UC Santa Cruz Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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eScholarship stats: History by Item for June through September, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | 2026-09 | 2026-08 | 2026-07 | 2026-06 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44n7c8qc | Search for a Heavy Photon in the 2015 Engineering Run Data of the Heavy Photon Search Experiment | 34,601 | 7,852 | 12,413 | 9,715 | 4,621 |
| 0bj2x4ch | Erotic Hypnosis Fetishism: Implications for Sexual Identity Development, Consent, Minority Stress and Intersectionality | 22,028 | 3,221 | 6,539 | 5,549 | 6,719 |
| 4rn476w3 | Communal Narrative Play in Perennial Games | 8,436 | 196 | 2,887 | 4,701 | 652 |
| 96s3j404 | Patterns and Psychology of Video Game Monetization | 7,851 | 186 | 2,702 | 3,982 | 981 |
| 47n870q2 | The "Pull" of Gacha Games: Exploring Player Experiences of Gacha Game Characters | 7,202 | 1,078 | 2,801 | 2,569 | 754 |
| 8q0059bk | The Hermeneutics of Ephemerality: Digital Media and Radical Politics in Postsocialist China | 6,726 | 522 | 5,177 | 553 | 474 |
| 4226j9n9 | The Texte Fleuve and Infinity: The Play of Finitude and Endlessness in Proust, Woolf, and the Open World Video Game | 6,302 | 455 | 2,153 | 2,806 | 888 |
| 6nw5x48d | Crafting Stories Through Play | 5,259 | 490 | 1,627 | 2,454 | 688 |
| 0r9246gd | Computer-Driven, Yet Human-Controlled: The Runtime-Editable, All-Digital TTRPG | 4,850 | 192 | 1,469 | 2,500 | 689 |
| 4m2661f8 | Ethnosexuality: A Qualitative Exploration of Racialized Sexual Attractions and Experiencess | 4,808 | 1,292 | 2,201 | 505 | 810 |
| 7s30v5pf | Youth of the Nation: The Space-Time of Adolescence in the Turn of the Century United States | 4,544 | 1,052 | 2,145 | 709 | 638 |
| 1340j5h2 | Curating Simulated Storyworlds | 4,372 | 591 | 1,259 | 1,759 | 763 |
| 58k1k40p | NPCs to Believe In: Value-based Morality in Video Game Characters | 4,211 | 108 | 1,375 | 1,893 | 835 |
| 4gj774jj | The Influence Of Climate Change And Evolution On Mosquito Life History Traits And Pathogen Transmission | 4,139 | 899 | 1,169 | 969 | 1,102 |
| 0s71f0cw | Storming Fortresses: A Political History Of Chess In The Soviet Union, 1917-1948 | 3,886 | 584 | 1,510 | 772 | 1,020 |
| 97z569b3 | Procedural, Player-Centric Game Balancing | 3,712 | 57 | 1,116 | 1,940 | 599 |
| 8nt4q5qb | Looking for Linda | 3,562 | 557 | 2,543 | 462 | |
| 3ns8z976 | From the Margins of Exile: Democracy and Dissent within the Tibetan Diaspora | 3,511 | 308 | 2,291 | 184 | 728 |
| 318258kw | Designing Process-Oriented Computational Assistance to Support Self-Regulated Learning in Complex Games | 3,314 | 100 | 978 | 1,544 | 692 |
| 1vn119k0 | Programming the Intermission: A Procedural History of Cinema and Computation | 3,225 | 225 | 881 | 1,719 | 400 |
| 5nn8t6m1 | “Like there’s a difference between love and respect”: The romanticization of abuse and unhealthy relationship dynamics | 3,086 | 360 | 1,092 | 844 | 790 |
| 5g85p0h7 | Governing Armenia: The Politics of Development and the Making of Global Diaspora | 2,997 | 712 | 1,096 | 525 | 664 |
| 11b9r0j7 | ADHD Communities Online: Understanding Collective Medical Knowledge and Healthcare Tensions | 2,992 | 287 | 860 | 1,196 | 649 |
| 57h0m1x1 | The Difference That Money Makes: Sovereignty, Indecision, and the Politics of Liquidity | 2,883 | 586 | 1,194 | 420 | 683 |
| 4bd9n3t9 | Lipoxygenase Investigations Lead to the Discovery of Potent Inhibitors and their Mechanisim of Action | 2,879 | 590 | 714 | 934 | 641 |
| 57z2740k | Evidence-based gamification and mnemonics for logographic writing systems. | 2,863 | 195 | 1,002 | 1,295 | 371 |
| 21302587 | Internal Colonization and Revolt: Rap as an Underground Political Discourse in Oakland, CA from 1965-2010 | 2,766 | 1,089 | 573 | 804 | 300 |
| 7960b6qq | Recording the Nation: Folk Music and the Government in Roosevelt’s New Deal, 1936–1941 | 2,705 | 356 | 776 | 1,017 | 556 |
| 5w65w7jh | Demystifying the Craft Production: A Case Study of the Craft-made Guitar Industry in the Global Economy | 2,686 | 230 | 825 | 1,113 | 518 |
| 3w69g61b | Search for the Decay of Higgs Bosons at High Transverse Momentum in the H → b ¯b Channel with the ATLAS Detector | 2,660 | 144 | 252 | 781 | 1,483 |
| 1ps845ks | Grounds for Commitment | 2,612 | 186 | 1,324 | 878 | 224 |
| 6vn888b0 | Using Systems Biology Approaches to Elucidate the Mechanisms of Arsenic Reduction in Shewanella Sp. ANA-3 | 2,585 | 182 | 381 | 1,132 | 890 |
| 0hg4624v | Cultural Memory and Collectivity in Music from the 1991 Persian Gulf War | 2,573 | 203 | 782 | 1,090 | 498 |
| 5g2537gv | Design Out Helplessness: AI Interventions for Game Inclusivity | 2,560 | 237 | 805 | 990 | 528 |
| 2bg4k8hq | The Giant Woman at the End of the World: Japan's Post-Postwar Sublime Melancholia in Popular Media | 2,521 | 195 | 978 | 977 | 371 |
| 22m9p4g9 | Analysis of Incremental Design Changes in Video Games with Automatic Exploration | 2,513 | 74 | 868 | 1,287 | 284 |
| 7200m3ft | Borders of Belonging: Nationalism, North Korean Defectors and the Spiritual Project for a Unified Korea | 2,497 | 393 | 671 | 467 | 966 |
| 2198m1kj | Los Angeles Noisescapes: Culture and Aesthetics in the Early Twenty-First Century Experimental 'Noise' Scenes. | 2,466 | 235 | 702 | 1,108 | 421 |
| 1x7589qp | Developing a Computational Theater | 2,452 | 144 | 762 | 1,109 | 437 |
| 4600g227 | Mechanizing Exploratory Game Design | 2,357 | 153 | 1,462 | 354 | 388 |
| 02d699s6 | Game Randomization: Emergent Gameplay Communities | 2,314 | 104 | 711 | 1,150 | 349 |
| 7x97j2g8 | Minimal-positive-depth Representations of Groups of Relative Rank One over Nonarchimedean Local Fields | 2,305 | 114 | 1,379 | 700 | 112 |
| 1600x55b | The Journey of the Tonkori: A Multicultural Transmission | 2,235 | 217 | 997 | 397 | 624 |
| 1m25b5j5 | The Science of Level Design: Design Patterns and Analysis of Player Behavior in First-person Shooter Levels | 2,208 | 241 | 1,025 | 419 | 523 |
| 1gw4g203 | User Moderling, Personalization, and Personalized Question Generation in Open-Domain Dialogue Systems | 2,185 | 103 | 759 | 958 | 365 |
| 79f5b1s9 | Listening for History: Studies on Retro and the Temporalities of Popular Music | 2,160 | 497 | 827 | 317 | 519 |
| 9gq229h4 | Responsiveness in Narrative Systems | 2,160 | 372 | 1,040 | 432 | 316 |
| 5g24n99n | Autonomous Motives: Tech, Shared Mobility, Privatization, and the Utopian Imaginary in the Bay Area | 2,148 | 81 | 642 | 1,068 | 357 |
| 4mr6c29j | Designing Reusable Tools for Social Simulation-Driven Emergent Storytelling | 2,121 | 154 | 698 | 918 | 351 |
| 2jr6h026 | The Hardboiled and the Haunted: Race, Masculinity, and the Asian American Detective | 2,089 | 132 | 658 | 789 | 510 |
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