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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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Overton, Sean | The effect of State sales tax exemptions and contractor size on job corps center performance | Job Corps is a federally funded program, with centers across America that provide technical, educational, and vocational skills to underprivileged youth. As a federally funded program, Job Corps contractors who operate the centers are federally exempt from the payment of state sales, excise, and use... | | 2024 |
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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 |
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Thorne, Samanta | Effects of Bribery and Terrorism to 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics' Profitability | The purpose of this paper is to analyze effects that bribery and the 9/11 terrorist attacks had on the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic games' profitability. More specifically in terms of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee's (SLOC) operating budget and how the two events affected committee actions to... | | 2019 |
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Hunter, Jessie Rabe | Effects of British Columbia's Carbon Tax on CO2 Emissions and Net Gasoline Sales | In 2008, British Columbia implemented the first comprehensive carbon tax in North America which covers nearly three quarters of all emitters in the province. This paper analyzes the effects of British Columbia's carbon tax on CO2 emissions and net gasoline sales using differences-in-differences and ... | | 2020 |
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Gerton, Marina | Effects of carbon sources on secondary metabolite production by teredinibacter turnerae | Shipworms are wood-digesting marine bivalves that rely upon symbiotic bacteria for cellulose digestion. The symbiotic bacteria, which grow intracellularly in shipworm gill tissue, produce cellulases that are then transported to the shipworm's cecum. It has also been hypothesized that the bacteria pr... | | 2023 |
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Wilbur, Lindsey | The effects of color on food preference | Color has an influence on our perception of food and affects the food choices we make. In this study, images of food were used to test the effect of dish color on food preferences. Pairs of various food images were shown to 96 college students. One image in each pair displayed the food on a white di... | Color - Psychological aspects; Food presentation | 2013-04 |
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Grimmett, Rollin | Effects of Hypoxia and High Fat Diet on D. Melanogaster Heart Physiology | Heart disease severely affects millions of people worldwide, and is caused by various environmental and genetic factors. The aim of this study is to examine the combined physiological effects of hypoxia and a high fat diet (two known causes) on Drosophila Melanogaster heart structure. Sets of adult ... | | 2017 |
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Chong, Alisha | Effects of increasing sleep duration on C-Reactive protein, insulin sensitivity, and blood pressure in adults with habitual short sleep | Short sleep, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes are all highly prevalent health issues in modern society. Previous findings demonstrate that obtaining short sleep is linked to an increased risk of cardiometabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. However, the mechanisms un... | | 2023 |
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Dean, Emma | The Effects of maternal resilience on newborn neurobehavioral outcomes | There is growing evidence that exposure to prenatal maternal stress may adversely affect fetal neurodevelopment by altering the fetal environment. In this study, we investigated whether maternal resilience can act as a moderator of the negative effects of maternal stress on newborn neurobehavioral o... | | 2020 |
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Smith, Sarah | Effects of Mitochondrial Mobility on Astrocyte Function | Within the brain, astrocytes provide support and influence the excitability of neurons by regulating the extracellular levels of potassium (K+) and glutamate. These glial cells play a vital role in neural homeostasis by regulating the concentration of neurotransmitters at the synapse, therefore modu... | | 2018 |
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Seymour, Bayley | The Effects of Recent Changes in Grocery Sales Tax by State Governments | The issue of whether grocery items should be subject to sales tax has been hotly debated, especially in the last several decades. As of the time of writing, only thirteen U.S. states out of fifty implement a statewide level of grocery sales tax at all. Of those that do, six tax groceries at a reduce... | | 2018 |
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Schofield, Zachary C | The Effects of State Level Energy Policy on Renewable Energy Markets | For the past few decades, state governments have attempted to steer their energy portfolios toward sources that are environmentally responsible and come at a lower cost. The two primary policies that are analyzed in this work are Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) and market deregulation. Because t... | | 2017 |
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Kearns, Ireland Rose | Effects of trem-1 expression on acute phase seizures in a mouse model of viral-induced epilepsy | Around 70 million people worldwide suffer from epilepsy, a neurological disorder that causes unprovoked and persistent seizures. A dominant cause of acquired epilepsies are from injuries to the central nervous system (CNS), such as viral infection of the CNS that results in brain inflammation (encep... | | 2022 |
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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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Muehlman, Jayanti | Effects of Wind-Generated Underwater Noise on Southern right Whale Group Dynamic | The goal of this study was to investigate whether underwater noise affects the grouping behavior of southern right-whale (Eubalaena australis) mother-calf pairs at Península Valdés, Argentina. This area is a major calving ground for the population that occupies the western South Atlantic. Two larg... | | 2020 |