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Showing 1 to 20 of 340 for “"Reno"”.
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Reno at the Races: Sporting Life versus Progressive Reform
… Great Depression, month-long race meetings in Reno disbanded as Nevada opened itself to wide-open gambling.
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An Examination of the Reno Sparks Real Estate Bubble
… thesis is the metropolitan statistical area of Reno-Sparks, Nevada. The pre-bubble housing trends within the Reno-Sparks MSA are examined, as well as the "fundamental" factors that typically affect ("fundamental") prices. Theory is reviewed that offer explanations for how bubbles might form, …
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Station Delays, Their Standard Deviations, and Event Relocations in the Reno-Area Basin from a Dense USArray Flexible Array Deployment during the 2008 West Reno Earthquake Swarm
… context, to evaluate the seismic hazard of the Reno Basin, the Nevada Seismological Laboratory (NSL) conducted a citizen volunteer Reno Basin multiple instrument temporary deployment using USArray Flexible Array single-channel RefTek RT-125A (Texan) recorders. Stations were deployed at 106 …
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OUTnumbered: Assessing the LGBTQ Campus Climate at the University of Nevada, Reno
… (LGBTQ) students at the University of Nevada - Reno (UNR). An overall campus wide assessment for LGBTQ students had never been conducted. Furthermore, there was no data to assess the LGBTQ inclusiveness of the campus at UNR. This research was conducted at UNR from November 2016 to March 2017. …
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Comparative Evaluation of Field and Laboratory-Produced Foamed Asphalt Mixture from Reno, Nevada
… WMA mixtures from the Bravo Ave project in Reno, Nevada in comparison to respective laboratory-produced mixtures utilizing the same materials and mix design. Each mixture contained 15% RAP and was produced with a polymer-modified PG64-28NV asphalt binder. The rheological properties were …
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A comparison study of TCP protocol (RENO and SACK) in WLAN, LAN networks
… (NS2) programs for TCP Sack protocol and TCP Reno protocol for WLAN and LAN networks. In this project, the study performance metrics examined are network throughput, network congestion window (cwnd), and packet loss. Simulation experimental results have shown that the better TCP Reno has the …
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The foundation and Early Growth of Saint Mary's Hospital, Reno, Nevada 1908-1930
… without the story of Saint Mary's Hospital in Reno, Nevada, founded in 1907 and in continuous operation since then. The present study is an attempt to contribute this part Nevada’s medical history. Like all stories of pioneering, that of Saint Mary’s is one of struggles, near failures, and …
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Modello bayesiano per la riduzione dell'incertezza nella previsione delle piene del fiume Reno
… uncertainty in the discharge predictions for the Reno river. The ’a priori’ distribution function is given by an autoregressive model, while the likelihood function is provided by a linear equation which relates observed values of discharge in the past and hydrological TOPKAPI model predictions …
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Improving Reno Earthquake Hazard Assessment Through a Ground-Motion Model Analysis and Paleoseismic Study
… methods to assess earthquake hazards around Reno, Nevada. First, we evaluate the performance of the four NGA-West2 (2014) Active Crustal models, which are trained on a global dataset of ground motion recordings, in the context of the Reno area. We compare the NGA-West2 model estimates with a …
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Hispanic-Latino/a Youth Geographies of Commercial Space and Place in Wells Avenue, Reno, Nevada
… looks at the Wells Avenue commercial District in Reno, Nevada, which has been home to many Hispanic-Latino/a communities since the 1990s (Berry, 2004), and is now experiencing substantial change through preservation, conservation, and commercial revitalization efforts (Majewski, 2015; Palma & …
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Spatial and Temporal Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in Sewer Network in Reno-Sparks Metropolitan Area
COVID-19 disease, caused by SARS-COV-2 virus, strained public health entities and communities, which faced unprecedented challenges in implementing clinical testing to monitor and inform public on the spread of the disease. In the early stages of the pandemic, researchers indicted that the virus is …
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The effect of elderly housing on the housing supply in McPherson, Reno, and Rice counties, Kansas
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1979 S25
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Determining Heat Island Response to Varying Land Cover Changes Between 2004 and 2017 Within the City of Reno, Nevada
… urban heat island of the metropolitan area of Reno-Sparks, Nevada. Free and widely available thermal data from Landsat 7 ETM+ (Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus) sensor was gathered for a period between 2004 and 2017 and processed to at-satellite surface temperature. Using parcel data and the …
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Mapping the Experience of Home: Using Geospatial Perception Mapping to Understand Neighborhood Sense of Place in the Wells Avenue Neighborhood Conservation District, Reno, Nevada
… neighborhood, the second of its kind in Reno, Nevada. In an area usually looked at as a site for economic development and perhaps initiatives in historic preservation, there is little research undertaken through a cultural geographic lens aiming to understand how different communities in …
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Beliefs of Infant and Toddler Teachers in a Progressive Childcare Center: The Impact of Education and Experience
… Research Center on the University of Nevada, Reno campus. Specifically, this study explored possible relationships between teachers' progressive beliefs and their formal work experience and education. Current research was paired with Sociocultural Theory to frame the research questions …
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Wet Northface Teal
… is so often right, but so seldom observed, Reno, Nevada.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in and Beyond the Writing Classroom: Teaching Writing through Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Methods
… writing courses at the University of Nevada, Reno, one in GRI courses at the University of Nevada, Reno, and one based on survey data and course materials collected from writing instructors invested in DEI from across the U.S. Ultimately, the data revealed that those invested in DEI often …
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Investigation of the Aspects which Influence Reading Literacy in the Second-Grade Classroom and the General Music Classroom
The University of Nevada, Reno Libraries will promptly respond to removal requests related to content that violates intellectual property laws, data protections, or has been uploaded without creator consent. Takedown notices should be directed to our ScholarWolf team (scholarwolf@library.unr.edu) …
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