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Salt Mineralogy of Las Vegas Wash, Nevada

Soil Science Society of America Journal, 2006
Las Vegas Wash drains the Las Vegas Basin in Nevada by capturing a series of tributaries and ending in Lake Mead and is being developed into an urban wetland. The soils are part of the Land series and contain high concentrations of pedogenic salts because of local sulfate‐rich parent materials and high evapotranspiration rates. These salts cause damage
Brenda J. Buck   +3 more
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Las Vegas, Nevada hosting pandemic destination weddings

Current Issues in Tourism, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a disruptive impact on social life including the decision to marry. We suggest ways of examining the impacts of pandemics on destination weddings and provide a brief example of analysis on Las Vegas wedding under Covid-19. Specifically, a Break-Point regression using data from Clark County, Nevada treated marriages as the ...
Billie Ann Brotman, Brett Katzman
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Practices of Vitamin D Recommendation in Las Vegas, Nevada

Journal of Human Lactation, 2004
Reports of vitamin D deficiency rickets, although rare in the United States, have increased over the past few years, including in children living in climates with abundant sunshine. The purpose of this study was to describe vitamin D recommendation practices among pediatric health care providers in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Ulfat, Shaikh, Patricia T, Alpert
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Materials Research at University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Materials Science Forum, 2016
High-pressure studies on thermoelectric materials allow the study of the relationship between structural, elastic, and electronic properties. The High Pressure Science and Engineering Center (HiPSEC) at UNLV performs interdisciplinary research on a wide variety of materials at high pressures. One such system, CrSi2 is an indirect band gap semiconductor
Ravhi S. Kumar   +2 more
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Utopia, Nevada: Las Vegas and American Nonfiction

Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2007
Abstract This essay examines Las Vegas nonfiction by paying particular attention to the utopian function of the city in American aesthetics and to the dystopian energies of those literary texts positioned in the tradition of the New Journalism.
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Engineering with Heavily Cemented Soils in Las Vegas, Nevada

Problematic Soils and Rocks and In Situ Characterization, 2007
The material commonly known to engineers in Las Vegas, Nevada, as “caliche” results from cementation of sediments, both fineand coarse-grained, calcium carbonate precipitated in soils where evaporation exceeds precipitation. For engineering purposes, caliche is defined as a rock-like material that occurs in soil deposits erratically in thickness ...
J. L. Werle, B. Luke
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