Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Effect of Exercise and Hypoxia on Plasma Telomerase, Charli D. Aguilar
Utilizing Teacher Response to Help Students Meet and Transfer First-Year Composition Course Objectives, Clyde Aidoo
Before and After Her Body, Shannon Austin
N-Nitrosodimethylamine Formation and Mitigation in Potable Reuse Treatment Trains Employing Ozone nd Biofiltration, Fernanda Bacaro
Efficient and Practical Composition of Lock-Free Data Structures, Neha Bajracharya
Examining Environmental Hazards in Rental Homes and Habitability Laws in Clark County, Nevada, Jorge Luis Bertran
The Combined Effect of Photovoltaic and Electric Vehicle Penetration on Conservation Voltage Reduction in Distribution System, Narayan Bhusal
The Impact of Waters of Low Quality on Soiling Removal from Photovoltaic Panels, Alisson Luiz Boeing
The Effect of Choice on Throwing Speed in Baseball Players, Brooke Andrea Boyd
A Land to Call Their Own, Timothy James Buchanan
“Need We Mention Our Fashions? “The Educational, Entertaining, and Nostalgic Uses of Godey’s Lady’s Book Fashion Plates, 1830 To 1940, Maggie Bukowski
A Dramatistic Analysis of Nevada's Controversy over Solar Net Metering Incentive Policies, Robert S. Burgy
Is It Still Impossible to Be Black and American?, Darrian Carroll
Mixing the Business of Pleasure: How Mixing Shaped the Labor and Narratives of Female Entertainers in Mid-Twentieth Century America, Evan Maryl Casey
An Evaluation of Food Insecurity Rates and Its Correlates in a Filipino American Population Sample Residing In Clark County, Nevada, Prescott M. Cheong
Advancing Community Detection Using Keyword Attribute Search, Sanket Chobe
Combinatorial Ant Optimization and the Flowshop Problem, Tasmin Chowdhury
Police Interventions, Public Perceptions, and The RDFC Interaction Model, Stacey L. Clouse
Petrology and Geochemistry of the Enriched Poikilitic Shergottite Northwest Africa 10169: Insight into the Martian Interior, Logan Matthew Combs
A Comparison of the Product Topology on Two Trees with the Tree Topology on the Concatenation of Two Trees, Katlyn Kathleen Cox
Algorithms for Tower Placement on Terrain, Binay Dahal
Force Multiplier Calculations for X-ray Binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei, Randall Cody Dannen
Virginia Woolf and the Flâneuse: A Geocritical Approach to Mrs. Dalloway and the Voyage Out, Kayla Dean
Hexavalent Chromium Removal from Residual Ion-Exchange Brine Using Ferrous Sulfate, Ana Luiza De Araujo Silva
Associations between Opioid-Related Hospitalizations and Intravenous Drug Users, Jacklynn De Leon
Elliptic Cryptosystem, Elizabeth Dettrey
UAS-based Object Tracking via Deep Learning, Marc Dinh
Hotspot Homes: An Analysis of the Situational/Contextual Factors, Windows of Opportunity, and Attempted Burglaries on Repeatedly Burglarized Residential Homes, Joshua W. Donnelly
Evaluating the Feasibility and Sustainability of Direct Potable Reuse in Las Vegas, NV, Cory Dow
Life in Roman Canterbury: A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Health Status in a Late Romano-British Cemetery (AD 300-400), Elizabeth Sara Duffy
Structural Evolution and Regional Implications of the Arrowhead Mine Fault within the Pahranagat Shear Zone, Nevada, USA, Michael Dennis Evans
Numerical Analysis of an Electrical Transformer with Fins and Horizontal Pins, Sean Ferneyhough
Media Portrayals of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A CARS2 and Frame Analysis of the Sesame Street Character Julia, Sallyann Ficarrotta
Designing National Indoor Radon Surveys According to IAEA Guidance, Charles Fitzpatrick
Money Matters: Exploring the Financial Resources for Sports Medicine Programs in Public and Private Secondary Schools--A Qualitative Study, Natalie Mercedes Aviles Flores
Mate Preferences among Single Mothers, Carol Yvette Franco
A Distributed Real-Time Short-Term Solar Irradiation Forecasting Network for Photovoltaic Systems, Michael Adelbert Gacusan
Comparison of Cervical Angle during Different Equipment Removal Techniques Used In Ice Hockey for Suspected Cervical Injuries, Kendell Sarah Galor
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder within Clinically Referred Youth, Breanna Garcia
A Framework to Capture Dynamic Traffic Trends from Historical Sensor Data, Carlos Gaviria
Design, Layout, and Testing of Sige APDs Fabricated in a Bicmos Process, Dane Laurence Gentry
Optimization of Useful Hard X-ray Photochemistry, David Lewis Goldberger
Influencing Hawai‘i Hotel Patrons to Use Reef-Safe Sunscreens, Rochelle Good
To Remain Near the "Water Ditch," Paiute Sovereignty and United States Settler Colonialism, Owens Valley, California, 1870-1937, Lee Murray Hanover
Postpartum Maternal Mood among Hadza Foragers, Kristen Herlosky
Affinity Points in Variable Frequency Drive – Motor Systems, Christophe Hicks
A Cross-cultural Investigation of the Relationship between Customer Demographics and Hotel Room Price Perception, Jinhua Hong
"The Only People Who Can Get AIDS-Are People": The AIDS Crisis in Mainstream Crisis, 1981-1995, Franklin Howard
Examination of Mental Health and Family Relationship in Collegiate Athletes, Julia Hussey
Waiting For Nothing, Jiwoong Hyun
Supranational Identity Politics: Sovereignism in the EU, Emilio Jacintho
Air Pollution Related Asthma Inpatient Hospital Admission in the Las Vegas Valley, Joshua Allen Jensen
Expression Of Line-1 In Human Somatic Tissues And The Factors Correlated With Line- 1 Expression, G. M. Jonaid
Concurrency in Blockchain Based Smartpool with Transactional Memory, Laxmi Kadariya
Novice versus Expert Algebraic Problem-Solving Strategies: An Eye Tracking Approach, Krystal Kamekona-Mendoza
Modeling Impaired Hippocampal Neurogenesis after Radiation Exposure, Kapukotuwa Walawwe Sidath Chathuranga Kapukotuwa
Effect of BMP Treatment on Periostin Gene Expression in Pre-Osteoblastic MC3T3-E1 Mouse Cells, Vincent Lee Khang
Power and Authority of Royal Queen Mothers: Juxtaposing the French Queen Regent and the Ottoman Validé Sultan During the Early Modern Period, Reneé N. Langlois
Fundamental Tradeoffs in Estimation of Finite-State Hidden Markov Models, Justin Le
Handgrip Fatigue and Forearm Girth in Intermediate Sport Rock Climbers, Grace Antoinette Macdonald
Performance Analysis of Blockchain Platforms, Pradip Singh Maharjan
Biodegradable and Biocompatible Silk Fibroin for Optical Applications, Corey Bryce Malinowski
Outer Space in a Western Place: How Environmental Perceptions of the American West Shaped the Space Race, William Marino
Changes in IGF-1 Levels Post Deer Antler Velvet Supplementation, Nicole Alexandra Marmillo
Cultivating Children: Continuity and Change in African-American Child Labor During the Reconstruction Era, 1863-1877, Alan Mattay
Design Guidelines and Strategies for Thermal Solar Management of Fenestration in the Desert Climate, David Mccredo
Larval-Ant Interactions in the Mojave Desert: Communication Brings Us Together, Alicia Mellor
Variable Transition Time Inverters in a Digital Delay Line with Analog Storage for Processing Fast Signals and Pulses, James Kenton Mellott
Scheduling Two Machines with Dissimilar Costs, Madhurupa Moitra
High Speed Fast Transient Digitizer Design and Simulation, Eric Clark Monahan
Effects of Ambient Air Pollution on Asthma-Related Emergency Department Visits within the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, Loiren E. Monardes
Linear and Nonlinear Adaptive Attitude Control of Asteroid-Orbiting Spacecraft Using State Feedback and Output Feedback, Nicholas Moya
Interleukin-1 Beta (IL-1β) Gene Polymorphisms in Pre-Treatment Orthodontic Patients Exhibiting Short Root Anomaly (SRA), Satyaprasad Nayak
3-D Upper Airway Comparison between Class I and Class II Adults with Excessive Daytime Sleepiness, Nga Nguyen
Why Musical Groove Makes Us Move: An Electroencephalographic Investigation, Samantha Reina O'connell
Numerical Study of Biopolymer Implants for Distal Femoral Condyles– Finite Element Simulations, Luke Olsen
The Design, Modeling, and Optimization of a Biomimetic Soft Robot for Fluid Pumping and Thrust Generation Using Electroactive Polymer Actuators, Zakai Jedidiah Olsen
Numerical Study of Oxidation in Stainless Steel Alloy Ep-823 by Liquid Lead-Bismuth Eutectic, Rajyalakshmi Palaparty
Human Thermal Comfort in Transition Space, Asawari Anil Pawar
Miocene-Quaternary Deformation along the Central Maynard Lake Fault, Pahranagat Shear Zone, Nevada, Alexander Peck
Evaluation of a Continuous Air Monitoring System on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Measurement of Airborne Radioactive Material, Adam Pfannenstein
Machine Learning Applications in Graduation Prediction at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Elliott Collin Ploutz
A Numerical Model of an Axial Wind Turbine, Andrew Liam Poland
Nutrition Transition of Hadza Foragers: Implications for Juvenile Behavior, Trevor Pollom
The Future of Construction as it Applies to the Colonization of the Moon and Mars, Julian Prestia
Petrogenesis of Enriched and Intermediate Poikilitic Shergottites: From Magmatic Source to Emplacement, Rachel Rahib
A Machine Learning Approach to Predict First-Year Student Retention Rates at University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Aditya Rajuladevi
Boys to Men: Masculinity, Victimization, and Offending, Shon Michael Reed
A Novel Approach to Analyzing Strain Heterogeneity in Polycrystalline Quartz Specimens Deformed at High Pressure and Temperature, Nolan Ambrose Regis
The Importance of Cultural Competence: The Defining Characteristic Separating Veteran Treatment Courts from Other Specialized Dockets, Kyle Nathan Rodgers
Effect of Curing Conditions on Mechanical Properties and Durability of Concrete, Edgar Lazaro Salas-Borrero