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Teaching And Assessment Practices Of Instructors In Two Public Community Colleges In Nevada, Simon A Lei Jan 2002

Teaching And Assessment Practices Of Instructors In Two Public Community Colleges In Nevada, Simon A Lei

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation was to examine variations of teaching and assessment strategies based on status and education level of faculty members at the Community College of Southern Nevada (CCSN) and the Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC). To facilitate this study, a survey instrument was developed and distributed to 400 randomly selected faculty members employed at CCSN and TMCC, with an overall response rate of 45.8%; Adjunct and nondoctorate instructors focused significantly more on lectures than their full-time and doctorate colleagues. Full-time instructors, however, placed significantly more emphasis on class discussion, slide/powerpoint presentation, lab teaching, and distance learning compared …

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Characteristics And Profiles Of Teachers Of Severely And /Or Multiply Disabled Students, Samira Risheg Jan 2002

Characteristics And Profiles Of Teachers Of Severely And /Or Multiply Disabled Students, Samira Risheg

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the demographic variables and to investigate in an explanatory fashion an array of factors and variables that may well influence career decisions of teachers working with students of multiple impairments. It was specifically focused on factors that are linked with perceptions of administrative support or lack of it, commitment to special education, work related stress, emotional stress, burnout, desire to change career and commitment to Clark County School District. It specially focused on teachers of students with multiple impairments who are working in regular and special schools; Because …

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The Effects Of Socialization Through The Arts: Teaching Life Skills Strategies To Youth In West Las Vegas, Marcia Raquel Robinson Jan 2002

The Effects Of Socialization Through The Arts: Teaching Life Skills Strategies To Youth In West Las Vegas, Marcia Raquel Robinson

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

There are at least 200 gangs in Southern Nevada with more than 7,700 identified members. "Gang bangers" do not anticipate a future or invest in "dreams," most do not expect to live beyond their 20's. Las Vegas is more the rule than the exception; the West Las Vegas community is the epicenter needing attention. The planning and development of this pilot program "The Performing and Visual Arts Camp for Kids" focused on teaching life skills and character development, such as getting along with others, respect for oneself and others, initiative, the ability to communicate, problem solving, perseverance, and goal setting …

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Rage In The City Of Angels: The Historical Development Of The Skinhead Subculture In Los Angeles, Pete George Simi Jan 2002

Rage In The City Of Angels: The Historical Development Of The Skinhead Subculture In Los Angeles, Pete George Simi

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study examines the historical development of the racist skinhead subculture in Los Angeles. The skinhead subculture is a highly diverse network of gangs that has experienced significant changes over the last twenty-five years. I use an in-depth case study approach that relies upon extensive observation of and interviews with current and former skinheads to explain how and why L.A. skinhead gangs have changed over time. I argue that the Los Angeles skinhead subculture has moved through three phases of organizational emphasis which I characterize respectively as social, political, and economic oriented gangs. My aim is to analyze how skinheads …

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A Comparative Study Of State Educational *Policies: Systemic Models Of Equitable Reform, Celeste Ann Jackson Stansberry Jan 2002

A Comparative Study Of State Educational *Policies: Systemic Models Of Equitable Reform, Celeste Ann Jackson Stansberry

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Substantive attention to disproportionate gaps in achievement between minorities and non-minorities has led state educational agencies to institute responsive policy mandates. The implementation of equity and multicultural policies has resulted in the development of strategies and evaluative measures that assist in building capacity within educational environments to meet the needs of diverse groups of students. This comparative case study examines the ways in which two states have addressed issues of low educational attainment among ethnic and linguistic minority students by instituting equity policy mandates. The two state departments of education have reached out to stakeholders, developed action plans, and attempted …

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An Analysis Of First Amendment Jurisprudence And School Voucher Programs After Zelman V Simmons -Harris (2002), Lori A Stengel Jan 2002

An Analysis Of First Amendment Jurisprudence And School Voucher Programs After Zelman V Simmons -Harris (2002), Lori A Stengel

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

In a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, Thomas Jefferson stated the need for a "wall of separation between Church & State." The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment maintained that metaphoric wall of separation; however, the magnitude of separation has varied over the course of time. The Supreme Court's holding in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002) ushers in a new era of Establishment Clause interpretation; In Zelman, the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program faced an Establishment Clause challenge. An analysis of the Cleveland program illustrated that in the 1999--2000 school year, 82% of the participating private schools were religious in …

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The Evolution Of Drug Laws In America And The Variation In Penalties And Sentencing In State Courts, Robert Christopher Hogenson Jan 2002

The Evolution Of Drug Laws In America And The Variation In Penalties And Sentencing In State Courts, Robert Christopher Hogenson

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the evolution of major drug laws in the United States, the variation in statutory penalties between selected states, and to determine if the written law is reflected in sentencing and prison admissions. Penalties for felony possession and illicit trafficking for five states-Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, and New York---were compared with case disposition, incarceration rates, and average time offenders spend in jail or prison for these offenses. Two data sources from Bureau of Justice Statistics were utilized for this analysis. The first data set was titled "State Court Processing Statistics, 1990, 1992, 1994, …

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Cuba's Tourist Industry: Parallel Economies And Social Stratification, Marie Nathan Hummel Jan 2002

Cuba's Tourist Industry: Parallel Economies And Social Stratification, Marie Nathan Hummel

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

International tourism has played an important role in unintended social changes in socialist countries. These social and cultural changes affect not only the economic, political and cultural genre of the government, but also of its citizens; This thesis asks the question, "Has the re-introduction of international tourism in Cuba diluted and compromised the egalitarian goals of the revolution"? I intend to show that the consequences of Cuba's emerging tourist industry has not only compromised the ideology of the revolution, but has in fact seen a return of a pre-revolution stratified society and parallel economies, one based on the peso and …

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On Evaluating Small-Scale Variations Of Hydrologic Processes In Time And Space, Qingguang Lu Jan 2002

On Evaluating Small-Scale Variations Of Hydrologic Processes In Time And Space, Qingguang Lu

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study focuses on representing the small variations in hydrologic properties at various scales. Numerical experiments are used to explore the effects of the distributions of various hydrologic processes at various scales. The model used in this study is a physically based distributed hydrologic model system (HMS). The HMS is implemented in a 7.29 km2 sub-watershed within the Susquehanna River Basin in Pennsylvania. Rasterized data sets such as topographic data, soil data, and land use/land cover data are used as input to the HMS. Geographic Information System package is used to preprocess the raster data sets. Stochastic approaches are applied …

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Large-Scale Database Modeling: Developing Xml Schema, Zumreta Maslesa Jan 2002

Large-Scale Database Modeling: Developing Xml Schema, Zumreta Maslesa

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This thesis is concerned with the team efforts to develop a large database to track medical information. A large XML schema is developed from the Extended ER diagram to capture key and foreign key constraints. The strong types of XML schema were also used to assert patterns and domain constraints. These constraints will be used to aid the recognition of medical forms.

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Investigation Of Clay Smear Formation In Laboratory-Prepared Layered Soil Specimens, Glen Edwin Maxwell Jan 2002

Investigation Of Clay Smear Formation In Laboratory-Prepared Layered Soil Specimens, Glen Edwin Maxwell

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of layering geometry on the formation of clay smears in laboratory prepared soil specimens. Digitized video clips of specimen deformation under vertical shear were reviewed. New conventions and definitions were developed to describe and measure the onset of clay smear. Measurements for a variety of sample layering geometries were taken. Specimen geometry was compared with its respective smear development properties to derive general relationships; The study showed that as the sand thickness within a specimen increased, the required amount of vertical displacement and sand layer displacement prior to smear also …

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Wwwprivacygov: A Constitutional And Legislative Review, Stephanie Ann Murphy Jan 2002

Wwwprivacygov: A Constitutional And Legislative Review, Stephanie Ann Murphy

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

One of the most controversial and evolving rights recognized within recent years has been the right to privacy. During the twentieth century, the Supreme Court and the United States Congress recognized the existence of this right, although in limited aspects. In the twenty-first century, Americans' privacy rights have clashed with the evolution and the use of the Internet. Complications between a person's privacy and the information needed for national security interests arose. The following study examines the question of where the privacy of an individual in this new era ends and where government intrusion begins. Through a qualitative analysis, constitutional …

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Anxiety As An Affective Factor For Adult Korean Students Learning English As A Second Language, Bokyung Murray Jan 2002

Anxiety As An Affective Factor For Adult Korean Students Learning English As A Second Language, Bokyung Murray

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The focus of this study was anxiety related to second language learning, and more specifically, to that of adult Korean students studying ESL; Three research questions were addressed: (a) Do adult Koreans learning ESL have a high degree of classroom anxiety? (b) If so, can this be attributed to some aspects of their cultural heritage or previous educational experience? (c) What concepts contained within sociocultural theory may serve to ameliorate this classroom reaction?;A total of 49 students studying ESL at a major southwest university participated in this study. A background questionnaire and the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale were used …

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The Measurement Of Organizational Identification And Organizational Commitment Found Among The Membership Of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Philip Clark Oviatt Jan 2002

The Measurement Of Organizational Identification And Organizational Commitment Found Among The Membership Of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Philip Clark Oviatt

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The study reported here utilized two constructs; the Organizational Identification Questionnaire (OIQ) (Cheney 1983b) and the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) (Mowday, Porter, and Steers 1979), to determine if a positive correlation existed between them when applied to the Mary Kay Cosmetics Organization, a Direct Sales Marketing organization. The OIQ and the OCQ are two constructs that have been widely utilized to study the relationship between the employee and the organization. A review of literature illustrates, that although each concept offers a distinct meaning, when utilized as a construct they are synonymous. This study found that identification and commitment were strongly …

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Gis For Source Water Assessment And Nonpoint Source Modeling In The Las Vegas Valley, Marcelo Reginato Jan 2002

Gis For Source Water Assessment And Nonpoint Source Modeling In The Las Vegas Valley, Marcelo Reginato

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This thesis develops a better understanding of issues related to surface water contamination and protection of drinking water sources in the Las Vegas Valley. A Geographic Information System (GIS) was used to identify source water protection zones and to estimate nonpoint source loads for the entire watershed; The extent of the source water protection zones is represented by the valley's dry weather flows. After source water protection zones were defined, field work and GIS defined the potential contaminant sources and land uses within the protection zones; The GIS nonpoint source model shows that roads account for approximately 25% of the …

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United States Post Gulf-War Policy Toward Iraq: A Systemic Assessment, Amanda Christine Ringelberg Jan 2002

United States Post Gulf-War Policy Toward Iraq: A Systemic Assessment, Amanda Christine Ringelberg

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This thesis proposes that US policy is structurally flawed toward Iraq and the Middle East in general. This structural flaw in US policy-making is a result of ignoring the regional considerations of the Middle East as a subsystem. Current US strategy toward Iraq is doomed to fail because of the unique structural considerations in the Middle East and the failure of policy-makers to recognize them; The thesis begins with a theoretical examination of the Middle East subsystem, based on principles from international systems theory. Several patterns of regularity that define the subsystem are then outlined. An assessment of US goals …

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Perceptions Of Quality: The Gap Model Meets Gatekeeping, Karen Renee Roybal Jan 2002

Perceptions Of Quality: The Gap Model Meets Gatekeeping, Karen Renee Roybal

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The main purpose of this study was to test an adaptation of the Service Quality Gap Model developed by Parasuraman, Zeithaml, and Berry in an atypical service industry---the media---in order to determine whether gaps exist between consumer perceptions of news quality and news directors' perceptions of news quality. Interviews were conducted with Las Vegas local television news directors. In addition, surveys were distributed to local news consumers. A case study approach of local Las Vegas Valley television stations was used to test whether gatekeeping plays a part in the news selection/decision process of what constitutes as "quality news.";The study consists …

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Breast Cancer Screening Behaviors And Beliefs In College Women, Leslie Ann Snyder Jan 2002

Breast Cancer Screening Behaviors And Beliefs In College Women, Leslie Ann Snyder

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Despite recommendations by health professionals and the American Cancer Society, few women perform breast self-examinations (BSE) or have clinical breast examinations (CBE) on a regular basis. The current study used self-reports from 453 college women under 30 years of age to investigate factors that may influence breast cancer screening behaviors. Examiners and non-examiners were compared on a series of variables: (1) health beliefs and practices (personal risk estimates for breast cancer, risk reduction expectancies, perceived susceptibility to breast cancer, perceived seriousness of breast cancer, perceived benefits of BSE, perceived barriers to BSE, confidence in performing BSE, general health motivation, the …

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Bench-Scale Modeling To Evaluate The Mechanical Effects Of Subsidence On A Monofill-Type Landfill Cover, Yuboon Tan Jan 2002

Bench-Scale Modeling To Evaluate The Mechanical Effects Of Subsidence On A Monofill-Type Landfill Cover, Yuboon Tan

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

A bench-scale model was developed to simulate the effects of subsidence on compacted monofill-type landfill covers for the low-level radioactive waste landfills of the Radioactive Waste Management Sites of the Nevada Test Site. Of particular interest is the collapse mechanism of the cover with respect to the soil density and compaction water content. Collapse in covers compacted at lower water content was in the form of progressive upward caving by consistent raveling, with distinct, continuous preferential pathways for saturated fluid flow and vapor migration formed. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).

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Robert Hugh Benson And The Catholic Literary Revival In Edwardian England, Chad Philip Stutz Jan 2002

Robert Hugh Benson And The Catholic Literary Revival In Edwardian England, Chad Philip Stutz

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Robert Hugh Benson was a popular religious author in Edwardian England; however, he has been all but forgotten by posterity. This study re-examines Benson's contribution to the Catholic Literary Revival, a movement rooted in Romanticism. Benson utilized a "ministerial approach" to spread his message of renewal. Whereas other Revivalists wrote official histories, Benson wrote historical novels to advance the claim that the sixteenth century was responsible for British social disintegration. By presenting history as art, Benson presented his Christian worldview in a palatable form. Benson also had a complex relationship with 1890's Aestheticism. Though he wrote a novel denouncing its …

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Modeling Image Databases Using Xml Schema, Min Xu Jan 2002

Modeling Image Databases Using Xml Schema, Min Xu

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This thesis presents a model for still images in order to support content-based querying and browsing by hierarchical tree structures and object relational graphs. We use the extensible markup language (XML) schema to illustrate and exemplify the proposed model because of its interoperability and flexibility advantages. Of primary interest is the notion of complex types and referential integrity to fully describe the physical and semantic properties of images. XQuery is used to support query processing. We further show how these complex types of XML schema can be used to overcome the shortcomings of reported image database descriptions in the literature.

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The Sex Pistols: Punk Rock As Protest Rhetoric, Cari Elaine Byers Jan 2002

The Sex Pistols: Punk Rock As Protest Rhetoric, Cari Elaine Byers

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This thesis examines the punk music of the Sex Pistols as protest rhetoric. Seven of the songs on the album Never Mind the Bollocks Heres the Sex Pistols are analyzed for their content. The analysis utilizes the theory of symbolic convergence and its coinciding fantasy theme analysis along with ego-function of protest rhetoric. Through the analysis it is found that punk rock is in fact protest rhetoric as defined and explained by the theory of ego-function. The guides of this theory explain the emergence of punk music and the resulting culture. Symbolic convergence theory and fantasy theme analysis examines the …

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Domestic Violence Counseling Techniques: Indicators Of A Change In The Philosophy Of The Movement Against Domestic Violence, Loretta A Klem Jan 2002

Domestic Violence Counseling Techniques: Indicators Of A Change In The Philosophy Of The Movement Against Domestic Violence, Loretta A Klem

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The movement against domestic violence began as a grassroots effort to eliminate and to prevent the abuse of women. In the beginning, workers in the movement placed great emphasis on societal causes and solutions to the problem and great strides have been taken toward this end. However, over the last twenty years, the movement has placed greater and greater emphasis on individual counseling techniques based on a humanistic approach of individual accountability and responsibility, resulting in the placement of blame for the abuse on the victim; In group counseling sessions there is very little discussion of societal conditions, and no …

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Calculation Involving Hydrogen-Hydrogen(2) Collisional Cooling Processes For Use In Astrophysics, David Michael Archer Jan 2002

Calculation Involving Hydrogen-Hydrogen(2) Collisional Cooling Processes For Use In Astrophysics, David Michael Archer

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This thesis will calculate the H-H2 cooling processes used in astrophysics. Cooling is critical to the formation of the first objects formed in the early universe, and other diverse phenomenon of interest to astrophysics. For instance, in order to collapse into objects, the gravitational potential energy of primordial density fluctuations must be radiated away. The most abundant element in the universe is hydrogen, and cooling processes involving hydrogen are important in several contexts. To calculate the cooling, the cross section for collisional excitation at constant energy were integrated over a Maxwellian velocity distribution to determine a rate coefficient. Then the …

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Female Victims Of Domestic Violence And Their Negotiation For Safety, Lisa Rose Kopinski Jan 2002

Female Victims Of Domestic Violence And Their Negotiation For Safety, Lisa Rose Kopinski

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

With the majority of studies focusing on the reasons why victims discontinue legal action against their abusers, I believe these women are once again being blamed for the continued abuse. It is my thesis that victims of domestic violence enter formal action against their abusers with specific goals in mind particular to each woman's life situation. These goals may be very different than the legal outcomes prominent amongst our nation's courtrooms. I will attempt to illustrate those goals victims routinely seek as well as the obstacles they encounter when attempting to free themselves from violence. This research will become a …

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Lossless Audio Compression Of Speech And Voice, Yang Liu Jan 2002

Lossless Audio Compression Of Speech And Voice, Yang Liu

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Data compression plays an important role in modern telecommunication, entertainment, computing and networking areas because the capacities of media for storage and bandwidth for transmission are not growing proportionally with the rapid demand for multimedia data. Speech and voice compression is one of applications in this field. Although there are a lot of techniques used in speech coding, new algorithms need to be developed to achieve better performance. Our research focus is on lossless speech and voice compression using wavelet transform, prediction, and Rice coDing These techniques have some properties, such as, very fast computation and easily exploiting the redundancy …

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Contemporary Pseudo-Events: An Analysis Of The Advertising In "Wired" Magazine, Guy Joseph Schackman Jan 2002

Contemporary Pseudo-Events: An Analysis Of The Advertising In "Wired" Magazine, Guy Joseph Schackman

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The dot-corn and technology boom of the mid-to-late 1990s captured the imagination of the public in both the way they thought about and invested in the future. This study looks at the role the advertising of Wired magazine played in promoting the dot-com boom. Daniel Boorstin (1987) claims that pseudo-events, or events that are manufactured, set society's expectations to levels that cannot be attained. This study examines 75 advertisements taken from issues of Wired published in 1995 and uses criteria outlined by Boorstin to determine if these advertisements are pseudo-events. Traits of the design of Wired magazine framed by Stewart …

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Unveiling The Implicit Message: A Look At Racial, Hispanic/Latino, And Mexican Portrayals On "Sesame Street", Magdalena Maria Zepeda Jan 2002

Unveiling The Implicit Message: A Look At Racial, Hispanic/Latino, And Mexican Portrayals On "Sesame Street", Magdalena Maria Zepeda

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

In this master's thesis I analyzed Sesame Street, a well-known and popular model for many children's educational television programs as well as a racially sensitive show, by way of a content analysis. I documented all races represented by the people and human-looking, animated characters and puppets. Furthermore, my study proposed to look at the portrayal of the Hispanic/Latino group and Mexican group; My findings revealed that the population on Sesame Street did not mirror the United States population distribution. Other results revealed the Hispanic/Latino group very rarely reflected their cultural customs, were mostly female and the majority was portrayed in …

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Ronald Reagan's 1983 "Evil Empire" Speech: A Rhetorical Analysis, Kirsten Ann Westenskow Clark Jan 2002

Ronald Reagan's 1983 "Evil Empire" Speech: A Rhetorical Analysis, Kirsten Ann Westenskow Clark

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan addressed the National Association of Evangelicals, delivering what is now referred to as his "Evil Empire" speech. Hoping to reestablish his commitment to conservative values and encourage the audience to oppose a nuclear freeze, Reagan condemned the Soviet Union as the "focus of evil" in the modern world and urged the audience to resist the aggressive impulses of an evil empire. Although it initially received widespread criticism, Reagan's speech has since been credited as a salient factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union and has been heralded as one of the most important addresses …

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Biological Treatment Of Waste Solutions Generated From The Remediation Of Perchlorate-Contaminated Waters, Tina Mary Gingras Jan 2002

Biological Treatment Of Waste Solutions Generated From The Remediation Of Perchlorate-Contaminated Waters, Tina Mary Gingras

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This thesis investigates the feasibility of combining ion exchange and biological reduction to remove perchlorate contamination from waters and eliminate it from the environment. Perchlorate can be removed from water by ion exchange. However, regeneration of these resins creates a waste stream, concentrating the perchlorate and other components in the regenerant solution. This waste stream can then be channeled to a biological reactor where perchlorate is reduced by microorganisms. Perchlorate-reducing microorganisms are ubiquitous in nature, yet biological treatment of these waste streams would expose these microorganisms to high salt or ammonium concentrations and high perchlorate levels. In studying the impact …

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