Red Rock Canyon, Mount Charleston, and the Mojave Desert surrounding Las Vegas.

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Seafood Labeling And Consumer Behavior: A Fishwise Case Study, Sonoma County, Ca., Alicia Ushijima Elsholz Jan 2009

Seafood Labeling And Consumer Behavior: A Fishwise Case Study, Sonoma County, Ca., Alicia Ushijima Elsholz

Master's Theses

Decades of unsustainable commercial fishing have resulted in depletion of fish stocks, destruction of ocean habitats, and unintended capture and death of fish and marine mammals. In addition, unsustainable aquaculture practices threaten wild species and pollute surrounding natural habitats. In an attempt to combat these adverse impacts, FishWise, a seafood labeling program, was created to encourage consumers at health food stores and gourmet markets in the US to purchase seafood caught or farm raised in a sustainable manner. This study evaluates FishWise to determine its effectiveness in educating consumers about sustainable fishery issues and in influencing purchases of sustainable seafood …

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Factors In Bmi Increase Among Multicultural Freshmen., Leah Haritan Jan 2009

Factors In Bmi Increase Among Multicultural Freshmen., Leah Haritan

Master's Theses

This observational research examines body mass index (BMI) changes in multicultural freshmen attending a large public urban university. It explores factors associated with BMI increase and investigates behavior changes and perceptions related to diet and body weight. The study utilizes an online survey distributed in November 2007 and again in April 2008. All 3,260 freshmen were eligible to participate. Initial response rate was 23%; 44% of initial respondents completed both surveys (N = 337). Results revealed a significant increase in BMI for on-campus residents, Caucasians, and males (P < 0.05). Decreased vegetable intake was associated with a BMI increase of less than one (P < 0.05). Fruits and vegetables were perceived by most as healthful; their high cost, and limited variety and availability on campus were deemed potential barriers to intake. Freshman weight gain may be a function of gender, residence, and ethnicity, and deserves further examination.

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Ideodyssey, Vincent Bergado Jan 2009

Ideodyssey, Vincent Bergado

Master's Theses

This novel begins during Gabe's junior year at Harbor High School, in a time of his adolescence that is challenging in unexpected ways. Two girls suddenly vie for his attention in surprisingly forward manner, straining his long-standing friendship with Mo. In the foothills outside Oak Bend, a new neighbor antagonizes him, and a new student, the first at Harbor high with Indian heritage, brings a radical shift in perspective to the small town. Gabe is perplexed by the mixed heritage of his own family, and his loneliness deepens as the color line divide in the community grows. As racial tensions …

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A Comparison Of Development Times For Protophormia Terraenovae (R-D) Reared On Different Food Substrates, J.-A. Warren, G. S. Anderson Jan 2009

A Comparison Of Development Times For Protophormia Terraenovae (R-D) Reared On Different Food Substrates, J.-A. Warren, G. S. Anderson

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Experiments were conducted to determine whether a specific larval substrate impacted immature development rates. Protophormia terraenovae was raised on beef organs and compared with whole carcasses (rat), to determine if discrepancies in development times were observed. The minimum development time on beef liver was the most consistent with the rat carcass but a significant difference between all substrates was found after the third instar. These differences can be explained by the differences found between heart and muscle and the other substrates. Often length of the larvae is used to estimate insect age and so Day 2 measuring of weight, length, …

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Automatic Video Classification, Don Jayakody Jan 2009

Automatic Video Classification, Don Jayakody

Master's Projects

Within the past few years video usage has grown in a multi-fold fashion. One of the major reasons for this explosive video growth is the rising Internet bandwidth speeds. As of today, a significant human effort is needed to categorize these video data files. A successful automatic video classification method can substantially help to reduce the growing amount of cluttered video data on the Internet. This research project is based on finding a successful model for video classification. We have utilized various schemes of visual and audio data analysis methods to build a successful classification model. As far as the …

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Analysis Of Machine Learning Based Methods For Identifying Microrna Precursors, Steve Ikeoka Jan 2009

Analysis Of Machine Learning Based Methods For Identifying Microrna Precursors, Steve Ikeoka

Master's Projects

MicroRNAs are a type of non-coding RNA that were discovered less than a decade ago but are now known to be incredibly important in regulating gene expression despite their small size. However, due to their small size, and several other limiting factors, experimental procedures have had limited success in discovering new microRNAs. Computational methods are therefore vital to discovering novel microRNAs. Many different approaches have been used to scan genomic sequences for novel microRNAs with varying degrees of success. This work provides an overview of these computational methods, focusing particularly on those methods based on machine learning techniques. The results …

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World Wide Web – Common Communication Language, Mohamed Ali Jan 2009

World Wide Web – Common Communication Language, Mohamed Ali

Master's Projects

The purpose for the World Wide Web – Common Communication Language (W3-CCL) is to allow internet users around the world communicate using a single common language. This common language is based on images / symbols and other known communication tactics such as Sign Language, Ancient Egyptian Language, etc. The W3- CCL is to be used in building sites’ contents, chatting, sending messages / e-mails, and any information sharing related operations on the internet. The scope of this project is limited to W3-CCL proof of concept via building an e-commerce website for a specific domain; moreover, the W3-CCL usage will be …

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Web Based Recommender Systems And Rating Prediction, Tho Nguyen Jan 2009

Web Based Recommender Systems And Rating Prediction, Tho Nguyen

Master's Projects

This project implements a recommender system on large dataset of Netflix’s movies. This project also tries to improve recommender systems by incorporating confidence interval and genres of movies. This new approach enhances the performance and quality of service of recommender systems and gives better result than Netflix commercial recommender system, Cinematch.

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Visualization Of Tree-Structured Data Through A Multi Touch User Interface, David Andrews Jan 2009

Visualization Of Tree-Structured Data Through A Multi Touch User Interface, David Andrews

Master's Projects

This writing project examines different types of visualizations for tree-structured data sets. Visualizations discussed include link-node diagrams and treemap diagrams. Also discussed is recent innovations with regards to distinguishing multi touch from single touch technology. I explore the requirements needed to build a multi touch table top surface, and describe the process of building one. I then describe my proposed method of visualizing tree-structured data and how it can be implemented using Core Animation technology. I also propose a means of interacting with the data through a multi touch interface, and discuss which gestures can be used to navigate the …

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Client-Side Page Element Web-Caching, Ramya Karri Jan 2009

Client-Side Page Element Web-Caching, Ramya Karri

Master's Projects

When a user explores different web pages in a given website, the website typically sends the entire requested page even if only a portion of the page was different to the current page. That is, two pages on a given website might share elements on the page like search bar, left bar, navigation controls, advertisements, etc., but this information is retransmitted. Most of the users spent their time on the front-end while downloading all the components in the page. Nowadays, server-side caching of page elements is often done using tools like memcached. The aim of my project is to explore …

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Msg: A Gap-Oriented Genetic Algorithm For Multiple Sequence Alignment, Philip Heller Jan 2009

Msg: A Gap-Oriented Genetic Algorithm For Multiple Sequence Alignment, Philip Heller

Master's Projects

Traditional Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) Algorithms are deterministic. Genetic algorithms for protein MSA have been documented. However, these are not able to exceed in all cases the scores obtained by Clustal­W, the freely available de­facto standard. My solution, called “MSG”, places gaps rather than amino acids. The algorithm is multi­tribal, uses only a few very simple operators with adaptive frequencies, and jumpstarts one population from the Clustal­W solution. Results are reported for 14 data sets, on all of which MSG exceeds the Clustal­W score.

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Mrcraig: Mapreduce And Ensemble Classifiers For Parallelizing Data Classification Problems, Glenn Jahnke Jan 2009

Mrcraig: Mapreduce And Ensemble Classifiers For Parallelizing Data Classification Problems, Glenn Jahnke

Master's Projects

In this paper, a novel technique for parallelizing data-classification problems is applied to finding genes in sequences of DNA. The technique involves various ensem- ble classification methods such as Bagging and Select Best. It then distributes the classifier training and prediction using MapReduce. A novel sequence classification voting algorithm is evaluated in the Bagging method, as well as compared against the Select Best method.

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Heuristic Search Cryptanalysis Of The Zodiac 340 Cipher, Pallavi Kanagalakatte Basavaraju Jan 2009

Heuristic Search Cryptanalysis Of The Zodiac 340 Cipher, Pallavi Kanagalakatte Basavaraju

Master's Projects

The Zodiac 340 cipher is one of the most famous unsolved ciphers of all time. It was allegedly written by “the Zodiac”, whose identity remains unknown to date. The Zodiac was a serial killer who killed a number of people in and around the San Francisco Bay area during the 1960s. He is confirmed to have seven victims, two of whom survived [1], although in taunting letters to the news media he claims to have killed 37 people. During this time, an encrypted message known as the Zodiac 408 cipher was mailed to 3 different newspapers in the San Francisco …

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The Sheaf Catalogs Of George John Spencer, Larissa C. Brookes Jan 2009

The Sheaf Catalogs Of George John Spencer, Larissa C. Brookes

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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Biology Of Ultramafic Rocks And Soils: Research Goals For The Future, R S. Boyd, A R. Kruckeberg, N Rajakaruna Jan 2009

Biology Of Ultramafic Rocks And Soils: Research Goals For The Future, R S. Boyd, A R. Kruckeberg, N Rajakaruna

Faculty Publications, Biological Sciences

At this, the 6th International Conference on Serpentine Ecology, it seems timely to review briefly the present status of the field and to project the needs for future research. Although a great deal of serpentine research was done prior to 1960, as summarized by Krause (1958) and discussed briefly by Brooks (1987), much of our progress in learning how serpentine geology affects plant and animal life occurred in the mid- to late 20th century. In that era, it was the landmark studies of several scientists worldwide that initiated a meteoric increase in published serpentine research. Key players in setting the …

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A. Bristow And The Maniac: A Bio-Critical Essay, Katherine D. Harris Jan 2009

A. Bristow And The Maniac: A Bio-Critical Essay, Katherine D. Harris

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

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Teaching And Learning In Second Life: A Pilot Study, Anamika Dasgupta Jan 2009

Teaching And Learning In Second Life: A Pilot Study, Anamika Dasgupta

Faculty and Staff Publications

Second Life (SL) is a 3-D virtual online environment that was first released in 2003 by Linden Lab. Educators speculate that it has the ability to support kinesthetic and audio-visual styles. Many universities and colleges have built their teaching campuses in SL in order to experiment with teaching and learning activities in SL. In this study, data were collected from 16 students to evaluate how students respond to the various communication modes available in SL, how students perceive the manipulation of in-world movement, navigation, and action affordances in SL, and how students perceive using a virtual environment to attain learning …

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A Rylean Revision To Biological Naturalism, Timothy E. Kunke Jan 2009

A Rylean Revision To Biological Naturalism, Timothy E. Kunke

Master's Theses

This essay is a contrasting of John Searle's biological naturalist view of the mind with Gilbert Ryle's deconstruction of the problem of mind-body interaction. These two positions are most uniquely suited for this purpose since, together they constitute the best positive theory and criticism of the same problem. It will be argued that consciousness - a feature of human experience which proves to be one of the most difficult to account for, from the perspective of the naturalist can be regarded as a dispositional attribute of a complex biological organism. Considered as such, it is what Searle would term a …

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Hugo Loetscher, Romey Sabalius Jan 2009

Hugo Loetscher, Romey Sabalius

Faculty Publications

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The Scientist, Winter 2009, San Jose State University, College Of Science Jan 2009

The Scientist, Winter 2009, San Jose State University, College Of Science

The Scientist (College of Science)

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Event Based Propagation Approach To Constraint Configuration Problems, Rajhdeep Jandir Jan 2009

Event Based Propagation Approach To Constraint Configuration Problems, Rajhdeep Jandir

Master's Theses

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Effects Of Prescribed Burning On Composition Of Serpentine Grassland Vegetation, Debra Thornley Welch Jan 2009

Effects Of Prescribed Burning On Composition Of Serpentine Grassland Vegetation, Debra Thornley Welch

Master's Theses

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The Effects On Small Mammal Abundance After A Wildfire In The Warner Mountains, Jesse Rose West Jan 2009

The Effects On Small Mammal Abundance After A Wildfire In The Warner Mountains, Jesse Rose West

Master's Theses

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Gender, Status And Shellfish In Precontact Hawaii, Robin Helene Connors Jan 2009

Gender, Status And Shellfish In Precontact Hawaii, Robin Helene Connors

Master's Theses

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Uses And Gratifications Of The Food Network, Cori Lynn Hemmah Jan 2009

Uses And Gratifications Of The Food Network, Cori Lynn Hemmah

Master's Theses

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Conservation And Pasture Value Of Remnant Trees In A Tropical Agroecosystem, Ariel N. Rivers Jan 2009

Conservation And Pasture Value Of Remnant Trees In A Tropical Agroecosystem, Ariel N. Rivers

Master's Theses

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The Effects Of Psychosocial Stress And Social Support On Memory, Dong T. H Nguyen Jan 2009

The Effects Of Psychosocial Stress And Social Support On Memory, Dong T. H Nguyen

Master's Theses

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