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Waging Undeclared War: Development of Thematically-Based Curriculum on America’s Militaristic Endeavors (2010-1945)
(2010)In the classroom today, content objectives tend to be emphasized over real-life skills such as critical thinking because of the nature of the schooling system. Today’s teachers are being forced to adhere to the standards ... -
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Walking Through the Progressive Era in the Jenness Miller Boots
(2022)The Progressive Era of 1880-1920 saw the development of a variety of reform programs and progressive ideas. This thesis explores Annie Jenness Miller (1895-1939) and the Jenness Miller Boots she created. My research examines ... -
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Wallpapering the Hyperbolic Plane: Discrete Subgroups Of the Euclidean and Hyperbolic Planes
(2014)The question driving this thesis is, \lq\lq{}What are the hyperbolic analogues of the Euclidean wallpaper groups?\rq\rq{}We first investigate symmetry groups of the Euclidean plane, the frieze and wallpaper groups, ... -
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Wallrock alteration vein structure and preliminary fluid-inclusion studies, Gooseberry Mine, Storey County, Nevada
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1985)The Gooseberry vein is a precious-metal, epithermal, calcite-quartz vein deposited in Tertiary volcanics along the east-west trending Gooseberry fault. Propylitized rocks envelop this fault and the north-northeast trending ... -
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War Born Sport: the Evolution of Horse Show Jumping
(2012)Horse show jumping is largely a sport without a known history. There is not an official written history of the sport, but some riders were taught aspects of oral history about the sport. The lack of knowledge about show ... -
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WAS THAT WRONG? SPONTANEITY’S ROLE IN JUDICIAL DISCIPLINE ALLEGATIONS
(2022)The public’s confidence in the judicial system is generally determined by the integrity of those entrusted to preside over disputes. Judicial integrity in all 50 states and the District of Columbia is ensured, in part, by ... -
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Washoe Redux: Territory, Sovereignty, and Anthropologists
(2012)Adding to the small body of historical and ethnohistorical scholarship on the Washoe Indians, including the works of James Downs, Jo Ann Nevers, and Mathew Makley, this thesis traces the route followed by the Washoe Indians ... -
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Waste Aeon / Materiality and Waste: Finding Aesthetic Meaning in the Everyday
(2022)Objects of shared reality define the aesthetic of our current age, the age of the Anthropocene. The objects I am referring to are the conventionally recognized forms and structures that direct, encourage, and sustain our ... -
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Wastewater Treatment Design: NAS Fallon WWTP
(2014)A new wastewater treatment facility is needed at Naval Air Station (NAS) Fallon. NAS Fallon recently became the new home for the Naval Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN), ensuring that the base will remain highly active for ... -
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Watching Washington Work: Exploring Online Home Style
(2015)Understanding the relationship between U.S. Congressional representatives and their constituents is complicated. Some conclude representative behavior is determined by the representative's perception of the district, or ... -
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Watching Women Eat: A Critique of Magical Eating and Mukbang Videos
(2020)AbstractThis project interrogates how Mukbang shows in online spaces both function to rebel while simultaneously reinscribe hegemonic thinness culture. Through the audience’s discourse and the way viewers discuss women ... -
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Water and Energy Budgets of Snow-Covered Montane Forests: Observations, Remote Sensing, and Modeling
(2022)Montane forests provide essential freshwater resources to the local ecosystems and downstream communities worldwide. Climate change is altering the energy and water budgets of montane forests; however, the magnitude and ... -
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Water and Heat Fluxes in a Channel Bar Compared with Adjacent Streambed and Streambank
(2009)Channel bars are a dominant in-stream geomorphic feature present throughout the western United States in a large range of river classes. A study area in the Truckee River in northwestern Nevada was used to quantitatively ... -
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Water as a Weapon in Syria and Iraq: The self-proclaimed Islamic State and the War for Water and Power
(2016)The self-proclaimed Islamic State is targeting water supplies throughout Syria and Iraq. This manipulation of water resources combined with seasonally hot and dry years, increasing populations and urbanization, and decrease ... -
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Water chemistry reconnaissance geochemical modeling in the Meadow Valley Wash area, southern Nevada
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1987)The study area groundwater system encompasses Coyote Springs, Kane Springs, Moapa and Meadow Valleys. The geology is dominated by Paleozoic carbonates to the north, and younger alluvium and lacustrine deposits to the south. ... -
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Water Managers’ Perceptions of the Utility of Seasonal Forecasts in Nevada
(2022)Nevada is the driest state in the United States and is subject to recurrent drought even without the influence of climate change. As a result, careful water management is critical in meeting the needs of the three million ... -
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Water Quality Modeling Approach to Investigate Nutrient Criteria on the South Fork Humboldt Reservoir, Nevada
(2011)The development of nutrient criteria for reservoir-river systems requires theconsideration of downstream impacts, a difficult variable to quantify in arid environmentswith highly productive periphyton conditions. The South ... -
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Water requirements, fertility, and characterization of liver epigenetic markers during periods of negative energy balance and subsequent compensatory growth in beef cattle
(2021)Thirteen crossbred Angus × Hereford bulls [29.6 ± 3.4 mo.; initial body weight (BW) = 715 ± 36.1 kg] were group-housed in a feedlot equipped with an automated water system for 30 d (adaption) + 168 d (trial). Data was ... -
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Water resources of Warm Springs Valley, Washoe County, Nevada
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1968)A large portion of Warm Springs Valley, located about 20 miles northeast of Reno, Washoe County Nevada, is being considered for development as an industrial test complex by North American Rockwell Corporation. The water ... -
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Water transport in desert alluvial soil
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1981)Water transport in desert alluvial soil was studied. The influence of heat flow in soils and vapor transport was investigated in addition to saturated and unsaturated transport. The hydraulic conductivity and infiltrations ...