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Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Dosage, Mode, and Timing of Acute Care Physical Therapy: A Scoping Review, Brendan Acosta and Bradley Goins
Rapid Detection of Toxin-Producing Cyanobacteria, Timothy Alba
The Impact of Electrostatic Correlations on the Electrokinetics, Elaheh Alidoosti
Increasing Nurses' Knowledge of Advance Care Planning, Jocelyn K. Allen
Stress and Coping in Food-Insecure African Americans in Clark County, Nevada, Johanna Andrews
The Relationship Between Teacher Identity and Teacher Retention in Title 1 Schools: A Multiple Case Study, Michelle A. Arroyo
Patient and Facility Perceptions on the Feasibility of a Student-Run Pro-Bono Back-School for Uninsured Patients with Low Back Pain, Javier Ascanio-Pellon, Sofia Cruz, Lauren Liebert, and Trevor Pacuk
Change of Venue: An Exploratory, Multistage Evaluation that Examines the Impact of Change Based on the Shared Experiences of the Toe Tag Monologues, Lisa Ann Baaske
Motivational Predictors of Academic Risk-Taking, Danette Dee Barber
Transitioning For Success: A Pilot Program for New Nurse Graduates in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Valerie Charisa Barboa
The Relationship between Tree Canopy and Social Capital on Physical Activity in UNLV Students, Melissa Bartshe
Brain Volumes and Dual-Task Performance Correlates Among Individuals with Cognitive Impairment: A Retrospective Analysis, Jon Basterrechea, Daniel Krist, Caitlin Moreland, and Morgan Wise
Improving Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in the Older Adult Population Utilizing Shared Medical Appointments in Primary Care Setting, Mailo Brantner
Globalization: A Veto Player Perspective, Alec Brown
Assessing the Cost-Benefit of Hiring a DEU-Prepared RN Graduate: Does it Help Reduce Organizational Costs?, Tonya D. Bryant
An Integrative Assessment of Post-Migratory Health and Violence at Point of Pines Pueblo (A.D. 1265-1450), Maryann Calleja
Oral Localization of Scardovia Wiggsiae, Graydon Ramos Carr
Chemical and Electronic Surface Structure of Chalcopyrite-Based Thin Films for Solar Water Splitting, James C. Carter
Utilizing Breathing Techniques to Maximize Training Performance, Peyton Cater
Discrete Vortex Modeling of Aerodynamic Flutter of a Flat Plate with Damped Oscillations, Emma Chao
Development of CO2 Laser-Heating for the Study of Wide Band Gap Oxide Materials, Christian Matthew Childs
A Framework for Vector-Weighted Deep Neural Networks, Carter Chiu
Machine Learning for Prediction of Trabecular and Cortical Bone Mineral Density, Partha Chudal
Can Desert Mosses Hide from Climate Change? The Ecophysiological Importance of Habitat Buffering & Water Relations to a Keystone Biocrust Moss in the Mojave Desert, Theresa Ann Clark
Partnering with the Nevada Physical Therapy Association to Improve PT/PTA Engagement, Rachel Cooklin, Joshua Cooper, and Madison Luna
Preserving Nevada's Higher Education Governance Entity: A Case Study, Deanna Cooper
The Fabric of Civil War Society: The Effect of Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1861 to 1939, Shae Cox
Do Compression Garments Work? The Effect of Compression Garments on Biomechanical and Physiological Factors, Andrew Craig-Jones
Toward Productivity Improvements in Programming Languages Through Behavioral Analytics, Patrick Daleiden
3D Upper Airway Analysis of Skeletal Class I, II, and III Adults with High or Low Risk for Excessive Daytime Sleepiness, Alexander Dao
The Noise from the Writing Boundaries: Collaboration and Tutor Identity in Writing Intensive Courses, Laura Decker
A Machine Learning Approach to Predict Retention of Computer Science Students at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Sudhir Deshmukh
Examining Crime Reporting Behaviors in the Presence of Body-Worn Cameras, Tanya Dudinskaya
Sacred Song Sisters: Choral and Solo Vocal Church Music by Women Composers for the Lenten Revised Common Lectionary, Lisa Elliott
The Influence of G4 DNA Structures on Stationary Phase Mutagenesis in Bacillus subtilis, Tatiana Ermi
Uncertainty Quantification for Maxwell's Equations, Zhiwei Fang
Physical Therapy after Amputation in Community Dwelling Older Adults: A Quantitative and Qualitative Interview Study, Amanda Ferraro, Jennifer Gorton, Lindsey Horn, and Michaela Kubo
An Investigation of White-Collar Criminal Sentencing Disparities in Six Federal District Courts, Lauren Frances Elizabeth Galloway
Interwoven Worlds? A Mixed Methods Study of Student Engagement and Student Belonging within the University Classroom when Courses use Social Networking Sites, Christie Gardner
3D Parametric Hand to Improve Prosthetic Hand Functionality, Maria C. Gerardi
Nothing Orphic, Nothing Foreign, Samuel Merriman Gilpin
Hispanics and the War on Drugs: An Explanation for the Rise in Hispánica Imprisonment, Bryan James Haakma
Radiology Students' Attitude Toward Learning Communication Skills: Impact of Clinical Education, Chad Hensley
Escaping Time: Messiaen’s Musical Language, Religious Symbolism, and Undermining Time in Quatour Pour La Fin Du Temps, Sarra Elizabeth Hey-Folick
Reliability of the Lateral Reach Test in People with Unilateral Transfemoral Amputations, Stephen Hill, Samantha Leonard, and Elizabeth Vianey Trujillo
The Child Dreams: An Examination of Gil Shohat’s Adaptation of Hanoch Levin’s Play, Karin Hochman
Creating a Structural Empowerment Culture: A Professional Development Module for the Novice Nurse Leader, Beth A. Hock
Examining the Factor Structures of the A-Des and PTCI to Identify Unique Predictors of PTSD Symptom Clusters in Maltreated Youth, Amanda Howard
The Musical Style and the Cultural Connotation of Bright Sheng's Opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber', Xirui Huang
The Implementation of a Respiratory Syncytial Virus Prevention and Awareness Pamphlet in the Daycare Setting, Kaylie Marie Humphreys
The Effects of Somatosensory Input on Gait in Individuals Post-Stroke, Victor Hung, Amanda Reilly, Rachel Wood, and Nikita Yuskov
Material Characterization of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials Under Dynamic Loading Condition, Abu Iqbal
Partitioning the Mechanical Cost of Human Walking: Unveiling Cost Asymmetries for Bionic Technologies, Michael Richard Isaacs
Strategic Resistance in an African Owned Hair Salon: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Nationality in U.S. America, Nicole Jenkins
Physical Therapy Nontreatment Events with Primary Physical Therapist, Stephen Johnson
Remote Radiation Sensing using Robotic Platforms, Monia Kazemeini
Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Air-Cooled Condensers, Kaipo Kekaula
Comparisons of Patellar Bone Mineral Density Between Individuals with and without Patellofemoral Pain, Chris Khuu, Allina Cummins, and Steven Shepherd
How Consumers Assess Multiple Cues: The Role of Dual Processing System on Hotel Booking Decisions, Eun Joo Kim
3-D Silk Fibroin Porous Particles Created by the Ouzo Effect for Biomedical Applications, Ashley Nicole Lamb
A Comparison of Orthodontic Intraoral Scan Results Between Staff and Volunteers, Andrew Lee
A Bara by Any Other Word: Female Subjectivity and Cultural Crises in Japanese Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Gary Dean Lindeburg
Public Perceptions of Police Militarization: A Nuanced Understanding of Public Support for Police Practices, Leobardo Lopez-Cristobal
The Relation between Positive Stereotypes, Negative Stereotypes, and Discriminatory Behavior toward Hispanic and White Populations, Aileen Ynez Lovitt
Synthesis and Characterization of Synthetic Urban Melt Glass, Rebecca Kristien Lowe
Zooarchaeology of Bone, Antler, and Ivory Technologies: A Case Study from the Central Anatolian Bronze and Iron Age Site Kaman Kalehӧyük, Sarah Raffae Macintosh
Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Cancer Using Gene Expression, Aashi Maharjan
Fall Prevention Service-Learning Project, Alexis Mansoor, Kendra Morrison, Jeremy Nordfelt, and Cheng Yang Tu
Studies on Kernels of Simple Polygons, Jason Mark
An Alternative Approach to Food Market Design: Strategies That Nurture Human Health and Well-Being, Kendall Marsh
The Significance of MFD and Oxidative Damage in Stationary-Phase Mutagenesis in Bacillus subtilis, Holly Anne Martin
High Salinity, High Concentration Perchlorate Reduction in the Presence of Hexavalent Chromium, Nitrate, and Chlorate, Nicole Martin
Investigation of Acute Response to Carbohydrate in Subsequent Resistance Training, Damon Mccune
Rapid Evolution of Starvation Resistance in Drosophila: Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms, Austin Joseph McKenna
An Ideological Criticism of The Green New Deal and Media Responses, Corynn Miller
Shattering the Glass: Will Gen Z Bring Us Closer to Gender Equality in US Hospitality Leadership?, Denise Holly Ramirez Molintas
Seniors and Sexual Health: A Profile of Sexual Behaviors and Perceptions of Sexual Risks in Southern Nevada’s Older Adult Population, Amanda Elizabeth Morgan
Thatcherism in the Contemporary British Novel, 1978-2012, David Mowatt
A Hybrid Experimental-Numerical Study on the Flow Topology in the Confluence Hydrodynamics Zone of an Open Channel with Lateral Drainage Pipe Discharge, Mohammad Nazari-Sharabian
Love in South Korea: Transformations of Intimacy and Gender Relations in Korean Romantic Relationships, Alex Joseph Nelson
The Art of 'Stick to Sports,' Politics, and Sports Media Industry Studies, Shi-Quan Nettingham
Towards Multi-Modal Data Classification, Henry Ng
The Use of Female Permanent Contraception Among Women Desiring to Limit Childbearing in Sub-Saharan Africa: Analyses of the Spatial Pattern and Individual- and Country-Level Determinants, Babayemi Oluwaseun Olakunde
From Fighting Wasting to Shedding Excess: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed-Method Study of Obesity Among People Living With HIV in Nigeria, John Olajide Olawepo
Paleoecology of Columbian and Pygmy Mammoths in Southern Nevada and California: How Terminal Pleistocene Ecosystems Shaped Mammoths at the Individual, Population, and Community Level, Lauren Elizabeth Parry
Generality and Specificity in Subjective Task Value: Implications for Expectancy-Value Theory, Rachel Part
The Teacher Attrition Phenomenon: The Role of Teacher Collaboration and Motivation, Brenda Anne Pearson
Beyond Maidens and Mothers: A Study of Till We Have Faces, Tamar Peterson
Acoustic Sonolysis of Antibiotics in Water, Natalie Pinon
Virtually Invincible: The Impact of Social Media Presentation on Rock Climbing, Lilly Posner
Simulation of Oxygen Control Technology in Applications of Liquid Lead and Lead– Bismuth Eutectic Systems for Mitigating Materials Corrosion Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method, Emad Pouryazdanpanah Kermani
Management of Atrial Fibrillation with Smartphone Technology, Teresa Praus