Theses/Dissertations from 2012
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
Assessing a combined theories approach to climate change communication, Ted Greenhalgh
Bilingualism and math cognition, Michelle M. Guillaume
Examining experience in depressed and nondepressed individuals, Jedidiah D. Gunter
Modeling and Control of a Flexible Ionic Polymer Metal Composite(IPMC) Actuator for Underwater Propulsion, Shivakanth Gutta
Enhancing therapists' clinical judgments of client progress subsequent to objective feedback, Michael M. Haderlie
The Relationship of Ethnicity and Familial Factors in the Expression of School Refusal Behavior in Clinical and Community Samples, Courtney Marie Haight
Enhancing the cultural competence of women’s health nurses via online continuing education, Ella T. Heitzler
Exploring the factors that influence adequate yearly progress within elementary school settings, Shannon Marie Hennrich
Phylogeography of a vanishing North American songbird: The painted bunting (Passerina ciris), Connie Ann Herr
The Development and evaluation of a safety skill intervention for child victims of neglect, Heather H. Hill
Creating effective leadership development programs: A descriptive quantitative case study, Spencer Holt
Raman Spectroscopic Study of Solid Solution Spinel Oxides, Brian D. Hosterman
Teacher gesture in a post-secondary English as a second language classroom: A sociocultural approach, Natalie Hudson
Peripheral soldering of flip chip joints on passive RFID tags, Md Syful Islam
Self-assembling organic semiconductors with tunable electronic properties based on novel asymmetric phenazine and bisphenazine, Kyoungmi Jang
Impact of home hospital program on empowerment and professional practice behaviors, Marcille Jo Jorgenson
Association of oceanic-atmospheric oscillations and hydroclimatic variables in the Colorado River Basin, Ajay Kalra
The relationship between participation in extracurricular activities and Utah's proficiency assessments of students in a suburban school district, Everett N. Kelepolo
Alumni participation: An investigation using relationship marketing principles, Lisa Ann Kelleher
Clarinet performance practices for Alberto Ginastera's "Variaciones concertantes": Solutions for orchestral auditions and performances, Thomas James Kmiecik
The Effect of working memory and math ability on decision making, Jeremy A. Krause
Environmental engagement demand differences within and among Holland academic environments, Derek K. Lester
Graduating BSN students' EBP knowledge, EBP readiness and EBP implementation, Ludy SM. Llasus
Numerical Simulations of Accretion Disks and Extrasolar Planets, Stefan Luketic
Colonel John R. Bourgeois: A biography and analysis of transcription style, Jeffrey Alan Malecki
Investigating the effects of a combined problem-solving strategy for students with learning difficulties in mathematics, Dustin B. Mancl
Nabokovilia: References to Vladimir Nabokov in British and American Literature and Culture, 1960-2009, Juan Martinez
The Effect of Pre-collaborative Activity Instruction on Self-efficacy, Robert Ray Mattson
Licensing policies of public school principals, Jerri Mausbach
Modeling gamma-ray bursts, Amanda Maxham
Woman or warrior? How believable femininity shapes warrior women, Jessica D. McCall
Learning middle school mathematics through student designed and constructed video games, Camille M. McCue
A Change of heart: A phenomenographic study of conversation, Marjorie Kay Meckes Conner
Causes of job turnover in the public school superintendency: An explanatory analysis in the western United States, Toby A. Melver
Engaging non-alumni advisory board members in hospitality education, Judy A. Nagai
Phylogeography of three heteromyid taxa: Insight on the evolution of a North American arid grassland rodent guild, Sean A. Neiswenter
Quantification of stochastic uncertainty propagation for Monte Carlo depletion methods in reactor analysis, Quentin Thomas Newell
A Montage in Its Leaves, Andrew S. Nicholson
Set in stone: Legends, traditions, and symbols influencing place attachment for Southern Utah University students, Claudine Nielsen
The American Homophilic School of Composition, Rik Noyce
The Father Birth, Alissa Nutting
Students with reading disabilities participating in literature discussions: A case study, Elysha Patino O’Brien
A Mixed methods exploration of principal communication and school climate, Reece Oswalt
Global and specific controls of protein synthesis in hibernators, Peipei Pan
Synthesis, extraction, dissolution, and voltammetry of f-species in a room temperature ionic liquid solvent, Wendy Jacqueline Pemberton
Information Extraction in an Optical Character Recognition Context, Ramon Pereda
Sew speak! Needlework as the voice of ideology critique in The Scarlet Letter , "A New England nun," and The Age of Innocence, Laura L. Powell
Assisting the accompanying partner: A dramaturgical explanatory study of dual career couples offices, Christine Promin
The Road traveled to becoming a safe high school, Monica J. Pufky Cortez
Examining the experience of recent war veterans who report posttraumatic stress disorder, Neda C. Raymond
Adjusting payroll with changes in business volumes: An examination of Nevada gaming properties, Toni A. Repetti
Magma chamber processes at Mutnovsky Volcano, Russia, Kelly L. Robertson
Best instructional practices for distance education: A meta-analysis, Robin Michael Roberts
Equilibrium speciation of select lanthanides in the presence of acidic ligands in homo- and heterogeneous solutions, Troy Robinson
The male educational leader in Utah: Gender dynamics, power, and relational leadership in a Mormon dominant culture, Rick Robins
“'You done cheat Mose out o' de job, anyways; we all knows dat'”: Faith healing in the fiction of Kate Chopin, Karen Kel Roop
Evaluation of interim sessions in state legislatures, Laurie Erin Russell