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Radhakrishnan, Parvathi | PI3K inhibitors as potential new therapy against breast cancer progression | Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) and their pleiotropic effectors play key roles in metastasis. Met and Ron are RTKs that have been shown to contribute to tumor growth and metastasis in both animal models and in patients. Recently, an alternative Ron isoform known as "short-form" Ron (sfRon) was asso... | Breast - Cancer - Treatment - Research; Protein - tyrosine kinase - inhibitors - Therapeutic use; Enzyme inhibitors - Therapeutic use. - Research; Biology - Research | 2014-05 |
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Shaw, Megan | Pilot Project: Quality of Childcare | Employment has shown to be an important step in a refugee's successful integration into their host environment, providing both financial and social health benefits to the refugee. This pilot study evaluated the change in quality of child care provided by child care providers, all refugee women, afte... | | 2018 |
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Siddiqui, Rija | Pilot Testing a Rapport Building Checklist with Law Enforcement and immigrant Communities | This study engages with local law enforcement authorities (LEAs) and immigrant service providers (SPs) in order to construct a list of recommended practices which can be implemented to enhance rapport between LEAs and immigrants. Producing an efficient list of practices requires the assessment of cu... | | 2019 |
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Benfield, Kaylara | Place attachment, climate change, and threat perceptions of Utah Wilderness | Place Attachment is the emotional and functional relationships that tie humans to natural environments. It has been shown to impact a person's ability to perceive threats significantly. This study compares the varying levels of Place Attachment with individual knowledge associated with the negative ... | Place attachment; climate change; wilderness; Utah | 2022 |
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Hahn, Carina | Plasmonically active silver nanowire structures for energy storage applications | Currently, there are no sustainable solutions available to meet the increasing demand for grid scale energy storage. Solar to fuel conversion has the potential to curb our dependence on natural gas and costly storage technologies by recycling waste products into chemical fuels. A realistic device mu... | Nanowires; Energy storage; Plasmons (Physics) | 2015-04 |
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Rios, Salma Angelica | Police response to intimate partner violence in communities of color | Intimate partner violence (IPV) and domestic violence are criminal and health crises in the United States that need to be treated and taken seriously. Although men can be victims of IPV, women constitute most victims. IPV is nothing new. However, what is new is that our societal ideas have shifted, ... | Intimate partner violence (IPV); police response; women of color | 2022 |
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Eldredge, Natasha | Policies and Procedures in the communication and collaboration of IEP team members for autstic children | Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a lifelong neurological disorder, affecting the functions of the brain that can significantly impair an individual's ability to develop the necessary skills to live a full and independent life as an economically contributing member of society. Studies from the Cente... | | 2017 |
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Mizero, Daniel | The political and regulatory challenges of effectively implementing an international accounting system | These are pivotal times in accounting history. Globalization, world trade and financial market integration have given international accounting standards increased relevance and priority. The possibility of worldwide use of a single set of international accounting standards could provide tremendous v... | International accounting standard | 2014-07 |
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Burns, Henrik | The political economy of international terms of trade and agricultural sustainability: The case of Cuba | For this thesis project I investigated the relationship between international terms of trade and agricultural sustainability for the case of Cuba. To understand the effect of trade relations on agricultural policy I explored Cuba's relationship with the Soviet Union, its largest trading partner betw... | Trade regulation - Cuba; Agriculture and state - Cuba; Cuba - Commerce | 2014-05 |
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Doyle, Erin | Political polarization at the local level | Many agree the American public is polarized nationally. However, polarization can be just as invasive within local governments. Understanding if there are occurrences of polarization in local government is essential to understanding how the American public has divided. This division in party goals c... | | 2022 |
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Tonks, Jacob | Politics without character: Liberal virtues and the situationist critique | A critique of virtue ethics has recently been raised by social psychologists who believe experimental psychology has all but proved the non-existence of character. In morally compromising situations, external situational factors have the greatest influence on choice, and therefore virtue as a stable... | Situation ethics; Virtue Choice (Psychology); Autonomy (Philosophy) | 2015-05 |
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Singh, Anand | Polyurethane molecular weight determination in catheters via gel permeation chromatography | Antimicrobial catheter extrusions are loaded with an antiseptic drug in order to help prevent catheter-related infections. Previous research has shown that polymer molecular weight (Mw) can be used to control drug loading levels. Polyurethane based resin and catheter shaft extrusion samples were cho... | Catheters - Research; Bacterial diseases - Prevention; Drug loading levels; Gel permeation chromatography; Diffusion distance; Antimicrobial catheter extrustions; Catheter shaft extrusions; Bacterial Infections; MATLAB | 2016-05 |
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Bergquist, John | Popular music and public education: Culturally responsive to the past and present alike | Popular music is included to varying degrees in American public school curricula despite the fact that experts in the field have called for its inclusion since the Tanglewood Symposium in 1968 (Choate et. al, 1967). Green (2008) found that some educators might be uncomfortable with popular music pr... | Music - Instruction and study | 2016-04 |
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Galvez, Heilly | Porosity Control in Titanium Dioxide Thin Films Through Low Temperature Block Copolymer Annealing | Perovskite solar cells have gained popularity in recent years due to their simplicity in manufacturing. The aim of this work is to provide a direct means to increase perovskite solar cell efficiency by increasing the contact surface area between the perovskite and the electron-transfer material (ETM... | | 2019 |
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Thomas, Madison | Possible systems of female sexuality | Previous research found that women tend to exhibit sexual fluidity more than men (Diamond, 2008). This conclusion has led to the desire for research to unde rstand sexuality and the possible life events that impact ideas, behaviors, and sexual identity. The main research question being explored in t... | Women - Sexual behavior | 2015-12 |
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Uchida, Kimberly Akimi | Post-translational regulation of the tumor suppressor PDCD4 | Expression of the tumor suppressor Programmed cell death 4 (PDCD4) is correlated with better survival outcomes in several types of cancer. When PDCD4 is coexpressed with protein arginine methyltransferase 5, however, this trend does not hold true, suggesting that PDCD4 methylation is involved in the... | Tumor suppressor proteins - Regulation | 2013-12 |
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Lee, Hani | Post-traumatic headache: an opportunity to develop new preclinical models for better understanding of pathology and treatment | Post-traumatic headache (PTH) is identified as one of the most frequent symptoms following traumatic brain injury (TBI) (Faux & Sheedy, 2008). Despite the high prevalence, there are currently no treatments which specifically target PTH. Instead of etiology-specific treatments, individuals suffering ... | | 2022 |
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Peterson, John | Potential Therapeutic Inhibition of Epigenetic Modulator LSDI in Glioblastoma Multiforme | Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary brain tumor in adults, and while advances in surgery, radiation, and standard chemotherapies have improved survival in this disease marginally over the years, the outcomes for most patients remain disappointing (Bhat, 2013). Recent studies have identifie... | | |
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Beus, Zachary | Power system stabilizer | The goal of this project, part of the Power Industry Consortium, was to design a power system stabilizer for a small grid-connected three phase synchronous generator. Power System Stabilizers control the excitation of synchronous generators to reduce lowfrequency oscillations on the grid and increas... | Voltage regulators; Power system stabilizers | 2015-05 |
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Morgenstern, Camille | Powerful Paradigms: Theoretical Frameworks Activated in National Discourse on Mining Policy and Political History in Peru and costa Rica | This comparative analysis between Costa Rica and Peru serves as an examination of the paradigms guiding national policy and discourse, with the potential outcome of being able to provide a clearer conceptualization of national and international relations that would be useful in other situations and ... | | 2019 |
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Chen, Jiahui | Practical and Configurable Network Traffic Classification using Probabilistic Machine Learning | Network traffic classification that is generally applicable and highly accurate is extremely valuable for many network security and management tasks. A flexible and easily configurable classification framework is ideal so it can be customized for use in many different networks. In this thesis we pro... | | 2020 |
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Trakhimets, Alesia | Pre-clinical trials of anti-neoplastic drugs using zebrafish with T-cell cancer | Note: To agree with NCBI nomenclature guidelines, human gene abbreviations are italicized and capitalized; human protein abbreviations are non-italicized and capitalized, and zebrafish gene abbreviations are italicized in lowercase. T lymphocytes, or T-cells, are blood cells that normally fight vira... | Antineoplastic agents - Testing; Zebra danio | 2013-04 |
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Silver, Michelle Anne | Pre-sleep arousal in healthy adults reporting childhood trauma: implications for the development of insomnia | Childhood trauma is associated with increased mental and physical illness in adulthood. Disrupted sleep may be one mechanism by which trauma adversely affects health. Current literature states that sleep is essential in restoration of cognitive functioning and stress regulation. In addition, insomni... | Insomnia; Childhood trauma | 2014-04 |
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Lindley, Clara | Pre-surgery inflammatory and angiogenesis biomarkers as predictors of 12-month cancer-related distress: results from the colocare study | Background Patients with colorectal cancer commonly suffer from complex psychological distress. Elevated distress may be linked to systemic biomarkers. We investigated associations of biomarkers of inflammation and angiogenesis with cancer-related distress (CTXD) score. Methods N = 315 patients (sta... | | 2023 |
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| Preliminary identification of terretrial rock samples (I.E., meteor-wrongs) recovered by the antarctic search for meterories (Ansemt) at the dominion range icefields, antarctica | | | 2024 |