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Diehl, Eric M. "Death Vegas Valley." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4266.
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My work explores hallucinatory landscapes of the US American West by using a combination of painting styles outside of the Western painting canon. I cross-reference painting and cinema, interweaving video, acrylic paint and the panorama to create a satirical homage to the history and present state of the USA. However, through an earnest devotion to the medium - both painting and cinema - I find my criticisms also yearn to hold onto a belief in a myth I know to be false.
This is an American History conversation about artifice and consumerism through advertising. I use Las Vegas and the Mojave Desert as my metaphor. Las Vegas’ rapidly expanding population has displaced actual plants and animals to replace them with artificial sculptures of the desert cactus and coyote. This desert landscape occupies what was previously Mexico and before that Indigenous lands. TV and hallucinogens play a part in my work - as a means to tap into the psychological staticky holiness of the desert, and I use certain painting techniques to mimic the optical effects of these phenomena. These techniques reference my experience with theater backdrop painting and psychedelic movie posters as well as kitsch hobbyist landscape painting. My focus is the specific territory outside of the National Parks service, the government lands leased to mining companies and housing developers. These are the mystical desert tracts of spacious landscape, just as ecologically important to the whole, yet considered “not quite pretty enough” to warrant a National Park sign or roaming ranger.
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Burke, Megan. "RESTORATION OF THE LAS VEGAS WASH AND ASSOCIATED WETLANDS IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA." Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621704.
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This paper evaluates the historical growth of the Las Vegas Wash, its subsequent degradation, and the current efforts to restore and stabilize its channel. The Las Vegas Valley Metropolitan Area is located in the Mohave Desert in a drainage basin surrounded by mountain ranges. This drainage basin and its dynamic system of stream channels constitute the Las Vegas Watershed in which the Wash is located. The condition of the Las Vegas Wash is unique, as is a perennial stream that evolved from an ephemeral wash in response to the rapid urbanization and subsequent production of treated wastewater input into the stream channel. The situation has created a series of wetland ecosystems along the Wash, and valuable riparian habitat in such an arid environment. The Wash and its associated wetlands system provide a variety of ecological services to the city of Las Vegas, including storm water conveyance, wastewater effluent filtration, flood protection, and a green space for residents to enjoy. However, continuous increase in volume and intensity of the stream flow has resulted in severe channel degradation and bank erosion in numerous locations along the stream channel. After an examination of the historic and present-day conditions of the Wash and its restoration activities, this essay suggests that future evaluations of the Las Vegas Wash case study may provide evidence to support the propagation of collaborative management efforts.
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Huntra, Patcha. "Climate Effects on Water Consumption in Las Vegas Nevada." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1511867565654703.
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Craig, Jill E., and Scott R. Abella. "Vegetation of Grassy Remnants in the Las Vegas Valley, Southern Nevada." University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/555934.
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The approximately 1000-km² Las Vegas Valley contains a rich assemblage of unique plant communities in the eastern Mojave Desert. Yet, there is little published documentation of this vegetation as its destruction continues with proceeding urban development. Development has intensified after the 1998 Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act mandated the disposal of federal lands. We document plant communities at four unique grassy remnants, some of which have since been destroyed, in the southwestern Las Vegas Valley. Sample plots of 0.25 or 0.09 ha at each site contained washes (supporting catclaw [Acacia greggii] at three sites) and associated uplands. Native perennial grasses comprised 12% of plant species richness/100 m2 and 5% of total relative cover on average. A total of 8 native perennial grasses were detected at the four sites, with predominant species including fluff grass (Dasyochloa pulchella), purple three-awn (Aristida purpurea), big galleta (Pleuraphis rigida), red grama (Bouteloua trifida), and slim tridens (Tridens muticus). These communities appeared as grass-shrublands, rather than the widespread shrublands commonly described for the Mojave Desert. Of large shrubs at the three sites containing catclaw, catclaw density ranged from 52-124/ha, Mojave yucca (Yucca schidigera) from 8-32/ha, and creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) from 168-456/ha. We also obtained permission to salvage native plants from one site prior to land development. Overall survival of salvaged plants of eight species exceeded 76% after one year of greenhouse/outdoor storage. We suggest that while many opportunities have already been lost, collecting and documenting information on the rich vegetation of the Las Vegas Valley and salvaging native plants or seed for use in desert landscaping, parks and habitat improvement in protected areas would leave a future legacy of this ecologically unique region.
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Williams, Jewdeia Louise. "A closer look at the Nevada Arts Council in Las Vegas and Carson City, Nevada, summer 1998." ScholarWorks@UNO, 1999. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/aa_rpts/96.
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In the Arts Administration Program each student must complete his/her degree by submitting a thorough report based on his/her required internship. This report is very significant because it demonstrates a mature grasp of Arts Administration crucial issues, a sound knowledge of basic management and marketing concepts, and the ability to function constructively and creatively in the arts field or a nonprofit organization. This particular Arts Administration report is the result of the research and experience of Jewdeia Williams at the Nevada Arts Council located in Las Vegas and Carson City, Nevada in the Summer and Fall of 1998. It is a brief overview of the Nevada Arts Council's history, mission, and goals to give a better sense of the organization's purpose. The Nevada Arts Council's programs, services and its mission are summarized. The summary focuses on the program and services goals for FY 98-FY 00. A description of the internship, which concentrates on the duties and tasks while at the Nevada Arts Council's Las Vegas office, is given. An in-depth description of the Community Arts Development Program is explained from the onset of the program through the completion of the internship. Recommendations for changes within the organization are provided in order to show how Nevada Arts Council can improve. Finally, the intern's short and long term contributions are explained in order to show how Arts Administration students can have a positive effect on any organization.
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Katzer, Terry, and Kay Brothers. "Perils of Progress - Hydrogeological Hazards in Las Vegas Valley, Clark County, Nevada." Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/296423.
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From the Proceedings of the 1989 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Association and the Hydrology Section - Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science - April 15, 1989, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NevadaThe prehistoric Indian population in Las Vegas Valley found abundant water for their needs from springs flowing from the base of numerous fault scarps throughout the valley. The faults are generally considered to be compaction faults caused in part by subsidence resulting from dewatering aquifers as the climate became dry and warm during the interglacial periods of the Pleistocene. The valley's aquifers, for historical purposes, eventually reached steady state conditions which lasted through nearly the first half of this century. Urban growth then created a demand for water that was satisfied by overdrafting the ground-water system, which reactivated subsidence. Today, subsidence effects cover about 1,000-1,300 km² of the valley and the maximum vertical displacement is about 1.5 m. As the demand for water continued to increase with population, large imports from the Colorado River via Lake Mead provided abundant water, which helped create additional hazards: a rising shallow water table, resulting from over irrigating landscapes (secondary recharge), intersects land surface in places in the central and eastern part of the valley creating a hazard to structures and facilities; the potential increases in liquefaction; and, the potential for degradation of the deep aquifers from downward percolation of the poorer quality water from the shallow system.
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Cook, Kellie Constance. "Off Center Any Other Time." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4002.
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This collection of work contains poems that are attempting to reach a sense of understanding about the past in regard to place, landscape, architecture, and memory in relation to the self--the speaker, the self-imposed I. The perception of memory, and in particular the prevalence of false memories surrounding place and person are of major concern in this collection, along with the historical and personal narratives moving out of a voice rooted in the Mojave Desert, and in particular, Las Vegas, Nevada. These poems are working through the speaker’s complicated relationship with the desert, and the erosion of place, of home. These poems are an effort to recognize what it means to learn from the desert, to learn from Las Vegas.
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Quaglia, Serena. "Dancing the megamusical in Las Vegas, an ethnography of dance in popular culture, EFX at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq43399.pdf.
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Chen, Bao Yu. "The effect of economic recession on casino revenue, evidences from Las Vegas and Macau." Thesis, University of Macau, 2012. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2580207.
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Papiez, Maria R. "The impacts of reactive terpene emissions from plants on air quality in Las Vegas, Nevada." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2007. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1442862.
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Yang, Heng. "The hydrologic effects of climate change and urbanization in the Las Vegas Wash Watershed, Nevada." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1384334002.
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Strauss, Jessalynn Rosalia. "Obligation as a relationship antecedent: A qualitative case study of the Las Vegas community." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11183.
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xvi, 207 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.This research develops Broom, Casey and Ritchey's (1997) concept of relationship antecedents, suggesting moral obligation as a non-consequential relationship antecedent. By using Bivins's (2009) classification of moral and functional obligations, this research suggests that nonprofit managers perceive a moral obligation on the part of gaming corporations to establish relationships that can benefit the local community. Where a functional obligation would affect the corporation's ability to do business, the moral obligation is non-consequential and falls outside the parameters of the six consequential relationship antecedents identified by Grunig and Huang (2000). Business ethicists have long debated the need for corporate social responsibility, broadly defined as the idea that a corporation has a responsibility to society separate from its profit-making obligation to stockholders. This research looks at corporate social responsibility in the gaming industry in Las Vegas, examining nonprofit managers' expectations for these corporations to contribute to the local community. This study examines through qualitative interviews these managers' perceptions about the responsibility of gaming corporations to participate in and give back to the local community. This research also sheds light on Las Vegas, NV, recognized more often for its architecture and cultural zeitgeist than for the contours of its community. A background section on Las Vegas history and its development as a tourist destination provides context for an examination of the ways Las Vegas's nonprofit organizations interact with the city's dominant industry. Nonprofit managers perceive gaming corporations as under- involved in the local community; in addition, they believe the community is under- informed about these efforts, potentially leading to a low level of civic engagement. This research also examines corporate social responsibility in the context of the economic downturn that began September 2008. Because Las Vegas's economy is so heavily dependent on the gaming and tourism industries, the city provides an excellent location in which to examine how economic forces affect corporate social responsibility efforts. The significant decline in CSR from the gaming corporations, as reported by nonprofit managers. suggests an orientation to CSR that is more functional than moral.
Committee in charge: Patricia Curtin, Chairperson, Journalism and Communication; Tiffany Gallicano, Member, Journalism and Communication; Thomas Bivins, Member, Journalism and Communication; Renee Irvin, Outside Member, Planning Public Policy & Mgmt
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Croft, Amy A. "Assessing Plant Community Structure in the Upper Las Vegas Wash Conservation Transfer Area, Nevada: The Influence of Biotic and Abiotic Variables." DigitalCommons@USU, 2016. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/5005.
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Ecological communities are complex, the structure of which is composed of interactions between multiple community characteristics and the abiotic and biotic factors shaping them. Because of this complexity, ecological studies are generally limited in scope and size, often dissecting communities into their component parts to examine them piece by piece. While this might be the most practical method to study communities, this approach often neglects other characteristics that, with their inclusion, would provide a more complete picture of community ecology. The studies described in this dissertation were conducted in an effort to synthesize the complexity that is inherent in ecological plant communities growing on a Mojave Desert bajada. Each study addresses a separate component of community structure, which, taken as a whole, provides a more thorough understanding of arid plant community dynamics. Overall, our results reveal the importance of substrate variables and their role in shaping plant community structure in arid environments. In addition, these investigations provide evidence of the strong role that facilitation plays on this bajada and possibly arid plant communities as a whole. The comprehensive approach described in this dissertation will enable ecologists to gain a more complete understanding of community dynamics and apply this knowledge to various climate change and land management scenarios.
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Proulx, Monica W. "A Floristic Survey of the Lichens of the Spring Mountains, Nevada, USA." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2899.
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This thesis is the culmination of a graduate research project involving a floristic survey of the lichens of the Spring Mountain National Recreation Area (SMNRA), Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada. The project was based on extensive collections made between 1997 and 2007 as part of an air pollution biomonitoring program and a baseline established by Larry St. Clair (BYU). The Spring Mountains are a sky island mountain range in the Mojave Desert located less than an hour northwest of Las Vegas. A floristic survey of the lichen communities in the Spring Mountains represents a major addition to our understanding of the lichen flora of the Mojave Desert, a poorly studied region in western North America. This thesis also compares the lichen flora of the SMNRA with other lichen floras of the Mojave Desert based on a literature survey of all the lichen studies conducted in the Mojave Desert. The SMNRA species list represents 58% of the 217 species in 68 genera reported for the Mojave Desert. This survey of all reported Mojave lichen species reveals several interesting interactions related to species diversity, substrate, and growth form distribution patterns. These interactions appear to be influenced by two general factors: Microhabitat conditions and available substrates – which are further defined by differences in geological substrates, occurrence and development of woody plant communities, and a combination of environmental factors – elevation, temperature, precipitation, and insolation. Drier and warmer habitats are generally dominated by crustose species with some, mostly smaller, foliose taxa in protected microhabitats usually with shaded or northern exposures. Fruticose species are generally lacking or sparse with smaller thalli when found in hot and dry habitats. All the fruticose species reported from the Mojave Desert sites were rare and had very small thalli. Many foliose and fruticose species, with larger, more complex thalli and thus greater surface area, are more susceptible to higher rates of water loss and therefore occur less frequently in extreme arid locations. The lichen communities in the Mojave Desert respond to sharp contrasts in microhabitat conditions with exposed, lower elevation sites having lower numbers of species along with more drought resistant growth forms – crustose and squamulose species. The Spring Mountains NRA, with high elevation mountains and well developed woody plant communities, accommodates a large variety of microhabitat conditions spread over a complex temperature and moisture gradient. These conditions have resulted in the highest species diversity (124 species in 48 genera) and the greatest number of foliose and corticolous species when compared with all of the other Mojave Desert lichen floras.
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Nelson, Michael Roy. "I. Paleomagnetism and crustal rotations along a shear zone, Las Vegas range, Southern Nevada ; II. Seismotectonics of the Tien Shan, Central Asia." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/54960.
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Moodley, Namoshini. "Work stress : the repercussions on family dynamics." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3930.
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This sociological study investigates the effects of work stress on family dynamics. Job demands, like heavy workload and working overtime, could have an effect on family members to fulfill role obligations and vital family functions according to Parsons’s, Murdock’s and Merton’s functionalist theories.
By employing qualitative research techniques, fifty in-depth interviews guided by an interview schedule are conducted. The three research questions or tentative hypotheses, based on the functionalist theory, are answered by the findings from the data gathered. An inductive strategy is used to gather and interpret data to eventually build new theory. Theory is grounded in the data, hence grounded theory. The findings are categorized in terms of the research questions and describe and explain how the family is affected when work stress is experienced by the employee and family member. Possible explanations are offered as to why this occurs. Recommendations for further research are also made.Sociology
M.A. (Sociology)