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| 1 |  | "And a soul in ev'ry stone": the Iudic natures of pale fire and gravity's rainbow | Kennedy, Robert Oran | Ecocriticism; Environmental Humanities; Nabokov; Vladimir; Nietzsche; Friedrich; Play; Pynchon; Thomas | The author argues that ecocriticism has overlooked important works of mid-20th-century American literature because of their unorthodox approaches to writing about nature. These unorthodox approaches revolve around the use of humor and play to formulate arguments about nature. The author argues tha... | 2015 |
| 2 |  | "I shall never be cited as a bad example": religious idealization and humanity in crusader figures in the chanson de Roland and Rolandslied | Lehnardt, Anna Samantha | Comparative literature; French literature; German literature | This text comparatively examines the tensions at play in the figural representations of Roland and Charlemagne/Karl in the Chanson de Roland and the Rolandslied, moving away from nationalist critiques of both works. It is primarily concerned with the juxtaposition between the idealized representatio... | 2018 |
| 3 |  | "Living with our toxic legacy": parafictional practice and the national toxic land/labor conservation service | Sussi, Joseph Michael | contemporary art; greenwashing; national wildlife refuge; parafiction; performance art; toxicity | The way in which land is used and developed by the United States government has recently, over the past decade, become a topic of interest to individual artists and collectives. The National Toxic Land/Labor Conservation Service (NTLCS) is one such collective that tracks government funded greenwashi... | 2017 |
| 4 |  | "Ray system" of underground mining | Balckner, Lester A. | Ray consolidated copper company; copper mines and mining | The main ore body is a disseminated deposit in schist and porphyry formed by secondary enrichment. Its existence was proven by churn drilling, and is at present one of the largest proven copper deposits in the world. The ore body itself covers 205 acres with an average thickness of 121 feet, and o... | 1915-02 |
| 5 |  | "That's my experience": negotiating what it means to be "Indian" in a school counseling program | Searle, Kristin Anne | American Indian; education; school counseling | Schooling for American Indians developed differently than it did for other groups in the United States. This difference is largely the result of the unique relationship between American Indians and the U.S. government and the ways in which government policies and practices were carried out. Thus, ... | 2016 |
| 6 |  | "This is what I've seen": climate change communication and the articulation of local and scientific knowledge in Yosemite National Park | Lahr, Kelsey Elaine | climate change; environment; national parks; rhetoric | Climate change is predicted to have profound effects on ecosystems around the globe. Yet meaningful policy to address climate change has yet to be enacted, and American publics are perceived as disinterested and unconcerned about the issue. Public lands have the potential to act as valuable sites of... | 2017 |
| 7 |  | "Wolves guarding sheep": how women police in London and Cape Town brokered a deal to protect and control women, 1914-1918 | Laird, Katie | Police; women police; policewomen; women's movement; suffrage; britain; social purists | At the outbreak of World War I, women in Britain and South Africa formed groups of volunteer police women who patrolled the streets for indecent behavior, found homes for runaway children, and encouraged moral behavior of young women and girls. Despite their success at penetrating one of the most ma... | 2016 |
| 8 |  | "You have to be your own doctor": neoliberal reconfigurations of expertise on TheBump.com | Siska, Amanda Friz | authenticity; expertise; neoliberalism; online communities; pregnancy; rhetoric | Expertise is increasingly relied upon in the making of decisions, particularly decisions pertaining to health and pregnancy. And yet, recent interactions between scientists and the American public have highlighted the fact that scientific expertise has become a contested, if not rejected, form of kn... | 2013 |
| 9 |  | 'This is not a marriage': husbandly virtue on trial in Qing dynasty law | Painter, Stephanie M. | Chastity; China; gender; marriage; masculinity; suicide | This master's thesis examines two visions of male failure during the Qing dynasty (1644 to 1912): husband suicide and husband killing. The adjudication of these cases created a gap between narrative rhetoric and judicial logic that complicated the clear-cut ideology of the Qing Code. I examine this ... | 2016 |
| 10 |  | The 1847 Mormon Migration | Duehlmeier, Fred Douglas | Latter Day Saint churches; History;1844-1877 Latter Day Saints; Emigration and immigration | Each July the citizens of the State of Utah celebrate the "Days of 47," recognizing the Mormon Pioneers who traveled to the State in `1847. The culmination of this celebration takes place each year on July 24th, the day Brigham Young and others entered the Salt Lake Valley. It is Appropriate that th... | 1977 |
| 11 |  | 2111690 | Felt, Hazel Lee Craig | radio stations; Utah; history | Although radio broadcasting is a comparatively new industry, it has grown in leaps and bounds since October 27, 1920, when the first commercial station was licensed. It is surprising and alarming to note, that very little record of its development is being or has been made in Utah. | |
| 12 |  | 4500 South (300 West to State Street) closure: the evaluation of users' impacts | Jovanovic, Dejan | Street maintenance and repair; motor vehicle driving; safety measures | Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) identified the part of 4500 South (from 300 West to State Street) in Murray City, Utah as a bottleneck. UDOT decided to add an additional lane in each direction (on previously a two-lane section). Three possible alternatives on how this work should be done we... | 2008-05 |
| 13 |  | A 'two-fisted, three-party State': Utah's 1992 U.S. senate race | Cox, Carl Jonathan | Elections | In the 1992 United States Senate election, Utah continued its strong trend toward conservatism. Since the 1960s, Utahns identified themselves predominantly with the Republican Party. This ideological transformation occurred in conjunction with a significant population shift from urban areas to subur... | 2011-08 |
| 14 |  | A biomechanical analysis of seating stresses based upon wheelchair propulsion | Pedersen, Justin Michael | Pressure; Pressure Ulcer Prevention; Shear Stress; Wheelchair Propulsion | This thesis aims to measure the difference in sea ted normal and shear stresses based upon different types of wheelchair propulsion types. Previous studies have measured biomechanical influence of wheelchair propulsion a t the upper extremities. This study intends to measure the biomechanical differ... | 2013-05 |
| 15 |  | A choreographer's view of twelve paintings by Paul Klee | Mitchell, Linda Elaine | Klee, Paul, 1879-1940; Criticism and interpretation; Choreography; Art and dance | The problem of this thesis was to choreograph a series of twelve dances reflective in style, form and content of twelve paintings by Paul Klee which were selected by the author as stimuli for the dances. The problem of the choreographer Was to find similar means of expression in the dance medium for... | 1967 |
| 16 |  | A collaboration: dance and theatre | Empey, Erin Dorean | Audience; collaboration; dance; performance; theatre | This thesis explores the potential and the origin of dance and theatre as performing arts. I examine the relationship of the audience to performers, discuss the possibility for ritual and the sacred, and develop ideas for meaningful and effective collaboration of theatre and dance. It is through th... | 2011-05 |
| 17 |  | A Comparative analysis of Beethoven's symphony No. 5 | Donelson, Richard C. | Beethoven; Ludwig van; 1770-1827; Symphony no. 5 | The thesis, A Comparative Analysis of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 contains three chapters. Chapter I is a word analysis, chapter II contains comparative analysis charts for each of the movements and chapter II contains (a) thematic material and key to number on graphs as well as (b) a graphic analysi... | 1953 |
| 18 |  | A Comparative analysis of two computerized methods for patient history collection. | Schnitzer, Paula Maria. | HELP (Computer File); Medical Records | The goal of this thesis is to compare a decision-driven data acquisition questionnaire (DDA) and a hierarchical branching questionnaire to see which format can obtain a history more effectively. Both questionnaires start with a few broad questions relevant to presenting the patient's region of illn... | 1987-08 |
| 19 |  | A Comparative study of assertiveness characteristics among female nursing graduate students and other female graduate students at the University of Utah. | Wise, Margaret Walter. | Utah; Graduate Srudents; University of Utah | The purpose of this master's thesis research project was to compare the assertiveness scores of graduate nursing students with other women graduate students at The University of Utah to determine if there was any significant difference. The problem was to describe and define the difference, in any,... | 1980-12 |
| 20 |  | A Comparative study of attitudes and anxieties concerning death and dying. | Forrest, JoAnn Pasquali. | Nurses; Attitude (Psychology) | Death is one of the most difficult areas with which a nurse must learn to cope as she must work with her own feelings about it before she can be of therapeutic value to the dying patient. This study was conduced to gain further understanding of the nurses' attitudes and anxieties about death and dy... | 1970-05 |
| 21 |  | A comparative study of personal and social adjustment of American-born descendants of Greek Immigrants and of native Americans in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1950 | Prpich, Mike | Greek Americans; Utah; Salt Lake City; Greek Americans; Indians of North America | The general purpose of this study is to compare the adjustment of tow groups of people that stand at different points in the process of assimilation. | 1953 |
| 22 |  | A Comparative Study of Stewart Junior High School graduates and conventional Junior High School graduates on the High School level | Allen, James Bird Jr. | William M. Stewart School University of Utah; Normal Training School Junior high school students; Utah; Salt Lake City Academic achievement | For many years educators have experimented with teaching methods and curriculum patterns in an effort to improve education. Numerous studies have been made in areas of education with the hope of finding better teaching procedures. This study compared the graduates of a combined elementary and junior... | 1957 |
| 23 |  | A comparison of attitudes of parents and students toward sex education as taught at Highland High School | Hardcastle, Hal Gene | Highland High School (Salt Lake City, Utah); Sex instruction | It was the purpose of this study to discover and contrast the attitudes of teenagers and adults on various aspects of sex education as taught in the public schools of Salt Lake City, Utah. Both groups were compared, utilizing a fifteen-item questionnaire which was distributed through the Social Stud... | 1970 |
| 24 |  | A comparison of corrosion resistant reinforcement in moderately and highly corrosive conditions | Wright, John Willard | Civil engineering; materials science | Corrosion of conventional carbon steel reinforcement has caused structures in corrosive environments to deteriorate well before the end of their intended service life. Many alternative materials exist that are more resistant to electrochemical corrosion while providing similar structural performance... | 2019 |
| 25 |  | A comparison of creatinine measurement by the Jaffe and enzymatic methods in an outpatient population | Adams, Austin Howard | Biochemistry; Medicine | Serum creatinine concentrations and estimated glomerular filtration rates (eGFR) are widely used for the evaluation of renal function. The Jaffe and enzymatic methods are the most common methods for creatinine measurement. The Jaffe method is commonly less expensive than enzymatic methods but may be... | 2014-12 |
