Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Porphyry Copper Exploration of the Hualapai Mountains, Mohave County, Arizona, USA: A Multi-faceted Approach, Patrick Kevin Meazell
The Rhetoric of Gay Christians: Matthew Vines and Reverend Nancy Wilson as Exemplars, Joshua Holman Miller
A Comparative Study: Utilizing Data Mining Techniques to Classify Traffic Congestion Status, Abbas Mirakhorli
Factors Associated with Rapid Readmission Among Nevada State Pyschiatric Hospital Patients, Christopher Owen Moore
Transport Properties of Nano-Silica Contained Self-Consolidating Concrete, Borhan Moradi
The Presentation of Childhood Parental Divorce in Adulthood: A Retrospective Phenomenological Study, Sheala Catherine Morrison
The Effect of Acute LPS-Induced Immune Activation and Brain Insulin Signaling Disruption in a Diabetic Model of Alzheimer's Disease, Andrew Scott Murtishaw
N-Dimensional Quasipolar Coordinates - Theory and Application, Tan Mai Nguyen
Finite Difference Modeling of Surface-~Wave Scattering for Shallow Cavity Detection, Heston Travis Norcott
Economic Voting in the Developing World, Rafael Oganesyan
Before You Knew Me, Isabel Ontiveros
Lung Cancer Survival Disparities in Nevada, Chima Osuoha
WISC-IV Profiles in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Comorbid Learning Disabilities, Elyse Parke
Thermal Impacts of Salt on Sandstones and Mudstones in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal, Brett Perry
A Survey of Tabu Search in Combinatorial Optimization, Lemasri Piniganti
Development and Testing of the Home Safety and Beautification Checklist with Mothers Referred for Child Neglect and Substance Abuse, Michelle Pitts
The Hotel College First Year Experience at UNLV: Does it Make a Difference?, Jill Plumer
The Wetsuit Effect: Physiological Response to Wearing a Wetsuit, Aaron Prado
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Newly Implemented, Proactive Approach to Legionellosis Investigations Conducted by the Southern Nevada Health District, Devin Charlotte Raman
Simultaneous Equation Modeling for Crash Rate of Freeway Segments, Anthony Ramos
Physical Child Abuse and Cultural Differences in Reporting, Emily Frances Reed
Self Adjusting Contention Friendly Concurrent Binary Search Tree by Lazy Splaying, Mahesh Raj Regmee
New early Miocene 40Ar/39Ar ages for Nakwai, northwest Kenya, Africa, and Paleontological analysis of Meroehyrax kyongoi dentition, Dawn Elena Reynoso
Time Correlated Measurements Using Plastic Scintillators with Neutron-Photon Pulse Shape Discrimination, Norman Edison Richardson
Acute Testosterone Responses to Different Resistance Exercise Intensities, Robert Rietjens
A Survey of Ekeland's Variational Principle and Related Theorems and Applications, Jessica Robinson
Corrugated Ware Function and Use as Identity Markers at the Harris Site, Danielle Romero
Identifying Maltreated Youths at Heightened Risk for Posttraumatic Symptoms, Emma H. Ross
GATE Monte Carlo Simulations in a Cloud Computing Environment, Blake Austin Rowedder
Implicit Theories of Intelligence and Learning a Novel Mathematics Task, Nathan Oehme Rudig
Survival, growth, and settlement of Dreissena rostriformis bugensis veligers in low and high calcium waters, Emma Ruhmann
Identification of long term changes and evaluation of the relationships among streamflow variability and oceanic-atmospheric indices, Soumya Sagarika
Modeling Pavement Distress Rates within U.S. Air Force Airfields, Lauren Sahagun
Long May She Reign: A Rhetorical Analysis of Gender Expectations in Disney's Tangled and Disney/Pixar's Brave, Caitlin J. Saladino
One Way to Light a Candle, Samantha Samson
Lattice Methods For The Valuation of Options with Regime Switching, Atul Sancheti
Kinematics and Timing of Superposed Deformation in the Funeral Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex, Death Valley, CA, Katrina Marie Sauer
Designing a Biomimetic Testing Platform for Actuators in a Series-Elastic Co-contraction System, Ryan Tyler Schroeder
Sentiments of Community Stakeholders Living in Southern Nevada Neighborhoods, Erin Sheehy
An Energy-Efficient, Time-Constrained Scheduling Scheme in local mobile cloud, Ting Shi
A Light-Weight Real-Time Privacy Protection Scheme for Video Surveillance by Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Surendra Shrestha
Client Selected Music Based Effects On Marital And Couples Therapy, Kevin Matthew Smith
Health Hazards in Rental Housing: An Overview of Clark County, Nevada, Amanda Nicole Sokolowsky
Influence of limestone powder content and size on transport properties of self-consolidating concrete, Rebecca Kendal Spitek
Influence of Social Media in Stages of Democratization, Ira David Sternberg
Predicted Performance of a SkyTherm North, A Highly Insulated Building Envelope System and A Frost Protected Shallow Foundation, Kitrina Ann Stratton
Estimating Aquifer Characteristics and Identification of a Sub-Basin for Artificial Storage and Recovery, Northeastern Ivanpah Valley, Nevada, Nikolas James Taranik
The Influence of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick on Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Ryan Joseph Tesar
The Effects of Disbursement of Foreign Aid to African Countries: A Case Study of Ghana and Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire), Jemilat Kike Thompson-Odoom
A Study of Graphical Permutations, Jessica Thune
Post-Occupancy Energy Efficiency Evaluation of a LEED Platinum Federal Government Facility, Theresa Tincher
A Physically-Based Type II Supernova Feedback Model in SPH Simulations, Keita Todoroki
Co-Emulation of Scan-Chain Based Designs Utilizing SCE-MI Infrastructure, Bill Jason Pidlaoan Tomas
The Role of Self-Concept in Consumer Behavior, Marisa Toth
The Role of Self-Concept in Consumer Behavior, Marisa Toth
Analytical and Experimental Analysis of Magnetorheological Elastomers, Sarah Trabia
Virtual Rebel Website: A Strategy to Increase User Engagement through Bounce Rate Analysis, Michael Vendivel
Auditory Processing Deficits in Bipolar Disorder with and without a History of Psychotic Features, Ryanna Verbiest
The Effects of a Comprehensive Weight Management Program, Including Nutrition Education, Physical Activity, & Behavior Change Techniques on Weight Loss and Health-Related Behaviors, Christina M. Vergara Aleshire
Non-Learning Semantic Analysis for Context Discovery and Sentiment Estimation: Transportation Application, Himanshu Verma
Factor Structure of the CPT-II, Mary Vertinski
Analysis of Lithic Assemblages from Virgin Branch Puebloan Sites on the Shivwits Plateau, Thomas Carl Wambach
The Untold History of Nevada's Shield Statute, Matthew Travis Ward
Methodological Quality and Study Report Characteristics of Current Nursing Education Research, Staci Lynn Warnert
Attitudes and Perceptions Toward Sex Tourism in Las Vegas, Carolyn Willis
Chinese Outbound Tourists Food Consumption in the U.S.: An Extension of the Theory of Planned Behavior, Kaiyang Wu
Isolation and Characterization of Paenibacillus larvae Bacteriophages for Use as a Treatment of American Foulbrood Disease in Honeybees, Diane Gerda Yost
Gilded Age Visual Media as the Impetus for Social Change: Jacob Riis's Reform Photography and the Antecedents of Documentary Film, Denitsa Yotova
Induction of Differentiation of Dental Pulp-Derived Mesenchymal Stem cells (DPSC), Aubrey Young
Developing Seamless Connections in the Urban Transit Network: A Look toward High-Speed Rail Interconnectivity, Tingting Yu
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Stability Aware Delaunay Refinement, Bishal Acharya
Utilizing Big Data in Identification and Correction of OCR Errors, Shivam Agarwal
Assessing Different Zeolitic Adsorbents for their Potential Use in Kr and Xe Separation, Breetha Alagappan
Dehumanization: As It Is Present Within Bullying Behaviors In An Anti-Bullying Program, Katelyn Amos
A Digital Image Processing Method for Detecting Pollution in the Atmosphere from Camera Video, Amrita Nikhil Amritphale
AlPcS(2a)-Mediated Photochemical Internalization of Bleomycin and Concurrent Hyperthermia of Multicellular Tumor Spheroids, Aaron Andersen
Assessing Growth Response to Climate Controls in a Great Basin Artemisia Tridentata Plant Community, Lorenzo F. Apodaca
Weight Gain in Pregnancy and Pre-menopausal Breast Cancer: a population-based case-control study, Arash Ardalan
Investigation of Peak Load Reduction Strategies in Residential Buildings in Cooling Dominated Climates, Fady Atallah
Comparison of Mesh and Meshless Methods for Partial Differential Equations of Galerkin Form, Wallace F. Atterberry
Real Time Pattern Recognition in Digital Video with Applications to Safety in Construction Sites, Dinesh Bajracharya
Emotional and Behavioral Reactions to Emotional and Physical Infidelity: An Evolutionary Perspective, Alyson Kay Baker
Object Detection Using Contrast Enhancement and Dynamic Noise Reduction, Justin Lee Baker
An Online Algorithm for the 2-Server Problem On The Line with Improved Competitiveness, Lucas Adam Bang
Dressing Indian: Appropriation, Identity, and American Design, 1940-1968, Alison Rose Bazylinski
Always Away, Mollie Bergeron
How We Complain: The Effect of Personality on Consumer Complaint Channels, Riley Allen Berry
Numerical Modeling of Heat Pipe Radiator and Fin Size Optimization for Low and No Gravity Environments, Virginia Ruth Bieger
Temperature Trends and Urban Heat Island Intensity Mapping of the Las Vegas Valley, Adam Leland Black
How Accurately Can the Inclination Angle, Position Angle, and Location of the Dynamic Center be Measured from the Neutral Hydrogen Disk in the Central Regions of Dwarf Galaxies?, John Henry Boisvert
Actresses Redefining Theater and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century France, Rebecca Anne Bolen
Criticality and Characteristic Neutronic Analysis of a Transient-State Shockwave in a Pulsed Spherical Gaseous Uranium-Hexafluoride Reactor, Jeremiah Boles
Alternations of NMDA and GABAB Receptor Function in Development: A Potential Animal Model of Schizophrenia, Monica Bolton
The Acute Effect of Two Hip External Rotator Stretches on Range of Motion, Cody Brian Bremner
Strategic Electronic Property Control of Self-Assembling Pyrazine-Acenes, Lacie Brownell
Pyramid of the Sun, James Joseph Brown
Efficacy of Gold Silica Nanoshells and Gold Nanorods for Photothermal Therapy of Human Glioma Spheroids, Suyog Jung Chhetri