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Race in the NFLs most Critical Position: An Analysis of Draft Position, All Pro Selections, MVP Nods, and Performance among White and Nonwhite Quarterbacks
(2021)AbstractThe United States (U.S.) has a complicated history with race and racism. Sports withinthe U.S. reflect these historical challenges—and the National Football League (NFL) is no exception. Recent years have brought ... -
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Race Perception and the History of Racial Institutions
(2009)This study examines the two distinct camps within critical race theory, the first of which views race as a social construct without any scientific relevance, and the other which uses science to validate race as a determination ... -
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Racial imagery/mascots in professional sports: an American legacy
(2022)American sports teams at all levels have a history of employing racial imagery and mascots as a trademark, nickname, logo and for general marketing and merchandising purposes. Through the past decades some organizations ... -
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Racial Profiling in Reno Nevada
(2014)In the early 1990s, the topic of racial profiling by law enforcement agencies started to emerge into the arena of public scrutiny. After the State of Nevada did a study in 2001, which was claimed to be faulty, the City ... -
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Radiation Field Characterization using Autonomous Robots
(2018)Nuclear facilities contaminated with radioactive materials pose serious challenges for the agencies and workers tasked with their monitoring and decommissioning. Facilities such as the Hanford Site in Washington State were ... -
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Radiation from Precursor Plasmas of Cylindrical Wire Array and X-pinch Plasmas at 1-1.7 MA Current and Notable Spectroscopic Signatures of fs Laser Produced Plasmas
(2016)My research began with studying precursor plasma from cylindrical wire array (CWA) Z-pinches. Z-pinches are efficient X-ray generators which makes them interesting to many research fields including high energy density (HED) ... -
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Radiative properties of L-shell Mo and K-shell Al plasmas from planar and cylindrical wire arrays imploded at 1 MA Z-pinch generator
(2009)ABSTRACTUniversity-scale Z-pinch generators are able to produce plasmas within a broad range of temperatures, densities and opacity properties depending on the configuration, size and mass of wire array loads and wire ... -
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Radiative properties of Z-pinch and laser produced plasmas from mid-atomic-number materials
(2010)The investigation of Z-pinches on university-scale pulsed power generators allows for the study of plasmas with a broad range of temperatures, densities, and sizes in cost effective experiments. In particular, X-pinches ... -
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Radiative Transfer and Spectrophotometric Characterization of Mineral Dust Optics on Photovoltaic Cells
(2017)Efficiency of solar cells is degraded by deposition of mineral dust as well as other particles, and experiments reveal that losses can be significant (up to ~85%) depending on various factors. However, little is known about ... -
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Rags, Riches and Rye: Hobohemian Practice in Twentieth Century American Literature
(2016)This dissertation examines hobo symbolism in the literary works of the American writers Jack London, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson and Charles Bukowski. I argue that these authors utilize the social ... -
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Rainfall interception by mountain big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana)
(2020)Significant precipitation losses can occur due to interception, the process in which rain or snow is captured by plant canopies. In the sagebrush biome, projected shifts in precipitation patterns due to climate change may ... -
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Random Variate Generation from Generalized Inverse Gaussian Distribution
(2011)We consider the problem of random variate generation from generalized inverse Gaussian (GIG) distribution. The CDF of this distribution does not admit an explicit form, so the standard approach to simulation based its ... -
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Rape Myth Acceptance and the News Media
(2012)Ample research has been conducted on rape as a crime. In the past few decades, researchers have also begun to look at rape myths, which are “attitudes and beliefs that are generally false but are widely and persistently ... -
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Rapid Automatic Naming: A Parametric Analysis of Stimulus Density
(2019)Traditional education uses Rapid Automatic Naming (RAN) to identify students at risk of developing a deficient reading repertoire. Historically, RAN has been believed to be one of the strongest predictors of reading ability ... -
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Rapid Protein Degradation of JAZ6-tagged GFP in Yeast with the Induction of the Plant Hormone Jasmonic Acid
(2015)In biological systems, changing from one state to another can depend on gene repression, induction of new genes, and degradation of previously used proteins. The ability to quickly and inducibly degrade a signal, repressor, ... -
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Raptor ecology along an urban-rural gradient in Reno-Sparks, Nevada, USA
(2017)Urbanized landscapes contain some of the most complex and rapidly changing ecosystems found on Earth. The habitat characteristics of urban areas, such as noise level, building size and material, human activities, and ... -
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Rare earth elements in terrestrial waters: speciation modelling in acidic to alkaline waters
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1993)Three manuscripts are presented describing the rare earth element (REE) concentrations and behavior in terrestrial waters. These studies suggest that the pH, rock geochemistry, and the formation of stable REE complexes ... -
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Rates and Controls of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in the Great Basin, USA
(2019)Soils are important sources and sinks of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), two greenhouse gases with global warming potentials 30 and 300 times greater than carbon dioxide, respectively. However, soil CH4 and N2O ... -
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Rational Witt Classes of 4-Stranded Pretzel Knots
(2010)The rational Witt classes of knots are invariants related to knot concordance. Although they are somewhat weaker than other concordance invariants, for example, the algebraic concordance classes, they are much easier to ... -
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Re-Educating "Victims" and "Aggressors" of Violence: Mapping Discourse and Practice in a Mexican Violence Prevention Education Program
(2011)The international human rights movement against gendered violence provides a valuable site for understanding how new categories of meaning emerge and are applied to social practices around the world. Human rights discourse ...