Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Defense against buffer overflow attack by software design diversity, Kunal Metkar
Printing China's gold: The American bank note company and the customs gold units of 1930, Mark David Miller
Applying of mechanical failure criteria of brittle material to the design of high temperature heat exchanger, Taha Mohamed
It's just a stage I'm going through: The rhetorical effects of musical theater, Thomas A Moilanen
Laboratory studies to examine the impacts of polyacrylamide (Pam) on soil hydraulic conductivity, Ernesto Amalio Moran
Mountain View nurses and job satisfaction, Ursula Sofia Moser
Preservice teachers' understanding of *evolution, the nature of science, and situations of chance, Louis Scott Nadelson
Nonlinear suboptimal and adaptive pectoral fin control of autonomous underwater vehicle, Mugdha S Naik
Nonlinear and adaptive control systems for underwater and air vehicles, Pradeep Nambisan
Manifest Destiny, John Nardone
Design and implementation of NoC routers and their application to Prdt-based NoC's, Shankar Narayanan Neelakrishnan
Presidential transitions during capital campaigns: Perspectives of chief development officers, Kimberly Kay Nehls
Development and testing of an advanced photovoltaic receiver, Marc A Newmarker
Diffusion model for lightning radiative transfer using spherical geometry, James Beguah Odei
T-theory and analysis of online algorithms, James Oravec
Validation of the load collector ratio (LCR) method for predicting the thermal performance from five passive solar test rooms using measured data, Daniel James Overbey
A study of SPRT algorithm and New-Guard for radiation detection, Venkatachalam Palaniappan
On the use of lognormal distribution for environmental data analysis, Devarshi Pant
Effects of traumatic brain injury on the attention system of children, Brandon Steven Park
Determining thermal conductivity and absorption coefficient of semi-transparent liquids using numerical and experimental approach, Jayant Prabhakar Patil
Rotational energy transfer in carbon monoxide + helium collisions, Hemamali Perera
An exploration of the Velten Mood Induction Procedure on psychological symptomology, Carla Nanette Perlotto
An analysis of finite and non-finite verbs in selected passages in the Gospel of Mark, Joseph P. Petrini
Hotel satisfaction and booking channels: The Bayesian rule and regression analysis, Tatiana Poliakova
Numerical study of high temperature heat exchanger and decomposer for hydrogen production, Valery Ivanovich Ponyavin
Examining women faculty experiences using the model of human occupation perspective: A qualitative approach in one community college, Christine R Privott
Preliminary validation of an Attitudes Towards Prostitution Scale, Nicole Andrea Pucci
Safe Village Initiative: A quasi-experiment, evaluating the impact in West Las Vegas, Timothy Radtke
Thermomechanical characterization of state -change materials used in a tooling system for composite materials, Shahidur Rahman
Fuse-N: Framework for unified simulation environment for network-on-chip, Ashwini Raina
Decomposition tool targeting FPGA architectures, Avinash Ramani
Design of sputtering system for hemispherical boron 10 target, Priya Raman
The thermal ecology of the Red-spotted toad, Bufo punctatus, across life history, Candice Marie Rausch
Determination of transformation function for predictor variables in multiple linear regression, Vimatha Ravi
Symphonic Dances, Op 64: A transcription for wind orchestra with accompanying historical context and transcription method, Clayborn Maurice Redfield
The lived experiences of four overweight Hispanic adolescent females, Wanda Lee Rhodes
Cenozoic extension in the River Mountains and Frenchman Mountain, Southern Nevada, William Michael Rittase
gamma-Aminobutyric acid inhibits synergistic interleukin-6 release but not transcriptional activation in astrocytoma cells, Joseph D. Roach
Relocation and deployment of sensor nodes, Navin Rongratana
Schizophrenia and alcohol dependence: The combined effects on emotion processing, Sylvia An Ross
Cultural implications of architectural mortar and plaster selection at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, Shane David Rumsey
Buffer allocation in message passing systems: An implementation for Mpi, Jeffrey Sampson
A diffusion model of lightning radiative transfer using cylindrical geometry, Rina Alfonso Santos
Human and pet interaction: Companion animals and the formation of identity, Lisa Louise Sarmicanic
Atmospheric dispersion model validation for low wind speed conditions, Patrick Shawn Sawyer
Unreal City: Short story collection, Kelle Schillaci
Local air leakage measurement and Cfd analysis of deformed ducts in residential HVAC ducts, Dhandapani Selvaraj
A failed experiment in imperial governance: The Central African Federation (1953--1963), Blake Sherer
Why does passion wane? A qualitative study of Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder in married women, Karen E Sims
Physics based modeling of the charging dynamics in silicon nanocrystal non-volatile flash memory cell, Pavan Kumar Singaraju Venkata Sai
Organization of lithic technology at the Bowman Site (26Ny809), Pahrump Valley, Nye County, Nevada, Annette Joye Smith
The effect of competition on testosterone responses, Eric T Steiner
Evaluation of quantitative polymerase chain reaction for measuring the concentration of total bacteria in environmental air samples, Vanessa Louise Stevens
Quantitative comparison of sample preparation methods for low-level alpha spectrometry, Sherry Alina Stock
A model of the interplay of culture and immigration stress in the development and maintenance of alcohol-related disorders in Hispanic/Latino immigrants, Marilyn J Strada
Effects of possible selves instruction on self -determination of students with learning disabilities, Jennifer L Stringfellow
Scenic America: This is a Test Poems, Rachael Sullivan
Lake Affect: A novel excerpt and other stories, Perry Sundberg
What Are Friends For?, David Eric Surratt
Characteristics and success of information systems development efforts in public school systems, Kim R Syverson
Soil moisture and hydrological drought in the Colorado River basin, Chunling Tang
Modeling of the protective oxide layer growth in non-isothermal lead-alloys coolant systems, Taide Tan
Thermal control for the liquid metal coolant circulation loop, Xiuju Tan
Access to dental care for victims of domestic violence, Carolynn J Taylor
Turnover of appointed county administrators in large American counties, Robert John Tekniepe
Analysis of a fuel cell-internal combustion engine series hybrid vehicle, Sridhar Thondikulam Raveendran
Reconstruction of hydrologic and climatic variability in the Colorado River Basin, Janak Timilsena
Impact of peer tutoring sessions on oral language vocabulary in early childhood inclusive settings, Claire Therese Tredwell
Graphic frameworks for managing component oriented graphic systems, Deepa Uppala
Weblog effects on social capital, Seyed Mohammad Reza Vaezi
Evaluation and modeling of the effect of midblock pedestrian crossings on arterial traffic, Naveen Kumar Veeramisti
A graphical approach for verification of the central limit theorem, Suresh Kumar Veluchamy
Detecting microcalcification clusters in digital mammograms: Study for inclusion into computer aided diagnostic prompting system, Gopalkrishna Veni
Document type classification from document images, Jason Montgomery Vergara
Paleoecology of Pleistocene megafauna in southern Nevada, Usa: Isotopic evidence for browsing on halophytic plants, Lael Vetter
Psychological correlates of adherence to femininity ideology in Hispanic and European-American college women, Carolina Villar-Mendez
Monte Carlo analysis of the luminosity function of gamma ray bursts, Francisco Javier Virgili
An evaluation of innovative countermeasures for pedestrian safety, Vinay Virupaksha
Cytotoxicity of novel cisplatin analogs in lung, prostate and breast cancer cells, Van Vo
Baselining carbon dioxide emissions of Las Vegas Metropolitan Area residential building sector, Abhilasha Wadhwa
The home use of antibacterial hand soap among women in Clark County, Nevada, Rachel Marie Walker
Suicide by firearm, suicide fatality, and firearm availability, Andrea Wallick
Perceptions of the training needs of law enforcement officers, Nicholas Allen Walling
Charge transfer between nitrogen cations and nitrogen at low energies, Wayn K Ward
Fish traps on ancient shores, Eric Stephen White
Collaborative intelligent email ranking system, Nathaniel H Whittacre
The new middle school: Participatory design and outcomes, Tina Wichmann
Living and dying in an American Neo-Pagan community, Benjamin C Wilreker
Senior student affairs officers, campus community, and diversity: A qualitative inquiry into six institutions, Jeffery Lamont Wilson
Crackdown, Heather Winterer
Development of seat shock isolation systems, Erik Wolf
Violating the feminine land, body, and spirit in Western American literature, Gregory Alan Wright
Extending the DeLone and McLean Information Systems Success Model for e-commerce website success, Joy Wendy Wu
Investigation of the robustness of star graph networks, Xiaolong Wu
Evaluation of the impacts of emergency vehicle signal preemption, Gang Xie
Self-* distributed query region covering in sensor networks, Ai Yamazaki
Cluster-based route discovery protocol, Shashirekha Yellenki
Molecular mechanism of methyl jasmonate induced apoptosis in human cancer cells, Venkat Laxmi Yeruva
Preschool physical activity behaviors during outdoor time, Jenelle L Young