Theses, dissertations, professional papers, and doctoral projects from graduate students in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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“'You done cheat Mose out o' de job, anyways; we all knows dat'”: Faith healing in the fiction of Kate Chopin, Karen Kel Roop

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The role of metrical structure in tonal knowledge acquisition, Matthew Rosenthal

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The relationship between the functions of school refusal behavior and family environment, Rachel Marie Schafer

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The Watchmaker Series, Christopher Michael Seelie

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The impact of age, education, political knowledge and political context on voter turnout, Roy Edward Snyder III

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Testosterone and vasopressin in men’s reproductive behavior, Eric T. Steiner

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Pain tolerance and thresholds in women with dyspareunia: Do pain and sex primes have differential effects?, Lea Thaler

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A landscape approach to Late Prehistoric settlement and subsistence patterns in the Mojave Sink, Tiffany Ann Thomas

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Consensus on the Colorado: Issues in the allocation of a limited resource, Jeffrey D. Tilton

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Gambling with lives: A history of occupational health in southern Nevada, 1905--2010, Michelle Ann Turk

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Challenges in Researching the Relationship Between Delinquency and Family Dynamics in Juvenile Sex Offenders, Dio Kevin Turner II

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Bioarchaeology of compassion: Exploring extreme cases of pathology in a Bronze Age skeletal population from Tell Abraq, U.A.E., Jamie D. Vilos

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The Whiter lotus: Asian religions and reform movements in America, 1836-1933, Edgar A. Weir Jr.

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On the back of the army: A comparative study of Romanization in Britain and Egypt, Renee Wiseman

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The Dilemma of minors’ access to adult content on the Internet: A proposed warnings solution, Helen Zaikina-Montgomery

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Indigent women and access to prenatal care, Zoe Ann Zelazny

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

Neuropsychological and emotion processing deficits in adults with bipolar disorder, Christina M. Armstrong

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Composite of complexity: Manifestations of whiteness and class among Las Vegas Italian Americans, Danielle Nicole Axt

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From ‘baggage’ to not ‘non-persons’: Levy v. Louisiana and the struggle for equal rights for ‘illegitimate’ children, Sherrie Anne Bakelar

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Mariah Black: A Novel, Mark D. Baumgartner

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Health status of infants and children from the Bronze Age tomb at Tell Abraq, United Arab Emirates, Kathryn Mary Baustian

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Impacts on maternal diet in a transitional community in rural Costa Rica: Potential implications for the developmental origins of obesity-related disorders, Allison Cantor

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Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto, Maile Chapman

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Fire on the mountain: Growth and conflict in Colorado ski country, Michael W. Childers

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Saints in Sin City: Religion and community building in twentieth century Las Vegas, Matthew R. Davis

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Latino locales: Does context matter?, Matthew C. Dempsey

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The Gendering of Nevada politics: The ERA ratification campaign, 1973-1981, Caryll Batt Dziedziak

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Ælfric and the Orient, Jacqueline Geaney Elkouz

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The Advisor-advisee relationship: A qualitative study of advisee perspectives, Paula M. Emke-Francis

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Multiform segregation in the context of the urban crises in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, 1930 - 1980, Colin M. FitzGerald

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History and transnational identities in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Brian Joseph Flores

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Plato’s Gorgias: Rhetoric, the greatest evil, and the true art of politics, Paul A. George

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Altering explicit and implicit racial prejudice towards African American males, Veronica A. Glover

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The Effects of cellular theta breathing meditation on cell mediated immune response: A controlled, randomized investigation of altered consciousness and health, Marjorie D. Hardgrave

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Relative deprivation, relative gratification, status, and health, Samuel A. Holland

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Shakespeare adapting Chaucer: “Myn auctour shal I folwen, if I konne”, Scott A. Hollifield

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The Influence of perspective and gender on the processing of narratives, Jeremy A. Houska

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Use of an animal model to explore prenatal predictors of insulin and glucose metabolism in Southwestern Alaskan Yupiit, Julie Jo Kachinski

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Weapons labs and city growth: Livermore and Albuquerque, 1945-1975, Layne Rochelle Karafantis

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Civil-military relations: A case study of Pakistan, Najiyah Khan

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The Culture of revolution: Revolutionary transformation in Iran, Autoosa Elizabeth Kojoori-Saatchi

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The Boys' club: An exploration into the social world of a Las Vegas casino sports book, Frederick W. Krauss

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Initial development of a healthy living curriculum within family behavior therapy for substance abuse, Holly B. LaPota

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A Longitudinal study of neurocognitive deficits and functional outcome in bipolar disorder, Brian D. Leany

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The Experience of feelings in depression, Noelle L. Lefforge

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Building DuPont: Capitalism, manufactures, and place in early America, 1800-1820, Christopher Manning

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Bordered identities: Class, ethnicity, and transnational social networks, Rayette Ellen Martin

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Inferring rules from sound: The role of domain-specific knowledge in speech and music perception, Aaronell Shaila Matta

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Trade and exchange in the Neolithic Near East: Implications of obsidian remains from Ais Yiorkis, Cyprus, Megan M. Melson

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Exploring the phenomena of inner experience with descriptive experience sampling, Janell M. Mihelic

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Examining the inner experience of left-handers using descriptive experience sampling, Aadee Mizrachi

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The Determinants of U.S. foreign aid allocation to Sub-Saharan Africa in the pre-terror and post-terror security environments, Brendan Mark Morris

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From main-travelled roads to Route 66: Transitions in Prairie Naturalism, Michelle Nicole Munkres

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Preserving the past and planning the future in Pasadena, Riverside and San Bernardino, Charles Conway Palmer

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Must pay now, David C. Perkins

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Neuropsychological and emotion processing abnormalities in bipolar disorder I and II, Carol Randall

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An Examination of the life and work of Gustav Hasford, Matthew Samuel Ross

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Is there evidence for the observation and use of astronomy at the Harris Site in the Mimbres Valley?, Denise Ruzicka

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Donepezil and galanin interactions in an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease, Jonathan J. Sabbagh

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Narrative comprehension for functional survival spatial relations, Paul James Schroeder III

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Verbal and visual learning and memory deficits as trait markers for psychosis in bipolar disorder, Griffin P. Sutton

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Monarchs in Love and Other Stories, Matthew Swetnam

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Cluster analysis of the TOMAL standardization sample, Nicholas Shizuo Thaler

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Mediating and moderating variables between discretionary purchases and happiness, Rebecca L. Thomas

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The Effects of cultural experience and subdivision on tapping to slow tempi, Sangeeta Ullal

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Political and civic engagement attitudes among Asian American college students, Matthew Vanada

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Selling knowledge: A sociological analysis of attorney advertisement in Las Vegas, Giselle Velasquez

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Atomic governance: Militarism, secrecy, and science in post-war America, 1945-1958, Mary D. Wammack

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African American and Caucasian males' evaluation of racialized female facial averages, Rhea M. Watson

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Transforming space into place: Development, rock climbing, and interpretation in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, 1960-2010, Megan Sharp Weatherly

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The Crooked median, Monica Zarazua

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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'So manie gallant gentlemen': Imperial humanists and Tudor imperial identity, Karin Alana Amundsen

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Neurocognitive deficits and functional outcome in bipolar disorder, Danielle T. Bello

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Descriptive experience sampling interactive multimedia training tool, Arva Bensaheb

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Exploring erotic plasticity as an individual difference variable: Theory and measurement, Lorraine Benuto

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Race stereotypic crimes and juror decision making: Hispanic, black, and white defendants, Joseph Francis Boetcher

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Eminent domain: The unintended consequences of Kelo, Tracy Lynn Bower

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Studying Personality In Juvenile Prostitutes: Aren't All Delinquents The Same?, Nina S. Brathwaite

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Governor James G. Scrugham and the search for economic prosperity for Nevada, 1923--1927, Paul Robert Bruno

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The Casaloma, Justin P. Burnside

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Chinese transnationalism and the creation of a liberal public sphere, Lanelle Elizabeth Christman

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Wraith Walking, Jason Coley

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Diversity issues in recruitment and retention of clients for parenting classes, Rachel Elizabeth Davis

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Adult estimation, eye movements and math anxiety, Robert T. Durette

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Democracy and the environment in Latin America, Javier Albert Escamilla

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Stigma Cities: Dystopian Urban Identities In The United States West And South In The Twentieth Century, Jonathan Lavon Foster

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Sensory imagery and aesthetic affect in the poetry of Keats, Hopkins, and Eliot, Clare Louis Gerlach

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Zoroastrians on the Internet, a quiet social movement: Ethnography of a virtual community, Helen Gerth

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"The Varied carols I hear": The music of the New Deal in the West, Peter L. Gough

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"Divine William" and the master: The influence of Shakespeare on the novels of Henry James, Amy M. Green

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Patient-focused research: Examining the psychotherapist as a feedback receiver, Michael Haderlie

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Water use and natural limits in the Las Vegas Valley: A history of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, Christian Harrison

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A Palestinian state, Jennifer A. Hileman-Tabios

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Circuit Rider, Kimberley Harris Idol

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Descriptive Experience Sampling of Individuals with Bulimia Nervosa, Sharon Jones-Forrester

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Paradigmatic recrudescence: Classical realism in the age of globalization, Nerses Kopalyan

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Gray Zones of modern genocide, Megan Dale Lee

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When did the ancestors of Polynesia begin to migrate to Polynesia? The mtDNA evidence, David Lesniewski

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Persuasiveness of the text: An analysis of Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas", Carl William-John Linder

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Architecture and nostalgia in the British modern novel, Heather Lynn Lusty