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| 1 |  | Curtis, David S. | Utah's reemployment services and eligibility assessment (RESEA) program: implementation study | The Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment program (RESEA hereafter), as its name suggests, is intended to verify ongoing eligibility for Unemployment Insurance (UI) compensation and to provide UI claimants evidence-based reemployment services. In particular, claimants are required to comp... | implementation study; evaluation; reemployment services; eligibility; unemployment insurance; employment counselor | |
| 2 |  | Curtis, David S. | Process evaluation of the Utah reemployment services and eligibility assessment (RESEA) program | This report uses descriptive and inferential statistics to address the evaluation aims. The unit of analysis is the individual UI claim. We begin by presenting descriptive statistics by randomized assignment group. We conduct baseline equivalency tests to confirm that RESEA and control groups are si... | Program evaluation; reemployment services; unemployment insurance; eligibility | |
| 3 |  | Xiao, Yicong | Catergorization of electrode-level signal from Utah arrays implanted in premotor and primary motor cortices: a case study | The Utah Electrode Array ( is widely used to record neural signals from motor related cortical areas, but differences in electrode location and implantation depth may alter the recorded neural signals, introducing motor functional heterogeneity within the UEA This study analyzed neural signals recor... | Utah electrode array; precentral gyrus; brain computer interface; neural firing patterns; neural signal analysis | |
| 4 |  | Zagal, Jose | Unusual games for unusual people | The games you'll experience in this expo come from an interdisciplinary course, in which we thought about games from a theoretical angle, and then we put those theories into practice - by playing all sorts of games, tinkering with games, and designing and playtesting our own games. During this cours... | booklet; games; game responses; student authors; student; philosophy; aesthetics | 2025 |
| 5 |  | Bouldin, Chelsea | Speculative destabilization: Ruby Baptiste and the Dark Fantastic | Using Ebony Elizabeth Thomas's Dark Fantastic Cycle as a methodological tool, this article examines character Ruby Baptiste's central role in episode " of Misha Green's Lovecraft Country (#$#$). This article describes the Dark Fantastic as a practice Green exercises to expand the windows and mirrors... | dark fantastic; Lovecraft Country; Ruby Baptiste; Afrofuturism; Black feminist theory; self-making | 2025 |
| 6 |  | Alexander, Kaylee P. | Quantifying trauma: death, data, and memorial collecting | By the end of May 2020, just a few months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the death toll in the US was already nearing one hundred thousand-but what did that number even look like? For those of us who had not lost someone or who were not working on the frontlines, lockdown in many ways shielded us from ... | memorial collecting; digital humanities; data visualization; monuments; trauma | 2026 |
| 7 |  | Parashar, Manish | Enhancing national security and resilience through computational decision support -- DECIDE workshop report | The DECIDE workshop, held on March 4-5, 2025, brought together leading researchers, U.S. government officials, and industry experts to address the critical need for computational decision-making methods for high-consequence, complex problems. The escalating complexity and interconnectedness of moder... | National security and resilience; computational decision support; urgent computing; uncertainty; national strategic computing reserve | 2025 |
| 8 |  | Cizik, Amy | Reliability of baseline scores for traumatically injured patients: advantages of using the patient-reported measurement information system (PROMIS) domains | Pelvic and acetabular fractures have a lower incidence (3% -5% and <1%, respectively) than other lower extremity fractures, but they have higher concomitance of other injuries, including injuries of the abdominopelvic organs, including the liver, pancreas, spleen, intestines and other genitourinary ... | PROMIS; PROMs; patient-reported outcome measures; orthopedic; trauma; reliability | |
| 9 |  | Pedgaonkar, Apoorva | Electromagnetic Uncertainty analysis of 3D biological phantoms | Cellphone or wireless device EM radiation assessment is one of the most important design criteria. | FDTD; monte Carlo methods; uncertainty; electromagnetic scattering | 2022 |
| 10 |  | Schvaneveldt, Nena | Practice as conversation: information literacy in pre-doctoral dentistry programs | Dentistry, like most other health professions, is heavily reliant on evidence-based practice: dentists need to access and use the best possible evidence to inform patient care; therefore, health sciences librarians have become heavily interested in partnering to promote evidence-based practice educa... | information literacy; dentistry; ACRL framework; library instruction | 2025 |
| 11 |  | Hebron, Teresa K. | MAPping out the Future from the Past | Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) was founded in 2001 and offers a public search portal supporting discovery of over a million items from digitized historical collections throughout the US Mountain West. This aggregation work necessitates a metadata application profile (MAP) to ensure metadata co... | metadata application profiles; metadata management; metadata governance; digital libraries; large-scale metadata aggregation | 2025 |
| 12 |  | Alexander, Kaylee P. | Data-driven approaches to erasure and survival bias in Parisian cemeteries | The Napoleonic burial reforms of 1804 instituted a modern system of burial throughout the French Empire that, radically for the time, promised access to individual burial plots for all regardless of socioeconomic status or religion. Burial duration, however, was highly regulated and limited as one w... | cemeteries; survival; art; art history; burial; monuments; primary sources; errors; visual culture; Paris | 2025 |
| 13 |  | Das, Stuti | Facilitators and barriers to care for refugee patients from perspective of perspective of Primary Children's Emergency department providers: A qualitative study | Refugee families often carry trauma from war, persecution and displacement - Since 1998, over 25,000 refugees have resettled in Utah many relying on Primary Children's Hospital- the only pediatric emergency facility in the Intermountain West - No formal training programs exist to prepare providers f... | poster presentation for conference | |
| 14 |  | Breiman, Jessica | Negotiating collaboration: Four case studies from grant-funded GLAM projects | Museum Computer Network Conference 2019 | Museums; Libraries; Archives; Discovery Systems | 2019 |
| 15 |  | Sherrill, Paul | Modal color theory | This article develops a theory of scale structure based in continuous pitch space. It launches from an investigation of the properties of "modal brightness," a widespread intuition that scales (or modes) with relatively high pitches are qualitatively "bright." The structural features of the diatonic... | geometry; mode; scale; voice leading; well-formedness | 2025 |
| 16 |  | Kandhai, Rajesh; Renwick, Shamin; Silverman, Randy | Mould mitigation in using dehumidifiers in a Caribbean library | February 2021 A mould bloom occurred at the School of Education Library, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. March 2021 Professional cleaning to remove visible mould using alcohol and sodium benzoate. | mould/mold remediation; dehumidification; heritage collections; special collection; Caribbean; library; museum; archive | 2021 |
| 17 |  | Neatrour, Anna; Hebron, Teresa K. | Understanding linked data and the potential for enhanced discoverability | Linked data emerged as a description model for Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Records Management (GLAMR) institutions and has been increasing in popularity despite lack of widespread adoption in the community. This chapter provides an overview of linked data, benefits of its use in dig... | linked data; metadata; library and information science; digital repositories; discovery | |
| 18 |  | Terry, Dorothy | Your mileage may vary: a tale of two studies on leaving and returning to libraries | This study seeks to expand the understanding of librarians' professional motivations and experiences of re-entering the field after a break in order to provide suggestions about how to improve the re-entry experience. | librarianship; panel presentations; employment patterns; library professionals; library employment; librarians | 2025 |
| 19 |  | Codding, Brian F.; Robert, Heidi; Eckerle, William; Brewer, Simon C.; Medina, Ishmael; Vemon, Kenneth Blake; & Spangler, Jerry S. | Can we reliably detect adaptive responses of hunter-gatherers to past climate change? Examining the impact of Mid-Holocene drought on Archaic settlement in the Basin-Plateau Region of North America | Climatic change appears to influence major patterns in human history. However, confirming the association between climatic events and adaptive human responses is not straightforward given the potential for spurious correlations and uncertainty in the timing of events. Here we leverage theory from be... | behavioral ecology; climate change resilience; environmental archaeology; dates as data | 2024 |
| 20 |  | Codding, Brian F.; Colrain, Joan Brenner; Louderback, Lisbeth; Vernon, Kenneth Blake; Magargal, Kate E.; Yaworsky, Peter M.; Robinson, Erick; Brewer, Simon C. & Spangler, Jerry D. | Socioecological dynamics structuring the spread of Farming in the North American Basin-Plateau Region | The spread of agriculture is a major driver of social and environmental change throughout the Holocene, yet experimental and ethnographic data indicate that farming is less profitable than foraging, so why would individuals choose to adopt agriculture leading to its expansion? Ideal distribution mod... | ideal free distribution model; population ecology; behavioral ecology; maize agriculture; ancestral Puebloan; Fremont complex | 2024 |
| 21 |  | Alexander, Kaylee P. | Reclaiming marginalized deaths through data analysis, the case of Geer Cemetery | In Plain Sight: Reflections Past & Actions Present in Durham's Geer Cemetery is an outdoor educational exhibit examining the history of Durham, NC's first public African American cemetery. The exhibit runs through April 3, 2021 and is spearheaded by Nicholas Levy and Debra Taylor Gonzales of the Fri... | cemetery history; data visualization; Black cemeteries; North Carolina; digital humanities; data-driven humanities; death certificates; public history | 2021 |
| 22 |  | Alexander, Kaylee P. | Breathe in and out, say their name: Renee Ater's Instagram-based Memorial "I Can't Breathe" | This is how Renée Ater, a public scholar and historian, began a personal blogpost on May 29, 2020, just four days after the murder of George Floyd. Three days later she took to Instagram, posting a simple black square with Floyd's name and life dates. Intended at first as a one-off post, an interru... | digital memorials; BLM; black lives matter; Instagram; monuments and memorials; commemoration; social media | 2020 |
| 23 |  | Alexander, Kaylee P. | Luxury vs. Obligation: Israelite burials in 19th-century Paris | In 1804, following decades of cemetery complications in major cities such as Paris, Napoleon issued a series of burial reforms that were to radically transform the ways in which French citizens would henceforth be buried. Still the basis for French burial laws to this day, the Decree of 23 Prairial ... | cemetery history; Jewish burials; France; nineteenth-century; burial customs; Judaism | 2020 |
| 24 |  | Hebron, Teresa K. | Changing the landscape: integrating art museum objects into University of Utah's USEARCH | This presentation details work by the Mellon Grant Discovery Tool Subcommittee to integrate UMFA records into USearch, 2019-22. | metadata; grants; aggregated metadata; art metadata; metadata remediation; programming; Utah Museum of Fine Arts; library metadata; UMFA; Marriott Library; USearch; Argus; Primo | 2022 |
| 25 |  | Cheek-O'Donnell, Sydney | To support a randomized controlled trial examining the effectiveness of a theatre-based intervention to improve interpersonal communication skills among medical learners | This article describes the results of a theatre-based intervention, Coached Rehearsal Techniques for Interpersonal Communication (CRiTICS), which improved some non-verbal and paraverbal communication skills in medical students during a simulated difficult communication scenario. The goal of this stu... | medical education; communication theater acting; standardized patient; standardized participants; provider-patient relationship; bedside manner; interpersonal communication | 2024 |