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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.
Full textMaster of Science
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/.
Full textDeVost, 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.
Full textGinn, 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.
Full textPerez, 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.
Full textThe 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
Notarangelo, Joseph. "The California dream denied: Narrative strategy and the California labor dilemma." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2007.
Full textYellina, 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.
Full textKirsch, 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.
Full textEspinosa, Aurelio M. "California Spanish Folklore Riddles." Mexican American Studies & Research Center, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624786.
Full textDartt-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.
Full textIn 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
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.
Full textBeasley, 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.
Full textTanner, Kari Christine. "Methylmercury in California Rice Ecosystems." Thesis, University of California, Davis, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10642100.
Full textMethylmercury (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.
Cubias, Gustavo Adolfo II. "Latino Political Power in California." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/175.
Full textBrofferio, Aja. "Reforming Foster Care in California." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/863.
Full textCloutier, Khara M. "Fabricating identity in Southern California." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527686.
Full textClothing 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.
Pho, Susanna Wansan. "Kipple kaboodle : reincarnating California city." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97270.
Full textThis 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.
Dannenmüller, Sophie. ""California assemblage" : récupération, contestation, tradition." Paris 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA010530.
Full textPadgett-Flohr, Gretchen Elizabeth. "Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Central California." OpenSIUC, 2009. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/310.
Full textPriester, Scott Richard. "Proposition 111 and congestion management programs: A case of over-bureaucratization." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/657.
Full textWolfgruber, 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.
Full textLeon, 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.
Full textBoime, 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.
Full textRischmiller, 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.
Full textThesis advisor(s): Newell Garfield ; Curtis A. Collins. "December 1993." Bibliography: p. 155-157. Also available online.
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.
Full textIncludes 1 folded map in pocket.
Includes bibliographical references.
by Joann Miriam Stock.
Ph.D.
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.
Full textHillard, 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.
Full textHardy, 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.
Full textMiller, 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.
Full textJackson, Renae Angelique. "Musculoskeletal Injuries in California Ocean Lifeguards." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10605833.
Full textDatabases 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.
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.
Full textTitle from first page of PDF file (viewed September 4, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
Sauber, Jeanne. "Geodetic measurement of deformation in California." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58228.
Full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 201-219).
by Jeanne Marie Sauber.
Ph.D.
Vallen, Michael Earl. "Housing...the Hillside, Los Angeles, California." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36539.
Full textMaster of Architecture
Desai, Krutarth. "California State University, San Bernardino Chatbot." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/775.
Full textDonley, John Mauck. "COOPERATIVE CONSTRUCTION IN SCHOOLS IN CALIFORNIA." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2014. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1332.
Full textMuller, 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.
Full textTapia, 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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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.
Ph.D.
Lopez, Connie Chacon. "Fullerton College cosmetology curriculum manual." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2508.
Full textJamerson, 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.
Full textGriffiths, 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.
Full textPurpose. 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.
George, Charles Elliott III. "An evaluation of precipitation as a seismicity triggering mechanism in Southern California." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/5403.
Full textMyers, Bruce Eric 1956. "The formation of zoned metasomatic veins and massive skarn in dolomite, southern Sierra Nevada, California." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/558084.
Full textHeil, Anton William. "Employers' perceptions of regional occupational program graduates." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/633.
Full textBanker, Catherine Mary Courser. "A structural history of the Old Stone Hotel in Daggett utilizing archaeological and documentary evidence." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/856.
Full textGarcera, Felicisimo Capucao. "The rationale behind a small school district superintendent's decision to hire a facilities manager." Scholarly Commons, 2007. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/651.
Full textPepin, Line. "Pesticide use and avian diversity in California." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27009.
Full textQuarberg, Patrick. "Tolled You So: Freeways, California, and Congestion." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1738.
Full textClose, Brett T. "Solar energy research and development in California." Pomona College, 2007. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,16.
Full textKing, 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.
Full textZane, 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.
Full textInfluences 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.