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Arnoholt, Alayna | An analysis on the influence of anxiety in post error slowing | Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders and affect 15.7 million Americans each year (Lépine, 2002, p. 4). Anxiety is associated with reduced productivity, physical distress, and other diseases such as depression. Anxiety could also be influential in error response (Compton et a... | Americans | 2021 |
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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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Ballif, Micah | Drugs and Pregnancy: Clinical Management with a Cystic Fibrosis Focus | Despite the large number of women who become pregnant and use a medication during their pregnancy, there is very little information about the safety of the majority of medications. Most drugs approved by the FDA have undetermined teratogenic risk, but their use is prevalent in the management of dise... | Physicians; University of Utah Hospital's; antibiotics | 2019 |
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Bischoff, Amanda | Elucidating the Mechanism and Predicting the Selectivity of the bis(Pyridine) Silver Permanganate Oxidatiin | The Movassaghi group has recently reported several total syntheses of epipolythiodiketopiperazine derivatives (ETPs), a class of natural products with potent biological activity. A crucial step in their synthesis oxidizes two to four tertiary C-H bonds to form tertiary alcohols using (bis)pyridine s... | 2016 | |
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Lutz, Kevin | Discovery of platinum (II) cocrystals with highly fluorinated cyanocarbons | This thesis investigates new platinum(II) complex cocrystals with highly fluorinated cyanoaromatics. While π stacking compounds of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and cyanoaromatics have been reported, interactions with transition metal complexes have yet to be explored. Crystal structures for (pp... | 2023 | |
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Galinat, Shelby | Bipyrimidine solubility modeling for applications in NON-Aqueous redox flow batteries | Energy storage research has undergone transformative changes in the past 50 years. The increasingly concerning threat of climate change has emphasized the need for energy storage technology to facilitate renewable energy incorporation into the grid. Without energy storage, the fluctuations of wind a... | 2022 | |
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Munn, Jackson | Determining microbial community composition and methane flux or red butte canyon sediment over time | Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that is released from the soil into the atmosphere, which contributes heavily to global warming. One potential way of reducing the amount of methane in the air is through studying methane consuming bacteria (methanotrophs) and how they interact with other microbes ... | 2022 | |
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Cummins, Heather | Analysis of eyes shut (EYS) function during intestinal regeneration in drosophila melanogaster | The intestine is a self-renewing organ under constant stress. It is the first line of defense against toxins and bacteria and enables digestion and nutrient absorption. Its homeostasis (controlled regulation) plays a critical role in the maintenance of organ function and prevention of tumor generati... | diseases or cancers; homeostasis; sufficient | 2019 |
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Besic, Arnel | Creation and characterization of organic mixed conductors | Organic mixed ionic electronic conductors (OMIECs) are conjugated polymers that conduct both ions and electrons. These materials are promising for applications in healthcare and energy technologies, including biosensors and batteries. An obstacle for using these materials in next-generation technolo... | 2024 | |
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Arave, Rowan A. | AKT1 activation promotes the development of melanoma metastasis | Metastases are the major cause of melanoma-related mortality. Previous studies implicating aberrant AKT (or protein kinase B) signaling in human melanoma metastases led to the evaluation of the effect of activated AKT1 expression in non-metastatic BRAFV600E/cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor 2a nu... | Melanoma; genetics; research; metastasis; genetics; research; biochemistry; genetics | 2015-12 |
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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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Peterson, Joseph Ryan | Deflagration and detonation modeling of heterogeneous condensed phase explosives | A modeling approach to the deflagration and detonation phenomena is employed to study a variety of explosive scenarios. An engineering model for macroscale reaction of energetic materials over the wide range of explosive reaction from deflagration to detonation is developed based upon solid foundati... | Deflagration phenomena; Detonation phenomena; mesoscale model | 2012-05 |
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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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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... | spectroscopies; photocatalysis; photovoltaics. | 2019 |
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Edwards, Jennifer Lynn | Application of a TBHP-mediated Wacker-type oxidation to internal alkenes | The Wacker oxidation allows access to methyl ketones from terminal alkenes. This transformation is important for industrial, synthetic, and medicinal chemists, as carbonyls are present in many natural and pharmaceutical products. With the carbonyl, a wide variety of reactions become available, such ... | Wacker-type oxidatioin; research; TBHP | 2013-05 |
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Walker, Kortnie | Understanding and treating diabetic retinopathy | Diabetic retinopathy is a neurovascular disease of the retina and is the leading cause of blindness in the working-age population in the United States. Complications as a result of hyperglycemia and diabetes mellitus (DM) break down the blood-retina barrier (BRB) and retinal vasculature. Current tre... | Diabetic retinopathy | 2015-05 |
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Simonsen, Kyle | Breast cancer knowledge and attitudes among women in Armenia | Background: Breast cancer, the most common invasive cancer among women, has high incidence and mortality rates among women in the Republic of Armenia. Advanced stage at detection limits treatment options and contributes to high morbidity and mortality. Understanding women's breast cancer knowledge a... | Breast - Cancer; Breast - Cancer - Patients - Attitudes; Breast - Cancer - Patients - Armenia (Republic) | 2013-07 |
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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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Ray, Stella Olive | The learning assistant experience: documenting the perspectives of learning assistants at the University of Utah | Peer-led collaborative learning models have been shown to improve student comprehension and engagement in undergraduate STEM courses [1]. Learning Assistant (LA) programs in particular, have been shown to transform introductory STEM courses and improve outcomes for students [1] [2]. While there has ... | 2021 | |
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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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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... | Netherlands; thermochemical; Natural | 2019 |
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Godfrey, Rose | A porcine model for the development and testing of preoperative skin preparations | Clinical preoperative skin preparations (PSPs) do not eradicate skin flora dwelling in the deepest dermal regions. Survivors constitute a persistent infection risk. In search of solutions, we created a porcine model intended for PSP developmental testing. This model employed microbiological techniqu... | 2022 | |
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Sanders, Sara | Development of a novel, coumarin-europium sensor for reactive oxidizing species | The synthetic framework has been developed for two fluorescent probes of Reactive Oxidizing Species (RoxS) based on a coumarin-europium fluorescence pair. The coumarin moiety's selectivity for hydrogen peroxide coupled with 620 nm shifted emission of the europium will make these novel sensors biolog... | Reactive Oxygen Species - analysis | 2012-05 |
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Cocke, Rebecca C. | Evaluating the Catalytic Activity of Iron and Nickel Impurities in Bare High-Pressure High-Temperature Nanodiamond | Many metal nanoparticles are used as catalysts for various reactions and are held on supports. High-Pressure High-Temperature nanodiamonds (HPHT ND) are able to support metal nanoparticles even under strenuous chemical environments due to their robust nature. The production of HPHT ND includes the u... | 2018 | |
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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 |