Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Papanicolaou (Pap) Test and Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Test Adherence: Sexual Violence Victims and Fear of Retraumatization, Murielle Sighe Ngoumkam
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes-Related Healthcare Service Use in the United States, 2016–2020, Gaole Song
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
“All Men Are Created Equal?”: Insights and Implications of Intersectional Precarious Manhood, Cleopatre M. Thelus
Constitutionally Confederated: Developing an Interstate Policy Diffusion Framework for K-12 STEM Education, Vinh Q. Tran
Retaining Foster Parents in San Bernardino County: Identifying and Accessing Resources and Support Services Since California’s Continuum of Care Reform, Charles A. Varadin
Community Cultural Wealth Within New Latinx Destinations: Mexican American Narratives of College Completion in Oregon, Anthony Villarreal
Grassroots Organizations Using Social Media as a Lobbying Technique, Samantha Vo
Promoting Positive Development Among Rural, Left-Behind Youth in China: A Mixed-Methods Approach, Yaqiong Wang
Expanding the Educational Enclave: A New Teacher Starting with Inclusion, Catherine Wilder
Stock Market Interdependence and Contagion between Asian Emerging Markets and the World Market, Mengjia Xu
Three Essays in Law and Economics: Consequences and Formation of Legal Rules in Other Markets, Minjae Yun
Economic and Financial Factors Affecting Currency Stability of Floating Exchange Rate Regimes: A Survival Analysis, Istvan Zambori
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
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
An Investigation into Resilience and its Relationship with Sleep and Neighborhood Social Cohesion among Older Pacific Islanders in Southern California, Michelle Rainer
School Climate Indicators and Academic Achievement: An Investigation of Vulnerable Subgroups, Nona Rose Richard
Achieving Evaluation Influence Through Elaboration Likelihood Model-informed Evaluation Product Designs, Agnieszka Maria Helena Rykaczewska
Evalpreneurship: The Role of Entrepreneurship in the Evaluation Marketplace, Nina R. Sabarre
Dual Mechanisms of Cognitive Control: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to Test-Retest Reliability, Jean-Paul Snijder
Three Essays on the Economics of Philanthropy, Yuxin Su
“The Stories That We Tell”: Mormon Women, Autobiography, and the Mormon Collective Memory of Persecution as Influenced by The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, Kelly Ann Thompson-Eggertsen
Mimetic Coastal Ocean Modeling In General Coordinates And Using Machine Learning Based Predictions, Manuel Alonzo Valera
Narrowing the Language Gap: The Learner-Content, Learner-Instructor, and Learner-Learner Experiences of Hispanic Generation 1.5 English Learners in First-Year College Composition Courses, Esmeralda Vazquez de Diriye
Force regulation in contractile cells by chemical and mechanical signaling, Esteban Vazquez-Hidalgo
Using Student Voice to Identify Promising Practices in Social Emotional Learning, Susan Ward-Roncalli
The Positive Functioning of Post-9/11 Student Service Members/Veterans as a Predictor of Academic Performance, Eugenia Liberman Weiss
Instructional Coach Leadership: Perceptions of Purpose, Practices, and Supports in Coaching for Educational Equity, Michelle Lynne Wise
The Influence of Community Cultural Wealth and Tauhi Va on the Navigation of Pacific Islanders in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Marlena Vi Wolfgramm
Prevalence and Predictors of Unintended Births in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Pooled Analysis of 27 Nationally Representative Surveys, Daniel Woytowich
Historical Performance Practices in Organ Works Before 1750 in Liège, Tyler Andre Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Can Metacognitive Monitoring Ability be Trained?, Erica Abed
Investigating the Social Capital & Help-Seeking Behaviors of High School Latino Foster Youth, Rachel Acosta
Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Dependence in the United States – Identifying Implications for Policy and Practice, Mofoluwake Adeniyi
A Neural Network-Augmented Bayesian Approach To Uncertain Parameter Estimation In Nonlinear Dynamic Systems, Roja Ahmadi
Classical Trinitarian Theology and the Idolatry of Nationalism: The Doctrine of the Trinity as a Critique of Political Theology, Shane Akerman
Effectiveness of Spatial-temporal Data Using GIS in America’s Professional Sports Leagues (MLS, MLB, and NFL), Abdullah Aleissa