cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-417127
title: Interactive material and damping design

description: Finite Element Method (FEM) has been widely used for simulations of three-dimensional deformable objects. To produce compelling and artist-controllable FEM dynamics, it is critically important to set the correct material elasticity and damping properties. This thesis presents an intuitive and interactive design method to explore the high-dimensional space of material and damping properties for use in FEM simulations in computer graphics, animation and related fields. ❧ This thesis first demonstrates how to intuitively explore the space of isotropic and anisotropic nonlinear materials, for design of FEM animations. Previous applications of nonlinear solid elasticity employed materials from a few standard families such as linear corotational, nonlinear St.Venant-Kirchhoff and Neo-Hookean material. However, the spaces of all nonlinear isotropic and anisotropic materials are infinite-dimensional and much broader than these standard materials. We simplify this infinite-dimensional material space with the Valanis-Landel hypothesis and demonstrate how to easily design arbitrary isotropic and anisotropic nonlinear elasticity with local control, using a spline interface. Our materials accelerate simulation design and enable visual effects that are difficult or impossible to achieve with standard nonlinear materials. ❧ Material properties may vary across the volume of the object, producing heterogeneous deformable dynamics. My thesis presents an interactive inverse method to design heterogeneous material distributions, which conform to prescribed displacements and internal elastic forces at a few selected positions. However, this optimization problem is high-dimensional and solving it in the full space is not practical for interactive design. We demonstrate scalability to complex examples using a novel model reduction of the material space, which accelerates the optimization by two orders of magnitude and makes the convergence much more robust. ❧ FEM dynamics is largely affected also by the damping properties, in addition to elasticity. This thesis gives a damping design method and user interface whereby the user can set the damping properties so that deformations aligned with each of a few chosen example deformations is damped by an independent user-prescribed amount, achieving anisotropic damping effects. Similar to our spline-based elasticity, we also achieve nonlinear damping that depends on the example deformation magnitudes, by editing a single spline curve for each example. The nonlinear damping curves can also be automatically inferred from high-level user inputs, such as the amount of amplitude loss in one oscillation cycle. Our method enables an artist-directable and intuitive approach to controlling nonlinear and anisotropic damping, which can generate effects not possible with previous methods and better capture real-world damping dynamics.
DOI: 10.25549/prim-c46-5908
title: Japan and the four dragons : lecture by Lawrence B. Krause, 1989

description: AASCU's Japan Studies Institute in 1989 was held in San Diego from June 21 to July 14, under the direction of Alvin P. Coox and featuring lectures by specialists in a range of subjects within Japanese studie.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-67
title: Sally and Ruben Salazar, ca. 1960-1970

description: Photograph of Sally and Ruben Salazar, ca. 1960-1970
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-70
title: Ruben Salazar marries Sally Robare, Las Vegas, NV, 1960

description: Photograph of Ruben Salazar and his bride, Sally Robare. The two were married in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1960 May 16.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-76
title: Ruben Salazar in the U.S. Army in Germany, 1950-1952

description: Photograph of Ruben Salazar in his army uniform stationed in Germany, 1950-1952.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-78
title: Ruben Salazar's immigrant identification card, 1929

description: Ruben Salazar's immigrant identification card from the U.S. Department of Labor, 1929 February 15.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-79
title: Entrance to park dedicated to Ruben Salazar, Los Angeles, CA, 1970

description: Photograph of the entrance of the park dedicated to Ruben Salazar. This park was renamed in Salazar's honor as it was the final stop during the National Chicano Moratorium, the march in which Ruben Salazar was killed, Los Angeles, California, 1970 September 17.
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-142996
title: Client evaluation of the Kosher Meals on Wheels program of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-340716
title: Globalization; science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), project-based learning; and 21st-century workforce requirements: how they are connected to the Irish education system

description: Globalization has created a smaller world than has been ever experienced in history. Ireland has become an example of the impact that globalization, through its strong development of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the influx of multinational corporations (MNCs) into its economy and its very way of life. The globalizing effects of economic change have led the nation to begin experiencing educational changes. Irish schools are beginning a focus on implementing more science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) coursework as well as more 21st-century skills and inquiry-based learning opportunities to address the demands placed upon the workforce as a result of the needs of MNCs. While the national curriculum is beginning to keep pace with these demands, it has not completely caught up and continues to struggle with more traditional requirements and exams needed for students to successfully matriculate to postsecondary education. ❧ This study observed the influence of globalization, MNCs, and FDI on the educational policy, curriculum, and instructional practices in Irish schools. This task was accomplished by examining how science competitions such as SciFest influenced the use of inquiry by teachers in the classroom to prepare students for 21st-century workforce in STEM fields. ❧ The principal findings of this study showed that STEM-related content and 21st-century skills development were important in Irish schools in order for students to have the experience needed to prepare them for the globalized economy. The findings further showed that participation in science fair competitions such as SciFest were beneficial to students and furthered their interest in STEM-related courses and careers.
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-362358
title: Fama French model & herd behavior in Chinese stock market

description: Asset pricing theory is an important part of economic sciences. As a winner of Nobel Prize, Fama’s three-factor model and five-factor model are very popular in the business community. In real world, Chinese stock market has some more different characteristics than that in other developed countries. Frequent policy change from government and blind investment following by retail investors are notable features in Chinese stock market. That may cause Herd Behavior to impact the asset pricing models. We tested the Fama-French Five-factors model in Chinese stock 2015 years, and compared it with the herd index built from individual share transaction and pricing information. Finally, we find the peak form herd index is mostly positive related with the alpha value form Fama-French Five-factors model. As the result, the Herd Behavior could be one important factor of the unexplained parts in Fama-French five-factors model of Chinese stock market.
DOI: 10.25549/prim-c46-5903
title: Buddhism at folk level : lecture by William R. LaFleur, 1989

description: AASCU's Japan Studies Institute in 1989 was held in San Diego from June 21 to July 14, under the direction of Alvin P. Coox and featuring lectures by specialists in a range of subjects within Japanese studie.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-52
title: Ruben Salazar's declaration of intention of citizenship, 1947

description: Ruben Salazar's naturalization process began when he submitted an application for a certificate of arrival and preliminary form for a declaration of intention of citizenship to the Department of Justice, 1947 October 15.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-59
title: Ruben Salazar's parents marriage certificate, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, 1925

description: Ruben Salazar's parents' marriage certificate. Salvador Salazar and Luz Chavez married in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, 1925 February 21.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-60
title: Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund sues Los Angeles County Sherriff Leroy Baca, Los Angeles, CA, 2012

description: The cover page of the lawsuit brought by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund against Los Angeles County Sheriff Leroy Baca on behalf of documentary filmmaker Philip Rodriquez, requesting the release of eight boxes of files related to the death of Ruben Salazar, Los Angeles, California, 2012 April 23.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-62
title: Mourners at Ruben Salazar's public viewing, East Los Angeles, Calif., 1970

description: Photograph of mourners at the public viewing of Ruben Salazar's casket as he lay in state, Bagües and Sons Mortuary, 1930 East 1st Street, east Los Angeles, California, 1970 September 1. The public viewing occurred the day prior to the funeral (Newport Beach, California, 1970 September 2). Salazar died 1970 
August 29.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-63
title: Ruben Salazar's Texas Intercollegiate Press Association Award, Mexico City, Mexico, 1954

description: Ruben Salazar was awarded second place in Editorials in the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association Awards, held at Mexico City College, Mexico City, Mexico, 1954 April 22.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-65
title: Review of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department investigation into the homicide of Ruben Salazar, Los Angeles, CA, 2011

description: The cover page from the Los Angeles County Office of Independent Review of the sheriff's department initial investigation on Ruben Salazar's death. The 20-page report does not assign blame, but rather revisits the facts of the event, Los Angeles, California, 2011 February 22.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-69
title: Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle, 2014 [poster]

description: The poster from the documentary by Philip Rodriguez titled, "Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle," produced by Jennifer Craig-Kobzik, aired nationally on the Public Broadcasting Service, 2014 April 29.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-71
title: Ruben Salazar, KMEX Spanish-language television station, Los Angeles, CA, 1970

description: Photograph of Ruben Salazar at work as the News Director of the Spanish-language television station, KMEX, Los Angeles, California, 1970.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-72
title: Ruben Salazar's birth certificate, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, 1928

description: Ruben Salazar's birth certificate, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, 1928 March 3.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-74
title: Ruben Salazar's High School Diploma, El Paso  High School, El Paso, TX, 1946

description: Ruben Salazar received a high school diploma from El Paso High School, El Paso, Texas, 1946 January 17.
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-119234
title: Social service delivery systems in hospital settings
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-312196
title: Fostering control: race, discipline, and the power of the child welfare system in Southern California

description: Fostering Control examines how the child welfare system systematically surveils, regulates, and criminalizes the young people it purportedly seeks to protect. Combining qualitative interviews that centralize the voices of foster youth with participant observation, archival investigation, and multimedia analysis, this dissertation documents how the child welfare system violently restricts the lives and life chances of youth of color. More specifically, it traces how under neoliberalism child welfare programs—including group homes, youth shelters, transitional housing facilities, family courts, and child welfare archives—foster social control through an interlocking and updated combination of coercive measures, discursive tropes, and the widespread promotion of self-regulation. ❧ To make this argument Fostering Control leverages a Foucauldian framework and critical youth studies lens to position the child welfare system as a material-discursive formation that is violent and powerful but never uncontested. Exploring how social control tactics within the child welfare system lead to incarceration and dispossession outside the system, this study underscores the ways in which the child welfare system produces, participates in, and legitimizes a larger carceral logic that violently targets youth of color in the United States. At the same time, by tracing the myriad ways young people resist this violence—challenging its discursive frameworks and criminalizing impulses while creating collective identities and community formations in the process—this study is rooted in a critical belief that no system of control is totalizing. The visions these young people have for the future of the system are numerous, profound, and radically different from the present, and collectively, they point to a transformative vision of what is possible.
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-321726
title: Designing, modeling and evaluating the next-generation of wireless networks

description: Modern wireless devices such as tablets and smartphones are pushing the demand for wireless data rates while causing significant stress to existing wireless networks. While successive generations of wireless standards achieve continuous improvement, it is the general understanding of both academic research and the industry that a significant increase in wireless traffic demand can be met only by a dramatically denser spectrum reuse, i.e., by deploying more base stations/access points per square kilometer, coupled with advanced physical (PHY) layer techniques to reduce inter-cell interference. ❧ Enterprise WiFi networks have been deployed following this paradigm for years. As a matter of fact, the density of access points (APs) has increased to a point where inter-cell interference is canceling any additional gains from even denser deployments. At the same time, advanced physical layer techniques have been incorporated into the standards, most notably single-user MIMO in 802.11n and multi-user MIMO in 802.11ac. Cellular networks, unable to satisfy the bandwidth demand of data plans, resort to WiFi offloading, i.e. they deploy WiFi networks to offload traffic from the cellular network. Future cellular network architectures will most likely follow a similar pattern, that is, they will consist of many small cells densely deployed and use advanced physical layer techniques, e.g. massive MIMO. ❧ The goal of this work is to model and evaluate such current and future proposed architectures, ranging from 802.11n MIMO to the Coordinated ""Virtual"" MU-MIMO. We compare their performance and analyze architectural decisions and trade-offs and their impact in various system deployments. We move a step forward from simulating such systems to analytically modeling them so that large scale deployments can be efficiently compared in real-time. Moreover, we propose and analyze MAC layers that enable and take advantage of the underlying PHY layer technologies and simulate the end-to-end system performance. Finally, we introduce new practical network designs that take into account the advances in analog and digital beamforming and outperform, in many occasions, the approaches that are currently found in literature. The proposed hybrid approaches exhibit both practical and less strict deployment requirements compared to coordinated MU-MIMO, but also sizable gains that approach and often surpass their strictly coordinated counterparts and are validated through a real world experiment.
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-360717
title: An examination of reflective practices amongst marriage and family therapy candidates

description: This qualitative study examined the reflective practices of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) candidates during their clinical traineeship. Since the implementation of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) (2010), the number of professionals providing mental health services in educational settings increased, resulting in shortages of trained professionals such as MFTs (Mellin, 2009). As part of professional development, reflective practices were useful in allowing mental health practitioners to identify, process, and interpret clinical experiences. Participants in this study were second year masters-level MFT candidates who were completing their clinical traineeship hours for graduation in a K-12 educational setting. Three observations of group clinical supervision, a focus group interview, three individual interviews with MFT candidates, and collection of artifacts were conducted to gather data. A reflective framework based upon Schön (1992), Valli (1997), Rodgers (2002), and Farrell (2012) was utilized to analyze the data. Four overall themes emerged from the data: the reflective terminology and definitions used by MFT candidates and clinical supervisors are varied, there is an overall expectation for MFT candidate reflection in the traineeship process, MFT candidates and clinical supervisors had different perceptions regarding effects of reflection, and the MFT traineeship process is highly collaborative in nature. The implications for practice based on the findings include examining training on reflective practices to create consistency in understanding and to increase the focus and practice of reflection, encouraging MFT candidates to develop their own reflective practices, and emphasizing collaborative reflection practices. Areas for further research were also identified.
DOI: 10.25549/prim-c46-6003
title: Japanese society : lecture by Alvin Coox, 1989

description: AASCU's Japan Studies Institute in 1989 was held in San Diego from June 21 to July 14, under the direction of Alvin P. Coox and featuring lectures by specialists in a range of subjects within Japanese studie.
DOI: 10.25549/prim-c46-6005
title: Japanese women writers : lecture by William Rogers, 1989

description: AASCU's Japan Studies Institute in 1989 was held in San Diego from June 21 to July 14, under the direction of Alvin P. Coox and featuring lectures by specialists in a range of subjects within Japanese studie.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-51
title: Ruben Salazar's Texas Western College commencement program, El Paso, TX, 1954

description: The front page of the commencement program from when Ruben Salazar received his Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Texas Western College (later re-named University of Texas), El Paso, Texas, 1954 May 30.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-53
title: Wilmoth, letter. 1947-10-16, to Salazar

description: G.C. Wilmoth (United States Department of Justice. Immigration and Naturalized Service), El Paso, Texas, letter, 1947 October 16, to Ruben Salazar, 1117 North Ochoa Street, El Paso, Texas. "Receipt is hereby acknowledged…" -- first line. Re acknowledgement of Salazar’s application become a citizen of the United States.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-55
title: La Raza magazine, 1970

description: Photograph used on the front cover of La Raza magazine, vol. no. 3, Special Issue. This issue of La Raza covers the death of Ruben Salazar, who was killed by a tear gas projectile fired by Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff Thomas Wilson. Ruben was on assignment covering disturbances following the National Chicano Moratorium anti-Vietnam War march in East Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 1970 August 29.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-73
title: Randolph, letter. 1966-08-15, to Salazar

description: John Randolph, Saigon, Vietnam, letter, 1944 August 15, to Ruben Salazar. "Found a friend who could wear your jungle jacket..." -- first line. Re Salazar's name tags from his time in Vietnam, where he worked for the Los Angeles Times as a foreign correspondent.
DOI: 10.25549/sal-c78-84
title: U.S. Postal Service issues Ruben Salazar commemorative stamp, 2008

description: Photograph of Ruben Salazar's family posing with an enlargement of the commemorative stamp released by the U.S. Postal Service, 2008 April 22.
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-117941
title: A Comparative Analysis of Acculturation and Self-Concept in Chicano Jr. High
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-119462
title: Motivation, expectations and career fulfillment of workers in Jewish agencies
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-343273
title: Three essays on frictions in housing markets

description: The high cost, durable, and heterogeneous nature of housing, in addition to markets characterized by incomplete and asymmetric information and high transaction costs on the rental side and on both the asset and the debt side for owning, create frictions that result in suboptimal outcomes for households in terms of residential access, stability and asset building. The three chapters in my dissertation address different frictions faced by consumers in housing markets: 1) discriminations that can result in households facing a lower chance of obtaining the unit of their choice based on their ethnic origin; 2) borrowing constraints that can lead to mortgage innovations being associated with an unsustainable access to homeownership; 3) changes in the availability of financial tools to tap into home equity that can result housing wealth being used for increased consumption and potentially limit the role of homeownership for wealth building through forced saving. Understanding these frictions enables to better design housing policies to ensure access to adequate housing for all households.
DOI: 10.25549/usctheses-c40-344648
title: Globalization, foreign direct investment, and the Irish economy: Can the educational system in Ireland meet the nation’s desire to develop a knowledge-based workforce?

description: Globalization and foreign direct investment (FDI) have completely altered the landscape of how countries and industry conduct business locally and across the world. As countries grapple with changes in technology, outsourcing manufacturing jobs and other services, local agencies are now forced to respond to these ever-changing needs in order to produce the type of skilled labor necessary for economies to thrive. ❧ This paper is a case study on the country of Ireland. Once known for its economy grounded in agriculture and textiles, Ireland is arguably one of the greatest beneficiaries of FDI and has transformed itself into an economy driven by the medical field and technology. This study focuses on how the educational system is responding to dynamic changes in business and industry through the lens of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. More specifically, it examines activities such as SciFest and whether or not these types of science fair activities promote the development of STEM through soft skills known as 21st-century skills. ❧ In sum, the effects of globalization and multinational corporations in Ireland have been profound in some respects and negligible in others. Certainly, the educational community is keenly aware of the importance of developing the capacity of Irish students to compete for the new jobs, most of which are in STEM-related fields. Symbols of that awareness include the popularity of activities such as science fairs. Unfortunately, historical policies and practices deeply infused in the Irish educational system work against the goal of transforming Irish education toward a STEM focus. The expression “You teach what you test” summarizes the primary barrier to students receiving a STEM-aligned educational experience in Ireland that promotes the development of 21st-century skills. The importance of the Leaving Certificate Examination filters down to all decisions about curriculum and instruction and serves as a disabling factor in the goal to promote STEM competencies for all Irish students. ❧ The implications of this reality are significant and could have potential consequences for the long-term economic future of the country. As the global economy continues to evolve, the need for innovation and sustainability becomes even more amplified for Ireland if it is to meet the demands of industry and prepare students for jobs that do not yet exist.