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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Voices From the Desks: Reconceptualizing the Mentoring of Beginning Teachers, Matthew R. Albert

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Analyzing Equity Within the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Physical Therapy Program Admissions Process, Rebecca Altman, Savanna Cathey, and Michelle DeDmon

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The Effects of Exercise Training on Gait in Adults with Down Syndrome, Anna Lois Aquino, Sandra Daugherty, and Alex Palko

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Dea2uth: A Decentralized Authentication and Authorization Scheme for Secure Private Data Transfer, Phillipe Austria

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The Feasibility of a Large-Amplitude Aquatic-Based Exercise Occupational Therapy Program for Individuals with Early Parkinson’s Disease, Brigitte Baker

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Non-Destructive Means of Predicting Masonry Prism Strength Using Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity (UPV), Connor J. Barlow

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The Transaction Costs of Federal Environmental Policy Changes: The Effects of the Temporary COVID-19 CWA Rollback on Local Water Systems, Jesse Lee Barnes

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Finish This Over Drinks? A Study of Sexual Harassment Perceptions, Hannah E. Barti

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The Role of a WRKY Transcription Factor in Mediating Hormone Response During Rice Seed Germination, Santiago Bataller

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Driving and Community Mobility: An Online Educational Program for Generalist Occupational Therapy Practitioners, Gerard Blanco

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Relationships Between Healthcare Technology Experience, Acceptance, Attitudes, Self-Efficacy and Readiness in Pre-Licensure Nursing Students, Emily Lynne Boyce

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The Impact of Local Broadband Access on High School Graduation Rates, Eugen Brazdil

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Ga(y)zing Backward: Queer Desire in Ovid, Shakespeare, and Scaimma, Falynn Blayre Brickler

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Four Junes, Sara Brown

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Promoting Early Detection in Primary Care: Program Evaluation of The Dementia Care Aware Program in Orange County, Ennah Cabading

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Health Literacy and the Feasibility of Using Video-Based Education in the Emergency Department, Jenifer Carvell

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An Immersive Virtual Reality Treatment Learning Module for UNLV Occupational Therapy Students, Paolo Castro

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Developing a Growth Mindset Among Undergraduate College Students, Monica Ceja Rodriguez

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Trajectory Analysis for Driving Safety Quantification, Michael I. Chang

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Illness Under the Microscope: Disease in Colonial Discourse, a Disruptive Study, Sujata Chattopadhyay

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Acquired Brain Injury: A Vision Screening Protocol for Occupational Therapists, Sebastian Cheung

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Studies of Forward Projection Algorithms and Implementation on PC and FPGA, Minsung Cho

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Lumbopelvic Biomechanics and Muscle Performance in Individuals with Unilateral Transfemoral Amputation: Implications for Lower Back Pain, Jason Ciccotelli

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Occupational Therapy Fieldwork in an Emerging Justice-Based Setting: HOPE for Prisoners, Noah Claypool

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Oxygen Consumption in Highly Skilled Baseball Pitchers, Jesse Clingman

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The Lived Experience of the DNP-to-PhD Nursing Graduate: Examining the Journey, Bonni S. Cohen

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The Response of Atomic-to-Molecular Hydrogen Transition Points in Photodissociation Regions Due to a Hard X-Ray Spectrum, Gregory Joseph Colarch

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Where Will I Sleep Tonight? A Qualitative Case Study of Homeless and Displaced College Students, Andria Lynn Coleman

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Stepping On - Virtual Fall Prevention for Older Adults, Sean Conners, Tyler Greener, and Kaitlyn Johnson

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Addressing Vision Impairments Following Neurological Injuries: A Vision Protocol for Occupational Therapists, Dyrin Cordero

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Biochemical Characterization of Fsa1572 from Fervidibacter Sacchari, the First Hyperthermophilic GH50 with Β-1, 4-Glucanase Activity, Jonathan Covington

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Long-Range Regulation by the Shigella Virulence Gene Regulator, VirB, Cody Cris

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The Efficacy of an Educational Toolkit to Enhance Knowledge of Pediatric Reflux Management among Occupational Therapists, Kelly Cullerton

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Negotiating a World in Upheaval: Resiliency of Indigenous Systems of Warfare among Yuman Groups, Joseph B. Curran

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On Outflows Due to Radiation, Randall Cody Dannen

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Outside, Looking In: A Dissertation on Mindful Walking and How Green Exercise Affects State Mindfulness and Connectedness to Nature, Dustin Wyatt Davis

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MENA Terrorism and the West: Explaining Why Terrorist Groups from the Middle East and North Africa Target Western Democracies, Michael A. Defeo

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The Influence of Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation on Fatigue Resistance, Kayla De Guzman

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Ergonomic Education for Entry-Level Administrative Staff, Mitzi De La Cruz-Garcia

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The Impact of Childhood Experiences on Involvement and Confidence in Social Institutions, Jordan Sydney Donohue

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Feasibility of the Every Moment Counts Initiative at a Southern Nevada Elementary School, Amber Lee Eddy

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Evaluating Risk-Appropriate Perinatal Care in Nevada, Janice Enriquez

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Information-Theoretic Model Diagnostics (InfoMoD), Armin Esmaeilzadeh

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The Impact of Attachment and Optimism on Delinquency, Kaylee Dawn Faria

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Developmental Differences in School Climate Predictors of Chronic School Absenteeism, Michael Fensken

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An Educational Sleep Hygiene Module for UNLV Students to Promote Occupational Performance, Therese Fernandez

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Promoting the Benefits of An Occupational Therapy Health and Wellness Coaching Program for Adults Living with Chronic Illnesses and Their Self-Management, Natasha Findley

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Digitods, Statistical Machine Learning Algorithms, and Internet Cognition: Sociocultural Learning through Familial Modeling and Mediated Exchanges, Sina Foley

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Black Girl Magic: History, Identity, and Spirituality in Contemporary Fantasy and Science-Fiction, Taylore Fox

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Desert Spring Prokaryotes and Benthic Macroinvertebrates: Geological and Ecological Controls, Ariel D. Friel

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Utilizing an Interdisciplinary Approach: Education of Early Progressive Mobility Protocol in the ICU/Acute Setting, Mary Ashley Galan-Gornal

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Effects of Postural Load Perturbations on the Stroke-impaired Spinal Circuitry, Jose Galvez, Linh Thi My Nguyen, and Brandon Yee

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High-Yield Bioinspired Atmospheric Water Capture Through Hydrogels, Yiwei Gao

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Trust in Southern Nevada Health District by the Southern Nevada Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Edom Gelaw

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Increasing Self-Perceived Competence in Performing Independent Living Skills among Unhoused Youth and Young Adults, Stacie M. Gomez

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Inequities in the Student Conduct Process: An Analysis of a State System of Higher Education, Lucas J. Graff

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Exploration of H2O Ice at Extreme Conditions, Zachary M. Grande

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An Examination of the Association of Religiosity, Purity Culture, and Religious Trauma with Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety, Kaelyn R. Griffin

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Development of a Multifactorial Virtual Fall Prevention Tool for Community Dwelling Older Women, Eduardo Gutierrez, Jacob James Nogra, Carol Sparks, and Bradley Voels

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Investigating Haloacetonitrile (Han) Formation Potential from Nitrogenous Antibiotics and Agrochemicals, Kazi Shafayet Haider

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Nonpharmacological Pain Management of Adult Patients in the Burn Unit: An Interdisciplinary Toolkit Through the Occupational Therapy Lens, Taylor Harrison-Merrill

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Effects of Cations and Dipicolinic Acid on B. anthracis Spore Physiology and Cytotoxicity, Chandler P. Hassan

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Maternal Health in the Context of Social, Political, and Economic Change Among Hadzabe Foragers of Tanzania, Kristen Herlosky

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The Closing of One Black Box, The Opening of Another: A Self-Study of How an Instructional Coach Makes Decisions, Andromeda L. Hightower

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Genre and Gender: A Rhetoric of Irony in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing, Nanette Rasband Hilton

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Response of the Isothermal Mode Grüneisen Tensor Across Phase Boundaries, Jasmine K. Hinton

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Increasing Foster Parent Awareness of An Occupation-Based Approach to Child Well-Being, Taylar Hirte

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NEW-R Intervention for Clients with Severe Mental Illness and Obesity: Grant Writing for Implementation Funds Supporting Occupational Therapy Interventions, Kaitlyn Hoffman

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Perceived Usefulness, Ease of Use, and Satisfaction of a Swaddle Bathing Educational Guide Among Parents/Guardians of NICU Premature Infants, Makenzie Leigh Hogbin

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Coercive Sexuality: The Effect of Early Victimization on One’s Views and Attitudes Toward Sex, Kevin Elias Hoover

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Cell-Specific Mechanisms of Microrna Modulation of Anoctamin-1 (ANO1) in Oral Cancer, Daniel Hou

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Spectroscopic Studies On Silicon and Chalcopyrite Materials for Solar Energy Applications, Amandee Hua

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Chemotherapeutic Drug Resistance Associated with Differential miRNA Expression of miR-375 and miR-27 among Oral Cancer Cell Lines, Kieran Huni

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Flying the Unfriendly Skies: How Flight Crew Members Perceived and Communicatively Constructed the Emotional Labor of their Positions throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic, William B.l. Ingelson

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Three-Dimensional Finite Element Numerical Analysis of Closely Spaced Foundations Resting on Clay Soil Supported with a Geocell Mattress Embedded in a Fly Ash Layer, Yahia Iskander

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Metastability and Degradation in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Thin-Film Solar Cells, Mohsen Jahandardoost

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Individual Differences in Police Officers’ Decision Styles in Order Maintenance Policing, Damarrah Elisheba Jameson

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Applying Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis to Assess Air Pollution with Spanish Moss as a Bioindicator in the Low Country of the Savannah River Basin, Christina Jiang

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#Rudecustomers: The effects of social media posts about customer mistreatment on viewers’ moral emotions and reactions, Wen Jiang

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A Light Gradient Boosting Machine-enabled Model to Predict Radiation-induced Toxicities in Cancer Patients Receiving Chemoradiotherapy, Zirui Jiang

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Solving Boundary Value and Initial Boundary Value Problems of Partial Differential Equations Using Meshless Methods, Adam Johnson

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How Animals Affect Us: Examining the Relationship between Human-Animal Interactions and Human Well-Being, Elizabeth A. Johnson

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Joint Constraints on Kepler-36 from Kepler and New KECK-HIRES Data, Nicholas Juliano

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Effectiveness of a Workshop for Improving Awareness and Identification of Racial Microaggressions Among Occupational Therapy Faculty and Students, Hannah Kalegzabher

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Time-Dependent Wetting Behavior of Hydrogels, Amir Kashani

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A Qualitative Descriptive Case Study of Teaching Multicultural Education in A High School Civics and Economics Class, Averill Duane Kelley

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Feminine Aesthetics of Embodied Cognition: Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Audre Lorde, Jenessa L.w. Kenway

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Assistance Dog Considerations: A Lecture for Occupational Therapy Students, Kayla Kinney

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Anatomy Academy Service-Learning Project: Attacking the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity, Kelsey Kjer, Rosedaveia Howell, Brennan Kitchen, and Francesca Schutte

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A Cultural History of Anti-Feminism in Marvel's Scarlet Witch, Madison M. Kooba

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Effects of a 12-week Remote Exercise Program on Balance in Adults with Down Syndrome, Kayla Kotake, Sherwin Cadiao, Nicole Kaes, and Jayston Prudencio

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The Psychometric Properties of The Modified Fear of Falling Avoidance Behavior Questionnaire in Parkinson’s Disease and Older Adults, Billy La, Arturo Aldaco, and Ashley Haller

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The Development of a Pilot Program Related to the Application of High-Intensity in Occupational Therapy, Philip Lamoreaux

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An Exploration of Popular Tenor Audition Arias and a Guide to Selecting Opera Audition Repertoire, Tung Kei Lam

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Creating a Web Resource on Sense of Belonging for Underrepresented Occupational Therapy Students in Graduate Programs, Owen Uyiosa Lawani

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Study of Trace Elements in Southern Nevada Spring Waters and Lakes, Hyejeong Lee

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Differential Effects of Extracellular Matrix Glycoproteins Fibronectin and Laminin-5 on Dental Pulp Stem Cell Phenotypes and Responsiveness, Hyungbin Lee

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A Slow Act of Vision, Alice Letowt

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Dental Pulp Stem Cell Differentiation Potential of BMP-2 and BMP-4, David Li

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Investigating Students’ Lived Experience with Prebriefing Structure and Elements in Nursing Simulation Education, Meghan Liebzeit