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Theses from 2018 2018

The Investigation of the Chlorine Initiated Oxidation of 2-Phenylethanol and Stability of Superalkali Lithium Substituted Silyls., Adam Otten

Boosting Demand for Biofortified Foods: The Case of Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato Bread in Tamale, Ghana, Tchassanty Ouro-Gbeleou

Finding and Making Home: Poems and Reflections of Undergraduate Children of Immigrants, Gladys Perez

Southeast Asian Higher Educational Attainment in the United States – A Narrative Study, Tseng-Fouw Gloria Pharn

Impact of Cooperative Membership on Members' Household Economies: The Case of Chiapas Coffee Farmers, Stephen Pitts

Dreams sin Fronteras: Exploring the Lives and Experiences of Five Returned Migrants in Mexico, Andrea Portillo

Charge Nurse Training Program, Kristina Portillo

From La Costa Chica to Pasadena: Transnational Racial Politics of Afro-Mexicans, Antonio Rodriguez-Santiago

Bi or Multilingualism and its Curriculum for Children with SLI, Jeongmin Ryou

“Se Van a Trabajar, Pero Se Quedan a Vivir”: A Qualitative Exploration into the Subjective Well-being of Mexican Women in a Migrant-Sending Community, Vanessa Saldivar

Individualizing Care for Pediatric Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Perioperative Services, Erin Scheller

Tall Tales of Danger and Security: How a Critical Human Security Approach can Address Major Contradictions Revealed Through a Critical Narrative Analysis of Dominant U.S. Security Strategies, Stephen Schneider

An Economic Valuation of Biodiversity: Measuring Willingness-to-Pay for Quinoa Conservation in Peru, Craig Scott

Looming Large: An analysis and evaluation on the growth of the Urban Informal Economy in Nigeria., Tamunotonye A. Sekibo III

What’s at Steak? The Political Discourse of Emissions Intensity and Implications of Animal Agriculture, Kalyn Simon

Political Revolutions and Women's Progress: Why the Egyptian Arab Spring Failed to Deliver on the Promises of Women's Rights, Anne Song

How Language Policies and Practices Affect Classrooms in Schools and Colleges, Gwendolyn F. Stanley

Do Climate Shocks Affect Smallholder Farmers’ Conservation Practices? Evidence from Peru, Heleene Tambet

Crosslinguistic Influence of Chinese EFL learners on English Acquisition, Weijia Tang

Sweden's Great Escape: Industrialization and The Changing Productivity Cost of Winter, Charlotte Taylor and Jesse Anttila-Hughes

Opportunities Beyond High School: An ELD Unit for Newcomer Students, Karen Toepp

Security Dilemma in U.S.-China Relations: A Non-traditional Security Studies Perspective, Jessica Tran

Catholic School Teachers' Attitudinal Beliefs About Linguistic Diversity, Katie Trautman

Effect of Quality Health Care and Support Network on Maternal and Children Outcome in Uganda, Chukwuemeka Ugwu

Medication Error Prevention: Improving Patient Health Outcome, Brigitta van Ewijk

Now Hiring: Exploring Deportee Transnational Identities and Socio-Economic Reintegration in Baja California, Mexico’s Call Center Industry, Brenda Vargas

Understanding Women´s Empowerment Through Indigenous Epistemologies: An Alternative Approach To Development?, Melissa Klara Vonimary Søvik

An Interlanguage Pragmatic View: The Influence of Vietnamese Native Language and Culture on Their L2 Production and Comprehension, Tram Vo

Impacts of Globalization: Educational Reforms Shifts the Public into a Recurrent Devalued Socioeconomic Era for Minorities, Jacqulyn Washington

Triple Bottom Line as a Method to Increase Business Value and Foster Positive Social and Environmental Change, Jayleene West

Investigation on the Dissociative Photoionization Mechanism of Furfural, Investigation of the Absolute Photoionization Cross Sections of Three Potential Propargylic Fuels, and ab initio Analysis on Potential Superbases of Several Hyperlithiated Species: Li3F2O and Li3F2(OH)n (n = 1, 2, 3), Matthew Winfough

Theses from 2017 2017

Policing That Matters: Making Civilian Oversight Work, Sofia Aguilar

The Rise of the Maquiladoras and Crimes in Mexico, Christelle K. Bamona

Regulation of proliferation, apoptosis, and metastasis in prostate cancer cells by DAX-1 (NR0B1)- an androgen-induced orphan nuclear receptor, Roxxana Valeria Beltran Valencia

Small Arms: An Applied Approach to Children in Armed Conflict Prevention Initiatives in Africa, Tristan Burger

Going with the flow: Using menstrual education as a tool for empowering post pubescent Nepali girls, GraceAnn L. Cadiz

Competitive Mothers: An Experimental Study of Female Competitiveness and Polygamy in Togo (West Africa), Aminata Cissokho

Gendered Impacts of Community-based Conservation Initiatives in Kimana/Tikondo Group Ranch outside of Amboseli National Park, Megan Clemens

The role of orphan nuclear receptor DAX-1 (NR0B1) in human breast cancer cells: expression, proliferation and metastasis, Erin Dishington

Agricultural Technology Adoption and Adaptation under Climate Change: Microevidence from Niger, BERENGER DJOUMESSI TIAGUE

With Language Brings Light: Narratives by Deaf Ethiopians and their Right to Sign Language, Jackie M. Eugster

The Investigation and Characterization of the Reaction of 2-Methylfuran and 2-Methyl-3-Buten-2-Ol with O(3P) and the Photodissociation of Xylyl Bromide Isomers, Yasmin Fathi

Are We Out of the Woods Yet? How Democrats and Progressives Need to Rethink their Message Framework, Lauren E. Feuerborn

Ambiguity Aversion: Adoption, Uptake, and Trends, Adam Franklin

Higher Education as a Development Tool: An Impact Assessment in Dzaleka Malawi, Emily Golike

Political Intrusion on Firms: Effects of Elections on Bank Lending in India, Shivprasad Prabhakar Gunjal

Afro-Latinx Transnational Identities: Adults in the San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles Area, Koby Heramil

Generating Prevalence Estimates of Sensitive Behaviors through List Randomization: Survey Experiment among Indian Males, Abha Indurkar

Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete: Experimental Evidence from Bosnia, Boris Jokic

Better Alternatives for Youth: Peace, Education and Human Rights, Abraham Jones

Aspirations as a Component of Life Satisfaction: A Look at Female Microfinance Borrowers in Oaxaca, Mexico, Joseph E. Kemler

Falling Up: Building Language Use and Cultural Awareness Through the Implementation of Humor in the ESL Classroom, Glen Kovar

Income Shocks and the Acceptance of Intimate Partner Violence in Indonesia, Matthew N. Krupoff

La Madre Competitiva: An Experimental Study of Women's Competitiveness in Medellin, Colombia, Miranda I. Lambert

Life being an International Student in the United States: Acculturation, Culture Shock, and Identity Transformation, Lai Yan Vivyan Lam

Dadaab’s Hidden Ties: How Colonial Legacies and Informal Economies Contribute to Protracted Refugee Situations, Katherine Landberg

The Chinese Cultural Influence on Filipino Cuisine, Brandon Chase Lantrip

C(sp2)–H Functionalizations Employing 2-Aminophenyl-1H-pyrazole as a New Removable Directing Group, WAN-CHEN LEE

Transfer Student Experiences at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, Rachael Madison

The Intersection of Culture and Activism in the Filipino Community in SoMa, Ericka J. Martynovych

Undocumented Students’ Access to Higher Education in San Francisco, Bay Area, Sandra Miklosic

A Novel Model of “Remedy and Elimination of Tuberculosis”, Akanksha Mishra

Do Marketing Strategies Impact Condom Sales in Uganda?, Meyhar Mohammed

Articulated Indigeneity and Tourism in Hawaiʻi, Erika Nielsen

Urbanization, Land Rights and Development: A Case Study of Waterfront Communities in Lagos, Nigeria., Gideon Olaniyi Omoniyi

Financial Sector Development and Agricultural Productivity, John J. Onoja

Drawings from Syria's Lost Generation: Psychological Impacts of the Refugee Crisis, Rafael Panlilio

Japan's Employment 'Catch-22': The Impact of Working Conditions for Women in Japan on Japan's Demographic Population Crisis, Mary Perkins

Investigation of Absolute Photoionization Cross Sections of Cyclic Ketones, Low Temperature Combustion of Propargylamine by Synchrotron Photoionization Mass Spectrometry, and Computational Study of Hypersalts, Chelsea Liliana Price

Reducing Vulnerability through Reintegration: The Case of the Syrian Refugees in Jordan., Felipe Hernan Rodriguez

Rapping Back: Counter-narratives from Auckland, New Zealand, Mariel Lopez Rogers

Development of an Improved Synthesis of S-D-Ribosyl-L-Homocysteine (SRH) and Progress Toward SRH Analogs Modified at the C3 Position, Emily Rouse

Goal Effectiveness in Achieving Educational Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from 9th Graders in Medellin, Colombia, Daniel Salicath and Alessandra Cassar

The Acquisition and Analysis of Electroencephalogram Data for the Classification of Benign Partial Epilepsy of Childhood with Centrotemporal Spikes, Jessica A. Scarborough

Transnational ‘Interruptions’ in Eritrean Refugee Lives in the Bay Area, Meron Y. Semedar Mr

Embodying the Oppressed and the Oppressor: Critical Mixed Race Studies for Liberation and Social Justice Education, Gwendlyn C. Snider

How Patriotic Are Albanians? The Comparative Study of Patriotic Attitudes in Albania and the Albanian Diaspora, Anxhela Spahiu

The ReSisters: Contemporary Ethiopia through a Feminist Lens, Eldana Mathias Temesgen

Migrant Ridesharing Drivers in San Francisco: A Case of Blocked Mobility?, Shireen Tofig

Exploring Employment Equity: Diversity & Inclusion in Canada’s Legislation & Policy, Vanessa Toussaint Miller

Planning Cities, Economically or Communally: A comparative study of Amsterdam and San Francisco, Raina Dawn Whittekiend

Inentives and Education: Experimental Evidence from Medellin, Colombia, Theodore D. Wisinski and Alessandra Cassar

People, Land, and Profit in the South of Market: A Critical Analysis of the Central SoMa Plan, David Woo

Financing and Productivity: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Industry, TIngyi Wu

Theses from 2016 2016

Rape as a weapon of war in Darfur, Fardowsa Abdullahi

Financial Openness and Trade Volatility in Argentina, Joseph H. Asciuto

The Eurasian Agenda: The International Relations of Kyrgyzstan, Azamat Baiyzbekov

An Analysis of Mongolia’s Resource-Led Development: the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in the Extraction Industry, Belguun Bat-Erdene

“Mexico, Public Policy and Obesity in a Global Context”, Daniela Carina Bermudez

Historical Trauma and Refugee Reception: Armenians and Syrian-Armenian Co-Ethnics, Nicole M. Campos

Assessing the Effectiveness of Micro-level Poverty Interventions in the Highlands of Guatemala, Jacqueline A. Castro

The Investment Casualties of War: Global Impacts of Armed Conflict on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows, Reinhard J. Cate Mr.

NOTIONS OF DISCONTENT AND DISTINCTION: REFLECTIONS OF YOUNG DIASPORIC TAIWANESE AMERICANS, Andrew T. Chen

Air Pollution and Fetal Loss in the Global Tropics, Shuqiao Cheng

Private remedial services in public schools: Evidence from ISHA’s GSAP Program in Tamil Nadu, Douglas Conway

The Effect of Financial Sector Development on FDI led Growth in China, John Costigan

"Who Am I?": The Development of a Male Palestinian Political Identity, Tala J. Dayyat

Emigration, Repatriation and the Reality of Returned Youth in El Salvador, Isabel C. Duarte Vasquez

Behavioral Determinants of Biofortified Food Acceptance: The Case of Orange-fleshed Sweet Potato in Ghana, Chinonso E. Etumnu

UNDERSTANDING HOW INTENTIONALLY UNPLUGGING FROM CELL PHONES SHAPES INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND THE UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE, Jadelin P. Felipe