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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 1995
Assessment of ultraviolet light disinfection efficiency of advanced wastewater treatment plant effluent, Man N Truong
High-resolution spectroscopy of nitrogen(2)(+), Qiang Tu
Transport of solutes in complex hydrogeological media, Vinod Vallikat
A study of bistable behavior and parameter variation in dark molecular clouds, Robert Lee Vaughn
The Interdependent Morality Directive: An extension of the animal rights and environmental ethics debate, Gerald Anthony Voltura
Differences in the degree of learning of students taught using computer aided-mastery learning versus expository instruction, Essington Rupert Wade
Mental rotation and sexual orientation, Patricia Ann Wade
The paper tiger and its predecessors: An ethnologic history of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, Daniel Spencer Wall
Benefit segmentation of slot players, Chen-Wei David Wang
Importance of nurse caring behaviors as perceived by patients after myocardial infarction: A replication study, Larae McClellan Ward
Defending an empire with public relations: A case study of Caesars World Incorporated's strategies against corporate raiders, Mercedes Warrick
Development, modeling, testing and evaluation of vibration attenuating gloves, Douglas James Weaver
A garden in the desert? A regional study of ranching and farming in Southern Nevada, 1870-1930, Sherryl Lynn Weber
Standard penetration test correlations for Las Vegas soils, Christopher Robert Wener
Dynamic task distribution in a heterogeneous loosely-coupled distributed computer system, Samuel K West
Nurse caring behaviors as perceived by the emergency room nurse and the emergency room patient: A comparative study, Carolyn Thatcher Whipple
Risky business: Moral arguments againts the Nuclear Waste Policy Act Amendments of 1987 Can consent be engineered?, Mary Manning Whitaker
The effect of measurement technique, and load and fatigue, with changes in crank arm length, on lower limb kinematics in cycle ergometry, Chris D Williams
Creating a panethnic identity: The Asian American movement's vision of racial and political solidarity, Rosette Ho Wirtz
Striking a balance: The centrality of the Hamiltonian/Jeffersonian Debate in American foreign policy development, John Anthony Zeuli
Lower Cambrian bioherms in central Nevada and eastern California, Xiaoping Zhou
A self-stabilizing distributed maximum flow algorithm, Yan Zhou
An assessment of the potential to use water chemistry parameters to define ground water flow pathways at Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, Kim Alison Zukosky
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Finite element analysis of permanent indentation of solids due to low velocity impact, Sarath Abayaweera
On line tracking of moving objects from moving platforms, Raveen R. K Abhishetty
In defense of private property: The role of private property rights and ethics in the market economy, Iftikhar Ahmed
Writing apprehension and the computer classroom, Jennifer Ann Alarid
Bounded population forecasts of Nye County communities generated by the cohort-component method: A mushrooming development, Douglas George Arnold
A finite element approach to open channel flow, Michael J Bagstad
Analysis of time-varying harmonics in electrical distribution systems, Venkatasubra Banunarayanan
Effects of computer use on the writing process, Nancy Bates
The Renaissance: An age of classical wonder, Robert T Behunin
Determinants of Southern Nevada in-migration: Similarities and differences between labor force and elderly migrants, Chittima Bejrananda
Thermal considerations in the drift due to the emplacement of a horizontal high level nuclear waste container, Akshay Bhargava
Evaluation of page quality using simple features, Luis Ricardo Blando
The effects of an eight-hour affective education program on fear of Aids and homophobia in student nurses, Frances Allen Brown
Risk analysis for hazardous materials transportation using geographic information system, Anil Kumar Chagari
The attitudes of key executives of international tourist hotels in Taiwan toward casino investments in Taiwan, Shiang-Lih Chen
Origin and geological significance of mylonitic shear zones, northern Lucy Gray Range, Clark County, Nevada, Clinton H Christensen
Autotag: A tool for creating structured document collections from printed materials, Allen S Condit
Photometry of the galaxies in the Bootes Void, Shawn Timothy Cruzen
A study of recognition coating response for quartz crystal microbalances, Robert Louis Curiale
The gulf between congress and the president over war powers: An analysis of the Persian Gulf War, Lorrie Lynn Curriden
The simulation of selfhood in cyberspace, Denise Michelle Dalaimo
An assessment of the causes of cognitive dissonance in the working environment of the hospitality industry, Susan Elizabeth Demarinis
Interactions within the social environment of schools: Perspectives on dropouts Voices of administrators, teachers, stay-ins, and dropouts, Andre Brent Denson
Recursive backpropagation algorithm applied to a globally recurrent neural network, Steven Michael Dionisi
Modelling of a temporal object-oriented geographic information system, David Edward Disalvio
Nonlinear dynamics of a particle in an electric and magnetic field, Sean James Doyle
Beyond 'justice vs care': Can the ethic of care coordinate with the ethic of justice to support palliative care?, Susan Helen Drongowski
Gwadapt: An adaptive finite element algorithm for groundwater contaminant transport problems, Bryan Edwin Dunlap
An algebra for structured text, Srinivasulu Erva
A proposed community college two year hospitality program relative to the needs of the Mammoth Lake community, Andrew Hale Feinstein
Systematics and biogeography of the Great Basin pocket mouse, Perognathus parvus, Carolyn Sue Ferrell
A review of the history and structure of public speaking at Nevada Power Company: A case study, Julie Ann Foley
Determining recreational visitor carrying capacity: The case of Black Canyon at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Kenneth C. Forman
Child sexual molestation by priests and reactions of Catholic parishioners: A comparative study, Merlinda Raquel Gallegos
Personality and marital satisfaction: The role of similarity and psychological health, Gretchen Garcia
The history of the public two year community college in the State of Nevada from 1977 to 1993, D Gause-Snelson
Realism and incongruity Oliver Wendell Holmes and Felix Frankfurter mentor and novitiate on the court, Marlene Surell Geiser
Sedimentology, petrology, and structure of the Moffet Creek Formation, Eastern Klamath Mountains, Northern California, Gary Michael Gin
Effects of narration on recall of television news: Remembering the video photo essay, David Joseph Gotfredson
Environmental justice and participatory democracy: An emancipatory policy proposal, Nancy Christine Gott
Drip irrigation, an adaptive strategy, Heather A. Grant DiGeorge
The phylogenetic affinities of Crenichthys and Empetrichthys using mtDna, E. Christopher Grant
Quantization of multiresolution transform coefficients for high compression of digital images, Blaine L Hagstrom
A disastrous gamble: Czechoslovak-British relations, 1937-1942, Traci Colston Heitschmidt
Mechanical properties of tuffaceous rocks under triaxial conditions, Nicholas William Hudyma
Effect of OCR errors on short documents, Padma Inaparthy
The relation of socioeconomic and cognitive variables to dropout from a Salvation Army Drug Rehabilitation program, Mark Bruce Ireland
Demography and movements of montain sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) in the Kingston and Clark Mountain ranges, California, Jef Ronald Jaeger
The relationship between nurses' knowledge of HIV, fear of AIDS, and use of universal precautions, Carol Jones
Phylogeography of the desert horned lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos) and the short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma douglassi): Patterns of divergence and diversity, Kenneth Bruce Jones
HUD impact on residential property values, Cindy Durtschi Jorgensen
Odor control in sewers using calcium nitrate, Venumadhava Rao Kalakuntla
Running to win: The utility of the ticket-splitter theory in presidential elections, Mark Edward Kaufman
Convention attendees' attitude and its relation to intention, Jung-Eun Kim
The impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act requirement that school districts make accommodations to classroom teachers, James LaBuda
Heat transfer in vertical concentric cylinders in a high level nuclear waste repository, Yao Min Lei
Path planning and obstacle avoidance for a robot with large degree of redundancy, John Zhao Li
A field screening method for polychlorinated biphenyl compounds in water, Shen Lin
A fuzzy-logic controller for an autonomous vehicle operation in an unknown environment, William E McCarthy
A description of the use of alternative therapies by selected nurse practitioner groups, Jimmie H McCraw
An application of Solow's growth model: Case of sub-Saharan Africa, Maureen Sarahjane Miller
An application of Gaussian radial based function neural networks for the control of a nonlinear multi link robotic manipulator, Robert T Mizerek
Mechanical and cathodic protection aspects of multi-barrier tuff repository canister designs, Suneeta Mohansingh
Power and the professorship: Perceptions of sexual harassment, Melissa J Monson
The effect of prior localized muscle fatigue on lactate production during submaximal exercise, Molly A Morrison-Gibson
Self-stabilizing distributed algorithms for acyclic graphs, Viruthagiri Natarajan
The timing of orgasm and sexual satisfaction, Jacqueline Lee Newman
Molecular phylogeographic structure within the Perognathus fasciatus species-group, David Charles Nickle
The Economics of free parking: Transportation policy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Richard A. Nielsen
An-Pan Man: Language and culture in a Japanese children's cartoon, Debra Jane Occhi
An empirical test of the restrictions in a net migration equation, Thomas A Perrigo
Exploring anti-gang advertising: Focus group discussions with gang members and at-risk youth, Kristin M Peterson
An overview of local, state, and federal regulations imposed upon political advertising, Gina B. Polovina
Modeling and control of the Pr-500-Fl pavement profiler cutter system, James William Porrazzo
Frequency sampling digital filters for multirate applications and pipelined implementations, Sivaramakrishnan Ramaswamy
Salvation black or white: Presbyterian rationale and Protestant support for the religious instruction of slaves in South Carolina, Susan E Ramey