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Leif Anderson | Assessing the glacier-rock glacier continuum in Northern Tibet | | | 2024 |
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Jensen, Sierra A. | Assessing Utah's 90th Percentile storm to understand bioretention design and cost to meet Utah's Modified stormwater mangeement rule | his research dissects and improves understanding of the implications of Utah's modified stormwater permit rule. By analyzing the 90th percentile (90th-P) storm depth calculation and modeling an urban watershed on the foothills of Salt Lake City, Utah; this project provides initial guidance to local ... | | 2018 |
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Brandt, Ellissa Kathryn | Assessment of bilateral muscle function symmetry in female alpine skiers | A recent theory for the high occurrence of ACL injuries in female athletes is the presence of asymmetric leg muscle function. Unfortunately, information relative to the bilateral muscle function for the legs of female alpine skiers is lacking. Therefore the primary aim of this project is to examine ... | Anterior Cruciate Ligament - injuries; Skiers, Female; Single leg counter movement jump - Research; Single leg time to stabilization - Research | 2012-05 |
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Renz, Andy | Assessment of exercise-stimulated tissue oxygenation in calf muscle with functional MRI | Peripheral artery disease (PAD) affects millions of patients in the USA, and effective diagnosis and management of PAD is a major clinical goal. One promising avenue of research towards the goal is through functional MRI, which provides non-invasive measurement of tissue oxygenation. For a group of ... | Arteries - Diseases - Diagnosis; Magnetic resonance imaging - Research; Calf muscle; Peripheral arterial disease; MATLAB | 2016-04 |
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Cordova, Lauren A. | Associations Between Race, Education Level, Socioeconomic Status and Contraceptive Disontinucation after 1 year of Free Contraceptives in Salt Lake county | Unplanned pregnancies make up nearly half of all pregnancies. This prompted the HER Salt Lake Project to offer free contraceptives to women in Salt Lake County, Utah. Discontinuation or switching of free contraceptives is linked to race, education level, socioeconomic status, and the choice of contr... | | 2020 |
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Campbell, Andrew | Asynchronous distributed }OT-Enabled customer characterization in distrubtion networks: theory and hardware implementation | This work proposes and implements an asynchronous distributed IoT (Internet of Things)-enabled customer characterization framework to classify customers' load consumption behaviors in electric distribution networks. More specifically, the proposed framework enables robust fully distributed clusterin... | | 2021 |
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Hynes, William | Audience Tailoring: Implications for Narrative Identity | In the present study, I examined the extent and effect of audience tailoring in a sample of college-going emerging adults (n = 106). Participants reported four narratives for the researcher, and then edited them for mothers and friends, producing eight edited narratives each (n = 848 narratives) in ... | | 2017 |
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Anjewierden, Scott | Automated kinematic analysis of pre-pluse inhibition in larval zebrafish | Animals differentially ignore or attend to sensory information depending on their immediate environment. A significant example of this phenomenon is audiomotorpre-pulse inhibition (PPI), in which the startle response to a loud noise is suppressed by a preceding stimulus of lower intensity. This a... | Zebra danio - Development; Kinematics - Research; Kinematic parameters; Swim kinematics; Pre-pulse inhibition | 2014-12 |
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Tanner, Trevor | The automation of a discontinuous membrane extruder | One quarter of American troop deaths in the Middle East were classified as "potentially survivable." Of these, over 90 percent of the battlefield deaths and over 80 percent of the deaths in treatment centers were attributed to one factor: blood loss. Blood's limited supply, short half-life, and r... | Blood - Transfusion - Research; Membrane homogenization; Synthetic blood; Artificial oxygen carriers | 2016-05 |
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Rasmussen, Katie | Awareness and Access to Support Resources Among Refugee Women in Salt Lake City Experiencing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence | This paper addresses the complex issue of refugee women and their susceptibility to sexual and gender-based violence. Refugees are more susceptible to this violence as a result of their increased vulnerability when they are displaced, as well as changing gender roles and environments as they are for... | | 2018 |
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Corsetti, Tana | The awareness of environmental issues in Vietnam, China, and The United States | Objectives: Environmental awareness is a global concern and there are few comparative studies of awareness among populations in different countries. The aim of this study was to investigate college students' knowledge of environmental concerns in the USA, Vietnam and China. Study design: Cross-natio... | | 2021 |
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Esposito, Camila | Axl Inhibitors for Pancreatic Cancer Treatment | Background: In the United States more than 46,000 people will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Although it is relatively rare, pancreatic cancer is the 4th leading cause of cancer death in men and women. Gemcitabine, the most common treatment for pancreatic cancer has less than 10% partial respo... | Pancreas - Cancer - Research | 2016-05 |
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Atencio, Mitchell M. | Back to Bagatelles: Realizing the Remainder of Ligett's Musica Ricercata | György Ligeti completed Musica Ricercata in 1953, and shortly thereafter transcribed six of the movements into the 6 Bagatelles for wind quintet. Much of the scholarship surrounding Ligeti's transitional period discusses Musical Ricercata, a pivotal work for Ligeti marking divergence in composition... | | 2019 |
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Venugopal, Nikila | Baldwin in Conversation: Love and Black Lives Matter | With rising tensions surrounding racial inequality in the United States, and the national prominence of the Black Lives Matter Movement, it is hardly surprising that the works of James Baldwin have had a revival in popular culture and literature. Throughout his writings, Baldwin has advocated for Bl... | | 2018 |
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Otrusinik, Jan | Bank Profitability, Mergers and Acquisitions: An Empirical Analysis for the US Economy | Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are popular strategies deployed by financial institutions to expand their balance sheets and consequently their market share. Economic and regulatory forces over the prior 30 years have been instrumental in driving M&A activity within the financial sector, yet limited ... | | 2020 |
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Stucki, Kristen | Barries to Women's Access to Perinatal Mental Health Care in Rural Utah | Medicaid insures the majority of childbearing women visiting public health departments in rural Utah. A majority of these women live below the state and federal poverty thresholds, and few have more than a high school education. It is important that health resources be tailored to meet the unique ne... | | 2019 |
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Enda, Michael | Bayesianism in a Social Context | In this paper I push for and defend the adoption of a Bayesianism belief structure. Bayesianism is a belief structure based on the probability axioms of Kolmogorov. Given this, Bayesianism inherits the mathematical formulations of its origin. In order to explain and motivate the adoption of Bayesian... | | 2019 |
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Estrada, Johanna | BCR-ABL1 compound mutations combining key kinase domain positions confer clinical resistance to ponatinib in Philadelphia cromosome-positive leukemia | CML 1s caused by a random reciprocal translocation that joins the ABL1 gene on chromosome 9, with the BCR gene on chromosome 22. The result is the formation of the oncogenic BCR-ABL1 gene. This derivative chromosome is widely known as the Philadelphia Chromosome (Ph+), and it encodes a deregulated, ... | Leukemia -- Genetic aspects -- Research Leukemia -- Treatment -- Research | 2014-04 |
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Poma, Sasha | Being latina: the crossroads of identity in U.S.-Latino literature | This thesis focuses on issues of Latina identity in U.S.-Latino literature and my personal experience as a woman of Latin American descent. Specifically, the thesis uses Gloria Anzaldúa's groundbreaking work, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza to define and contextualize the Latina feminism i... | | 2022 |
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Yu, Stephone Lai Ming | The Belief that Optimism Improves Performance (China) | In 2015, researchers Tenney, Logg, and Moore published their research on the lay belief that optimism improves performance. The research was initially inspired by another study introducing the idea of prescribed optimism (Armor et al., 2008). Their research was spurred by an observation that has bee... | | 2017 |
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Ruiz, Loren | Beneath the dark cloak of U.S. deportation: Bureaucratic distancing tactics employed by the deportation system | U.S. deportation policy is implemented behind a dark cloak of secrecy. Distancing tactics are employed throughout the deportation process to prevent those participating within the bureaucracy from feeling empathy for those they process. Pachirat (2011) provides a three-part template of analysis for ... | Deportation -- United States | 2015-05 |
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Rathbun, Lauren Elizabeth | Beyond classical: mixing in the belt. An exploration of musical theatre singing | Belt, mix and classical are three terms for distinguishing the different sounds used in musical theatre vocal repertoire. Each requires different techniques regarding resonance space, vowels, laryngeal position, and breath management. For years, there has been a debate among vocal pedagogues questio... | Voice type (Singing) | 2015-08 |
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Hyde, Katie M. | Bhutanese refugee women's lived reproductive health experience in Salt Lake City, Utah | This research project focused on family planning and reproductive health care access among Bhutanese refugees in Salt Lake City, Utah. Four questions guided this study: (1) What contraceptive methods do female Bhutanese refugees use to control fertility/space births? (2) What reproductive health car... | Women refugees - Utah - Salt Lake City - Health and hygiene; Women refugees - Bhutan - Health and hygiene; Reproductive health services - Utah | 2014-05 |
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Dove-Swisher, Taylor | Bias-Coppected Estimation for singles-event studies | Single-firm event studies used in securities fraud litigation are prone to statistical bias. Brav and Heaton (2015) describe three potential issues: low statistical power to detect price impacts, confounding effects that cannot be averaged out, and an effect bias in the upward direction. The effect ... | | 2017 |
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Zhao, Michael | Binary Hermitian Forms and Optimal Embeddings | Let L=K be a quadratic extension of global fields, and OL the ring of integers of L. We prove two correspondences between (i) binary L-hermitian forms which represent 1 and optimal embeddings of L into a quaternion algebra, (ii) integral binary OL-hermitian forms which represent 1 and embeddings of ... | | 2017 |