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Jeff Rose | A case study on perceptions of homeless abatements in Salt Lake County | | | 2023 |
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Kakunes, Khloe | Analyzing the psychophysiology of children and adolescents while they narrate anger-provoking events | Feeling angry at times is a universal human experience. Emotional experiences are associated with physiological arousal, and stress-inducing events, such as events that trigger feelings of anger, tend to have greater impacts on the level of physiological arousal that a person experiences than more p... | | 2024 |
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Mace, Aidan | Assessing the glacier-rock glacier continuum in Northern Tibet | Modern mountain landscapes are inhabited by a wide spectrum of glacial landforms, ranging from clean-ice glaciers to heavily debris-covered glaciers to rock glaciers. Today, anthropogenic climate change is resulting in the rapid deglaciation of most alpine environments, causing the cryosphere to cha... | | 2024 |
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Poly, Colin | Characterizing the influence of industrial fluxes on aluminosilicate glass systems using visual and spectroscopic analysis techniques | Ceramics, humanity's oldest synthetic creations, have been pivotal in shaping our history and culture. Among the various components of ceramic artistry, glazes stand out as essential contributors to the diverse surface qualities of ceramic artifacts. Glaze compositions are complex, involving the pre... | | 2024 |
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Fairchild, Dylan | Climate change, extreme weather fluctuations and future of inhabitance and use in the Wasatch Mountain Range | Anthropogenic climate warming is occurring on a scale of exponential frequency. This climate change is a problem in and of itself as it permanently adjusts worldwide weather patterns and damages ecosystems essential to the function of our contemporary lives. This analysis will focus on the Wasatch M... | | 2024 |
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| Ecological literacy for wellness | | | 2023 |
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Meza, Francisco | Empowering inclusivity: assessing the necessity and impact of language access plans in local governments | This study investigates the critical role of language access plans in local governments to ensure equitable access to public services and foster civic participation among linguistically diverse communities. The research aims to shed light on the responsibilities of local government and the broader i... | | 2024 |
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Stitt, John | Examining the associations between maternal sensitivity and infant responses to the still face paradigm | The Still Face Paradigm is used to assess infants' responses to the absence of normal social interaction with the parent. Infants' responses to this moderately stressful task - both physiologically and behaviorally - can help us understand how emotion regulation develops during infancy. The current ... | | 2021 |
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Melby, Lindsey Rose | Examining the effects of alcohol use and post-traumatic stress disorder on deployment-related traumatic brain injuries through measurements of subcortical volume changes | Currently, our accuracy in predicting the lasting effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is low, due to large sample heterogeneity. Possible negative lasting effects of TBI include mental health disorders and substance use disorders (SUDs). Links between TBI, alcohol use, and Post-Traumatic Stress ... | individuals; PTSD symptoms; subcortical | 2024 |
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Dodson, Helen | Historical trauma and autosomal recessive diseases in American Indian/Alaskan native communities | In the United States, American Indians and Alaskan Natives (AI/AN) experience higher rates of health disparities (Walters, et al 2011). Indigenous communities experience higher rates of chronic and communicable diseases, poor nutrition, and exposure to environmental pollutants (Barnes et al, 2011). ... | | |
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Boyd, Taylor Alexis | Homeostatic plasticity in inherited eye disease | Retinitis Pigmentosa is rare inherited retinal disease that causes progressive blindness as an affected individual ages. Blindness is a significant public health issue, and visual impairment, especially when varying over the lifespan, can have immense impact on community health. For my honors thesis... | | 2021 |
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Pozernick, Audrey | The house, the ghost, and the grave presentations of the racial hybrid and mixed raced phenomenologies in literature and in creative writing | Creative writing communicates social experiences, worlds, and histories from one source to another. As stories are interconnected with the storyteller, the fictions often told are intertwined with identity politics and are more deeply understood through the socio-political context in which the autho... | | 2024 |
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Johnson, Nicholas J. | The inflation reducation act's medicare part D drug price negotiation: an unlikely outcome | The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law on August 16, 2022, and the passage of this unassuming piece of legislation marks one of the most important advancements in health care policy in the United States. A key component of the law is its efforts to increase access and affordability of... | Medicare part d; inflation reduction act; drug price negotiation | 2024 |
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Galecki, Miriam | The lasting effects of redlining: disparate impacts of Covid-19 in Salt Lake City | Access to the American Dream is always dependent, at least partially, on factors an individual cannot control such as race and the residence location and Socioeconomic Status (SES) of their parents/caregivers. Access is also dependent on government policy. Under the New Deal for example, the Home Lo... | COVID-19; redlining; new deal; HOLC; Salt Lake County; Utah; American dream; intergenerational wealth; poverty; SES; inequality; race | 2021 |
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Christensen, Abigail | Maternal secure base script knowledge and maternal emotion regulation as predictors of toddler social-emotional outcomes | This thesis examined the intergenerational impacts of maternal attachment style (as assessed by their knowledge of the secure base script) and maternal emotion regulation abilities for their children's social-emotional abilities. I hypothesized that mothers with higher secure base script knowledge a... | | 2024 |
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Ponce-Orellana, Jenna | San Antonio independent school district V. Rodriguez: dissecting an unprecedented supreme court decision and its implications | This thesis analyzes the Supreme Court Case, San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (411 U.S. 1, 1972), in which the Court ruled against recognizing a constitutional right to education. The decision in San Antonio broke from precedent and analysis established in other 14th amendment an... | | 2021 |
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Porter, Elizabeth | Supporting the entire system: reducing educator burnout with mindfulness-based practice and social emotional learning | Educators take on an important role in teaching youth. However, the job of an educator comes with many stressors. Coronavirus, commonly referred to as COVID-19, presented new challenges for educators and students, primarily requiring most schools to adhere to a novel concept such as online instructi... | | 2021 |
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Sarah F. Small | Uncovering the microeconomic costs of reproductive care in the United States | | | 2024 |
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Hair, Maddie | Uncovering the microeconomic costs of reproductive care in the United States | Abortion is complicated. It is a highly emotional concept which requires multifaceted ethical considerations, as well as practical considerations in order to construct ethical and effective policy. The more attention-grabbing components of the issue are the ethical perspectives. However, economic im... | | 2024 |
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Straight, Rachel | Understanding students' negative experiences during summer research programs in the US | Undergraduate research experiences, common among STEM majors, offer students practical skills, challenge them to enhance their abilities and help clarify career objectives. While undergraduate research programs offer numerous benefits, studies like Limeri et. al (2019) underscore potential challenge... | | 2024 |
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Gorfinkle, Zev | Wolves not watchdogs: systemic and unpunished abuse in federal prisons | This thesis investigates how systemic issues within the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) enabled widespread sexual and physical abuse of inmates by staff. By comparing available prevalence estimates of both physical and sexual abuse with employee discipline data from the Bureau of Prisons Office of I... | | 2024 |