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Health Care Rationing : Revolutionary Reform Or Dangerous Idea?, Brian Duane Helland
Health Care Rationing : Revolutionary Reform Or Dangerous Idea?, Brian Duane Helland
Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Reasonably Accomodating Race: Lessons From The Ada For Race-Targeted Affirmative Action, Sandra R. Levitsky
Reasonably Accomodating Race: Lessons From The Ada For Race-Targeted Affirmative Action, Sandra R. Levitsky
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality
No abstract provided.
Driving In The Fairway Incurs No Penalty: Martin V. Pga Tour, Inc. And Discriminatory Boundaries In The Americans With Disabilities Act, Todd A. Hentges
Driving In The Fairway Incurs No Penalty: Martin V. Pga Tour, Inc. And Discriminatory Boundaries In The Americans With Disabilities Act, Todd A. Hentges
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality
No abstract provided.
A Case Study Of The Information Environment For School Leadership Preparation Project, R. Karlene Mccormick-Lee
A Case Study Of The Information Environment For School Leadership Preparation Project, R. Karlene Mccormick-Lee
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (1996) noted that the social fabric of schools is changing. School administrators are faced with new challenges, provided new opportunities to implement reform, and required to learn new technology skills (Means, Olsen, & Singh, 1995; Streifer, 1999). Potentially universities play an invaluable role in preparing educators to use technology effectively. However, studies suggest that universities are far from realizing that potential (O'Flahavan, 1988; Lemke, 1999; Roblyer & Erlanger, 1999). A nation-wide survey found that the integration of instructional technology across disciplines and the use of technology to solve real-world problems were the most important …
A Descriptive Study Of Enrollment Marketing Strategies For Four -Year Public Colleges And Universities, Becky Lynn Watson
A Descriptive Study Of Enrollment Marketing Strategies For Four -Year Public Colleges And Universities, Becky Lynn Watson
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Choosing a college education is only one of many choices a student has for post-secondary education or training. The current change in the university campus environment is creating a change in the marketing environment. A higher education institution must continually adapt its marketing efforts to keep pace with the changing needs of its constituency---the students. The institution must know its public and its market to be able to attract adequate resources and convert them into services for its public. The nature and function of higher educational institutions is changing due to changes in the attitudes of the consumer. Higher education …
From Hiroshima To Three-Mile-Island: Three Decades Of Nuclear Power Opposition Rhetoric In The United States, Theodore Erik Olds
From Hiroshima To Three-Mile-Island: Three Decades Of Nuclear Power Opposition Rhetoric In The United States, Theodore Erik Olds
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Rhetoric associated with the development of nuclear power in the United States was analyzed over 3-decades in order to better understand the beginnings and constituents of the rhetoric associated with anti-nuclear power perspectives. An amalgamation of existing historical/rhetorical methods utilized by Gamson and Modigliani (1989) and Darsey (1991) were employed. Progressive interpretive anti-nuclear rhetorical packages were identified for corresponding historical periods within the 34-year period. Historical periods were segmented by catalytic events, or incidents important to nuclear power development which also presented opportunities for anti-nuclear power rhetoric. The analysis reveals four individual rhetorical packages: (1) Pandora's Box; (2) Mirage; (3) …
Television Crime Drama Program Viewing And O J Simpson Bias: Applying The Cultivation Theory, Allan Pearlstein
Television Crime Drama Program Viewing And O J Simpson Bias: Applying The Cultivation Theory, Allan Pearlstein
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
According to media critics, no criminal event has ever received as much publicity as the O. J. Simpson double murder case. The purpose of conducting this research was to apply the cultivation analysis theory to the O. J. Simpson case to see if heavy daily television viewers, heavy viewers of crime drama programs both realistic and fictional, and heavy newspaper and magazine readers expressed guilt against O. J. Simpson With the assistance from personnel at the Clark County Courthouse in Las Vegas, Nevada, the researcher administered 205 survey questionnaires to summoned jurors who were released from jury service. A negative …
The Effects Of Animated Practice On Mental Rotation Tests, Russell Winsor Smith
The Effects Of Animated Practice On Mental Rotation Tests, Russell Winsor Smith
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Mental rotation tests have been used to study the underlying process of mental imagery. In an attempt to better understand the nature of mental rotation, this study looked at the effects of practice with using animated feedback. A group with animated feedback, a group with non-animated feedback, and a control group were compared using a pretest-posttest design. The combined practice groups performed significantly better than the control group on both reaction time and accuracy. However, there were no significant differences between the animated and the non-animated groups. The animated group did perform significantly better on the posttest than the control …
Political Control Over Special Districts In Local Government: A Case Study Of The Las Vegas - Clark County Library District, John Thompson Stephens
Political Control Over Special Districts In Local Government: A Case Study Of The Las Vegas - Clark County Library District, John Thompson Stephens
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This thesis examines the Las Vegas - Clark County Library District over the five year period from 1991 to 1995. Based on interviews, local media coverage and budgetary data, the work traces the development of the library district during its most turbulent times. As a case study of special districts or "functional feudalities", the Las Vegas - Clark County Library District provides an excellent microcosm for understanding competing elites, interest group politics, budgetary problems, and public perception as determinants of policy made by a non-elected governing board.
Film And Architecture: Discovering The Self-Reflection Of Frank Capra And Frank Lloyd Wright Through Contextual Analysis, Marie Lynore Kohler
Film And Architecture: Discovering The Self-Reflection Of Frank Capra And Frank Lloyd Wright Through Contextual Analysis, Marie Lynore Kohler
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Film and architecture were analyzed to evaluate the rhetorical potential these media hold in communicating the self-reflection of their creators. In an attempt to uncover common communication elements which further link the relationship between film and architecture, specific works of director Frank Capra and architect Frank Lloyd Wright were examined. The study utilizes both an historical, case study approach, combined with a contextual analysis of two selected works. Because Zettl's (1990) theory of applied media aesthetics emphasizes the importance of the medium in the communication process, this methodology was applied to Capra's film It's A Wonderful Life and Wright's building …
A Downward Spiral: Young People, The Media, And Political Disengagement, Jacqueline M Maloy
A Downward Spiral: Young People, The Media, And Political Disengagement, Jacqueline M Maloy
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This study examines whether political disengagement is related to the amount and/or type of television that young people watch. The study was conducted through survey research at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, with over one hundred undergraduate participants. It demonstrates that there is no relationship between the amount of television which students watch and their political engagement. However, it also demonstrates that there is a relationship between the types of television programs which students watch and their attitudes toward politics and politicians. Frequent viewers of local news feel less trusting toward the government in Washington, whereas frequent viewers of late-night …
Targeting Families And Teens: Television Violence On The Wb, Rick Brian Marks
Targeting Families And Teens: Television Violence On The Wb, Rick Brian Marks
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The author investigates the amount of violence contained within WB primetime programs in order to determine The WB's number of violent acts per program and per program hour as well as determine some of the possible effects of The WB's violence. The author sampled one week of WB primetime programming. A definition of violence similar to other violence studies was employed for comparability. The unit of analysis used for coding was the violent act. The author found all WB primetime programs to contain some violence. The most violent WB primetime program was "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and the highest number …
Wounded Knee, 1973: Consummatory And Instrumental Functions Of Militant Discourse, Lucie Moya Melchert
Wounded Knee, 1973: Consummatory And Instrumental Functions Of Militant Discourse, Lucie Moya Melchert
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Little academic research exists of the American Indian takeover of the hamlet of Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1973. This thesis is an analysis of the discourse of the Wounded Knee incident, which served dual purposes for the activists. First, American Indian discourse served as a reinforcing agent to American Indians, both at Wounded Knee and across the country. Second, the rhetoric was meant to effect change within the general American public. This thesis will adopt and expand on Randall Lake's 1983 theory of the consummatory function of rhetoric by dissecting the fascinating discourse that shaped the identity of the …
A Marxist Analysis Of An Editorial Column As A Site Of Struggle For Meaning, Theresa Hubbard Pfeifer
A Marxist Analysis Of An Editorial Column As A Site Of Struggle For Meaning, Theresa Hubbard Pfeifer
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This study calls into question the repressive authoritarianism of state-corporate capitalism and the "march of the megamedia" by investigating the media's role in perpetuating and sustaining hegemony. According to Marxist critics, the collective operations of the culture industry have worked to destroy the revolutionary potential of the working class. In a resistant textual reading and content analysis utilizing Gramsci's theory of hegemony, this study looks at how a newspaper editorial fatalizes readers into passive acquiescence of the prevailing political and socioeconomic system. To gain the willing consent of the masses, the technocratic elites of media systems create a world that …
An Analysis Of Medical Futility Dilemmas, Eloise Angela Powell
An Analysis Of Medical Futility Dilemmas, Eloise Angela Powell
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Medical futility has caused serious dilemmas in the fields of medicine and bioethics recently. It has become more confusing due to the use of high technological equipment and medicines that are given to prolong life and interrupt the natural process of death; Therefore, we have created a dilemma of medical futility. Until recently, not many steps have been taken to address futile or inappropriate care that is given to a large number of the population, but with healthcare costs rising substantially, the time has come when these issues must be addressed; This thesis will include a short history of medical …
The Las Vegas Phenomenon, Juliet Reubens
The Las Vegas Phenomenon, Juliet Reubens
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This thesis supposes that people gambling in Las Vegas are engaged in religious-like and transformative experiences, ideas, and behaviors. Those which are religious-like are categorized into separate groups. These separate groups are Magic, Charms and Jinxes, Ritual, Altered-States of Consciousness, and Divining each having a subsequent section in my thesis. The transformative experiences, ideas, and behaviors are like-wise categorized into separate groups. These separate groups and subsequent sections are Adults at Play, Fantasy, Theming, and Rebellion. People who play slot machines are studied and to them is applied the theory developed by Luhrmann in the book Persuasions of the Witches …
Racing For Fans: Communication Technology, The Total Experience, And The Rise Of Nascar, Elizabeth M Smith
Racing For Fans: Communication Technology, The Total Experience, And The Rise Of Nascar, Elizabeth M Smith
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing, or NASCAR, has seen a tremendous popularity surge in the past decade. The sport is attracting record crowds at its events nationwide and its televised broadcasts are gaining audiences rapidly. While there are many reasons why NASCAR has gained an audience recently, this exploratory study examines the role of communication technology in the proliferation of the sport; Each technology is discussed as it relates to a NASCAR fan's enjoyment of the "total experience," a term that defines the ultimate mediated experience available to a fan using communication technology without his or her …
Die Deutschen Enwanderer In Sacramento: German Immigrants In Sacramento, 1850--1859, Carole Cosgrove Terry
Die Deutschen Enwanderer In Sacramento: German Immigrants In Sacramento, 1850--1859, Carole Cosgrove Terry
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The economic and political conditions in Europe pushed German immigrants from their homelands, while the gold rush in California pulled them with dreams of riches. Some came directly from Germany, some made an intermediate stop in the United States, but, after arriving in California, many went to Sacramento. A small nucleus of permanent residents created an ethnic community where they practiced the German tradition of Vereinswesen, supported each other economically through loans and ready employment and, led by their Turnverein, continued practicing their customs and rituals emphasizing frivolity and celebration as they had in the "fatherland." Rather than assimilate, they …
The Rise And Fall Of A Wall And A Dialect: Observations Of Shifting Linguistic Behavior Among Former East Berliners, Anja Vogel
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
After the dividing wall between East and West Berlin fell in 1989 many changes occurred on what was formerly the eastern side of the city. Polls taken soon after found out that the East Berliners' excitement about the reunification vanished quickly. One of the more prominent---but largely ignored---new problems was the linguistic barrier that had developed between East and West during the forty years of separation; The people in and around Berlin speak a regional dialect, Berlinish. Unbeknownst to most Berliners, the dialect took on a vastly different symbolic meaning for the people in the West than it did for …
College Radio Curricula: Las Vegas General Manager Views, Brad Leonard Weiss
College Radio Curricula: Las Vegas General Manager Views, Brad Leonard Weiss
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Radio continues to prosper in hundreds of different formats, with five radios on average in each American home, and over 10,000 radio stations in the United States. The key variables in the study of radio curriculum would seem to include: the specific classes that professionals believe would help students prepare for the radio industry; the theory/practical blend of course work; and the outside internship and professional programs available for students prior to entering the full-time radio job market; The purpose of this study is to gather and assess radio station general managers' perceptions of the ideal radio curriculum. Since general …
Attitude Of Gaming Employees Towards Problem Gambling: How It Affects Their Learning At An Awareness Training, Lisa Michelle Bybee
Attitude Of Gaming Employees Towards Problem Gambling: How It Affects Their Learning At An Awareness Training, Lisa Michelle Bybee
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The purpose of this study is to analyze the efficacy of a problem gambling training class to train adult learners and to determine whether the attitude of this sample towards problem gambling affects their ability to learn about this issue. A survey instrument was designed by the author. The researcher used frequency distribution, crosstabulations, and linear regression to analyze the collected data. The survey sample consisted of adult gaming employees in Las Vegas who attended compulsory problem gambling awareness training; What makes this topic, problem gambling, provocative is that people have difficulty accepting that the pursuit of the intangible product …
Effects Of Location, Size, And Animation On The Response Rate To A Promotional Web Banner, Rhett Pono Ferguson
Effects Of Location, Size, And Animation On The Response Rate To A Promotional Web Banner, Rhett Pono Ferguson
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to investigate the layout and design of promotional Web banners on a company home page. To accomplish this, three variables; location, size and animation were used to test their effect on the response rate to those banners. Response rates were calculated by dividing the total number of click-throughs to the banner by the total number of visits to the Web pages. In each case, a relationship existed between the variable and the response rate. The results of this study also show that both animation and size can have a positive effect on response rate. …
Communicating The Risks And Hazards Of Methylmercury To The Ojibwe Population, Glenna Lee
Communicating The Risks And Hazards Of Methylmercury To The Ojibwe Population, Glenna Lee
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Fatal poisonings due to the consumption of fish containing high concentrations of methylmercury have been well documented, and demonstrate that the consumption of mercury-contaminated fish and other organisms can contribute to adverse human health effects. Native Americans of the Great Lakes region are one of the populations potentially subjected to greater concentrations of methylmercury than the general population because fishery is an integral part of their culture. The purpose of this study is to investigate the Ojibwe of the Great Lakes region's understanding of the risks and hazards associated with the consumption of fish contaminated with methylmercury and increase their …
The Performers Alliance: Conflict And Change Within The Screen Actors Guild, Arthur Thomas Lynch
The Performers Alliance: Conflict And Change Within The Screen Actors Guild, Arthur Thomas Lynch
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This paper takes an historical critical research perspective on rapid change within one of the highest profile unions in the world, the Screen Actors Guild and in particular the emergence of a political force that identified itself as The Performers Alliance. The author was a member of the National Board of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild; Parallels were found in the development of SAG through various stages of its history. Rhetorical analysis sheds light on the development of the Guild as a social movement and of The Performers Alliance as a dissident movement within the union itself. An argument …
A Comparative Analysis Of Indonesian And Philippino Contraceptive Determinants And Use, Emily Dora Norman
A Comparative Analysis Of Indonesian And Philippino Contraceptive Determinants And Use, Emily Dora Norman
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This exploratory study investigates the contraceptive determinants affecting the variation behind different contraceptive use patterns in Indonesia and the Philippines. I analyze how much effect various determinants have on use patterns and whether these same determinants are relevant to a similar degree in both countries. Several demographic studies have indicated that while education and other socio-economic; variables play a large role in contraceptive use, other factors are pertinent as well. Physical access in terms of distance to a facility or ease in reaching it is one concept. In addition, informational access via availability of mass media and the related function …
Heat Shock Protein 27 Inhibition Of The Caspase Cascade In Human Breast Cancer Cells, Lewis Joe Stafford
Heat Shock Protein 27 Inhibition Of The Caspase Cascade In Human Breast Cancer Cells, Lewis Joe Stafford
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Cells may die via a programmed cell death called apoptosis. Apoptosis can be triggered by many death signals, some of which cause cytochrome c to be released from the mitochondria initiating the caspase cascade. When there is an over-expression of Heat Shock Protein 27 (HSP27), the cell does not obey the death signals that it receives. In this study, the molecular mechanism for the HSP 27 inhibition of the caspase cascade is described in human breast cancer cells that were engineered to constitutively express HSP 27. HSP 27 directly bound to cytochrome c and inhibited the activation of caspase 9 …
The Removal Of Perchlorate From Waters Using Ion-Exchange Resins, Adriano Rosa Vieira
The Removal Of Perchlorate From Waters Using Ion-Exchange Resins, Adriano Rosa Vieira
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This thesis investigates the feasibility of using several types of ion-exchange resins to remove perchlorate from waters. The capability of the resins to remove perchlorate, as well as their regeneration efficiency, were evaluated using both synthetic solutions and perchlorate-contaminated water from the Las Vegas Valley. For synthetic solutions, styrenic strong base resins showed high perchlorate removal efficiency but regeneration efficiency was low. Acrylic strong-base resins showed satisfactory perchlorate removal, but they regenerate better than the styrenic counterpart. Acrylic weak base resin showed satisfactory perchlorate removal efficiency and very high regeneration efficiency when regenerated with NaCl or caustic solutions. High concentrations …
The Phenomenal Meaning Of Romantic Love, Howard Roden Giles
The Phenomenal Meaning Of Romantic Love, Howard Roden Giles
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The phenomenal meaning of romantic love is sought, using the descriptions of co-researchers. A brief discussion of the theoretical underpinnings of phenomenology is provided, and the methods of phenomenological psychology are outlined. The specific methods for arriving at the phenomenal meaning of romantic love are chosen. Six coresearchers were interviewed to elucidate lived-experiences they had with romantic Love The interviews were transcribed into six protocols. The six protocols are phenomenologically reduced into meaning units and their essences. The essences are presented within the context of the protocols. Twenty essential structures are presented in five meaningful groups, including Descriptions, Events, Temporal …
Modeling The Diffusion Of Reactive And Nonreactive Solutes In Cores From The Cannikin Test Site, Amchitka Island, Alaska, Nicole Ann Brown
Modeling The Diffusion Of Reactive And Nonreactive Solutes In Cores From The Cannikin Test Site, Amchitka Island, Alaska, Nicole Ann Brown
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The migration and distribution of contaminants in the subsurface environment are controlled by groundwater movement and the extent of interaction between the contaminants and surrounding rock matrix. Studies have shown that diffusion through the rock matrix may serve as a prominent contaminant retardation mechanism in crystalline igneous rocks; The diffusion of reactive and nonreactive solutes through basalt and breccia cores from the Cannikin Test Site, Amchitka Island, Alaska has been studied. Lead (Pb(II)) and cesium (Cs(I)) were chosen as reactive solutes and bromide (Br-) was chosen as the nonreactive solute. Because retardation due to sorption is expected to affect the …
Tainted Perceptions: Liberal-Democracy And American Popular Images Of China, Thomas Laszlo Dorogi
Tainted Perceptions: Liberal-Democracy And American Popular Images Of China, Thomas Laszlo Dorogi
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The primary thesis of this study is that beginning with the pre-Tiananmen Square incident of 1989, American popular and institutional images of China focused on the reformist nature the government, but following the military crackdown in June 1989, this optimism dwindled and resulted in the creation of an ambivalent cross-cultural atmosphere toward the Chinese for the next half decade. When Chinese leaders decided to undertake military exercises in the Taiwan Strait in mid-1995, America's perception of the PRC swung even further in a distinctly negative direction; an event that marked the outset of a three year period during which Chinese …