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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Feminism comes to campus: women at CSU 1960-1971
During the sixties students protested everything from restrictive social regulations to the Vietnam War. In this changing environment women, relying on skills learned in mainstream and protest activities, demanded changes ... -
Flavonoids hydroxyl group position effect on inducing ssDNA damage mediated by cupric ions
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Quantifying internal climate variability and its changes using large-ensembles of climate change simulations
Increasing temperatures over the last 50 years have led to a multitude of studies on observed and future impacts on surface climate. However, any changes on the mean need to be placed in the context of its variability to ... -
Towards using neural networks for geoscientific discovery
How can we use computational methods to extract physically meaningful patterns from geoscientific data? This question has been asked in some form for decades within the geoscientific community, with many landmark discoveries ... -
Microtubule-associated protein She1 regulates dynein-mediated spindle positioning in budding yeast, The
Microtubules are polar filamentous proteins part of a complex cytoskeletal network within cells that provides an organized interface with which motors use to transport vesicular cargoes and organelles, and mediate positioning ... -
Three essays on weather shocks, nutrition and forests
Climate-related shocks, such as droughts and floods, can have particularly harmful effects for poor rural households in developing countries. In this dissertation, I determine how forests affect a household's ability to ... -
Characterizing the role of the Hec1 tail domain at the kinetochore-microtubule interface in human cells
Chromosome segregation is powered by interactions between the mitotic spindle and kinetochores. Kinetochores – large, protein-rich machines built on the centromere of each sister chromatid – must bind to spindle microtubules ... -
Characterization of pulmonary hypertension status and utilization of multi-omics analyses to discover variants that may inform selection against high mean pulmonary arterial pressure in Angus cattle
This multi-part research characterizes pulmonary hypertension (PH) from a physiologic and genetic point of view using the indicator trait mean pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP). Three aims were designed to address the ... -
Examination of the relationships between vocational identity, hardiness, meaningful work, burnout, and work engagement, An
A cross-sectional study was conducted to expand the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model and personal resources within the model. The association between vocational identity as a personal resource and two criterion variables ... -
Evaluation of the pharmacodynamics and analgesic efficacy of two buprenorphine formulations in dogs
Pain is an unpleasant and distressing experience. While it serves a protective function for a short period, untreated, ongoing pain has significant detrimental effects. Opioids are one of the most important analgesic agents ... -
Penalized unimodal spline density estimate with application to M-estimation
This dissertation establishes a novel type of robust estimation, Auto-Adaptive M-estimation (AAME), based on a new density estimation. The new robust estimation, AAME, is highly data-driven, without the need of priori of ... -
Enhancing the test and evaluation process: implementing agile development, test automation, and model-based systems engineering concepts
With the growing complexity of modern systems, traditional testing methods are falling short. Test documentation suites used to verify the software for these types of large, complex systems can become bloated and unclear, ... -
Life after caregiving: understanding everyday resilience in the context of the bereavement phase of the caregiver journey
Dementia is a progressive illness that results in cognitive decline for aging adults requiring increased assistance with everyday life as symptoms worsen over time. An illness that is found largely in older adults, dementia ... -
Interrogating and predicting ionizing radiation effects on telomeres and chromosomes, and implications for long-term risks for human health
Space remains the final frontier of exploration. NASA plans to send humans back to the lunar surface by 2024, establishing a permanent lunar base thereafter and embarking humanity on a new era of endeavors. As we approach ... -
Effect of resins on the aggregation behavior of asphaltenes, The
Millions of barrels of crude oil are extracted on a daily basis. Crude oil has four main components separated by the SARA fractionation method.1 Asphaltenes are the heaviest component of the cured oil. They are known to ... -
Cryopreservation and recovery of temperate fruit germplasm using dormant bud technology
Cryopreservation of dormant budwood allows for the efficient processing and long-term storage of some temperate deciduous genetic resources and holds promise for the secure storage of countless others. The method is of ... -
Post-initiation activities of the archaeal RNA polymerase in a chromatin landscape
The machineries that control transcription initiation and elongation in Archaea and Eukarya are highly homologous. These similarities support the prevailing evolutionary theory of Archaea being the progenitor of Eukarya. ... -
On intensity change and the effects of shortwave radiation on tropical cyclone rainbands
In this dissertation, the effects of shortwave radiation and the diurnal cycle of radiation on tropical cyclone rainbands are explored. In order to improve short term forecasts of tropical cyclone intensity and size, a ... -
Prickly puzzle: phylogeny and evolution of the Carduus-Cirsium group (Cardueae: Compositae), and untangling the taxonomy of Cirsium in North America, A
Generic delimitations within the cosmopolitan Carduus-Cirsium group (i.e., "thistles") have a long history of taxonomic confusion and debate. We present the most comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the group to date to ... -
Improvements in computational electromagnetics solver efficiency: theoretical and data-driven approaches to accelerate full-wave and ray-based methods
Simulation plays an ever-increasing role in modern electrical engineering design. However, the computational electromagnetics solvers on which these simulations rely are often inefficient. For simulations requiring high ...
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