Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Examining the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Exams, Scholastic Aptitude Test, and High School Grade Point Average as Predictors of College Readiness, Carol Ann Alexander
Essays in Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics, Rana Sulaiman Alogaily
The Pervert’s Guide to the Museum, Seth Ifor Alt
A Path to Visibility and Leadership: How Mentoring Relationships Impact Career Advancement in Student Affairs for Asian American Women, Erica Alcantara Aros
How Epistolary Novelists’ Literalizations of Moral Sense Philosophy Dramatize the Long-Eighteenth Century’s Gender Battles, Melissa Stacey Bishop-Magallanes
Still Reforming: The Need for a New Confession in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Matthew W. Bussell
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT USE AMONG PROBATIONERS ENROLLED IN THE RIVERSIDE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM, WHOLE-PERSON CARE PILOT PROGRAM, Nirshila Chand
Malcontents in the Middle: Uncertainty-Identity, Extreme Religious Groups and Leader Rhetoric, Jared K. Chapman
A Theology of Divine Calling in Light of Karl Barth, A.N. Whitehead, and Meister Eckhart’s Theological Forms, Kin Ting Caleb Cheung
Recognize and Accept Me: Consequences of the Drive for Social Identity Validation, Eunice U. Choi
Black Preschool Minds Matter: A Critical Examination of Preschool Teacher Beliefs About Discipline, Michelle DeJohnette
Public Perception of Socio-Scientific Issues Do You Decide Based on Your Education, Your Experience or Reading the News?, Burcu Demiralp
Physicians’ Perceptions of the Utility of Clinical Guidelines in the Management of People with Type 2 Diabetes in Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz Eskandarani
School Counselors in Large Public High Schools: Roles and Responsibilities and Their Effects on Latinos/as A-G College Course Completion Rates, Patricia Perez Filimaua
First-Year Effects and Persistence Decisions: A Moderated Mediation Model of Coping, Self-Efficacy, and Locus of Control, Christina Gramatikova
Peacebuilding and Gender Inclusivity: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh, Adrineh Gregorian
A Computational Analysis of Civil Resistance Dynamics and Outcomes, Soha Hammam
Evaluation Training in Public Health: Exploring a New Approach for MPH Curricula, Bree Hemingway
Conjecture and Evidence: Discovering the Costs of Contemporary American Political Ideals, Joseph C. Immormino
Cosponsorship Networks in the U.S. Congress: Measuring the Success of Female Legislators, Brian Jewett
The Carceral Death Machine: Savagery, Contamination and Sacrifice in the Contemporary Prison, Timothy Malone
Latina/o College Students with Psychiatric Disabilities: Experiences Encountered on the Postsecondary Educational Trajectory, Adaly Reyes Martinez
Political Cultures in Times of Crisis: Measuring the Effects of Liberal Values on Interstate Crisis Onset, Timothy Milosch
Investigating How Reading Enhances Empathy: A Longitudinal, Diary Study of Everyday Reading Habits, Caleb H. Mitchell
Ecofeminist Theology in Islam: The Process and Application of Synthesizing Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Insights, Islamic Feminist Aspirations, and Ecological Concerns, Nayawiyyah U. Muhammad
An Iterative Method for Canonical Polyadic Decomposition of Tensors, Ionela Silviana Munayco
The French Conundrum: The Unsettled Relationship between the Colonial Past, Identity Construction, and Immigration in the Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, Sierra Ruby Newby-Smith
Perceiving the Good: An Agent Relative Account of Desire, Paul R. Pistone
Implications for Educational Equity Due to Master Scheduling Decisions Made by Site Administrators, Rachel Pittman
Memorial Museums: Politics, Spectacle and Interpretation, Deepthi Ponnaluru
Queering Submission: (Re)Framing Evangelical Wifely Submission through BDSM, Amanda Pumphrey
Identity Centrality Influences Group Members’ Self-uncertainty, Self-esteem, and Evaluations of Moral Deviants, Jeff Varun Ramdass
Economic development of Latin America. A series of analysis through the lens of health, inequality, and economic growth, Miriam Xochitl Sierra Aguilar
Papanicolaou (Pap) Test and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Test Adherence: Sexual Violence Victims and Fear of Retraumatization, Murielle Sighe Ngoumkam
The Anatomy of a Controlling Message and the Impact of Reactance on Attitude Certainty, Thomas Vincent Staunton Jr.
Measuring Political Corruption from Population Outcomes: An alternative to perception measures, Glenn-Iain Steinbeck
Essays on Crime and Law, Morgan Elaine Stockham
The Autodidactic Process of Hugo Wolf and the Fourfold Learning Equation, Frank L. Strnad
EXAMINING STRUCTURAL RACISM AS A CAUSE OF HEALTH INEQUITIES AMONG PACIFIC ISLAND PEOPLES IN THE UNITED STATES AND AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND: AN EXPLORATORY COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY, Jake Ryann Cambia Sumibcay
Community Cultural Wealth Within New Latinx Destinations: Mexican American Narratives of College Completion in Oregon, Anthony Villarreal
Foreign direct investment, democracy, and income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1991 to 2017, Fengyuan Zhang
Impact of a Pandemic on Attitudes towards Immigrants, Jinghui Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Association Between Social Capital And Depression, Abdulrahman Abudawood
Essays in Health and Policy in Saudi Arabia, Ibrahim Abdou Alamir
Gamification in Knowledge Management: Increasing Motivation to Share Knowledge Using Cooperation and Inter-Team Competition, Sarah Alkurdi
Author and Believer: Exploring the Mystery of Faith in the Works of Flannery O’Connor, Marilynne Robinson, and Alice McDermott, Rachel Austring
Information Exchange (IE) Among Multi-Stakeholders for Improving Decision Making, Ali Mohammed Salem Bazarah
Making Emotions Meaningful: The Power of Mindfulness During Leader Developmental Trigger Events, Jason Beck
Financial Decision Making Under Stress, Narek Vartan Bejanyan
Preparing Teachers & Teacher Education Professionals for Dimensions of Diversity: A Study of Pedagogical Responses to Diversity in Distance Learning and Traditional Instruction, Rocky Blessey-Bragg
The Development of Self-Perceptions of Aging: The Interplay Between Society and the Self Across the Lifespan, Jordan Desman Boeder
Analyzing Volatility and Policy Changes in the Financial Market: Three Essays in Applied Finance, Rebecca Anne Bommarito
A Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment among Small Farmers: A Case Study in Western Honduras, Claudia Caceres
Latino/a First Generation Students in College: A Mixed Methods Review of Four-Decades of Literature, Ted Campos
Authoring Self and Redefining Luck: Pathways to Arts Degrees and Professions for College Students of Color, Shirlie Mae Mamaril Choe
Three essays on the economics of health insurance change, COVID and trust, and suicide with application to South Korea, Jennifer Lee Choi
On Volatility, Outliers, and Uncertainty, Chandler Lewis Clemons
An Exploratory Case Study Utilizing a Health in All Policies Approach to Improve Health in the City of Montclair, Alyssa Colunga
Developing Global Leader Self-Complexity through International Experience, Katherine Claire Cotter
Measuring Machine Learning Model Uncertainty with Applications to Aerial Segmentation, Kevin James Cotton
The Maintenance of Holiness and the Contours of Leadership: Form and Characterization in the Book of Numbers, Nathan B. Daily
Cultivating Early Career Teachers’ Purpose: A Mechanism to Sustain Early Career Teachers’ Commitment to the Profession, Neesha Yatin Daulat
Multi-scale Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis in Biological Systems, An Do Dela
The Unmotivated Voter: A Profile of the Unregistered and Non-Participating in Oregon, Washington, and Colorado., Joseph John Dietrich
Inequality, Migrations, and Black Swans: The Case of Italy, Giacomo Di Pasquale
Towards Risk-Informed Development: Improving Political Disaster Risk Modeling in the Nile Basin Region Using Big Data and Machine Learning, Zeyad Elkelani
Transborder Identity Development: A Photovoice Constructivist Grounded Theory Study of Transfronterizx Students in Postsecondary and Higher Education at the San Diego-Tijuana Border Region, Vannessa Falcón Orta
Who Gets the Power, Resources, and Knowledge from California Assembly Bill 705?, Erin Christine Feld
Relational Savoring in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Attachment-Based Intervention, Gerin Gaskin
The Last Frontier; or, Going Critical; or, Nuclear Deference in Las Vegas, Lauren Kaye Hartle
The Effect of Natural Disasters on Minority Voter Turnout, 1990-2016, Gary Hawk
Patient Safety Services: Reducing Resident Falls in California’s Senior Living Homes, Ali Maziuar Holakoui
Adam Smith’s Wise Man: The Role of Intellectual Virtue in Smith's Normative Moral Theory, Rachel Hollenberg
Educationally Resilient College Students and Their Experiences With Housing Insecurity, Kathryn Hsieh
A Rebellious Spirit: A Study of Women in John Foxe’s Martyrology, Logan Scott Hughes
Essays on Race in Policing, Hunter Robert Johnson
Phenomenology of Death: The Religious Dimension in the Ethical Thought of Emmanuel Levinas, Changhyun Kim
Digital Design School 2030 A Novel Framework to Teach Information Systems Students and Close the Innovation Skill Gap, Mark Sun Kim
The Corporate Character of Eudaimonist Virtue Ethics Cautioning the Invisible Environment of Harmful EMFs Resulting from 5G Technology, Joseph Wayne Komrosky
The Map of it All: Quantitative Mapping of Foreign Language in James Joyce's Ulysses, Alyssa Krueger
Unemployment and Government Effectiveness across European Countries: Impact and Implications of BRI, Ning Li
Deep Learning for Early Detection, Identification, and Spatiotemporal Monitoring of Plant Diseases Using Multispectral Aerial Imagery, Joseph Kimani Mbugua
Mining Insights for Patterns in the Active Daily Life of Chronic Cancer and Cardiovascular Patients using Artificial Intelligence, Balakrishnan Mullachery
Dressing the Witch: Clothing, the Body, and Accusations of Witchcraft in Puritan New England, Rachel Murrell
Socio-Economic Structural Conditions and Hate Crimes, Paul Boghos Naccachian
Elite Rhetoric, Target Group Positioning, and Policymaking: Immigrant Women and Project 100% in San Diego County, Amy Nantkes
Theory of Mind Measurements and Mechanisms: An Investigation of Construct Validity and Cognitive Processes in Theory of Mind Tasks, Ester Navarro Garcia
Belonging in College: Engagement and Retention at a Hispanic Serving Institution, Alana Joy Olschwang
The Impact of Air Pollution on the Stock Market in South Korea, Seongcheol Paeng
GeoBlockchain: The Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of a Spatially Enabled Blockchain, Constantinos Papantoniou
Essays in Behavioral, Health and Financial Economics, Minh Quang Pham
A City of Angels: Philanthropy and the Public Good in the Fragmented Metropolis, Kelsey Picken
Cultivating Resilience: The Contribution of Community Gardens during COVID-19 in Pomona, California, Juanita Preciado