Theses/Dissertations from 2021
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
Latino Evangelicals: How Their Multiple Identity Influences Their Political Preferences, Noemi Hernandez Alexander
A Security Operation Center Maturity Model (SOC-MM) in the Context of Newly Emerging Cyber Threats, Norah Alharbi
Saudi Stock Market reaction to Different Major Events, Ahmed Aljarba
The Impact of Gamification on Second-Language Learning, Maram Almufareh
An Assessment of Design Principles for Blended Learning Courses, Latifa Abdullah Almusfar
A Design Research Approach to Enhance the Peer-to-Peer Recognition and Appreciation Among Employees and Develop a Better Relationship to Boost Employee Motivation, Abdullah AlSaadoon
From Archives to Legacies: Chicanx and Latinx AIDS Activism and Consciousness, Pablo Alvarez
Exposome Factors: Exploratory Study Approach and the Role of Persuasive Technology to Raise Awareness About the Exposome Concept, Abdulrahman Alzahrani
Adoption of Residential Solar Energy: Exploratory Study Approach and Spatial Decision Support System, Ahmed Omar Alzahrani
Improving Outcomes for Children Impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): A Study of Intervention Effectiveness Guided by Developmental Theory, Lisa Teachanarong Aragon
Modeling, Designing and Applying Machine Learning Algorithms for Driver Drowsiness Detection, Mohsen Babaeian
Who Should Lead? Effective Influence as a Product of Group Context and Group Purpose, Nicolas Barreto
My Journey: To becoming an effective teacher, Grisel Bayan
Memorializing Wartime Rape During the Second World War, Abigail Jean Beck
Ensemble Learning Methods for Educational Data Mining Applications, Joshua Ryan Beemer
Perceptions of Self-Concept for Multiracial College Students: A Mixed Methods Study, Nicole Belisle
Effects of Aquatic Therapy on Vagal Tone and Social Behaviors in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Brittany Nichole Bell
Visualizing Girlhood: Visibility and the Power of the Black Girl Gaze to Understand Adolescent Girls’ Identity, Darielle Blevins
Ethnographic Narrative, Craig Bond
The Use of Graphic Conceptual Models in Theory-Driven Evaluation, Susana Marianne Bonis
The Triumvirate Woman: Reconceptualizing Academic Career Messages for African American Women in Engineering, Latrice Diane Bonner
The Indistinguishability Between the Arbitrary and Non-Arbitrary Nature of Things in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Andrew Bridges
Symbolic Franco: Spain’s Dictator in the American Conservative Imagination, 1950-1980, Sean Patrick Buchanan
Ethnographic Narrative Project, James Cameron
Machine Learning Methods for the Analysis of Metagenomes, Vito Adrian Cantu Alessio Robles
Ethnographic Narrative Project, Mario Carrillo
The Role of a Summer Arts-Based Immersion Program in Creating Access and Opportunity for Middle School Students, Kelly Casassa
Comparing and Contrasting the Core Philosophical Principles of Peter Drucker and Confucianism, Virginia Cheung
Aristotle on Practical Reasoning: Perception, Reason and Action in Aristotle’s Thought, Kyu-Been Chun
Tongue of Flesh - Tongues of Fire: Enoch’s Encounter with the Heavenly Court in 1 Enoch 14-16 in Comparison with the Encounters in the Hebrew Bible, Christopher David Clarke
A Legacy Cut Short The Impact of Pepperdine University on African Americans and South Los Angeles from 1937 – 1981, Elizabeth Craigg
Teach Me Something I Don’t Know: One First-Year Teacher’s Experience as an Educator in the US Schooling System, Valerie Daifotis
