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Naming, Remembering, and Experiencing We’ lmelt’ iʔ [northern Washoe] Cultural Spaces in Wa she shu It Deh [Washoe Land]
(2019)Few anthropological investigations have involved or characterized the northern Washoe area, and Washoe families residing in these places experienced effects of European settlement and development first, and they moved or ... -
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Nanobiocatalytic Degradation of Acid Orange 7
(2010)The catalytic properties of various metal nanoparticles have led to their use in environmental remediation applications. However, these remediation strategies are limited by their ability to deliver ... -
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Narrative Art: A Story for My Own Sake
(2016)The French, English, and Americans all created narrative art during the Victorian era which did not take influence from another but, instead, each country’s artists, such as Richard and Laurent from France, Frith and Hogarth ... -
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Narrative Embodiments: Embodied Cognition in the Post 1945 American Novel
(2018)Drawing on ideas from the increasingly influential field of embodied cognition (including work from neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers of the mind) and formalist theories of the novel, specifically those of ... -
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National (Be)Longing: American Imperialism and Identity Formation in Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
(2014)In this project, I examine narrative strategies used by writers of the American West to create, discuss and critique "American" identities. The work of contemporary multi-ethnic US authors including Jessica Hagedorn's ... -
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Nationalism and Issue Saliency: A Mixed-Method Analysis of Eastern Europe and Russia
(2018)In three articles, my dissertation examines nationalism in the context of Eastern Europe. Overall, the argument put forward in the dissertation is that nationalism can take a variety of forms, and the mechanism behind ... -
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Natural air drying of diatomaceous earth
(University of Nevada, Reno, 1956)The fact that diatomaceous earth dries in air has been known and used for some time (1) (2). Research in the literature showed that no work had been done on natural air drying, probably because only semi-quantitative results ... -
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Natural Resource Needs Assessment Survey and a Nonmarket Valuation Study of Nevada's Big Game Hunts
(2020)This thesis has four parts. First, we discuss natural resource conservation in Nevada. Second, we describe the development and implementation of a general population natural resource needs assessment survey. Third, we ... -
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Nature’s Stories Preserved in Museums: The value and utility of Natural History Collections for Ecology, Biogeography, and Biodiversity.
(2022)Natural history collections are hosed in very important institutions called museums, and they play an essential role in documenting species and to let people be educated about ecology, biogeography, and conservation ... -
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Navigating Cyberthreat Intelligence with CYBEX-P: Dashboard Design and User Experience
(2021)As the world’s data exponentially grows, two major problems increasingly need to be solved. The first is how to interpret large and complex datasets so that actionable insight can be achieved. The second is how to effectively ... -
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Navigating Novel Hostilities: A Story of Cooperation between Armed Political Groups and Their Perception of Threat
(2018)This research engages the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. In 2011, the region fell under the influence of a revolutionary wave known as the Arab Spring. Almost a decade later, effects of pro-democracy uprisings, which ... -
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Navigating Virtual Environments At Scale
(2017)Using real walking for virtual exploration generally delivers most immersive VR experience, however, it is limited by the availability of physical tracking space.Virtual spaces beyond the size of tracked space are inaccessible. ... -
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NCS: Neuron Models, User Interface, and Modeling
(2014)Neuroscientists conduct experiments at different scales from molecules to system level to gain insights into various brain functions. When in vivo and in vitro experiments are hard to perform, neural simulators are very ... -
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Near-Surface Air Temperature in Complex Terrain: Daily Predictions of Fine-Scale (30 m) Temperature in the Snake Range, Nevada, USA
(2015)Air temperature is arguably the most important component of the mountain climate, and scientists have been studying it for centuries. Recently, researchers have used arrays of inexpensive temperature sensors to observe and ... -
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“Necesito Un Psicologo” A Behavioral Activation Telenovela Intervention for Depressed Latinas"
(2022)Latinxs in the U.S. experience considerable rates of depression. Behavioral Activation (BA) is an empiricallysupported intervention used effectively to reduce depressive symptoms among this population. Unfortunately, despite ... -
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“Necesito Un Psicologo” A Behavioral Activation Telenovela Intervention for Depressed Latinas"
(2023)Latinxs in the U.S. experience considerable rates of depression. Behavioral Activation (BA) is an empiricallysupported intervention used effectively to reduce depressive symptoms among this population. Unfortunately, despite ... -
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Negotiating a deal or negotiating our conversation?: A dyadic, experimental approach to the impact of suspicion upon changes in conversational goals
(2016)The purpose of the study is to investigate suspicion as a predictor in changing conversational goals during a negotiation. To test this theorized relationship, dyads (n = 78) simulated a negotiation with one person taking ... -
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Neighbors in Exclusion: State Proposal of Anti-LGBTQ Legislation
(2018)Abstract: In its landmark rulings on U.S. v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges, the United States Supreme Court affirmed same sex couples’ right to marry and equal protection under the law. 2015 was believed to be a turning ... -
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Neo and paleo-limnological response to nutrient, climate, and volcanic stressors over the past 100 years at Butte, Manzanita, and Widow lakes in Lassen Volcanic National Park (CA, USA)
(2018)Modern limnological data, catchment characteristics, and paleolimnological data for Butte, Manzanita, and Widow lakes in Lassen Volcanic National Park (LAVO) (CA, USA) were analyzed to investigate lake response to nutrient, ... -
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NeoCortical Virtual Robot: a framework to allow simulated brains to interact with a virtual reality environment
(2015)The NCS (NeoCortical Simulator) is a neural network simulator that can simulate small brains in real time. Since brains learn by interacting with the world, we created the NeoCortical Virtual Robot framework, which allows ...
