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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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Structure Of The Swauk Formation And Teanaway Dike Swarm, Washington Cascades, Brigid A. Doran Jan 2009

Structure Of The Swauk Formation And Teanaway Dike Swarm, Washington Cascades, Brigid A. Doran

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Sustainable Tahoe : Bridging The Economic Gap, Gabriel Reuben Valle Jan 2009

Sustainable Tahoe : Bridging The Economic Gap, Gabriel Reuben Valle

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Revealing The Textual Mask, John Jason Buckley Jan 2009

Revealing The Textual Mask, John Jason Buckley

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Software Reverse Engineering Education, Teodoro Cipresso Jan 2009

Software Reverse Engineering Education, Teodoro Cipresso

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Effects Of Social Comparison On Stereotyping, Robert G. Taniguchi Jan 2009

Effects Of Social Comparison On Stereotyping, Robert G. Taniguchi

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Ecological Factors Suitable For The Endangered Lasthenia Conjugens (Asteraceae), Danielle Nicole Tannourji Jan 2009

Ecological Factors Suitable For The Endangered Lasthenia Conjugens (Asteraceae), Danielle Nicole Tannourji

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Framing The 2008 War In Georgia In Resonance, Izvestia, And The New York Times, Ekaterine Basilaia Jan 2009

Framing The 2008 War In Georgia In Resonance, Izvestia, And The New York Times, Ekaterine Basilaia

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


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

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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Detecting Mutations Related To Antibiotic Resistance In Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Neda Nemat-Gorgani Jan 2009

Detecting Mutations Related To Antibiotic Resistance In Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Neda Nemat-Gorgani

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Art History In California K-12 Schools : Then, Now And What It Can Be, Gary T. Martin Jan 2009

Art History In California K-12 Schools : Then, Now And What It Can Be, Gary T. Martin

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


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

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.


Robot Assisted Herding, Pinky Thakkar Jan 2009

Robot Assisted Herding, Pinky Thakkar

Master's Theses

This thesis addresses issues relating to the development of a robotic capability to assist a human in performing a complex task. It describes research and experiments involving a robot that assists a human to herd an animal. The novel focus of this work is that the robot is able to perceive the human's intentions by interpreting the human's movements without any explicit communication from the human. Furthermore, the robot is able to detect if the human is absent or unable to herd, and in that case, it herds the animal autonomously. A herding framework is developed based on low-stress herding …


Job Engagement : Examining The Relationship With Situational And Personal Factors, Smita Vanam Jan 2009

Job Engagement : Examining The Relationship With Situational And Personal Factors, Smita Vanam

Master's Theses

The major purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which two job resources, autonomy and supervisor support, and two personality traits, openness to experience and extraversion, were related to job engagement and whether they interact with each other to influence job engagement. In particular, this study examined whether personality traits moderate the relationship between job resources and job engagement. Using a sample of 162 full-time employees, the results showed that only autonomy and supervisor support related significantly to job engagement even when personality traits were taken into consideration. However, the personality traits did not relate to job …


Left-Isolation From A Construction Grammar Viewpoint, Shelley Crocker Jan 2009

Left-Isolation From A Construction Grammar Viewpoint, Shelley Crocker

Master's Theses

The Left-Isolation (LI) construction is a clausal construction that licenses long-distance dependencies and is responsible for a noun phrase object, indirect object or object of a preposition appearing before the subject of a sentence instead of in its canonical position after the verb. It is used in many different types of sentences, all of which have the pragmatics of drawing attention to the left-isolated element. This thesis examines the argument structure, valence, and information structure of the construction as well as some of the different types of sentences that inherit this construction. The types of participant roles as well as …


Inorganic Chemical Oxygen Demand Of Re-Suspended Sediments In A Bar-Built Lagoon, Keenan A. Smith Jan 2009

Inorganic Chemical Oxygen Demand Of Re-Suspended Sediments In A Bar-Built Lagoon, Keenan A. Smith

Master's Theses

Rapid dissolved oxygen (DO) depletion, caused by inorganic chemical oxygen demand (COD) of re-suspended sediment compounds, has been documented in few studies, yet fish kills occur often from the process. Pescadero Lagoon, California, USA, a bar-built lagoon that suffers annual fish kills caused by rapid mixing-induced hypoxia upon sandbar breach, was studied to investigate the potential for COD of re-suspended sediment to deplete oxygen. In-situ chamber mixing trials demonstrated that re-suspended sediment can exert powerful oxygen demand on receiving waters. Surface DO depletion upon bar breach was too severe to be explained solely by mixing of the anoxic hypolimnion into …


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

Master's Theses

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

Master's Theses

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

Master's Theses

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 …


The Evidential Weight Of Considered Moral Judgments, Christopher Michael Cloos Jan 2009

The Evidential Weight Of Considered Moral Judgments, Christopher Michael Cloos

Master's Theses

The input objection to reflective equilibrium (RE) claims that the method fails as a method of moral justification. According to the objection, considered moral judgments (CMJs) are not truth-conducive. Because the method uses inputs that are not credible, the method does not generate justified moral beliefs. The objection is solved by reinterpreting RE using contemporary developments in ethical intuitionism. The first half of the thesis sets up the input objection, explores potential responses to the objection, and uncovers the best way to solve the objection. The second half of the thesis solves the input objection by defining key terms, detailing …


Polarity Inverted Gallium Nitride For Photonic Crystal Biosensors., Randy P. Tompkins Jan 2009

Polarity Inverted Gallium Nitride For Photonic Crystal Biosensors., Randy P. Tompkins

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Photonic crystals are periodic nanostructures used to control the propagation of electromagnetic waves. Depending on geometry and refractive index contrast between adjacent regions, periodic variation of the refractive index can result in a photonic band gap or non-allowed set of frequencies that cannot propagate through the crystal. Defects can be introduced at photonic crystal lattice sites, resulting in localized modes that lie within the photonic gap. Such defect cavities can be tuned to resonant frequencies of a defect mode and whole planes or lines of defects can be fabricated in photonic crystals resulting in optical confinement of defect modes. These …


Students’ Expectations And Attitudes Towards Nonnative-English-Speaking Teachers In Esl And Efl Settings: Teachers’ And Students’ Own Perspectives, Lindsei Pereira Da Silva Jan 2009

Students’ Expectations And Attitudes Towards Nonnative-English-Speaking Teachers In Esl And Efl Settings: Teachers’ And Students’ Own Perspectives, Lindsei Pereira Da Silva

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The number of nonnative-English-speaking English teachers (non-NESTs) has been increasing tremendously both in EFL and in ESL settings and so has the number of language learners who are taught by these professionals. As a result, the interest among researchers in the field in investigating the characteristics of this group of language professionals as well as the challenges that they have been facing in the world of second/foreign language teaching has increased.


Choice Of Law For Professional Responsibility Issues In Aggregate Litigation, Nancy J. Moore Jan 2009

Choice Of Law For Professional Responsibility Issues In Aggregate Litigation, Nancy J. Moore

Faculty Scholarship

As the rest of the papers in this symposium issue demonstrate, aggregate litigationi raises difficult, often intractable choice-of-law issues for judges, as well as for litigants and their lawyers. Typically, judges must choose among rules governing not only substantive law, but also statutes of limitations, allocation of damages, and punitive damages. 2 What is less well-recognized is that aggregate litigation may also present difficult choice-of-law issues regarding the ethical conduct of the lawyers involved in these cases. So far, these issues have barely surfaced, not because professional responsibility questions have not been raised with respect to aggregate litigation, but rather …


It Depends, Gary S. Lawson Jan 2009

It Depends, Gary S. Lawson

Faculty Scholarship

Peter Strauss stated at the outset of this Symposium that the participants were chosen in part for the likelihood that they would generate “intelligent disagreement.” By that standard, I may have been a poor choice--and if that is the case, I will leave it to the reader to determine whether it is a function of the first or second term in the quoted phrase. At first glance, it looks as though I sharply disagree with Rick Pildes and Harold Bruff about whether the PCAOB's members are principal officers who must be appointed by the President with the advice and consent …


Islam’S Fourth Amendment: Search And Seizure In Islamic Doctrine And Muslim Practice, Sadiq Reza Jan 2009

Islam’S Fourth Amendment: Search And Seizure In Islamic Doctrine And Muslim Practice, Sadiq Reza

Faculty Scholarship

Modern scholars regularly assert that Islamic law contains privacy protections similar to those of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Two Quranic verses in particular - one that commands Muslims not to enter homes without permission, and one that commands them not to 'spy' - are held up, along with reports from the Traditions (Sunna) that repeat and embellish on these commands, as establishing rules that forbid warrantless searches and seizures by state actors and require the exclusion of evidence obtained in violation of these rules. This Article tests these assertions by: (1) presenting rules and doctrines Muslim jurists …