UC Santa Cruz Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Parent: UC Santa Cruz
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for June through September, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44n7c8qc | Search for a Heavy Photon in the 2015 Engineering Run Data of the Heavy Photon Search Experiment | 34,601 | 8,465 | 26,136 | 24.5% |
| 0bj2x4ch | Erotic Hypnosis Fetishism: Implications for Sexual Identity Development, Consent, Minority Stress and Intersectionality | 22,028 | 2,483 | 19,545 | 11.3% |
| 4rn476w3 | Communal Narrative Play in Perennial Games | 8,436 | 7,787 | 649 | 92.3% |
| 96s3j404 | Patterns and Psychology of Video Game Monetization | 7,851 | 4,675 | 3,176 | 59.5% |
| 47n870q2 | The "Pull" of Gacha Games: Exploring Player Experiences of Gacha Game Characters | 7,202 | 4,365 | 2,837 | 60.6% |
| 8q0059bk | The Hermeneutics of Ephemerality: Digital Media and Radical Politics in Postsocialist China | 6,726 | 292 | 6,434 | 4.3% |
| 4226j9n9 | The Texte Fleuve and Infinity: The Play of Finitude and Endlessness in Proust, Woolf, and the Open World Video Game | 6,302 | 322 | 5,980 | 5.1% |
| 6nw5x48d | Crafting Stories Through Play | 5,259 | 4,293 | 966 | 81.6% |
| 0r9246gd | Computer-Driven, Yet Human-Controlled: The Runtime-Editable, All-Digital TTRPG | 4,850 | 4,682 | 168 | 96.5% |
| 4m2661f8 | Ethnosexuality: A Qualitative Exploration of Racialized Sexual Attractions and Experiencess | 4,808 | 542 | 4,266 | 11.3% |
| 7s30v5pf | Youth of the Nation: The Space-Time of Adolescence in the Turn of the Century United States | 4,544 | 71 | 4,473 | 1.6% |
| 1340j5h2 | Curating Simulated Storyworlds | 4,372 | 3,181 | 1,191 | 72.8% |
| 58k1k40p | NPCs to Believe In: Value-based Morality in Video Game Characters | 4,211 | 2,158 | 2,053 | 51.2% |
| 4gj774jj | The Influence Of Climate Change And Evolution On Mosquito Life History Traits And Pathogen Transmission | 4,139 | 2,377 | 1,762 | 57.4% |
| 0s71f0cw | Storming Fortresses: A Political History Of Chess In The Soviet Union, 1917-1948 | 3,886 | 279 | 3,607 | 7.2% |
| 97z569b3 | Procedural, Player-Centric Game Balancing | 3,712 | 3,564 | 148 | 96.0% |
| 8nt4q5qb | Looking for Linda | 3,562 | 80 | 3,482 | 2.2% |
| 3ns8z976 | From the Margins of Exile: Democracy and Dissent within the Tibetan Diaspora | 3,511 | 55 | 3,456 | 1.6% |
| 318258kw | Designing Process-Oriented Computational Assistance to Support Self-Regulated Learning in Complex Games | 3,314 | 3,104 | 210 | 93.7% |
| 1vn119k0 | Programming the Intermission: A Procedural History of Cinema and Computation | 3,225 | 279 | 2,946 | 8.7% |
| 5nn8t6m1 | “Like there’s a difference between love and respect”: The romanticization of abuse and unhealthy relationship dynamics | 3,086 | 1,693 | 1,393 | 54.9% |
| 5g85p0h7 | Governing Armenia: The Politics of Development and the Making of Global Diaspora | 2,997 | 767 | 2,230 | 25.6% |
| 11b9r0j7 | ADHD Communities Online: Understanding Collective Medical Knowledge and Healthcare Tensions | 2,992 | 2,004 | 988 | 67.0% |
| 57h0m1x1 | The Difference That Money Makes: Sovereignty, Indecision, and the Politics of Liquidity | 2,883 | 375 | 2,508 | 13.0% |
| 4bd9n3t9 | Lipoxygenase Investigations Lead to the Discovery of Potent Inhibitors and their Mechanisim of Action | 2,879 | 1,508 | 1,371 | 52.4% |
| 57z2740k | Evidence-based gamification and mnemonics for logographic writing systems. | 2,863 | 2,601 | 262 | 90.8% |
| 21302587 | Internal Colonization and Revolt: Rap as an Underground Political Discourse in Oakland, CA from 1965-2010 | 2,766 | 2,614 | 152 | 94.5% |
| 7960b6qq | Recording the Nation: Folk Music and the Government in Roosevelt’s New Deal, 1936–1941 | 2,705 | 852 | 1,853 | 31.5% |
| 5w65w7jh | Demystifying the Craft Production: A Case Study of the Craft-made Guitar Industry in the Global Economy | 2,686 | 1,517 | 1,169 | 56.5% |
| 3w69g61b | Search for the Decay of Higgs Bosons at High Transverse Momentum in the H → b ¯b Channel with the ATLAS Detector | 2,660 | 1,924 | 736 | 72.3% |
| 1ps845ks | Grounds for Commitment | 2,612 | 140 | 2,472 | 5.4% |
| 6vn888b0 | Using Systems Biology Approaches to Elucidate the Mechanisms of Arsenic Reduction in Shewanella Sp. ANA-3 | 2,585 | 1,801 | 784 | 69.7% |
| 0hg4624v | Cultural Memory and Collectivity in Music from the 1991 Persian Gulf War | 2,573 | 2,301 | 272 | 89.4% |
| 5g2537gv | Design Out Helplessness: AI Interventions for Game Inclusivity | 2,560 | 2,460 | 100 | 96.1% |
| 2bg4k8hq | The Giant Woman at the End of the World: Japan's Post-Postwar Sublime Melancholia in Popular Media | 2,521 | 355 | 2,166 | 14.1% |
| 22m9p4g9 | Analysis of Incremental Design Changes in Video Games with Automatic Exploration | 2,513 | 727 | 1,786 | 28.9% |
| 7200m3ft | Borders of Belonging: Nationalism, North Korean Defectors and the Spiritual Project for a Unified Korea | 2,497 | 95 | 2,402 | 3.8% |
| 2198m1kj | Los Angeles Noisescapes: Culture and Aesthetics in the Early Twenty-First Century Experimental 'Noise' Scenes. | 2,466 | 2,006 | 460 | 81.3% |
| 1x7589qp | Developing a Computational Theater | 2,452 | 2,336 | 116 | 95.3% |
| 4600g227 | Mechanizing Exploratory Game Design | 2,357 | 66 | 2,291 | 2.8% |
| 02d699s6 | Game Randomization: Emergent Gameplay Communities | 2,314 | 2,117 | 197 | 91.5% |
| 7x97j2g8 | Minimal-positive-depth Representations of Groups of Relative Rank One over Nonarchimedean Local Fields | 2,305 | 29 | 2,276 | 1.3% |
| 1600x55b | The Journey of the Tonkori: A Multicultural Transmission | 2,235 | 428 | 1,807 | 19.1% |
| 1m25b5j5 | The Science of Level Design: Design Patterns and Analysis of Player Behavior in First-person Shooter Levels | 2,208 | 1,980 | 228 | 89.7% |
| 1gw4g203 | User Moderling, Personalization, and Personalized Question Generation in Open-Domain Dialogue Systems | 2,185 | 1,995 | 190 | 91.3% |
| 79f5b1s9 | Listening for History: Studies on Retro and the Temporalities of Popular Music | 2,160 | 315 | 1,845 | 14.6% |
| 9gq229h4 | Responsiveness in Narrative Systems | 2,160 | 139 | 2,021 | 6.4% |
| 5g24n99n | Autonomous Motives: Tech, Shared Mobility, Privatization, and the Utopian Imaginary in the Bay Area | 2,148 | 2,040 | 108 | 95.0% |
| 4mr6c29j | Designing Reusable Tools for Social Simulation-Driven Emergent Storytelling | 2,121 | 1,870 | 251 | 88.2% |
| 2jr6h026 | The Hardboiled and the Haunted: Race, Masculinity, and the Asian American Detective | 2,089 | 528 | 1,561 | 25.3% |
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