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 | Pruett, Lindsay | "No unchaste woman shall henceforth plead Lucretia's name and live": sexual representations of elite and enslaved women in ancient Rome | This thesis aims to consolidate existing historical scholarship about Roman sexuality, gender, and slavery. These were previously under examined areas of classical scholarship until the twentieth century and modern research is still working to develop a complete picture of the intersection of class ... | literary works | 2024 |
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 | Wittwer, Blake | The 2013 egyptian military coup: why did it produce lasting regime change? | In 2013, Egypt underwent a regime change through the method of a military coup. The current political state and government of Egypt is the direct result of these events. Notably, Egypt has experienced one of the few successful military coups in recent history. This thesis attempts to explain why thi... | successful | 2024 |
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 | Thoma, Sofia | A review of the cardiovascualr impacts of particualte matter air polution amoung canver patients | Particulate Matter (PM) is a component of both indoor and ambient (outdoor) air pollution. Exposure to air pollution is becoming increasingly more common, because of anthropogenic activities, including burning fossil fuels, increased urbanization and industrialization, and climate change. Compared t... | focus tends | 2024 |
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 | Toner, L. Mekenzy | A systematic literature review of fun: toward actionable game design theory | Fun is not a well-defined concept in the game design space. Developers prefer to use terms like "enjoyment" or "engage-ability," which have been better defined and coded by researchers. However, defining fun by breaking it down into actionable components could help developers create better games. Th... | design | 2024 |
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 | Watson, Jaclyn G. | An analysis of motivational factors and attitudes among Adult language learners in higher education | Language learners come from a variety of backgrounds and have numerous reasons for learning another language-their target language. This paper investigates different types of motivation, and the attitudes of language learners have that encourage them to study a second or foreign language. The purpos... | second and foreign language; language learning; external motivation; internal motivation | 2024 |
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 | Jones, Tanner | An analysis of stress patterns in bolognese | Bolognese, the language native to Bologna, Italy, exhibits a stress pattern that is mostly predictable, and tends to be word-final. This pattern becomes more interesting when it interacts with other phonotactic and morphophonological constraints. The two most prominent influences that cause stress t... | 2024 | |
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 | Barton, Sydnee | An analysis of the barriers restricting equal adolescent participation in physical activity across the United States | Despite the heavily researched and well-known benefits of physical activity participation, as well as national programs and initiatives organized with the sole purpose to encourage and increase participation, a large disparity in adolescent physical activity participation still prevails across the U... | physical | 2024 |
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 | Sial, Momina | An examination of social impact bonds issued by affordable housing authorities | In the past decade, socially impactful investing has risen in popularity as both governments and corporations begin to integrate environmental, social, & governance (ESG) principles into their financial projects. This paper will first examine the rise of social investing and how this trend has impac... | social bonds | 2024 |
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 | Colter, Zane | An invitation to quaternions before complex numbers | Quaternions are often introduced as an extension of the complex numbers, but this choice is arbitrary. This thesis explores the world of quaternions, H, and their application without the language or context of complex numbers. This choice has the benefit of preventing intuitions that work in C from ... | 2024 | |
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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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 | Galecki, J. Clista | Assessing plant adaptability to wildfire impact and drought | Forests' responses to drought are influenced by a multitude of factors, including elevation, prior exposure to fire, prior exposure to drought, clade, and species. (Anderegg et al. in 2020) Severe drought or the heat generated by a fire event can lead to hydraulic failure. (McDowell et al. in 2008) ... | burned and unburned area; Utah | 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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 | Horn, Alicia C. | Assessing the impact of mask mandates on SARS-CoV-2 transmission: a case study of Utah | Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the effectiveness of face masks mandates has been intensely debated. Many methods have been used to demonstrate mask effectiveness, including one that compares the change in reproduction number following implementing and removing face mask mandates1. Using data from... | 2024 | |
| 14 |
 | Brague, Madeline E. | The association between primary ovary insufficiency and endometriosis: an exploration of autoimmune etiology and comorbidity | An autoimmune etiology for endometriosis has been proposed in multiple studies, though definitive evidence and classification remain to be shown. Primary ovary insufficiency (POI) is another female reproductive disorder of which a subset of diagnoses have confirmed autoimmune etiology. Given the fre... | 2024 | |
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 | Gomez, Jacqueline | Associations between prenatal PM2.5 exposure and intellectual disability: are there differential impacts based on severity of impairment or comorbidity with ASD? | Intellectual disability (ID) impacts one percent of the population. ID affects people's intellectual and adaptive functioning. Among those with ID, the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is 30-40%. Prenatal exposure to particulate matter (PM) is an understudied risk factor for neurodevelop... | preconception | 2024 |
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 | Best, Emily | Babysteps: reflection on launching a mobile APP | BabySteps is a mobile application designed for newborn caregivers. It helps parents, grandparents, nannies, and other members of a newborn's "village" stay organized and updated on the child's development. It was developed by a team of four computer scientists as their Senior Capstone Project. We id... | development | 2024 |
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 | Whaley, Clea | Battered in the media: the legacy of women's legal defenses in cases of intimate partner homicide | This study is a content analysis of media reports exploring how women who kill their abusive partners are portrayed in the media. Public opinion on this issue has changed over the years. Historically, intimate partner abuse was hidden within homes and viewed as a strictly domestic issue not to be de... | necessary | 2024 |
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 | Ganesh, Kajal | Beyond the neural circuits: examining women's metal health in India alongside the complex manifestation of OCD and anxiety in mice | Mental health literacy (MHL) is a critical concept that refers to the recognition, mitigation, and prevention of mental health disorders. Increased MHL is achievable through funding research on the brain and mental health disorders, aiming to normalize patient struggles, provide clear explanations f... | 2024 | |
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 | Gomez, Sadie Ortiz | Breaking the cycle: the long-term impacts of punitive policies on the academic trajectories of students of color in the Salt Lake school district | This research delves into the punitive policies within five public schools of the Salt Lake School District and the ramifications of these policies on the academic trajectories of students of color. Through a quantitative analysis of disciplinary referrals, this study sheds light on the disproportio... | 2024 | |
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 | Wigod, Lauren | Changing theories of disease as indicators of shifting epistemic values in science | Theories of disease are unique from many other scientific theories due to their applicability. Society is not typically impacted by novel theories of physics for example, but does feel the influence of shifting theories of disease. Competition between theories of disease creates pragmatic concern, a... | Kuhnian paradigm | 2024 |
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 | McManus, Kylee Alaina | Characterization and stability of fluorescent ultrasmall porous silica nanoparticles for use in image-guided surgery of peritoneal metastasis | Peritoneal metastases are growths that arise from the shedding and implantation of cancerous cells from ovarian, gastric, colorectal or extraperitoneal (breast, lung) origin in the peritoneal cavity1. These metastases are typically treated through combination therapies such as surgery and chemothera... | stability | 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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 | Kockler, Chloe | Chemical oxidation of surfactants in water treatment systems | Surfactants are among the many emerging contaminants that are continuously discharged into the environment through municipal wastewater treatment plants. Sodium dodecyl sulfate and sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate are two of the most widely used anionic surfactants. Regular utilization of these chemi... | sodium | 2024 |
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 | Geary, Thatcher | Chop-sat in NON-Euclidean Geometry | This study explores methods of applying Non-Euclidean Geometry to the Boolean Satisfiability Problem (SAT). When presented with a knowledge base in Conjunctive Normal Form (CNF) with n atoms, it can be represented as an n-dimensional hypercube, where each corner corresponds to a unique combination o... | 2024 | |
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 | Samuelson-Lynn, Moses | The classification of surfaces | 2024 |