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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 2003
A Safety Analysis of Roundabouts in the Las Vegas Valley Clark County, Nevada, Michael J. Janssen
A motivational analysis of Chinese tourists to the United States: Push and pull motivations of travel to Las Vegas, Fanghong Jiao
A survey of artists and literature employing extended multiple mallets in keyboard percussion: Its evolution, resulting techniques and pedagogical guide, Timothy Andrew Jones
Effects of basalt intrusion on the multi-phase evolution of the Jemez volcanic field, New Mexico, Leigh Justet
A Waste assessment of the UNLV dormitories, Colin Kaneda
Quality improvement: Physician providers, and the Women Health Connection Program, in the provision of breast and cervical cancer screening services in Nevada., Salome K. Kapella
The psychological impact of carrier status in hereditary disorders, Jane Elizabeth Karwoski
Teachers' perceptions of societal factors in teacher education during the 1980s, Suzanne Michele Katz
Linking transition best practices to student outcomes for students with mental retardation, Deborah Joy Kennedy
Alternative Route to Licensure in special education: A program evaluation, Karen Y Kennedy
Measuring the environmental attitudes of children in grade 4: A study in Clark County, Amir Khawaja
Cost management preferences of small restaurant firms, Hessun (Amy) Kim
The change in systematic risk after the 9/11 events: An analysis of restaurant industry, Kihun Kim
An examination of the effect of ethical climate on ethical optimism and organizational commitment, Clark S Kincaid
Synthesis and characterization of novel polyaniline/metal composites, John Macharia Kinyanjui
Crit, Andrew Kiraly
Structural characterization of polyurethane foam and implications of aging, Gayani Chandima Kodippili
Using the concrete-representational-abstract teaching sequence to increase algebra problem-solving skills, Kyle B Konold
Selling the drama: A content-analysis of prescribed storylines in Abc's "Monday Night Football", Frederick William Krauss
Development of an automated GIS tool to identify and rank high pedestrian crash zones, Vanjeeswaran Krishna Kumar Kannimangalam
The impact of full-day and half-day kindergarten on the language arts achievement scores of first-grade students, Stefanie M Kujaczynski
Intra-domain mobility management, Kapilkumar Narayanan Kulakkunnath
Evaluation of building energy conservation options, Arpakorn Kumpanon
A controlled evaluation of a comprehensive mental skills program for Ncaa and youth club swimmers, Kevin Matthew Lancer
The role of hotel image and image congruence and their effects on repeat intention in the hotel industry, Grace S Lee
Hamstring/quadriceps strength ratios: An analysis and a strength training study, Heather Jessica Lee
Brand associations in the tradeshow industry: An application of the service brand preference model, Hwabong Lee
Three dimensional pattern recognition using feature-based indexing and rule-based search, Jae-Kyu Lee
Meeting planners' intention of using the Internet and desired lodging Web site content attributes, Woojin Lee
Being bullied in adolescence: A phenomenologic study, Linda Louise Lesperance
Improving resolution of stiff layers in soil profiles through multi-step inversion of Sasw data, Haiyan Liu
Identification of headers and footers in noisy documents, Qin Liu
Geographic variation and behavorial plasticity: Vigilance in desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) populations, Kathleen Mary Longshore
Fluctuations in Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Counts at three lower Columbia River spawning sites, Eric Michael Loomis
Welfare reform: Politics, policy and the courts, Paul Marion Loomis
The college choice phenomenon: An exploration of parental perceptions, Sandra Jean Lord Thomas
Silicification across the Betze-Post Carlin-type gold deposit: Clues to ore fluid properties and sources, Northern Carlin Trend, Nevada, Jared D Lubben
Recognition and identification of form document layouts, Kai Luo
The effect of video instruction on social interactions of children in the inclusive preschool, Catherine Doyle Lyons
Recontextualization and identity assessment of unprovenienced mummified human remains, Gwyn Dee Madden
Nonpoint source pollution during dry and wet weather flows in an urbanized watershed, Uma Malik
A relational post-processing approach for forms recognition, Zhenxing Mao
The role of ontology in information management, Renato de Freitas Marteleto
"In that New World which is the Old": New World/Old World inversion in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", Oliver Quimby Melton
The Sweet River: A collection of short stories, Keith Harold Menter
Qualitative measurements of occupant comfort in five U.S. schools, Anthony Miller
Estimation of the population mean using two extremes in order statistics, Vladimir Emil Minev
Political silence, the feminine style, and Aids: The role of surrogate speakers at the 1992 presidential nominating conventions, Rebecca Ruth Moldenhauer
Homelessness: A qualitative genogram analysis of trauma and addictions, Lorraine K Moss
Is it Time for UNLV to Reform its Classified Personnel System?, John H. Mueller
Second law analysis of the transient behavior of solid media thermal storage utilizing finite difference computational modeling, Jason Scott Mulvey
Effects of elevated carbon dioxide on Bromus rubens and nutritional consequences for the desert tortoise, Kristen Marie Murphy
Study of subthreshold behavior of FinFet, Balasubramanian Murugan
The relationship of cell morphology, density, and mechanical properties in a rigid polyurethane foam, Michelle Cameron Nelson
The creation of a national information policy combating cyber terrorism, Daniel A Nick
Design-build method viewed by public agencies in southern Nevada compared to Arizona and Utah, Jose W Oliveira
Comparing Web-based instruction to traditional instruction for teaching special education content to general education preservice teachers, Kelly Elizabeth O'Neal
The desire for socio-cultural similarity in a mate, Nelse M Ostlund
A graphical approach for goodness-of-fit of Poisson model, Davin P Padilla
United States civil-military relations: Finding equilibrium in the changing national security environment, Sean W Pascoli
The zone of proximal development in an online Esl composition course, Jennifer Ann Paver
Thermoregulatory behavior of the crayfish Procambarus clarkii in a burrow environment, Aaron Lawrence Payette
Violent teeth: The validity and scientific basis for bite mark evidence, Kapka Dimitrova Pchelarova
A study of post-tenure review *policies among Nevada community colleges and the peer institutions of Ccsn, Thomas M Peacock
The relationship between internal service components and organizational commitment in fine-dining restaurants, Taryn M Perry
A benefit-cost analysis of an interstate seawater desalination plant shared between California and Nevada, McClain L Peterson
Strategic training in the use of causal diagrams: Facilitation of superior mental models, Anne Seyer Poliquin
Evaluation of cracking and localized corrosion behavior of cladding materials, Subhas Pothana
An analysis of changes in labor market discrimination by gender, 1984--2000, Andrew Lee Powell
Multiple voltage scheme with frequency variation for power minimization of pipelined circuits at high-level synthesis, Bharath Radhakrishnan
(What You Want Hummed Here), Lara Victoria Ramsey
A comparative analysis of the likely impact of an accreditation process between professional fire fighters and city /county managers, Mark A Rivero
Investigation of different light delivery schemes in photodynamic therapy of human glioma spheroids, Robin Marie Rodenbush
Racial Profiling and Mandatory Data Collection in Nevada: How will Law Enforcement Respond?, Gregory M. Roehm
Factors associated with the bioaccumulation of mercury in human hair following consumption of fish from the Great Lakes region, Anne M Rothweiler
In an expert's hands: Issues of self and personality as reflected in hair choices, Sheree Christine Royer
Finite element analysis of pin positioning in Lapidus procedure for treating Hallux Valgus, Haritha Royyuru
Labor violations and discrimination in the Clark County outcall entertainment industry, Candice Michelle Seppa Arroyo
Genetic algorithms for the traveling salesman problem using edge assembly crossovers, Dwain Alan Seppala
Dose coefficients for radionuclides produced in a spallation neutron source, John Patrick Shanahan
Trajectory planning in the presence of risk regions, Michael Allan Sherwood
Distributed importance-based fuzzy logic controllers for flexible link manipulators, Zhixia Shi
Fecundity of Larrea tridentata and Ambrosia dumosa across a spatially heterogeneous Mojave Desert landscape, Nicole Sikula
Hydrologic impacts due to application of dust suppressants, Vivek Singh
Calibration of YSZ sensor for the measurement of oxygen concentration in Lbe, Ramkumar B Sivaraman
Evaluation of performance of non-parametric confidence intervals on skewed data, Monica Solis
Theoretical study of segregation kinetics of indium in indium gallium nitride and magnesium in magnesium-gallium nitride grown by molecular beam epitaxy, Irena Vidhya Mabel Stanley
Forecasting in the lodging industry: Emphasizing regional economic factors, Emmett D Steed
Where sin abounds: A religious history of Las Vegas, Stanley Allen Steward
Centralized prevention of denial of service attacks, Michael R Sthultz
The economic impact of the Writers-in-the-Schools program at UNLV: 2003, Jennifer Stikich
Development of a Systems Engineering Model for Chemical Separation Process, Lijian Sun
Acute effect on vertical jump performance after two types of heavy squat exercises, Masai Takahashi
Identifying the barriers to access to higher education for African -American students: Opinions of successful African -American educators, William Lewis Taylor
Ridgelets: A promising new wavelet-like transform to represent objects with linear singularities, Maria Beatriz Teruel