Theses/Dissertations from 2012
An Examination of the Compositional Style of Dorothy Rudd Moore and its Relationship to the Literary Influence of Langston Hughes, Latoya Andriel Lain
Exercise-induced neuroprotection in a hemiparkinsonian 6-hydroxydopamine rat model, Merrill Russen Landers
Model Provisions For Building a Successful Lead Poisoning Prevention Program: A Case Study for the Western United States, Kathleen Lauckner
From fandom to tourism: An examination of self-~expansion theory, So Jung Lee
Supervised Lower Extremity Strengthening Program to Improve Function in Women Over Fifty with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Time Series Design, Janelle Brooke Lemons, Diane Christine Sheesley, and Pamela Reagan Sutton
The Marketing Effectiveness of Hotel Facebook Pages: From Perspectives of Customers and Messages, Xi Yu Leung
The Leadership Orientations and Effectiveness of College and University Career Services Directors, Jacob A. Livengood
Novel Production Techniques of Radioisotopes Using Electron Accelerators, Daniel Robert Lowe
Archiving Joyce & Joyce's Archive: Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Copyright, Jessica Michelle Lucero
Nutritional Management of the Extremely Low Birth Weight Infant: An Evidence Based Clinical Practice Guideline, Dana J. Lunde
A Case Study Using Principal-Agent Theory to Explore How a Public, Four Year University Interacts with a System Office, Annie Macias
Provider Variations in Cesarean Section (CS) and Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) Practice, Rita Elizabeth Marrero
Antecedent Influences: Factors that Guide African American Men to the Field of Education, Michael James Maxwell
Response to Intervention Data in Grade Retention Decisions: How is it Used?, Cheryl Anne Mayfield
Reclaimed from a Contracting Zion: The Evolving Significance of St. Thomas, Nevada, Aaron James Mcarthur
Population-Based Survey of Lumbar Surgery Beliefs in the United States, Amanda Elyse McCauley and Zachery Clark Rasmussen
Therapist Characteristics Influencing Physical Therapy Non-Treatment in the Acute Care Setting, Daniel McGarvey, Colby Olsen, and Aaron Van Wagoner
Community Resources and Black Social Action, F Street, A Case Study, Robert Joseph Mckee
Facing The Music: Student Power Relations in Student Leadership Within High School Band Programs, Curtis James Melton
A study of district leadership practices in the principal professional learning community, Danielle Grace Miller
Leadership Practice in Elementary School Dual Language Programs: A Collective Case Study, Joanie K. Monroy
Teaching Online Social Skills to Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Joseph John Morgan
Muddy Creek Formation: A Record of Late Neogene Tectonics and Sedimentation in Southern Nevada, Thomas William Muntean
Education Interest Groups: The Influence of Networks on Rulemaking and Policy in Public School Reform, Brian Curtis Myli
The New American Conservation Movement: New Strategies, Focus and Organizations for the 21st Century, Amy Deanna Northrup
Recycling and Reuse of Radioactive Materials, Thomas Joseph O'dou
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Primary Care Providers' Evaluation of Patient Fitness to Fly, Kerry Colleen Palakanis
CPU Scheduling for Power/Energy Management on Heterogeneous Multicore Processors, Rajesh Patel
Celebrity Athlete Endorser Effectiveness: Construction and Validation of a Scale, Theodore Byrne Peetz
Why Access Barriers to Primary Care Exist for People with Mobility Disabilities: A Mixed Methods Study of Health Care Administrators, Jennifer Renee Pharr
The effect of casino tax policy on short-run gaming development, Kahlil Philander
Safety First -In Search of Justice -School & Law Enforcement Agency Partnerships, Michael Anthony Pickett
Environmental Adaptations at Neolithic Ghwair I as seen from a Zooarchaeological Perspective, Doss F. Powell
A Father's Hands: African American Fathering Involvement and The Educational Outcomes of Their Children, Theodore Samuel Ransaw
Molecular Forensic Science Analysis of Nuclear Materials, Dallas Reilly
Program Evaluation of Stroke in Rural Nevada Hospital, Starla Cheri Ricks
Restaurant Service Employees Organizational Commitment: Shared Gratuity versus Independent Gratuity Environments, Susan J. Roe
James Jones's Codes of Conduct, Matthew Samuel Ross
Comparing Division IA Scholarship and Non-Scholarship Student-Athletes: A Discriminant Analysis of Academic Performance, Lisa Melanie Rubin
A Critical Edition of Gustave Vogt's 4eme Solo de Concert, Mark Runkles
A Refreshable and Portable E-Braille System for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Mohammad Yousef Saadeh
An Exploration Of Contextual Factors That May Influence The Expulsion Rates Of Middle School Students, Tracy Schroeder
Innovators and laggards? Faculty adoption of online distance education, Thomas Tailor Scott
Comparing Public and Private Institutions that Have and Have Not Implemented Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems: A Resource Dependence Perspective, Geetha Rathna Sendhil
The Non-Gaming Business of the Gaming Industry: Evaluating the Contribution of Non-Gaming Amenities at a Casino-Resort Property, Elena Shampaner-Ghiassi
Credentialing Success in Respiratory Therapy Education: Revisiting Bourdieu's Concepts of Field and Capital, Karen Lightbody Shaw
Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Germany. A Transnational History., Julia Simone Stetler
Caught in the Immigration Cross-Fire: The Changing Dynamics of Congressional Support for Skilled Worker Visas, Maryam Tanhaee Stevenson
Principal Change Facilitator Style and Student Achievement: A Study of Schools in the Middle, Steven Keith Stewart
Room Service Principles and Practices: An Exploratory Study, Stanley Douglas Suboleski
From Martyrs to Mothers to Chick in Choos: The Medieval Female Body and American Women's Popular Literature, Gina M. Sully
Affect Identification and Interpersonal Skills: An In-Depth Evaluation of Social Cognition in Schizophrenia, Griffin Pollock Sutton
Improving evidence based asthma management in an urban university student health center, Hedian Cho Swanson
Measuring Spillover Effects of Residential Amenity Improvements Using Spatial Hedonic Approach, Shruti Bishan Tandon
Division I Student-Athlete Degree Choice Assessment, Tony Terrell
Die Deutschen in Kalifornien: Germans in Urban California, 1850-1860, Carole Cosgrove Terry
Topics in Galaxy Formation: Pairwise Velocities of Dark Matter Halos and Molecular Hydrogen Regulated Star Formation in Cosmological Simulations, Robert Jo Thompson
Examining Competencies for the Human Resources Professional Within Idaho State Government, Cecil R. Torres Jr
Exploring The Relationship Between First Year First Generation College Students And Their Parents, Jerica L. Turek
Cooperation, Competition and the Development of Institutional Capacity: Civil Rights and Public Transportation in Southern Nevada, Bruce Erwin Turner
Formal, Bounded, and "Hyper" Rationality in Police Processing of Sexual Assualt Claims: Case Dispositions and UCR Reporting, Brooke M. Wagner
Counselor Development in the Process of Mastering Cultural Competence: A Study of Professional Growth Experiences, Marie Antoinette Wakefield
Perceptions of barriers that inhibit African American women and adolescent girls from participation in physical activity, Sonya Daniels Walker
Use of Continuous Glucose Monitors in Type-1 Diabetes: An Analysis of Wave Form Versus Glycemic Values in the Improvement of Glucose Control and Fear of Hypoglycemia, Tomas Charles Walker
Concordance of Vocational Interest and Efficacy of Female College Students Pursuing a Traditional Career Path, Priscilla A. Walton
"CHOICES" Florida's Version of Obamacare, Jason Lamarr Wasden
Theory versus practice: a study of strategy making in five public MBA programs, Michael Alwyn Wilde
Competencies for Financial Aid Officers: A Competency Model for Professional Development, Michael Neil Woolf
Efficiency of Fiscal Expenditures in Nevada Elementary Schools Using Data Envelopment Analysis, Todd Patrick Yocum
Hybrid Plasmonic Nanoantennas: Fabrication, Characterization, and Application, Shengjie Zhai
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Impacts of climate change and weather modification on hydrologic characteristics of watersheds in the western United States, Anil Acharya
Visual attention to erotic stimuli in androphilic male-to-female transsexuals, Sarah A. Akhter
An assessment of medical care provided by Nevada's high school athletic programs, Brooke Allen-Burnstein
Change is learning: Metacognition to resolve concerns during the third year of the implementation of a technological innovation, Nola Allen-Raffail
The process of coaching: An examination of authenticity, Steven C. Barnson
Extraction chromatographic studies of rutherfordium and dubnium homologs, Megan E. Bennett
Mesozoic burial, Mesozoic and Cenozoic exhumation of the Funeral Mountains core complex, Death Valley, Southeastern California, Mengesha Assefa Beyene
Bryoecology in the American southwest: Patterns of biodiversity and responses to global change, John Carroll Brinda
Historical diversification of montane herpetofauna within and between the sierras of Mexico, Robert William Bryson Jr.
The Size of the risk: An environmental history of the nuclear Great Basin, Leisl Ann Carr Childers
Identifying and reducing lead exposure associated with the use of cultural practices in southern Nevada Hispanic communities, Maria Castillo-Couch
Bridging the chasm: Emerging model of leadership in intercollegiate athletics governance, John C. Chandler III
Job stress, mentoring, psychological empowerment, and job satisfaction among nursing faculty, Catherine Emily Ebersole Chung
Factors influencing music teacher retention: A mixed method study, Charles W. Cushinery
Evaluating a social skills training protocol in a private setting: Outcomes and issues, Judi Davis
The influence of peer tutors and technology-actuated reading instruction process on third-grade students' self-perceptions as readers: A multiple case study, Brenda Shill Daw
The role of narrative in multimedia learning, Myrna Elyse Diamond
To consult or not to consult? Investigating barriers to dysparenia treatment-seeking in young women, Robyn L. Donaldson
Faculty’s Perceptions of Students’ Abilities to Utilize Self-Regulated Learning Strategies to Improve Critical and Reflective Thinking in Making Clinical Decisions: A Methodological Study, Amber Lynn Donnelli
Reading the world in the word: The possibilities for literacy instruction framed within human rights education, Judith M. Dunkerly
Operation span task’s susceptibility to math anxiety: Support from fluid intelligence, Robert T. Durette
The impact of regulating social science research with biomedical regulations, Brenda Braxton Durosinmi
Chaucer’s reading list: Sir Thopas, Auchinleck, and Middle English romances in translation, Ken Eckert
Mathematical modeling of metamaterials, Valjean Elizabeth Elander
College Choice Influences Among High-Achieving Students: An Exploratory Case Study of College Freshmen, Derek Takumi Furukawa
Intragroup separation of trivalent lanthanides and actinides for neutron capture experiments in stockpile stewardship sciences, Narek Gharibyan