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This collection contains graduate student theses and dissertations from the UNLV College of Sciences. Records are organized by Year, Author, and Title. To view the entire collection of UNLV theses and dissertations across all programs, visit the UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones collection.
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
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
A Study of Graphical Permutations, Jessica Thune
A Physically-Based Type II Supernova Feedback Model in SPH Simulations, Keita Todoroki
Life history tradeoffs and the costs of reproduction in Arizona Bark Scorpions (Centruroides sculpturatus), Michael Marie Webber
Isolation and Characterization of Paenibacillus larvae Bacteriophages for Use as a Treatment of American Foulbrood Disease in Honeybees, Diane Gerda Yost
Exact Controllability of the Lazer-McKenna Suspension Bridge Equation, Lanxuan Yu
A Study of Joinpoint Models for Longitudinal Data, Libo Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Assessing Growth Response to Climate Controls in a Great Basin Artemisia Tridentata Plant Community, Lorenzo F. Apodaca
Comparison of Mesh and Meshless Methods for Partial Differential Equations of Galerkin Form, Wallace F. Atterberry
How Accurately Can the Inclination Angle, Position Angle, and Location of the Dynamic Center be Measured from the Neutral Hydrogen Disk in the Central Regions of Dwarf Galaxies?, John Henry Boisvert
Paleoecology of Late Pleistocene megaherbivores: Stable isotope reconstruction of environment, climate, and response, Aubrey Mae Bonde
Kinematic analysis of axial rotations and the effects of stress selection on takeoff flight performance, Michael L. Brewer
Cretaceous and Eocene U-Pb Zircon Migmatite Ages from the East Humboldt Range Metamorphic Core Complex, Nevada, Jordan Drew
Integrating, Developing, and Testing Methods to Generate More Cohesive Approaches to Biogeographic Inference, Mallory Elizabeth Eckstut
Application of (U-Th)/He and 40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology to the Age of Thrust Faulting in the Sevier Orogenic Belt, Michael Giallorenzo
Impacts of climate changes on the spatiotemporal distribution of precipitation in the western United States, Peng Jiang
A Gaming Application of the Negative Hypergeometric Distribution, Steven Norman Jones
Generalizations of Pascal's Triangle: A Construction Based Approach, Michael Anton Kuhlmann
A Comprehensive Research Framework for Geographic Parthenogenesis in Whiptail Lizards (Genus Aspidoscelis), Adam Leland
Estimation of Travel Time Based on Vehicle-Tracking Models, Anuj Nayyar
The Effects of Starvation Selection on Drosophila Melanogaster Life History and Development, Lauren A. Reynolds
Pennsylvanian to Cretaceous folds and thrusts in south-central Nevada: evidence from the Timpahute Range, Angela Giovanna Russo
A More General Diffusion Model For Lightning Radiative Transfer, Elliott Paul Saint-Pierre
The Role of OsWRKY71 and Its Interacting Proteins in Seed Germination and Early Growth of Cereal Grains, Margaret Ja Shin
Dispersal Ecology of Desert Mosses Along Gradients of Elevation, Wildfire Disturbance and Local Niche, Robert Joseph Smith
Ichnology and paleoecology of the Jurassic Aztec Sandstone, Heather Marie Stoller
The Evaluation of Water Storage in Death Valley using GRACE Satellite Data, Maile Sweigart
Dissolution Rates of Amorphous Al- and Fe-Phosphates and their Relevance to Phosphate Mobility on Mars, Valerie Tu
Estimation of the Tax Rates Based on Vehicle Miles Traveled Using Stochastic Models, Pratik Verma
Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Maxwell's Equations in Dispersive and Metamaterials Media, Jiajia Waters
Fate and Transport of Fourteen Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in an Irrigated Soil Profile, Lena Wright
Time-Dependent Random Effect Poisson Random Field Model for Polymorphism within and Between Two Related Species, Shilei Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Natural and constructed wetlands for ecosystem and engineering services in the arid and semi-arid regions, Achyut Raj Adhikari
Burial and Exhumation History of Mississippian Strata in East-Central Nevada, Yuki Yunika Agulia
Deciphering the Evolution of Ore Fluids at The Batu Hijau Copper-~Gold Porphyry Deposit, Sumbawa, Indonesia, Jordan Thomas Armstrong
Evaluating Recharge and Dynamics of Flow in the Lower Virgin River Basin, USA: Interpretation of Hydrochemical and Stable Isotopic Data, Joseph Asante
Synthesis and High-Pressure Structural Studies of AuX2 (X= Al, Ga, In) Compounds, Jason Lee Baker
Chemical Weathering of the Mafic Minerals Serpentine and Olivine in Natural Environments, Julie Lynn Baumeister
From the Foreland to the Hinterland: Taphonomy across the Cretaceous to Paleogene Sevier Retroarc Region of Nevada, Joshua William Bonde
Paleoseismic Study of the Stewart Valley and Northern Pahrump Segments of the Stateline Fault System, Nevada, Jonathan Carter
Numerical and Experimental Investigation of the Stability Region for a Cylindrical Ion Trap, Bradley Steven Clarke
A Gauge Theoretic Treatment of Rovibrational Motion in Diatoms, Gregory Colarch
Natural and Lignocellulose-Enriched Microbial Communities in Great Boiling Spring, NV, Jessica Cole
The Effects of Salt Diapirs on the Thermal Maturity of Surrounding Sediments in the Western Pyrenees, Spain, Nicholas Martin Downs
Determining the Motion and Location of the Frenchman Mountain Fault, Las Vegas, Nevada: A Paired Basin Analysis and Structural Analysis, Laura Margaret Eaton
Petrogenesis of the East Fork Member Rhyolites, Valles Caldera, New Mexico, USA, Carla Eichler
Volcanic Evolution Of The Southern Quinn Canyon Range: Implications For Regional Correlation Of Volcanic Units, Christina Emery
Scorpion Phylogeography in the North American Aridlands, Matthew Ryan Graham
Petrogenesis of the Linked River Mountains Volcanic Section and Wilson Ridge Pluton, Denise Kelly Honn
Valuation of Financial Derivatives Subject to Liquidity Risk, Yanan Jiang
Molecular Processes in Astrophysics: Calculations of H + H2 Excitation, De-Excitation, and Cooling, Matthew Kelley
An Estimate of Groundwater Recharge in the Nabogo River Basin, Ghana Using Water Table Fluctuation Method and Chloride Mass Balance, Melanie Lynn Krautstrunk
Measured Rates of D2 Abstraction in H2O+ , D2 Substitution in H2DO+ and Charge Transfer of He2+ with Noble and Other Gases at <1eV, Chrysanthos Kyriakides
Exercise-induced neuroprotection in a hemiparkinsonian 6-hydroxydopamine rat model, Merrill Russen Landers
The Zeta Function of Generalized Markoff Equations over Finite Fields, Juan Mariscal
Muddy Creek Formation: A Record of Late Neogene Tectonics and Sedimentation in Southern Nevada, Thomas William Muntean
The impact of creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) and biological soil crust on Ca distribution in arid soils of the Mojave Desert, Brittany Myers
A Genetic, Transgenic, and Transcriptomic Analysis of Larval Salivary Gland Physiology in Drosophila melanogaster, Elana A. Paladino
Periodic Solutions and Positive Solutions of First and Second Order Logistic Type ODEs with Harvesting, Cody Alan Palmer
2000 Year Moisture Source Record from a Central Nevada Speleothem, Paul Pribyl
Spawning, Veliger Growth and Desiccation of Dreissena bugensis, Lynn Schwaebe
The behavior of zircon during partial melting in anatectic migmatites: Insights to metamorphism, deformation and tectonism in the central Santa Fe Range, northern New Mexico, Michelle Renee Stropky
The Fluvial Muddy Creek Formation Near Overton, Nevada, Carl Taylor Swenberg
Topics in Galaxy Formation: Pairwise Velocities of Dark Matter Halos and Molecular Hydrogen Regulated Star Formation in Cosmological Simulations, Robert Jo Thompson
Parker Winds Revisited: An Extension to Disk Winds, Timothy Waters
Evaluation of possible source rocks in northern Nye County, Nevada: implications for hydrocarbon exploration, Inessa Yurchenko
Analysis of Bank Failure and Size of Assets, Guancun Zhong
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Molecular organic geochemistry of the oil and source rocks in Railroad Valley, eastern Great Basin, Nevada, United States, LaOde Ahdyar
An Ecological study of peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, 2006-2010, Joseph Graham Barnes
Mesozoic burial, Mesozoic and Cenozoic exhumation of the Funeral Mountains core complex, Death Valley, Southeastern California, Mengesha Assefa Beyene
Microbial impacts on endocrine disrupting contaminants: Las Vegas Wash and Lake Mead, Nevada, Susanna May Blunt
Bryoecology in the American southwest: Patterns of biodiversity and responses to global change, John Carroll Brinda
Historical diversification of montane herpetofauna within and between the sierras of Mexico, Robert William Bryson Jr.
ARIMA models for bank failures: Prediction and comparison, Fangjin Cui
Microstructural characterization of kinked germanate olivine grains, Alex Gregory Drue
Mathematical modeling of metamaterials, Valjean Elizabeth Elander
Spectroscopic studies of melamine at high pressure, Martin Donald Galley
Pleistocene climate in Alaska from stable isotopes in an ice wedge, Corinne Y. Griffing
A comparison of spatio-temporal prediction methods of cancer incidence in the U.S, Michelle Hamlyn
Zero-sum magic graphs and their null sets, Samuel M. Hansen