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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Bursting the Backpacker Bubble: Exploring Backpacking Ideology, Practices, and Contradictions, Mark J. Salvaggio
The Role of School Boards in Addressing Opportunity and Equity for English Learners in the U.S. Mountain West, Carrie Sampson
"Nobody Can #DragMeDown": An Analysis of the One Direction Fandom's Ability to Influence and Dominate Worldwide Twitter Trends, Nicole Kelsey Santero
Changes in Teachers' Constructivist Beliefs and Practices from Preservice to Inservice Teaching: A Mixed Methods Approach, Christina Joan Santoyo
Evaluation of Electron Donors for Perchlorate and Nitrate Biodegradation in Contaminated Groundwater Applications, Mayra Alejandra Sarria Cortes
Growing Together? Community, Culture, and Gardening in Downtown Las Vegas, Tyler S. Schafer
Yiddish Diction in Singing, Carrie Suzanne Schuster-Wachsberger
"Mother, I will": Female Subjectivity and Religious Vision in the Brontës Novels, Amanda Scott
Leadership Competencies at Concordia University System Institutions, Samuel Joseph Seefeld
Keep Moving: Stories, Syed Haider Shahbaz
Laboratory Evaluation of Geogrid-Reinforced Flexible Pavements, Mohammadreza Sharbaf
A Web-Based Solution for Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) Traffic Management, Monetta Angelique Shaw
Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and the Populist Tradition in Presidential Rhetoric, Sarah Beth Shaw
Parallel Static Object Detection, Tirambad Shiwakoti
Vision-Based Intersection Monitoring: Behavior Analysis & Safety Issues, Mohammad Shokrolah Shirazi
The JVMCSP Runtime and Code Generator for ProcessJ in Java, Cabel Dhoj Shrestha
A Web Based User Interface for Machine Learning Analysis of Health and Education Data, Chandani Shrestha
Causes of Change Orders and Its Impact on Road Maintenance Contracts, Kabindra Kumar Shrestha
Framework of Performance-Based Contracting for Chip Seal and Striping Maintenance Activities, Kishor Shrestha
Shakespeare's Dowry: Subjectivity and Resistance in The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, and The Merchant of Venice, Homer Lee Simms
Development and Testing of an Assessment to Measure Spatial Thinking about Enhanced Greenhouse Effect, Heather Jean Skaza
Cultural Competence of Nurse Practitioners: Providing Care for Gay and Lesbian Clients, Paul Steven Smith
Impedance Spectroscopy Studies of Yttria Stabilized Zirconia Under Extreme Conditions, Quinlan Blaine Smith
Forcing Cesium into Higher Oxidation States via Useful Hard X-ray Induced Chemistry at Extreme Conditions, Daniel Thomas Sneed
Examining the Effects of Body Weight Support and Speed on Physiological Measures and Lower Leg Muscular Activity, Michael Thomas Soucy
Ionic Electroactive Polymer Devices: Physics-Based Modeling with Experimental Investigation and Verification, Tyler Paul Stalbaum
The Effects of Locomotion-Induced Shock Loading on Tibiofemoral Bone Stress Response, Alexa Standerfer, Suzenna Ngo, and Karen Daun
Synthesis and Characterization of Graphene, Ashok Em Sudhakar
Mining Unstructured Log Messages for Security Threat Detection, Candace Suh-Lee
Hunger Games: The Effects of Alternate Day Fasting on Food Intake, Body Weight, and Leptin and Ghrelin in Rats, Debra Kirsty Mortel Tacad
Analyses of Streamflow Change Patterns and Correlation of These Changes with Sea-Surface Temperature Fluctuations, Kazi Ali Tamaddun
Measurement of Neutron Activation from a High Energy Varian Linear Accelerator, Timothy Thatcher
Pendulum Based Impact Testing of Athletic Helmets Using the NOCSAE Headform, Bradley Thorne
The Effects of Cryopreservation on Human Dental Pulp-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Allison Elaine Tomlin
The Effect of Moderate Consumption of Non-Nutritive Sweeteners on Glucose Tolerance and Body Composition in Rats, Ashley Power Tovar
George Crumb’s Personal Response to the Golden Age of Social Activism: Night of the Four Moons, Black Angels, and Vox Balaenae, Yi Ling Tsai
Impacts to Phytoplankton After The Establishment of Quagga Mussels in Lake Mead, Nevada, Warren Bruce Turkett
An Empirical Study on The Impact of C++ Lambdas And Programmer Experience, Phillip Merlin Uesbeck
A Natural History of Teasing: British Women Writers and the Shakespearean Courtship Narrative, 1677-~1818, Mary Vance
Building Categories to Guide Behavior: How Humans Build and Use Auditory Category Knowledge Throughout the Lifespan, Christina M. Vanden Bosch Der Nederlanden
Kimmo Hakola's Diamond Street and Loco: A Performance Guide, Erin Elizabeth Vander Wyst
Enhancing the Draft Assembly with Minhash, Saju Varghese
A Business Intelligence Framework for Network-level Traffic Safety Analyses, Naveen Kumar Veeramisti
Student Motivation, Stressors, and Intent to Leave a Nursing PhD or DNP Program: A National Study Using Path Analysis, Delene Renee Volkert
Thinking about those who value you based on how smart you are: Effects on effort and test anxiety, Lucie Vosicka
Water Source Partitioning for Shrubland Transpiration in a Mixed Phreatophytic Plant Community, Amanda Jean Wagner
Eight Steps to Weight Loss: Development of an Evidence-Based Collaborative Provider-Patient Workbook for Overweight or Obese Adults, Katherine Ann Wagner
The Hopf Fibration and Encoding Torus Knots in Light Fields, John Vincent Waite
Agentic Engagement, Teacher Support, and Classmate Relatedness— A Reciprocal Path to Student Achievement, Curt Ryan Wakefield
Behavioral Reactions to Emotional and Physical Infidelity: An Evolutionary Perspective, Mandy Walsh Walsh
Stay Brave My Hercules, Ernie Wang
Consanguinity Protocols, Kinship and Incest in Literature of the Anglo-Saxon through Early Renaissance Periods, Richard J. Warren
A Bioinformatics Approach to Addressing the Responses of Rice Aleurone Cells to Hormones Abscisic Acid and Gibberellic Acid, Kenneth Arthur Watanabe
Developing Therapeutic Communication Skills: Integration of Standardized Client Simulation in an Associate Degree Nursing Program, Kristine Weber and Timothy Farrell
Human Touch: Perceptions of Self-Efficacy From a Non-Pharmacology Treatment for Individuals Living With HIV/AIDS, Anne Elizabeth Weisman
Association between Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention during Routine Check-Ups and Alcohol Consumption among Adults Living in California, Gene Kilian Wells
The Concordance of Caregiver-Teacher Perspectives on the Behavior of Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, Allison Werlinger
Gendered Self-Presentation on Social Media: A content analysis of Tweets from UNLV Men's and Women's Athletic Teams, Alexandra Nicole White
Testing a Comprehensive Model of Body Image, Anxiety, and Eating Pathology Among College Men, Emily Katherine White
Is Being Green, White? A Critical Ethnographic Study of Social Norms in Conservation, Heather Whitesides
The Proof Is in the Pots: Residue Analysis of Virgin Branch Puebloan Ceramics, Brenna Lynn Wilkerson
Biogeochemistry of a Saline, Alkaline, Terminal Lake Ecosystem in Transition; Walker Lake, Nevada, Katherine Lynn Willever
Microbial Contamination of Ice at Food Establishments in Las Vegas, Nevada, Jerry Wills
The Impact of Successful NCAA Division I Athletics Programs on the Social Capital of Urban Communities, Paul Woody
The Revolution Will Be Computed: Fantasy, Apple Computer, and the Ethos of Silicon Valley, Misti Yang
Effects of Human Maternal Placentophagy on Postpartum Maternal Affect, Health, and Recovery, Sharon Marie Young
Strategic Molecular Design to Engineer the Electron Affinity of Self-Assembling Organic Semiconductors, Kelly Nicole Zaugg
Investigating How Restaurant Week's Price Promotion Affects Diners' Online Perceptions, Jian Zhao
Innovative Fiber Optic/Thin Film Photovoltaic Systems: Adequately Distributing Daylight While Harvesting Energy, Sean Steven Zurko
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Kinematics and timing of the Miocene-Quaternary deformation in Nellis Dunes Recreational Area, Nevada, Shaimaa Abdelhaleem
Nurse Managers' Hiring Selection of Newly Licensed RNs: A Grounded Theory Approach, Susan Adamek
Inverse Problem for Non-viscous Mean Field Control: Example From Traffic, Shaurya Agarwal
Robust Observability, Control, & Economics of Complex Cyber-Physical Networks, Shaurya Agarwal
Sound Attenuation of Fiberglass Lined Ventilation Ducts, Jacob Albright
Television Consumption and Child Obesity: Linking Children's Contemporary Television Use, Physical Activity, and Advertising to Putnam's Displacement Hypothesis, Brittany L. Altamirano
Paenibacillus larvae spore germination and American Foulbrood disease development in honey bee larvae, Israel Alvarado
High Pressure X-~Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Studies of Heavy-~Fermion Cerium and Uranium Compounds, Daniel Antonio
The Influence of Iron on Arctic Thule Migration Patterns, Alina T. Aquino
Nevada Legal Services: The Legal Services Corporation Restrictions and the Diminishing Capacity of Access to Justice for the Poor, William Todd Ashmore
Models for Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98: A Stylistic Analysis, William George August Mccullough
Six Feet from Fame: Exploring Dark Tourism Motivation at Marilyn Monroe's Grave, Surjeet Baidwan
Rewetting of Artificially Desiccated Soils: Effect of Gravity on Vapor-Phase Diffusion, Taylor Arland Ball
Structure and Optical properties of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) – MX2 (M = Mo, W & X = S, Se) under High Pressure and High Temperature conditions, Nirup Reddy Bandaru
Changes in sprint kinetics or kinematics following static or dynamic stretching, Kristyne Bartel
Four Weeks of Minimalist Style Running Training Reduced Lumbar Paraspinal Muscle Activation during Shod Running, Stephanie Barton, David Brown, and Talia Joyce
Alaska Natives And The Power Of Perseverance: The Fight For Sovereignty And Land Claims In Southeast Alaska, 1912-1947, Bridget Lee Baumgarte
The Bioarchaeology of Social Order: Cooperation and Conflict Among the Mimbres (AD 550-1300), Kathryn Mary Baustian
The Design, Build, And Validation Of A Hybrid Tower Used To Conduct Helmet Impact Tests, Darren Benn
A Performer's Guide to Dean Gronemeier's Nature Alley, Lonny James Benoit
Too Drunk to Gamble? Dram Shop Liability for Gaming Debts., Jeffery Benson
The Economic and Social Effects of Casino Development in Macau, Christopher Benton
Community Advanced Data and Research Analysis: A Mixed Methods Capstone Project, Michael Bernarndo, Brandie Green, Amber Konold, and Kathryn Weavil