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Fernandez, Florence | Evaluation of environmental education in high school science courses across Salt Lake City, Utah | While the effects of pollution become Incredibly more evident in the air of the Salt Lake Valley, many Utah high school students still lack the knowledge and information necessary to take preventative and immediate actions to protect their health and their environment. In this study, the reasons for... | Environmental education -- Utah -- Salt Lake City; Science -- Study and teaching -- Utah -- Salt Lake City; Air -- Pollution -- Utah -- Salt Lake City | 2015-05 |
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Fan, Huijun | Examination of Y-Deterium isotope effects for the solvolysis of model isoprenoid compounds | Model isoprenoid compounds can undergo two distinct pathways, dissociative or associative nucleophilic substitution depending on the conditions used. The dissociative pathway consists of two steps, involving a carbocation intermediate where the formation of that carbocation is rate determining. The ... | Isopentenoids; Solvolysis; Deuterium - Isotopes | 2012-05 |
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Spurlock, Ella K. | Exploration of the 2-dimensional π-d conjugated coordination polymer Cu-benzenehexathoil | Coordination polymers (CPs) are a type of atomically precise material that has long been an area of study for materials chemists. Recently, research has advanced with twodimensional conjugated CPs as detailed synthetic schemes are developed to create highly atomically ordered, large-area sheets. The... | | 2022 |
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Coplan, Caitlin Denise | Fabrication and Application of Aluminum Nanostructures | Plasmonics, the phenomenon resulting from light interactions with nanoscale structures, is an active field for nanoscale manipulation of light. By varying the metal, size, and shape, plasmonic nanostructures can be tuned to interact with a broad spectral range of light. Commonly used plasmonic mater... | | 2019 |
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Borodai, Anastasia S. | Faraday @ Home Continuing Faraday from the "U" to the Youth | Recent attention has been brought to light in the United States regarding the lack of students pursuing STEM disciplines and degree programs. There is a considerable amount of research on the importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Education at an early onset age. With this is... | | 2017 |
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Ridge, Rachel Katherine | Flagellar Protein Flhe Influences Motility and Morphology Through Regulation of Assembly in Escherichia Coli | The bacterial flagellar motor is a remarkably complex system, comprising thousands of protein subunits and responsible for motility in numerous species. Of these proteins, FlhE is not universally conserved and is relatively understudied. Usually found cotranscribed with flhB and flhA in the flhBAE o... | | 2017 |
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Narasipura, Eshan Amruth | Full synthesis of enzymatically cleavable linker between 929-designed ankyrin repeat protein and 17-dimethlyamino geldanamycin | Targeted cancer therapeutics are an important and promising field of cancer research due to their ability to reduce the off target effects produced in other therapies such as chemotherapy. Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADC) are one such therapeutic that specifically target cancer cells through antibody-... | | 2021 |
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Capener, Jacob | G Protein-Coupled resecptor kinase 2 mediated phosphorylation for The Activation of Smoothened | The Hedgehog (Hh) pathway is a cell signaling pathway that is involved in embryonic development and adult tissue maintenance in vertebrates. Improper functioning of this pathway can lead to developmental disorders and several forms of cancer. Despite the pathway's biological importance, the transduc... | | 2020 |
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Jones, Kathryn K. | Hybrid Enzyme-Bimetallic Nanoparticle System for Tandem Oxidation Catalysis | Metallic nanoparticles are commonly used as catalysts in industrial and academic settings. Recent observations that bimetallic nanoparticles can have enhanced activity over their monometallic counterparts has increased the interest in their synthesis and application to new catalytic systems. Combini... | | 2020 |
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Black, Alyssa | Identifying hybrid male sterility genes in Drosophila Pseudoobscura | Speciation, the process of one species splitting into two separate species, often involves the evolution of hybrid sterility or hybrid inviability. These reproductive isolating barriers are caused by negative interactions between genes called hybrid incompatibilities. Identifying hybrid incompatibil... | Infertility, Male -- Genetic aspects Drosophila pseudoobscura -- Genetics Male sterility genes | 2015-05 |
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Khuu, Scott | Identifying Retinoic Acid Dependent Mechanisms of Neural Crest Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition | Cancer metastasis is one of the distinguishing traits that make the disease difficult to treat. The steps of tumor invasion are similar to a process called epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT). Retinoic acid (RA) is shown to inhibit EMT and may cause an increased transcription of the gene, ski... | | 2017 |
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Owen, Cameron J. | Infrared Multiple Photon Dissociation Spectroscopy and Guided Ion Beam Tandem Mass Spectrometry: Experimental and Theoretical investigations of Transition Metal and Lanthandie Cations | Employment of Free Electron Lasers (FELs) and a Guided Ion Beam Tandem Mass Spectrometer (GIBMS) has allowed for the spectroscopic and spectrometric investigations of a variety of ionic complexes, respectively. The data presented in Chapters 2 and 3 of this thesis were obtained using two FELs locate... | | 2019 |
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Hansen, Mason | Interferon gamma inducible nampt and its role in resisting cancer cell growth | The tumor microenvironment (TME) is very complex and important due to its ability to influence the response of therapies on tumors. Immune cells infiltrate the TME and secrete inflammatory cytokines, such as interferon-gamma (IFNg), which help activate the immune system. This activation leads to an ... | | 2023 |
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Ray, Stella Olive | The learning assistant experience: documenting the perspectives of learning assistants at the University of Utah | | | 2021 |
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Zurbuchen, Rudi | Macrocyclization of glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) by thiol-ene reaction | Macrocyclization of peptides helps maintain a stable alpha helical structure using a conformational constraining staple. One such peptide, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), is a 37 amino acid peptide agonist for the GLP-1 receptor and has the ability to lower blood glucose levels and is responsible ... | Peptide hormones - Receptors - Research; Ring formation (Chemistry) - Research; Macrocyndization; GLP-1; Swim kinematics; Pre-pulse inhibition | 2016-05 |
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Franchina, Jordan Avery | Measurement of bond dissociation energies of transition metal molecules | Measuring thermochemical and kinetic properties of chemical systems has always; been a central theme of chemistry. Knowing these properties assists us in assessing; whether or not a chemical reaction is energetically feasible, efficient, and worthwhile.; Theoretical chemistry has now developed suffi... | Chemical systems; thermochemical; kinetic; modeling | 2018-04 |
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Wang, Alison | mechanistic studies of the electrocatalytic reducation of Co2 to Co: a BPY-MN(CO)3coome model | | | 2023 |
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Scholl, Wallis | Nanomite-Decorated Nanoparticles as Surface-Enhanced Spectroscopy Substrated | Surface-enhanced spectroscopy substrates utilize the localized surface plasmon resonance of nanoparticles for optical, photocatalysis, and biological and chemical sensing applications. Plasmonic anisotropic nanoparticles with sharp tips focus the electromagnetic field of the localized surface plasmo... | | 2020 |
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Cowley, Jacob | Optimization of total synthesis of indolizidine alkaloids VIA nickel catalyzed (4 + 2) cyclization utilizing silyl and stannyl alkynes | In order to expand the versatility of the synthetic route to naturally occurring indolizidine alkaloids previously developed in the Louie Group, a path was developed using a bicyclic azetidinone to produce indolizidine alkaloids such as (+)-seco-antofine. However, due to the asymmetric nature of the... | | 2021 |
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Fox, Zach | The physical effects of solvent in molecule-based magnets | Molecule-based magnets are being studied in order to expand the utility of magnets in modern devices. Advantages of molecule-based magnets include less energy intensive synthesis and greater versatility through changes to organic components of the structure. This class of materials is studied to ena... | Magnets - Experiments | 2012-05 |
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Duffin, Calder | Sequence Activity Relaqtionships in a Radical Sam Peptide Maturase | Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide Tte1186a and several point mutation variants are synthesized using solid phase peptide synthesis with FMOC amino acids. Substrate recognition and thioether linkage formation from the radical S-adenosyl methionine Tte1186 maturase is d... | | 2020 |
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Olsen, Nicholas | Simple Molecular Models for Chiral Crystallization | Chiral molecules play an important role in many biological processes.1 Important chiral biomolecules include certain amino acids, sugars, DNA, RNA, and many proteins. Chiral molecules have enantiomers, mirror-image isomers that cannot be superimposed on each other. The classic analogy to enantiomers... | | 2020 |
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Farrall, Nicholas | Structural characterization of the full-length exocyst complex by transmission electron cryo-microscopy | The exocyst is a conserved octameric protein complex in eukaryotes that is essential for tethering and fusion of vesicles to the plasma membrane. Composed of eight subunits, it is essential for growth, secretion, and developmental processes and has been implicated in cell motility, autophagy, cell d... | Saccaromyces cerevisaie - Cytology; Cryomiscroscopy - Research | 2014-05 |
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Reece, Eric J. | Synthesis and Characterization of Proton Conducting Silica Nano-Particles for use in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells | One of the fastest growing fields in scientific research is alternative energy. This has led to an investigation into the various aspects of fuel cells and their components due to their highly efficient energy conversion and low CO2 emissions. The efficiency of fuel cells is highly dependent on the ... | | 2019 |
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Cantrell, Rachel Lou-La Vonne | Synthesis of Antibiotic Scaffolds Inspired by the Tan 1057-D Biologically Active Natural Product Through the Utilization of Ullmann Copper(I) and Gold Cyclization Chemistry | As bacterial resistance to drugs continues to rise, the search for new antibiotics is of paramount importance. One key element to finding successful antibiotics is to uncover small molecules that act through novel mechanisms of action in order to decrease the risk of cross-resistance and provide ant... | | 2020 |