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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Levels of Interleukin-1β and Interleukin-17 in the Tension and Compression Sites of Teeth during Orthodontic Movement, Suzanne Wen
The Effects of Physical Attractiveness in the Health Care Industry, Richard Shane Westfall
The Life of a Marimba Master: Zeferino Nandayapa Ralda; Composer, Band Leader, Soloist, Lindsay Michelle Whelan
Screening for the Novel Cariogenic Pathogen Scardovia Wiggsiae among Orthodontic Patients, Adam Whiteley
Hallucination Machines, Autumn Widdoes
Cosmic Valentine, Gabrielle Faith Williams
A Middle Pueblo II Production Zone for Shivwits Ware Ceramics: Implications for Understanding Settlement Patterns and Socio-Environmental Responses on the Shivwits Plateau, William Morrow Willis
Investigating the Use of an Emotional Intelligence Intervention with Young Elementary Students Receiving Services in a Self-contained Setting for Students with Emotional Disturbance, Kristin Lian Withey
Does Distance Climbed in a 30-S Maximal Effort Test on a Simulated Climbing Machine Correlate with Wingate Variables?, Kayla Wright
CFD Modeling of Smoke Movement in an Atrium, Robin Wu
Design & Delivery of Automated Winston-Lutz Test for Isocentric & Off-Axis Delivery Stability Utilizing Truebeam Developer Mode & Electronic Portal Imaging Device, Mahmoud Mohammad Yaqoub
Study of Blockchain-as-a-Service Systems with a Case Study of Hyperledger Fabric Implementation on Kubernetes, Aniket Jalinder Yewale
The Effect of Titanium Dioxide on Nucleate Pool Boiling Using an Aluminum Substrate, Kevin Yim
Performance-Based Economical Seismic Design of Multistory Reinforced Concrete Frame Buildings and Reliability Assessment, Chunyu Zhang
Acculturative Stress, English Proficiency, Social Support, and Coping Strategies Among Chinese International Students, Jiabao Zhang
Design on High Performance Nanoscale CMOS Circuits with Low Temperature Sensitivity, Ming Zhu
Development of the Emotional Verbal Learning Test - Spanish (EVLT-S), Davor Nicolas Zink
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Non-blocking Priority Queue based on Skiplists with Relaxed Semantics, Ashok Adhikari
Upper Extremity Muscle Activity During Simulated Dryland Swimming While Wearing Wetsuit, Ciro J. Agnelli
Stride Leg Ground Reaction Forces Pre- and Post-Fatigue in Collegiate Baseball Pitchers, Courtney Alley
The Bioarchaeology of Inequality during the Middle Bronze Age in Central Anatolia, Cheryl Anderson
The Impact of Visual Impairments on Mobility Performance in Community-Dwelling Older Adults, Lauren Andrew, Talia Davis, and Christian Johnson
Competitive Power Down Methods in Green Computing, James Andro-Vasko
True-self and the uses and gratifications of Instagram among college-aged females, Jocelyn Apodaca
Going Old School: Using Eighteenth Century Pedagogy Models to Foster Musical Skills and Creativity in Today's Students, Monique Arar
Specification of Mixed Logit Models Using an Optimization Approach, Cristian David Arteaga Sanchez
Practical Applications of Revenue Management in Full Service Restaurants, Sean Aten
The Effects of Fatigue on Balance in Individuals with Parkinson's Disease: Influence of Medication and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Genotype, Michael Baer, Bradley Klemetson, and Diana Scott
Analysis of Human Movement Patterns during Endurance Running, Joshua Paul Bailey
High School Gardens Program across the Nation: Current Practices, Perceived Benefits, Barriers, and Resources, Noehealani Cierra Bareng- Antolin
Reality and Nature in Robinson Jeffers, Joshua D. Bartee
Phosphate Release: The Effect of Prebiotic Organic Compounds on Dissolution of Merrillite, Whitlockite, Chlorapatite, and Fluorapatite, Courtney Lea Bartlett
Parent and Teacher Perspectives of the Social Competence of Dual Language Learners, Christine Baxter
Remember the Country and the Age in Which We Live": The British Gothic Novel in the Age of Enlightenment, 1764-1798, Garland David Beasley
Developing a Navajo Educational Media Guide: A Community Perspective, Shawna Lynn Begay
EM Wave Interaction with a Bounded Plasma Column Supporting an Electron Beam, Asmelash Teshome Beshah
Table of the Sun, Christine Bettis
Preschool Teacher Knowledge and Skills: Phonemic Awareness and Instruction, Cecilia Anne Billow
An Evaluation of GABAB Receptors on Modulating Neuroinflammation in a Non-Transgenic Animal Model of Alzheimer's Disease, Monica Bolton
Predictors of Physical Therapy Non-Treatment Among Patients Scheduled for Treatment Two Times a Day in the Acute Hospital, Sara Bookout and Kyle Ozaki
Examining the Extent and Impact of Surveillance on Animal Rights Activists, Cassandra Boyer
Price Prediction: Determining Changes in Stock Pricing through Sentiment Analysis of Online Consumer Reviews, Daryl F. Boykin
The Influence of CrossFit Training on Running Mechanics, Sophia D. Bradley
A case study on the emergence of boutique and lifestyle hotels, Tiffany M. Braun
Re-evaluation of Acceptance Testing Criteria for Structural Masonry Using the Prism Test Method, James Bristow
Are Vending Machine Selections Healthier? Trends in Dietary Quality of Vending Machine Food and Beverage Selections among NHANES Participants Age 6-19 Years between 2003-2012, Aurora Maria Buffington
Finding the Shakespeare in Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet: A Comparison of Plot and Character in the Seventeenth-century English Play and the Nineteenth-century French Opera, Bonita Elissa Bunt
Numerical Methods for Option Pricing under the Two-Factor Models, Jiacheng Cai
Impacts of WeChat on Millennials’ Perceptions and Consumption Behaviors in the Hotel Industry, Mengqi Cai
"Already Writers": A Case Study in Assessment and Visual Rhetoric Connections in Digital Multimodal Composition, Fawn Elise Canady
Reverse Migration: Documenting How the Educational Experiences of Transnational Youth in Mexican Schools are Shaped by Parental Deportation, Sandra Lourdes Candel
Nonmonotonicity in Absolute and Relative Preferences for Real and Imagined Rewards, Nicholas Carfagno
Jornaleros Engaged in a Multidimensional Struggle: A Critical Ethnography with Day Laborers in Las Vegas, Jorge Adrian Castrejon
Object Language/On Defining Sculpture, Thaddeus Barak Moore Celia-Zoellner
Gene Expression Profiling in the Larval Fat Body of Desiccation Selected Drosophila melanogaster, Adriana Michelle Charles
Examining the Decoy and the Phantom Decoy Effects on the Menu Item Choice, Yang-Su Chen
Exterior Giant Planet Effects on Terrestrial Architecture, Anna Corinne Childs
Volatile Technetium Oxides: Implications for Nuclear Waste Vitrification, Bradley Covington Childs
Survey and Analysis of Android Authentication Using App Locker, Akshitha Reddy Chintalaphani
A Historical Case Study of Title IX in Nevada: An Excellent Investment in Our Youth, Jason Clark
Volunteer Management in Faith-Based Organizations, Cheryl Regina Coleman
Gait and Balance in Alzheimer's Disease: A Retrospective Analysis Across Varying Levels of Cognitive Impairment, Diana Contreras, Jessica Heim, and Jun Nelson
Worked to Leisure: The Intersections of Volunteerism, Work, and Leisure, Denise Nicole Cook
Radiative Contour Mapping Using UAS Swarm, Zachary Cook
More Bang for your Buck: Bolstering Learning Via Refutation Text with Refutation-based Elaborated Feedback, Jacqueline R. Cordova
Disposition and Success of Patients Following Discharge in the Acute Setting, Ciera Cortney, Kathryn Lutjens, and Kristopher Raines
Sex Worker and Proud: A Phenomenological Study of Consensual Sex Workers' Lives, Michael Gerald Curtis Jr.
A Phenomenological Study of the Process of Transitioning Out of the Military and Into Civilian Life from the Acculturation Perspective, Wilisha C. Daniels
Preventing Deaths by Writing: In Search of a Prescriptive Software Solution for Curing Student Writing Ills in Postsecondary Nursing Education, Donald Allen Deever
Temperament and Behavior Factors in a Community Sample of Youth with Selective Mutism, Rachele Alexandra Diliberto
Fine-Wire Intramuscular Insertion to the Lumbar Paraspinal Muscles does not Affect Muscle Activation and Performance During High Exertion Spinal Extension Muscle Contractions, James DiMascio, Rebeka Hicks, Matthew Kimber, and Kelsey Synder
Determining the Effects of Social Media Monitoring to Identify Potential Foodborne Illness in Southern Nevada, Lauren Diprete
The Reliability of the Thoracic Percussion Test, Casey Donaldson, Rey Veloz, and Kaylee Waters
Synthesis of Actinide Materials for the Study of Basic Actinide Science and Rapid Separation of Fission Products, Jacquelyn M. Dorhout
Remote sensing of the environmental impacts of utility-scale solar energy plants, Mohammad Masih Edalat
Radio Spring, Kristian Louis Warren Einstman
Cacophony, Noha Elbadry
Learning to Adapt, Kelly Elcock
The Role of Pre-Existing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Colorectal Cancer Stage and Survival in Elderly Americans: A Seer-Medicare Population-Based Study 2002-~2011, Sanae El Ibrahimi
A Test Driven Approach to Develop Web-Based Machine Learning Applications, Armin Esmaeilzadeh
The Impact of Supportive Parenting on Career Confidence of Young Adults, Salma Ettefagh
Effects of Judicial Primary Election Systems on Challenger Emergence and Candidate Success, Katherine Eugenis
Finding Top-k Dominance on Incomplete Big Data Using Map-Reduce Framework, Payam Ezatpoor
A Program Evaluation of The State of Nevada's Certified Public Manager Program, Carolyn Faircloth, Pat La Putt, Diana Ritter, and Shawntay Tyler
Etudes for the Bassoon: An Annotated Bibliography and Pedagogical Guide, Eric Joaquin Fassbender
PostPartum Depression Educational Intervention, Leslie Feth (Kalyn)
Everything Is Real, Brett Finlayson
Impacts of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) on Translation in the Hospitality Industry, Ethan Fishbane
Understanding College Preparedness of First-Semester College Students, Kimberly Marie Florence
Cyclist Detection, Tracking, and Trajectory Analysis in Urban Traffic Video Data, Farideh Foroozandeh Shahraki
Program Evaluation for the Nevada School of the Arts, Cherie Garrity, Lisa Levine, Angela Phillips, and Izack Tenorio
Investigation of Setting Time and Compressive Strength of Ready-Mixed Concrete Blended with Returned Fresh Concrete, Negasi Niguse Gebremichael