UC Santa Cruz Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for April through July, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0bj2x4ch | Erotic Hypnosis Fetishism: Implications for Sexual Identity Development, Consent, Minority Stress and Intersectionality | 22,425 | 1,782 | 20,643 | 7.9% |
| 44n7c8qc | Search for a Heavy Photon in the 2015 Engineering Run Data of the Heavy Photon Search Experiment | 19,344 | 5,768 | 13,576 | 29.8% |
| 4rn476w3 | Communal Narrative Play in Perennial Games | 6,203 | 5,510 | 693 | 88.8% |
| 96s3j404 | Patterns and Psychology of Video Game Monetization | 5,588 | 3,525 | 2,063 | 63.1% |
| 47n870q2 | The "Pull" of Gacha Games: Exploring Player Experiences of Gacha Game Characters | 4,522 | 3,531 | 991 | 78.1% |
| 3w69g61b | Search for the Decay of Higgs Bosons at High Transverse Momentum in the H → b ¯b Channel with the ATLAS Detector | 4,267 | 3,013 | 1,254 | 70.6% |
| 4gj774jj | The Influence Of Climate Change And Evolution On Mosquito Life History Traits And Pathogen Transmission | 4,245 | 3,048 | 1,197 | 71.8% |
| 4226j9n9 | The Texte Fleuve and Infinity: The Play of Finitude and Endlessness in Proust, Woolf, and the Open World Video Game | 4,141 | 263 | 3,878 | 6.4% |
| 6nw5x48d | Crafting Stories Through Play | 3,980 | 3,251 | 729 | 81.7% |
| 0r9246gd | Computer-Driven, Yet Human-Controlled: The Runtime-Editable, All-Digital TTRPG | 3,663 | 3,480 | 183 | 95.0% |
| 1340j5h2 | Curating Simulated Storyworlds | 3,625 | 2,681 | 944 | 74.0% |
| 6vn888b0 | Using Systems Biology Approaches to Elucidate the Mechanisms of Arsenic Reduction in Shewanella Sp. ANA-3 | 3,618 | 2,855 | 763 | 78.9% |
| 4bd9n3t9 | Lipoxygenase Investigations Lead to the Discovery of Potent Inhibitors and their Mechanisim of Action | 3,579 | 1,910 | 1,669 | 53.4% |
| 58k1k40p | NPCs to Believe In: Value-based Morality in Video Game Characters | 3,513 | 1,670 | 1,843 | 47.5% |
| 97z569b3 | Procedural, Player-Centric Game Balancing | 2,941 | 2,731 | 210 | 92.9% |
| 0s71f0cw | Storming Fortresses: A Political History Of Chess In The Soviet Union, 1917-1948 | 2,916 | 376 | 2,540 | 12.9% |
| 318258kw | Designing Process-Oriented Computational Assistance to Support Self-Regulated Learning in Complex Games | 2,913 | 2,452 | 461 | 84.2% |
| 34t2g95n | Intersectional Lives, Intersectional Experiences: Exploring the Impact of Stigma in the Lives of African American Women | 2,834 | 271 | 2,563 | 9.6% |
| 11b9r0j7 | ADHD Communities Online: Understanding Collective Medical Knowledge and Healthcare Tensions | 2,784 | 1,535 | 1,249 | 55.1% |
| 5nn8t6m1 | “Like there’s a difference between love and respect”: The romanticization of abuse and unhealthy relationship dynamics | 2,745 | 1,409 | 1,336 | 51.3% |
| 7s30v5pf | Youth of the Nation: The Space-Time of Adolescence in the Turn of the Century United States | 2,694 | 54 | 2,640 | 2.0% |
| 1vn119k0 | Programming the Intermission: A Procedural History of Cinema and Computation | 2,552 | 301 | 2,251 | 11.8% |
| 57h0m1x1 | The Difference That Money Makes: Sovereignty, Indecision, and the Politics of Liquidity | 2,502 | 305 | 2,197 | 12.2% |
| 7zn2j5k0 | Renormalization Group Constraints on the Two-Higgs Doublet Model | 2,391 | 1,058 | 1,333 | 44.2% |
| 5g85p0h7 | Governing Armenia: The Politics of Development and the Making of Global Diaspora | 2,369 | 432 | 1,937 | 18.2% |
| 6dd1s8sj | Everyday Imaginings Under the Lion Rock: An Analysis of Identity Formation in Hong Kong | 2,354 | 1,416 | 938 | 60.2% |
| 7200m3ft | Borders of Belonging: Nationalism, North Korean Defectors and the Spiritual Project for a Unified Korea | 2,239 | 98 | 2,141 | 4.4% |
| 8cx0j148 | Fighting in the Future Tense: Norm Collision and Imaginaries in the Emergence of Autonomous Weapons | 2,233 | 1,732 | 501 | 77.6% |
| 6vg3m6f7 | Gad's Book | 2,210 | 65 | 2,145 | 2.9% |
| 5w65w7jh | Demystifying the Craft Production: A Case Study of the Craft-made Guitar Industry in the Global Economy | 2,162 | 1,131 | 1,031 | 52.3% |
| 7960b6qq | Recording the Nation: Folk Music and the Government in Roosevelt’s New Deal, 1936–1941 | 2,159 | 573 | 1,586 | 26.5% |
| 3b94f76q | Novel Techniques in the Search for Higgs Bosons Produced via Vector Boson Fusion in Association with a High-Energy Photon and Decayed to Bottom Quarks | 2,151 | 1,607 | 544 | 74.7% |
| 2198m1kj | Los Angeles Noisescapes: Culture and Aesthetics in the Early Twenty-First Century Experimental 'Noise' Scenes. | 2,127 | 1,505 | 622 | 70.8% |
| 57z2740k | Evidence-based gamification and mnemonics for logographic writing systems. | 2,091 | 1,810 | 281 | 86.6% |
| 2jr6h026 | The Hardboiled and the Haunted: Race, Masculinity, and the Asian American Detective | 2,027 | 653 | 1,374 | 32.2% |
| 0222g7zs | “This University Is Not Made for Someone Like Me”: A Survivor-Centered Study of Campus Sexual Violence | 2,026 | 387 | 1,639 | 19.1% |
| 0vt9c4bq | Unbecoming Silicon Valley: Techno Imaginaries and Materialities in Postsocialist Romania | 1,982 | 105 | 1,877 | 5.3% |
| 0hg4624v | Cultural Memory and Collectivity in Music from the 1991 Persian Gulf War | 1,955 | 1,776 | 179 | 90.8% |
| 1x7589qp | Developing a Computational Theater | 1,949 | 1,692 | 257 | 86.8% |
| 79f5b1s9 | Listening for History: Studies on Retro and the Temporalities of Popular Music | 1,891 | 383 | 1,508 | 20.3% |
| 3p6333mz | Music of American World's Fairs: Music, Protest and Politics at the 1939 and 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition | 1,890 | 711 | 1,179 | 37.6% |
| 5b89r7kb | Infiltration and Excess: Experimental Art and the East German State, 1980 - 1989 | 1,887 | 633 | 1,254 | 33.5% |
| 5g2537gv | Design Out Helplessness: AI Interventions for Game Inclusivity | 1,879 | 1,777 | 102 | 94.6% |
| 3h43x60n | Unruly Labia: Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery and the Production of Normality | 1,871 | 1,602 | 269 | 85.6% |
| 22m9p4g9 | Analysis of Incremental Design Changes in Video Games with Automatic Exploration | 1,870 | 583 | 1,287 | 31.2% |
| 4m2661f8 | Ethnosexuality: A Qualitative Exploration of Racialized Sexual Attractions and Experiencess | 1,850 | 144 | 1,706 | 7.8% |
| 02d699s6 | Game Randomization: Emergent Gameplay Communities | 1,811 | 1,638 | 173 | 90.4% |
| 89v7x5m7 | Taiwanese Homes, Japanese Schools: Han Taiwanese Girls' Primary Education Under Japanese Rule, 1895–1945 | 1,797 | 208 | 1,589 | 11.6% |
| 2bg4k8hq | The Giant Woman at the End of the World: Japan's Post-Postwar Sublime Melancholia in Popular Media | 1,769 | 212 | 1,557 | 12.0% |
| 5g24n99n | Autonomous Motives: Tech, Shared Mobility, Privatization, and the Utopian Imaginary in the Bay Area | 1,751 | 1,643 | 108 | 93.8% |
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