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Las Vegas Wash And Lake Mead Proposed Water Quality Standards: Revisions And Rationale, State Of Nevada: Division Of Environmental Protection

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Rationale of review and for proposed changes to the Nevada Pollution Control Regulations (NAC 445.1354, 445.1355, 445.1356, 455.1367, 445.1352, 445.1353, 445.1350, 445.1351) before the State Environmental Commission on June 23 and 24, 1987.

Comparison Of Littoral And Limnetic Zooplankton Communities Of Lake Mead, Patrick Joseph Sollberger

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Microfaunal communities were studied in littoral (inshore) and limnetic (offshore) areas of the lower basin in Lake Mead to compare species composition and abundance between the two zones. Planktonic forms (zooplankton) dominated inshore and offshore habitats and the occurrence of littoral species was low. Therefore, high similarity in zooplankton species composition was found among all sampling stations. This was perhaps due to two main factors: (i) the physical and chemical environment among the stations were very similar and (ii) the lack of aquatic vegetation in the littoral zone reduced the occurrence of littoral species.

Although species composition did not vary …

Unlv "Rebels" Vs. Pacific, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Locus-Of-Control Orientation And Assessment Center Performance As Predictors In An Administrative Selection Process, Gail Williams Dixon

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if locus of control orientation was related to the assessment center performance of prospective school administrators. It was not known if locus of control orientation and assessment center performance described similar administrative characteristics. If a relationship existed, locus of control orientation could be considered a valid predictor for use in an administrative selection process; The quantitative descriptive, correlation study was based on data gathered from participants in the Nevada Assessment Center from fall of 1985 thru spring of 1988. The sample (n = 120) consisted of individuals who had appropriately completed both …

Review Of "'Pictures Of Record' Archaeological Slide Sets: Mesoamerican Survey I And Mexican Series (The Olmecs, El Tajin, The Aztecs, Teotihuacan, Monte Alban, Xochicalco, Tula)", Diane Z. Chase, Arlen F. Chase

Anthropology Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

Women, Children And Aids, Mary Guinan

School of Public Health Faculty Research

More than 500 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AlDS) in children (ages I3 and under) had been reported to the Centers for Disease Control as of August , 1987. Of these children, 78% were infected perinatally by their mothers. The ratio of AIDS cases among women to AIDS cases among ; i children has remained stable at approximately 5:1 for several years. So, for the foreseeable future, we can expect that for every five reports of women with AIDS, one child with AIDS will be reported. As is the CMe with other sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS causes a disproportionately …

Unlv Lady Rebels 1987-1988, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Energy Transmission Into The Human Hand From Vibrating Tools, Douglas D. Reynolds

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Research

A method for calculating power transmitted to the hands of operators who use vibrating hand tools is presented. Results that relate to a comprehensive multidiscipline NIOSH field study of several hundred chipper and grinder workers who used pneumatic hand tools are discussed. These results indicated that the total power in the frequency range of 6.3 to 1000 Hz transmitted to the hand ranged from 1080 to 7230 J/s for the chisel and from 0.852 to 157 J/s the handle of chipping hammers. For pneumatic grinders the power transmitted to the hands of the tool operators was in the range of …

Cosmopolite/Localite Attitudes Of Nevada Higher Education Administrators And How Those Attitudes Relate To Neoteric Marketing Attitudes, Larry Leroy Martin

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to determine the localite/cosmopolite attitudes of the Presidential Cabinets and Councils at each Nevada University and Community College, and how those findings related to their attitudes in utilizing modern or neoteric marketing practices; Study procedure. The procedure for the conduct of the study involved a review of the literature and questionnaire surveys of all cabinet/council level administrators. Collected data was tabulated, analyzed, and reported. The following procedure was utilized for the conduct of the study: (A) Review of the literature. (B) Visitations to each University and Community College in Nevada; Review of the …

Development Of An In Vitro Laboratory Manual For Nuclear Medicine Technology Students, Arthur Meyers

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study evaluated existing In Vitro educational materials in qualitative and quantitative parameters that currently exist to educate potential clinicians of nationally accredited Nuclear Medicine programs; A review of over 300 articles, texts, and manuals pertaining to In Vitro Nuclear Medicine procedures clearly demonstrated that no In Vitro laboratory manual for undergraduate students presently existed; Every Nuclear Medicine program director in the United States was surveyed. They were asked for their overall philosophy in terms of developing an In Vitro manual and requested to evaluate the significance of 22 general principles/concepts and 34 specific laboratory testing procedures; From the responses …

A Study Of The Perceptions Of College Search Committee Chairs Concerning The Use Of Paid Consultants In Presidential Searches, James W Goldsmith

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study was designed to investigate the perceptions of the chairs of presidential search committees and their response to the use of paid consultants. The opinions of search committee chairs were obtained from individuals who had served as chairs of the search committees at four year institutions. Data was obtained through the use of a research questionnaire organized around four major subproblems; The questionnaire was distributed to all four year colleges and universities that had placed a notice of an available presidential position in the Chronicle of Higher Education during the calendar years of 1987 and 1988; The treatment of …

Leadership Styles And Career Paths Of Selected Women In Higher Education Administration And Corporate Administration, Nancy Briggs Master

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study was made to determine if there were similarities or differences in the leadership styles and career paths of women in educational administration and women in corporate management; The populations of this study consisted of 50 women in higher education administration selected from the 1988 edition of the Higher Education Directory and 50 women in corporate administration from the 1988 Standard and Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives. Women, in both areas, listed as presidents, vice-presidents, directors, deans, managers, chancellors, CEOs or other corresponding titles, were selected; The instruments used to gather data in this study were the …

A Study Of The Effects Of Utilizing The Writing Process As An Instructional Strategy On Student Thinking Skills In Ninth-Grade Biology Courses, Gene P Butler

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This was an initial study that examined the effect of the type of instruction used in biology I classrooms on learner development of critical thinking, as measured by the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal. Form A of the instrument was used as the pretest, and Form B of the instrument was used as the posttest. The independent variable was teaching method and consisted of two levels: (1) "the writing process," as a teaching method adapted for science instruction, and (2) the "traditional" teaching method, which relied on lecture, discussion, textbook assignments, and verification laboratories; Three teachers from schools within the Clark …

The Hyperrationalization Of Nevada's Schools: 1975-1990, Lauren Marie Kohut

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Public school education has always been perceived by the public as an institution to which laymen from all walks of life would provide input, good or bad, insightful or ignorant, solicited or unsolicited. The assumed responsibility phenomenon helped legitimize the continued contributions by the public of new concepts and ideas by which schools could supposedly solve glaring problems purportedly being experienced; The institution of education has always embraced the introduction of new concepts (either wholeheartedly or begrudgingly) and consequently became subject to the inevitable bandwagon of professionals who have continually searched for the ever-elusive manner by which all individuals could …

Development Of An Eclectic Dictionary For Court Reporting, William Campbell

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the resources available to the field of court reporting in the United States, specifically, the existence of an eclectic dictionary which encompasses all known methodologies and advanced principles; This study reviewed articles, texts, and manuals pertaining to court reporting to ascertain the need for an eclectic dictionary; A questionnaire was prepared and sent to all court reporting program directors of accredited programs in the United States. They were asked to provide their overall philosophy in terms of developing an eclectic dictionary and requested to respond about the need for such a dictionary; …

Letter To The Editor (Human Immunodeficiency Virus In Costa Rica), Mark W. Oberle, Charles A. Schable, Mary Guinan, Luis Rosero

School of Public Health Faculty Research

Recent reports of 12 confirmed cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in Costa Rica have generated interest in the extent of spread of human T-lymphotropic virus type III/LAV (HTLV-III) in Latin America (1). To date, all cases of AIDS in Costa Rica have occurred in members of previously identified, high-risk groups, chiefly hemophiliacs. To examine the possibility of heterosexual transmission in Costa Rica, we utilized sera collected in a population-based case-control study of cervical cancer, conducted by the Costa Rican Demographic Association and other institution.

Romanticism And The Rise Of Sociological Hermeneutics, Dmitri N. Shalin

Sociology Faculty Research

Although biblical exegesis and rhetoric, from which modern hermeneutics derived its first principles, are ancient arts, an effort to establish hermeneutics as a universal science, and especially to extend its principles to the science of society, is of a decidedly recent origin. "There is little doubt," states Gouldner, "that hermeneutics' roots in the modern era are traceable to Romanticism." Why is this so, what makes romanticism fertile ground for hermeneutical speculations? Hans-Georg Gadamer, a leading authority on hermeneutics, makes this intriguing suggestion about its origins:

The hermeneutical problem only emerges clearly when there is no powerful tradition present to absorb …

The Impact Of Herzberg's Motivational Theory On Elementary School Teachers' Performance Evaluations, Janice L Stromberg

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine if elementary school principals used the motivators of Herzberg's Motivation-Hygiene Theory in the written performance evaluation of teachers, if any specific types of motivational factors were used, and the frequency of such factors. The study was conducted in a large Western school district and the methodology of content analysis was applied to 200 teacher evaluations, using the motivators of the Motivation-Hygiene Theory as the categories. It was determined that elementary principals do use constructs of motivational theory in written performance evaluations and in this study, the category of work itself was the …

Unlv Lady Rebels 1986-1987, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Differences In Self-Concept, Reflected Self, Ideal Self, Student Self And Others' Perceptions Between And Among Selected Groups Of Gifted And Nongifted Students, Sandra Kaye Kegley Brady

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The problem investigated in this study was the correlation, if any, between and among mean scores of various dimensions of self-concept and student self earned by 98 sixth grade public school students identified as gifted and nongifted. Findings suggested that dimensions of self-concept are not different in gifted and nongifted children, while dimensions of student self are different in gifted and nongifted children.

Cross-Validation With Learning-Disabled Students Of The Abbreviated Halstead-Reitan Battery For Older Children, Paul G Webb

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The present study attempted to cross-validate a screening battery developed by Reitan and Herring (1985) from the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery for Children. Twenty-eight average (AC) 9-11 year olds were compared to 28 learning disabled (LD) students of similar age and IQ using the Reitan and Herring (1985) screening battery, with the addition of two tactile-perceptual tests--Tactile Finger Recognition (TFR) and Finger-Tip Number Writing Perception (FTWP). The Screening Index score discriminated significantly (p {dollar}<{dollar}.0005) between the LD and AC groups. The mean Screening Index score of the LD group (.23) was over twice as high as the AC group's mean score (.10), with an overall classification rate of 76% (90% for ACs, 62% for LDs). Converted scores (impairment ratings) of the individual measures (7) in the screening battery revealed only three statistically significant differences between the groups (p {dollar}<{dollar}.05); however, only 24% or less of the LD subjects earned converted scores within the impaired range on these three measure suggesting little practical diagnostic differentation between the groups using Selz and Reitan's (1979) impairment levels for the individual measures for LD classification. The tactile-perceptual tests were better discriminators between the groups with all but one statistical comparison reaching significance, both for raw and converted score means. Total Error and Right Hand Error mean scores were the most discriminating measures, and of the two tactile-perceptual tests, FTWP was the better discriminator between groups. The Aphasia Screening Test of the screening battery provided maximum separation between the groups classifying 95% of the subjects overall--100% of the ACs and 90% of the LDs; Results of this study support the use of Reitan and Herring's (1985) screening battery with 9-11 year olds as a screening instrument for disabilities from diagnosed or suspected CNS dysfunction, e.g., learning disability. The screen battery is clearly enhanced for LD screening with the inclusion of both tactile-perceptual measures--TFR and FTWP. The AST appears to offer the greatest diagnostic power for 9-11 year old LDs.

Prison Education Programs As Factors In Inmate Recidivism Rates, Harriet Rose Gagliano

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purposes of this study were to determine the effects of participation and completion of the CCSD prison education program by incarcerated male students on subsequent rates of recidivism; and to determine if there were any significant differences at the.05 level between 18 different dependent variables in inmate behavior. It was hypothesized that students who were program persisters/completers would have higher success rates once having achieved parole/expiration, and would have lower rates of recidivism. Students who were noncompleters/nonpersisters would have higher recidivism rates upon achieving parole/expiration. The variables were: (1) Current age; (2) Ethnicity; (3) Age at first admission; (4) …

The Effect Of Music Therapy On Depression And Anxiety In Institutionalized Adolescent Females, Karen M. Kampfer

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study examined the effect of music therapy on the reduction of depression and anxiety in adolescent females. A literature review with a focus on music therapy is presented. In this study "music therapy" consisted of weekly group sessions in which subjects selected, listened to, and discussed pieces of music according to a particular theme assigned by the experimenter. A quasi-experimental, nonequivalent control group design was utilized. Pre- and post-test measures consisted of the Beck Depression Inventory and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. A final questionnaire measuring subject opinion regarding music therapy was administered to the experimental group. No significant difference …

Spring Flow In A Portion Of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, David Bruce Goings

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Hermit, Monument, Salt, and Horn Creeks flow through four side canyons of the Colorado River within the Grand Canyon. They lie just west of Grand Canyon Village on the south side of the canyon. Each of these creeks is fed by at least one spring.

Comparisons of flow at each of these springs for a 14 month period, and precipitation on the south rim show a close correlation. The lag period between recharge at the rim and discharge at the springs is less than one month for Hermit Creek and between one and two months for the other three creeks. …

Unlv "Rebels" Vs. University Of California, Irvine, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Team roster for both schools.

UNLV Schedule

List of UNLV Scholarship Donors

Meet the Rebels

Opponent's Scouting Report

Jerry Tarkanian Story

Also contains information about the other sports at UNLV

Unlv "Rebels" Vs. Pacific, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

UNLV Basketball Programs

Team roster for both schools.

UNLV Schedule

List of UNLV Scholarship Donors

Meet the Rebels

Opponent's Scouting Report

Jerry Tarkanian Story

Also contains information about the other sports at UNLV

Archaeology In The Maya Heartland: The Tayasal - Paxcaman Zone, Lake Peten, Guatemala, Arlen F. Chase

Anthropology Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

Unlv Lady Rebels 1985-1986, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Lady Rebel Letterwinners

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Game-by-Game In 1984-1985

The Bert Leavitt Memorial Scholarship

1985-1986 Opponent Publicists

1985-1986 UNLV Opponents

PCAA Conference

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1985-1986 Roster

1985-1986 Season Outlook

1984-1985 Final Statistics

Thomas and Mack Center Records

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The Effects Of Increased Academic Requirements For Graduation On Secondary Vocational Education Programs, Wendy Marie Smith

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study examined the effects of increased academic requirements for graduation on secondary vocational education programs in Washington since 1983. Each of the 211 school districts meeting the criteria of the study were surveyed with a questionnaire. Instruments were administered to the vocational directors of each of the identified school districts. The questions asked on the questionnaire were to determine: (1) the total number of units required for graduation, (2) the total number of general education units required for graduation, (3) the kind of classes allowed for general and vocational education (dual credit), (4) the number of academic and vocational …

Comparative Outcomes Of The Clark County School District Year-Round And Nine-Month Schools (Nevada), Judith Susan Costa

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study compared achievement in reading, mathematics, and language of elementary students attending traditional-calendar nine-month schools with the achievement of elementary students on the 45-15 staggered plan in year-round schools. Also investigated were attendance and enrollment data for elementary students in both types of schools, and teacher evaluation of their respective schools for both types of schools; To investigate achievement effects, an ex post facto criterion-group design was used. The two criterion groups were the two school types--year-round and nine month; the dependent variables were mean school achievement test scores in reading and mathematics (on district-developed criterion-referenced tests at grades …