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Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Enhancing Teaching and Learning through iPad Integration in a Clinic-~based Literacy Course, Kyle F. Kaalberg

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A Model of Hospitality Employee Engagement, Hee Jung Kang

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Simulation, and Overload and Stability Analysis of Continuous Time Sigma Delta Modulator, Kyung Kang

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Implementing Influence Diagram Concepts to Optimize Border Patrol Operations using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Ashish Karki

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Maltreated Multiracial Youth, Harpreet Kaur

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Producer Fans: How Twilight Fans are Using Facebook to Blur the Lines Between Media Producers and Consumers, Nichole Roslyn Kazimirovicz

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Spatial Analysis of Chipped Stone at the Cypro-PPNB Site of Krittou Marottou Ais Giorkis: A GIS-Assisted Study, Levi Lowell Keach

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Interorganizational Performance Comparisons Using Quality Assurance Audit Results, Raymond E. Keeler

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Retirement and the Registered Nurse: The SAVER Study, Shanna Field Keele

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Modeling and Analysis of Pedestrian Flows, Romesh Khaddar

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Modeling and Development of Human Interface for Pedestrian Simulator, Romesh Khaddar

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Development of a Visualization System for Highway Safety Management Using Safety Analyst, Indira Khanal

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All is Ripe for Fire, Dana Marie Killmeyer

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An Autoethnography of Heart-Based Hope Leadership: A Matter of Life or Death, Cynthia Jeanne Kimball

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Unfinished Business in Bereavement: A Mixed Methods Study, Kara Lee Klingspon

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A Branch and Bound Method for Sum of Completion Permutation Flow Shop, Swapna Kodimala

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After Polarity: World Political Systems, Polar Structural Transitions, and Nonpolarity, Nerses Kopalyan

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Using Seismic Reflection to Locate a Tracer Testing Complex South of Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada, Levi Kryder

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Concurrent Localized Wait-Free Operations on a Red Black Tree, Vitaliy Kubushyn

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Modeling of Short Term and Long Term Impacts of Freeway Traffic Incidents using Historical Data, Vidhya Kumaresan

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Songs By Hsiao Tyzen: The Interaction Between His Music And Taiwan, Pei-Ning Ku

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Garnet Dating, Pressure-Temperature Time Paths and Kinematic Analysis of the Schist of Upper Narrows, Raft River Mountains, Northwestern Utah: Tectonic Implications of Pressure-Temperature-Time-Deformation Paths, Alison Christine Lacy

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Numerical Simulations of Traffic Flow Models, Puneet Lakhanpal

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Evaluation of Earthquake Hazard for Las Vegas Valley, Nevada Incorporating Probabilistic Hazard Assessment and Non--Linear Site Response, Suchan Lamichhane

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An Importance-Performance Analysis of Multigenerational Preferences in Guestroom Technology, Sidian Lan

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The Mental Organization of People's Permanent and Situational Attributes, Kathleen Larson

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Integrated Casino Resort Plan in Korea: The Perception of Korean Government Representatives, Donghwa Lee

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Maritime Piracy and Armed Robbery Confrontations Across the Globe: Can Crew Action Shape the Outcomes?, Justin Stewart Lewis

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High Stakes of Media Messages: Decoding Visual Narratives from the Iraq War in the U.S. and British Presses, Jennifer Liese

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Collective Film Camera in Shanghai: A Business Plan, Sha Li

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Progressive Collapse Analysis of Older Reinforced Concrete Flat Plate Buildings Using Macro Model, Jinrong Liu

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A Study on Employee Turnover in Shanghai’s Fine Dining Restaurants, Yang Liu

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Determinants of Head and Neck Cancer Survival in Nevada for 1995-2008, Xiao Q. Li

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Family Environment and Severity of Absenteeism in Youth, Rachel Marie Loftis

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Characteristics of Subjects Who Avoid Activities and Participation due to a Fear of Falling in Parkinson’s Disease, Morgan Lopker and Molly Newman

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Prison, Perceptions, and Policy: Authoritarianism and Attitudes toward Sexual Assault Victims in U.S. Correctional Facilities, Amy Michelle Magnus

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Understanding how honey bee flight and senescence are connected through oxidative stress., Joseph Margotta

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Effects of Cooperation Games on Social Interactions of Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Teri Alicia Marx

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Who or What Should I Be Like? The Self-Assessment of Sexual Desire, Caroline Maykut

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A More Perfect World, Amy Katherine Mayo

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The Lived Experience of Nursing Students During Their Psychiatric Nursing Education: Does It Influence View of Psychiatric Nursing as a Career Choice?, Lisa Mcconlogue

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25-Hydroxyvitamin D, IGF-1, and Waist Circumference A Cross-Sectional Study, Damon Mccune

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Development of a Molecular Method for Detecting the Causative Agent of Swimmer's Itch (Trichobilharzia) in Freshwater Ecosystems, Heidi Mcmaster

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Porphyry Copper Exploration of the Hualapai Mountains, Mohave County, Arizona, USA: A Multi-faceted Approach, Patrick Kevin Meazell

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The Percussionist Bodybuilder: Optimizing Performance Through Exercise and Nutrition, Anthony Joseph Merlino

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The Rhetoric of Gay Christians: Matthew Vines and Reverend Nancy Wilson as Exemplars, Joshua Holman Miller

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A Comparative Study: Utilizing Data Mining Techniques to Classify Traffic Congestion Status, Abbas Mirakhorli

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Dual Task Interference in Low-Level Abilities: The Role of Working Memory and Effects of Mathematics Anxiety, Alex Michael Moore

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Factors Associated with Rapid Readmission Among Nevada State Pyschiatric Hospital Patients, Christopher Owen Moore

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Transport Properties of Nano-Silica Contained Self-Consolidating Concrete, Borhan Moradi

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Technical Theatre: Bridging the Gap Between Academic and Vocational Training While Preparing Students for Careers and Life, Megan Morey

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The Presentation of Childhood Parental Divorce in Adulthood: A Retrospective Phenomenological Study, Sheala Catherine Morrison

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The Effect of Acute LPS-Induced Immune Activation and Brain Insulin Signaling Disruption in a Diabetic Model of Alzheimer's Disease, Andrew Scott Murtishaw

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Numerical study of a novel fin configuration of a high temperature ceramic plate fin heat exchanger, Vijaisri Nagarajan

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A Study of Airbnb as a Potential Competitor of the Hotel Industry, Quynh Nguyen

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N-Dimensional Quasipolar Coordinates - Theory and Application, Tan Mai Nguyen

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What's age got to do with it? Examining how the age of stimulus faces affects children's implicit racial bias, Erica Cheree Noles

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Finite Difference Modeling of Surface-~Wave Scattering for Shallow Cavity Detection, Heston Travis Norcott

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Social Capital of Last Resort: The Role of Religion, Family, and Trust among People with Low Socio-Economic Status, Jean Reid Norman

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Economic Voting in the Developing World, Rafael Oganesyan

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Sex in the Brain: The Relationship between Event Related Potentials and Subjective Sexual Arousal, Taylor Lynn Oliver

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Global Climate Change: The Political Impact of Global Warming on Developing Countries. The Case Studies of Egypt and Oman, Eugene Thomas O'Neal

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Before You Knew Me, Isabel Ontiveros

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Lung Cancer Survival Disparities in Nevada, Chima Osuoha

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WISC-IV Profiles in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Comorbid Learning Disabilities, Elyse Parke

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Possible Benefits of Playing Music Video Games, Amanda Pasinski

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Through the Eyes of the Present: Screening the Male Homoerotics of Shakespearean Drama in Anglophone Cinema, 1936-2011, Anthony Guy Patricia

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Thermal Impacts of Salt on Sandstones and Mudstones in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal, Brett Perry

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A Survey of Tabu Search in Combinatorial Optimization, Lemasri Piniganti

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Development and Testing of the Home Safety and Beautification Checklist with Mothers Referred for Child Neglect and Substance Abuse, Michelle Pitts

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The Hotel College First Year Experience at UNLV: Does it Make a Difference?, Jill Plumer

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Family Presence During Resuscitation of Adults: The Impact of an Online Learning Module on Critical Care Nurses' Perception and Self-Confidence, Kelly Powers

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The Wetsuit Effect: Physiological Response to Wearing a Wetsuit, Aaron Prado

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Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Newly Implemented, Proactive Approach to Legionellosis Investigations Conducted by the Southern Nevada Health District, Devin Charlotte Raman

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Simultaneous Equation Modeling for Crash Rate of Freeway Segments, Anthony Ramos

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Physical Child Abuse and Cultural Differences in Reporting, Emily Frances Reed

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Exploring the Inner Experience of Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Stacy Reger

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Self Adjusting Contention Friendly Concurrent Binary Search Tree by Lazy Splaying, Mahesh Raj Regmee

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New early Miocene 40Ar/39Ar ages for Nakwai, northwest Kenya, Africa, and Paleontological analysis of Meroehyrax kyongoi dentition, Dawn Elena Reynoso

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Time Correlated Measurements Using Plastic Scintillators with Neutron-Photon Pulse Shape Discrimination, Norman Edison Richardson

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Speciation Behavior of Americium Higher Oxidation States for the Separation of Americium from Curium, Catherine Lynn Riddle

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Acute Testosterone Responses to Different Resistance Exercise Intensities, Robert Rietjens

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Impaired Theory of Mind in Psychotic and Affective Disorders, Erik Nelson Ringdahl

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A Survey of Ekeland's Variational Principle and Related Theorems and Applications, Jessica Robinson

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Characterization and Optimization of Extraction Chromatography Resins for Rapid Separations for Safeguard and Nuclear Forensics Purposes, Audrey Roman

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Corrugated Ware Function and Use as Identity Markers at the Harris Site, Danielle Romero

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Hemispheric asymmetry in the perception of musical pitch structure, Matthew Adam Rosenthal

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Identifying Maltreated Youths at Heightened Risk for Posttraumatic Symptoms, Emma H. Ross

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GATE Monte Carlo Simulations in a Cloud Computing Environment, Blake Austin Rowedder

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Implicit Theories of Intelligence and Learning a Novel Mathematics Task, Nathan Oehme Rudig

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Survival, growth, and settlement of Dreissena rostriformis bugensis veligers in low and high calcium waters, Emma Ruhmann

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Identification of long term changes and evaluation of the relationships among streamflow variability and oceanic-atmospheric indices, Soumya Sagarika

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Modeling Pavement Distress Rates within U.S. Air Force Airfields, Lauren Sahagun

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Long May She Reign: A Rhetorical Analysis of Gender Expectations in Disney's Tangled and Disney/Pixar's Brave, Caitlin J. Saladino

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One Way to Light a Candle, Samantha Samson

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Lattice Methods For The Valuation of Options with Regime Switching, Atul Sancheti

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Kinematics and Timing of Superposed Deformation in the Funeral Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex, Death Valley, CA, Katrina Marie Sauer

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Weight-Based Microaggressions Experienced by Obese Women in Psychotherapy, Kerri Jo Schafer

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Designing a Biomimetic Testing Platform for Actuators in a Series-Elastic Co-contraction System, Ryan Tyler Schroeder

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Remote sensing based on hyperspectral data analysis, Ershad Sharifahmadian