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Zamantakis, Alithia | The death of hetero and homo | "The Death of Hetero/Homo" is a theoretical examination of the ways in which sexuality, love, and desire are not merely abstract, innate concepts but have very real consequences as weapons in the process of abjection, particularly of trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming individuals. As gender ... | Sex (Psychology); Sex (Biology) | 2016-01 |
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Falvo, Jamie | Decomposition of ethnic wage gap in Utah and intermountain region | Hispanic workers on average earn less than white workers in both Utah and the Intermountain region. Average wage disparities in Utah and the Intermountain region are largely similar in magnitude, with various socioeconomic factors affecting these wage disparities. However, little is known about the ... | Income distribution - Utah; Wages - Utah | 2016-04 |
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Bracken, Kallie | Defining learning: mystifying machine learning as a powerful tool in a data-driven world | Until recently, the driving paradigm in software engineering has been to design applications for a predefined set of tasks. This approach, however, is quickly being dwarfed by data-driven applications which are designed to use knowledge and understanding to decide how they can best fulfill use... | Machine learning - Case studies; Machine learning - Study and Teaching; Machine Learning - Technique | 2016-04 |
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Lim, Koun (Kasha) | Deglycoyslation of glucose oxidase and its application within high power enzymatic fuel cells | To compensate for the increase of carbon dioxide level and the energy exhaust, an enzymatic fuel cell (EFC) has been investigated by researchers. In the paper, a chemical oxidative deglycosylation of an enzyme was investigated to furture improve EFCs. By deglycosylating an enzyme, the distance betwe... | Fuel cells - Research; Electric power - Research; Deglycosylation; Enzymatic fuel cell; Glucose oxidase | 2016-04 |
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Hopkins, Jacob | Design of a novel pediatric adaptive skiing system | Adaptive sports and recreational rehabilitation provide patients with experiences that cannot be achieved in a hospital or clinic. Of the many forms of adaptive equipment designed for children, only a few adaptive skiing systems are available and none are specifically designed for convenient adjusta... | Skiing for people with disabilities - Research; Adaptive skiing technology; Adaptive sports; recreational rehabilitation | 2016-05 |
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Matheson, Kristoffer | Design of a novel x-ray CT in situ experiment for imaging 3D deformation of aluminum foam materials | Open-cell metallic foams show excellent potential for lightweight load-bearing structural applications, electrodes in energy-storage devices, biomedical implants, and heat exchangers, to name a few. A key aspect in efficient and streamlined deployment of aluminum foams for these applications lie... | Foamed materials - Testing; Tomography - Research; Lightweight materials - Research; X-ray computed tomography; Aluminum foam materials; Load frame | 2016-04 |
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Gajiwala, Snehal | Determining the variability of depressive brain circuitry among healthy subjects for deep brain stimulation | Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is being evaluated to treat Treatment-Resistant Depression, though it has shown mixed results. We believe that variability within the fiber tracts of the brain may account for these outcome differences. In this study, we attempt to characterize this potential variation.... | Brain stimulation - Therapeutic use - Research; Depression, Mental - Treatment - Research; Deep brain stimulation; Depressive brain circuitry; Fiber tracts; Tractography | 2016-05 |
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Luo, Shirley | Development of a bioabsorbalbe active release antimicrobial coating for orthopedic implants | Orthopedic implantations often create an opportunity for biofilm-related infections to arise. Patients infected with biofilm must often undergo additional surgeries for repair or replacement, which puts them at a greater risk of osteomyelitis, sepsis, and other complications including death [17]. T... | Orthopedic implants - Research; Anti-infective agents - Research; Staphyloccoccal infections - Prevention and control - Research; Antimicrobial coating; Staphylococcus aureus | 2016-05 |
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Hensen, Emily | Distraction-based coping and emotion regulation difficulties as predictors of high-risk behavior | High-risk behaviors are correlated with current and future psychological problems. Past research s uggests that difficulties in emotion regulation may increase the likelihood of individuals engaging in high -risk behavior. Research also suggests that problem behaviors may be a function of experienti... | Risk-taking (Psychology) in adolescence | |
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Dart, Emily | Diversity and metabolic potential of microbial communities in a site of continental serpentinization | The geochemical process of serpentinization releases energy and organic carbon: two of the basic requirements need ed to support life. Sites of active serpentinization in the deep subsurface provide the intriguing possibility of a non-photosynthetically -supported biosphere. However, serpentinizatio... | Microbial ecology - Research; Serpentine - Environmental aspects; Gros Morne National Park (N.L.); Syntrophomonadaceae; Serpentinizaiton; Tabeland Ophiolite | 2016-05 |
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Stephens, Emily | Do children affect an abused parent's choice to seek treatment? | Intimate partner abuse is a major problem especially when there are children present. In attempt to stop the cycle of abuse, it is of critical importance to understand the impact children have on the relationships and the decision making process of those involved. I am conducting research to see ... | Family violence; Marital violence | 2016-05 |
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Lingenfelter, Isobel | Drawing the map | The act of recognition was painful at many levels of my personhood. If someone has ignored or treated you as if you did not exist, you can understand the pain that is generated by having a lack of recognition. To realize at the eco-psychology conference that I had been r... | Bears Ears National Monument (Utah); Inter-Tribal Coalition; Land management and environmental policy - United States | 2016-05 |
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Greenberg, Kevin | The effect the duration and location of rest breaks have on sustained attention and reaction time | Humans general system of sustained attention is susceptible to fatigue. The Attention Restoration Theory postulates when the system is fatigued exposure to natural environments may help to restore the fatigued resources. However, the duration and location of exposure needed is unknown, therefore the... | Rest periods; Hours of labor | 2016-04 |
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Lebrecht, Maranda | Effects of ventilatory regimens on the prevalence of a common gastrointestinal disease in neonates | Necrotizing Enterocolitis, or NEC, is a common intestinal disease of preterm neonates. It is believed that bacterial colonization increases the risk of NEC. This study examines whether the type of ventilation of the neonate, either mechanical ventilation (MV) or non-invasive support (NIS), and the ... | Enterocolitis, Neonatal necrotizing - Research; Newborn infants - Diseases; Sheep as laboratory animals - Research; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Lymphocytes | 2016-05 |
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Lipman, Joshua | Environmental ethics in the Book of Mormon | Current LDS environmental theology, championed by George Handley, includes critiques of Mormon pioneer history, analyses of the Doctrine of Covenants (the LDS book of laws), and LDS influenced nature writing such as the work of Terry Tempest-Williams. However the lack of ecological thought dedicated... | Book of Mormon - Criticism, interpretation, etc | 2014-12 |
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Victorine, Paige | Examining the DBT ways of coping checklist and therapist expectancies as predictors of success in DBT gift group participants | Researchers have long focused on which variables play a role in managing the stress-illness relationship, and more specifically, emotion dysregulation (Linehan, 1993; McCrae, 1984). The current study examined psychologically dysregulated individuals (n=22), who had been recommended by their primary... | Dialectical behavior therapy | 2016-04 |
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Flach, Brian | Examining the effects of whisker trimming on mouse brain cell growth | Hoxb8 microglia are a particular breed of scavenger cells in the brain which have been related to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)-like behavior among other behavioral disorders. These cells have been found to reach full maturity during a period of neurological development known as the critical ... | Obsessive-compulsive disorder - Research; Microglia - Research; Mice as laboratory animals - Research; Whiskers; Scavenger cells; Hoxb8 microglia | 2016-04 |
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Fine, Keli | Executive functioning and grade point average in college students | Research has demonstrated a positive correlation between Executive Functioning (EF) and Grade Point Average (GPA; Duckworth, Tsukayama, & May, 2010; Latzman, Elkovitch, Young, & Clark, 2010; Knouse, Feldman, & Blevins, 2014). However, previous studies have failed to give a comprehensive view of all ... | Executive functions (Neuropsychology); Academic achievement | 2014-12 |
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Kim, Jean | Female labor participation in South Korea: implications of policy and culture | South Korea, although being a highly developed nation, surprisingly exhibits a lower female labor participation rate when compared to other countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), such as the United States. The percent of Korean women in the workfor... | Policy - South Korea; Culture - South Korea; Female labor - South Korea | 2015-04 |
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Cook, Elizabeth | Fidelity to the sheltered instruction observation protocol (SIOP): Is it possible? | There are many English Language Learners (ELLs) present in today's school system. Many of them are actually native U. S. Citizens. However there is a large gap between the learning of ELLs and their native English speaking peers. There are many programs the at have been suggested and used to make th... | Observation (Educational method); Teachers - Training of; English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers | 2016-04 |
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Longino, Erika | Field guide for the inquisitive urban ecologist | This thesis consists of an independent mixed-media publication, or zine, which explores five specific case studies that demonstrate urban ecology. These projects exemplify urban ecological thinking and can be used as a field guide to understanding the urban landscape in Salt Lake City, Utah. These ... | Urban ecology (Sociology); City planning - Environmental aspects | 2014-12 |
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Dean, Courtney | Food Aid or Industry Subsidy? the Power Dynamics of How the U.S. Feeds the World | In the 1950s the United States passed Public Law 480 and officially took up the cause of international food aid. Today, the United States is the largest provider of food assistance in the world accounting for over 50% of all aid. While other counties have stepped back or shifted their commitments t... | Public law - United States - History | 2016-08 |
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Bowen, Brady | Fractal geometry of melt ponds: Modeling the fractal geometry of arctic melt ponds using the level sets of random surfaces | During the late spring, most of the Arctic Ocean is covered by sea ice with a layer of snow on top. As the snow and sea ice begin to melt, water collects on the surface to form melt ponds. As melting progresses, sparse, disconnected ponds coalesce to form complex, self-similar structures which are c... | Melt pond geometry | 2016-04 |
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Herbert-Voss, Ariel | Generating audio mixtures using deep convolutional neural networks | Deep neural networks have recently been used in a generative capacity to separate and convolve the content and style of two input images. This is done using a joint cost function during gradient descent that encodes information about style and content to iteratively calculate forward node activation... | Computer sound processing; Computer music; Machine learning; Neural networks; Audio mixtures; Spectrograms; Split integer scaling | 2016-05 |
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Acosta, Lehi | Genotype-dependent susceptibility to influenza and titer-virulence discordance | The influenza a virus (IAV) is a major source of human mortality and both recent and anticipated pandemics make understanding this major human pathogen of paramount importance1,2. The use of mouse models allows us to experimentally manipulate critical variables to more fully understand the dynamics ... | Influenza A virus - Research; Mice as laboratory animals - Research; Transmissibility; Virulence; Viral titers; Erythropoeintin | 2016-05 |