Dissertations / Theses: 'California California'

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Carter, Karen Faye. "Description and control of flowering in California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53095.

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The California poppy (Eschscholzia californica Cham.) has floral marketplace potential provided it can be produced as a well-proportioned potted plant. Its attractive floral display and tolerance of extreme heat and drought make it a good candidate for research aimed at introducing it as a new ornamental crop. The major objectives of this study were to document the apical meristem changes of California poppy during the transition to flowering, to determine the minimum number of inductive long-day (LD) cycles required for induction and initiation of flowering, and to examine the effects of exogenously applied gibberellin (GA₄₊₇) and auxin (NAA) on reproductive and vegetative development. Histological examination of apical meristems exposed to varying numbers of LD cycles revealed many changes commonly associated with the onset of flowering. There was an increase in RNA activity in the apical cells, an enhanced doming of the shoot apex, an increased elongation of primordia internodes, a disruption of the tunica-corpus organization, and the appearance of well-developed branch primordia. Eight to ten LD cycles was identified as the critical range required for successful flowering in California poppy plants when exposure to the inductive photoperiod was begun at the 8 to 12 true, expanded leaf stage. Exogeneous NAA was shown to have no significant effect on final reproductive status or vegetative development of California poppy. GA₄₊₇ application resulted in an enhanced shift toward reproductive development and an increase in stem elongation, but it had little effect on peduncle elongation. These results indicate that stem and peduncle elongation may be controlled by different mechanisms and warrant further research. The final chapter of the thesis concerning the design and evaluation of educational programs for the Virginia Tech Horticultural Gardens represents a departure from the major topic of study. This chapter is the result of the author's interest in, and the Garden's need for, an educational program suitable for the general public. This study can be considered the first step in the development of such an educational program.
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Echeverría, Jerónima 1946. "California-ko Ostatuak: a History of California's Basque Hotels." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331219/.

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The history of California's Basque boardinghouses, or ostatuak, is the subject of this dissertation. To date, scholarly literature on ethnic boardinghouses is minimal and even less has been written on the Basque "hotels" of the American West. As a result, conclusions in this study rely upon interviews, census records, local directories, early maps, and newspapers. The first Basque boardinghouses in the United States appeared in California in the decade following the gold rush and tended to be outposts along travel routes used by Basque miners and sheepmen. As more Basques migrated to the United States, clusters of ostatuak sprang up in communities where Basque colonies had formed, particularly in Los Angeles and San Francisco during the late nineteenth century. In the years between 1890 and 1940, the ostatuak reached their zenith as Basques spread throughout the state and took their boardinghouses with them. This study outlines the earliest appearances of the Basque ostatuak, charts their expansion, and describes their present state of demise. The role of the ostatuak within Basque-American culture and a description of how they operated is another important aspect of this dissertation. Information from interviews supports the claim that the ostatua was the most important social institution among Americanuak during peak years of Basque immigration. Since a majority of the Basque sojourners who arrived before 1930 were unmarried, unable to speak English, and intended to return to the Old World within a decade of their arrival, the Basque-American often substituted his "hotel" contacts for his Old World family. At the ostatuak, he found a familiar language and cuisine, as well as an employment agency, a place to vacation, translating services, an occasional loan, explanations of his host culture, and new friends from old villages. This history of California's ostatuak is the first of its kind and encourages future research on Basque boardinghouses throughout the American West.

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DeVost, Erec. "Mapping vegetation in California's Cascade foothills Big Chico Creek, Chico, California /." [Chico, Calif. : California State University, Chico], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10211.4/84.

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Ginn, Sarah M. "Creating community in Spanish California : an investigation of California plainwares /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2009. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Perez, Tisserant Emmanuelle. "« Nuestra California » : faire Californie entre deux constructions nationales et impériales (vers 1810-1850)." Paris, EHESS, 2014. https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01142623.

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Le cas de la Californie met en évidence le caractère impérial de la construction nationale du Mexique et des États-Unis au début du XIXe siècle. Du point de vue du Mexique, l'égalité des Indiens proclamée par l'indépendance s'y avère difficilement réalisable. L'importance des missions conduit le gouvernement à repousser leur fin. Les Indiens ont aussi leurs propres revendications sur leur terre. Les colons et soldats sont d'abord attachés au système tel qu'il est. Mais certains gouverneurs et d'autres agents orientent un certain nombre de jeunes gens vers une carrière publique et la conception de la Californie comme un projet politique fondé sur la souveraineté du peuple et des États. Se forme alors une élite locale prête à se révolter quand elle estime ses droits bafoués. Ces révoltes sont comparables aux révoltes fédéralistes au Mexique mais aussi à celles de colonies de peuplement dans les empires. La culture politique et les liens avec le Mexique évoluent avec l'augmentation des circulations : à l'échelle régionale, le sud se rapproche du Mexique plus que le nord qui connaît une immigration de l'Oregon et des États-Unis. Du point de vue des États-Unis, l'espoir du consul à Monterey d'une demande d'annexion sans guerre est ruiné par l'initiative de migrants des années 1840, nourris des discours sur la « destinée manifeste », de défendre leurs droits à la terre et à une « vraie république » en Californie. Cette confrontation entre colons mexicains-californiens et migrants étatsuniens est celle de deux projets impériaux et nationaux sur un même territoire et illustre l'ambigüité de la revendication de souveraineté, de liberté et d'égalité sur un territoire conquis
The case of California brings to light the imperial character of nation-building in Mexico and the United States in the early 19th century. Concerning Mexico, the equality of Indians proclaimed by Independence proves itself a hard reach. The missions are so important to control the Indians that the government has to delay their end. Moreover, the Indians have their own perception of the meaning of equality and sovereignty on their land. Settlers and soldiers are at first still attached to the colonial System as it is. But Mexican governors and others convince a handful of young people to turn to a public career and the conception of California as a political project. A local elite comes to existence and is ready to revolt when they consider their rights flouted. Those revolts can be compared to other federalist revolts in Mexico as well as with settlers revolt in other settlers colonies. The political culture and the relationship with Mexico also evolves with the increase in circulations from the 1830s. The South becomes more connected to Mexico than the North, that becomes more connected to Oregon and the Western United States. Concerning the United States, the hopes of their consul at Monterey to promote a peaceful annexation is ruined by the attack of a frontier post by recent migrants in order to defend their right ; to the land and to a « true republic ». This confrontation between Mexican-Californians settlers and United States migrants is one of two national and imperial projects on a same territory and illustrates the ambiguity of claiming sovereignty, liberty and equality on a conquered territory

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Notarangelo, Joseph. "The California dream denied: Narrative strategy and the California labor dilemma." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2007.

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This thesis explores the relationship between differing interpretation of the California Dream and the narrative strategies through while [sic] they are expressed in three California labor novels during three different decades of California literature.

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Yellina, Aravinda Lakshmi [Verfasser]. "Functional analysis of carpel developmental genes in California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) / Aravinda Lakshmi Yellina." Gießen : Universitätsbibliothek, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1119009537/34.

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Kirsch, Scott Lawrence 1967. "The California rebound effect: An analysis of California's redistributive role in interstate migration." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291427.

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California has historically been the primary geographic focus of westward migration in the United States. Trends of the 1960 and 1970s indicate that California's role in interstate migration is changing to that of a redistributor of population. In net terms, California is attracting in-migrants from the traditional core region of the Northeast and Midwest, and distributing population throughout the peripheral West. The emergence and development of these trends from 1935 to 1980 are analyzed through the demographic effectiveness of migration, a singly-constrained gravity model, and reverse gravity model mapping of relative interstate distances from California. International and historical interstate migration to California are also reviewed, as well as recent data on interstate migration during the 1980s. The phenomenon of California's redistributive role in interstate migration is discussed in relation to spatial shifts in economic and social functions, the role of search space, and a changing geographic ideal.

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Espinosa, Aurelio M. "California Spanish Folklore Riddles." Mexican American Studies & Research Center, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624786.

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Dartt-Newton, Deana Dawn 1966. "Negotiating the Master Narrative: Museums and the Indian/Californio Community of California's Central Coast." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9926.

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xvi, 307 p. : ill., maps. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
In California, third and fourth grade social science curriculum standards mandate an introduction to Native American life and the impacts of Spanish, Mexican, and "American" colonization on the state's indigenous people. Teachers in the state use museums to supplement this education. Natural history and anthropology museums offer programs for teaching third graders about native pre-contact life, while Missions and regional history museums are charged with telling the story of settlement for the state's fourth graders. Clearly, this fact suggests the centrality of museums and Missions to education in the state. Since only one small tribe on the central coast has federal recognition, non-tribal museums are the only public voice about Indian life. These sites however, rarely address hardships experienced by native people, contributions over the past 150 years, the struggles for sovereignty in their homelands, and a variety of other issues faced by living Indian people. Instead, these sites often portray essentialized homogenous notions of Indiamless which inadvertently contribute to the invisibility of coastal Native peoples. This dissertation analyzes visual museum representations in central coast museums and Missions and the perspectives oflocal Native American community members about how their lives and cultures are portrayed in those museums. Using methods of critical discourse analysis, the dissertation seeks to locate discontinuities between the stories museums tell versus the stories Indian people tell. It addresses these ruptures through a detailed analysis of alternative narratives and then offers suggestions to museum professionals, both in California and elsewhere, for incorporating a stronger native voice in interpretive efforts.
Committee in charge: Dr. Lynn Stephen, Co-chair; Dr. Brian Klopotek, Co-chair; Dr. Jon M. Erlandson; Dr. Shari Huhndorf; Roberta Reyes Cordero

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Reyes, Bárbara O. "Nineteenth-century California as engendered space : the public/private lives of women of the Californias /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9975885.

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Beasley, Michael E. "Changes in the California current system observed off northern California during July-August 1986." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/22662.

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Cubias, Gustavo Adolfo II. "Latino Political Power in California." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/175.

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California has now become a majority-minority state. Latinos, currently the largest minority group in the Golden State, have made remarkable political gains in the past two decades, more recently since the the approval of Proposition 187 in 1994. How have Latinos used this new political power? This thesis provides an in-depth look into the dynamics of the Latino political entity in California, along with a quantifiable analysis of voting trends. Discussion of policy implictions since the Latino wave into the state Legislature is also provided, along with interviews with notable Latino figures, such as Senator Art Torres and Redistricting Commissioner Gabino Aguirre.

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Cloutier, Khara M. "Fabricating identity in Southern California." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527686.

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Clothing serves as material evidence of the mental space we occupy. My designs are inspired by the man-made landscapes that surround me and I apply those patterns to the landscape of the body.

Like graphic design, fashion is a medium employed to convey messages and ideas. It is an expression of identity that is established through color, form, pattern and texture. My work seeks to synthesize human geography with graphic design in order to clothe the body and thus, fabricate identity.

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Brofferio, Aja. "Reforming Foster Care in California." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/863.

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The foster care system is responsible for taking care of society’s most vulnerable children and it is important that the system can be reformed as needed to meet the needs of these children. Institutional reform litigation is an ineffective method of improving the child welfare system and should no longer be relied upon. Although widely used institutional reform litigation is not efficient or effective in improving the foster care system. Litigation is unsuccessful in achieving reform because it does not embrace collaboration, cooperation, or communication but instead fosters a hostile environment in which the agencies under court mandate are expected to enact change. In 2006, two new organizations were established in California, the California Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care and the California Child Welfare Council. Both of these organizations created recommendations for improving foster care. Unlike institutional reform litigation, these two organizations worked collaboratively with various agencies and government branches in order to come up with recommendations that were feasible. These two organizations provide a method of reform that is less myopic and more supportive, allowing for meaningful improvements within California’s foster care system.

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Pho, Susanna Wansan. "Kipple kaboodle : reincarnating California city." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97270.

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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2015.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (page 106).
California City is a superlative shrinking suburb. Situated deep in the Mojave Desert, the conditions that typically spur suburban shrinkage are exaggerated here. As such, the city provides a singular opportunity to comment on the decline of the road-centric, single family house dominated town typology within a specific context. This thesis examines the decaying suburban condition and proposes an architectural intervention that embraces a city's collapse as analogous to death and imagines a reincarnated future. It addresses the notion that shrinkage must be either reversed or ameliorated and instead proposes that it be amplified and radicalized. The architectural proposal is activated at two scales: that of the landscape (or kaboodle) and that of the individual belonging (or kipple). As the town grapples with death on a suburban scale, it encounters deeply personal questions as an entire community. What does it mean when a city dies? How do those who must remain grieve, come to terms with their loss, and move on? What becomes of the corpse? The stuff of the suburb is examined in depth as the psyche of California City and given architectural agency as the means by which the town is destroyed, reconstituted and rebirthed anew. As it is abandoned, salvaged, catalogued, and transformed, this suburban discharge slowly transforms the reincarnated city into an archival catalog of a previous being: an enclavic representation of what was lost.
by Susanna Wansan Pho.
M. Arch.

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Padgett-Flohr, Gretchen Elizabeth. "Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Central California." OpenSIUC, 2009. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/310.

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF GRETCHEN ELIZABETH PADGETT-FLOHR for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Zoology, presented on March 5, 2009 at Southern Illinois University of Carbondale. TITLE: BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA AMPHIBIANS MAJOR PROFESSOR: Eric Schauber Amphibian chytridiomycosis has been identified as a disease responsible for the decline and extinction of many amphibian taxa world wide, but little research has been conducted on the disease in Mediterranean climates. To address this gap in the data I studied the amphibian assemblage present across a ~6,475 ha site in central California and investigated the occurrence of the etiological agent, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (BD) from organismal, community, landscape and historical perspectives. I initially tested the accuracy and reliability of a proposed diagnostic screening test for BD in four larval species that occur on the site. The screening test proposed by Fellers et al. (2001) and Vredenburg and Summers (2001) consisted of examining larval amphibian mouthparts for abnormalities and or defects, based on their hypothesis that mouthpart defects are clinical signs of BD infection. Sensitivity and specificity of the diagnostic screening test were 76% and 58%, respectively, indicating that the proposed screening test was not a reliable diagnostic test for BD infection for the four species I examined. I conducted controlled laboratory experiments to examine the consequences of BD infection in the two threatened California species that occur on my study site: Rana draytonii and Ambystoma californiense. Both species were susceptible to infection, but all infected animals survived the 18-month study. Infected A. californiense sloughed skin at three times the rate of uninfected salamanders, a pattern that may have long-term energetic costs potentially leading to population-level consequences of sublethal infection by BD. I conducted a retrospective survey of the California Academy of Sciences' (San Francisco, California, USA) amphibian collection, testing for BD in four amphibian species collected from central California between 1897 and 2005 to assess whether the pathogen is novel versus endemic. The earliest detection of BD was in two Rana catesbeiana collected in 1961, and the data support the hypothesis that BD was a novel pathogen introduced into central California prior to 1961 that spread geographically and taxonomically from at least one point of introduction and is now endemic throughout most of central California. I analyzed how environmental factors, amphibian community composition, land use practices, and landscape structure affect the dynamics of the pathogen's distribution on my study site in central California. The distribution of BD in ponds within the landscape varied markedly between years and increases were associated with precipitation, mean minimum and maximum temperatures, and presence of particular species. Pseudacris regilla infection patterns were highly indicative of overall patterns of pond BD status. Fourteen ponds were identified as BD hotpots (BD-positive three of four years). Occurrences of the pathogen within the landscape were spatially autocorrelated and ponds in close proximity to BD hotspots were more likely to test positive. Local land use, (presence/absence of grazing or recreational activity and developed lands), apparently did not influence BD status of a pond. My studies show that BD was likely a novel pathogen introduced into California ca. 1961 that has since become established as an endemic pathogen throughout most of central California. The listed amphibian species that occur in central California can be infected with BD but appear to be resistant to manifesting amphibian chytridiomycosis, and the data from the studies herein could support one of two hypotheses: that natural selection acting over the past 48 years has selected for those individuals that were resistant to the disease; or that the species on my site have always been resistant to BD. The research I conducted further supports the hypothesis that BD is locally vectored by native amphibians (e.g. P. regilla) moving between ponds and that local ecological constraints likely limit vectoring of BD by non-native species. These findings contribute substantially to elucidating and understanding the responses of amphibian populations to disease/pathogen introduction and lay groundwork for future investigations into the host-pathogen-environment relationship as it relates to declining amphibian populations.

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Dannenmüller, Sophie. ""California assemblage" : récupération, contestation, tradition." Paris 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA010530.

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Cette thèse retrace l'histoire de l'assemblage en Californie, c'est-à-dire d'oeuvres tridimensionnelles constituées d'objets et matériaux récupérés. Le "Museum of Unknown and Little Known Objects" (1949) de Clay Spohn marque l'apparition du médium à San Francisco, puis une esthétique du déchet se développe dans les années 1950 au sein d'une communauté underground et rebelle, en marge des courants dominants, avec Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Wally Hedrick, George Herms, Jess, Edward Kienholz, Gordon Wagner. En 1961-62, la reconnaissance du médium grâce à "The Art of Assemblage" pousse certains assemblagistes à modifier leur pratique, voire à l'abandonner. Les plus engages exploitent les possibilités plastiques de l'assemblage pour exprimer leur désaccord avec la société américaine des années 1960. En réaction aux émeutes de Watts, des artistes afro-américains comme Noah Purifoy, Betye Saar, John Outterbridge, rejettent les formes d'art conventionnelles et trouvent dans l'assemblage un mode d'expression militant, tandis que des artistes chicanos comme David Avalos et Amalia Mesa-Bains fusionnent l'assemblage et les traditions mexicaines pour engendrer des formes hybrides qui valorisent leur multiculturalisme. Apparue dans les années 1980, la formule "California Assemblage" invite à examiner ce qui est californien dans l'assemblage californien de l'époque notamment chez Alexis Smith, Nancy Rubins ou Michael McMillen et à interroger la notion de tradition. Au début du XXI" siècle le mouvement californien se réinvente dans le nouveau paradigme écologiste et revient au classicisme en réinvestissant son territoire attitre entre peinture et sculpture.

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Tanner, Kari Christine. "Methylmercury in California Rice Ecosystems." Thesis, University of California, Davis, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10642100.

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Methylmercury (MeHg) is a toxic and bioaccumulative form of mercury that can be produced by bacteria living in water saturated soils, including those found in flooded rice fields. In the Sacramento Valley, California, rice is grown on 240,000 hectares, and mercury is a concern due to a history of mining in the surrounding mountains.

Using unfiltered aqueous MeHg data from MeHg monitoring programs in the Sacramento River watershed from 1996 to 2007, the MeHg contribution from rice systems to the Sacramento River, was assessed. AgDrain MeHg concentrations were elevated compared to upstream river water during November through May, but were not significantly different during June through October. June through October AgDrain MeHg loads (concentration × flow) contributed 10.7–14.8% of the total Sacramento River MeHg load. Missing flow data prevented calculation of the percent contribution of AgDrains in November through May.

Field scale MeHg dynamics were studied in two commercial rice fields in the Sacramento Valley. The Studied fields had soil total mercury concentrations of 25 and 57 ng g^-1, which is near the global background level. Surface water and rice grain MeHg and THg concentrations were low compared to previously studied fields. An analysis of surface water drainage loads indicates that both fields were net MeHg importers during the growing season and net MeHg exporters during the fallow season.

Since the microbes that produce MeHg prefer flooded environments, management that dries the soil might reduce MeHg production. Conventional continuously flooded (CF) rice field water management was compared to alternate wetting and drying, where irrigation was stopped twice during the growing season, allowing soil to dry to 35% volumetric moisture content, at which point plots were re-flooded (AWD-35). Compared to CF, AWD-35 resulted in a significant reduction of MeHg concentration in soil, surface water and rice grain.

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Wolfgruber, Heidi C. "Reducing Recidivism in the State of California: An Evaluation of California's Prison and Parole Programs." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/18.

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Studies in the past few years have found that California has the highest recidivism rate in the nation. Until just a few decades ago, many did not believe that the rate of recidivism could be decreased for Robert Martinson’s 1974 study stated that “nothing worked” when trying to rehabilitate criminals. However, a renewed interest has proven that criminals can be rehabilitated. Thus, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), as well as various independent researchers have begun to study the effects of programming on inmates. This thesis evaluates various California in-prison and parole programs in order to determine if recidivism can be reduced, and if it can, how? Researching a CDCR study, as well as other independent studies, it can be concluded that California can reduce its recidivism rates and that there are various principles that will help to accomplish this. However, while various evaluated programs proved successful one cannot accurately determine how successful the programs are at reducing recidivism due to the problem posed by the selection effect. Therefore, while recidivism can be reduced and it appears that specific programs and principles will prove valuable in accomplishing this goal, more research should be conducted in order to determine whether the programs are successful or whether the success is due to the inmates enrolled.

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Leon, David J., and Dan McNeill. "A Precursor to Affirmative Action: Californios and Mexicans in the University of California, 1870-72." Mexican American Studies & Research Center, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624814.

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Boime, Eric I. "Fluid boundaries : Southern California, Baja California, and the conflict over the Colorado River, 1848-1944 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3071055.

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Priester, Scott Richard. "Proposition 111 and congestion management programs: A case of over-bureaucratization." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/657.

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Rischmiller, Frederick William. "Variability of the California Current System off Point Sur, California from April 1988 to December 1990." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1993. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA278579.

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Thesis (M.S. in Physical Oceanography) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1993.
Thesis advisor(s): Newell Garfield ; Curtis A. Collins. "December 1993." Bibliography: p. 155-157. Also available online.

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Stock, Joann Miriam. "Kinematic constraints on the evolution of the Gulf of California Extension Province, Northeastern Baja California, Mexico." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14417.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences, 1988.
Includes 1 folded map in pocket.
Includes bibliographical references.
by Joann Miriam Stock.
Ph.D.

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Hancock, Margaret Ellen Marr. "Effective communication strategies used in disseminating the California English/Language Arts Framework in California elementary schools." Scholarly Commons, 1992. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2946.

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Purpose of the study. The purpose of this study was to determine the effective communication strategies used to disseminate information to teachers about the 1987 California English Language Arts Framework in California K-6 distinguished and non-designated elementary schools. Responses of teachers were examined to ascertain similarities and differences in the two groups. Additional factors such as gender, size of school or size of district were studied to determine their impact on the teachers' perceptions of effective communication strategies. Methodology. The research was descriptive and comparative. A survey was employed which consisted of twenty questions. The survey was sent to 50 distinguished and 50 non-designated elementary schools. Each distinguished school was paired with a non-designated school of comparable size and socio-economic level. Of the 1,960 surveys sent out, 1,022 were returned. Findings. Six communication strategies were perceived to be effective by teachers in both distinguished and non-designated schools. There were hands-on experiences, grade level or small group discussions, demonstration by a fellow teacher, oral presentation by a fellow teacher, information from a fellow teacher in an informal setting, and demonstration by an expert or consultant. When the six strategies were compared with demographic data, three areas of significance were shown in gender in relation to grade level meetings, demonstration by a fellow teacher, and oral presentation by a fellow teacher. Recommendations. Additional research should be conducted to determine: (1) the perceptions of middle and high school teachers on effective strategies used in conveying the framework, (2) the degree of framework implementation in classrooms at all grade levels, (3) if these findings apply to other curriculum frameworks to see if the strategies transfer to other fields, (4) if the same or different communication strategies are more effective with Hispanic, Asian, African-American teachers.

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Hillard, Ashley Brubaker. "Detecting Change in Central California Coast Coho Salmon Habitat in Scotts Creek, California, from 1997–2013." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2015. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1434.

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Scotts Creek, in Santa Cruz County, Calif., supports the southernmost extant population of Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in North America. In 1997, the California Department of Fish and Game (now Fish and Wildlife) conducted an extensive habitat typing survey of mainstem Scotts Creek, describing all habitat units from the top of the estuary to the limit of anadromy approximately 12 km upstream. I repeated this survey in 2013 to (1) assess changes in the quantity and quality of instream habitat, (2) compare the current condition to goals and standards established in the federal Central California Coast (CCC) Coho Salmon Recovery Plan, and (3) identify opportunities for possible future restoration. A comparison of the two surveys revealed an overall increase in mean canopy cover, mean bank vegetation, mean percentage instream cover, pool depth diversity, and percentage riffles since 1997, and decreases in mean residual pool depth, percentage flatwater, and number of primary pools. Overall, the percentage of the total mainstem classified as pool habitat did not change between the two survey periods. Results for individual habitat metrics were more variable when the stream was broken into discrete reaches delineated by major tributary junctions. Although a large woody debris (LWD) survey was not conducted as part of the 1997 survey, contrasting our results with data collected during intervening years indicated that instream LWD has become more abundant, primarily due to increases in hard-wood species (i.e., red alder [Alnus rubra] and California bay [Umbellularia californica]). When compared to habitat goals established in the federal CCC Coho Salmon Recovery Plan, Scotts Creek has adequate canopy cover and percentage pools, but is lacking in percentage riffles, instream cover, key pieces of LWD per100 m, and percentage primary pools.

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Hardy, John Patrick. "Spatiotemporal Variability in the Macroinvertebrate Community of a Small Coastal California Stream, Little Creek, Davenport, California." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2017. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1825.

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Macroinvertebrate community structure was characterized along the channel gradient of a headwater stream in a coast redwood forest on Cal Poly’s Swanton Pacific Ranch in Davenport, California. The significance of physical habitat characteristics in describing macroinvertebrate assemblage structure was assessed in an effort to create a framework to better understand the expected biological response to riparian canopy manipulation. Seven study reaches were established in 2015. These study reaches were evenly spaced throughout the Little Creek watershed, an approximately 4.8 km2 drainage characterized by steep inner-gorge areas and dense riparian vegetation. Macroinvertebrate samples were collected seasonally (i.e., spring, summer, and fall) during 2015 and 2016 using the Reachwide Benthos procedure described by the Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program’s bioassessment protocol and all captured organisms were identified at family level taxonomic resolution. Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) procedures were performed to describe longitudinal patterns in community composition and determine the significance of collected environmental variables as predictors of community structure. The majority of taxa collected belonged to the orders Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera, and Diptera. Macroinvertebrate density and biomass were significantly associated with study reach, with relatively depauperate macroinvertebrate assemblages occurring in the upper study reaches and significantly larger, more diverse assemblages in the lower study reaches. Significantly higher density and biomass was observed during the summer sample period across all sites. A clear site level separation was observed at the South Fork study reaches where significantly higher abundances of Diptera taxa colonized the primarily bedrock channel at those sites. The most diverse and pollution-intolerant assemblages were observed in riffle habitat types. Stream shading and solar radiation were not significantly associated with any macroinvertebrate community metric examined, making it difficult to predict instream response to a riparian canopy manipulation. However, trophic interactions that influence secondary production in the study reaches could be inferred based on temporal patterns in feeding guild composition; the relative abundance of shredder taxa coincided with seasonal detrital inputs indicating that food webs largely depended on allochthonous energy sources. Therefore, there is significant opportunity for further investigation of energy production and utilization in the study reaches to guide riparian canopy management practices toward enhancing key trophic interactions. This study provides an extensive and novel biological baseline for macroinvertebrate communities in Little Creek.

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Miller, Woutrina Ann. "Cryptosporidium species in coastal California ecosystems /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2004. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Gruenthal, Kristen Marie. "Conservation genetics of California abalone species." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3268587.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 4, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Sauber, Jeanne. "Geodetic measurement of deformation in California." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58228.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1989.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 201-219).
by Jeanne Marie Sauber.
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Desai, Krutarth. "California State University, San Bernardino Chatbot." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/775.

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Now-a-days the chatbot development has been moving from the field of Artificial-Intelligence labs to the desktops and mobile domain experts. In the fastest growing technology world, most smartphone users spend major time in the messaging apps such as Facebook messenger. A chatbot is a computer program that uses messaging channels to interact with users using natural Languages. Chatbot uses appropriate mapping techniques to transform user inputs into a relational database and fetch the data by calling an existing API and then sends an appropriate response to the user to drive its chats. Drawbacks include the need to learn and use chatbot specific languages such as AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language), high botmaster interference, and the use of non-matured technology. In this project, Facebook messenger based chatbot is proposed to provide domain independent, an easy to use, smart, scalable, dynamic and conversational agent in order to get information about CSUSB. It has the unique functionalities which identify user interactions made by their natural language, and the flawless support of various application domains. This provides an ample of unique scalabilities and abilities that will be evaluated in the future phases of this project.

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Donley, John Mauck. "COOPERATIVE CONSTRUCTION IN SCHOOLS IN CALIFORNIA." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2014. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1332.

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Cooperative Construction in Schools in California John M. Donley The construction industry has lost efficiency since 1964, while becoming increasingly more litigious. Schools in California can ill afford the time to allow the construction industry time to fully evolve. It may take years or decades to fully improve the efficiency of, and reduce the conflict within the construction industry. At the same time, the construction industry has developed new processes to improve efficiency and reduce conflict. These processes are beginning to be broadly embraced by the industry. They all contain cooperative elements. Taken together they represent a new organizing principle for the construction industry, cooperative construction. Also concurrently, a previously little-used provision of the California Education Code allows schools freedom to contract for school construction in nearly any reasonable contractual arrangement they see fit for their project and district needs. As a result, school districts in California have developed a new system of project delivery. They are borrowing from here and there and inventing new tools to make projects work for them. Again, cooperative elements at the hearts of the processes.

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Vallen, Michael Earl. "Housing...the Hillside, Los Angeles, California." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36539.

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This Thesis is a proposal for a prototypical hillside housing community in Los Angeles, California. As a prototype it is responsible for setting an architectural precedent. In this effort, the Thesis continues with focus on issues of construction methodology, urban planning, and land use relationships concerning the present city. Being clear and uncomplicated is the driving force of this architectural process. On the horizon is the 21st Century. Architecture has become increasingly convoluted rather than enlightened. Here, I have focused my attentions on developing a technologically based, material-driven, compassionate solution to answer the issue of housing on the hillsides of Los Angeles. I have realized a clear system of building using uncomplicated technology and material. However, as demonstrated, this system of building provides only an envelope for space definition. It becomes the architectural precedent, a canvas, through which the inhabitant can define his existence. Enlightened limitations.
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Jackson, Renae Angelique. "Musculoskeletal Injuries in California Ocean Lifeguards." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10605833.

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Databases on ocean lifeguard injuries are scarce and it is likely that available injury data on lifeguards underestimates the prevalence of musculoskeletal injuries in this population. Currently, the prevalence of injuries in California ocean lifeguards is unknown. The purpose of this study was to identify and describe musculoskeletal injuries present in California ocean lifeguards. This study additionally examined the distribution of injury according to several demographic categories. Of the lifeguards who took this survey, 61% stated they have sustained a work-related injury at some point in their career, and 1410 total injuries were reported. Age, years of experience, employment status, and swimming as a method of maintaining fitness for the job were significantly associated the occurrence of injury. Over half of the injuries reported were within the following lower body segments: thigh/knee, lower leg/ankle, and foot. The knee was the most common injury location requiring surgery. Proper identification and treatment of ocean lifeguard injuries should be a priority due to the high prevalence of injury and the unknown potential effects of these injuries on the individuals. If risk factors for injuries in lifeguards can be identified early on in their career, then interventions can be implemented, which may overall reduce future injury rates within this population.

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Tapia, Fabián. "Adult demography and larval processes in coastal benthic populations : intertidal barnacles in Southern California and Baja California." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39192.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Biology; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2005.
Includes bibliographical references.
The geographic distribution and dynamics of coastal benthic populations are shaped by physical - biological interactions affecting larval dispersal and the demography of juvenile and adult individuals. This thesis focused on nearshore patterns of larval distribution and regional patterns in demography of intertidal barnacles in Southern and Baja California. Horizontal and vertical distributions, and the mortality rates of larvae, were assessed from short term (i.e. days) small- scale observations (0.1-1 km) in nearshore waters. Observations on spatial variability of adult barnacle demography were gathered over 1.5 years at scales of hundreds of kilometers. Stage-specific horizontal distributions and nearshore current measurements suggested that larvae of Balanus g-landula and Chthamalus spp. may experience limited dispersal. High mortality rates could further limit travel distances and the exchange of individuals among disjunct populations. Data on vertical distributions indicated that nauplii and cyprids of Balanus nubilus and Pollicipes polymerus occur at different depths. Nauplii remained near the surface at all times, whereas cyprids occurred in the bottom half of the water column.
(cont.) Such distributions, combined with vertical variability in horizontal flows, might cause the observed horizontal segregation of nauplii and cyprids. Differences in survival, growth rate, size structure, and per capita fertility of adult Balanus glandula were observed between Dana Point (Southern California) and Punta Baja (Baja California), a site located near the species' southern limit of distribution. Effects of spatial differences in demography on population persistence were assessed with a stage-structured matrix model. Model analyses indicated that the Punta Baja population is more susceptible to environmental stochasticity and more prone to local extinction than populations located further north. This thesis emphasizes the importance of characterizing factors that affect the dynamics of benthic populations at multiple spatial-temporal scales, and the usefulness of small scale high- frequency observations of nearshore phenomena, especially in relation with the dispersal of larvae.
by Fabián J. Tapia.
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Muller, Craig. "In Reagan's backyard : an examination of the condition of liberalism in California in the early 1980s." University of Western Australia. History Discipline Group, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0073.

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In 1980, Ronald Reagan became the fortieth president of the United States following an election that was said to have presaged a political turn to the right in that country. This thesis identifies three broad historical themes that characterised the period in the immediate aftermath of the 1980 election. Firstly, there was the notion that the voting public was becoming more conservative in its choices in federal politics. This is tested by looking at voter behaviour in the 1982 midterm elections. Secondly, the idea that the liberal-conservative dialectic was becoming less important in United States politics is examined using as a framework the actions and statements of prominent liberals. Thirdly, the thesis examines the accuracy of prognoses that were being made about liberalism as a viable political entity in the wake of the 1980 elections. These themes are examined via a series of parallel, occasionally overlapping narratives, following the main strands of liberal activity and thought in one state California in the early 1980s. Many of the sources used were derived from commentary that was being made as events unfolded. The debate about the meaning of the 1980 election therefore changes and this change is part of the story told here. Answering some questions also involved using source material that was more reflective. Hence, parts of the thesis are historiographical. Despite its political content, this thesis is a work of history. It examines the drama of men and women acting within their time, bound by the world around them, but also trying to change that world.

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Lopez, Connie Chacon. "Fullerton College cosmetology curriculum manual." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2508.

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This manual was developed to support the Cosmetology program at Fullerton College. The skills and competencies incorporated are based on the recommendations of the Fullerton College Cosmetology Department Advisory Board. Course of study includes the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains.

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Griffiths, Heather M. "Teacher tenure in California| A phenomenological study from the perspective of new administrators in Southern California school districts." Thesis, University of La Verne, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10140825.

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Purpose. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore new principals’ and assistant principals’ lived experiences and perceptions of California teacher tenure law and challenges they faced when determining if a probationary teacher was ready for tenure.

Methodology. Phenomenology was the chosen methodology for this study. Semi-structured, in-depth, open-ended interviews were conducted face-to face with participants in a private setting of their choice to obtain new administrators’ perspectives on teacher tenure. Eleven new principals and assistant principals who served in the capacity of administrator for two years or less and who already went through the evaluation process experience were interviewed representing three southern California school districts.

Findings. The study identified four major themes and thirteen overarching themes as perceived by new principals and assistant principals: job protection, non-arbitrary dismissal, comfort to try new things, difficult to terminate, teacher complacency, brief decision window to determine tenure, lack of diversity in the evaluation process, feedback and coaching, increased years to grant tenure, collaboration, informal classroom walkthroughs, student growth, and professional growth.

Conclusions. The results of the study led to recommendations for improving the tenure system. The study revealed the need for a probationary period longer than two years before granting tenure. Administrators need training and support to assist with due process, difficult dismissal policies, and teacher evaluations to provide teachers meaningful feedback and purposeful coaching. Create diversity in evaluations by including: peer and administrator input; how teachers collaborate and work with peers, parents, students, and administrators; and student growth/learning.

Recommendations. A comprehensive tenure evaluation system should be built based on the conclusions of this study. Future researchers should widen the investigation by replicating the study to include support staff; completing a longitudinal study by looking at state requirements for training teacher evaluators across the nation; conducting studies on computer applications to assist in teacher evaluations; and examining the different dismissal processes/policies in each state to determine where difficulty lies in the removal of ineffective teachers.

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Jamerson, Paul Edward. "Disaster preparedness in the San Bernardino and Riverside County area school districts." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/653.

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Zane, Wallace W. (Wallace Wayne). "Surfers of southern California : structures of identity." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22499.

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This thesis analyzes the structure of identity among surfers in Southern California, who constitute a subculture of American society. Surfer identity is shown to be derived from the act and the setting of surfing itself, from the individual's personal background and motivation for surfing, and from the social interaction among surfers on and off the water.
Influences on the identity of surfers as a group include the surfers' own feeling of separateness from American society, surfer communication via the surf economy, the strong association of surfing with adolescence, and the portrayal of surfer symbols in the national media. The outward form of the "surf culture" changes in response to these influences, but the basic identity of surfers remains the same over time.

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Close, Brett T. "Solar energy research and development in California." Pomona College, 2007. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,16.

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The energy crisis of 2001, high prices for gas and electricity and worries of climate change have caused a growing awareness about energy issues in California. The problems are clear. This paper looks at the next step of finding and implementing solutions. In this case the contribution that solar photovoltaic and solar thermal generation could make toward solving the problem. This paper looks at technological change, the current state of solar energy research, current government policies on solar energy, and finally makes policy recommendations to meet the stated problem.

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King, Jerome Hardy. "Prehistoric diet in Central Baja California, Mexico." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq24174.pdf.

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Carey, Timothy Joseph 1959. "Orange County California groundwater characterization and treatability." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/192015.

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Groundwater in portions of Orange County exhibits a characteristic color attributed to the presence of naturally occurring organic matter. Dissolved organic carbon, largely in the form of humic and fulvic acids, is found at concentrations ranging from 0.3 mg/L to 14.4 mg/L. Organic rich strata is believed to be the source of dissolved organic carbon (DOC). Removal of DOC from groundwater is necessary to reduce water color and trihalomethane formation potential (THMFP). Organic carbon characteristics such as average apparent molecular weight and carboxylic acidity appear to effect groundwater treatability and THMFP. Increased organic carbon removal efficiency was realized with decreasing carboxylic acidity and lower apparent molecular weight organic carbon appears to contribute a greater amount of THMFP per milligram groundwater DOC. Alum coagulation was consistently more successful in removing DOC from solution while ozone oxidation achieved the greatest reduction in sample reactivity.

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Wilson, Darryl Babe 1939. "Remove them beyond the West, California, gold." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289145.

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This is a fragment of the history of Iss (Achoma-wi) and Aw'te (Atsuge-wi), native tribes of northeastern California. Politically, both tribes are placed under the rubric: Pit River Tribe. It is based on a narrative about Niee Denice, an Aw'te person born on Lost Creek in the Hat Creek area. The English rendition was told by Lela Grant Rhoades to linguist Bruce Nevins at Redding, California, 1972, at her home and in my presence. Niee Denice was later named Sampson Ulysses Grant by Basque ranchers who took him in during his flight from confinement at the Round Valley Reservation near Covelo. Grant's narrative begins when he was a child, rounded up as a part of a continual effort by the military and the vigilante "Guards/Rangers" throughout California to erase the native people from the earth. His mother and baby brother were shot while he and his father watched. They were murdered by the military because they were holding up the forced-march through the November snows of the Sierra Nevada/Cascade mountain ranges. The destination of the natives was unclear. Some records indicated that it was Fort Tejon, in southern California. Others that it was Round Valley Reservation, near Covelo. According to the narrative, the natives were marched to Fort Reading (Redding) in the Sacramento Valley, then south to Sacramento where they were put aboard ship. Beyond sight of land, the Captain caused the ship to spin around and around, hoping to make the natives lose direction to land. Then the sailors began throwing natives overboard. A near mutiny on this ship caused the Captain to put into Mendocino Station. Then the people were marched to Round Valley Reservation. He escaped and returned home. Grant gave the original narrative to his daughter, Lela, in Aw'te, while their family lived in Goose Valley. She, in turn, translated it into English for her children and the rest of us illiterate in Aw'te. I bought a copy of the recording from the Linguistics Library at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991 and am working with Reitha B. Amen, Lela's daughter, to bring this history alive.

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Byun, Pillsung. "Spillovers and local growth control in California." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289997.

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Traditional explanations of suburbanization in the United States focus on spatial mobility, consumer demand, federal policies, and deteriorating quality of life in central cities. Other, more recent, explanations associate suburbanization with market failures. These two paths of explanation, however, fail to acknowledge the role of growth control and management as factors fueling the outward extension of metropolitan regions. Growth control and management emerged in the 1970s as a way of tackling the costs of suburbanization, but they were not applied consistently across metropolitan regions. Instead, their use was determined locally in most cases, which led to a patch-work pattern of growth control in metropolitan regions. This pattern, in turn, fueled "spillovers," where the imposition of growth control measures in suburban communities led homebuilders and residents to seek other suburban communities with no, or less stringent, growth controls. Although several scholars acknowledge the presence of spillovers, few have studied them directly. This dissertation investigates the spillovers generated by the price effects of local growth controls, as a mechanism underlying U.S. suburbanization. Using spatial econometric modeling as well as statistical and GIS map-based analyses, the dissertation targets the State of California and, specifically, the state's major metropolitan regions--Los Angeles and San Francisco--from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. First, the study analyzes the price effects of growth controls in California, focusing on their impacts on local housing construction. The analysis finds that restrictive residential zoning, as a control suppressing permitted residential densities, has the effect of restricting housing construction. However, in contrast to expectation, urban growth boundaries accommodate homebuilding rather than constraining it, and population growth or housing permit caps and adequate public facility ordinances have no significant effects. Second, the study develops an index of spillovers, and categorizes localities of California as spillover origins or destinations with the index values. The index is based on a quasi-experimental approach that uses a temporal control and a model of local homebuilding. Third, I discuss the outward progression of spillovers given diffusion of growth controls in the politically fragmented metropolitan regions of California. For this, my dissertation explores the spatial distribution of spillover origins and destinations and investigates the relationship to local growth controls, especially at the metropolitan scale. The discussion provides a likely picture of suburbanization: in metropolitan regions growth controls spread to produce clusters of spillover origins at core areas, and this diffusion promotes spillovers to progress beyond the clusters towards outlying areas, thereby reinforcing suburbanization.

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Bland, Antoinette. "Waste Management in California Jails and Prisons." Thesis, Brandman University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3720297.

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The focus of this mixed-methods study was to identify waste reduction strategies that reduced the impact of California jails and prisons on the environment through waste diversion and reduction. This study also sought to identify barriers that hindered jail and prison personnel from developing such strategies, and pursued recommendations on how those barriers could be overcome.

Traditionally, California county jails and state prisons are resource intensive, overcrowded housing locations for about 200,000 adult men and women (Glaze & Herberman, 2013). California jails and prisons operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week and utilize resources such as electricity, personnel, food, and other products. Accordingly, they generated significant waste (California Department of Resources and Recovery [CalRecycle], 2012). The prisoners alone generated about four pounds of waste per person each day, consistent with societal averages (CalRecycle, 2012; Corrections Corporation of America, 2007; Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], 2012a). Because of this, jails and prison must do more to reduce waste.

This study provided examples of organizations currently reducing waste through strategic initiatives and highlighted areas where jails and prisons could begin or further improve waste diversion practices. The study utilized archival data, a web-based survey, and interviews for data collection and analysis. The data from California jails and prisons were analyzed to identify strategies, barriers, and ways to eliminate or reduce barriers to waste reduction programs in California jails and prisons.

The findings conclude, California state-operated prisons and sheriff-operated county jails are using two primary strategies to divert waste from landfills. The number one strategy is recycling. The second strategy being used is waste prevention and material reuse. The barriers identified by California state-operated prisons and sheriff-operated county jails include finding vendors to collect certain materials as well as finding vendors to travel to remote locations. Other barriers include a lack of personnel and in some instances a lack of knowledge. Sheriff-operated jails and state-operated prisons in California identified waste management program support from leadership as a primary method to eliminate or reduce barriers to implementing a waste reduction program. Implications for action and future research are also discussed as part of this study.

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Roberts, Judith M. "The California Mastitis test : what's the value?" Thesis, Lancaster University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654745.

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Solis, Liana D. "Turning Waste into Compost in Napa, California." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/147.

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Two significant pieces of legislation in California have mandated that cities and counties must reduce their waste streams. Assembly Bill 341 establishes that California must divert 75% of its waste from landfills by the year 2020. The first bill that included composting, Assembly Bill 1826, was passed in 2014 and requires that commercial users enact composting beginning in 2016. These initiatives have led cities and counties to seek ways of implementing composting programs. Using the City of Napa as a case study, this thesis argues that a composting program can be integrated into any existing waste hauling service. Although there are some challenges, including effectively reaching all residents eligible for the program and finding ways to encourage people to change waste disposal habits, other communities should be able to adopt Napa’s model. Napa’s program should act as an outline for other communities to develop similar outreach strategies, public education initiatives, and pilot programs. Once implemented, cities can continue creating a sustainable community through the use of new technologies. Not only will creating a composting program allow cities and counties to be in compliance with Assembly Bill 1826, it will also offer benefits that extend beyond the local scope, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Aghakhanian, Armond. "Armenian American leadership in Glendale, California, USA." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3631029.

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This study posits a new research model for Armenian American leadership. The study aims to fill the void in Armenian American leadership literature, while adding to the leadership studies of other ethnic and racial groups in the United States of America. Furthermore, this study aims at discovering the unique characteristics of Armenian American Leadership in relation to cultural acculturation and more specifically how Anglo-cultural influences in leadership may or may not enable a better understanding of diversity within the Armenian American community, along with the role of trend development.

This study examines similarities and differences of leadership styles by analyzing the data both from elected officials and none elected leaders of major Armenian organization in Glendale (who are not elected by registered voters of City of Glendale, but by members of their organization). Furthermore, the study examines the relationship between leadership style, and acculturation in Glendale among Armenian American elected leaders, and non-elected leaders. Specifically, the study aims to determine specific and unique leadership behaviors among respondents reflecting perceived leadership styles, and their commitment to a cause. Additionally, this study seeks leader identification of individual acculturation level as means of examining associations between acculturation, and leadership styles.

Correlational analyses were performed to compare the study's findings based on samples drawn from the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) and Acculturation Rating Scale for Armenian Americans (ARSAA) developed by using the Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans (ARSMA-II), whereas, past similar scales have never used literature and data to justify the revision and adaptation of the scale from "Mexican" to "Armenian" but this study does.

The study aims to increase understanding of Glendale's Armenian American residents, and community leaders in terms of leadership perception, style, and relationship to the future and growth of the community. Additional exploration of the relationship between acculturation, and self-perceived leadership style, of Glendale's Armenian American elected leaders will add to the body of leadership literature pertaining to acculturation, as well as to Armenian American ethnic culture, self-identity, and overall influence within the culture. Lastly, the study will enable deeper understanding of history, dynamics, and characteristics of Armenian Americans in Glendale by penetrating the history of the community and leaders, all with an eye on present dynamics. It is anticipated that this study will lead to future studies of ethnic-specific leadership styles, especially those of the under-researched Armenian American community.

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