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Theses/Dissertations from 2014
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
Sentiments of Community Stakeholders Living in Southern Nevada Neighborhoods, Erin Sheehy
An Energy-Efficient, Time-Constrained Scheduling Scheme in local mobile cloud, Ting Shi
A Light-Weight Real-Time Privacy Protection Scheme for Video Surveillance by Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Surendra Shrestha
An Examination of Implicit Values in Cornerstone Student Affairs Textbooks, Nathan Slife
Modern to Late Pleistocene Stable Isotope Climatology of Alaska, Alison Sloat
The Lived Experience of Black African Nurses Educated Within the United States, Amy Elizabeth Smith
Client Selected Music Based Effects On Marital And Couples Therapy, Kevin Matthew Smith
Health Hazards in Rental Housing: An Overview of Clark County, Nevada, Amanda Nicole Sokolowsky
Analysis of Bolted Joints Under Medium and High Impact Loading, Deepak Somasundaram
Study of Water Transport Phenomena on Cathode of PEMFCs using Monte Carlo Simulation, Karn Soontrapa
Merging Educational Technology into Routine Care for Patients Living with Fibromyalgia, Toni Sparks
Influence of limestone powder content and size on transport properties of self-consolidating concrete, Rebecca Kendal Spitek
Influence of Social Media in Stages of Democratization, Ira David Sternberg
Predicted Performance of a SkyTherm North, A Highly Insulated Building Envelope System and A Frost Protected Shallow Foundation, Kitrina Ann Stratton
Factors Influencing the Perceived Impacts of Medical Tourism Development on Quality of Life, Courtney Suess
Empirical Studies on Interest Rate Derivatives, Xudong Sun
Measuring the Effectiveness of Race and Sports Book Complimentary Awards Program, Pak Szeto
Development and Evaluation of an Opioid Monitoring Clinic, Richard Luna Talusan
Estimating Aquifer Characteristics and Identification of a Sub-Basin for Artificial Storage and Recovery, Northeastern Ivanpah Valley, Nevada, Nikolas James Taranik
The Influence of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick on Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Ryan Joseph Tesar
The Effects of Disbursement of Foreign Aid to African Countries: A Case Study of Ghana and Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire), Jemilat Kike Thompson-Odoom
A Study of Graphical Permutations, Jessica Thune
Post-Occupancy Energy Efficiency Evaluation of a LEED Platinum Federal Government Facility, Theresa Tincher
A Physically-Based Type II Supernova Feedback Model in SPH Simulations, Keita Todoroki
Co-Emulation of Scan-Chain Based Designs Utilizing SCE-MI Infrastructure, Bill Jason Pidlaoan Tomas
The Role of Self-Concept in Consumer Behavior, Marisa Toth
The Role of Self-Concept in Consumer Behavior, Marisa Toth
Analytical and Experimental Analysis of Magnetorheological Elastomers, Sarah Trabia
Simulations of Interfacial Electrokinetics with Applications to Microfluidic Systems, Sebastian Uppapalli
A Multiple Case Study of Whiteness and Critical Literacy Practices Among White Elementary Teachers in Urban Public Schools, Amanda Rose Vandehei
Virtual Rebel Website: A Strategy to Increase User Engagement through Bounce Rate Analysis, Michael Vendivel
Auditory Processing Deficits in Bipolar Disorder with and without a History of Psychotic Features, Ryanna Verbiest
The Effects of a Comprehensive Weight Management Program, Including Nutrition Education, Physical Activity, & Behavior Change Techniques on Weight Loss and Health-Related Behaviors, Christina M. Vergara Aleshire
Non-Learning Semantic Analysis for Context Discovery and Sentiment Estimation: Transportation Application, Himanshu Verma
Factor Structure of the CPT-II, Mary Vertinski
Impact of A Grade Contract Model in A College Composition Course: A Multiple Case Study, Nayelee Villanueva
Analysis of Lithic Assemblages from Virgin Branch Puebloan Sites on the Shivwits Plateau, Thomas Carl Wambach
The Untold History of Nevada's Shield Statute, Matthew Travis Ward
Methodological Quality and Study Report Characteristics of Current Nursing Education Research, Staci Lynn Warnert
Reducing Court-Related Stress Through Court Education: Examining Child Witnesses, Attorneys and Parents, Brittnie Turquoise Watkins
Slavery, Sacred Texts, and the Antebellum Confrontation with History, Jordan Tuttle Watkins
Life history tradeoffs and the costs of reproduction in Arizona Bark Scorpions (Centruroides sculpturatus), Michael Marie Webber
The Percussion Music of Donald Martino, Glenn Webb
Application of the Transtheoretical Model: Assessing Exercise Behavior in African Americans in a Church-Based Setting, Robin Marie White
Attitudes and Perceptions Toward Sex Tourism in Las Vegas, Carolyn Willis
Chinese Outbound Tourists Food Consumption in the U.S.: An Extension of the Theory of Planned Behavior, Kaiyang Wu
Isolation and Characterization of Paenibacillus larvae Bacteriophages for Use as a Treatment of American Foulbrood Disease in Honeybees, Diane Gerda Yost
Gilded Age Visual Media as the Impetus for Social Change: Jacob Riis's Reform Photography and the Antecedents of Documentary Film, Denitsa Yotova
Induction of Differentiation of Dental Pulp-Derived Mesenchymal Stem cells (DPSC), Aubrey Young
Physical Therapy Non-Treatment of the Acute Hospital Inpatient, Daniel Lee Young
Exact Controllability of the Lazer-McKenna Suspension Bridge Equation, Lanxuan Yu