A thesis, dissertation, or professional paper is an important contribution to scholarship and society. Sharing these contributions supports UNLV’s mission and Top Tier efforts to create an environment in which “students produce high quality, widely disseminated, and influential research, scholarship, and creative activities.”
The most effective way to share scholarship is through UNLV’s Institutional Repository, Digital Scholarship@UNLV. Digital Scholarship@UNLV is an open access repository that allows visitors from anywhere in the world to discover and download UNLV-produced scholarship without barriers. There are other benefits for students and the university to have theses, dissertations, and professional papers in Digital Scholarship@UNLV:
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- • For departments and colleges, having their graduate theses, dissertations, and professional papers available online can help recruit future scholars to their program.
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Calcium supplemental usage and potential health issues sssociated with the rate of usage in Las Vegas, NV, Tanesha Nicole Moss
Complex VS profiles to 100 m depth from Rayleigh waves and 3-D VS model for Las Vegas Valley, Helena Murvosh
Engaging non-alumni advisory board members in hospitality education, Judy A. Nagai
What is mission critical in the hotel guest room: Examining in-room guest empowerment technologies, Pelin Nasoz
Phylogeography of three heteromyid taxa: Insight on the evolution of a North American arid grassland rodent guild, Sean A. Neiswenter
Quantification of stochastic uncertainty propagation for Monte Carlo depletion methods in reactor analysis, Quentin Thomas Newell
Ready for Life — An evaluation: Factors relating to truancy and promising practices, Clayton Nichols, Shenita Harper, Maria Thomas, Mikaela Louve, and Christina Vela
A Montage in Its Leaves, Andrew S. Nicholson
Set in stone: Legends, traditions, and symbols influencing place attachment for Southern Utah University students, Claudine Nielsen
The American Homophilic School of Composition, Rik Noyce
The Father Birth, Alissa Nutting
Students with reading disabilities participating in literature discussions: A case study, Elysha Patino O’Brien
A Mixed methods exploration of principal communication and school climate, Reece Oswalt
Strike Out Across the Shoreless Ocean, Julia Claire Paajanen
Korean mask-dance and Aristotle's poetics, Teayong Pakr
International study program for indoor environmental research, Stoil Pamoukov
Global and specific controls of protein synthesis in hibernators, Peipei Pan
Environmental impact of the Three Kids Mine tailings, Henderson, NV, Ji Hye Park
How User-Generated Review Websites Impact a Hotel’s RevPar, Milan Patel
Jackpot! A legal history of Indian gaming in California, Aaron Peardon
Synthesis, extraction, dissolution, and voltammetry of f-species in a room temperature ionic liquid solvent, Wendy Jacqueline Pemberton
Accurate circuit model for predicting the performance of lead-acid AGM batteries, Wenxin Peng
Information Extraction in an Optical Character Recognition Context, Ramon Pereda
Statistical inference of a measure for two binomial variates, Serena Petersen
Characterization and regulation of the icsP and ospZ locus in Shigella flexneri, Krystle Lashell Pew
Bacterial adherence of Streptococcus mutans and Lactobacillus acidophilus on poly-methyl methacrylate and thermoplastic polypropene used in orthodontic retention, Lindsay Ann Pfepper
The hormonal correlates of stress and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in female veterans, Meghan Pierce
Gatekeeping in a TV news editorial conference: Shift of force, other media, personal experience and pack mentality, Kyril Daniel Plaskon
How to Conduct a Successful Tea Tasting Event, Kaye L. Polivka
Effects of inlet conditions on diffuser outlet performance, Zaccary A. Poots
Sew speak! Needlework as the voice of ideology critique in The Scarlet Letter , "A New England nun," and The Age of Innocence, Laura L. Powell
Analysis of ghrelin concentrations in serum samples processed at one, two, and three hours after collection, Christine E. Prato
Assisting the accompanying partner: A dramaturgical explanatory study of dual career couples offices, Christine Promin
The Road traveled to becoming a safe high school, Monica J. Pufky Cortez
Evaluating Websites by Features: Do Independent Hotels in Singapore Get it Right?, Prasetya Purnawan
An Empirical comparison of life cycle cost of green school buildings and non-green school buildings, Nitisha Pushpala
Modeling Mortality Rates for Leukemia Between Men and Women in the United States, Blessed Quansah
Recycling waste latex paint in overlays, rigid pavements, and pervious concrete, Oscar Inez Quiroz
Seeking Further Education: A Rubric for Evaluating Organizational Behavior PhD Programs, Douglas M. Quist
Electrochemistry of PANI/metal composites in basic solutions, Tamthinhan Quy
Seismic characterization of select engineered nanoparticles in essentially saturated glass beads, Mohamed Nihad Rajabdeen
A New socialist world in Latin America?, Dana R. Ramos
Examining the experience of recent war veterans who report posttraumatic stress disorder, Neda C. Raymond
Adjusting payroll with changes in business volumes: An examination of Nevada gaming properties, Toni A. Repetti
Executive function profiles in pediatric traumatic brain injury, Erik Nelson Ringdahl
Magma chamber processes at Mutnovsky Volcano, Russia, Kelly L. Robertson
Best instructional practices for distance education: A meta-analysis, Robin Michael Roberts
Equilibrium speciation of select lanthanides in the presence of acidic ligands in homo- and heterogeneous solutions, Troy Robinson
The male educational leader in Utah: Gender dynamics, power, and relational leadership in a Mormon dominant culture, Rick Robins
Embryonic Development of the Grass Shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio, and the Influence of Salinity on Cardiac Physiology, Amie Lynn Romney
“'You done cheat Mose out o' de job, anyways; we all knows dat'”: Faith healing in the fiction of Kate Chopin, Karen Kel Roop
Who Calls the Shots in Dining Customer Service, Kendi Root
The role of metrical structure in tonal knowledge acquisition, Matthew Rosenthal
Time-dependent crack growth behavior of alloy 617 and alloy 230 at elevated temperatures, Shawoon Kumar Roy
Child advocacy centers and child sexual abuse in Nevada, Chrystal Ruggieri
Evaluation of interim sessions in state legislatures, Laurie Erin Russell
The Effect of self-controlled practice on forearm passing, motivation, and affect in women’s volleyball players, Nels Rydberg
“Change” in the 2008 presidential campaign: A study in rhetorical definition, Graciela Saez Kleriga
Climate change in rural Nevada: The influence of vulnerability on risk perception and environmental behavior, Ahmad Safi
Reintegrative shaming and juvenile delinquency in Japan, Mari Sakiyama
Boundary Element Method (BEM) and Method of Fundamental Solutions (MFS) for the boundary value problems of the 2-D Laplace's equation, Ermes Anthony Salgado-Ibarra
A study of a novel modular variable geometry frame arranged as a robotic surface, Christopher James Salisbury
Hotel Front Office Training: Turning Expense Into Investment, Thomas Sanders
Resilient leadership in high poverty schools, Edward P. San Nicolas
Modeling passive solar distillation production in Las Vegas, Nevada, Noe I. Santos
Sharp feature identification in a polygon, Joseph P. Scanlan
The relationship between the functions of school refusal behavior and family environment, Rachel Marie Schafer
An examination of the preparation, experiences, and attitudes of effective school leaders of students with disabilities: Voices from the field, Patricia Ann Schultz
The Watchmaker Series, Christopher Michael Seelie
Hotel Room Rate and Availability Parity Across Electronic Distribution Channels, Subashini Selvaraj
The Analyses of State and Federal Medical Marijuana Laws and How They Apply to Employment, Lizaveta Sergeev
Electrochemistry of technetium analogues rhenium and molybdenum in room temperature ionic liquid, Pauline Nancy Serrano
Attracting and Retaining Quality Managers: The Critical Factors, Ketan Shah
Cognitive load of critical thinking strategies, Hanem Shehab
Cultural Acceptance and Its Effect on Tourism, I-Hsuan Shih
Factors which influence the use of active learning strategies by nursing faculty, Deborah Lowell Shindell
Cyber physical complex networks, modeling, analysis, and control, Neveen Shlayan
Credit Fluctuations and Lodging Firms: An Investigation of the Differing Capital Structures in the US Lodging Industry, Dipendra Singh
A case study of organizational change: College restructuring in response to mandated department eliminations, Brandy Dyan Smith
Molecular evolution and historical biogeography of new world birds, Brian T. Smith
Adolphe Nourrit, Gilbert Duprez, and the high C: The influences of operatic plots, culture, language, theater design, and growth of orchestral forces on the development of the operatic tenor vocal production, Micheal Lee Smith Jr.
Total Rewards Compensation: A Viable Solution, Patrick Wesley Smith
The impact of age, education, political knowledge and political context on voter turnout, Roy Edward Snyder III
ProcessJ: A process-oriented programming language, Matthew Sowders
The pedagogy of pornography: What popular pornography on the Internet teaches us about aggression and consent, Anthony Springrt Jr.
Development of a simulation tool for analysis of freeway crashes due to cell phone usage, Sourabh Sriom
Testosterone and vasopressin in men’s reproductive behavior, Eric T. Steiner
Analysis of the morbidity and mortality of severe influenza infection in Clark County, Nevada for the 2010--2011 influenza season, Kindra Maureen St. Jacques
Activeion Ionator EXP, Linda Straker
The utilization and effectiveness of the HESI E(square) exit exam as a graduation requirement toward increasing NCLEX-RNRTM pass rates in baccalaureate nursing programs, Debra Henline Sullivan
Groundwater contamination potential in northern Nevada from mining, associated communities, and agriculture as forecasted by two vulnerability methods, John L. Swatzell
A review of San Francisco’s lodging industry: Past performance and future implications, Adam N. Szilagyi
Second-order conditioning in Drosophila, Christopher J. Tabone
Effects of high-impedance-contrast boundary upon multi-modal seismic surface wave data, Prajwol Tamrakar
Examining revenue management practices in Las Vegas casino resorts, Arun Tanpanuwat
A Statistical model for long-term forecasting of strong sand dust storms, Siqi Tan
Topic detection and tracking using hidden Markov models, Aditya S. Tatavarty
Implementation of numerically stable hidden Markov model, Usha Ramya Tatavarty
Pain tolerance and thresholds in women with dyspareunia: Do pain and sex primes have differential effects?, Lea Thaler
A landscape approach to Late Prehistoric settlement and subsistence patterns in the Mojave Sink, Tiffany Ann Thomas