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A "New Man" in Northern Nevada's Consolidation Discourse
(2014)This dissertation is a rhetorical analysis that explores the discourse of the consolidation of local government services in Northern Nevada for adaptations of ancient rhetorical theories of ethos. I argue that the ancient ... -
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A 1H NMR Network Approach for the Study of Specialized Metabolites: Development and Applications
(2021)The history of the World could not be told without mentioning specialized metabolites. Long before we had the notion of organic molecules, we were already sailing across the oceans in the pursue of their valuable sources, ... -
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A Basic Evaluation of Distraction
(2013)AbstractThe author developed and applied a laboratory preparation to evaluate the effects of distraction on performance under varying conditions. "Distraction" occurs when there is suppression in the frequency of a response. ... -
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A Bayesian Multilevel Model for the Psychometric Function using R and Stan
(2020)A common neuroscience topic is to determine the temporal order of two stimuli, and is often studied via a logistic model called a psychometric function. The data arises from repeated sampling of subjects across a variety ... -
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A Behavior Analytic Account of Stereotype Threat
(2022)Although behavior analysis has contributed substantially to the understanding and study of learning in humans, cultural influences are often either overlooked or not accounted for in how they impact individuals in their ... -
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A Behavior Analytic Approach to Childbirth: A Contingency Analysis and Preliminary Investigation
(2016)The “cascade of interventions” associated with analgesia use during childbirth has contributed to the U.S. having some of the poorest birth outcomes of any developed nation (Clark, Belfort, Byrum, Meyers, & Perlin, 2008; ... -
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A Behavior Analytic Evaluation of a Cultural Adaptation of Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACTr) for Latinx Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
(2022)An area that is growing in the field of behavior analysis is in the domain of cultural and language adaptations. Despite the substantial evidence to support the use of cultural adaptations in evidence based treatments ... -
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A behavior analytic examination of social loafing
(2020)Social loafing is a phenomenon in which individuals working in groups exert less effort than when they work alone, resulting in substantial losses in productivity. Social loafing has a broad empirical and theoretical ... -
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A Bivariate Distribution Connected with Poissonian Maxima of Exponential Variables
(2009)In this work we present a bivariate distribution of X and N, where N has a Poisson distribution and X is the maximum of N independent, identically distributed exponential variables. The joint bivariate distribution is ... -
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A Bivariate Gamma Mixture Discrete Pareto Distribution
(2017)We study a four-parameter generalization of the of bivariate exponential geometric (BEG) law of Kozubowski and Panorska (2005) and bivariate gamma geometric (BGG) law (Barreto-Souza, 2012). The new bivariate distribution ... -
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A carbon-14 calibrated discrete-state compartment model of the groundwater flow system, Yucca Mountain and vicinity, Nevada-California
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1991)A carbon-14 calibrated discrete-state compartment model simulates the regional groundwater flow system in southern Nevada yielding estimates of long term average annual recharge volumes, groundwater ages, volumetric flow, ... -
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A Case for Paleoindian Use of Pinto Projectile Points in the Great Basin: Morphological Analysis from the Old River Bed, Utah
(2012)The chronology and morphology of Pinto series projectile points in the Great Basin and the Mojave Desert have been the subject of much debate. Split-stemmed points have been found in both early and late contexts associated ... -
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A Case Study of College Persistence for the Dean's Future Scholars Program
(2013)This qualitative case study supplemented by quantitative data was employed to explore the understandings that 13 undergraduate students from a single Dean's Future Scholars (DFS) cohort held concerning the contributions ... -
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A Case Study of FinTech in Banking; A Comparison of the Developing and Developed World
(2019)With advances in financial technology (FinTech), startup firms search for ways to revolutionize all aspects of financial industries especially in the banking sector. New firms attempt to provide more affordable credit or ... -
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A Case Study of the Implementation of the Resolution Session in Processing of Special Education Complaints in a Large Urban School District
(2016)In 2004, United States President George W. Bush signed into law the amendment to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The law contained a last step to resolve complaints prior to a due process hearing: ... -
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A cavity ring-down spectroscopy system for high time resolution measurements of gaseous elemental mercury concentrations
(2012)The global cycling of mercury (Hg), a highly toxic environmental pollutant, currently has many unknowns. There are various sources of Hg to the atmosphere including both anthropogenic and natural sources. Processes involved ... -
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A Centralized Service for Accessing the NCS Brain Simulator Through a Web Interface
(2015)UNR's Neocortical Simulator (NCS) is a large scale brain simulator that allows neuroscientists to run simulations with created brain models and receive output data generated by those simulations. Initially, NCS could only ... -
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A Changing Valley, a Changing People: The Prehistoric Occupation of Northern Warner Valley, Oregon
(2014)Warner Valley, Oregon was occupied as early as the terminal Pleistocene (~11,000 radiocarbon years ago [14C B.P.). Random and non-random pedestrian survey conducted over three field seasons by the Great Basin Paleoindian ... -
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A Circuit-Level Model of Hippocampal, Entorhinal and Prefrontal Dynamics Underlying Rodent Maze Navigational Learning
(2010)Interactions between the hippocampus, parahippocampal regions and the prefrontal cortex are thought to underlie the formation, consolidation, and retrieval of short term memories and play an important role in the learning ... -
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A Climatology of 500 hPa Closed Lows in the Northeast Pacific, 1948-2011
(2012)The Northeast Pacific is a preferential location for the formation of closed low pressure systems. These slow moving, quasi-‐barotropic systems have the potential to produce or affect sustained precipitation episodes ...