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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 1990
A computerized analysis of anterior teeth as a possible indicator of age, race and sex, Jay A Johnson
Developmental gains by children with special needs as a result of early intervention, Connie Rose Lambert
Novel techniques for molecular ion spectroscopy in a discharge, Guang Lan
Playing with poetry: Lessons utilizing creative drama techniques to teach poetry to senior high school students, John Brooks Lawton
The effect of training on referrals to an outpatient adolescent sex offender treatment program, Michael S Lea
Critical thinking in education: What can the matter be?, Gail K Lenning
Laser spectroscopy of molecular ions in an ion beam, Jun Li
Constitutional privacy: The evolution of a doctrine, Helena Ann Mandarino
The historical origins of the American Peace Test, David Leon Mann
The relationship of the Yucca Mountain repository block to the regional groundwater system: A geochemical model, Nancy Ann Matsuka
Measuring self-worth and certainty of punishment in prison populations, Robert Joseph McKee
Optimizing select-project-join queries, Rebecca Anne Miller
Attitudes of college students toward the world food crisis, Susan Ann Nartker
A Walking Shadow (Original play), John David Newsom
Stromatolites of the Lower Cambrian Deep Spring Formation; Mount Dunfee, Esmeralda County, Nevada, Lynn Oliver
Temporal and spatial patterns of abundance of age 0 threadfin shad (Dorosoma petenense) in Overton Arm, Lake Mead, William Lee Pelle
A data structural approach to the problem of contour plotting, Sivesh Pradhaan
System identification of a hydraulically-actuated robot, Andreas Otto Ranz
The effects of economic recession on community, Linda Kay Roe
A phenomenological criticism: A phenomenologically based methodology for analyzing theatrical works, Roberta Sterman Sabbath
Rapid serial visual presentation and the leading format: A comparison study, Christopher William Schacherer
The Children's Hair Turned White (Original play), Paul "Red" Shuttleworth
Reaction time and general intellectual ability: The effects of cues on the relationship, Nancy S Sirkin
A study to determine how businesses in the area known as Clark County, Nevada perceive the computer-related skills that high school graduates should possess upon graduation, Lynda Ruth Yates Spann
Computation in director string calculus, Vugranam Chakravarthy Sreedhar
Imitation: A classical art for modern composition, Linda Anne Uhlenkott
A community's dominant religion: A counter definition, Geremia Veglia
Measurements of the length of the zone of flow establishment in a jet using a Laser Doppler Anemometer, James Joseph Ventresca
The relationship between test anxiety and academic performance of untreated test anxious college students, Joanmarie Christine Vlach-Kolesar
The income gap and symphony orchestras, Joseph Anthony Volpi
Development of a test facility for making in-duct sound measurements according to Astm E477-1984, David Arthur Wade
Trace element analysis of bighorn sheep horns, Peter Gordon Weigel
A window to the past: Analysis of flat glass recovered from West Point, Nevada, William G White
Hydrogeology and Hydrogeochemistry of the Shallow Alluvial Aquifer Zone, Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, Harry Stephen Wild Jr.
The effects of an eight-hour continuing education course on the death anxiety levels of registered nurses, Susanne Fife Wilkey
Nevada nurses attitudes toward mandatory continuing education, Darlene G Woodruff
Mprolog as an expert system development tool, Grant Edward Wright
Reading levels as a predictor of success in associate degree nursing programs and on the Nclex-Rn exam, Lynn M Young
The combined thermic effect of food, continuous, and intermittent exercise, Stefan Zander
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Development of a tool to investigate factors related to job satisfaction in geriatric nurses, Mary-Jane Snyder Araldi
An investigation of personalities of superintendents from selected public school districts within the western United States, Craig S Babcock
Comparison of the sodium ion channel densities, the water flux changes, and the membrane capacitance changes in the pelvic and pectoral skin of the toad, Bufo woodhousei, Cathleen Ann Baker
Object-oriented data modeling, Donald W Baltz
Structural analysis and design of a flexible three-link hydraulically-actuated robotic arm, Tarek Mitri Bannoura
Analysis of acoustics in heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, Jeffry Michael Bledsoe
Field comparison of groundwater sampling methods, Ronald Paul Blegen
Community health decisions: An analysis of a grassroots venture into citizen participation in health care policy prioritization issues, Michele Bonnee-Nichols
The rehydration behavior of the desert toad, Bufo punctatus, Dona Rae Brekke
The subjective nature of decision-makers in the domain of objective sentence processing, William Bud Brown
Analyses of the structure and function of lower Colorado River riparian plant communities, David E Busch
Survival of ice nucleation-active and genetically engineered inactive strains of Pseudomonas syringae, Mark P Buttner
Analysis of personnel interview questions for student affairs positions at land-grant institutions, Theresa Yi-Chin Tung Chiang
Drinking-driving and social control: An analysis of peer intervention, Michael David Collins
Decoupling and adaptive control and stabilization of two-link elastic robotic arm, Arijit Das
The limits to openness: The impact of glasnost' and perestroika on the Baltic Republics, Susan Faye Davis
Hydrogeology and ground-water quality in the Sanders area, western Puerco River basin, Arizona, Earle Campbell Dixon
The relationship between suicidal phenomena and depression, dysfunctional attitudes, irrational beliefs, and hopelessness, Shonna L Erickson
The geology and structural significance of the Arch Mountain area, northern Black Mountains, Mohave County, Arizona, Edward Eschner
Colorimetric determination and speciation of arsenic with silver diethyldithiocarbamate, Daniel Carl Fischer
Late-holocene earthflows of the Willard playa/dune complex, Estancia Valley, New Mexico: a geomorphic response to climatic change, Kurt A. Goebel
Enhancement and monitoring of the Procambarus clarkii population in Lake Mead, Mikell Beth Hager
Evaluation of purging methods when sampling for volatile organic compounds from low-yield monitoring Wells, William Lowry Halligan
The effects of educational intervention on the myths surrounding Alzheimer's disease, Penelope Hallman
The distribution of vertical groundwater flow in the saturated zone of the Yucca Mountain area: A cross-sectional finite element model, Sandra Jean Haws
Laboratory investigation of a method for determining in situ saturated hydraulic conductivity, Joel Stacey Hayworth
Hydrogeology and hydrogeochemistry of the Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, Ronald Lee Hershey
Analysis of deformation bands in the Aztec Sandstone, Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada, Robin Eugene Hill
First Cousins: A novel on youth, family, love, faith, and responsibility (Original novel), David Myles Jones
Maximum oxygen uptake predicted from submaximal tests, Anne Renee Lindsay
Evaluating the Chief State School Officer: A study of current practices, Marianne Sharp Long
Effects of estrogen and progesterone on tolerance to thermal stress, Kris Alan Lyon
The comparison of physical fitness between Type Ii diabetics and the apparently healthy population, Joan Kathleen MacDonald
The dynamic response of a flexible three-link robot using strain gages, Lagrange polynomials, Fourier series, and the finite element analysis, Robert Frank Marceau
An analysis of the progress of social welfare administration in the United States and an examination of some major alternatives, Amy Marie Marshall
Identifying environmental stressors affecting parents with an infant in the Nicu, Donna Gaynelle Mattson
An investigation of factors associated with depression in older adults, Katherine Mary Mayhew
Sampling inner experience in adolescents, Lois Christina Monson
Variable Structure and Ultimate Boundedness control and stabilization of flexible robotic systems, Perumal Jegan Nathan
A two-dimensional numerical model of the high electron mobility transistor, Sze-Him Ng
Visualization of a plane sweep algorithm for construction of the visibility graph for robot path planning, Vikas B Patel
The retention power of pre- and post-matriculated first semester student perspectives, Anthony Paul Pellegrini
The crisis in American education: The impact on vocational education, Barbara Ann Quade
Analysis of hotel guest room supply, Donald Walter Raymond
Initial deposition in the Sevier foreland basin of southern Nevada: Conglomerates of the Cretaceous Willow Tank Formation, Clark County, Nevada, Julie Ann Reese
Counterterrorism in the 1990s: A framework for dynamic analysis, Marilyn Rose Rogers
Dynamic analysis of rotating fan structures by the Finite Element Method, Mohamed Said Rouas
Measurement of the dependence of the averaged internal mode on the scattering vector and of the first internal mode on the concentration of polystyrene in solution using photon correlation spectroscopy, Johannes Klaus Schaller
The principal's role in the development of teacher leadership: A case study, Carla Jean Steinforth
An ethnographic analysis of the workplace in a selected year-round school, Kelly Ann Sturdy
Ecological and genetic aspects of the population biology of the littoral rotifer Euchlanis dilatata, Elizabeth Jensen Walsh
Restricted reconnaissance: The history and archaeology of S M Wheeler in Nye County, Nevada, Diane Lynne Winslow
Israel and the occupied territories: An analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Benjamin Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Brothels in the marketplace of ideas: Toward a heuristic definition of commercial speech, Marc S. Charisse
Sedimentological constraints on Middle Miocene extensional tectonism of the southern Las Vegas Range, southern Nevada, Jack Edward Deibert
Stable fraction approach and Computer-Aided Design of Control Systems, Prasanta Kumar De
Measurement of the first internal mode of polystyrene in cyclohexane and toluene through dynamic light scattering, Albert Raymond Ellis
Sex-role congruence: Marital satisfaction and household division of labor, Jack Paul Gillespie
Late Holocene earthflows of the Willard Playa/dune complex, Estancia Valley, New Mexico; a geomorphic response to climatic change, Kurt A Goebel
Pms: Cyclical variation in attentional capacity with Pms and non-Pms women, Francine Linda Greenstein