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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Acute Effect of Two Hip External Rotator Stretches on Range of Motion, Cody Brian Bremner
Kinematic analysis of axial rotations and the effects of stress selection on takeoff flight performance, Michael L. Brewer
Friends in the Desert Foundation, Inc. Program Evaluation, Gina Brooksbank, Jessica Wilde, and Holly Williams
Strategic Electronic Property Control of Self-Assembling Pyrazine-Acenes, Lacie Brownell
Pyramid of the Sun, James Joseph Brown
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
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
This is the Place: Utah's gaming history and current attitude, Jackson Tad Butterfield
Literacy Coaching and Preschool Teacher's Implementation of Literacy Instructional Practices, Teresa Byington
Examination of Student, Program, and Institutional Support Characteristics that Relate to PGA Golf Management Students' Intent to Persist, Christopher Paul Cain
An Analysis of Reading Skills Instruction Provided To Special and General Educators In Their Pre-Service and In-Service Teacher Education, Wendie Lappin Castillo
Efficacy of Gold Silica Nanoshells and Gold Nanorods for Photothermal Therapy of Human Glioma Spheroids, Suyog Jung Chhetri
Claiming Citizenship: Las Vegas' Conventional Women's Organizations Establishing Citizenship Through Civic Engagement, Cynthia Cicero
Simulation and Analysis of Insider Attacks, Christopher Blake Clark
Can State and Local Revenue and Expenditure Enhance Economic Growth? A Cross-State Panel Study of Fiscal Activity, Christopher Arthur Clarke
The Role of Body Surveillance, Body Shame, and Body Self-Consciousness during Sexual Activities in Women's Sexual Experience, Kimberly Claudat
The Lived Experiences of Acute-Care Bedside Registered Nurses Caring for Patients and Their Families with Limited English Proficiency, Jami-Sue Coleman
Examining the Relationships Between Internalizing and Externalizing Problems and Academic Achievement, Lara Elizabeth Conrad
Traffic Modeling in Lagrangian Coordinates Using Smartphone Apps, Sergio Contreras
Vitamin and Mineral Intake Relative to the DRIs in Young Adults, Samantha M. Coogan
Reliability and Validity of the NE1 Wound Assessment Tool (WAT), Stephanie Coon, Faustina Tran, and Melinda Vicencio
Motives for Different Types of Medical Travelers: An Analysis of the Current State of Academic Research on the Topic, Dan B. Cormany
An Examination of Walkability in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, Courtney Coughenour
Word Calling In 3rd And 4th Graders: Exploring Student And Teacher Characteristics, Lindsay Starr Couzens
The Hotel Manager’s Perceived Conflict of Providing for Hospitality and Security: Can the Two Exist in Harmony?, Silvano Cozzini
The Impact of Anti-BYOD Policies on Generation Z Hospitality Employee's Engagement, Danny Crinson
The Influence of Person Familiarity on Children's Social Information Processing, Andrew J. Cummings
The Impacts of Colonial and Environmental Processes on Ceramic Plainware at Salinas Province, New Mexico, Lindsey Elizabeth Daub
Investigating Potential Factors that Influence Recruitment for Parenting Skills Classes, Rachel Elizabeth Davis
Sexual Assault Detectives' Justifications for Aggressive Victim Interviewing Methods: A Qualitative Study, Shauna Davis
Resilience and Trauma in Maltreated Youth, Timothy Day
Effects of Footstrike Pattern on Low Back Posture, Shock Attenuation, and Comfort During Running, Traci L. Delgado, Emilia Kubera-Shelton, and Robert R. Robb
The Acute Effects of Upper Extremity Stretching on Throwing Velocity in Untrained Baseball Throwers, Ashley Delobel, Lanisa Harveson, Jason Melton, and Michael Williams
Examining Household Identity Through Lithic Technology at the Harris Site, Justin Albert Demaio
Effects of Cervical Spine Manipulation on Balance and Joint Proprioception in Asymptomatic Individuals: Plausibility and Pilot Study, Kimberly Drayer and Michael Kauwe
Cretaceous and Eocene U-Pb Zircon Migmatite Ages from the East Humboldt Range Metamorphic Core Complex, Nevada, Jordan Drew
Snail Algorithm For Task Allocation In Mesh Networks, Bartosz Duszel
Integrating, Developing, and Testing Methods to Generate More Cohesive Approaches to Biogeographic Inference, Mallory Elizabeth Eckstut
The Effect of Marriage on Stage at Diagnosis and Survival in Women with Cervical Cancer, Sanae El Ibrahimi
Who Will Tell the Story? Terrorism's Relationship with the International News Media, Katherine Eugenis
Perceptions of Hospital Patient Safety Culture in Department of Veterans Affairs Station 593 Southern Nevada, Kimberly Falco
Computer-Based Stereoscopic Parts Recognition for Robotic Applications, Ahmad A. Fayed
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
A History and Analysis of the Works of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Matthew Paul Fisher
The International Monetary Fund, Power Politics, and the Changing Political Economy of the Twenty First Century, Eduardo Flores
A Christian Mega Church Strives for Relevance: Examining Social Media and Religiosity, Kenthea Albert-Leigh Joan Fogenay
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
From Daimon to Demon: The Evolution of the Demon from Antiquity to Early Christianity, Hailey Marie Fuller
Investigation of Storage-Phosphor Autoradiography for the Rapid Quantitative Screening of Air Filters for Emergency Response Purposes, Athena Marie Gallardo
Does Movie Viewing Cultivate Unrealistic Expectations about Love and Marriage?, Lauren F. E. Galloway
Second Language Gesture and Acculturation in Study Abroad Contexts, Christie Marie Gardner
Ultrasonic Pulse Velocity Investigation of Steel Fiber Reinforced Self-Compacted Concrete, Belayhun Tesfaye Gebretsadik
Application of (U-Th)/He and 40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology to the Age of Thrust Faulting in the Sevier Orogenic Belt, Michael Giallorenzo
Experimental and Finite Element Studies of Shock Transmission, Eldon Jerry Goddard
Design and Fabrication of an Infrared Optical Pyrometer Asic as a Diagnostic for Shock Physics Experiments, Jared Gordon
The Ethics Glass Ceiling: A Historical Analysis of Actions by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ethics, Michael James Gordon
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
Our Side of the Fence: Investigating the New Nativism in the United States, Candace Griffith
Spatial Health Indicator Analysis Data Collection UNLV Study, Amelia Gulling, Jeff Greer, and Tom Stewart
The Other September 11th: El Mercurio Media Coverage After The Chilean Coup Of 1973, Valeria Andrea Gurr-Ovalle
The Second Oboe Concerto of Sir William Herschel: A New Performance Edition, Matthew Thomas Guschl
Assessing the Conceptual Equivalence of Measure of Suppression in Culturally Diverse Samples, Amanda Louise Haboush
A Multiple Case Study of Gay Teacher Identity Development: Negotiating and Enacting Identity to Interrupt Heteronormativity, Zaid Mashhour Haddad
Effect of Racing Flats on Running Economy in Male Adolescent Runners, Paul Hafen
Predicting the Performance of a Solar Domestic Water Heating System with Evacuated Tube Collectors and Hydronic Radiant Flooring, Kimberly Nicole Hammer
"What's in a name?": Heteroglossia and History in Native Alaskan Names, Shannon Hannahs
Testing a Reflection Education Intervention on Baccalaureate Nursing Students' Level of Reflection during Online Clinical Post Conference, Jaime Alicia Hannans
Chronologies of Pain and Power: Violence, Inequality, and Social Control Among Ancestral Pueblo Populations (AD 850-1300), Ryan Patrick Harrod
Black Teachers, White Schools: A Qualitative Multiple Case Study on Their Experiences of Racial Tokenism and Development of Professional Black Identities, Abigail Kathleen Hasberry
Program Fundraising, Tiffany R. Henderson
The Quebec Act and the Demise of Greater Britain, Trevor Michael Henson
Adult Permanent (Extracted) Teeth as a Source of Dental Pulp-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (DPSC): A Pilot Study, Charles Hill
Biomechanical Comparison of a Rounded Outsole Shoe and Traditional Outsole Shoe, Sarah Horsch
Development and validation of heat transfer model to predict indoor air temperatures in roofpond buildings, Afzal Hossain
An Analysis of Co-Teaching Instruction Provided in Teacher Education and Inservice Training for Special Education and General Education Teachers, Catherine S. Howerter
Bureaus and Beer: Promoting Brewery Tourism in Colorado, Shane Howlett
Managerial Behavioral Complexity and the Collegiate Registrar, Katherine Jeanette Humphreys
The Presence of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on Environmental Surfaces in Healthcare Facilities Pre- and Post-Cleaning, Aaron Thomas Hunt
What Works in Suicide Bereavement: What Helps and What Hurts?, Quintin Hunt
3-D Oropharyngeal Airway Analysis of Different Antero-Posterior and Vertical Craniofacial Skeletal Patterns in Children and Adolescents, Chi Kim Huynh
Newspaper Coverage of Christianity in South Korea, 1996-2005, Taisik Hwang
Effects of Environmental Variables on the Reproduction of Quagga Mussels (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) in Lake Mead, NV/AZ, Richard Steven Ianniello
Due Partly To Inertia, Justin Lee Irizarry
Sex Worker Rights Organizing as Social Movement Unionism: Responding to the Criminalization of Work, Crystal A. Jackson
Relationship of Global DNA Methylation with Cardiovascular Fitness and Body Composition, Michael Steele Jarrett
Identity Status: The Impact on Academic Performance, Milan Jelenic
Impacts of climate changes on the spatiotemporal distribution of precipitation in the western United States, Peng Jiang
Diversify the Destination Image of Las Vegas to Chinese Market, Yinying Jiang
The Effects of Arch Taping on Shock Attenuation During Landing, Shun Jinnouchi
Little Rituals, Bruce Johnson
The Distributed Application Debugger, Michael Quinn Jones
The Impact of Sexual Arousal on the Category Specificity of Women's Visual Attention to Erotic Stimuli, Sarah Jones
A Gaming Application of the Negative Hypergeometric Distribution, Steven Norman Jones
The Relationship Between Sex-Typing and Help-Seeking Behaviors in Adults, Joshua Juvrud
Examining the Inner Experience of Four Individuals with Bipolar Disorder Using Descriptive Experience Sampling, Johanah Kang
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
The Effect of Scaffolded Strategies on Content Learning in a Designed Science Cyberlearning Environment, Cynthia Lee Kern
Design and Testing of Novel Mouthguard with Intermediate Nitinol and Foam Layers, Adam Kessler