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Forms And Functions Of Englishisms In Japanese Women's Fashion Magazines, Yumie Sase Jan 2009

Forms And Functions Of Englishisms In Japanese Women's Fashion Magazines, Yumie Sase

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Perception And Use Of Graywater In Berkeley, California, Chung M. Khong Jan 2009

Perception And Use Of Graywater In Berkeley, California, Chung M. Khong

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Tales Of Teaching : Exploring The Dialectical Tensions Of The Gta Experience, Jennifer M. Hennings Jan 2009

Tales Of Teaching : Exploring The Dialectical Tensions Of The Gta Experience, Jennifer M. Hennings

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Dirty Laundry, Stacey Lynn Knapp Jan 2009

Dirty Laundry, Stacey Lynn Knapp

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U.S. Missile Shield In Europe : Framing In The New York Times And Izvestiya, Abdufarrokh Turaev Jan 2009

U.S. Missile Shield In Europe : Framing In The New York Times And Izvestiya, Abdufarrokh Turaev

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Rationalism And The Professional Development Of Graduate Teaching Associates, Diana C. Woodhouse Jan 2009

Rationalism And The Professional Development Of Graduate Teaching Associates, Diana C. Woodhouse

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Character Development Of Dungeons And Dragons And Episodic Television, Christopher Rudolph Consorte Jan 2009

Character Development Of Dungeons And Dragons And Episodic Television, Christopher Rudolph Consorte

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Gene Flow Among Pacific Harbor Seals In Northern California, Michele Maria Conrad Jan 2009

Gene Flow Among Pacific Harbor Seals In Northern California, Michele Maria Conrad

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Les InterpréTations Modernes Et Humoristiques Des Fables Et Leur PéDagogie, Alicia ÁLvarez-MóN Zeid Jan 2009

Les InterpréTations Modernes Et Humoristiques Des Fables Et Leur PéDagogie, Alicia ÁLvarez-MóN Zeid

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A Comparison Of Aquatic Insect Communities Between Man-Made And Natural Ponds, Kristy Kay Whiteson Jan 2009

A Comparison Of Aquatic Insect Communities Between Man-Made And Natural Ponds, Kristy Kay Whiteson

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A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of U.S. And Taiwanese Print Advertising Strategy, Chun-Lin Wu Jan 2009

A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of U.S. And Taiwanese Print Advertising Strategy, Chun-Lin Wu

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Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse Abundance And Site Use In A Managed Marsh, Galli Basson Jan 2009

Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse Abundance And Site Use In A Managed Marsh, Galli Basson

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Laboratory Analogs Of Mars Clouds : Critical Saturations For Water Ice Nucleation, Bruce Drury Phebus Jan 2009

Laboratory Analogs Of Mars Clouds : Critical Saturations For Water Ice Nucleation, Bruce Drury Phebus

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The Rise Of Mormon Cultural History And The Changing Status Of The Archive, Joseph M. Spencer Jan 2009

The Rise Of Mormon Cultural History And The Changing Status Of The Archive, Joseph M. Spencer

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Testing Two Models Of Acculturation And Well-Being Of Asian College Students, Teresa Jamie Soriano Jan 2009

Testing Two Models Of Acculturation And Well-Being Of Asian College Students, Teresa Jamie Soriano

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A Comparison Of Overrater, Underrater And In Agreement On Performance, Aleksandra Karolina Gajek Jan 2009

A Comparison Of Overrater, Underrater And In Agreement On Performance, Aleksandra Karolina Gajek

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Work, Organizations, And Built Environments : An Ethnographic Approach, Sarah J. Clementson Jan 2009

Work, Organizations, And Built Environments : An Ethnographic Approach, Sarah J. Clementson

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Conceptual Design Of A Solar Power Beaming Space System, Tuyet N. Le Jan 2009

Conceptual Design Of A Solar Power Beaming Space System, Tuyet N. Le

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Music In The Lives Of Two Children With Autism : A Case Study, Elizabeth Ron Fang Jan 2009

Music In The Lives Of Two Children With Autism : A Case Study, Elizabeth Ron Fang

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This thesis is a qualitative case study about two children with autism spectrum disorder and the role of music in their lives. It explores how music serves as a non-threatening medium for learning and developing skills necessary to function successfully in life. The stories of the children and their parents are shared through their personal account and the author's observations. The literature in the field reveals that a structured/functional use of music helps communication, social interaction, appropriate behavior, motor skills, and academics in children with autism. Each child is able to actively participate in music-making within varied and appropriate settings …


Role Stressors, Coworker Support, And Work Engagement : A Longitudinal Study, Jerry Wright Jan 2009

Role Stressors, Coworker Support, And Work Engagement : A Longitudinal Study, Jerry Wright

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This study examined the Job Demands-Resources theory in relation to engagement using a longitudinal design. The main purpose of this longitudinal study was to investigate the nature of work engagement over time. Specifically, it examined if role stressors (a job demand) were predictive of work engagement measured one year later. Additionally, this study investigated the possible moderating or buffering effect of coworker support (a job resource) on the relationship between role stressors and later work engagement. A total of 96 (70% full-time and 30% part-time) library employees participated in this study. A moderated hierarchical regression analysis indicated that baseline engagement …


Structure Of The Skagit Gneiss Complex In Diablo Lake Area, North Cascades, Wa, Niki Everette Wintzer Jan 2009

Structure Of The Skagit Gneiss Complex In Diablo Lake Area, North Cascades, Wa, Niki Everette Wintzer

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The crystalline core of the North Cascades is part of a thick (>55 km) 96-45 Ma continental magmatic arc. The highest-grade part of the arc is the Skagit Gneiss Complex, composed mostly of partially migmatitic amphibolite-facies orthogneiss, banded biotite gneiss, and paragneiss. The typically NW-striking foliation and mostly gently SE-plunging lineation formed dominantly between 69 and 51 Ma. Four-fold generations are recorded in the study area, some of which formed from 51 to 46 Ma. The prominent upright km-scale folds are similar to Eocene folds in the southern part of the Skagit Gneiss Complex and suggest at least a …


Bioflocculation For Control Of Wastewater Pond Microalgae, Daniel Thomas Frost Dec 2008

Bioflocculation For Control Of Wastewater Pond Microalgae, Daniel Thomas Frost

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Investigates several hypotheses regarding the use of bioflocculation as a harvesting method for wastewater pond microalgae. Research performed on pilot-scale high rate ponds (HRPs) on the California Central Coast.


The Endangered Representation Of Sexual Violence In Sarah Kane's Blasted, Dina Zhurba Dec 2008

The Endangered Representation Of Sexual Violence In Sarah Kane's Blasted, Dina Zhurba

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In Blasted, Kane represents how incidents of rape highlight, exacerbate and solidify the unevenness of power distribution between men and women in the modern world and provides a new perspective at what we might call “rape in general” – a transhistorical phenomenon of rape as a practice of violence towards the female victim. Through a detailed analysis of the unique representational circumstances of the multiple scenes of rape, such as Cate’s meaningful absence in Ian’s scene of rape, the author of the essay comes to a conclusion that rape is and remains an engendered practice. However, along with reaffirming …


Application Of Parent-Child Uav Tasking For Wildfire Detection And Response, Stephen T. Kubik Dec 2008

Application Of Parent-Child Uav Tasking For Wildfire Detection And Response, Stephen T. Kubik

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In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become a dominant force in the aerospace industry. Recent technological developments have moved these aircraft from remote operation roles to more active response missions. Of particular interest is the possibility of applying UAVs toward solving complex problems in long-endurance missions. Under that belief, the feasibility of utilizing UAVs for wildfire detection and response was investigated in a partnership that included NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate and Science Mission Directorate, and the United States Forest Service. Under NASA’s Intelligent Mission Management (IMM) project, research was conducted to develop a mission architecture that would …


An Exploration Of Tablet-Based Presentation Systems And Learning Styles, Ngan T. Phan Oct 2008

An Exploration Of Tablet-Based Presentation Systems And Learning Styles, Ngan T. Phan

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Learning in the classroom can occur as a combination of students' personal effort to study class material, the instructor's attempt to present class material, and the interaction that takes place between instructor and students. In a more traditional setting, instructors can lecture by writing notes on a chalkboard or a whiteboard. If instructors want to display prepared lecture slides, they can use the overhead projector and write additional notes on top of these overhead transparencies. With many technological advances, various researchers are advocating towards integration between technology and learning. With the advent of tablet PCs, researchers recognize the potential usefulness …


The Role Of Phonological Similarity In Constructing A Developing Lexicon, Lin Li Aug 2008

The Role Of Phonological Similarity In Constructing A Developing Lexicon, Lin Li

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The implicational hierarchy of phonological feature development has proposed that children acquire native phonemic inventory in a systematic way, from the least articulatory-effort-required phonemes to most demanding ones. On the phonemic inventory level, the hierarchy suggests that perceptual features bearing by oral stops /p/, /b/, /t/, /d/, /k/, /g/ would appear ahead of perceptual features bearing by fricatives, affricatives and liquids ... while nasals stops ... would emerge in the middle. With the help of age-of-acquisition index and a phonemic change schema, the distributions of 489 phonological neighbors have been examined against the data from MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory to …


Reconsidering African-American Identity: Aesthetic Experiments By Post-Soul Artists, Letitia Guran Tudorica Aug 2008

Reconsidering African-American Identity: Aesthetic Experiments By Post-Soul Artists, Letitia Guran Tudorica

Master's Theses

The present study attempts to offer an overview of the Post-Soul aesthetic and its role in re-writing African-American identity and focuses explicitly on three authors: Spike Lee, Touré, and Suzan-Lori Parks. My premise is that Post-Soul art is a direct result of the sweeping changes brought by the post-Civil Rights era in the African- American mentality, which inaugurated a new age in African-American art. Thus, the Post-Soul generation represents blackness as diverse, free to define itself in its own terms; they promote a critical take on black nationalism, and new perspectives on slavery. Most of the Post-Soul artists consider themselves …


The Effects Of Bisphosphonates On Bone Remodeling: Analysis Of Microdamage Targeting By Bmus, Bmu Velocity And Crack Surface Density, Daniel Wayne Hale Jun 2008

The Effects Of Bisphosphonates On Bone Remodeling: Analysis Of Microdamage Targeting By Bmus, Bmu Velocity And Crack Surface Density, Daniel Wayne Hale

Master's Theses

Studies have indicated that microdamage in the bone matrix both activates and "steers" BMUs (Basic Multicellular Units, the groups of osteoclasts and osteoblasts that resorb and form bone respectively) toward the damage in order to replace damaged bone with new, mechanically sound bone. Also, bisphosphonate drugs have been shown to greatly suppress the remodeling process and, with such effects, are commonly used in the treatment of osteoporosis. It was hypothesized that BMUs do indeed target microdamage around them and tunnel away from the dominant lines of force in bone in order to remove the damage. Additionally it was believed that …


Design Patterns Go To Hollywood: Teaching Patterns With Multimedia, Adam Dukovich Jun 2008

Design Patterns Go To Hollywood: Teaching Patterns With Multimedia, Adam Dukovich

Master's Theses

Design Patterns have insinuated themselves into the forefront of computer science and software engineering practice. To this end, there has been much scholarship about the proper way to introduce them into the classroom. Studies indicate that understanding the contexts in which design patterns are to be used is one of the most (if not the most) difficult challenge in applying design patterns. However, little research on the topic attempts to solve the problem of better illuminating this context problem, preferring instead to focus on simplification of the patterns and better examples to explain them. This paper discusses a new paradigm …


Development Of A Cell Depositing System Using Inkjet Technology, Jason Robert Ozaeta Jun 2008

Development Of A Cell Depositing System Using Inkjet Technology, Jason Robert Ozaeta

Master's Theses

In the past decade, advances in tissue engineering have allowed researchers to fabricate simple tissues. However, the process of creating these native tissues is a time consuming and inefficient process. A scaffold must first be fabricated then exposed to a sea of cells in the hopes of seeding. Furthermore, even though cells may have attached, more time must be spent in order to allow the cells to migrate to their ideal locations. To deal with this problem, researchers have investigated whether rapid prototyping principals could be adapted to facilitate the cell seeding process by placing cells in their respective locations …