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 1990

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Role conflict among women graduate students: A matter of gender, Nancy Lee Downey

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Accounts of the homeless, Linda Darlene Foreman

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Effects of color and light on selected elementary students, Ellen Mannel Grangaard

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A Light Divided (Original short stories), Katherine Green

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A comparative study of hospice vs nonhospice nurses' attitudes toward death and dying and level of death anxiety, Debra Panko Harber

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Sir Isaac's Duel (Original play), Rand Walter Higbee

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Impacts of the Little Ice Age on the vegetation of southern Nevada, Kimberly Lynn Hunter

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Optimal joint trajectory planning for a robot with elastic links, Yung-Ming Hu

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Government land management and the free market in southern Nevada, William Robert Jacobs

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Exploring dance: An outline for the study of dance appreciation with suggested films, Jacque J Jaeger

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Design of deadlock detection and prevention algorithms in distributed systems, Ramesh Dutt Javagal

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Measurement of thermal energy charge transfer rate of multiply charged molybdenum (molybdenum(6+)) and argon, Ying Jiang

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A computerized analysis of anterior teeth as a possible indicator of age, race and sex, Jay A Johnson

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Developmental gains by children with special needs as a result of early intervention, Connie Rose Lambert

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Novel techniques for molecular ion spectroscopy in a discharge, Guang Lan

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Playing with poetry: Lessons utilizing creative drama techniques to teach poetry to senior high school students, John Brooks Lawton

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The effect of training on referrals to an outpatient adolescent sex offender treatment program, Michael S Lea

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Critical thinking in education: What can the matter be?, Gail K Lenning

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Laser spectroscopy of molecular ions in an ion beam, Jun Li

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Constitutional privacy: The evolution of a doctrine, Helena Ann Mandarino

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The historical origins of the American Peace Test, David Leon Mann

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The relationship of the Yucca Mountain repository block to the regional groundwater system: A geochemical model, Nancy Ann Matsuka

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Measuring self-worth and certainty of punishment in prison populations, Robert Joseph McKee

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Optimizing select-project-join queries, Rebecca Anne Miller

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Attitudes of college students toward the world food crisis, Susan Ann Nartker

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A Walking Shadow (Original play), John David Newsom

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Temporal and spatial patterns of abundance of age 0 threadfin shad (Dorosoma petenense) in Overton Arm, Lake Mead, William Lee Pelle

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A data structural approach to the problem of contour plotting, Sivesh Pradhaan

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System identification of a hydraulically-actuated robot, Andreas Otto Ranz

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The effects of economic recession on community, Linda Kay Roe

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A phenomenological criticism: A phenomenologically based methodology for analyzing theatrical works, Roberta Sterman Sabbath

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Rapid serial visual presentation and the leading format: A comparison study, Christopher William Schacherer

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The Children's Hair Turned White (Original play), Paul "Red" Shuttleworth

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Reaction time and general intellectual ability: The effects of cues on the relationship, Nancy S Sirkin

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A study to determine how businesses in the area known as Clark County, Nevada perceive the computer-related skills that high school graduates should possess upon graduation, Lynda Ruth Yates Spann

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Computation in director string calculus, Vugranam Chakravarthy Sreedhar

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Imitation: A classical art for modern composition, Linda Anne Uhlenkott

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A community's dominant religion: A counter definition, Geremia Veglia

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Measurements of the length of the zone of flow establishment in a jet using a Laser Doppler Anemometer, James Joseph Ventresca

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The relationship between test anxiety and academic performance of untreated test anxious college students, Joanmarie Christine Vlach-Kolesar

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The income gap and symphony orchestras, Joseph Anthony Volpi

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Development of a test facility for making in-duct sound measurements according to Astm E477-1984, David Arthur Wade

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Trace element analysis of bighorn sheep horns, Peter Gordon Weigel

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A window to the past: Analysis of flat glass recovered from West Point, Nevada, William G White

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The effects of an eight-hour continuing education course on the death anxiety levels of registered nurses, Susanne Fife Wilkey

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Nevada nurses attitudes toward mandatory continuing education, Darlene G Woodruff

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Mprolog as an expert system development tool, Grant Edward Wright

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Reading levels as a predictor of success in associate degree nursing programs and on the Nclex-Rn exam, Lynn M Young

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The combined thermic effect of food, continuous, and intermittent exercise, Stefan Zander

Theses/Dissertations from 1989

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Development of a tool to investigate factors related to job satisfaction in geriatric nurses, Mary-Jane Snyder Araldi

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An investigation of personalities of superintendents from selected public school districts within the western United States, Craig S Babcock

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Comparison of the sodium ion channel densities, the water flux changes, and the membrane capacitance changes in the pelvic and pectoral skin of the toad, Bufo woodhousei, Cathleen Ann Baker

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Object-oriented data modeling, Donald W Baltz

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Structural analysis and design of a flexible three-link hydraulically-actuated robotic arm, Tarek Mitri Bannoura

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Analysis of acoustics in heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, Jeffry Michael Bledsoe

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Field comparison of groundwater sampling methods, Ronald Paul Blegen

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Community health decisions: An analysis of a grassroots venture into citizen participation in health care policy prioritization issues, Michele Bonnee-Nichols

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The rehydration behavior of the desert toad, Bufo punctatus, Dona Rae Brekke

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The subjective nature of decision-makers in the domain of objective sentence processing, William Bud Brown

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Analyses of the structure and function of lower Colorado River riparian plant communities, David E Busch

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Survival of ice nucleation-active and genetically engineered inactive strains of Pseudomonas syringae, Mark P Buttner

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Analysis of personnel interview questions for student affairs positions at land-grant institutions, Theresa Yi-Chin Tung Chiang

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Petrogenesis of Late Cenozoic alkalic basalt near the eastern boundary of the Basin-and-Range: Upper Grand Wash Trough, Arizona and Gold Butte, Nevada, Erin D Cole

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Drinking-driving and social control: An analysis of peer intervention, Michael David Collins

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Decoupling and adaptive control and stabilization of two-link elastic robotic arm, Arijit Das

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The limits to openness: The impact of glasnost' and perestroika on the Baltic Republics, Susan Faye Davis

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Hydrogeology and ground-water quality in the Sanders area, western Puerco River basin, Arizona, Earle Campbell Dixon

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The relationship between suicidal phenomena and depression, dysfunctional attitudes, irrational beliefs, and hopelessness, Shonna L Erickson

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Colorimetric determination and speciation of arsenic with silver diethyldithiocarbamate, Daniel Carl Fischer

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Enhancement and monitoring of the Procambarus clarkii population in Lake Mead, Mikell Beth Hager

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Evaluation of purging methods when sampling for volatile organic compounds from low-yield monitoring Wells, William Lowry Halligan

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The effects of educational intervention on the myths surrounding Alzheimer's disease, Penelope Hallman

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The distribution of vertical groundwater flow in the saturated zone of the Yucca Mountain area: A cross-sectional finite element model, Sandra Jean Haws

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Laboratory investigation of a method for determining in situ saturated hydraulic conductivity, Joel Stacey Hayworth

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Hydrogeology and hydrogeochemistry of the Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, Ronald Lee Hershey

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Analysis of deformation bands in the Aztec Sandstone, Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada, Robin Eugene Hill

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First Cousins: A novel on youth, family, love, faith, and responsibility (Original novel), David Myles Jones

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Maximum oxygen uptake predicted from submaximal tests, Anne Renee Lindsay

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Evaluating the Chief State School Officer: A study of current practices, Marianne Sharp Long

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Effects of estrogen and progesterone on tolerance to thermal stress, Kris Alan Lyon

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The comparison of physical fitness between Type Ii diabetics and the apparently healthy population, Joan Kathleen MacDonald

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The dynamic response of a flexible three-link robot using strain gages, Lagrange polynomials, Fourier series, and the finite element analysis, Robert Frank Marceau

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An analysis of the progress of social welfare administration in the United States and an examination of some major alternatives, Amy Marie Marshall

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Identifying environmental stressors affecting parents with an infant in the Nicu, Donna Gaynelle Mattson

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An investigation of factors associated with depression in older adults, Katherine Mary Mayhew

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Sampling inner experience in adolescents, Lois Christina Monson

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Variable Structure and Ultimate Boundedness control and stabilization of flexible robotic systems, Perumal Jegan Nathan

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A two-dimensional numerical model of the high electron mobility transistor, Sze-Him Ng

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Visualization of a plane sweep algorithm for construction of the visibility graph for robot path planning, Vikas B Patel

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The retention power of pre- and post-matriculated first semester student perspectives, Anthony Paul Pellegrini

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The crisis in American education: The impact on vocational education, Barbara Ann Quade

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Analysis of hotel guest room supply, Donald Walter Raymond

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Initial deposition in the Sevier foreland basin of southern Nevada: Conglomerates of the Cretaceous Willow Tank Formation, Clark County, Nevada, Julie Ann Reese

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Counterterrorism in the 1990s: A framework for dynamic analysis, Marilyn Rose Rogers

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Dynamic analysis of rotating fan structures by the Finite Element Method, Mohamed Said Rouas

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Measurement of the dependence of the averaged internal mode on the scattering vector and of the first internal mode on the concentration of polystyrene in solution using photon correlation spectroscopy, Johannes Klaus Schaller

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The principal's role in the development of teacher leadership: A case study, Carla Jean Steinforth

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An ethnographic analysis of the workplace in a selected year-round school, Kelly Ann Sturdy

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Ecological and genetic aspects of the population biology of the littoral rotifer Euchlanis dilatata, Elizabeth Jensen Walsh

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Restricted reconnaissance: The history and archaeology of S M Wheeler in Nye County, Nevada, Diane Lynne Winslow