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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Historical and Cultural Influences of Gagok 가곡 (Korean Art Song): A Musical Guide, Sarah Kim
Prevalence of Aggregatibacter Actinomycetemcomitans and Fusobacterium Nucleatum among Clinical Orthodontic Saliva Samples, Jason Robert Klingler
Petrogenesis of the El Rechuelos Rhyolite, Jemez Mountains Volcanic Field, New Mexico, USA, Kelsy Jo Konkright
Exploring the Pristine Inner Experience of Individuals in Psychotherapy, Alek Emily Krumm
Attitudes toward Marijuana Legalization: Temporal and Thematic Trends, Daniel James Krystosek
The Effects of Problems Attributed to Culture on the Mental Health of Athletes, Corey Rae Kuhn
Modeling Driver-Pedestrian-Infrastructure Interactions at Signalized Midblock Crosswalks, Boniphace Kutela
Police Use of Force and Officer Injury: A Closer Examination of the Impact of Taser Deployment and Contextual Factors, Jason Kuzik
A Video Game as a Pedagogical Tool for Pre-Service Teachers to Learn About Bullying Prevention and Intervention in School Contexts, Jeffrey Robert Laferriere
Private Group Communication in Blockchain Based on Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange, Zachary Steven Laney
Lifting The Veil: Do Health Care Price Transparency Laws Actually Lower Costs?, Nora Michelle Irene Langendorf
Multimethod Investigation of Pristine Inner Experience, Leiszle Rae Lapping-Carr
Health Literacy Intervention for Low Income Uninsured Population, Laura Larson
Generalized and Higher Dimensional Apollonian Packings, Daniel Lautzenheiser
A Binding Sisterhood of Transnational Feminism: A Close Look at Iran and Argentina, Bernadette Mary Lazar
Visual Attention and Emotion Regulation in Schizophrenia, Bern Lee
A Guide for a Shared Governance Program, Lydia Joan Lefchuck
Cultural Competence of Athletic Training Clinical Preceptors and Their Preparedness to Address those Concepts with Students, Elizabeth Leon
Queering Utopia: ACT UP and the Disruption of Heteronormativity, Nicholas Lepp
Intra- and Inter-rater Reliability of a Ballet-Based Dance Technique Screening Instrument, Jessie Lesar, Zachary Shaver, and Ivetta Lassey
States, Satellites, and International Crisis Behavior, Roman Lewis
Discovering Motor Phenotypes in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Cross-Syndrome Approach, Daniel Edwin Lidstone
Specific Heat, Magnetic Susceptibility, and the Effect of Pressure on Structural Properties and Valence Of EuMn2Si2, EuCo2Si2, and Eu5In2Sb6, Brian Edward Light
Stone Bouquets, Angelo Santino Ligori
Beyond Right or Wrong: The Influences of Thinking Disposition And Item Difficulty on Student Behavior During High-Stakes Testing, Kristina Lindquist
Adolescent Pregnancy: A Clinical Guideline for School Nurses in New Mexico, Karin Ludi
Moisture Dynamics of a Near-Surface Desert Soil, Yuan Luo
ACR Accreditation for Utah Valley Hospital’s Radiation Oncology Center, Remy Manigold
Motivation and Online Information Literacy Instruction: A Self-Determination Theory Approach, Francesca Marineo
Improving Community College Students' Interest, Utility-Value, and Performance: How Does Future Time Persective Influence a Utility-Value Intervention?, Elsa Maria Mason
On Algebraic Structures and Automaton for Optimal Computer Network Design and Performance Study, Xiangrong Ma
Exploring Mathematics Anxiety of Students At-Risk for Mathematics Difficulties, Sarah Mccarthy
Utility of Bench Scale Sand Tank Experiments at Assessing Permeable Reactive Barrier Design, Brandon Meier
From Deviant Symbol to Cultural Icon? Understanding Pit Bull Stigma, Genevieve Minter
Utilization of Remote Sensing Data for Estimation of the Groundwater Storage Variation, Gaurang Mistry
Nonstate Actors and International Law: Just War Theory or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?, Jason Lee Mitchell
Multi-Polygenic Risk Score Prediction Model for Bipolar Disorder, Travis Mize
Stop Running in LAPs: Evaluating the Lethality Assessment Program's Effectiveness in Reducing Repeat Intimate Partner Violence, Dory A. Mizrachi
Is Easier, Better? A Reevaluation of the Use of Non-Remodeled Bone as a Histological Predictor of Age-at-Death From the Femoral Midshaft Using GIS Software, Mariah Elaine Moe
Validating Empathy as Captured by the Meanness in Psychopathy-Self Report, Stephanie Marie Molina
How to Break Your Own Heart, Ryan Molloy
Wearable Technology Devices: Heart Rate and Step Count Analysis, Jeffrey Montes
Implementing a Heart Failure Education Program for Bedside Nurses in the Acute Care Setting, David L. Morrow
Design of Efficient Carbon-Based Adsorbents for the Removal of Organic and Inorganic Water Contaminants, Sayedeh Soroosh Mortazavian Dehkordi
Development of Natural Perlite Based Concrete for Sustainable Construction, Seyedmahmoud Motaharikarein
A Highly-Sensitive Global-Shutter CMOS Image Sensor with On-Chip Memory For Hundreds of Kilo-Frames Per Second Scientific Experiments, Konstantinos Moutafis
The Effects of Background, Classroom Assessment Competence, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Perceived Assessment Skills on Classroom Assessment Practices of Teachers in India, Manognya Murukutla
Health Care-Associated Infection Prevention Outcomes: Evaluating the Link Between Infection Prevention Practices in Healthcare Facilities and their Health Care-Associated Infection Rates, Chidinma Veronica Njoku
The Post-Soviet Voter: Evidence From The Caucasus, Rafael Oganesyan
Sizing a New Bike Sharing System for the University Of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nesley Orochena
The Bioarchaeology of Instability: Violence and Environmental Stress During the Late Fort Ancient (AD 1425 - 1635) Occupations of Hardin Village, Amber Elaine Osterholt
Irredenta, Oscar Oswald
Words as Weapons and Wisdom, Barbara Paige
Opportunities and Challenges of Modular Construction in a Hospitality Centric Environment, Shreyansh Paliwal
Effect of Common Oxidative Water Treatments on Acanthamoeba Internalized Legionella, James Park
On Action Quality Assessment, Paritosh Parmar
Delineation of Events in Centripetal Migration During Drosophila Oogenesis, Travis Tait Parsons
Prevalence and Use of High-Fidelity Simulation in Family Nurse Practitioner Programs, Christina Rosa Pendrak Pepin
Long-Term Monitoring of Rare Gypsum Communities in the Eastern Mojave Desert: A Study in Science and Art, Tiffany Jane-Marie Pereira
A Guide for Outcomes Evaluation and Sustainability of a Dedicated Education Unit within an Academic-Practice Partnership, Jennifer Pfannes
Centering Preservice Teachers of Color Through Culturally Relevant Critical Teacher Care: A Critical Race Transformative Convergent Mixed-Methods Analysis, Tara Joann Plachowski
Impact of Design Cost Percentage on Cost Growth, Schedule Growth, and Construction Intensity of Road Construction Projects, Elina Prajapati
Static Malware Detection using Deep Neural Networks on Portable Executables, Piyush Aniruddha Puranik
The Effects of Ventilation on Trihalomethanes Removal by Spray Aeration, Alicia Qiu Cheung
Assessing Minimal-Input Restoration Strategies for Desert Soil and Vegetation Restoration, Audrey Jean Rader
Carbon Management and Volatile Fatty Acid Production in Primary Clarifiers at a Wastewater Treatment Plant, Brittany Nicole Radke
Performance Comparison of Message Queue Methods, Sanika Raje
Numerical Study in the Conservative Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) Method for an Unsteady Stokes/Parabolic Interface Problem with Jump Coefficients and a Moving Interface, Michael Joseph Ramirez
Benson’s Relaxation Response: Psychological and Physiological Responses Among Patients with COPD, Crista Reaves
In Pursuit of Social Justice at the Postmodern Turn: Intersectional Activism through the Lens of the Ecosexual Movement, Jennifer Jean Reed
Examination of Maskelynite through Static Recompression and Dynamic Compression, Justin James Reppart
An Application of Conformal Mapping to the Boundary Element Method for Unconfined Steady Seepage with a Phreatic Surface, Jorge Eduardo Reyes
The Timing of Dynamical Interactions between Planets in Exoplanetary Systems, David Robert Rice
Chatting Online: An Ethnographic Case Study of Educator Discourse on Social Media, Lindsay J. Russell
Casting for Success: Building Teams for Regional Operatic Productions, Keri Rusthoi
Application of Data-Driven and Process-Based Modeling Approaches for Water Quality Simulation in Lakes and Freshwater Reservoirs, Ali Saber Sichani
An Evaluation of Factors Associated with the Perceptions of Diabetes in a Filipino American Sample Residing in Clark County, Nevada, Lawrence Nartatez Sagadraca
Benchmarking Permutation Flow Shop Problem: Adaptive and Enumerative Approaches Implementations via Novel Threading Techniques, Hari Prasad Sapkota
CFD Simulation Investigating the Effects of Groove Geometry on Heat Transfer for Internally Grooved Tubes, Richard Zaven Saroukhanoff
A Group Development Program Based on Transformational Leadership to Improve Team Performance, Anne-Marie Schenk
The Pleasures of Conversation: Samuel Johnson's Social Epistemology, Brandon Schneeberger
A Community of Care: Patterns of Pathology and Trauma with a Focus on the Bioarchaeology of Care at Carrier Mills, IL (10,000 – 1000 BP), Alecia Schrenk
Cesium Platinum Iodide Perovskite Synthesis, Development and Application in Photovoltaic Devices, Dakota Schwartz
Development of a Breast Cancer Survivorship Care Toolkit, Lauren Elaine Scott
Factors Associated with Food Insecurity among Individuals, Aged Sixty and Older, in Clark County, NV, Lisa M. Segler
Estimation of Stage-Area-Storage Relationships in Reservoirs and Stage-Discharge Relationships in Rivers Using Remotely Sensed Data, Sailuj Shakya
Breaking Free from the Snake Strangling America, Kate Marjorie Shapiro
Trends in the Rate of Inpatient Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis between 1996 and 2015, Samantha Sherwood
Elucidating the Lasting Influence of Early Pubertal Timing on Disordered Eating Symptoms, Megan Marie Shope
Neural Network in Hardware, Jiong Si
Living on the Move: the Digital Nomad Mobile Phenomenon Identity and Practice, Virginia Rachele Smercina
Ambient Temperature Dependence of Air-cooled Condenser Performance and Parameters, Alexander Darr Smith
Assessing Factors of Physical Risk-Taking in a Novel Behavioral Measure, Edward A. Smith
Creative Self-Efficacy: Students in General Education, with Learning Disabilities, and with Gifts and Talents, Jennifer Elaine Smith
An Exploration of Nursing Communication Competence During the Handoff Report, Megan Elizabeth Smith
George Gershwin's Concerto in F: A Wind Orchestra Transcription with Historical Context and Transcription Techniques, Andrew Smouse