Below are theses and dissertations completed by graduates of the University of Nevada Las Vegas College of Sciences.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2016
High-Pressure Properties of Several Narrow Bandgap Semiconductors from First-Principles Calculations, Andrew Michael Alvarado
Characterizing the Earliest Stages of Partial Melting: A Study of the Pyrometamorphic Aureole of Miocene Mt. Perkins Pluton, Northwest Arizona, Mathew Beshears
On the Scattering of an Acoustic Plane Wave by a Soft Prolate Spheroid, Joseph Michael Borromeo
A Case for Chiral Contributions to Nondipole Effects in Photoionization Using Linearly Polarized Soft X-rays, Kyle Patrick Bowen
Direct Dissolution and Electrochemical Investigation of Cerium and Uranium in Ionic Liquid, Janelle Droessler
(U-Th)/He Studies of the Southern Snake Range Metamorphic Core Complex, NV and Gypsum Valley Salt Wall, Paradox Basin, CO, USA, Sarah Lynn Evans
Estimation and Comparison of Thermoelectric and PV Solar Water Usage in the Colorado River Basin States, Yuzhen Feng
Patterns of Synorogenic Sedimentation Associated with the Unroofing of the Willard-Paris-Meade Thrust Sheets, Sevier Fold-Thrust Belt, Amanda Gentry
Physiology and Genetics of Starvation-Selected Drosophila melanogaster, Christopher Michael Hardy
Ab Initio Structure Determination and Property Characterization of High-Pressure Ca-O Compounds and Li2(OH)Br Crystals, Christopher Higgins
The San1 Ubiquitin Ligase Functions Preferentially with Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzyme Ubc1 During Protein Quality Control, Rebeca Lea Ibarra
Effects of Hydraulic Connections on Unsaturated Flow in Dual-Permeability Media, Jeevan Jayakody
Characterizing Crystal Populations for the Petrogenesis of the Post-Collapse Rhyolites in The Long Valley Caldera, California, William Joseph
Development of the K-state (Competence) and Mutagenesis in Stressed Bacillus subtillis Cells, Amanda Kidman
Water Balance and Moisture Dynamics of an Arid and Semi-Arid Soil: A Weighing Lysimeter and Field Study, Jeremy E. Koonce
Interference Effects of Urban Rubble on the Radioanalytical Analysis of Strontium, Derek Roger Mclain
Incomplete Denitrification in Thermus Species, Chrisabelle Mefferd
Structural Behavior of NbSexTe2-x Superconductors Under High Pressure, Vahe Mkrtchyan
Structural Evolution of the Maynard Lake Fault Within the Left-Lateral Pahranagat Shear Zone, Nevada, USA, Mahmud Mustafa Muhammad
Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite Actuators Based on Nafion Blends with Functional Polymers, Jungsoo Nam
Assessing a Potential Paleothermal Anomaly near a Salt Wall Using (U-TH)/HE Thermochronology and Silica Cementation Analysis, Onion Creek, Utah, Richard Gregory Ness
Canovas Canyon Rhyolites, Jemez Volcanic Field, New Mexico: Discrete Source Magmas, or a Potential Caldera Forming Magma System?, Penelope Marie Padmore
The Role of Mfd in Stationary-Phase Oxidative Damage Repair in Bacillus subtilis, Katelyn E. Porter
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
Water Source Partitioning for Shrubland Transpiration in a Mixed Phreatophytic Plant Community, Amanda Jean Wagner
The Hopf Fibration and Encoding Torus Knots in Light Fields, John Vincent Waite
A Bioinformatics Approach to Addressing the Responses of Rice Aleurone Cells to Hormones Abscisic Acid and Gibberellic Acid, Kenneth Arthur Watanabe
Biogeochemistry of a Saline, Alkaline, Terminal Lake Ecosystem in Transition; Walker Lake, Nevada, Katherine Lynn Willever
Strategic Molecular Design to Engineer the Electron Affinity of Self-Assembling Organic Semiconductors, Kelly Nicole Zaugg
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Kinematics and timing of the Miocene-Quaternary deformation in Nellis Dunes Recreational Area, Nevada, Shaimaa Abdelhaleem
Inverse Problem for Non-viscous Mean Field Control: Example From Traffic, Shaurya Agarwal
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
Rewetting of Artificially Desiccated Soils: Effect of Gravity on Vapor-Phase Diffusion, Taylor Arland Ball
Generalized Catalan Numbers and Some Divisibility Properties, Jacob Bobrowski
Laser Ablation ICP-MS of Actinide Oxides as Simulated Used Nuclear Fuels, Keri Campbell
Assessing the importance of nurse plant associations to the growth of pre-~reproductive Yucca brevifolia, Eric James Chameroy
Glass shards at Pinnacle Point rock shelter 5-~6, South Africa: Are they from the last super-~eruption of Toba?, Amber Elizabeth Ciravolo
Trace Element Variations in a Stalagmite from Southwest Mexico: Implications for Paleoclimate, Chad Michael Crotty
Study the Mechanism of the Prompt Emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts, Wei Deng
Studies of Flerovium and Element 115 Homologs with Macrocyclic Extractants, John Dustin Despotopulos
Chemical and Electronic Structure of Surfaces and Interfaces in Cadmium Telluride Based Photovoltaic Devices, Douglas Arthur Duncan
An Investigation into Transitions in Clay Mineral Chemistry on Mars, Seth Gainey
Predictive Modeling of Terrestrial Radiation Exposure from Geologic Materials, Daniel A. Haber
Stable Isotope Analysis of Bison latifrons and Paleoecological Inferences, Fabian Ceron Hardy
Cultivation-Dependent Analysis of Microorganisms Associated with Various Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids, Anthony Harrington
Constraining the Progenitor and Central Engine of Gamma-ray Bursts with Observational Data, Lu Houjun
High Pressure Behavior of Mullite-Type Oxides: Phase Transitions, Amorphization, Negative Linear Compressibility and Microstructural Implications, Patricia Kalita
Solving differential equations with least square and collocation methods, Katayoun Bodouhi Kazemi
Hydrothermal Routes to Technetium Cluster Compounds, William M. Kerlin
The Effects of Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Antimicrobial Peptides on Paenibacillus larvae, Jasmin Camille Khilnani
Versatile Synthetic Methods for Photoluminescent Pyrylium Tosylates, Jung Jae Koh
Modeling Background Radiation using Geochemical Data, Kara Marsac
Exact Statistical Inferences for Functions of Parameters of the Log-Gamma Distribution, Joseph F. Mcdonald
Generalized Markoff Equations, Euclid Trees, and Chebyshev Polynomials, Donald Joseph Mcginn
A Comparison of Recent Results on the Unicity Conjecture of the Markoff Equation, Brandon John Metz
Beryllium is a potent and unique GSK-3β inhibitor with potential to differentially regulate glycogen synthase and β-catenin, Ata Ur Rahman Mohammed Abdul
Characterization of Gold and Related Mineralization at the North Bullion Carlin System, Railroad Project, a Nevada Carlin-~type Gold Prospect, Melanie Nicole Newton
Ediacaran ocean redox evolution, Swapan Kumar Sahoo
Dissolution of Nontronite in Low Water Activity Brines and Implications for the Aqueous History of Mars, Michael Henry Steiner
Scardovia Wiggsiae Prevalence in Orthodontic Patients, Brandon Joseph Streiff
Modeling studies and numerical analyses of coupled PDEs system in electrohydrodynamics, Yuzhou Sun
A study of sequential inference for the risk ratio and measure of reduction of two binomials, Zhou Wang
Carbon Isotope Variations Associated with a Middle Ordovician Karstic Unconformity, Patricia Suzanne Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Mars-Relevant Phosphate Minerals and Implications for Martian Habitability, Christopher Adcock
Speciation of Pentavalent Technetium Complexes with Aniline and Thiobenzene Derivatives, Kyle E. Childs
The effect of single crystal elastic and plastic anisotropy on stress and strain heterogeneity: comparison of olivine to other common minerals, Christopher Joseph Cline Ii
Observability in Traffic Modeling: Eulerian and Lagrangian Coordinates, Sergio Contreras
Ore Classification and Breccia Formation in the 144 Zone Gold Deposit: A Chemical Replacement Model, Bare Mountain Range, Nevada, William Thomas Fischer
Ore Characterization of the Estelle Property in the South-~Central Alaska Range, Ember Flagg
Physics of Gamma-ray Bursts and Multi-messenger Signals from Double Neutron Star Mergers, He Gao
Spectroscopic Investigation of the Chemical and Electronic Properties of Chalcogenide Materials for Thin-film Optoelectronic Devices, Kimberly Horsley
Li+ Ion Transport in Select Lithium-Rich Antiperovskites, John William Howard
The Grass Shrimp, Palaemonetes, Pugio: Hypoxic Influences on Embryonic Development, Christensen C. Javier
Subalklaine Volcanism in the Eastern Basin and Range Province: Examples from the Miocene McCullough Range Volcanic Field and the Pliocene to Holocene Black Rock Desert Volcanic Field, Racheal Leighann Johnsen
Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) Offspring Recruitment on the Carrizo Plain National Monument: Evaluating the Effects of Low Population Density and Marginal Habitat Quality., Diego Ramirez Johnson
Modeling and Analysis of Pedestrian Flows, Romesh Khaddar
Using Seismic Reflection to Locate a Tracer Testing Complex South of Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada, Levi Kryder
Numerical Simulations of Traffic Flow Models, Puneet Lakhanpal
Understanding how honey bee flight and senescence are connected through oxidative stress., Joseph Margotta
Porphyry Copper Exploration of the Hualapai Mountains, Mohave County, Arizona, USA: A Multi-faceted Approach, Patrick Kevin Meazell
N-Dimensional Quasipolar Coordinates - Theory and Application, Tan Mai Nguyen
Thermal Impacts of Salt on Sandstones and Mudstones in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal, Brett Perry
New early Miocene 40Ar/39Ar ages for Nakwai, northwest Kenya, Africa, and Paleontological analysis of Meroehyrax kyongoi dentition, Dawn Elena Reynoso
Speciation Behavior of Americium Higher Oxidation States for the Separation of Americium from Curium, Catherine Lynn Riddle
A Survey of Ekeland's Variational Principle and Related Theorems and Applications, Jessica Robinson
Survival, growth, and settlement of Dreissena rostriformis bugensis veligers in low and high calcium waters, Emma Ruhmann
Lattice Methods For The Valuation of Options with Regime Switching, Atul Sancheti
Kinematics and Timing of Superposed Deformation in the Funeral Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex, Death Valley, CA, Katrina Marie Sauer
Modern to Late Pleistocene Stable Isotope Climatology of Alaska, Alison Sloat
Empirical Studies on Interest Rate Derivatives, Xudong Sun
Estimating Aquifer Characteristics and Identification of a Sub-Basin for Artificial Storage and Recovery, Northeastern Ivanpah Valley, Nevada, Nikolas James Taranik