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Japan’s Rise: The Benefits that can be Reaped by Japanese Language Education for Americans
(2016)The Japanese language is the sixth highest foreign language learned in the United States, as the number of English-speaking American college students that are enrolled in Japanese language courses exceeded 66,000 students ... -
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Jasperoid and disseminated gold at the Ogee-Pinson Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1978)Jasperoid at the Cgee-Pinson disseminated gold deposit is genetically related to gold mineralization. Jasperoid formation and gold mineralization accompanied low to moderate temperature and pressure hydrothermal activity. ... -
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John Bale and the National Identity and Church of Tudor England
(2014)Although some of John Bale's works seemed disconnected from contemporary events of his time (including his Biblical plays, bibliographic histories, and exegetical works), this dissertation contends that he took a highly ... -
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Joining Forces: Collaborating with Institutional Offices to Support Community (Volunteer) Teaching Faculty
(AAMC GFA, 2017-08)Discover how the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine's Office for Community Faculty is partnering with institutional administrative offices to develop unique technological, educational, and research programs to ... -
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Joint optimization of vertical component gravity and P-wave first arrivals by simulated annealing
(5/27/2016)Joint seismic and gravity analyses of the San Emidio geothermal field in the northwest Basin and Range province of Nevada demonstrate that joint optimization changes interpretation outcomes. The prior 0.3–0.5 km deep basin ... -
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Joint Optimization of Vertical Component Gravity and Seismic P-wave First Arrivals by Simulated Annealing
(2015)Simultaneous joint seismic-gravity optimization improves P-wave velocity models in areas with sharp lateral velocity contrasts. Optimization is achieved using simulated annealing, a metaheuristic global optimization algorithm ... -
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Joint roughness and fractal geometry
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1991)Two analytical methods are used to characterize surface roughness of sixteen samples of Topopah Spring welded Tuff. Testing and analysis produced reliable JRC values and fractal dimensions for each sample. -
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Journalism Professors’ Information-Seeking Behaviors: Finding Online Tools for Teaching
(2018)As the journalism profession continues to reinvent itself, journalism professors struggle to keep up with technological advancements that provide their students with industry-relevant skills. This study seeks to understand ... -
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Journey to crime: A spatial analysis of offenders in the Northern Nevada Repeat Offender Program
(2015)This study examines the spatial crime patterns of offenders monitored by the Northern Nevada Repeat Offender Program (ROP) in Reno, Nevada. These offenders have been convicted of at least three violent felonies and are ... -
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Jón Guđmundsson Lӕrđ's True Account and the Massacre of Basque Whalers in Iceland in 1615
(2017)This book reveals Jón Guđmundsson Lӕrđ's account of the massacre of the Basque whalers in Iceland in 1615. -
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JScaffold: A Rapid Application Development Solution for Java MVC Applications
(2010)Rapid application development (RAD) is used to save time in the development process of new applications. While RAD can be used for a variety of applications, it is especially useful in database-driven applications designed ... -
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Judges Speak Out: Did the Need to Use Distance Technology to Mediate during COVID-19 Outweigh the Potential Ethical Pitfalls Related to its Use?
(2022)Judges should not express their personal opinions about cases that appear before them. When legal precedent exists, judges should apply the law to the facts and rule. For cases of first statutory impression, judges look ... -
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Judicial Independence and the Tragic Consequences that Arose in Nazi Germany from a Lack Thereof
(2014)This dissertation discusses the topics of judicial independence and judicial accountability using the federal and state court systems of the United States as major examples since much of the work on judicial independence ... -
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Just Exchanges, Just Markets: Effective Consent Driven Proceduralism
(2021)This thesis explores the issues of distributive justice which arise from markets that solely protect voluntary exchanges. Currently, the global free market system values mere voluntarism as the gold standard of maintaining ... -
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JUSTin Hope Foundation Respite Care
(5/6/2019)The purpose of this study was to look into the factors that inhibit families from receiving respite care from the JUSTin Hope Foundation, a community center that offers an array of services to families with children or ... -
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Juvenile Court Judges and their Concerns about Vulnerability, Experienced Uncertainty and the Law: Extralegal Factors, Legal Considerations and Judicial Transfer Decision-making
(2014)In American juvenile law, the judicial transfer decision, or waiver of jurisdiction, is a legal maneuver by which young offenders are diverted away from the juvenile justice system and subsequently processed and adjudicated ... -
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K-12 Curriculum and Robotics to Address the Workforce Shortage and Advancement of Computing
(2018)Development and novel research contributions for computing and robotics technologies requires a workforce with mastery of computing. However, this goal is currently strained due to issues of education, access, and discernment ... -
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K-8 Teachers' Self-Efficacy Beliefs for Teaching Mathematics
(2013)AbstractMathematics knowledge and skills serve as the "gatekeeper" to students' choice of college majors, success obtaining college degrees, and entry into the workforce. However, on the mathematics portion of standardized ... -
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K-Theory for AF Algebras
(2014)K-theory for C*-algebras provides a means ofestablishing stable and complete*-isomorphism invariants.This work reestablishes the results of Elliot, Dixmier, Bratteli andElliot pertaining to the formation of a complete ...