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Theses/Dissertations from 2012
"So Much for Fond Five-Dollar Memories": Prostitution in Las Vegas, 1905-1955, Marie Katherine Rowley
Comparing Division IA Scholarship and Non-Scholarship Student-Athletes: A Discriminant Analysis of Academic Performance, Lisa Melanie Rubin
A Critical Edition of Gustave Vogt's 4eme Solo de Concert, Mark Runkles
Enhancing Off-Season Motivation in Collegiate Athletes, Daniel Ryan
A Refreshable and Portable E-Braille System for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Mohammad Yousef Saadeh
Sustainable Tourism Marketing Strategies at UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Fouad A. Sadiki
Investigating the Use of Pozzolans in Portland Cement Concrete and Inorganic Polymer Mortar, Omar Abdelmalek Saleh
About a Yellow Ball, Shannon Alice Salter
Improving Efficiency and Capacity of Hydro-Turbines in the Western United States, Hoover Dam, Jonathan Sanchez
Evaluation of Highly Efficient Distribution Transformer Design and Energy Standards Based on Load, James Sanguinetti
Effects of Hyperthermia on Photochemical Internalization-mediated Delivery of Bleomycin, Christina Schlazer
The Adaptation of Cloud Computing by the Hotel Industry, Anthony Schneider
A Business Plan for Grass Fed Restaurant, Joshua Schonfeld
An Exploration Of Contextual Factors That May Influence The Expulsion Rates Of Middle School Students, Tracy Schroeder
Spawning, Veliger Growth and Desiccation of Dreissena bugensis, Lynn Schwaebe
Innovators and laggards? Faculty adoption of online distance education, Thomas Tailor Scott
Comparing Public and Private Institutions that Have and Have Not Implemented Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems: A Resource Dependence Perspective, Geetha Rathna Sendhil
Cultural Impact on Customer Satisfaction and Service Quality Evaluation in Hotels, Yeji Seo
Analyzing the Effects of Social Media on the Hospitality Industry, Gaurav Seth
The Acute Effect of Endurance Exercise on Lipoproteins Measured by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in Healthy Men, Hanaa Adnan Shaheen
The Non-Gaming Business of the Gaming Industry: Evaluating the Contribution of Non-Gaming Amenities at a Casino-Resort Property, Elena Shampaner-Ghiassi
Credentialing Success in Respiratory Therapy Education: Revisiting Bourdieu's Concepts of Field and Capital, Karen Lightbody Shaw
Motivational Clinic for Coaches in Division I, II, III College Sports, Christopher M. Sheldrick
Framework Development for Construction Safety Visualization, Kishor Shrestha
Legal Issues in Green Construction, Namrata Shrestha
Tiny Animals Made To Do Unnatural Things, Ashley Mary Siebels
Cultural Competence in the Baccalaureate Degree Nursing Curriculum, Angela Elizabeth Silvestri
Identify Possible Critical Provider Gap(s) in the Package Tours Sold by Travel Agencies in Singapore, Chih Wee Siow
CSA Survivors: What Heals and What Hurts in a Couple Relationship, Laura S. Smedley
The Pros and Cons of Outsourcing, Angela Smith
Diversifying the National Parks, Amalia Sommer
To Set the World Right: Religious Pluralism and the Progressive Era, Lance Sorenson
Retrospective Evaluation of Oral Health Services for Underserved Children in Clark County, Nevada, Earl Taylor Spader
An Introduction to Meeting and Event Management Course, Diana Spina
Reliability and Validity of the Body Caliper to Evaluate Body Composition, Gregory L. Stalker
Couples' Process of Healing from Infidelity While in Therapy, Jordan Mark Staples
A Training Manual: To Increase Performance in Cost Management of a Las Vegas Nightclub for Operations Managers, Mark F. Staudinger
Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Germany. A Transnational History., Julia Simone Stetler
Caught in the Immigration Cross-Fire: The Changing Dynamics of Congressional Support for Skilled Worker Visas, Maryam Tanhaee Stevenson
Principal Change Facilitator Style and Student Achievement: A Study of Schools in the Middle, Steven Keith Stewart
The behavior of zircon during partial melting in anatectic migmatites: Insights to metamorphism, deformation and tectonism in the central Santa Fe Range, northern New Mexico, Michelle Renee Stropky
Audience Image Preferences of 1080i and 720p High Definition Video Formats: An Experiment, Michael Thomas Stubben
Room Service Principles and Practices: An Exploratory Study, Stanley Douglas Suboleski
From Martyrs to Mothers to Chick in Choos: The Medieval Female Body and American Women's Popular Literature, Gina M. Sully
Affect Identification and Interpersonal Skills: An In-Depth Evaluation of Social Cognition in Schizophrenia, Griffin Pollock Sutton
Improving evidence based asthma management in an urban university student health center, Hedian Cho Swanson
The Fluvial Muddy Creek Formation Near Overton, Nevada, Carl Taylor Swenberg
Developing a Marketing Plan For Hertz China, Isabel Tan Ai Wei
Measuring Spillover Effects of Residential Amenity Improvements Using Spatial Hedonic Approach, Shruti Bishan Tandon
Community Gardening: Benefits Focused Strategies, Joseph Zaanan Tellschow
Division I Student-Athlete Degree Choice Assessment, Tony Terrell
Die Deutschen in Kalifornien: Germans in Urban California, 1850-1860, Carole Cosgrove Terry
Topics in Galaxy Formation: Pairwise Velocities of Dark Matter Halos and Molecular Hydrogen Regulated Star Formation in Cosmological Simulations, Robert Jo Thompson
Examining Competencies for the Human Resources Professional Within Idaho State Government, Cecil R. Torres Jr
The Initial Development of Child-Focused Interventions in the Treatment of Maternal Substance Abuse and Child Neglect, Kendra Tracy
Frameworks Of Casino Resorts Supply Chain, Lu-Mo Tsai
The Effectiveness of Health Education Materials in Influencing HIV Testing Behavior: The UNLV-SIPHI Study, Rebecca Tsegay
Image Processing with CUDA, Jia Jun Tse
Exploring The Relationship Between First Year First Generation College Students And Their Parents, Jerica L. Turek
Cooperation, Competition and the Development of Institutional Capacity: Civil Rights and Public Transportation in Southern Nevada, Bruce Erwin Turner
Troubled Youth: Girls in Gangs, Mark Manny Valentin
Perfecting the Table Games Dealer: Improving Initial Table Games Dealer Training Curriculum to Create More Versatile Gaming Employees, Bama Varsanyi
Formal, Bounded, and "Hyper" Rationality in Police Processing of Sexual Assualt Claims: Case Dispositions and UCR Reporting, Brooke M. Wagner
Counselor Development in the Process of Mastering Cultural Competence: A Study of Professional Growth Experiences, Marie Antoinette Wakefield
Perceptions of barriers that inhibit African American women and adolescent girls from participation in physical activity, Sonya Daniels Walker
Use of Continuous Glucose Monitors in Type-1 Diabetes: An Analysis of Wave Form Versus Glycemic Values in the Improvement of Glucose Control and Fear of Hypoglycemia, Tomas Charles Walker
Defining Neighborhood: Social Disorganization Theory, Official Data, and Community Perceptions, Jeremy Waller
Concordance of Vocational Interest and Efficacy of Female College Students Pursuing a Traditional Career Path, Priscilla A. Walton
Capturing the Chinese Outbound Tourism Market: Lessons for Las Vegas Casino Operators, Wilson Wan
"CHOICES" Florida's Version of Obamacare, Jason Lamarr Wasden
Parker Winds Revisited: An Extension to Disk Winds, Timothy Waters
Exploration of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Applications in Hospitality Industry, Jia Wei
Frequency-specificity and pattern-specificity of the buildup of auditory stream segregation, David Michael Weintraub
Recommendations for Online Training in Hospitality Organizations, Geoffrey L. Wellen
Medical Tourism: Trends and Opportunities, Krista Wendt
A Turkish Dictionary, Andrew Wessels
Theory versus practice: a study of strategy making in five public MBA programs, Michael Alwyn Wilde
Understanding Loyalty and Motivation of Professional Sports Fans, Victoria Wilkins
The Marketing Plan of the Cotai Strip, Pui Shan Wong
Competencies for Financial Aid Officers: A Competency Model for Professional Development, Michael Neil Woolf
Training Program for New Chinese Casino Players, Yanlei Xu
Efficiency of Fiscal Expenditures in Nevada Elementary Schools Using Data Envelopment Analysis, Todd Patrick Yocum
The Uses and Gratifications of Dance Reality Television Shows, Heather M. Yuille
Evaluation of possible source rocks in northern Nye County, Nevada: implications for hydrocarbon exploration, Inessa Yurchenko
Exploration of Hotel Distribution Channels in China — Focus on Hotel Call Centers, Tao Yu
Hybrid Plasmonic Nanoantennas: Fabrication, Characterization, and Application, Shengjie Zhai
Analysis of Bank Failure and Size of Assets, Guancun Zhong
Comparing Service Qualities/Gaps between Hospitality Industry and Timeshare Industry, Yan Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Structural, electrical and thermoelectric properties of chromium silicate thin films, Makram Abd El Qader
Impacts of climate change and weather modification on hydrologic characteristics of watersheds in the western United States, Anil Acharya
Energy-based analysis of utility scale hybrid power systems, Kwame Agyenim-Boateng
Molecular organic geochemistry of the oil and source rocks in Railroad Valley, eastern Great Basin, Nevada, United States, LaOde Ahdyar
Visual attention to erotic stimuli in androphilic male-to-female transsexuals, Sarah A. Akhter
Effects of classwide self-management intervention on second grade students’ social skills in physical education, Elian Aljadeff-Abergel
An assessment of medical care provided by Nevada's high school athletic programs, Brooke Allen-Burnstein
Change is learning: Metacognition to resolve concerns during the third year of the implementation of a technological innovation, Nola Allen-Raffail
Safety of Cervical Manipulation: Are Adverse Events Preventable and Are Manipulations Being Performed Appropriately?, Joseph Anders, Jessica March, and Amber Perez
An Evaluation of the performance characteristics of olivine temper in Pueblo II Virgin River Puebloan ceramics, Sharlyn Anderson