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About the Collection
This collection contains UNLV graduate student theses, dissertations, professional papers, and capstone projects from 1956-present. Records produced before 2009 were previously available only in print or microfilm and were digitized by the University Libraries. Records are organized by Year, Author, and Title.
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Patient, Student, and Faculty Perceptions of a Student Led Pro-Bono Education and Treatment Based Back School for Uninsured Nevadans, James Tingey, Daniel Tiano, Rebecca Templeton, and Meagan Duncan
The Short and Long-Term Effectiveness of Online Sales Promotion Type and Fit in Hotels, Esra Topcuoglu
Excavating Gender: The Embodiment and (Re)presentation of Social Relations in Mierzanowice Communities of the Early Bronze Age, Mark Paul Toussaint
Initial Measurements on the Effect of Stress on P- and S-wave Velocities in Olivine, Taryn Traylor
Investigating the Mechanisms Responsible for Cephalosporin Resistance in Clostridioides difficile Strain 630, Lara Anna Turello
Shakespeare’s As You like It and James Cameron’s Avatar: Reharmonizing Society with Nature, Erin Rebecca Turner
Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Gait and Balance Post-Stroke, Leonard Ubalde, Jordon Jacklin, Peyton Hobson, and Sara Wright-Avila
Front-End CMOS Transimpedance Amplifiers on a Silicon Photomultiplier Resistant to Fast Neutron Fluence, Mario Valles Montenegro
Beginning the Baroque Bassoon: A Contemporary Approach, Elizabeth Ellen Valvano
Gender and Race in Four Contemporary Productions of The Duchess of Malfi and Antony and Cleopatra, Dorothy Christine Vanderford
A Comparison of Lateral Cephalometric and Arch Dimension Changes in Patients with Class II Malocclusions Treated With 2-Premolar and 4-Premolar Extraction Patterns, Melissa Marie Ven Dange
An Exploration of the Numeracy Skills Required for Safe, Quality Nursing Practice, Anna Wendel
High Pressure Synchrotron XRD, NFS, and NRIXS studies of FeSb2, Melanie Alden White
Influence of Curricular Organization on Cognitive Load and Student Performance in Online Learning Environments, Michael Wilder
Memory and Stereotypes for Lesbian/Gay Characters, Amber Rose Williams
Developing the Young Dramatic Soprano Voice Ages 15-22, Monica Ariane Williams
The Effectiveness of Implementing a Collegiate Dance Clinic at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Quinn Williams, Kristin Allman, Matthew McArthur, and Ryan Yim
An Evaluation of Bank Storage at Lake Mead Reservoir in the Southwest United States, Jon Woodrow Wilson
Disrupting the Traditional Dating Discourse: Expanding the Romantic Relationship Narrative, Brooke Wolfe
Dark Tetrad Responses to Moral Dilemmas, Kayli Wrenn
Coping on the Fly: School Psychologists' Perceptions of Cultural Competence, Jennifer Wynn
Detection of SNPS Associated with Bone Loss Rate by Using Machine Learning Approaches, Avinash Yaganapu
Developments of Machine Learning Potentials for Atomistic Simulations, Howard Yanxon
Organizational Symbolism and Employee Immersion, a Mixed Methods Investigation of Organizational Socialization Efficacy in the Hotel Industry, Jeffrey Michael Yedlin
Epistemic Aspects of Engineering for K-12 Education, Ezgi Yesilyurt
Equivalences of Determinacy Between Levels of the Borel Hierarchy and Long Games, and Some Generalizations, Katherine Aimee Yost
Resilience and the Mental Health of Bullying Victims: The Role of Peer Relationships on the Relation between Bullying Victimization and Social Anxiety, Michelle Catherine Zochowski
The Impact and Influence of The Diary Of Anne Frank on Middle and High School Students, Norma Jane Zuckerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Neurodynamics under Different Walking Speeds in Individuals with Chronic Post-Stroke Hemiparesis, Corey Ackley, Kiley Aki, Joshua Arias, and Jassie Trinh
Disordered Eating and Body Dysmorphic Concerns in Asian American Women: Sociocultural and Culture-Specific Predictors, Liya Akoury
Restructuring of the Axon Initial Segment in Mouse Models of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Rachel Ali Rodriguez
The Effect of Physical Therapy on Patient Self-Reported Outcomes and Perceptions of Mobility After Lower Extremity Amputations, Gregory Amaya, Rosman Gante, Zachary Meinzer, and Abbas Sadrossadat
Factors Associated with Eosinophilic Esophagitis in Nevada, Julia Lorraine Anderson
The Symbolism of Play Behavior in Child-Centered Play Therapy, Kaitlin Andrewjeski
Does It Mean? Gene Wolfe: Perverse Puzzle Maker, Marc Anthony Aramini
Virtually Healthy: Using Virtual Ethnography to Survey Healthcare Seeking Practices of Transgender Individuals Online, Rogelio Arenas
One-Handed Works: Historical Background, Injury Awareness and a Study of Selected Works, Zheni Georgieva Atanasova
Petrogenesis of Unusual Occurrence of Amphibole Asbestos in Mohave County, Arizona and Clark County, Nevada, Tomoyo Austin
Microstructural Effects on Photocatalytic Performance in Ag3PO4/Bi2MoO6 Z-Scheme Photocatalyst Systems, Kaleab Mengesha Ayalew
Classification of Vegetation in Aerial Imagery via Neural Network, Gevand Balayan
Mojave Desert Ecosystem Recovery: Potency of Biotic and Abiotic Restoration Methods in Low Elevation Plant Communities, Mary Amanda Balogh
Application of Semi-Hydrophobic Layers to Decrease Bare Soil Evaporation, Jesse Lee Barnes
A Novel Feature Maps Covariance Minimization Approach for Advancing Convolutional Neural Network Performance, Bikram Basnet
On Muddy Banks: An Ecoethnography of a River Island Community, Nicholas Baxter
Trauma and Its Shadow: The History of Flashbacks, David Becker
Face Affect Perception in Schizophrenia and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Lisa Beckman
Trade-Offs Between Survival and Reproduction in Starvation-Selected Drosophila Melanogaster, Tammara Beeghly
Performance Modeling of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Zigzag-Channel Printed Circuit Heat Exchangers, Katrine Birgitte Bennett
Exploring Transitions Back and into College: Stories of Adult Women, Laura Bennett
The Experience of Students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder During the Transition to Middle School, Hannah M. Berry
Machine Learning Approach for Prediction of Bone Mineral Density and Fragility Fracture in Osteoporosis, Bibek Bhattarai
Permutation Flow Shop via Simulated Annealing and NEH, Pooja Bhatt
Meal Duration: Implications for Restaurant Revenue Management, Dale F. Billings
Triglyceride Metabolism Following Oral Fat Tolerance Tests of Varying Fat Content in Adults, Nathaniel Glen Bodell
Eyes on the Street: Los Angeles Police Department Surveillance, Policing, and Crime in Black South Central from William Parker to Rodney King, Stephen Bohigian
Reconciling Incongruencies: Examining the Meaning and Influencing Factors of Oncology Nurses' Professional Quality of Life, Rebecca Lynne Boni
Reduced GABAergic Signaling at the Axon Initial Segment Decreases Vigilance State Transitioning, Austin John Boren
Zirconium Tetrachloride, Fundamental Chemistry and Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Rosendo Borjas Nevarez
Factors that Influence Nontraditional Adult Learners' Online Course Persistence: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods Study, Millicent D. Braxton
Large Group Video Modeling: Increasing Social Interactions in an Inclusive Head Start Classroom, Jennifer Margaret Buchter
A Retrospective Survey of Exercise Habits in Low-Income Female Senior Citizens, Kelly L. Bumgarner
Email is Alive: How to Communicate with Graduate College Students, Valarie C. Burke
Floating Head Touching Earth, Carrieann Cahall
Storing IOT Data Securely in a Private Ethereum Blockchain, Vinay Kumar Calastry Ramesh
State Law and Child Welfare Policy Role in Nonparental Family Composition, Laura Alison Caliendo
Determinants of Disparities in the Colorectal Cancer Burden, Karen Elizabeth Callahan
My Voice Matters: A Telling Case Study of Student Voice in Institutional Governance, Eboni Monique Caridine
Pentecostal Churches: A Multiple Case Study of Education and Youth Women and Leadership, Derric A. Carter
Implementation of an Asthma Action Plan in a Pediatric Outpatient Clinic, Noelle Cerdan
On Improving Performance of the Binary Logistic Regression Classifier, Michael Chang
Contributions to MCMC Methods in Constrained Domains with Applications to Neuroimaging, Sharang Chaudhry
Identifying Risk Factors for Youth Hospitalization in Crisis Settings: A Classification and Regression Tree Analysis, Yen-Ling Chen
Sit Crooked and Talk Straight(ish): Exploring Dialectical Tensions in the My Favorite Murder Fandom, Claudia Gricel Chiang-Lopez
Machine Learning Prediction of Primary Tissue Origin of Cancer from Gene Expression Read Counts, Lohitha Chintham Reddy
Optimization of Motor Performance, Lee-Kuen Chua
The Effects of Bone Morphogenic Protein 2 on the Viability and Proliferation of Dental Pulp Stem Cell Isolates, Joseph Cinelli
ProcessJ: The JVMCSP Code Generator, Oswaldo Benjamin Cisneros Merino
Blanche DuBois: A Woman's Journey from Belle Reve through Tarantula Arms to The Elysian Fields, Raluca Daniela Comanelea
Early Contractional History of the Funeral Mountains and its Influence on the Formation of the Funeral Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex, Death Valley, CA, Taylor Douglas Craig
The Search For Home: An Analysis of American-Socialized Filipino American Identity in Literature, Julianna Marie Crame
Lumbopelvic Muscle Performance and Morphology Differences: Implications for Low Back Pain in Individuals with Unilateral Above-The-Knee Amputation, Melissa Damele, Rachel Gross, and Ronauldo Robina
Managing IOT Data on Hyperledger Blockchain, Akhil David
Uncovering the Women in Ocean’s Eight: Understanding the Trends of the Women’s Movement with the Portrayals of Women in Film, Elyssa Michelle Day
The Development of a Viscoelastic Ellipsoidal Model for use in Measuring Plantar Tissue Material Properties during Walking, Jessica Lee DeBerardinis
Assessing the Long-Term Effects of a Cultural Immersion Experience on Nursing Practice, Karen H. de la Cruz
Effects Associated with the Deployment of Autonomous and Connected Vehicles: Insights from Las Vegas, NV, Sarah Dennis
An Analysis of Teacher Training Concerning the Identification of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Brittany Jo Desnoyer
Landscape Scale: Inter- and Intraspecific Variation in Plant Interactions along a Stress Gradient in the Sheep Range of Nevada, Jordan Dowell
Modulation of Corticospinal Excitability Using Cathodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Improve Walking in Individuals with Chronic Post Stroke Hemiparesis, Neil Drobitch, Kylie Henry, Sage Lyons, and James Schomig
Characterizing Compact Game Trees, Andrew Dubose
Building a Music Festival: Understanding Media Industry Lore, Madeline Edgmon
Investigating Sources of Selenium in Shallow Groundwater in the Las Vegas Valley, Sahar Ehsani
Treatment of Perchlorate and Multiple Oxyanions: Chemical and Biological Investigations, Mark Elkouz
External Voting in Developing Countries: Strategic Bargaining and the Role of Remittances, Hafthor Erlingsson
Galena Creek Bridge Structural Health Monitoring Instrumentation and Modeling, Leopold Falkensammer