Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Reciprocal transplantation of the Desert Soil Crust: Can it be done?, Christina D. Cole
Transcendent leader centered analysis: A reconstructive approach to social movement analysis, Kurt Ulrich Coleman
The canons of television: An application of the five canons of classical rhetoric to television program development, Jamey Todd Combs
Fluid flow and slope stability model, Gene Cotner
The relationship between psychosocial momentum, precipitating events, and tennis match outcome, Tracey M Covassin
Women in prison: Do visits from children influence inmate behavior?, Melissa Marie Cozad
Garfield County resident perceptions of the indirect effects of the 2002 Winter Olympics, Cary Michael Deccio
Exploring the situational context of criminal assaults and batteries, Gini Rene Deibert
What is Y2K and how did the University of Nevada system solve it?, Diane R. Dietrich
Retrieval effectiveness for OCR text using thesauri, Elena Dimitrova
An evaluation of unsaturated flow models in an arid climate, Jason Michael Dixon
Casino employee gambling behavior, Karen Barbara Duquette
Measuring efficiency in the Clark County hotel casino industry, Daniel Encinoza
Henry Ford's anti-Semitism: A rhetorical analysis of the "paranoid" style, Jeffrey Brian Farrell
Assisted reproduction: Deciding what's best for the child, the family, and our society, Gayle R Fisher
Prescription drug advertisements as fantasies: A cultural critique using a visualization model, Julie Dianne Fisher
Assessing the accuracy of the Penn World Tables, Timothy Scott Fitzgerald
The erosion of public policies which support workplace justice: A review of the Davis-Bacon Act, Susan Foregard
Gaming growth in Clark County, Nevada: A life cycle study, David Scott Frankhouser
An age of opportunity: Education and employment in cyberspace, Rachel Beth Friedman
Living expressions and their effects on primary recipients, Dana Lynn Galbavy
Study of business failure in the hospitality industry from both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives, Luyuan Gao
Rio natural gas, the alternative fuel of the future, Peter Garner
Pro-social and anti-social effects of television viewing on adolescents: Speculations based on family situation comedy content, Eunette Gentry
A chipped stone characterization of Ghwair I: A Neolithic village in southern Jordan, John Patrick Gervasoni
The relationship between casino drop and gaming stock performance: A multivariate analysis, Mark H Gilbert
Non-intrusive assessment of radionuclides in enclosed pipes and vessels, Traci Renee Glew
United States business travelers' response to price changes and overbooking: Its effect on intentional loyalty in the hospitality industry, Nicholas Jee Gordon
Self-stabilizing network orientation algorithms in arbitrary rooted networks, Shivashankar Gurumurthy
Employee motivation, satisfaction and productivity: A study of the workplace, Yvonne Michelle Guthrie
Community-based corrections: Offender characteristics and success in a halfway house, Ana Maria del Carmen Gutierrez
Avian habitat relationships in the Mojave Desert, Matthew Eugene Hamilton
Using porn: Discourse and identity construction in male consumers, Andrew Fletcher Harper
Do user fees violate nonmember rights?, Jerry Hartman
Survey of injury rates in Nevada high school athletic programs, Michelle Marie Hauck
Elder care: An evaluation of communication resources for lay caregivers in southern Nevada, Deborah Lee Hauth
Massacre, memoir, and myth: The 1866 Fetterman Fight, a reconstruction, Richard S Haynes
On lossless image compression, Huawen He
Genetic algorithms using Galib, Bradley John Hendricks
Quality of life amidst the lights of Las Vegas, Terri Lynn Hicks
A Comparative policy analysis on the effectiveness of implementing student uniforms in public school districts within the United State from 1993 through 1998, Desiree Hiestand
Socially desirable responding on the Machiavellianism scale: Response bias or construct?, Maryn Lyn Hoefer
Nevada's high technology crime task force, Dorinda A. Hollenbeck
The stages of development in the portrayal of African-Americans in television comedy, Rashawnda Deve Horn
Motivation for sport spectating among the Taiwanese people, Ching-Ching Hsu
Penware Panther: An embedded computer system for real-time applications, Chenyong Huang
Do RNA-dependent polymerases share common ancestry? A bioinformatic approach, Julianna Hudak
Descriptive Experience Sampling of individuals with symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder, Daniela S Hugelshofer
Nevada procurment laws for computer related items for public agencies, Rick Hunsaker
Fall from grace: United States images of Japan, 1894--1921, Darryl Scott Hushaw
A Comparison study of the San Francisco Community Board Whole Schools Conflict Resolution Project, Kimberli Huston
Factors affecting participation in senior center programs, Betty J. Jefferson
Monoaromatic hydrocarbons and aldehydes in Las Vegas air, Linhong Jing
Sorption and desorption of selenium in cement formulations, Elizabeth Ann Johnson
An empirical examination of factors that influence venture capital investment and the location of funds, Sandra Phillips Johnson
The perception of Korea as a convention destination, Sung-Ae Jung
The geochronology and geochemistry of the Bearhead Rhyolite, Jemez volcanic field, New Mexico, Leigh Justet
Seismic evaluation of the U3ax/bl landfill in the Area 3 Rwms, Nevada Test Site, Nevada, Maximilian Kemnitz
Metafiction in the work of Tim O'Brien, Michael Patrick Kimmet
An examination of two-year and four-year continuing education curriculum in post-secondary hospitality management programs, Clark Smith Kincaid
Battered women: Exploring motivating factors to leave or remain in violent relationships, Lora Ellen Kirn
Responses of Python regius to animal chemosensory stimuli: Implications of foraging ecology, Albert Klein
The origin of brucite in hydrothermally altered limestone near Devil Peak, Nevada, Rhonda L. Knupp
Living expressions: An initial understanDing, Martin Bennett Landa
Celluloid heroes: A study of fictional characters in popular film as vehicles for cultural myth, Jeffrey Patterson Lawrence
Response of tall fescue to saline water as influenced by leaching fractions and irrigation uniformity distributions, Algirdas M Leskys
"Welcome, fellow toastmasters": The history and membership of a public speaking phenomenon, Ellen Beth Levine Bremen
Fast algorithms for wavelet-based analysis of hyperspectral signatures, Jiang Li
A 3-dimensional H-adaptive algorithm for groundwater flow and contaminant transport, Lan Li
Media convergence, obscenity law and the Internet, Lynette Lim
Systemic environmental analysis of the legal mechanisms for controlling air pollution in the Las Vegas Valley, Richard Little
United States probation/pretrial officers' concerns about victimization and officer safety training, Kevin D Lowry
The use of continuum models for conducting both linear and nonlinear analyses of lattice structures, Simon Yi Luk
Black and blue: A metaphoric criticism, Jacquelyn A Luongo
Knowledge of AIDS, perceived risk of AIDS, and at-risk behaviors among older adults, Cheryl Ann Maes
Leakage gate current in a heterostructure field effect transistor, Amit Ranbir Mahajan
Rethinking the aceramic neolithic: Insights from an ethnoarchaeological study on Cyprus, Sherry Lynn Marks
Life beyond nuclear testing the Nevada Test Site, Fina Martinez-Myers
Perceived readability, understandability, and hazardousness of prescription drug warning labels as a function of icon, font size, and color, Melissa Marie McCafferty
Depictions of race: An analysis of local television news, Colleen M McCarthy
The disability press: A wheel still in spin, Cindy Schwartz McCoy
A comparison of fast and slow contraction speeds using electromyography, Philip James Melhorn
A Windows-based roadway maintenance management system, Ranjit Menon
The rhetoric of martyrdom: A case study analyzing the rhetorical situations of Joan of Arc, John Brown and Jim Jones, Chris S Meservey
UNLV residence hall recycling & reuse program for move-in and move-out, Angela Michelson
Baseball's manifest destiny: The good, the bad, and the ugly, Patrick Valenti Miller
The aerodynamic response of airborne discs, Timothy Lewis Mitchell
A Comparative assessment of the status, structure and process utilized by Nevada's family support and preservation consortia to achieve collaboration, Marlys A. Morton
Trackless online two-server problems and red-black games, Anna N Naydenova
What does the gaming industry pay in taxes, and does the gaming industry pay a proportionate share?, Jewelene Nelson
Gender tragedy in George Eliot's "Mill on the Floss", Elizabeth Anne Nielsen
Metaphorically speaking: Putting Las Vegas on the cultural map, Ester Sara O Fearghail
Midpoint estimation applied to the vertical-horizontal illusion, Gary Wayne Ogren
Towards the cloning of the human heat shock protein twenty-seven multigene family, Ann A Ohiaeri
I/O embedding and broadcasting in star interconnection networks, Kalyanram Palagummi
Bankruptcy prediction in the casino industry, David William Patterson
The effects of catastrophizing and labeling on pain tolerance, sensation, and affect, Otto Pedraza
A heuristic approach for path planning for redundant robots, George Petrescu
Gambling addiction and life meaning, Andrew Bohdan Plesh