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A Comparison Of The Preferred Visual Characteristics Of Selected Resort Hotels And Casinos Along The Las Vegas Strip, Honoree Marlo Wilson

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study examined preferences among visual characteristics of selected Strip resort hotels and casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada. Objectives included identification and description of common factors in preference decisions based on psychographics and photographic images used; Preference assessments were collected from Las Vegas tourists and from local Professionals including Resort Hotel Management and Architects through an interview and a survey using a four point rating scale. Preferences were determined from photographs depicting various Las Vegas resort hotel and casino imagery. Preferential judgements and comparative appraisals were used to identify visual characteristics in the photos. Both qualitative and quantitative techniques were …

Cognition In The Christian Reformulation Of Tonga: Motivation, Internalization, And Schemas, Dorothea Neal Arin

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Christian missionaries came to Tonga in the 19th century with the intention of converting the Tongans to Christianity and transforming Tongan society to fit with European-Victorian ideals. The missionaries were successful in their conversion efforts. However, traditional Tongan society was not merely replaced: cultural ideals blended. How this occurred, and the degree to which cultural features were affected, was based in part on the role of cognition. Cognitive and psychological concepts of culture change are applied to existing literature in an attempt to clarify the picture of culture change in Tonga. In addition, schema tendencies are identified through the proposed …

The Validity Of Percent Body Fat Estimates By Jackson & Pollock Skinfold Equation, Near Infrared, Bioelectrical Impedance And Body Mass Index, Jeffrey Lane Burns

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study compared the validity of percent fat estimates by the Jackson & Pollock sum of four skinfold equation (JPSF), bioeletrical impedance (BIA), near infrared (NIR) and body mass index (BMI) when compared to the criterion method of underwater weighing (UWW). Skinfolds were measured at four sites, the triceps, ilium, abdomen and thigh using the Harpenden skinfold caliper. The Jackson & Pollock sum of four skinfold equation was used to calculate percent body fat. Infrared interactance was determined on a Futrex 5000 measured at the biceps halfway between the axillary fold and the anticubital space. Bioelectrical impedance was determined with …

Analysis Of Courtship Behaviors Of The Desert Tortoise, Gopherus Agassizii, Rebecca Lynn Holte

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

General descriptions of courtship behavior have been published for the desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii. However, the amount and sources of variation in courtship behaviors have not been documented. I examined courtship behavior by analyzing videotaped interactions between captive males and females. I calculated duration of three courtship phases (trailing, subduing, and mounting) and quantified the number and rate of rams and bites. Male courtship behavior changed with increased courtship experience, and smaller males showed more variable behavior than larger males. Larger males bit small females at higher rates than did smaller males. Courtship varied in response to female size. Large …

"Dilbert": A Rhetorical Reflection Of Contemporary Organizational Communication, Beverly Ann Jedlinski

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The comic strip "Dilbert," created by Scott Adams, was analyzed to evaluate its accuracy and effectiveness in mirroring contemporary organizational communication. This historical case study utilized the methods proposed by Kathleen J. Turner (1977) to provide a rhetorical perspective of "Dilbert" and to demonstrate the reciprocal relationship between the comic and society. A three-pronged approach was applied to examine: (1) Precedents in comic strips and organizational communication; (2) Subject matter and dialogue; and (3) Character composition and artistic style. Conclusions indicate that Adams has astutely captured the dysfunctional nature of workplace communication in a unique form of discourse embraced by …

The Ethics Of The Aids-Afflicted Physician: The Death Of Voluntary Compliance, William R Kerney

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This argument will examine the ethical issues, policies, and controversy surrounding the AIDS afflicted health care worker, especially the HIV positive Physician/Surgeon. The discussion encompasses evaluation of rights of the individual, natural and otherwise, with focus on the rights of confidentiality, privacy, and disability rights and related laws that pertain to afflicted individuals. The discussion will examine the ethical responsibilities of the HIV positive health care worker within the medical practice, along with issues of the patient rights of informed consent, institutional responsibility, and the policy positions of professional associations representing afflicted individuals. Protective legislation for victims of communicable disease …

The Impact Of Foreign Aid On Voting Inside The United Nations, Daniel Shayne Morey

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to determine if there is a connection between United States foreign aid donations and a recipient nation's voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly. Tests in the past have not employed thorough methodologies to deal with the abundance of variables that influence a nation's voting behavior. The methodology created in this research focuses on three important conceptualizations. First, this work creates a new definition of foreign aid; specifically, the inclusion of military aid in a nation's aid package as well as loans and grants, despite their different characteristics. Second, this analysis considers only …

The Failure Of Altruism: Alternatives To Improve The Donor Rate In Organ Transplantation, John Richards Mundy

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Ethical and moral issues facing potential organ donors, their families or agents, and the medical community are created and driven by the rapidly expanding demand for the life-giving resource (ever more successfully utilized)--a factor coupled with the persistently scarce and relatively constant low level of supply. The serious nature of the shortage of compatible organs has prompted medical, ethical, and legal scholars to consider alternatives to altruistic donation. This approach has never been able to keep up with the demand--indeed, it falls further behind each year. One set of alternatives involves (currently banned) financial incentives for organ donors. I will …

Recreation And Gambling Behaviors Among College Students, Laurie Platz

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Motivation of student gamblers was described and compared with their motivation for other recreational activities. Students (N = 996) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas completed self-report questionnaires including The South Oaks Gambling Screen (Lesieur and Bloom, 1987) and the Recreation Experience Preference Scales (Driver, 1983). Despite differences in statistical significance (p {dollar}<{dollar}.01), pathological gamblers (N = 111) and recreational gamblers (N = 349) shared 7 of their top 10 ranked motives for gambling. Primary motives for gambling appeared to remain stable with practical differences emerging in the rankings of their importance depending on an individual's level of gambling involvement. All students assigned statistically higher importance to their favorite other recreational activities than to their favorite gambling activities. However, recreational gamblers reported more agreement between motives for participating in their favorite gambling activities and their favorite other recreational activities.

Fundamental Frequency In Speech Directed To Deaf Or Hearing Infants By Deaf Or Hearing Mothers, Meg Ann Traci

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

What's Theory Got To Do With It?| Problems, Processes And Purposes For Archaeological Explanation, Jeffrey W. Sogard

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

1998-1999, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Student Handbooks

No abstract provided.

The Seventh Tshl Legislative Report Resolutions And Priorities, Texas Silver Haired Legislature Foundation

Texas Silver-Haired Legislature

Resolutions and priorities from the seventh Texas Silver-Haired Legislature legislative report, 1998.

Quantitative Methods For Assessing Change: Application To Condom Use, Kerry E. Evers

Open Access Dissertations

This study attempts to understand more about how to quantitatively assess longitudinal change within the Transtheoretical Model applied to the area of condom use among college students. A total of 215 sexually active male and female undergraduate students completed both assessments one month apart. Measurement development was conducted on the Condom Use URICA scale, which was then used in a cluster analysis. A four cluster solution was reliably replicated across two random samples (R²=.99), and the clusters were then examined in terms of their external validity using MANOVAs. The four clusters showed significant differences on variables associated with …

The Effect Of Developmental Process On The Cognitive Complexity Of Stereotypes, Susan Blanchard Bosco

Open Access Dissertations

Diversity training, which deals with enabling people from different populations to work together, has been lead to date by practitioners. Much of diversity training includes helping people to become less stereotypical in the way they view people who are from groups different from their own. The lack of theoretical foundation for this training has been reflected in the lack of positive outcomes to diversity training and even the use of diversity training experiences as the basis for discrimination lawsuits against organizations. One area of theory which has lacked exploration is the relationship between how a person develops his or her …

Racial Disparities In The Delivery Of Health Care, Barbara A. Noah

Faculty Scholarship

This Article focuses on the role of conscious and unconscious racial bias in the delivery of care; it does not begin to address the larger issue of inadequate access to care at the outset. Improving access to health care for minorities will undoubtedly have a positive effect on these groups' overall health status; however, to the extent that racial bias in the delivery of care exists apart from problems of inadequate access, the disparity in health status between whites and African Americans will no doubt continue.

Part II of this Article describes racial disparities in a variety of health care …

Income Distribution And Health Outcomes: An Assessment Of The Role Of Poverty, Donna Rickert

All ETDs from UAB

Objective. To evaluate the relationship between relative and absolute income in the context of their respective influence on 10 measures of health status at the American county level. Setting. The 67 counties of the state of Alabama. Design. Cross-sectional ecological study. Relative income, i.e., income inequality, was indexed as the percentage of total household income received by the least well off 50% of households. Absolute income was indexed as the percentage of households below the federal poverty level. These two income measures, calculated for each county from 1990 census data, were used to specify and estimate a series of regression …

Diagnosing Depression In Adolescents, Heather M. Villien

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

The Physiological And Psychological Responses To Submaximal Exercise At Different Times In Renal Disease Patients., Marta Amaral-Melendez

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

This study investigated cardiorespiratory, hematological, and psychological responses to acute submaximal exercise, and recovery in end stage renal disease patients. Five African-American males on hemodialysis, were randomly assigned to three exercise treatments (30 minutes on the treadmill at 60% VO$\sb2$ peak): pre dialysis (2 hours before), post dialysis (1 hour after), and off dialysis (24 hours after last dialysis). The cardiorespiratory (CR) variables were: ventilation (V$\sb{\rm E}$), oxygen consumption (VO$\sb2$), carbon dioxide production (VCO$\sb2$), respiratory exchange ratio (R), and kilocalories (KCAL/min). The hematological variables were: blood urea nitrogen (BUN), creatinine (Cr), albumin (Al), total protein (Tp), glucose (Gl), sodium (Na$\sp{++}$), …

An Exploratory Study Of The Consumer Behavior Of Working Adolescent Females., Diane Denais Sasser

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Employment of high school students has been growing steadily since the mid-1960s (Cole, 1991). Today, more than 40% of all high school students who work are employed at least part-time (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1995). Working adolescents may view their earnings as a sudden windfall of income to be used as discretionary income. This "premature affluence" may reinforce inappropriate consumer behaviors such as spending beyond means which may become established habits into their adult lives (Bachman, 1983). The cognitive development of these adolescents may be at the concrete operational thinking stage which inhibits them from handling adult behaviors in …

Evangelical Communication: Reference Group Membership Influence On Message Interpretation And Public Opinion., Mary Diane Hollems

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of the present dissertation was to examine the influence of reference group membership on message interpretation and whether one's interpretation then influences one's agreement with the message source and subsequent willingness to speak with the message source about the topic. In particular, this study looked at conservative Christian reference group membership and message interpretations about the topic of abortion. The independent variables of level of Christian fundamentalism, involvement in a Christian reference group, and socio-political conservatism were averaged to create a conservative fundamentalist composite score which was then used to split the sample at the median. Findings indicated …

Managing Promises And Marketing Activities In The Cultivation Of Long-Term Relationship Commitment: The Development Of A Model For The Services Industries., John Michael Weber

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The concept of promises is important with services, because they can represent some tangible aspect of the service organization upon which the customer can develop expectations and partially evaluate the performance of the organization. It is also important to examine the marketing processes (external, internal, and interactive) the organization utilizes and the consumer can participate in, because these processes act as the communication avenue for the promises. Finally, it is important to evaluate the promises and marketing processes from the perspective of the consumer in order to determine the consumer's expectations, perception of service personnel, evaluations of actual service delivery, …

Whole Language Fact Sheet Series: On Myths About Whole Language Education, Constance Weaver

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

No abstract provided.

19198-2000 Southern Illinois University Bulletin Carbondale Campus (Graduate Catalog), Southern Illinois University Carbondale

SIU Bulletins and Course Catalogs Archives

No abstract provided.

1998-1999 Southern Illinois University Bulletin Carbondale Campus (Undergraduate Catalog), Southern Illinois University Carbondale

SIU Bulletins and Course Catalogs Archives

No abstract provided.

1997/98 Faculty Senate Membership, Uah Faculty Senate

Senate Rosters

No abstract provided.

Catalog 1998-99, Dmacc

Catalogs

No abstract provided.

State Of Utah V. Kent William Blanchard : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

BRIEF OF APPELLEE APPEAL FROM AN ORDER OF RESTITUTION FOR THEFT- A THIRD-DEGREE FELONY UNDER UTAH CODE ANN. §76-6-404 (1995), IN THE SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF DAVIS COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH, THE HONORABLE JON M. MEMMOTT, JUDGE, PRESIDING

State Of Utah V. Donald William York : Reply Brief, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

APPEAL FROM THE DENIAL OF A PETITION FOR WITHDRAWAL OF GUILTY PLEA, ENTERED BY THE SECOND JUDICIAL COURT IN AND FOR DAVIS COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH, THE HONORABLE RODNEY S. PAGE, PRESIDING.

Overt And Relational Aggression In Russian Nursery-School-Age Children: Parenting Style And Marital Linkages., C. H. Hart, D. A. Nelson, C. C. Robinson, S. F. Olsen, M. K. Mcneilly-Choque

Faculty Publications

Maternal and paternal parenting styles and marital interactions linked to childhood aggressive behavior as described in Western psychological literature were measured in an ethnic Russian sample of 207 families of nursery-school-age children. Results corroborated and extended findings from Western samples. Maternal and paternal coercion, lack of responsiveness, and psychological control (for mothers only) were significantly correlated with children's overt aggression with peers. Less responsiveness (for mothers and fathers) and maternal coercion positively correlated with relational aggression. Some of these associations differed for boys versus girls. Marital conflict was also linked to more overt and relational aggression for boys. When entered …