The Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (RTDs) collection are digital versions of UNLV theses and dissertations previously available only in print or microfilm. This collection of over 3,100 works written by UNLV graduate students were produced between 1978-2008 and is freely available for anyone to download. For dissertations published from 2009 to the present, please visit this page: UNLV THESES, DISSERTATIONS, PROFESSIONAL PAPERS, AND CAPSTONES

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Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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Development of an instrument designed to measure student perception of school connectedness, Nicole Jennifer Smith

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An investigation of grid sampling schemes for kriging contaminant concentrations in a riverbed, Matthew Jacob Sokol

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Comparative phylogeography of pine -oak birds, Garth Michael Spellman

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Relevance of age and special needs in initial development phases of a child neglect scale, Stephanie Ann Stowman

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CFD modeling of compact offset strip-fin high temperature heat exchanger, Sundaresan Subramanian

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The social significance of mint tea consumption in Morocco: Reflections on its symbolic representation of Muslim faith, gender prescriptions, socio-economics and hospitality, Monika Sudakov

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A problem concerning the existence of graphs with certain degRees, Jonathan Seary Summer

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Conceptual modeling and analysis of a solar receiver for thermochemical hydrogen generation, Derek Satoru Taguchi

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The differential impact of language skills on the wages of Hispanic men and women, Annette Marie Tanori

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A tough one out there, Patryke Kim Thomas

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Tissue cooling during cryotherapy with varied types of compression, David Tomchuk

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Millipede: A graphical tool for debugging distributed systems with a multilevel approach, Erik Helge Tribou

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Islanding issues associated with photovoltaic inverters, Ramachandran Tripunithura Mahadeva

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The impact of institutional ownership on firm performance in the hospitality industry, Ming-chih Tsai

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Ancestral Puebloan social hierarchies at Manuelito Plateau, New Mexico, Sali A Underwood

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The role of applied potentials on cracking of Zircaloy-2, Unnikrishnan Valliyil

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Plyometric training in female adolescent soccer players, Amaris Christine Vandyke

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Use of alloy 800H for applications in hydrogen generation using nuclear power, Vinay Virupaksha

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Cognitive heterogeneity in murderers, Erin Warnick

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Reject inference methodology skewed missing data problem, Atsuko Watanabe

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Synthetic methods for catalytically active polyaniline/platinum composites, Neloni Ranamli Wijeratne

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Chaucer and the politics of penance, Karl G Wilcox

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Sociability and "Survivor", Shelley Elizabeth Wilkerson

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Evaluating hydraulic conductivity of desert soils at the Amargosa Desert research site near Beatty, Nevada, Jon Woodrow Wilson

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Missing Letters: Seven stories and one novella, David Biddle Winkler

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An analysis of ground stone artifacts from Ghwair I, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site in southern Jordan, Claudia C Woodman

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Hellfire and damnation through crime or bliss through faith: A look at faith-based corrections, Gregory Paul Warren Wuthrich

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Improvements to patient-specific skeletal dosimetry, Jeffrey Scott Wyler

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Engine starts and soaks frequencies in southern Nevada, Ping Xi

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Reactor modeling and simulation for the copper-chlorine thermochemical solar hydrogen generation process, Mohammed Yassin

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Soul shakedown: The politics of soul music, Melanie Catherine Young

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Business failure prediction for Korean lodging firms using multiple discriminant analysis and logit analysis, Hyewon Youn

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Effects of attentional focus on kinematics and muscle activation patterns as a function of expertise, Tiffany L Zachry

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Reliability generalization of the California Psychological Inventory, Helen Zaikina

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Location and resource management for quality of service provisioning in wireless/mobile networks, Jun Zheng

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Sequential procedure for test of uniformity in multinomial models, Hai Zhen

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Confidence intervals for the ratio of Poisson parameters, Libo Zhou

Theses/Dissertations from 2004

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Establishing uranium migration parameters for the Indian Springs Range, Clinton E Abell

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A policy analysis of Nevada's middle school retention legislation, Julie Ann Abeyta

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Community notification laws and sex offender recidivism: A study of state laws in pre and post time periods, Rachel Katherine Abrams

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A system model for source water assessment in the Las Vegas Valley, Silvia Albuquerque

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CFD analysis of three-dimensional thermalhydraulics flow effects on wall concentration gradient profiles for Lbe loop fittings, Narain Armbya

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Analysis of the unsteady flow and heat transfer of a dusty fluid between two concentric cylinders in the presence of a magnetic field, Nagarajan Balasubramanian

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Sibling relationships in remarried families, Monique C. Diderich Balsam

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Comparison of the performance of various bootstrap procedures for gamma and lognormal distributions, Alex N Berejnoi

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Pottery and mobility: A functional analysis of Intermountain Brownware, Britt J Betenson

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Lower limb bone shape and structure among populations of differing lifestyles: Effects of biomechanical stress and inferences of activity, Michele Marcela Bleuze

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Belief in a just world among undergraduates, graduate students, and law students, Joseph F Boetcher

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Virko Baley: An examination of his works that feature clarinet, Timothy Bonenfant

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Determining capable guardians in rape incidents, Alicia A Boots

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Local newspapers and the restoration of order: Littleton after Columbine, Michelle Laura Bouwkamp

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Vietnam and the More Flags campaign, 1964--1965: The search for American allies in the Commonwealth, Becky L Bruce

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The relationship between time on the job and compassion/satisfaction fatigue in firefighters, Juanita M Buck

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A case study of culture and change in a small architecture firm, Valerie L Bugni

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Gender parity in political coverage: A content analysis of major Kenyan newspapers, Kulamo C Bullo

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Effects of gender and seating arrangement on perceptions of leadership, Danielle Jackson Cervantes

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The myth of arrival, Zachary Jean Chartkoff

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Charge-diffusion-filtration models for transport across the endothelial barriers and in the interstitial space, Bin Chen

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Examining the impact of human resources management: A performance based analytic model, Yoon Seonghee Cho

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Breaking down the wall: Hope and the dialectical nature of education, Ginger Clayton-Lee

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The impact of dynamic changes in talker amplitude on recognition memory for words, Kimberly M Cramer

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Cultivation of fear of Blacks in Las Vegas television news media, Mark Leigh Curry

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Metricizing' non-metric craniofacial traits: Application of three dimensional geometric morphometric analysis to ancestral identification, Summer Joy Decker

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Three-dimensional CFD simulations of natural and forced convection solar domestic water heating systems, Sachin Sudhakar Deshmukh

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Secondary English Language Arts teachers' perceptions and implementation of change policy, Denise De Vito

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Virtual learning community: A student exit survey and qualitative framework, David C DiRamio

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The effects of an elevated pre-test heart rate on a cardiovascular test, Jeffrey Allen Dolgan

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Extraction of paleohydrology and paleoclimate proxies from vadose zones and paleolake records in the southwestern Great Basin, Weiquan Dong

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Exploring relationships between configurations of laptop use and student off -task behavior, Loretta Donovan

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GIS analysis of the pre and post-diversion water balances in Owens Valley, California, Anna Corinne Draa

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Residual stress measurements and analysis by destructive and non-destructive techniques, Satish Babu Dronavalli

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Characterization and extent of expansive soils in the Las Vegas Valley, Lorraine Linnert Dunford

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Culture clash: Making the case for a new paradigm in police cultural training, Hal S Edwards

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Camera calibration for the NASA Virtual GloveBox project, Ramzi Wasef El-Khater

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Arabic stemmers and their effectiveness on the information retrieval system, Rania Fawzi Elkhoury

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Survival of enterococcal and streptococcal species in natural waters, Kameron L Entrekin

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Discerning academic preparation and responsibilities of Division I and Division Iii athletic administrators, Carl Seth Evans

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Congress's failed potential: The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the War Powers Act, Jason Andrew Frayer

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The school experience from the students' perspective: A comparative case study analysis, John Goldhardt

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Martyred Cars, Andrea Rose Gregovich

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Cooling due to collisions between hydrogen molecules and helium atoms, Lisa Ann Grew

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Evaluation of the perceptual magnet effect and categorical perception for musical timbre, Melissa Kay Griffith

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Pathological gambling and substance abuse in the Las Vegas arrestee population, Jeffrey Michael Groebner

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Suppression of limit cycle oscillations in an aeroelastic system using robust and adaptive control, Sushma Gujjula

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Simulation of concentrated photovoltaic cooling system, Christopher K Halford

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Quilting between the revivals: The cultural context of quilting, 1945--1970, Colleen Rose Hall-Patton

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A spectroscopic study of the star -forming properties of the center of Ngc 4194, Mark Hancock

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Pyrite geochemistry across the Betze-Post deposit, northern Carlin Trend, Nevada, Christine Ann Henkelman

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Teacher exploration of instructional strategies to promote algebraic thinKing, Cynthia Ann Hernon

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Modeling consumer choices between domestic and foreign automobiles, Cagla Hirschman

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Critical analysis of university conduct codes as a mechanism for remedying student sexual misbehavior, Kimberly Hollingshead-Aitken

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The effects of gestational perchlorate exposure on development and behavior in rats, Sally Ann Hopper

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Stress corrosion cracking and hydrogen embrittlement of martensitic Alloy Ep -823, Mohammad Kamal Hossain

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Hydrocarbon occurrences within the La Popa Basin: Potential source rocks, thermal maturation, and hydrocarbon migration along the La Popa salt weld, La Popa Basin, Ne Mexico, Samuel Mark Hudson

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Polymer-supported reagents for disinfection of water, Sylvester Ojo Ifalade

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Roaring Orchards, Dan Ionascu

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Optical character recognition for checkbox detection, John Michael Istle

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A study of pre and post Cold War presidential international crisis rhetoric, Flora Anne Jackson

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Communication in the classroom: An interpretive analysis of empowerment and choice theory, Judith Angela Jason

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Prediction of struvite formation potential in Ebpr digested sludge using mass balances, batch precipitation tests, and chemical equilibrium modeling, Hyunju Jeong