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Returns to education in the Nevada hotel industry: Incentives for education in Nevada
… present study estimates returns to education in Nevada based on ideas found in human capital theory to provide insight into the incentives facing students or potential students in Nevada. Four industry/location categories were constructed using data from the Current Population Survey: the Las …
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Sierra Nevada Brewery Design Project
The Sierra Nevada Brewery senior design group, throughout this semester, completed a capstone design project for ChE 482. The project encompassed design of two chemical processes, one to produce beer and another to process brewery waste. To fulfill this assignment, research and calculations were …
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Seismic evaluation of the U3ax/bl landfill in the Area 3 Rwms, Nevada Test Site, Nevada
… Area 3 Radioactive Waste Management Site of the Nevada Test Site. The site evaluation included application of the Spectral-Analysis-of-Surface-Waves method to determine the low-strain shear modulus for the alluvium and landfill waste. The seismic hazard analysis included evaluation of potential …
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Benefit-Cost Analysis with Nevada Characteristics
… for transportation projects is crucial for Nevada's roadway system. Well-established prioritization frameworks are needed in order to accomplish the allocation of funding for projects that will provide the most benefit for its users. In Nevada, the Nevada Department of Transportation's …
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Modeling the rates of lead and strontium uptake by zeolitized tuff from Rainier Mesa, Nevada Test Site, Nevada
The fate and transport of contaminants released during nuclear testing at the NTS are partly controlled by interactions of their aqueous species with mineral surfaces. It has been shown that retardation of contaminants in the subsurface may be controlled by intraparticle mass transfer rather than …
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Keeping Up Appearances: Cosmetics in Sulphur, Nevada
Sulphur, Nevada is an abandoned mining settlement in northwestern Nevada that was settled in the early 20th century. Archaeological work conducted at the site in 2009 and 2010 revealed the presence of an unusual number of beauty-related artifacts, including artifacts related to skin and hair care. …
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Evolution of the Kingman Arch, southern Nevada
… Arch is a structurally high area in southern Nevada and northwestern Arizona that lies partially within the Colorado River Extensional Corridor. Apatite fission track and 40Ar/39Ar thermochronological analyses were conducted for granite samples collected from a 4.5 kilometer thick Precambrian …
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Nevada nurses attitudes toward mandatory continuing education
… population was nurses registered in the state of Nevada. A sample of 600 nurses was chosen using a stratified random selection method from a list of all Nevada nurses. The data were collected via mailed questionnaires. Frequency distributions and T-tests were utilized to analyze the data; The …
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Initial deposition in the Sevier foreland basin of southern Nevada: Conglomerates of the Cretaceous Willow Tank Formation, Clark County, Nevada
… surface of Jurassic Aztec Sandstone in southern Nevada. The conglomerate varies from 5.5 to 34.5 m in thickness and is composed of two compositionally distinct units. The lower conglomerate is composed of Precambrian and Ordovician metaquartz-arenites, and Triassic and Jurassic sedimentary …
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An Analysis of the Opioid Crisis in Nevada
This study examines the Nevada State Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) data from 2011 to 2017. While much of the research surrounding the National Opioid crisis focuses on overdose fatalities, this study seeks to examine the more understudied aspect of potential misuse, abuse and …
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Accessibility and Fairness of the Nevada Court System
… Thus this research sought to determine whether Nevada courts were accessible and fair. One might think, it is easy enough to determine by simply looking at who won or lost the case, however, it is not that simple. Research has shown that whether a person considers a court fair or not is less …
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Reproductive Ecology of Greater Sandhill Cranes in Nevada
… cranes (Grus canadensis tabida) in northeastern Nevada, USA, during 2009-2010. We monitored 161 nests and 101 colts and used a maximum-likelihood based approach to test multiple competing hypotheses and estimate daily survival rates, nest success, fledging success, and covariates. Daily survival …
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Hydrogeology of the Penoyer Valley region, Central Nevada
… in the vicinity of Penoyer Valley in central Nevada is part of the White River Flow system that drains from Jakes Valley in the north to Muddy River Springs in the south, a distance of 320 km (200mi). A four-basin subregion was modeled that indicates Penoyer, Garden, Coal, and Tikaboo Valleys …
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Concrete construction at naval ammunition depot, Hawthorne, Nevada
Thesis ()--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 1931
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Indian Uprisings in Humboldt County, Nevada 1861-1863
… only a small segment of a tumultuous period in Nevada history. The Comstock Lode and Virginia City are justly famous and much has been written their beginnings, but of the early days of two of the major mining towns in the Humboldt range of Nevada--namely, Unionville and Star City--and their …
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Hydrogeology of the Lower Humboldt River Basin, Nevada
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T19:14:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6303210.pdf: 6245830 bytes, checksum: 042d846ea1068a5beb15a916d04c75ca (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
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Geology of the sheep range Clark County, Nevada
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1980.
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Mid- to Late-Paleozoic Deformation On Buck Mountain, Nevada
… strata capping Buck Mountain in White Pine Co., Nevada, has documented two distinct episodes of folding. The structures and angular unconformities at Buck Mountain are consistent with late-Paleozoic deformation and regional unconformities documented previously elsewhere in northern and central …
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Population Dynamics of Willow Flycatchers in the Sierra Nevada
… exclusively in montane meadows in the Sierra Nevada and Cascades. Surveys in the 1980s and 1990s indicated that populations were declining in the south and central Sierra Nevada. My research focused on how multiple factors influenced reproductive performance of flycatchers and the implications …
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Business practice knowledge of advanced practice nurses in Nevada
… study discovers what business knowledge APNs in Nevada possess and their perception of its adequacy for practice; A 28-item questionnaire was mailed to all APNs registered with the Nevada State Board of Nursing. Eleven items describe the population. The remaining items address the research …
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