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 1999

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Plant physiology and competition in a Mojave Desert riparian ecosystem: Proximate solutions to ultimate questions, James Ray Cleverly

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Theoretical study of MBE growth of indium gallium arsenide semiconductor compound on gallium arsenide substrate, Golshan Colayni

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Transcendent leader centered analysis: A reconstructive approach to social movement analysis, Kurt Ulrich Coleman

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The canons of television: An application of the five canons of classical rhetoric to television program development, Jamey Todd Combs

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Fluid flow and slope stability model, Gene Cotner

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The relationship between psychosocial momentum, precipitating events, and tennis match outcome, Tracey M Covassin

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Women in prison: Do visits from children influence inmate behavior?, Melissa Marie Cozad

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The impact of interracial contact on stereotypical perceptions, Joann Watts DeBose

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Garfield County resident perceptions of the indirect effects of the 2002 Winter Olympics, Cary Michael Deccio

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Exploring the situational context of criminal assaults and batteries, Gini Rene Deibert

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Town and hinterland: Kingman and Mohave County, Arizona, 1860--1940, Diana Roock Dever

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Suicide in the Las Vegas homeless population: Applying Durkheim's theory of suicide, Joseph Dean Diaz

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Retrieval effectiveness for OCR text using thesauri, Elena Dimitrova

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An evaluation of unsaturated flow models in an arid climate, Jason Michael Dixon

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Casino employee gambling behavior, Karen Barbara Duquette

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Measuring efficiency in the Clark County hotel casino industry, Daniel Encinoza

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Henry Ford's anti-Semitism: A rhetorical analysis of the "paranoid" style, Jeffrey Brian Farrell

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An analysis of the governance and administrative elements of a public -private partnership approach to community -based education, Celia Feres-Lewin

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Assisted reproduction: Deciding what's best for the child, the family, and our society, Gayle R Fisher

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Prescription drug advertisements as fantasies: A cultural critique using a visualization model, Julie Dianne Fisher

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Assessing the accuracy of the Penn World Tables, Timothy Scott Fitzgerald

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The erosion of public policies which support workplace justice: A review of the Davis-Bacon Act, Susan Foregard

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Gaming growth in Clark County, Nevada: A life cycle study, David Scott Frankhouser

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An age of opportunity: Education and employment in cyberspace, Rachel Beth Friedman

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Living expressions and their effects on primary recipients, Dana Lynn Galbavy

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Study of business failure in the hospitality industry from both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives, Luyuan Gao

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Pro-social and anti-social effects of television viewing on adolescents: Speculations based on family situation comedy content, Eunette Gentry

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A chipped stone characterization of Ghwair I: A Neolithic village in southern Jordan, John Patrick Gervasoni

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The relationship between casino drop and gaming stock performance: A multivariate analysis, Mark H Gilbert

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Non-intrusive assessment of radionuclides in enclosed pipes and vessels, Traci Renee Glew

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The effects of computerized instruction in intermediate algebra, Cynthia Lynn Glickman

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United States business travelers' response to price changes and overbooking: Its effect on intentional loyalty in the hospitality industry, Nicholas Jee Gordon

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Self-stabilizing network orientation algorithms in arbitrary rooted networks, Shivashankar Gurumurthy

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Employee motivation, satisfaction and productivity: A study of the workplace, Yvonne Michelle Guthrie

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Community-based corrections: Offender characteristics and success in a halfway house, Ana Maria del Carmen Gutierrez

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Dimension reduction of image and audio space, Blaine Lee Hagstrom

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Avian habitat relationships in the Mojave Desert, Matthew Eugene Hamilton

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Using porn: Discourse and identity construction in male consumers, Andrew Fletcher Harper

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Survey of injury rates in Nevada high school athletic programs, Michelle Marie Hauck

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Elder care: An evaluation of communication resources for lay caregivers in southern Nevada, Deborah Lee Hauth

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Massacre, memoir, and myth: The 1866 Fetterman Fight, a reconstruction, Richard S Haynes

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On lossless image compression, Huawen He

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Genetic algorithms using Galib, Bradley John Hendricks

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Educator study groups: An exploration of an alternative method of preservice teacher development, Leah Mary Herner

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Quality of life amidst the lights of Las Vegas, Terri Lynn Hicks

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Socially desirable responding on the Machiavellianism scale: Response bias or construct?, Maryn Lyn Hoefer

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The stages of development in the portrayal of African-Americans in television comedy, Rashawnda Deve Horn

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Written retellings of narrative and expository texts: A case study of elementary primary grade delayed male readers, Timothy Todd Houge

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Motivation for sport spectating among the Taiwanese people, Ching-Ching Hsu

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Penware Panther: An embedded computer system for real-time applications, Chenyong Huang

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Do RNA-dependent polymerases share common ancestry? A bioinformatic approach, Julianna Hudak

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Descriptive Experience Sampling of individuals with symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder, Daniela S Hugelshofer

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Fall from grace: United States images of Japan, 1894--1921, Darryl Scott Hushaw

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Reproductive and growth responses of Mojave Desert plants to a changing climate, Travis E Huxman

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Monoaromatic hydrocarbons and aldehydes in Las Vegas air, Linhong Jing

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Sorption and desorption of selenium in cement formulations, Elizabeth Ann Johnson

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An empirical examination of factors that influence venture capital investment and the location of funds, Sandra Phillips Johnson

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An exploratory study of accommodations provided to welfare -to -work participants in housekeeping classifications, Terry Kent Jones

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The perception of Korea as a convention destination, Sung-Ae Jung

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Seismic evaluation of the U3ax/bl landfill in the Area 3 Rwms, Nevada Test Site, Nevada, Maximilian Kemnitz

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Metafiction in the work of Tim O'Brien, Michael Patrick Kimmet

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An examination of two-year and four-year continuing education curriculum in post-secondary hospitality management programs, Clark Smith Kincaid

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Battered women: Exploring motivating factors to leave or remain in violent relationships, Lora Ellen Kirn

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Responses of Python regius to animal chemosensory stimuli: Implications of foraging ecology, Albert Klein

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Living expressions: An initial understanDing, Martin Bennett Landa

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Celluloid heroes: A study of fictional characters in popular film as vehicles for cultural myth, Jeffrey Patterson Lawrence

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Response of tall fescue to saline water as influenced by leaching fractions and irrigation uniformity distributions, Algirdas M Leskys

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"Welcome, fellow toastmasters": The history and membership of a public speaking phenomenon, Ellen Beth Levine Bremen

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Fast algorithms for wavelet-based analysis of hyperspectral signatures, Jiang Li

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A 3-dimensional H-adaptive algorithm for groundwater flow and contaminant transport, Lan Li

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Media convergence, obscenity law and the Internet, Lynette Lim

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United States probation/pretrial officers' concerns about victimization and officer safety training, Kevin D Lowry

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The use of continuum models for conducting both linear and nonlinear analyses of lattice structures, Simon Yi Luk

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Black and blue: A metaphoric criticism, Jacquelyn A Luongo

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Knowledge of AIDS, perceived risk of AIDS, and at-risk behaviors among older adults, Cheryl Ann Maes

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Leakage gate current in a heterostructure field effect transistor, Amit Ranbir Mahajan

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Rethinking the aceramic neolithic: Insights from an ethnoarchaeological study on Cyprus, Sherry Lynn Marks

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Exploring the role of service process and its effect on guest encounter satisfaction, Karl Joseph Mayer

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Perceived readability, understandability, and hazardousness of prescription drug warning labels as a function of icon, font size, and color, Melissa Marie McCafferty

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Depictions of race: An analysis of local television news, Colleen M McCarthy

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The disability press: A wheel still in spin, Cindy Schwartz McCoy

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Nationally recognized superintendents: Perceptions on how they lead in relation to the characteristics of effective schools research, Warren Paul McKay

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A comparison of fast and slow contraction speeds using electromyography, Philip James Melhorn

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A Windows-based roadway maintenance management system, Ranjit Menon

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The rhetoric of martyrdom: A case study analyzing the rhetorical situations of Joan of Arc, John Brown and Jim Jones, Chris S Meservey

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Baseball's manifest destiny: The good, the bad, and the ugly, Patrick Valenti Miller

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The aerodynamic response of airborne discs, Timothy Lewis Mitchell

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Domestic violence in the hyperreal: An examination of race and ethnicity in "real life" police drama, Melissa J Monson

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Trackless online two-server problems and red-black games, Anna N Naydenova

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Gender tragedy in George Eliot's "Mill on the Floss", Elizabeth Anne Nielsen

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Metaphorically speaking: Putting Las Vegas on the cultural map, Ester Sara O Fearghail

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Midpoint estimation applied to the vertical-horizontal illusion, Gary Wayne Ogren

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Towards the cloning of the human heat shock protein twenty-seven multigene family, Ann A Ohiaeri

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I/O embedding and broadcasting in star interconnection networks, Kalyanram Palagummi

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Bankruptcy prediction in the casino industry, David William Patterson

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The effects of catastrophizing and labeling on pain tolerance, sensation, and affect, Otto Pedraza

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A heuristic approach for path planning for redundant robots, George Petrescu

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Affirmative action in higher education: A legal analysis of the use of race as a factor in college admissions after Bakke, N. J Pettit

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Gambling addiction and life meaning, Andrew Bohdan Plesh

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A parametric study on the contained burning of solid rocket motor propellant, Jennifer Erin Politano