cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-827267
title: An experimental comparison of listening comprehensibility with reading comprehensibility
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-772146
title: Identity change in a therapeutic community
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-811094
title: Oregon's health plan: The story of an experiment in governance
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-813828
title: An investigation of the speech activities in the high schools of Los Angeles County, with special attention to the effects of an integrated program upon the aims, methods, and results of speech training
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-815691
title: An objective study of the oratory of Robert Green Ingersoll
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-725919
title: Gestures and "physical" phrases in Medieval Castilian epic poetry
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-772628
title: Age-stratum consciousness in an older sample: The effects of status inconsistency
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-791067
title: Family stress and coping among Anglo and Latino families with childhood cancer
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-710096
title: A descriptive analysis of the morphology of the diminutives ito, illo, ico, uelo and of their increments (including feminine and plural forms) as used in Spanish America
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-724846
title: A critique of concepts of tragedy and "El principe constante" as Christian tragedy
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-775552
title: Sources of bias in self-reported delinquency
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-804342
title: Trends and differentials in marital and family formation preferences of American youth, 1967-1989
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c37-363753
title: A portfolio of designs derived from insects
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-736688
title: Cervantes and the new Spanish-American narrative
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-781095
title: Commitment: A conceptualization and an empirical demonstration in the courtship process
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-819808
title: The pulpit and platform career and the rhetorical theory of Bishop Matthew Simpson
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-830597
title: An experimental study of the effect of memorizing upon the alpha rhythm
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-734085
title: The grammar of echo questions in Spanish and Romanian: Syntax, semantics, pragmatics
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-788423
title: Familial variations in patterns of transition from adolescence to adulthood
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-808159
title: Big kids or young adults: Exploring the consumer cultures of Los Angeles youth at the turn of the millennium
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12980438
title: TCGA-KIRC RNA-seq

description: TCGA-KIRC RNA-seq
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-802746
title: The division of household labor and wives' happiness: The importance of gender ideology and employment status
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-812491
title: Maat, the moral ideal in ancient Egypt: A study in classical African ethics
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-781831
title: Democratically controlled organizations and their environments
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-810480
title: Dialectics of community, continuity and compassion: The legal writings of Rabbi David Zevi Hoffmann and their philosophic foundations
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-777163
title: Measures, correlates, and models of major league baseball playing careers
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-800800
title: Fertility behavior in Indonesia: A study of the relationship between women's status and fertility in 1976 and 1987
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-729120
title: The biographers and critics of Juan de Mena
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-763018
title: Socio-cultural factors related to the incidence of visual refractive errors
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-787567
title: 'If only it could be me': The siblings of pediatric cancer patients
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c37-71736
title: An assessment of and design for that portion of the education code dealing with the California public community colleges
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-780283
title: Widowhood and change: A longitudinal analysis of middle-aged women
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-807585
title: Singled out: Exploring lesbians' experiences being single
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-824456
title: An experimental study to determine the relative effectiveness of certain forms of support
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-780908
title: Friendly persuasion: A social-psychological model of counseling
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-813391
title: An historical study of the public speaking activity of women in America from 1828 to 1860
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c36-829453
title: The Restoration theatre audience: A critical and historical evaluation of the London playgoers of the latter part of the seventeenth century 1660-1700
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c38-104696
title: The administration of public tort liability in Los Angeles, 1934-1938
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c38-358048
title: Severance pay
DOI: 10.15151/esrf-es-117364477
title: Molecular machines in energy transduction, cellular signaling and defense processes
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c38-351564
title: Swinghearts
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c39-211431
title: Social adjustment made by lobotomized patients discharged from a Veterans Administration neuropsychiatric hospital
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c39-261815
title: A study of social factors in the lives of World War II women veterans admitted to Wadsworth General Medical and Surgical Hospital, Veterans Administration Center, Los Angeles, from December 1, 1957, through January 15, 1958
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c39-219318
title: Factors precipitating admission to a state mental hospital
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c39-219834
title: Factors precipitating hospitalization in a Veterans Administration Neuropsychiatric Hosptial
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c39-258964
title: Socio-economic adjustment of veterans with uniaural hearing loss
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c39-218594
title: Teachers' opinions about children's behavior problems and referrals
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-341290
title: Quantifying changes in glacier thickness and area using remote sensing and GIS: Taku Glacier system, AK

description: As anthropogenic climate change continues to accelerate, long-term and large scale monitoring of glaciers is crucial. The Taku Glacier offers a unique opportunity to apply remote sensing methods to a glacier with a long history of advance. The behavior of the Taku Glacier has been historically out of phase with regional climate and other proximate glaciers, which have undergone recent, and in some cases dramatic, retreat. Although remote sensing has been established as an effective tool for glacier monitoring, few studies have applied these methods to such a large glacier with so many diverse facies. This study establishes the effectiveness of using remote sensing to quantify long-term changes in glacier parameters including surface area, equilibrium line altitude (ELA), and accumulation area ratio (AAR) by combining a digitized historical topographic map, Landsat images, and a USGS DEM. ❧ The results of the remote sensing analysis demonstrate significant downwasting and loss of mass at the margins of the glacier and areas of the glacier that are bounded by bedrock. In-situ monitoring has chronically underestimated this downwasting. This study quantified a substantial up glacier migration of the ELA and a corresponding reduction in AAR. Comparison of the AAR associated with each Landsat scene to the established equilibrium AAR for the Taku Glacier indicated that the Taku glacier has transitioned from a long period of positive mass balance to relative equilibrium. This transition likely presages a new period of retreat for the Taku glacier, which will have widespread consequences for downstream ecosystems and economies.
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-357877
title: The impact of a TRIO program and its' effect on academic success of African American males in secondary schools

description: African American male students as a group are taking the least advanced placement classes, graduating least from high-school, and attaining the lowest levels of college graduation, compared to other groups. Research shows that there is an achievement gap between male African-American students and students of other racial and ethnic backgrounds that have been widely documented in both academic and popular media (Fashola, 2003). ❧ This study examined the impact of TRIO programs and its’ effect on academic success of African American males in secondary schools. This study examined four TRIO programs to understand the structure and purpose of those programs and how their goals aligned with helping African American male students succeed throughout high school. ❧ The research questions used to guide this study were: How do African American males get involved with TRIO Programs? What services are being provided to African American males by TRIO programs? What are the experiences of African American males in TRIO programs that lead to academic progress? What are African American males’ involved in TRIO programs attitudes and behaviors towards educational achievement? And what percentage of African American males successfully complete high school and obtain a college degree with the help of TRIO programs? ❧ The methodology for this study was a mixed-method design. There were quantitative and qualitative data collected and analyzed. Sixty surveys were sent out to African American males ages 18-22 who were currently involved in one of the four TRIO programs or who have recently participated in one of the four TRIO programs that was studied. From the surveys, interviews were conducted with 28 male students who wanted to participate in the interview process. Interviews were also conducted with two staff members from each of the four programs. In addition, observations were conducted at the four TRIO sites. Lastly, documents were analyzed from one male student at each site. As a result, the study’s findings indicated that the resources provided through TRIO programs gave access to social and cultural capital, provided positive learning experiences and increased the college going rate for African American males in secondary schools.
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-375155
title: Random walks on finite groups and their irreducible representations

description: The main objective of this thesis is to study long term behavior of random walks on various algebraic objects. The first half of the thesis would look at random walks on the symmetric group Sn generated by Fᵢ the set of permutations with exactly i fixed points. More specifically, we will look at the eigenvalues of the induced adjacency matrix. These eigenvalues are indexed by the irreducible representations of Sn. Through the use of skew-symmetric functions, we are able to form a recurrence relation among the eigenvalues. This in turn allows us to study them in terms of derangement numbers Dn. We are able to show which irreducible representation corresponds to the minimum eigenvalue for the random walks generated by the set of permutations with exactly i fixed points for i = 0, 1, 2, 3. The second half of the thesis studies the convergence rate of the random walks on the set of irreducible representations of three finite groups: the symmetric group Sn, the alternating group An, and the hyperoctahedral group Bn.
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-367684
title: Spread The Love: positive emotion through gameplay

description: Spread The Love is a combination of a 2-D mobile game and limited messaging application that is aimed at creating positive emotions that fall outside of the normal definition of “fun”. Games typically challenge players, bring them satisfaction, and strive above all else to provide the player with a fun experience; however, having fun while playing a game does not equate to the player being happy or cheerful. Spread The Love exists to give the player these positive emotions that are not normally found in the current games market, and it empowers the player to share these positive emotions with other players. Built on the idea that “a smile can brighten your day”, to which I have added “especially if the smile is your own”, Spread The Love’s goals are to make the player produce a genuine smile through interacting with the application, and to provide them with a rewarding, low barrier opportunity to influence other players in a positive way.
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-124406
title: The social worker-foster mother team relationship: A comparison of two agencies
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-135550
title: The private practitioner in social work
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c39-210172
title: Adjustment of veterans after discharge from trial visit from a veterans administration neuropsychiatric hospital
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-132696
title: Neglecting parents' perceptions of the problem: A study on child neglect
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-128110
title: An exploratory-descriptive study of the field placement experience: The MSW student perspective at U.S.C
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-129127
title: Alcoholism and services for alcoholics in East Los Angeles
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-146257
title: An exploratory study: Jewish clients' perceptions of social worker characteristics in a sectarian agency
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c39-197021
title: A study of committee dynamics
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-161193
title: Professional licensing legislation in the United States with an emphasis on social work statutes in California
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-311752
title: Self-efficacy beliefs of underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering, and math

description: The purpose of this study is to understand the self-perceptions, confidence, and self-efficacy of underrepresented minorities (URMs) as they undertake Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) courses during their K-12 years in urban-public schools. Through the lens of Bandura’s self-efficacy theory, this study analyzed self-efficacious behaviors as they revealed themselves in K-12 classrooms. The participants were 11th- and 12th-grade students, their parents, their STEM teachers, and their mentor. The goal was to understand what has been inhibiting the growth of URM representation in STEM majors and in STEM fields. This qualitative study was designed to understand the participants’ stories and uncover personal characteristics such as grit, perseverance, and determination in the face of obstacles. The instruments used in this study were interviews, observations, and self-efficacy surveys. The findings revealed that the participants’ perceptions of the students’ abilities to succeed in a STEM field were all tentatively positive. The participants focused on the many obstacles already overcome by the students and used it as precedent for future success. All the student-participants shared a similar set of adult types in their lives—adults who believed not only in their STEM abilities, but also in their abilities to face obstacles, who were willing to give their time and expertise when necessary, and who shared similar experiences in terms of the lack of educational resources or of economic struggles. It was these shared experiences that strengthened the beliefs that, if the adult participants could succeed in education or succeed in spite of poverty, the student participants could succeed, as well.
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-136629
title: Workers' assumptions and decision-making behavior in foster care
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-143252
title: Day care service as perceived by working mothers of migrant farm families
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-105828
title: The impact of Jewish population density on Jewish involvement and identification: A comparison of two Jewish communities
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-135638
title: The organization and development of community groups for and against busing and school integration
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-139386
title: A study of perceptions and attitudes of Negro families in family-centered treatment
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c39-207166
title: Factors in success or failure of patient's adjustment on initial work leave from a state mental hospital
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-105674
title: The weekend living group
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-120392
title: Percepitions of minority and non-minority clients regarding clinical social work treatment in mental health settings
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-123342
title: Who needs what? Who gets what? A study of emergency services in a public welfare setting
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-97855
title: The effect of session specific information on practitioner responses: A field experiment
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-135420
title: Group covert sensitization: Treatment of alcoholic inpatients at Metropolitan State Hospital
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c39-259102
title: Clothing policy and practices in an institution serving children
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-105571
title: Relationships between child and staff in residential treatment: The Child's Perception of "Significant" Staff
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-155156
title: A study of neighboring and participation in neighborhood action and development associations of women in a low-income housing project
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c39-208305
title: Use of casework interviews by parents and children before and after surgical staff conference
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-123458
title: Child neglect and community perception
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-131808
title: Medical, educational, and social services for families with handicapped children: A survey of consumers
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-310908
title: Vincristine metabolism: impact of neurotoxicity in acute lymphoblastic leukemia therapy

description: Vincristine (VCR) has been widely used to treat childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), but it will cause a side effect named vincristine-induced peripheral neuropathy (VIPN). Cytochrome P4503A (CYP3A) enzymes are responsible for the elimination of VCR, and especially CY3A5 and CYP3A4 contribute to the formation of major metabolites (M1 and M2). The aim of the study is to explore whether VCR, M1 and/ or M2 are associated with neurotoxicity. The cellular toxicity of these metabolites was tested in vitro using leukemia and pheochromocytoma cell lines. Also, the plasma exposure of VCR, M1 and M2 were compared in clinical samples of ALL patients with and without signs of VIPN. The results of the in vitro study showed that M1 and M2 have higher cellular toxicity than VCR. However, the clinical data showed that M1 level and metabolism ratio (M1/VCR and M1/M2) are statistically significantly different between both age groups and tanner stages groups. VCR exposure has positive association with age for patients older than 12 year (P=0.014) but M1 exposure showed a negative association with age for patients less than 12 years (P=0.0042). These results may allow more individualized dosing strategies, which could improve clinical outcomes in children with ALL that include vincristine in their treatment.
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c39-258831
title: Social work recruitment: A study of its influence in attracting students to a graduate school of social work
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-124242
title: The Los Angeles County public social workers' strike
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-128616
title: Applicability of social indicators to Spanish-surnamed child abusive parents an exploratory study
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-132190
title: Children of Lesbian Mothers: Their Perceptions of Their Relationships with Family and Peers
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-133129
title: A study of juvenile offenders' attitudes toward Los Angeles County senior probation camps
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-248248
title: Compliance training in multicultural workplaces: a gap analysis

description: This study investigated the knowledge, motivation, and organizational barriers faced by managers in ensuring regulatory compliance in a multicultural workplace composed primarily of non-native English speakers. Using the Clark and Estes (2008) gap analysis, assumed causes of the knowledge, motivation, and organizational barriers were generated based on related literature, learning and motivation theory, and personal knowledge. Analysis of the data collected through interviews, observation, and document analysis validated or validated in part twelve causes, leading to four recommended solutions: revision of the organization’s existing training program, ongoing monitoring through simulated inspections, centralization of production, and facilitation of mentorship and communication within the organization. Implementation and evaluation plans are also proposed for the recommended solutions.
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-130058
title: A study to explore the relationship between therapist behavior and clients' experience of the psychotherapeutic session
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-131720
title: Ten pre-school abused children
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-132097
title: An exploratory study on the use of formal and informal community services by four Asian elderly groups living in Los Angeles
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c39-203828
title: Termination: Factors influencing three different ways of termination in a veterans administration mental hygiene clinic
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-119011
title: A study of families referred to parent intake and screening group of the Division of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-121267
title: Factors influencing reunification in court dependency cases
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-124720
title: An exploratory study of a role of the case aide in Community Protective Services
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-248119
title: The role of educational leadership in participation in the Costa Rican National Program of Science and Technology Fairs at Westside Elementary School in the Mountain Region

description: All around the world, countries are finding ways to be more competitive in the global society. Costa Rica has made impressive strides in improving the state of its economy and the field of education to ensure that they are producing workers equipped with 21st-century skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. For the purposes of this study, frameworks were chosen to analyze educational leadership and the development of 21st-century skills in relation to implementation of the National Science and Technology Fair (Programa Nacional de Ferias de Ciencia y Tecnología; PRONAFECYT) in Costa Rica. The analysis of data gathered through interviews, observations, and surveys revealed that Costa Rica is committed to producing successful knowledge-ready workers. By forming partnerships with multinational corporations, the country is prepared to provide opportunities for many Costa Rican students to advance in their academic and professional careers.
DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc99
title: CCDC 9: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

description: Related Article: Duen-Ren Hou, Joseph H. Reibenspies, Thomas Colacot, Kevin Burgess|2013|Acta Crystallogr.,Sect.E:Cryst.Commun.|55|29|doi:10.1016/j.jorganchem.2016.11.002
description: An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.
DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.ccbb
title: CCDC 10: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

description: Related Article: Duen-Ren Hou, Joseph H. Reibenspies, Thomas Colacot, Kevin Burgess|2013|Acta Crystallogr.,Sect.E:Cryst.Commun.|55|29|doi:10.1016/j.jorganchem.2016.11.002
description: An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.