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Lusted, Kitsel | Temperature dependence of leptospirillum ferriphilum during biooxidation of pyrite | Rare earth elements have properties that make them useful in advanced electronics, magnets, and batteries. However, they are difficult to isolate from their constituent elements, which results in an environmentally costly operation to refine them. An environmentally friendly alternative extraction m... | | 2023 |
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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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| Identification of potential causes for increased central line associated bloostream infection rates in the University of Utah NICU | The University of Utah Newborn Intensive Care Unit (UUNICU) has seen a recent increase in rate of Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) after an extended period of 965 days with no CLABSI's. Unfortunately, in the last three years, infection rate has been on average 2.6 CLABSI per ye... | | 2023 |
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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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Maughan, Shannon | Let's be blunt: how recreational marijuana legalization has impacted disability compensation | Social Security disability compensation programs cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars each year. With the fragile state of funding for Social Security disability benefits, it is important that new laws do not cause drastic budget changes for disability compensation programs. One su... | | 2023 |
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Nagy, Jadelynn | Healthcare team members' views on social determinants of health screening and referral practices in a pediatric emergency department | Suboptimal social determinants of health (SDH) are associated with increased pediatric emergency department (PED) use. However, while SDH screening and referral are recommended in clinical guidelines and their implementation is extending to PEDs, there is limited understanding of views from PED heal... | | 2023 |
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Brown, Athena | The impact of social media on behaviors and attitudes toward television advertsiing | Since the year 2000, the average attention span has dropped from 12 seconds to eight seconds (Microsoft, 2015). This weakened ability to focus may be the result of an increased use of social media by today's society. On social media platforms, the content shared is mainly short-form content, meaning... | | 2023 |