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:
- • Allows graduate students to easily share the knowledge with and improve the world. Students who enter the academic job market or continue their studies elsewhere can utilize permanent links to scholarship in their CVs or online portfolio to conveniently share their work with others.
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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
Retrospective evaluation of microbial presence in existing saliva repository: A PCR based molecular survey of oral microbial populations from existing saliva samples, Jay Ericksen Davis
Evaluating a social skills training protocol in a private setting: Outcomes and issues, Judi Davis
Changing climatic conditions in the Colorado River Basin: Implications for water resources management in the Las Vegas Valley, Srijana Dawadi
The influence of peer tutors and technology-actuated reading instruction process on third-grade students' self-perceptions as readers: A multiple case study, Brenda Shill Daw
Determining the validity of the Nintendo Wii balance board as an assessment tool for balance, Sabrina Mae Deans
Relationships of exotic plant invasions with biological soil crust, desert pavement, and soil carbon in the eastern Mojave Desert, Adria DeCorte
Business Plan for 1st Street Diner and Nightclub, Brian D. Deets
Computational study of Passive Neutron Albedo Reactivity (PNAR) measurement with fission chambers, Sandra De La Cruz
A brief content analysis of attachment and sexual relationships in sex therapy and research journals, Kathryn Zambrano Devis
The role of narrative in multimedia learning, Myrna Elyse Diamond
To consult or not to consult? Investigating barriers to dysparenia treatment-seeking in young women, Robyn L. Donaldson
Faculty’s Perceptions of Students’ Abilities to Utilize Self-Regulated Learning Strategies to Improve Critical and Reflective Thinking in Making Clinical Decisions: A Methodological Study, Amber Lynn Donnelli
Identifying New Pari-Mutuel iGaming Offerings in the United States, David W. Downes
Self Service Technology in Airports And the Customer Experience, Hannah Drennen
Microstructural characterization of kinked germanate olivine grains, Alex Gregory Drue
Sustainability’s Correlation to Profit, Cheryl Annissa Drummond
Using graphs to represent physical phenomena in a fourth grade classroom, Mehmet Fatih Dulger
Reading the world in the word: The possibilities for literacy instruction framed within human rights education, Judith M. Dunkerly
Development of a scale to assess avoidance behavior due to a fear of falling: The Fear of Falling Avoidance Behavior Questionnaire (FFABQ), Cortney Durand and D. Shalom Powell
Operation span task’s susceptibility to math anxiety: Support from fluid intelligence, Robert T. Durette
The impact of regulating social science research with biomedical regulations, Brenda Braxton Durosinmi
Agonist and Stabilizer Muscle Activity during a Push Up on Unstable Surfaces, Anthony J. Dyrek
Chaucer’s reading list: Sir Thopas, Auchinleck, and Middle English romances in translation, Ken Eckert
Mathematical modeling of metamaterials, Valjean Elizabeth Elander
From khaki to brown: Community formation, homeownership, and mobility in Santa Ana, California, 1950-2000, Stefani Jan Evans
Retrospective investigation of course content evaluation by students: A survey of domestic violence education and experience among current UNLV-SDM dental students, Rhonda J. Everett
Direct contact pyrolysis of hydrocarbons: A source of hydrogen and interesting carbon formations, Peter G. Faught
Gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), soluble glycoprotein 130 (sgp130), and soluble interleukin-6 receptor (sIL-6R) during orthodontic tooth movement, Mathue Gene Faulkner
Comparison of design-build and design-bid-build performance of public university projects, James David Fernane
Vegas Keys VIP Business Plan, Michael Ferreira
College Choice Influences Among High-Achieving Students: An Exploratory Case Study of College Freshmen, Derek Takumi Furukawa
Spectroscopic studies of melamine at high pressure, Martin Donald Galley
1983: The most dangerous year, Andrew R. Garland
Redefining security in sub-Saharan Africa, Winta Sintayehu Gebremariam
Intragroup separation of trivalent lanthanides and actinides for neutron capture experiments in stockpile stewardship sciences, Narek Gharibyan
Understanding the Decline of Sales of Destination Club Products, Heidi Goetz
Patient factors and day of the week influencing physical therapy non-treatment events in the acute care setting, Daniel Goodrich and Curtis Doug Jensen
Public interest standard characteristics in hybrid digital multicasts of noncommercial educational radio, Michele Ann Gothard
Assessing a combined theories approach to climate change communication, Ted Greenhalgh
Pleistocene climate in Alaska from stable isotopes in an ice wedge, Corinne Y. Griffing
An Analysis of how Self-Efficacy Relates to the Driver’s of the Active Sport Tourist, Debey Grimes
Climate and vegetation change in the Newberry mountains, Southern Clark County, Nevada, Ross Joseph Guida
Bilingualism and math cognition, Michelle M. Guillaume
Examining experience in depressed and nondepressed individuals, Jedidiah D. Gunter
Modeling and Control of a Flexible Ionic Polymer Metal Composite(IPMC) Actuator for Underwater Propulsion, Shivakanth Gutta
Roaming region for Delaunay triangulation, Romas James Hada
Enhancing therapists' clinical judgments of client progress subsequent to objective feedback, Michael M. Haderlie
The Relationship of Ethnicity and Familial Factors in the Expression of School Refusal Behavior in Clinical and Community Samples, Courtney Marie Haight
A comparison of spatio-temporal prediction methods of cancer incidence in the U.S, Michelle Hamlyn
Chinese Culture and Casino Customer Service, Qing Han
Zero-sum magic graphs and their null sets, Samuel M. Hansen
Optimizing heart dose reduction for deep inspiration left breast radiotherapy, Ronald James Harder
Enhancing the cultural competence of women’s health nurses via online continuing education, Ella T. Heitzler
School refusal behavior: The relationship between functions and symptom sets, Marisa Charlene Hendron
Exploring the factors that influence adequate yearly progress within elementary school settings, Shannon Marie Hennrich
The Effect of early environmental manipulation on locomotor sensitivity and methamphetamine condition place preference reward, Emily Hensleigh
Public Utilities Commission of Nevada: A research design for data collection, Mario Heresi, Jamie Stout, Brandy Davis, and Cheyenne Pasquale
Phylogeography of a vanishing North American songbird: The painted bunting (Passerina ciris), Connie Ann Herr
A comparative study of indicator bacteria present in ice and soda from Las Vegas food establishments, Kimberly Jo Hertin
Research Study Proposal for Nightlife Company (San Francisco, CA), Trevor Hewitt
A Content Analysis of Indonesian Hotel Website, Irene Hidayat
The Development and evaluation of a safety skill intervention for child victims of neglect, Heather H. Hill
Modeling of a novel solar down beam test facility utilizing Newtonian optics, Ryan J. Hoffmann
Creating effective leadership development programs: A descriptive quantitative case study, Spencer Holt
Beyond the demographic transition: The case of Japan, Mary Beth Horiai
Raman Spectroscopic Study of Solid Solution Spinel Oxides, Brian D. Hosterman
Teacher gesture in a post-secondary English as a second language classroom: A sociocultural approach, Natalie Hudson
Automating construction and selection of a neural network using stochastic optimization, Jason Lee Hurt
Examining the Value of Word of Mouth as a Marketing Tool for Poker Book, Jeffery J. Hwang
Literature Review on Turnover - To Better Understand the Situation in Macau, Ut Lon Im
Peripheral soldering of flip chip joints on passive RFID tags, Md Syful Islam
Self-assembling organic semiconductors with tunable electronic properties based on novel asymmetric phenazine and bisphenazine, Kyoungmi Jang
Methodological quality of quantitative nursing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender research from 2000 to 2010, Michael Johnson
Newe country: Environmental degradation, resource war, irrigation and the transformation of culture on Idaho's Snake River plain, 1805--1927, Sterling Ross Johnson
Impact of home hospital program on empowerment and professional practice behaviors, Marcille Jo Jorgenson
Fall prevention training and its impact to southern Nevada construction workers, Vedaspati Joshi
Improved algorithms for ear-clipping triangulation, Bartosz Kajak
Association of oceanic-atmospheric oscillations and hydroclimatic variables in the Colorado River Basin, Ajay Kalra
The influence of ethnic identity and family support on posttraumatic symptoms in maltreated youth, Harpreet Kaur
The relationship between participation in extracurricular activities and Utah's proficiency assessments of students in a suburban school district, Everett N. Kelepolo
Alumni participation: An investigation using relationship marketing principles, Lisa Ann Kelleher
Exploring how Employee Empowerment Impacts on Hotel Front Desk Operations, Janggon Kim
Using self-service technologies to solve the problem of labor shortage in Macau’s lodging industry, U Ka Kit
Clarinet performance practices for Alberto Ginastera's "Variaciones concertantes": Solutions for orchestral auditions and performances, Thomas James Kmiecik
Effect of AquaStretch on Range of Motion at Knee Joint in Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients, Raja Devinder Kochar
Odd variations on the species: Stories, Sarah Kokernot
The Effect of working memory and math ability on decision making, Jeremy A. Krause
Raise the Still Rabbit, Michael Kroesche
To receive my services you must be dying and alone, Kathryn Kruse
For the benefit of others: Harriet Martineau: feminist, abolitionist and travel writer, Laura J. Labovitz
Traffic safety: Modeling, analysis and visualization, Puneet Lakhanpal
Imagined interactions as a link to political talk, Megan Lambertz
Lean and Six Sigma in Hospitality Organizations: Benefits, Challenges, and Implementation, Justin M. Lancaster
A Transition of Leadership: Can the Young Generation of Macau Catch Up, Kin Man Yolanda Lao
After the fall: The post-apocalyptic frontier in The Road and 28 Days Later, Jeffrey J. Lavigne
Synthesis of a chemical probe for identification of Ger receptor proteins of Bacillus anthracis, Hyelee Lee