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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 1992
Analysis of automatic guided vehicles and self-guided vehicles for hospital foodservice, Michael Andrew Roden
Polonium-210 radioactivity in Lake Mead fish, Charlita G Rosal
Effect of water table fluctuations on petroleum contamination distribution, Jaishankar Sabapathi
An analysis of strategic planning in land-grant university libraries, Laverna M Saunders
Improving the frequency and proficiency of breast self examination, Theresa Scalzo Tarrant
Sampling inner experience in the learning disabled population, Barbara Lynn Schamanek
The Road Home (Original writing), James Carl Snape
The impact of child care on the work habits of parents in the Las Vegas hospitality industry: The need for employer-supported day-care centers, Joseph Sola Tafa
Davey Marlin-Jones: Director, educator, visionary, Frances Jane Talley
Videocentric criticism, postmodernism and the deconstruction of television, Christopher James Taylor
Dating of fallout in lacustrine sediment in southwestern Utah, Alex Clark Tikanen
Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleotectonic setting of the Gazelle Formation, eastern Klamath Mountains, northern California, David William Trabert
Marital assessment from the clients' perspective using the Couple's Pre-Counseling Inventory: A comparison of Mormon couples with the normative sample, Stephen N Tracy
High current coaxial ion beam/laser beam spectrometer, Qiang Tu
Sensor-based automated path guidance of a robot tool, Anietie Udo Ukpong
A sample selective linear predictive analysis of speech signals, Suresh Kumar Venkata Vishnubhatla
Germany's pivotal role in the construction of a common European house, John P Wallin
Storm-dominated Lower Cambrian depositional environments in the Ravenswood area, Lander County, Nevada, Readin Isaac Wilson
The progression of photographic image manipulation in communication: An argument against the "revolution" of technological change, Cynthia Lynn Wood
Scattered surface data estimation and visualization, Weibao Wu
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Economic development, aid and debt crisis in sub-Saharan Africa, Hassan Ziad Ahmed
Sampling for volatile organic compounds from an aquitard: A field evaluation of screen length, purging method, and sampling time, Amy Josephine Alduino
The Severed Son and other poems (Original writing), Angela Sue Witzke Andersen
Formulation of a full dynamic transport model for heterojunction devices, Anoushiravan Arman
Consideration of interdependencies in the relational database system, and, A proposal and evaluation of an expert system for the relational database structure, Timothy Jon Arndt
A new optimization approach to the design of one-dimensional and two-dimensional finite impulse response digital filters, Eddie G Awad
Output feedback rotational maneuvers and vibration damping of Nasa Scole system by inversion theory, Misbahul Azam
The detection of crevice corrosion in titanium and its alloys through the use of potential monitoring, Dave Dror Bergman
Feedback linearization, invertibility of map, zero dynamics, and nonlinear control of the space station, Theodore Charles Bossart
Scale economies in college and university student health centers: An econometric analysis, MaryAnn Brady
The Sloan Sag: A Mid-Miocene Volcanotectonic Depression, North-Central McCullough Mountains, Southern Nevada, Hayden L. Bridwell
Style of volcanism and extensional tectonics in the eastern Basin and Range Province: Northern Mohave County, Arizona, Tracey Elaine Cascadden
The immediate perceived needs of family members of trauma patients and how they differ from the nurses' perceptions of needs, Suzanne Cecilia Case
Determination of radium-226 in drinking water by alpha spectroscopy, Jae-Gu Choi
Today's racism and black frustrations, Ernest Elmo Clark
Gas chromatographic-electron capture analysis of disinfection byproducts from the chlorination of swimming pools and lake water, Gary William Coates
Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the northern part of the upper Gazelle Formation, eastern Klamath Mountains, northern California, Christine Ann Cram-Barry
Character education through secondary school literature classes, Mary Elizabeth Curfman
From hunters to fisherman? Developing marine resource specialization on the Santa Barbara Channel Analysis of the artifacts and midden constituents from Ca-Sba-71, Anne Evelyn DuBarton
Euthanasia: Does the elderly individual have the right to die?, LeDonna Ree Durant
Gas chromatography/Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy/mass spectrometry for environmental analysis: A quick turnaround method for the analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Irene Marie Farnham
The best of times, the worst of times: A bio-cultural analysis of the Ferguson District, 1892-1909, Dawna Eileen Ferris
The effects of preoperative teaching on anxiety levels of hysterectomy patients, Judy Ann Fillmore
Early speculative bubbles and increases in the supply of money, Douglas Edward French
Political culture and water politics in Nevada: Las Vegas attempts to quench its thirsts, Andrea Kristen Gerlak
The politics of AIDS: An analysis of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, Brian Edward Graf
The window, the mirror, and the stone: A reassessment of the roles of mimesis and opsis in critical theory, Andrea J Hanson
Transracial adoptions: An alternative solution, Kitty Lynn Hardy
Abusive parenting attitudes in parent training subgroups, Jacqueline Ann Harris
A historical study on the "eight revolutionary model operas" in China's Great Cultural Revolution, Joe He
Determinants of the structural niches of columnar cacti in the Southwest, Joseph George Hentz
The effect of music therapy on intensive care patients, Nita L Johnson
Register allocation and optimization techniques in compiler construction, Edward R. Jorgensen
Fractional reserve banking: The genesis of macro-instability, John Nicholas Koch
Modeling of the UNLV-Aro light-weight robot using Lagrange's assumed mode method, symbolic manipulation, and numerical simulation, Edward Yuk-Kam Lam
Virtual time synchronization in distributed database systems, Timothy E LeMaster
The exploitation of pipeline parallelism by compile time dataflow analysis, Joseph Michael Lombardo
Inverse and variable structure trajectory control of a flexible robotic manipulator, Sethu K Madhavan
Mormon women and depression, Jeanmarie Maxwell
Goodsprings: A historical archaeological review of the Yellow Pine Mining District, Christina A Miller
An investigation of photon correlation spectroscopy data analysis packages "discrete" and "contin" using the Schulz-Zimm distribution, Usman Abdul Aziz Qazi
The effects of mathematics methods courses on the mathematical attitudes, content knowledge, and pedagogical beliefs of preservice teachers, Robert John Quinn
Inversion of input/output map, sliding mode and nonlinear flight control system design, James J. Romano
Hydrocollapsible soil correlations, Penny Roullier
Enigmatic commercials: Schema distortion in television advertisements, Micheal Shane Schneweis
The effects of a 12 week aerobic bench stepping conditioning program on cardiorespiratory fitness and muscular leg strength in college women, Sharon Lee Schoff
The effectiveness of psychotherapeutic intervention in the reduction of client symptoms in an employee assistance program, Judy Irene Seymore
The restructuring of a rural Utah high school, Larry K Shumway
Time management behaviors of single parent women educators at a two-year college, Kenneth Harold Steidel
Ethnic admixture in African American ancestry as reflected in dental patterns, Hellen Rudean Taylor
An analytical approach to quantum mechanical tunneling time in electronic devices, Prabhaharan Thanikasalam
The influence of diet on growth rate, thyroid hormone output, and thermoregulation in laboratory white rats, Linda Susan Vanden Heuvel
A methodological study and forecasting of room occupancy trend in Las Vegas, William Weixia Wang
An assessment to determine how a franchisee's thorough understanding of the disclosure statement would affect potential legal pitfalls in a franchisor-franchisee relationship, Scott Hadley Witzman
Trace element analysis of selected springs in the Virgin River Basin, Mary Ann Yelken
Environmental economics: An Austrian approach, Fiammetta Elena Zahnd
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Sharing memory in distributed systems, Oscar Rodrigo Aguilar
A comparison study of two alternative education programs on selected school-related attitudes, Rebecca Ann Albiston
Determination of the thermoneutral zone in young males and females, Darrell Allan Baggs
Effects of athletic participation and gender on moral judgment in student athletes and nonathletes, Elizabeth Mary Baldizan
The role of friendship in Arthur Miller: A study of friendship in his major dramatic and non-dramatic writing, Carlos Alejandro Campo
Gender construction in prime-time sitcoms: "Roseanne" and "Murphy Brown", Claudia Crowley Collins
Billie's Message: An original dance-drama in the modern dance idiom, Vicki Lynn Dale
Senior quality of life issues, Sue Daniel
An assessment of a motivational environment as viewed by dealers in the casino industry, Richard Joseph Darder
Role conflict among women graduate students: A matter of gender, Nancy Lee Downey
Accounts of the homeless, Linda Darlene Foreman
Effects of color and light on selected elementary students, Ellen Mannel Grangaard
A Light Divided (Original short stories), Katherine Green
A comparative study of hospice vs nonhospice nurses' attitudes toward death and dying and level of death anxiety, Debra Panko Harber
Sir Isaac's Duel (Original play), Rand Walter Higbee
Impacts of the Little Ice Age on the vegetation of southern Nevada, Kimberly Lynn Hunter
Optimal joint trajectory planning for a robot with elastic links, Yung-Ming Hu
Government land management and the free market in southern Nevada, William Robert Jacobs
Exploring dance: An outline for the study of dance appreciation with suggested films, Jacque J Jaeger
Design of deadlock detection and prevention algorithms in distributed systems, Ramesh Dutt Javagal
Measurement of thermal energy charge transfer rate of multiply charged molybdenum (molybdenum(6+)) and argon, Ying Jiang