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Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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The Acute Effect of Two Hip External Rotator Stretches on Range of Motion, Cody Brian Bremner

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Kinematic analysis of axial rotations and the effects of stress selection on takeoff flight performance, Michael L. Brewer

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Friends in the Desert Foundation, Inc. Program Evaluation, Gina Brooksbank, Jessica Wilde, and Holly Williams

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Strategic Electronic Property Control of Self-Assembling Pyrazine-Acenes, Lacie Brownell

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Pyramid of the Sun, James Joseph Brown

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Land-Based Exercise and Its Effect on Quality of Life Outcomes in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Systematic Review, Cody R. Buckner, Lindsay C. Martin, and Michael L. Soukup

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Therapeutic Neuroscience Education for Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain and Its Effect on Activity Level, Pain Perception, and Function, Stephen Burton, Amber Domingo, and Ryan Spencer

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What Can Biochemistry Students Learn About Protein Translation? Using Variation Theory to Explore the Space of Learning Created by Some Common External Representations, Thomas J. Bussey

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This is the Place: Utah's gaming history and current attitude, Jackson Tad Butterfield

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Literacy Coaching and Preschool Teacher's Implementation of Literacy Instructional Practices, Teresa Byington

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Examination of Student, Program, and Institutional Support Characteristics that Relate to PGA Golf Management Students' Intent to Persist, Christopher Paul Cain

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An Analysis of Reading Skills Instruction Provided To Special and General Educators In Their Pre-Service and In-Service Teacher Education, Wendie Lappin Castillo

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Efficacy of Gold Silica Nanoshells and Gold Nanorods for Photothermal Therapy of Human Glioma Spheroids, Suyog Jung Chhetri

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Claiming Citizenship: Las Vegas' Conventional Women's Organizations Establishing Citizenship Through Civic Engagement, Cynthia Cicero

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Simulation and Analysis of Insider Attacks, Christopher Blake Clark

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Can State and Local Revenue and Expenditure Enhance Economic Growth? A Cross-State Panel Study of Fiscal Activity, Christopher Arthur Clarke

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The Role of Body Surveillance, Body Shame, and Body Self-Consciousness during Sexual Activities in Women's Sexual Experience, Kimberly Claudat

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The Lived Experiences of Acute-Care Bedside Registered Nurses Caring for Patients and Their Families with Limited English Proficiency, Jami-Sue Coleman

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Examining the Relationships Between Internalizing and Externalizing Problems and Academic Achievement, Lara Elizabeth Conrad

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Traffic Modeling in Lagrangian Coordinates Using Smartphone Apps, Sergio Contreras

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Vitamin and Mineral Intake Relative to the DRIs in Young Adults, Samantha M. Coogan

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Reliability and Validity of the NE1 Wound Assessment Tool (WAT), Stephanie Coon, Faustina Tran, and Melinda Vicencio

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Motives for Different Types of Medical Travelers: An Analysis of the Current State of Academic Research on the Topic, Dan B. Cormany

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An Examination of Walkability in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, Courtney Coughenour

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Word Calling In 3rd And 4th Graders: Exploring Student And Teacher Characteristics, Lindsay Starr Couzens

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The Hotel Manager’s Perceived Conflict of Providing for Hospitality and Security: Can the Two Exist in Harmony?, Silvano Cozzini

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The Impact of Anti-BYOD Policies on Generation Z Hospitality Employee's Engagement, Danny Crinson

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The Influence of Person Familiarity on Children's Social Information Processing, Andrew J. Cummings

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The Impacts of Colonial and Environmental Processes on Ceramic Plainware at Salinas Province, New Mexico, Lindsey Elizabeth Daub

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Investigating Potential Factors that Influence Recruitment for Parenting Skills Classes, Rachel Elizabeth Davis

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Sexual Assault Detectives' Justifications for Aggressive Victim Interviewing Methods: A Qualitative Study, Shauna Davis

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Resilience and Trauma in Maltreated Youth, Timothy Day

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Effects of Footstrike Pattern on Low Back Posture, Shock Attenuation, and Comfort During Running, Traci L. Delgado, Emilia Kubera-Shelton, and Robert R. Robb

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The Acute Effects of Upper Extremity Stretching on Throwing Velocity in Untrained Baseball Throwers, Ashley Delobel, Lanisa Harveson, Jason Melton, and Michael Williams

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Examining Household Identity Through Lithic Technology at the Harris Site, Justin Albert Demaio

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Effects of Cervical Spine Manipulation on Balance and Joint Proprioception in Asymptomatic Individuals: Plausibility and Pilot Study, Kimberly Drayer and Michael Kauwe

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Cretaceous and Eocene U-Pb Zircon Migmatite Ages from the East Humboldt Range Metamorphic Core Complex, Nevada, Jordan Drew

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Snail Algorithm For Task Allocation In Mesh Networks, Bartosz Duszel

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Integrating, Developing, and Testing Methods to Generate More Cohesive Approaches to Biogeographic Inference, Mallory Elizabeth Eckstut

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The Effect of Marriage on Stage at Diagnosis and Survival in Women with Cervical Cancer, Sanae El Ibrahimi

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Who Will Tell the Story? Terrorism's Relationship with the International News Media, Katherine Eugenis

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Perceptions of Hospital Patient Safety Culture in Department of Veterans Affairs Station 593 Southern Nevada, Kimberly Falco

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Computer-Based Stereoscopic Parts Recognition for Robotic Applications, Ahmad A. Fayed

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Comparison of the Pervasive Developmental Disorders Screening Test and Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers: Which is the Better Predictor of Autism in Toddlers?, Vanessa Marie Fessenden

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A History and Analysis of the Works of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Matthew Paul Fisher

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The International Monetary Fund, Power Politics, and the Changing Political Economy of the Twenty First Century, Eduardo Flores

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A Christian Mega Church Strives for Relevance: Examining Social Media and Religiosity, Kenthea Albert-Leigh Joan Fogenay

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A Bird Cannot Fly With One Wing: A Study of Women's Responses to and Attitudes Toward Sexual Infidelity in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Dana Renae Foster

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From Daimon to Demon: The Evolution of the Demon from Antiquity to Early Christianity, Hailey Marie Fuller

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Investigation of Storage-Phosphor Autoradiography for the Rapid Quantitative Screening of Air Filters for Emergency Response Purposes, Athena Marie Gallardo

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Does Movie Viewing Cultivate Unrealistic Expectations about Love and Marriage?, Lauren F. E. Galloway

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Second Language Gesture and Acculturation in Study Abroad Contexts, Christie Marie Gardner

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Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity Investigation of Steel Fiber Reinforced Self-Compacted Concrete, Belayhun Tesfaye Gebretsadik

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Application of (U-Th)/He and 40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology to the Age of Thrust Faulting in the Sevier Orogenic Belt, Michael Giallorenzo

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Experimental and Finite Element Studies of Shock Transmission, Eldon Jerry Goddard

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Design and Fabrication of an Infrared Optical Pyrometer Asic as a Diagnostic for Shock Physics Experiments, Jared Gordon

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The Ethics Glass Ceiling: A Historical Analysis of Actions by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ethics, Michael James Gordon

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Characteristics of Subjects Who Avoid Activities and Participation Due to a Fear of Falling in Parkinson’s Disease, Russell Gourlie, Spencer Sorensen, and Rithea Vong

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Our Side of the Fence: Investigating the New Nativism in the United States, Candace Griffith

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Spatial Health Indicator Analysis Data Collection UNLV Study, Amelia Gulling, Jeff Greer, and Tom Stewart

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The Other September 11th: El Mercurio Media Coverage After The Chilean Coup Of 1973, Valeria Andrea Gurr-Ovalle

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The Second Oboe Concerto of Sir William Herschel: A New Performance Edition, Matthew Thomas Guschl

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Assessing the Conceptual Equivalence of Measure of Suppression in Culturally Diverse Samples, Amanda Louise Haboush

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A Multiple Case Study of Gay Teacher Identity Development: Negotiating and Enacting Identity to Interrupt Heteronormativity, Zaid Mashhour Haddad

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Effect of Racing Flats on Running Economy in Male Adolescent Runners, Paul Hafen

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Predicting the Performance of a Solar Domestic Water Heating System with Evacuated Tube Collectors and Hydronic Radiant Flooring, Kimberly Nicole Hammer

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"What's in a name?": Heteroglossia and History in Native Alaskan Names, Shannon Hannahs

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Testing a Reflection Education Intervention on Baccalaureate Nursing Students' Level of Reflection during Online Clinical Post Conference, Jaime Alicia Hannans

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Chronologies of Pain and Power: Violence, Inequality, and Social Control Among Ancestral Pueblo Populations (AD 850-1300), Ryan Patrick Harrod

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Black Teachers, White Schools: A Qualitative Multiple Case Study on Their Experiences of Racial Tokenism and Development of Professional Black Identities, Abigail Kathleen Hasberry

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Program Fundraising, Tiffany R. Henderson

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The Quebec Act and the Demise of Greater Britain, Trevor Michael Henson

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Adult Permanent (Extracted) Teeth as a Source of Dental Pulp-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (DPSC): A Pilot Study, Charles Hill

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Biomechanical Comparison of a Rounded Outsole Shoe and Traditional Outsole Shoe, Sarah Horsch

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Development and validation of heat transfer model to predict indoor air temperatures in roofpond buildings, Afzal Hossain

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An Analysis of Co-Teaching Instruction Provided in Teacher Education and Inservice Training for Special Education and General Education Teachers, Catherine S. Howerter

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Bureaus and Beer: Promoting Brewery Tourism in Colorado, Shane Howlett

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Parental Stress, Family-Professional Partnerships, and Family Quality of Life: Families of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Yun-Ju Hsiao

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Managerial Behavioral Complexity and the Collegiate Registrar, Katherine Jeanette Humphreys

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The Presence of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on Environmental Surfaces in Healthcare Facilities Pre- and Post-Cleaning, Aaron Thomas Hunt

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What Works in Suicide Bereavement: What Helps and What Hurts?, Quintin Hunt

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3-D Oropharyngeal Airway Analysis of Different Antero-Posterior and Vertical Craniofacial Skeletal Patterns in Children and Adolescents, Chi Kim Huynh

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Newspaper Coverage of Christianity in South Korea, 1996-2005, Taisik Hwang

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Effects of Environmental Variables on the Reproduction of Quagga Mussels (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) in Lake Mead, NV/AZ, Richard Steven Ianniello

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Due Partly To Inertia, Justin Lee Irizarry

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Sex Worker Rights Organizing as Social Movement Unionism: Responding to the Criminalization of Work, Crystal A. Jackson

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Relationship of Global DNA Methylation with Cardiovascular Fitness and Body Composition, Michael Steele Jarrett

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Identity Status: The Impact on Academic Performance, Milan Jelenic

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Impacts of climate changes on the spatiotemporal distribution of precipitation in the western United States, Peng Jiang

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Diversify the Destination Image of Las Vegas to Chinese Market, Yinying Jiang

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The Effects of Arch Taping on Shock Attenuation During Landing, Shun Jinnouchi

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Little Rituals, Bruce Johnson

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The Distributed Application Debugger, Michael Quinn Jones

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The Impact of Sexual Arousal on the Category Specificity of Women's Visual Attention to Erotic Stimuli, Sarah Jones

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A Gaming Application of the Negative Hypergeometric Distribution, Steven Norman Jones

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The Relationship Between Sex-Typing and Help-Seeking Behaviors in Adults, Joshua Juvrud

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Examining the Inner Experience of Four Individuals with Bipolar Disorder Using Descriptive Experience Sampling, Johanah Kang

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Test-Retest Reliability and Responsiveness of Gaze Stability and Dynamic Visual Acuity in High School and College Football Players, Denise Kaufman, Mallory Puckett, and Mitchell Smith

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The Effect of Scaffolded Strategies on Content Learning in a Designed Science Cyberlearning Environment, Cynthia Lee Kern

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Design and Testing of Novel Mouthguard with Intermediate Nitinol and Foam Layers, Adam Kessler