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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 ... -
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A Combined Functional Data & Mixture Models Approach for Modeling and Classification of Nanomotions
(2021)Nanoscale motion was shown as a new, nonchemical form of detection of life in Kasas et al. (2015). The applications of this technique span from medicine to detection of life in extreme and possibly extraterrestrial ... -
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A Comparative Case Study: The Expectations and Experiences of Current and Aspiring Female Secondary Assistant Principals
(2022)The assistant principal role is often a critical stepping stone in educational leadership. The position provides a great deal of exposure and experience between classroom teacher and the principalship. However, there are ... -
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A Comparative Study of Life and Death at Middle Stone Age Open--Air Sites within the Southern African Interior
(2012)The purpose of this dissertation is to determine the agent(s) of accumulation for the fossil bone assemblages from Bundu Farm and Pniel 6, two Middle Stone Age (MSA), open-air archaeological sites located near seasonal ... -
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A Comparative Study on Support Vector Machines
(2017)In this thesis, we study Support Vector Machines (SVMs) for binary classification. We review literature on SVMs and other classification methods. We perform simulations to compare kernel functions found in selected R ... -
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A Comparison of ACT Values Procedures to Increase Valued Behaviors
(2017)In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), therapists use various procedures to identify and clarify clients’ personal values with the aim of increasing engagement in valued behaviors. This study sought to determine the ... -
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A Comparison of Effectiveness and Immersion of Different Gait Techniques in Virtual Reality
(2019)In the budding world of virtual reality, immersion is one of the greatest aspirations and challenges for developers. Giving a user the most immersion will allow for them to get the full experience of the application they ... -
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A Comparison of Geochemistry, Carbonate Mineralogy, and Argillic Alteration between the Dome Prospect and the Main Au Resource of the Donlin Creek Project in Southwest Alaska
(2010)The Donlin Creek project, located in southwestern Alaska, contains a measured and indicated resource of ~35 Moz of Au, with an inferred resource of 4 Moz. This district is spatially associated with a base-metal prospect ... -
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A Comparison of Massively Parallel Programming Models Through Applications in Sound Propagation and Jitter Measurement
(2014)As the era of Moore's Law and increasing CPU clock rates nears its stopping point the focus of chip and hardware design has shifted to increasing the number of computation cores present on the chip. This increase can be ... -
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A Comparison of Pre-and Post WWII Suburbs in Reno, Nevada
(2010)Following World War II, a profound shift occurred in the design of American suburbs. This thesis explores the differences between American suburbs constructed immediately prior to and following World War II. Certain ...