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Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Enhancing Teaching and Learning through iPad Integration in a Clinic-~based Literacy Course, Kyle F. Kaalberg
A Model of Hospitality Employee Engagement, Hee Jung Kang
Simulation, and Overload and Stability Analysis of Continuous Time Sigma Delta Modulator, Kyung Kang
Implementing Influence Diagram Concepts to Optimize Border Patrol Operations using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Ashish Karki
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Maltreated Multiracial Youth, Harpreet Kaur
Producer Fans: How Twilight Fans are Using Facebook to Blur the Lines Between Media Producers and Consumers, Nichole Roslyn Kazimirovicz
Spatial Analysis of Chipped Stone at the Cypro-PPNB Site of Krittou Marottou Ais Giorkis: A GIS-Assisted Study, Levi Lowell Keach
Interorganizational Performance Comparisons Using Quality Assurance Audit Results, Raymond E. Keeler
Retirement and the Registered Nurse: The SAVER Study, Shanna Field Keele
Modeling and Analysis of Pedestrian Flows, Romesh Khaddar
Modeling and Development of Human Interface for Pedestrian Simulator, Romesh Khaddar
Development of a Visualization System for Highway Safety Management Using Safety Analyst, Indira Khanal
All is Ripe for Fire, Dana Marie Killmeyer
An Autoethnography of Heart-Based Hope Leadership: A Matter of Life or Death, Cynthia Jeanne Kimball
Unfinished Business in Bereavement: A Mixed Methods Study, Kara Lee Klingspon
A Branch and Bound Method for Sum of Completion Permutation Flow Shop, Swapna Kodimala
After Polarity: World Political Systems, Polar Structural Transitions, and Nonpolarity, Nerses Kopalyan
Using Seismic Reflection to Locate a Tracer Testing Complex South of Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada, Levi Kryder
Concurrent Localized Wait-Free Operations on a Red Black Tree, Vitaliy Kubushyn
Modeling of Short Term and Long Term Impacts of Freeway Traffic Incidents using Historical Data, Vidhya Kumaresan
Songs By Hsiao Tyzen: The Interaction Between His Music And Taiwan, Pei-Ning Ku
Numerical Simulations of Traffic Flow Models, Puneet Lakhanpal
Evaluation of Earthquake Hazard for Las Vegas Valley, Nevada Incorporating Probabilistic Hazard Assessment and Non--Linear Site Response, Suchan Lamichhane
An Importance-Performance Analysis of Multigenerational Preferences in Guestroom Technology, Sidian Lan
The Mental Organization of People's Permanent and Situational Attributes, Kathleen Larson
Integrated Casino Resort Plan in Korea: The Perception of Korean Government Representatives, Donghwa Lee
Maritime Piracy and Armed Robbery Confrontations Across the Globe: Can Crew Action Shape the Outcomes?, Justin Stewart Lewis
High Stakes of Media Messages: Decoding Visual Narratives from the Iraq War in the U.S. and British Presses, Jennifer Liese
Collective Film Camera in Shanghai: A Business Plan, Sha Li
Progressive Collapse Analysis of Older Reinforced Concrete Flat Plate Buildings Using Macro Model, Jinrong Liu
A Study on Employee Turnover in Shanghai’s Fine Dining Restaurants, Yang Liu
Determinants of Head and Neck Cancer Survival in Nevada for 1995-2008, Xiao Q. Li
Family Environment and Severity of Absenteeism in Youth, Rachel Marie Loftis
Characteristics of Subjects Who Avoid Activities and Participation due to a Fear of Falling in Parkinson’s Disease, Morgan Lopker and Molly Newman
Prison, Perceptions, and Policy: Authoritarianism and Attitudes toward Sexual Assault Victims in U.S. Correctional Facilities, Amy Michelle Magnus
Understanding how honey bee flight and senescence are connected through oxidative stress., Joseph Margotta
Effects of Cooperation Games on Social Interactions of Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Teri Alicia Marx
Who or What Should I Be Like? The Self-Assessment of Sexual Desire, Caroline Maykut
A More Perfect World, Amy Katherine Mayo
The Lived Experience of Nursing Students During Their Psychiatric Nursing Education: Does It Influence View of Psychiatric Nursing as a Career Choice?, Lisa Mcconlogue
25-Hydroxyvitamin D, IGF-1, and Waist Circumference A Cross-Sectional Study, Damon Mccune
Development of a Molecular Method for Detecting the Causative Agent of Swimmer's Itch (Trichobilharzia) in Freshwater Ecosystems, Heidi Mcmaster
Porphyry Copper Exploration of the Hualapai Mountains, Mohave County, Arizona, USA: A Multi-faceted Approach, Patrick Kevin Meazell
The Percussionist Bodybuilder: Optimizing Performance Through Exercise and Nutrition, Anthony Joseph Merlino
The Rhetoric of Gay Christians: Matthew Vines and Reverend Nancy Wilson as Exemplars, Joshua Holman Miller
A Comparative Study: Utilizing Data Mining Techniques to Classify Traffic Congestion Status, Abbas Mirakhorli
Dual Task Interference in Low-Level Abilities: The Role of Working Memory and Effects of Mathematics Anxiety, Alex Michael Moore
Factors Associated with Rapid Readmission Among Nevada State Pyschiatric Hospital Patients, Christopher Owen Moore
Transport Properties of Nano-Silica Contained Self-Consolidating Concrete, Borhan Moradi
The Presentation of Childhood Parental Divorce in Adulthood: A Retrospective Phenomenological Study, Sheala Catherine Morrison
The Effect of Acute LPS-Induced Immune Activation and Brain Insulin Signaling Disruption in a Diabetic Model of Alzheimer's Disease, Andrew Scott Murtishaw
Numerical study of a novel fin configuration of a high temperature ceramic plate fin heat exchanger, Vijaisri Nagarajan
A Study of Airbnb as a Potential Competitor of the Hotel Industry, Quynh Nguyen
N-Dimensional Quasipolar Coordinates - Theory and Application, Tan Mai Nguyen
What's age got to do with it? Examining how the age of stimulus faces affects children's implicit racial bias, Erica Cheree Noles
Finite Difference Modeling of Surface-~Wave Scattering for Shallow Cavity Detection, Heston Travis Norcott
Social Capital of Last Resort: The Role of Religion, Family, and Trust among People with Low Socio-Economic Status, Jean Reid Norman
Economic Voting in the Developing World, Rafael Oganesyan
Sex in the Brain: The Relationship between Event Related Potentials and Subjective Sexual Arousal, Taylor Lynn Oliver
Global Climate Change: The Political Impact of Global Warming on Developing Countries. The Case Studies of Egypt and Oman, Eugene Thomas O'Neal
Before You Knew Me, Isabel Ontiveros
Lung Cancer Survival Disparities in Nevada, Chima Osuoha
WISC-IV Profiles in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Comorbid Learning Disabilities, Elyse Parke
Possible Benefits of Playing Music Video Games, Amanda Pasinski
Through the Eyes of the Present: Screening the Male Homoerotics of Shakespearean Drama in Anglophone Cinema, 1936-2011, Anthony Guy Patricia
Thermal Impacts of Salt on Sandstones and Mudstones in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal, Brett Perry
A Survey of Tabu Search in Combinatorial Optimization, Lemasri Piniganti
Development and Testing of the Home Safety and Beautification Checklist with Mothers Referred for Child Neglect and Substance Abuse, Michelle Pitts
The Hotel College First Year Experience at UNLV: Does it Make a Difference?, Jill Plumer
The Wetsuit Effect: Physiological Response to Wearing a Wetsuit, Aaron Prado
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Newly Implemented, Proactive Approach to Legionellosis Investigations Conducted by the Southern Nevada Health District, Devin Charlotte Raman
Simultaneous Equation Modeling for Crash Rate of Freeway Segments, Anthony Ramos
Physical Child Abuse and Cultural Differences in Reporting, Emily Frances Reed
Exploring the Inner Experience of Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Stacy Reger
Self Adjusting Contention Friendly Concurrent Binary Search Tree by Lazy Splaying, Mahesh Raj Regmee
New early Miocene 40Ar/39Ar ages for Nakwai, northwest Kenya, Africa, and Paleontological analysis of Meroehyrax kyongoi dentition, Dawn Elena Reynoso
Time Correlated Measurements Using Plastic Scintillators with Neutron-Photon Pulse Shape Discrimination, Norman Edison Richardson
Speciation Behavior of Americium Higher Oxidation States for the Separation of Americium from Curium, Catherine Lynn Riddle
Acute Testosterone Responses to Different Resistance Exercise Intensities, Robert Rietjens
Impaired Theory of Mind in Psychotic and Affective Disorders, Erik Nelson Ringdahl
A Survey of Ekeland's Variational Principle and Related Theorems and Applications, Jessica Robinson
Corrugated Ware Function and Use as Identity Markers at the Harris Site, Danielle Romero
Hemispheric asymmetry in the perception of musical pitch structure, Matthew Adam Rosenthal
Identifying Maltreated Youths at Heightened Risk for Posttraumatic Symptoms, Emma H. Ross
GATE Monte Carlo Simulations in a Cloud Computing Environment, Blake Austin Rowedder
Implicit Theories of Intelligence and Learning a Novel Mathematics Task, Nathan Oehme Rudig
Survival, growth, and settlement of Dreissena rostriformis bugensis veligers in low and high calcium waters, Emma Ruhmann
Identification of long term changes and evaluation of the relationships among streamflow variability and oceanic-atmospheric indices, Soumya Sagarika
Modeling Pavement Distress Rates within U.S. Air Force Airfields, Lauren Sahagun
Long May She Reign: A Rhetorical Analysis of Gender Expectations in Disney's Tangled and Disney/Pixar's Brave, Caitlin J. Saladino
One Way to Light a Candle, Samantha Samson
Lattice Methods For The Valuation of Options with Regime Switching, Atul Sancheti
Kinematics and Timing of Superposed Deformation in the Funeral Mountains Metamorphic Core Complex, Death Valley, CA, Katrina Marie Sauer
Weight-Based Microaggressions Experienced by Obese Women in Psychotherapy, Kerri Jo Schafer
Designing a Biomimetic Testing Platform for Actuators in a Series-Elastic Co-contraction System, Ryan Tyler Schroeder
Remote sensing based on hyperspectral data analysis, Ershad Sharifahmadian