CSU Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains electronic copies of CSU theses and dissertations submitted since fall 2011. Theses and dissertations submitted before fall 2011 are sometimes available in electronic form here if a researcher requested that they be added to the repository. Please note that for works submitted since fall 2011, a small number of works are embargoed until the release date given, and others are restricted to the CSU community. Print copies of theses and dissertations submitted prior to fall 2011 are available in the Libraries.
Theses and dissertations from 1980 to the present are linked to the author's respective CSU department or program; pre-1980 works are not linked to a department or program.
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Magmatism, deformation, and mineralization along the intra-arc Atacama fault system, northern Chile
Oblique plate motion is nearly universal across subduction margins, and the lateral component of motion produced by oblique subduction may be accommodated through distributed strain and/or along crustal-scale strike-slip ... -
Weighted aspirations: becoming a teenage dropout in El Salvador
The vast majority of poor and low-income students in El Salvador drop out during middle school or early high school. This dissertation is dedicated to describing their experiences and understanding the reasons why so many ... -
Leveraging ensembles: balancing timeliness and accuracy for model training over voluminous datasets
As data volumes increase, there is a pressing need to make sense of the data in a timely fashion. Voluminous datasets are often high dimensional, with individual data points representing a vector of features. Data scientists ... -
Mechanistically-guided advancement of photoinduced organocatalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization
Photoinduced organocatalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization (O-ATRP) is a promising polymerization methodology which leverages radical reactivity to afford macromolecular products with a high degree of control over ... -
Small RNA methylation in Caenorhabditis elegans
Eukaryotes employ small RNAs and RNA interference (RNAi) for such diverse tasks as regulating gene expression, suppressing viral infections, and defending their genomes from foreign or parasitic sequences such as pseudogenes ... -
"Biofilmomics": functional protein expression in biofilm biotechnologies revealed by quantitative proteomics
Microbial biotechnologies that utilize biofilms often exhibit superior performance compared with planktonic systems. Many details of biofilm metabolism that drive those improvements in performance remain unclear. Only ... -
Long-term-robust adaptation strategies for reservoir operation considering magnitude and timing of climate change: application to Diyala River Basin in Iraq
Vulnerability assessment due to climate change impacts is of paramount importance for reservoir operation to achieve the goals of water resources management. This requires accurate forcing and basin data to build a valid ... -
Three essays on globalization of trade and structures of economic growth and (under) development: comparative analysis of advanced and emerging nations
With the rise of neoliberal perspectives on economic policy and development in the 1980s came a new phase of globalization in the world economy. Quantitative increases in trade and financial flows, coupled with qualitative ... -
Development of a petawatt class Ti:Sapphire laser for the excitation of extreme radiation sources
This dissertation describes the design, construction and characterization of a high peak power, high repetition rate, Titanium-Sapphire laser system. This chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) laser delivers femtosecond pulses ... -
Measuring named data networks
Named Data Networking (NDN) is a promising information-centric networking (ICN) Internet architecture that addresses the content directly rather than addressing servers. NDN provides new features, such as content-centric ... -
Underrespresented minority medical (URiM) students: a social work approach to identifying factors affecting their experience
A major injustice in the United States is the wide disparity in health care across racial/ethnic, gender and economic lines. The lack of URiM (underrepresented in medicine) physicians is a major cause of health care ... -
Enabling and understanding low-temperature kinetic pathways in solid-state metathesis reactions
For the kinetic pathway to influence the outcome of a solid-state reaction, diffusion barriers must be lowered or circumvented through low-temperature chemistry. Traditional ceramic synthesis use high temperatures to ... -
Immune modulatory and antimicrobial properties of mesenchymal stromal cells delivered systemically
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Plant-mediated interactions among gall forming insects
Russian knapweed (Rhaponticum (=Acroptilon) repens (L.) Hidalgo) is one of the most troubling exotic weeds throughout the western United States invading many public and private lands. A classical biological control agents, ... -
Macroinvertebrate and microbial community responses to metal stress as measures of ecological recovery of a restored headwater stream
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Youth aged out of care: their perceptions of their experiences in out-of-home care
Child out-of-home care in the United States is dating back to the early nineteenth century. Since then out of home care has taken different forms and shapes. This journey of evolution has been combined with a lot of ... -
Detection of unhealthy communication patterns in romantic relationships
Unhealthy communication expressions are predictive of distress and poor functioning in romantic relationships yet the ability to detect these expressions is understudied. Study 1 presents the validation of a new procedure ... -
Assessment of novel causes and investigation into the gut microbiome in cats with chronic kidney disease
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Exploring gas-phase plasma chemistry and plasma-surface interactions: progress in plasma-assisted catalysis
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Hydrological assessment of field-scale GeoWaste and waste rock test piles
Mine waste rock and mine tailings are generated in substantial quantities an d must be managed to protect human health and the environment. Challenges in mine waste management facilities include geotechnical stability, ...
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