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Anderson, Alex | East winds event of March 2019: the anomalous occurrence and wildfire impacts | The March 2019 East Winds event in Western Washington and the associated increased wildfire activity was very anomalous for the region and the time of year. In a three-day period, temperatures were about 20 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit above climatic normal temperatures and many maximum temperatures wer... | 2021 | |
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Pelaez, Guillermina Loyola | Ecological Literacy: Education and Ecological Consciousness | Current and future environmental issues reveal the urgency of raising an ecologically literate society that possesses the necessary skills to address the needs of a changing world. The future of all depends on lifelong learners whose actions and intellect are strongly tied to the environments that s... | 2017 | |
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Glauser, David | The economic effects of legalizing marijuana | Marijuana legalization would offer an important advantage over decriminalization in that it would allow for legal distribution and taxation of cannabis as well as decrease costly enforcement and incarceration expenses. Despite these costly enforcement efforts, marijuana is the most commonly used ill... | Marijuana - Political aspects - United States | 2012-05 |
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Williams, Sydney Porter | Education, art and Activism: Collecting the Stories of World-Changers | This thesis explores the idea of civically-engaged artwork that sparks conversation, specifically artwork created by young people, and often fostered by educators and community collaborators. For the purpose of this thesis, I define civically-engaged and activist art as art that is created with the ... | Activism; youth; art; civic-dialogue; community | 2020 |
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Groneman, Amanda | Educational Programming: A Coping and Distraction Trchnique in Pediatric Hospital Settings | The experience of hospitalization is a unique and typically difficult experience for most children. Many children's hospitals strive to provide various services to help children cope with the difficult emotions and distract them from the pain they may be feeling. In addition to Child Life Interventi... | 2018 | |
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Schryver, Hannah M. | EEG and cognitive correlates of elementary task performance | Studying human information processing allows researchers to better understand the operations of the human brain. While a large body of research has used reaction times and cognitive correlates to quantify information processing, electrophysiological correlates improve knowledge of cortical activity.... | Performance -- Measurement; Cognitive neuroscience; Electroencephalography | 2015-05 |
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Lavelle, Mark E. | Eeg time-Frequency Dynamics Associated with eye Blink Suppession | The majority of individuals with Tourette's Syndrome (TS) experience fluctuating, involuntary sensations which build in intensity until tics are performed. These sensations, termed premonitory urges (PUs), are described both as general states of unease and somatotopically specific sensations like he... | 2017 | |
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Lebrecht, Marley | The Effect of a Close Friendship on the Number of suicide Attempts Executed by Adolescent Girls | Adolescent suicide is the second leading cause of death in people ages 15-19, and the rates of adolescent suicide are rising. Research has focused on risk and protective factors for adolescent suicide, but the effects of friendship have received less attention. Existing research suggests that friend... | 2017 | |
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Chisholm, Zachary | The effect of ASC 842 on Asset acquisition by publicly traded U.S. companies | This thesis examines how U.S. companies responded to a change in lease accounting rules (ASC 842), which requires most leases to be reported in corporate financial statements with the goal of providing transparent disclosure of companies' noncancellable future financial obligations. Prior to ASC 842... | 2020 | |
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Singer, Emily | Effect of Covid-19 pandemic on oral health among uninsured populations | Introduction: It is extremely important to maintain optimal oral health. Accessibility to dental care is vital for uninsured low-income individuals. There is a deficit of research that examines oral healthcare seeking during the COVID-19 pandemic among uninsured low-income individuals. Objective: Th... | 2023 | |
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Curtis, Kaili Breann | The Effect of Inflammatory Components on Influenza a Virulence Evolution | The methodology for passaging influenza A virus in the mouse model has widely been established. However, traditional infection methods involving the inoculation of lung homogenates fail to account for the possible effects of host-associated factors on measures of virulence and in the virulence evolu... | 2020 | |
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Azadpour, Elmera | The Effect of Inorganic VS Organic Fertilizer on an Urban Lawn in Salt Lake City, Utah | While lawn management practices have altered the capacity for urban lawns to act as Nitrogen (N) sinks, there have been few studies of the effects of organic vs. inorganic fertilizer additions to urban lawns. We evaluated how foliar and soil N content and isotopic N composition (δ15N) varied as a r... | 2019 | |
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Kasera, Shalini | Effect of IUGR and supplemental DHA on molecular mediators of hepatic lipid accumulation in the rat | Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) refers to failure of the fetus to achieve its genetic growth potential in utero and is commonly caused by uteroplacental insufficiency secondary to maternal hypertensive disorders. A hallmark of IUGR is a decrease in circulating docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an �... | 2022 | |
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Hyer, Christina Cottrell | Effect of M1 Matrix Protein on Hemagglutinin Expression and Influenza Virus-Like Particle Production in Trichoplusia NI | Virus-like particles (VLPs) are a new and effective flu vaccine approach. VLPs are non-infectious and can produce robust immune responses. Flu VLPs are typically created by co-expressing the flu hemagglutinin (HA) surface antigen and the matrix protein M1-which assists in viral and VLP budding-in cu... | 2017 | |
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Arreguin, Jamine | The effect of mild traumatic brain injury on turning stability | Background: There are minimal studies that focus on the margin of stability (MoS) as a whole when looking at dynamic stability in gait for individuals with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Research on turning gait is important since it is common during daily life and has a high risk for falls and... | 2023 | |
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David, Maria | The Effect of Physician Altruism on Patient Health Outcomes in a Signaline Game | I construct a model for interactions between patients and physicians and use the model to explore which conditions are necessary for the patient to receive a certain quality of care. The model allows the patient, upon observing an illness, to choose between treatment or no treatment options while th... | 2017 | |
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Stephens, Mason | Effect of prolonged nature exposure on mindfulness and P300 Amplitude | This study utilized a quasi-experimental, within-subjects design to explore the effects of a 5-day nature immersion on perceived mindfulness, behavioral performance, and brain wave activity using Electroencephalography (EEG) to assess the amplitude of the P3a and P3b Event-Related Brain Potentials. ... | 2020 | |
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Ahlstrom, Aubrey | The Effect of Religion on Adolescent Development | Religion is something many people deeply value; the United States is even built on the right of free religion. The Pew Research Center estimates that only about 15.8% of Americans lack some sort of religious affiliation (2018). According to the same study, about 73% of Utahns are Christians, with 55... | 2019 | |
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Hoffman, Haley, Coleman, James; Turrill, Jonna; Medeiros-Ward, Nate; Strayer, David | The effect of technology use on distraction and safety in high school student pedestrians | The use of handheld technology in this country has grown at an exponential rate, and as a consequence younger generations are using these devices, often without the necessary precautions. Past research has shown that technology use presents an obvious distraction to drivers and pedestrians and poses... | Technology - Safety measures; Adolescent behavior | 2012-05 |
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Cyr, Amy | The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on women in higher education | In March of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed the course of life for most people in the world. This thesis aims to examine the effects that the COVID-19 pandemic had on women in higher education, specifically tracking the trajectories of undergraduate women in college. This thesis is a... | 2022 | |
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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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Astrid Ji | Effective portfolio diversification strategies in variouse economic conditions | This thesis examines the effectiveness of portfolio diversification strategies in inflationary periods by analyzing the performance of various portfolios in economic conditions before, during, and after inflationary periods. By analyzing historical data to a variety of 10 asset classes, this study p... | 2023 | |
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Hellige, Charles Joseph | Effective, Equitable Community engagement process: A case study of the participatory design process between the University of Utah and the Uintah-ouray reservation | In order to understand and strengthen the process of participatory design within the University of Utah's School of Architecture, this paper will analyze the case study of an undergraduate senior design studio using the participatory process to design a high school with the Northern Ute Tribe on the... | 2018 | |
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Brown, Jackson Ayers | The effects and general applicability of British influence in post-colonial Eswatini | In the building of new states in Sub-Saharan Africa following the long period of British colonialism, successful democracies have been few and far between. Eswatini, the main focus of this research, began as a democracy following its independence in 1968, but soon slid into authoritarianism. Today, ... | 2023 | |
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Effects of Acute Hypoxia and High pCO2 on Total Protein Content and Metabolic Enzyme Activity in Rockfishes (Sebastes SPP.) | Climate change is altering ocean chemistry and wind-driven upwelling regimes. In the California Current System (CCS), these changes are exposing nearshore fishes to increasing levels of high pCO2 and hypoxia. These stressors co-occur during upwelling events, lasting hours to days, and both have the ... | 2019 |