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 1998

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Special education students: Which ones are prepared to receive a high school diploma?, Rhoton Titus Hudson

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Experimental investigation of shear deformation in laboratory prepared layered soil specimens, Nicholas William Hudyma

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The relationship of teacher cognitive style and teacher job satisfaction, moderated by administrator management style, Holly Shella Jaacks

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"Dilbert": A rhetorical reflection of contemporary organizational communication, Beverly Ann Jedlinski

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Voice-interactive computer graphics and games, Nataraj Jeedigunta

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Critical incidents in the gaming industry: Perceptions of guests and employees, Lesley Jeanne Johnson

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Economic feasibility analysis of photovoltaic installations in the Las Vegas Valley, Rinly Joseph

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Redefining the self in postmodern cyberspace, Roy Joseph

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Effects of discrete wavelet compression on automated mammographic shape recognition, Ravikiran Kalluri

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An empirical analysis of the reasons why guests select and return to Las Vegas hotel/casino properties, Eileen Nancy Kennedy

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The ethics of the AIDS-afflicted physician: The death of voluntary compliance, William R Kerney

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An analysis of the Black-Scholes model for valuing stock options, Amy Anderson Keyser

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Teaching methods and school designs of American elementary schools and how the methods are reflected in the schools' designs, Merrill Eugene Kieffer

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The relationship between managerial holdings and performance: An empirical study on the restaurant industry, Young Kwi Kim

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Prevailing student disciplinary issues in the California State University System, Joel Steven Kostman

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Low-temperature molecular beam epitaxy of gallium arsenide Antisite incorporation and Rheed oscillations: A theoretical study, Natarajan Krishnan

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A comparative study of honey mesquite woodlands in southern Nevada and their use by phainopeplas and other avian species, Jeri Brastrup Krueger

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Moonscape, Deborah Starr Lake

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Family and service coordinator agreements in the development and implementation of the Individualized Family Service Plan (Ifsp), Byoung-In Lee

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The Las Vegas Fremont Street experience: A new tourist destination to revitalize a declining downtown, Yihong Liu

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Howells, Dickinson, Lewis: An exercise in reading the interracial canon, Craig Andrew Magee

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Learning to teach literacy: A beginning kindergarten teacher's developing pedagogical content knowledge, Marla H Mallette

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The breast feeding practices of women with a history of breast cancer, Lynn Ann Marlett

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Recovery and regeneration of lithium manganese oxide from spent lithium-ion batteries, Santosh Mathew

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Utilization of therapeutic touch in clients diagnosed with chronic pain, Rosa Matonti

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Nursing students' AIDS knowledge, attitudes, social norms, and intentions to care for AIDS patients, Martin Medvejer

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Context dependencies for younger and older adults in learning a 4-key motor sequence, Andrew James Meyers

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The development of a job-related non-discriminatory physical abilities test for the firefighters at the Nevada Test Site, Nickele A'lise Miller

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Coping strategies of ambulatory burn patients during daily dressing changes, Renee P Milonas

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Image acquisition and storage for medical imaging systems, Melerick H Mitchell

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Language games and computer-aided composition, Ryan M Moeller

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Faculty attitudes toward technology -based distance education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Carole Jean Montgomery

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The impact of foreign aid on voting inside the United Nations, Daniel Shayne Morey

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The failure of altruism: Alternatives to improve the donor rate in organ transplantation, John Richards Mundy

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Vo(2) transitional response to a crossover from priming exercise, James Wilfred Navalta

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The Defense Intelligence Agency: An in-depth study of the development of the intelligence agency, Stacie Delaine Neff

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Physician-assisted suicide: The courts leave it to the states, David Wayne Newton

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Heat shock protein 27 inhibition of apoptosis in human breast cancer cells, Sindhu Padmanabhan

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Navigation system for a mobile robot incorporating trinocular vision for range imaging, Kalyan Chakravarthy Pattisam

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God's politics: Three political experiments found in Genesis and Exodus, Ashley MacLaren Peace

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A comparison of temper characteristics between Virgin Anasazi black-on-gray bowl rim sherds and plain gray jar rim sherds from Yama-2 and Yama-3, Laureen M Perry

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Recreation and gambling behaviors among college students, Laurie Platz

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Thermal stress analysis of thermally sprayed coatings on a spent nuclear fuel waste package, Michael Joseph Plinski

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Striptease: An anthropological view, Angela Lee Ramsey

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Critical care nurses' knowledge of cardiac rhythm strips, Marlene Carol Riley

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A study of x-ray substructure in rich clusters of galaxies, Philip Leroy Rogers

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The maize from Black Dog Cave: Testing the concept of races of maize in the American Southwest, James Jonathan Sagmiller

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Prediction of maximum oxygen uptake from a modified Ymca 3-minute step test, Antonio Saraiva Santo

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Recreational disturbance of a desert stream fish community: Detecting ecological effects of environmental impact, Johnny Mark Sappington

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An analysis of the causes and consequences of urban sprawl on the Las Vegas Valley, Robert R Schmidt

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The adventures of GI Jane: Women in the military, Jennifer Amy Schneider

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Nhetoric: Rhetorical power in cyberspace, David Paul Schulz

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Independent counsel: Process and policy, Sheri Michele Schwartz

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The concerns, needs and coping strategies of fathers when their children have cancer, Judy Anne Christensen Scott

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A comparison of elite tennis players' motor abilities with those of elite basketball, soccer and volleyball players, Sarit Shalev

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The relationship between employee benefit satisfaction and organizational commitment, Rachel Sheli Shinnar

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Propaganda or persuasion: The Communist Party and its campaign to integrate baseball, Martha McArdell Shoemaker

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A sturdy house built on shifting soil: Separation of powers Interpretations from the bench, Michael Justin Sibley

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Use of leadership practices by the managers and their impact on the job satisfaction of employees in the hotel industry, Jasvir Singh

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Application of cubic B-splines to boundary value and optimal control problems, Deborah Ann Skidmore

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Equilibrium studies of ion sorption on zeolitized tuff from Rainier Mesa, Nye County, Nevada, Derek Alan Sloop

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The media's coverage of jury trials, Gregory M Smith

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The influence of an intermediate intervention model on two teachers' literacy practices, Margaret Michelle Smith

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An Aristotelian ethic for the professional naval officer, Ronald L Smith

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The effectiveness of traditional instructional methods in an online learning environment, Steven Bradford Smith

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Tourist victimization in and around the artificial environment, Theodore R. Snodgrass

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Factors that effect breast-feeding in women who access Wic clinics in southern Utah, Sandra C Snow

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Experimental investigation of local properties in two-phase fluid-flow hydrodynamics, Jonathan Carl Sparks

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Development of an inexpensive test system and evaluation of the test procedures for conducting vibration tests on antivibration gloves per Iso Standard 10819, Jason K Stein

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The inclusion of herbal remedies in the patient care practices of nurse practitioners, Diane Renee Stricker

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Effects of sodium chloride and sodium gluconate concentration on hydration behavior and water transport in the red-spotted toad, Bufo punctatus, Polly Ann Sullivan

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Semiotic analysis of a Versace visual myth, William Earl Taylor

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Assessing silica and dissolved oxygen effects on copper corrosion control in southern Nevada water treatment and supply system, Abdel-Rahman M Toubat

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Waccara's Utes: Native American equestrian adaptations in the Eastern Great Basin, 1776-1876, Stephen P Van Hoak

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A study of the influence of physical parameters on the drying of porous media, Jason C Viggato

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An examination of conflict in developing relationships, Amy Elisabeth Wagner

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The midwife and birth of conservatism in 1960: Barry Goldwater and the ascendancy of the right in the Gop, Thomas R Wahl

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Chain reaction: The tragedy of atomic governance, Mary Dawn Wammack

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Development of a phosphotriesterase enzyme assay for determination of organophosphate pesticides, Yan Wang

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Formative evaluation: An instrument to measure the effects of using the Universal Format, Dale B Warby

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Impact on employee motivation of management's perception of what employees want from their work: An application to the ski resort industry, Lisa Anne Ward

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A comparison of Scs runoff prediction methods for two large watersheds in Sri Lanka, Arjuna Dahrshaka Weragoda

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Indexing androgyny: The transgendered phenomenon and its challenge to ethnology, Christopher Todd White

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Nurse-patient perception of stressors associated with coronary artery bypass surgery, Robin Marie White

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Normative, validation, and reliability studies of the Nine-Hole Peg Test scores with children, Yvonne Smith Widner

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Drazin inverse and its application to linear degenerate systems, Trevor Allen Wilcox

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Teacher beliefs about educational software now and in the future: A Delphi study, Diana Leigh Williams

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A comparison of the preferred visual characteristics of selected resort hotels and casinos along the Las Vegas Strip, Honoree Marlo Wilson

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Molecular analysis of microbial diversity within Yucca Mountain, Yingchun Wu

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Beat sociology: Ethnographic journeys in event spaces, Jonathan R Wynn

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A study of thermal exchange in a thermophotovoltaic (Tpv) system at moderate temperature, Yan Xu

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Molecular-dynamics simulations of polymers in a solvent, Anthony Jon Zukaitis