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Borrowman, William | Gas exchange of co-occurring plant species of the Great Basin Desert in an irrigated common garden | The majority of plants in the Great Basin ecosystem have adapted to cope with drought during summer. While general characteristics of these plants have been studied in non-managed environments it is important to investigate the physiology of these plants when additional water is supplied. In this ... | Urban heat island -- Prevention; Desert plants -- Ecology -- Great Basin -- Research; Plant ecophysiology -- Research; Irrigation -- Environmental aspects; Red Butte Garden (Salt Lake City, Utah) | 2014-04 |
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Mothershead, Alaina | Gay Cuba: Oppression Under the Revolutionary Government | Following the otherwise socially progressive Cuban revolution, government-sponsored homophobia and anti-gay state-sponsored popular culture constructed a narrative to separate homosexuality from revolutionary modernity and instead associate it with U.S. decadence, therefore justifying the persecutio... | 2019 | |
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Nielson, Clark | Gel-Cast fluorapatite scaffolding for bone repair | Calcium-phosphate bioceramics have long been attempted as replacement bone substitutes due to their resemblance to the mineral component of natural bone tissue, and because their dissolution byproducts can elicit new bone growth. Many studies have demonstrated that fluoridated hydroxyapatite, or flu... | 2021 | |
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Du Pre, Jessie J. | Gender differences in recollected consistency or change in same sex sexuality across the lifespan: Measuring linkages between flexibility in sexual attraction, behavior, and love propensity | The flexibility of same sex attractions, engagement in same sex sexual behaviors, and propensity to fall in love with same sex partners were examined by assessing selfreported change over time in men and women of heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual orientations. We sought to examine whether the l... | Same sex attraction; Gender differences | 2015-12 |
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Hatch, Kyleigh M. | Gender differences in the correlations between mobile personal financial management technology and financial outcomes | 2021 | ||
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Tibolla, tyler | Gendered differences in advertisting | A growing number of consumers find it important that companies take a stand on social issues and begin to support those businesses more who align with their personal views. If corporations continue to ignore large percentages of the population, they cannot meet the needs of those consumers. There is... | 2022 | |
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Herbert-Voss, Ariel | Generating audio mixtures using deep convolutional neural networks | Deep neural networks have recently been used in a generative capacity to separate and convolve the content and style of two input images. This is done using a joint cost function during gradient descent that encodes information about style and content to iteratively calculate forward node activation... | Computer sound processing; Computer music; Machine learning; Neural networks; Audio mixtures; Spectrograms; Split integer scaling | 2016-05 |
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Loret, Amy | Genetic Modifiers of Severity in Collagen VI-Related Muscular Dystrophy | Collagen VI-related muscular dystrophies (COL6-RD) display phenotypic heterogeneity that includes mild Bethlem myopathy (BM), intermediate (INT), and severe Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy (UCMD) phenotypes. COL6-RD are characterized by mutations within the collagen VI genes (COL6A1, COL6A2, a... | 2019 | |
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Rahmati, Kasra | Genetically Modified Chemotaxis Signaling Protein Chey Binds to the Rotor Protein Flin to Control the Direction of Flagellar Rotation in Escherichia Coli | Bacterial chemotaxis is the directed movement of a bacterium in response to environmental chemical stimuli. Cells of E. coli, for example, swim by rotating their flagella and direct their movement by regulating reversals between counterclockwise (CCW) and clockwise (CW) rotation. The switch from CCW... | 2020 | |
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Scott, Brooklyn | Genomic insights into lineage specific differences in macaque social behavior | Studies of behavioral variation in primates are increasingly examining the role that genes have in determining social styles. The genus Macaca, for which phylogeny plays a central role in behavior, represents a useful group to explore behavioral genetics. Differences in macaque aggression and age of... | 2021 | |
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Acosta, Lehi | Genotype-dependent susceptibility to influenza and titer-virulence discordance | The influenza a virus (IAV) is a major source of human mortality and both recent and anticipated pandemics make understanding this major human pathogen of paramount importance1,2. The use of mouse models allows us to experimentally manipulate critical variables to more fully understand the dynamics ... | Influenza A virus - Research; Mice as laboratory animals - Research; Transmissibility; Virulence; Viral titers; Erythropoeintin | 2016-05 |
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Bischoff, Sarah | Genre Experimentation and Argumentative Efficacy in Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans and Viet Thanh Nguyen's the Sympathizer | In Contesting Genres in Contemporary Asian American Fiction, Betsy Huang posits that genre experimentation within Asian American literature rebels against the xenophobic histories of various crime genres. This thesis contests that view, reading genre experimentation as both a defying of genre histor... | 2018 | |
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Le, Bao Gia | The geometry of bivariate splines on triangulated polygons | 2022 | ||
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Jones, Adam | Give me a Viking Funeral: Fighting Ideology with Ideology in the Dystopia of V for Vendetta | A photograph of the Antarctic landscape is, for many, the only way through which they understand the continent's existence. Most have never travelled there and for them, photography and other representations of its geography are the only proof that it actually exists. This photograph then becomes th... | 2015 | |
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Liu, Hans | Glimpses of Chinese and Indian Coolie Resistance in the British West Indies, C. 1834-1917 | Many people are relatively unaware of the hundreds of thousands of indentured workers from China and India, known as coolies, that labored in the British West Indies during and after the end of the trans-Atlantic slave trade between 1834 and 1918. While some scholars have acknowledged the presence o... | 2019 | |
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Potter, Brianna | Graphene Imaging and Electronic Properties | This thesis explores the process required to determine the near-field photocurrent of single- and multi-layered graphene. The experimental procedures for both imaging the graphene as well as collecting data for the near-field photocurrent are described. The imaging and data collection were both to b... | 2014 | |
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Manwill, Emmylou | Grassroots yet global: the Idle No More indigenous movement in twenty-first century Canada | The focus of this thesis is the indigenous sovereignty and land rights movement, selfidentified as the "Idle No More movement" (INM), that began in opposition to federal Canadian policies in December 2012. While Canadian natives have organized in resistance before, the INM movement sticks out compar... | Idle No More (Movement); Protest movements - Canada; Indigenous peoples - Canada | 2014-05 |
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Feltovich, Lucia | The grat equalizer | 2021 | ||
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Quackenbush, Cameron | The Great Salt Dustbowl: the Impacts of a Drying Ecosystem | The Salt Lake Valley faces a dire environmental situation: the drying of the Great Salt Lake (GSL). As state and local water authorities push forward with plans to further dam and divert the single largest input to the GSL, it is crucial to acknowledge the implications of a drying lake bed for the W... | 2019 | |
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Pacholarz, Natalia | The Great Salt Lake: drought, pollution, and economic impacts | This thesis analyzes the causes which are leading the Great Salt Lake to dry up and decrease in size. Furthermore, it examines the environmental implications of this trend, in particular looking at the impacts for air quality and pollution. This paper also discusses the economic impacts from these e... | 2021 | |
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Kleinman, Megan | The green bond revolution: is it sustainable? | Green bonds, innovative financial instruments that have entered the bond market in recent years, have sparked a revolution for activists, investors, and issuers with their use of proceeds model. I examine corporate green bonds through historical research, investigation of the certification process, ... | 2020 | |
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Blunt, Connor | Guan YU from romance of the three kingdoms and his portrayal in smite by HI-REZ studios | When looking through current research on games, few studies look at the impacts they can have on people's perceptions of another culture. Due to culturally important stories being made into games, potentially by people not from the original culture, there can be miscommunications of significant mome... | 2023 | |
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Reynolds, Mira | Guilt and shame among military personnel and veterans who have experienced military sexual trauma | Objective: Sexual trauma is more likely to result in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in women than other types of trauma. Women who have suffered any form of trauma are also more likely to experience guilt and shame than men. However, less is known about the relationship of guilt and shame wit... | Sexual violence - Military; Post-traumatic stress disorder - Research - United States | 2016-05 |
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Gates, Abigail | Health Care in the United States: Disparities and Distrust in the Black Community | During the time of slavery, Black and African Americans were mistreated and abused as research subjects in medical studies. This mistreatment continued into the 20th century with the Tuskegee Syphilis study and continues today in many doctor's offices throughout America. This paper begins by looking... | 2020 | |
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McLean, Hailey | Healthcare Encounters of Formerly Homeless Individuals Supported by the Housing first Program | Homeless individuals often have high utilization of emergency healthcare services. With United States healthcare costs continuing to rise encouraging appropriate utilization as a way to lower costs and improve outcomes is becoming a priority. This study examined the healthcare encounters of formerly... | 2018 | |
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Inglesby, Kelsey | Healthcare innovation: An examination of process improvement | The term healthcare innovation has been floating around different healthcare systems for quite some time, but it is becoming more and more common for healthcare systems to place an emphasis on innovation in their company. There are many forms of healthcare innovation, three forms of innovation will ... | Health care reform; Healthcare innovation | 2015-05 |
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Dorsey, Bridget Forsha | Healthcare provider bias in estimating the health literacy of parents in a pediatric emergency department | Health literacy, defined as an individual's capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions, is a growing concern due to its significant effect on clinical communication and health outcomes. One aspect of this clinic... | 2020 | |
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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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Beller, Annastasia | Heartstrung: a choreographic expedition into the Queer female experience | This project follows a journey in learning how to portray a queer female experience on a ballet stage in a way that both produces emotional resonance and dissuades ostracization. Through the process of creative research, I choreographed a fiveminute- long contemporary ballet duet entitled "HeartStru... | 2022 | |
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Gibbs, Drake S. | The hero's journey as found within outer wilds | The "Monomyth", otherwise known as the "The Hero's Journey," is the title of the seventeen steps Campbell described in his examination of myths, legends, and fables across the world. Even in the tales of today, the presence of the Monomyth still is seen in many narratives, including the newest story... | 2023 | |
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Pace, Eliza Jane | High School curriculum on social media and mental wellbeing: combating the negative effects through education and application | Over the past ten years, there has been a significant rise of depression and suicide rates in adolescents. These rates coincide almost exactly with the rise in smartphone use and the development of social media. Evidence of multiple studies over the last twenty years suggests that social media plays... | 2021 | |
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Fischer, Paul | High-Performance Computing Performance Metric Analysis | At present, a signi#12;cant amount of ongoing scienti#12;c research relies on computational models. High-performance computing (HPC) resources are often required to obtain results in a reasonable amount of time. However, as physical and practical limitations constrain the performance progression of ... | 2019 | |
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Kutschke, Michael | Hip joint center differences between dual fluoroscopy, functional hip, and coda - establishing a reference standard | Measurements of joint angles, moments, and forces may be highly sensitive to positional changes in the center of a joint. Due to its deep location, the human hip joint center (HJC) can be difficult to determine. Previous studies have defined the HJC relative to external landmarks using infrared moti... | Hip joint; Hip joint center | 2015-05 |
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Jensen, Emma Margaret | The history and legacy of the "Russian" violin bow hold | Bow hold is a critical component of violin technique; it greatly influences an artist's tone production and virtuosity. Because bow hold is based in part on performance style and individual preference, various approaches have been introduced over the past centuries. One such approach, the "Russian" ... | 2021 | |
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Cardiff, Cayman | The history, present and future of Spanish pragmatics instruction for advanced Spanish L2+ language learners | This paper is a review of current and past literature about pragmatics and pragmatics instruction. The review includes a brief description of acquisition of pragmatics as well as the history of pragmatics. Details the lack of research in the field, the actions prompting more in- depth research on th... | 2023 | |
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Thomas, Nathaniel | The HIV-protective bystander effect in macrophages is viral glycoprotein dependent and likely conferred via upregulation of ISG IFITM3 | During an immune response against a specific antigen, often during viral infections, T cells not specific to the antigen can be activated, a phenomenon known as bystander response. The "bystander response" has been studied extensively in T cells, but when examined for macrophages through the lens of... | 2022 | |
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Goodger, Sally | The Holocaust and Identity in Young Adult Fantasy: Jane Yolen's Briar Rose and Ryan Graudin's Wolf by Wolf | This thesis examines Briar Rose by Jane Yolen and Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin, two novels that broaden conversations about the Holocaust by using fantastic elements to examine Holocaust identity issues. "Fantasy" and "fantastic" are understood here in a broad sense, accounting for all fantastic sub... | 2017 | |
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Myrick, Trevor | The horror of sexual violence: The representations of rape in American horror story | This thesis looks at the representation of rape in American Horror Story, considering its formal and narrative construction alongside critical responses, drawing attention to both innovative and stereotypical aspects of its function within the series. While the series generally revels in representin... | Art/Art History | 2014-05 |
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Rodriguez, Mayra | Hospital Acquired Bloodstream Infections in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic stem Cell Transplantation | Purpose The purpose of this thesis was to investigate hospital acquired bloodstream infections, in pediatric patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), using a subset of data from an ongoing study. The goal of the larger study was to track changes in central line-associated ... | 2020 | |
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McFarland, Casey | Hospital-Acquired pressure injury risk in medical intensive care unit patients with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study | Background: Hospital acquired pressure injuries (HAPrIs), defined as injuries to the skin or underlying tissue as a result of pressure or pressure in combination with shear, occur in approximately 6% MICU patients at the University of Utah hospital. HAPrIs are associated with longer length of hospit... | 2021 | |
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Kiel, Drew | How branding influences our willingness to pay for necessity products | Though marketing has existed in one manner or another for the duration of human history, the field has only seen strong development since the beginning of the 20th century. Marketing is now an inescapable part of everyday life and companies across every industry advertise of to us as potential custo... | 2021 | |
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Lee, Angela | How Creative Movement Practices, Such as Storytelling and Personal Narrative, Act as a Medium for People with Disabilities to Understand and Express Identity | After experiencing a multitude of various special needs programs (ranging from dance to climbing to personal training) in the surrounding Salt Lake City area, I found a focus on the interaction between special education and dance. Specifically, I turned to Tanner Dance to participate and assist in t... | 2014 | |
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Hanley, Grace | How engaging in mind-focused or body-focused Eastern practices affects the way people narrate challenging events | Yoga and meditation could influence how individuals mentally process and narrate their difficult experiences from the past. Specifically, such practices could result in increased exploration, growth, and positive resolution in narratives, compared to neutral conditions. Past researchers have employe... | Narration (Rhetoric) - Psychological aspects; Mediation - Therapeutic use; Yoga - Therapeutic use | 2014-05 |
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Jin, Zhao | How is the company's stock risk associated with its demand elasticity? | I examine a sample of 20 companies to see if individual total stock risk is associated with its product or service demand elasticity. My evidence is consistent with my first hypothesis that elastic firms' stock prices are more strongly affected by the changes in the input cost than are inelastic fir... | Elasticity (Economics); Risk; Stocks; Stock risk | 2014-05 |
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Norton, Alexander Santillano III | How Much of What We Did Was Good? | Many media commentators often remark that today's political climate is unhealthy and divisive. They speak of better days when people used to sit down in the same room, listen to each other, and find common ground. I believe that art, in the form of ‘music theater,' can achieve this goal. I note th... | 2019 | |
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Guzman, Kristina | How personal characteristic influence shopping habits post covid-19 | The pandemic altered the way of life permanently for people around the world, coining the phrase, "new normal," as we adjust to post-pandemic life. For my honors thesis, I chose to focus on consumer behavior changes associated with this "new normal." Specifically, I studied the impact of various for... | 2023 | |
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Terry, Anna | How social media influencers affect consumer's willingness to pay and their idealized self | While influencer marketing first dated back to the Gladiators in Ancient Rome and has been utilized to sell products in the modern era since 1890, the term "influencer" has gained new life with the rise of social media. Through continually exhibiting their lifestyle, Influencers earn a living by cul... | 2022 | |
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Kargi, Sahana | How the distribution of a society's prior beliefs affects the virality of information | Information diffusion is the process by which a piece of information disperses through a network. Whether it be computer viruses spreading via the internet or diseases transmitting through a school, understanding how information diffuses is extremely relevant to fields such as marketing, emergency m... | 2023 | |
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Yazzie, Rose | How to effectively align the Utah Effective Teaching Standards with American Indian values : a first step for elementary school teachers | Many times we find that American Indian students are disengaged in their K-12 education and classroom practices can conflict with their culture. This disconnect between value structures can make it difficult to navigate the educational pipeline leading to low college enrollment and attrition. This p... | American Indian education - Utah | 2014-04 |
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South, Koriann | How to stop AI from ruining the world: designing and pilot testing integrated al-ethics assignments | I would like to thank my thesis mentor, Dr. Eliane Wiese, for guiding me through the research process and supporting me for the past 3 years. I would also like to thank Ph.D. student Noelle Brown, Dr. Alan Kuntz, Dr. Suresh Venkatasubramanian, and Dr. Mu Zhang, who I worked with on this project. Par... | 2022 | |
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Hadfield, Nicholas | Human pathways to the Great Salt Lake | How is the Great Salt Lake connected to our sense of place as residents of the Salt Lake Valley? This thesis seeks to explore the Great Salt Lake's spiritual, environmental, and economic importance to past, present, and future inhabitants of the Salt Lake Valley. To do so, the paper explores differ... | City planning - Utah; Great Salt Lake (Utah) | 2016-04 |
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Steadham, Angela | Human trafficking in Utah, America and the world | To define human trafficking is to describe one of the most inhumane crimes in daily practice. It is modern day slavery. Human Trafficking is the recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring, and receipt of persons by coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or force to exploit them. The ... | Human trafficking - United States | 2014-07 |
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Stevens, Fergus D. | Human-Algorithm Interactions with Fundamental and Predatory Trading Robots | Algorithmic participation in financial markets has been a growing phenomenon since the early 1990s. This paper uses experimental data and simulations to analyze the interaction between humans and trading algorithms. Interactions between humans and algorithms are observed through laboratory sessions ... | 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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Lan, Yung-Chi | HYPO-osmolarity and glucose starvation localizes slm1 to mitochondria- A novel stress response pathway | Synthetic Lethal with Mss4 1 (Slm1) is a key protein found in the crossroad of the Membrane Compartment of Can1 (MCC) and the Membrane Compartment of TORC2 (MCT). The two compartments on the plasma membrane of budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) are responsible for APC transporter regulation an... | 2022 | |
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Weaver, Bradley | Hypoxia and the mesenchymal transition in glioma | Recent advances in targeted therapy for cancer have had little influence on survival for patients diagnosed with Glioblastoma (GBM, WHO Grade IV tumors), and median survival time remains stagnant at 12-15 months post diagnosis. Genomic profiling of GBM indicates clear phenotypic subsets of these tum... | Glioblastoma multiforme; Gliomas; Hypoxia; Mesenchymal transition | 2014-04 |
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Gordon, Matthew | Hysteresis and the learning-By-doing mechanism in the monetary policy context: a bayesian vector autoregression appoach | Standard macroeconomic theory typically assumes that output in the long-run is independent of the short-run business cycle. The hysteresis hypothesis assumes the contrary and supposes that short-run economic shocks can have a permanent effect on the level of output. This paper empirically tests the ... | 2022 | |
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Najarian, Anastasia S. | I Choose Life Project : Resolving the Disparity of Political and Human Rights Interventions a Strategic Communication Plan to Implement Treatment for Trauma and Suicide Prevention and Reduce Global Conflict VIA Digital Diplomacy | If one is faced with the daunting challenge of climbing Mount Everest or entering a battlefield, the best option is to follow the lead of someone who has done it before, rather than someone who has only read about it. Such is the case with current trends in addressing human rights interventions for ... | 2018 | |
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Fackler, Anderson N. | Identification of Kin-20 and UNC-119 Knockout suppressors associated with neuronal development and maintenance in C. elegans | Neurons comprise the nervous system-the essential signaling and communication system for nearly all multicellular organisms. To coordinate cells across an entire organism, they must grow to be relatively long. Therefore, neurons extend axons from the cell body. Immature neurons extend growth cones a... | 2018 | |
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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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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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Ong, Elaine | Identifying Natural Genetic Modifiers of Apoptosis and Retinal Degeneration | Apoptosis, or cell death, is an integral part of many diseases such as neurodegeneration, retinal degeneration, and cancer, yet it is unclear how apoptosis varies among individuals in a population. Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a retinal degeneration disease characterized by phenotypic heterogeneity ... | 2018 | |
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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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Danielson, Hailey | If i should die before i wake | In my senior year at the University of Utah, I edited and improved upon the movel I wrote in the Honors Novel Writing Workshop course taught by Michael Gills. My novel If I Should Die Before I Wake is the story of a young woman named Emma meeting a young man named Cale by coincidence, and how they s... | 2022 | |
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Wang, Wenyi | Imaging in a homogeneous aluminum plate by using ultrasonic waves | This project is about detecting and imaging damage (such as cracks) in a plate by using ultrasonic waves. The waves are generated by a source (an ultrasonic transducer) that is part of a robot that can move on the plate. The waves traveling in the plate are recorded at a receiver (another ultrasonic... | Ultrasonic transducer - Mathematics; Kirchoff migration - Research | 2014-12 |
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Child, Skylee | Imaining an ultimate approach to the healthcare system in the 21st century | 2023 | ||
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Vyas, Yash | Immigrants and financial capability in Canada | Immigration has accounted for 65% of Canadian population growth for the past five years, and this percentage is growing. By 2035, immigration is expected to account for nearly all of Canada's net population growth. As the number of immigrants continue to grow, many are beginning to wonder if immigra... | 2023 | |
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Herman, Ryan | The Impact of Dodd-Frank Legislation on the Mortagage Market Risk Environment: A Quantitative and Qualitative Examination | Within the last decade, the United States endured what is contemporaneously considered to be the most devastating economic recession since the Great Depression. While a complex array of factors contributed to the downturn, a significant and material contributor was the collapse of the housing market... | 2018 | |
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Farese, Ludovica | The impact of Global Health education in American Academic Medical Center (AAMCS) | Global health has become an increasingly popular field of study among college and graduate students in the United States. A growing body of literature purports the benefits of Global Health Education (GHEs) in American Academic Medical Centers (AAMCs), including introduction to a wider spectrum of d... | 2018 | |
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Foote, Carol | The Impact of Past Drug Enforcement Legislation and Potential Success of a Three-Pronged Approach to the Opioid Epidemic | The opioid epidemic has gained widespread attention over the past decade as overdose and addiction rates soar across the country. Opioid abuse has been a problem for the United States dating back to the Civil War. With the pain revolution and aggressive marketing tactics by prescription drug manufac... | 2018 | |
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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 | |
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Quinn, Chloe | The impact of the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River: options for the future | The Grand Canyon and the Colorado River at its base are iconic natural features of the western United States that are revered by many. This landscape may be well known for its resplendent red canyon walls and beautiful river with huge whitewater, but it is also famous for the monstrous dams that con... | 2023 | |
| 473 |
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Woolston, Caleb M. | Impact of trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress symptoms on baseline self-reported safety behaviors versus observer-rated safety behaviors during the trauma film paradigm | Background: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a high burden disorder marked by safety behaviors (SB), which are covert or overt actions used to escape distressing feelings or places. However, literature suggests scores on observer-rated and self-reported SBs can be discrepant, creating a need... | 2022 | |
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Holden, Ella | The impacts of climate change induced droughts on smallholder farmers in Latin America and the caribbean: poverty, food insecurity and drought adaptation strategies | Extreme weather events caused by climate change have serious implications. Drought, a natural disaster, has been worsened by climate change, and has had major consequences on the agricultural industry. While many farmers can adapt to major droughts, small-scale farmers in developing countries strugg... | 2023 | |
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Black, Taylor Madison | Impacts of Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Outlier Body Mass Indices on Pediatric Asthma Outcomes | There are seven million children in the United States impacted by asthma [1]. When assessing the severity of a child's asthma, it is important to take into account risk factors known to affect child hood asthma. Two such risk factors that are modifiable include parental tobacco smoke exposure (TSE)... | Asthma - Child; Tobacco smoke - Health aspects - United States | 2015-05 |
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Lloyd, Lauren | Implementing education on objectification theory and why it is more beneficial for women's issues than the body positivity movement | 2022 | ||
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Beams, Alexander | Implications of antibiotic use for co-infections when a fitness trade-off for resistance is present | How much does indiscriminate antibiotic use promote the spread of antibiotic-resistant infections in a population? Assuming a fitness trade-off for resistance exists, it is possible for an antibiotic-vulnerable strain to outlast a resistant type within an untreated host carrying both. That means pru... | Drug resistance in microorganisms -- Mathematical models Co-infections | 2015 |
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Hughes, Emma | The implications of carbon abatement for industrial composition and firm value | Marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs) serve as a representation of the costs or savings associated with various actions aimed at reducing green house gas (GHG) emissions. This thesis investigates whether investors could have earned abnormal stock returns by constructing portfolios that exploit diff... | 2023 | |
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Ribble, Leah | The implications of childhood maltreatment and current life stress for pregnant women's hair cortisol concentrations | The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is one of the core components of the body's stress system. As such, the HPA axis is responsive to many different stressors, including those in childhood-such as childhood maltreatment-as well as sources of current life stress. The product of the HPA axis... | 2023 | |
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Stoddard, Henry | The Importance of Planning in Rural Communities | City and Metropolitan Planning as a discipline is largely focused on the development and problem solving of dense urban living areas. This is largely due to the fact that urban areas contain the most people, therefore they require careful planning in order to function properly. It makes sense. But t... | 2020 | |
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Hagemeyer, Troy | The importance of resolution with UAV remote sensing and structure from motion | The use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, has grown widely as they have grown less costly and more available to the public. One area of growth is in the remote sensing of snow and ice. In particular, structure from motion photogrammetry is used to determine snow depths through differential mappi... | 2020 | |
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Thomas, Payton J | Importance sampling techniques for genetic circuit analysis | Genetic circuits have been identified as a promising technology that could revolutionize several areas, including biofuels, biomanufacturing, and medicine. Despite the tremendous potential of this technology, there are significant challenges associated with its development and implementation. One of... | 2023 | |
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Luchinovich, Aleksandr | Improving measurement techniques of thin film solar cells | New, innovative solar cell technologies such as CZTS, CdTe, and hybrid perovskite solar cells are constantly being pursued in order to deliver better cost per Watt performance. Moreover, cost and long term reliability(25 years or more) are important factors that are currently considered. The Scarpu... | Solar cells - Testing; Thin films - Research; Electric power - Research; Thermal admittance spectroscopy | 2016-05 |
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Hendrickson, Hannah | Improving Outcomes for People Facing Homelessness | Despite extravagant health care spending in the United States today, a real and significant disparity still exists: The large homeless population is underrepresented in receiving good health care. Research shows the United States (U.S.) is missing its target of providing quality health care to all i... | 2017 | |
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Asplund, Brenna | In border country: The nature of magic and reality in Terry Pratchett's Discworld | Magic and reality in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series are difficult to place among well-known fantasy tropes and dichotomies. Defining either magic or reality in his invented world (either as opposed to each other or as different aspects of each other) is nearly impossible. Reality on the Disc is ... | Pratchett, Terry. Discworld series | 2015-04 |
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Warren, Bailey J. | In context of consumer education: the environmental, human health, and community based externalities of confinement operations in Brazil | Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (henceforth CAFOs) are a signature feature of modern food production and consumption. This thesis will explore the various types of environmental pollution and contamination that surround CAFOs and what this means for neighboring ecosystems, human health, and t... | 2022 | |
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Colby, Natalie | In depth: a collection of short stories on Queer Adolescence | This thesis is a collection of fiction short stories written over the course of my undergrad degree, with some produced particularly for this project. In these stories, I explore themes that are of particular interest to me, including, queer adolescence and the intersections between queerness and re... | 2023 | |
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Fine, Elizabeth | In His Own Hands: Autonomy in the Legend of Theophilus | Looking at stories that embodied medieval values, there are none that do it so well as the "Legend of Theophilus," the story of a man who, after making a contract with the Devil to regain his lost status in his community, prays to Mary to save him from his sins. After Theophilus's extended repentanc... | 2019 | |
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Kobe-Rundio, Maya | In Our Element: Outdoor Recreation as a Tool for Female Empowerment and Community Building | This research investigates the meanings of outdoor recreation in the lives of college-aged female-identified and non-binary individuals. Qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 16 current students and recent graduates of the University of Utah generated rich narratives on the themes of challeng... | 2019 | |
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Cohen, Susan | In search of visual privacy in a technological world | Americans value a "right to privacy" even though that right is not spelled out in the Constitution, and only loosely defined in a patchwork of federal and state laws. Much of our understanding of privacy is rooted in the Fourth Amendment, but when the First Congress wrote the Fourth Amendment, no on... | Privacy, Right of - United States; Electronic surveillance - United States | 2014-05 |
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Weller, Kristine C. | Incarceration, art, and agency: newspaper portrayals as an outlet for creative expression inside Japanese American relocation camps | The purpose of this thesis is to explore the role of art in publications created by interned Japanese Americans during World War II. Newspapers and magazines published inside internment camps were examined to see how they depicted art as a response to various needs and loss, in what ways camp public... | 2023 | |
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Stephanz, Megan | Increasing the Stability of Thylakoid Biocatalyst Bio-Solar Cells Through the Use of Oxygen Species Material Scavengers | Global energy requirements will only increase with time. While fossil fuels can be relied upon for several more centuries, they would produce vast amounts of carbonaceous byproducts. This undesirable fact makes renewable options like bio-solar cells, which are clean, inexpensive, and take advantage ... | 2016 | |
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Liu, Jia | Indicators of Burden in Conversations Between Caregivers | When facing a challenge to provide sufficient resources and services to a growing elderly population, family caregivers will be required to provide the majority of care at home, leading to increased stress and burden. While this phenomenon is well-recognized in the research literature, and many atte... | 2018 | |
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Gardner, Kelly | Individual differences in inhibition and emotion | The objective of this study was to examine if negative emotion can play an influential role on inhibition through attentional control. Higher levels of working memory capacity (WMC) have been correlated with faster inhibition times attributed to greater tolerance of automatic processes and better... | Emotion | 2014-12 |
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Helm, Audrey | The individuality of women characters in Shakespearean drama: a study of much ADO about nothing and Macbeth | The individuality of Shakespeare's female characters is often underestimated. Many modern Shakespeare readers view his plays through a contemporary lens, which prevents a complex understanding of the way Shakespeare portrays highly individualized female characters, who operate in complex, male-led s... | 2023 | |
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Weinberger, Caton | Infant attachment security as a predictor of academic outcomes among children who experienced early adversity: a mediational analysis examining executive functioning and language skills during early childhood | Identifying predictors of classroom success is critical for supporting children's education. My first aim was to examine whether infant attachment security is positively associated with four cognitive outcomes among a high-risk sample of children: pre-academic language skills and executive function ... | 2022 | |
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Kay, Sydnee | Influence of cultural fear of terrorism on imprisonment in Egypt | Terrorism has had an expansive impact on Egyptian culture and politics in the last century. With terror activity being somewhat regular in current president Sisi's Egypt, the general fear of terrorism has allowed President Sisi to imprison political dissidents, journalists, and others that could sup... | 2022 | |
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Goodman, Angela | The influence of interpersonal relationships and mindfulness on sleep quality | The distress of not getting restful, restorative sleep can have damaging effects on interpersonal relationships, and stressful relationships can, in turn, disturb sleep. The associations between sleep and interpersonal functioning are not well understood. In addition, the literature on individual di... | Sleep - Psychological aspects; Sleep - Social aspects; Interpersonal relations; Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy | 2014-05 |
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Denna, McKell | The influence of operational changes on employee engagement and customer satisfaction: an exploratory study | Due to intense financial pressure companies are increasingly adopting operational changes to cut costs by increasing an organization's efficiency. While such changes have been proven to provide some competitive advantage for organizations that implement them effectively, they may also have a negati... | Success in business; Consumer satisfaction; Customer services | 2016-04 |
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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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Immonen, Jacob | Integrating Smartphone Technology in Chemical Engineering Research, Education, and Outreach | Since smartphones are such a widely used and popular technology in modern times it makes sense to integrate a technology that is easily accessible and incredibly useful into chemical engineering research, education and outreach. Upon completion of this project two Android applications (apps) have be... | 2014 | |
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Castaneda, Carol N. | Integrating Social Justice Lessons in a Spanish High School Classroom to Increase Motivation in Learning Spanish as a Second/World Language | Universities across the nation recommend, if not require, students to take two, or more, consecutive years of a world language (Grove, 2017). In high school setting, required languages toward graduation may be burdensome for students who would prefer to take other courses. For this project, I was in... | 2017 | |
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Matyi, Joshua Matthew | Intelligence and neural activation : a test of the relationship between the neural efficiency hypothesis and repetition suppression | The Neural Efficiency Hypothesis (NEH) states that individuals with higher measured intelligence exhibit less neural activation on relatively simple tasks compared to those with lower intelligence (Haier et al., 1988). Furthermore, this phenomenon may interact with repetition suppression, or the red... | Intelligence levels - Physiological aspects; Neural networks (Neurobiology) | 2014-05 |
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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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Weglarz, Anya | Internalized HIV stigma among women giving birth in Tanzania: a mixed-methods study | Background Women living with HIV (WLHIV) commonly experience internalized HIV stigma, which refers to how they feel about themselves as a person living with HIV. Internalized stigma interferes with HIV care seeking behavior and may be particularly heightened during the pregnancy and postpartum perio... | 2023 | |
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Laubacher, Samantha | International Comparisons in Education: the Finnish Model | International comparisons in education can be used as a baseline to see how a country is doing in comparison with education systems across countries. Performance analyses are essential when looking to inform or modify existing policies. In this research, I compare the educational system of the Uni... | International comparisons - United States; International comparisons - Finland | 2016-08 |
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Ramirez, Luis | The intersection of entrepreneurship theory: an analysis of revenue performance and loan approval of construction contractors in Utah | The Latinx population accounts for 19% of the United States population. This study seeks to understand how a Latinx identity impacts entrepreneurial outcomes since disproportionate outcomes exist in entrepreneurship based on the identity of the founders. Using Latinx Critical Theory as framework, th... | 2023 | |
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Heman, Claire | Intersections | This creative thesis explores the intersections of identity, gender, and sexuality, relevant topics in our times of binary gender roles and pervasive heteronormative social structures. This thesis is divided into two parts: 1) an introductory essay to place the creative work in an existing conversat... | Gender identity in literature; Sexual orientation in literature | 2015-08 |
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Kaur, Kiman | The Intersections of Gender, Race, and the Environment: How can Queer Ecology Shift Power and Place in Ecosystems? | Colonization and colonialism in the United States (U.S.) create flawed social constructions of race and gender that perpetuate a hierarchical dominance of power based on one's identity. This hierarchy of power overwhelmingly marginalizes communities of color, especially womxn1 of color, while uplift... | 2018 | |
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O'Brien, Cullen | Intimate ideological space: an analysis of personalized online environments | This thesis examines the ideological significance of "personalized online environments." POEs are environments on the internet that are engineered to adhere to individuals' preferences. Most influential theories of ideology - those of Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Stuart Hall and othe... | 2021 | |
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Anderson, Ashley | Intracranial electrocorticographic correlates of intrinsic brain neetworks | Analyzing patterns of intracranial electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings can provide insight into how temporal and spatial components of brain activity are related on a trial-by-trial basis. Research on fMRI resting state networks has clarified the role of the default mode network (DMN) in intern... | 2021 | |
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Halberg, Nick | The Inverse effect of population growth on water use in Utah | The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute projects that Utah will experience rapid population growth over the next 45 years. It is commonly assumed that this sudden increase in population will subsequently lead to a sudden increase in the demand for water, thereby creating a need for new water diversions.... | 2020 | |
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Willis, Brendan M. | Investigating the mediational role of meaning making in the association between moral injury and well-being | Most people at some point in their lives will encounter a situation where they witness, perpetrate, or fail to stop an action that seriously violates their moral beliefs, events that have recently been termed moral injuries. Litz and colleagues (2009) proposed a theoretical framework that suggests s... | Ethics - Psychological aspects; Mental health - Moral and ethical aspects | 2014-05 |
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Tran, Amy | Investigating the strategic patterns in LBO funds | In the mid-2000s, public-to-private transactions reappeared when the United States experienced a second leveraged buyout boom. Most sponsors are paid a management fee of 2% on the fund's capital and receive a carried interest of 20% of the profits realized by the fund. Two literature reviews serve a... | Leveraged buyouts--United States--Finance | 2014-08 |
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Zamantakis, Alithia | Invisible bodies: LGBTQIA youth in the juvenile legal system | Scholars, such as Michelle Alexandra and Angela Y. Davis, and activists alike have begun to voice the inequitable conditions through which people of color are funneled into the prison industrial complex and laws are racially biased, so as to relegate people of color to a space of invisibility. It is... | Juvenile justice, Administration of - United States; GLBTQIA youth | 2015-09 |
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Ramous, Caroline | Is Intact Endothelial Cell Autophagy Required for Training-Induced Vascular Adaptations? | Macroautophagy is operational during basal conditions to maintain intracellular organelle and protein quality control, but is upregulated during cellular stress (e.g., dynamic exercise) to adapt to changing nutritional and energy demands. We tested the hypothesis that intact endothelial cell (EC) au... | 2020 | |
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Rush, Jacob | Is it not just for me to do what i will with mine own? Redressing the egalitarian's pareto dilemma | In this paper, I consider one justification for people's sincere, daily choices - G.A. Cohen's ethos of justice - that seeks to (a) discourage people from demanding incentives for choosing highly productive lines of work and (b) motivate them to do choose the most socially useful occupation. Cohen f... | Pareto dilemma | 2014-05 |
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Lyne, Conor | ISILl, INC. the Finance of Terror | Founded out of religious extremism, ISIL has established itself as a formidable terrorist organization through various forms of financial strength. This paper analyzes the ISIL's beginning as a radical ideology and the political turmoil it took advantage of to gain power throughout the Middle East. ... | 2017 | |
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MacDonald, Cara | Israel VS Palestine: A Game of Media | Bias in newspaper reporting about conflicts and what happens within them has an impact on how that conflict plays out due to global perceptions. This paper will analyze three news sources: Al Jazeera, The Jerusalem Post, and The Palestine Chronicle. It will assess biased reporting in their coverage ... | 2018 | |
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Goller, Nicholas | Iterative game development: What goes into making an effective game and the lessons learned from making two games | Imagine you are told you have two semesters to make a game. You have a team of over ten people ready to help out. You even have the basic idea of what the game will be about. How hard can it be? Well, it is not that hard to make "a game" in two semesters. A competent coder can hack together a game... | Computer games - Design | 2016-04 |
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Ehmann, Kylee | Jane Austen's realism revisited: Pride & Prejudice, Emma and Sanditon in the digital age | There are hundreds of film, television and book adaptations of Jane Austen's novels in the world, all different retellings and interpretations of the original source texts. And while these adaptations' quality is typically judged based on its fidelity to the original novels, this value judgement on... | Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 - Criticism and interpretation | 2014-12 |
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Schmid, Cheyenne | Joint position sense in knee osteoarthritic patients | Osteoarthritis (OA) is a slow progressing degenerative joint disease affecting approximately 10% of the United States population. The incidence of OA increases with age due to the continual loading of the knee joint throughout life and is one of the main causes of chronic pain and disability in the ... | Knee -- Diseases -- Exercise therapy; Osteoarthritis; Joint position sense | 2014-08 |
| 523 |
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Norris, Garrett | Kanji education for non-Chinese character background language learners: bone oracle script and Shirakawa kanji science | The logographic writing system used in Japanese and Chinese, known as kanji or hanzi /H ^ respectively, is a source of both fascination and frustration for students faced with learning the thousands of characters necessary for literacy in either of these Asian languages. This is often compounded by ... | Kanji - education | 2014-05 |
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Rush, Jacob | The Kantian concept of the person, rationality and Socrates' death | In this paper, I consider Socrates' death sentence in The Apology and his choice to accept his death sentence in The Crito. I structure his choice in a Kantian manner. First, I argue that Socrates has a duty to himself, as a rational agent, to (a) act as a promisekeeping individual and (b) perform t... | Socrates - Death and burial; Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1824 - Ethics | 2014-05 |
| 525 |
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Elison, Tony | Keyframe: Six Images for Jazz Sextet and String Quartet | Memory defines reality. The mind's interpretation of the present relies entirely upon its experience. Before you pick up a rock, you have an idea of what it will feel like in your hand. You can discern information about someone through social cues instead of having that information explicitly explai... | 2020 | |
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Murray, Clint | Keynes as theorist and investor | There is an abundance of literature that extensively explicates how various factors, notably probability theory, influenced John Maynard Keynes's thinking and economic theories in regards to the behavior of financial markets and the agents making decisions in those markets. Commentators, however, ha... | Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946 - Criticism and interpretation | 2016-04 |
| 527 |
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Nelson, Kelli R. | Label-Free Visualization of Nanoparticles Subjected to Dielectrophoretic Forces | Previous studies have shown that nanoparticle separation may be achieved to very high resolution based on size and other properties in a sawtooth-patterned gradient insulator-based dielectrophoretic microfluidic device. This work integrates this dielectrophoretic capture of nanoparticles from a liqu... | 2019 | |
| 528 |
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Haxhiu, Elird | The labor market implications of unification between Albania and Kosovo | This paper estimates the impact that political unification between the currently independent states of Albania and Kosovo would have on the labor markets in each country. Specifically, it analyzes and quantifies by analogy the propensity of workers in Kosovo to migrate to Albania seeking employment ... | Albania - Economic conditions; Kosovo (Republic) - Economic conditions | 2014-04 |
| 529 |
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Christensen, Joshua | The LDS context: religious trauma, social safety, & LGBTQ+ health | Within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS church), LGBTQ+ members have reported negative mental health outcomes related to their participation (Simmons, 2017; Dehlin et al., 2014). However, few studies have sought to measure how exposure to harmful beliefs and teachings experienced... | 2022 | |
| 530 |
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Erturk, Ali Cem | The lead up to restriction and contemporary immigration | In the 1840s and 1850s, a nativist viewpoint was applied to all foreigners, particularly Catholics and the Irish. From 1850-1882, it was applied to Asians who were presumed to be of a lower racial and economic order. In the 1920s, the poverty of Eastern European Jews, Italians, Hungarians, and Poles... | 2023 | |
| 531 |
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Van der Merwe, Mark | Learning 3D Reconstructions for Geometrically aware Robotic Grasping | Robotic grasping is a crucial subtask of many important robotic applications, such as in-home robotic assistance, emergency responce robots, and industrial robotics. Deep learning has enabled remarkable improvements in robotic grasp synthesis for previously unseen objects from partial object views. ... | 2020 | |
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Tsang, Alvin | Legal techniques to obstructing elections? analyzing the effects of voter purging on voter turnout in Georgia | Voter purging is a federally mandated process used by state legislatures to routinely clean voter registration rolls. Georgia's Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, has been criticized for using purging as a political tool to suppress voter participation by removing certain blocs of voters to influence e... | 2021 | |
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Robbins, Colt | Legality of sex work as a national project in post-colonial egypt | This thesis will analyze the gendering of nationalism in post-colonial Egypt. The thesis will begin by explaining how the military occupation of Egypt led to the development of laws that governed women's sexuality and specifically sex work. It will then analyze how 20th-century Egyptian intellectual... | 2022 | |
| 534 |
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Giannopoulos, Diona | Let be: A novel | Diona Giannopoulos' novel Let Be is the story of 26-year-old Zoe, who after abandoning her family nearly seven years prior, returns home to discover her childhood house the exact same, her sisters barely changed, and her previously alcoholic father showing the beginning signs of Alzheimer's Disease.... | American fiction -- 21st century | 2015-04 |
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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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Arave, Mariah | Life elevated: investigating the association between altitude and depression | The purpose of this research is to explore the relationship between altitude and depression. Evidence obtained from previous studies show that hypoxia can cause changes in the levels of mood-regulating neurotransmitters, potentially affecting mental health. There is also a region in the western Unit... | University of Utah | 2018 |
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Potter, Hannah | Lifting Coach: Using Machine Learning to Battle Musculoskeletal Damage | Many manual laborers develop musculoskeletal disorders performing their work duties. The prevalence of these issues is concerning because of the negative effects on workers' health and well-being, the great cost to workers who are not able to work temporarily or permanently, and the great cost to co... | 2019 | |
| 538 |
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Foott, Bettymaya | Light pollution hazards within ecosystems and mitigation strategies for the future | Light Pollution is a phenomenon caused by poor lighting design, and is increasing globally. Only recently are scientists beginning to fully understand how light pollution affects humans and the environment. Birds, which play an important role in our ecosystem, are vulnerable to light pollution effec... | Light pollution Lighting -- Environmental aspects | 2015-05 |
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Tse, Justin | The Linear Algebra of the Last Passage Percolation Model | We study the linear algebra of the last passage percolation model. In this model, we want to find the statistics of maximal paths through a randomly weighted grid. Specifically we focus on bases of the set of path lengths made from paths. The maximum path length is a deterministic function of a much... | 2017 | |
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Evans, Megan | Linguistic Autonomy and Political Sovereignty: the Case of Catalonia | The significance of language on human life is undeniable: it not only allows for communication, but also contributes to the construction of a cultural identity. Groups that have experienced cultural oppression, such as the Catalans, tend to establish even stronger connections to their language, usin... | 2020 | |
| 541 |
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Nakashima, Elizabeth | Linguistic Reclamation in the LGBTQ+ Community | This thesis analyzes and determines whether or not the pejorative fag or faggot is in the process of being reclaimed by the LGBTQ+ speech community. Previous research on linguistic reclamation has not provided an adequate model for determining whether or not a pejorative is within the process of bei... | 2017 | |
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Koblanski, Kasper | Liver foxn3 increases pancreatic a-cell mass without altering hepatic amino acid utilization | Insulin injection into peripheral tissues inefficiently controls elevated fasting blood glucose in type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1) patients. Peripheral insulin lacks the signaling of healthy β-cell insulin, which directs adjacent pancreatic α-cells to stop production of glucagon, a hormone releasin... | 2022 | |
| 543 |
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Gills, Lyra | Living while alive: a brief proposal for Puerto Piramides, Argentina, to attain Blue Zone Project Community (BZPC) status | In 2004, Blue Zones, or places where men and women live well past 90 or 100 years of age, were discovered by Dan Buettner and his team from National Geographic. Today, there are five well known Blue Zones, as well as four Blue Zone Project Communities that can be found. | Blue Zones; centenarians | 2021-05 |
| 544 |
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Payne, Christopher | Looping as a Foundational Mechanic of Video Games | The past five decades have witnessed the dramatic birth and growth of the video game medium into an essential facet of popular culture. Since then, innumerable games have been created across every conceivable genre and technological platform, each relying on some unique blend of mechanics, dynamics,... | 2020 | |
| 545 |
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Hopkins, Stephanie | Lost in Translation: Perceptions of Patient Centered Care Among Iraqi Muslim Women | Iraqi Muslim women encounter many barriers to receiving patient-centered care in the U.S. health system. When expectations between the patient and provider differ and a disconnect or misunderstanding occurs, Iraqi women can be at risk for unintended poor quality care. Health providers have incentive... | 2019 | |
| 546 |
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Smith, Toni | Love, and 1,138 other reasons to marry | As the lesbian daughter of a lesbian mother growing up in the rural American west in the 1980s I was acutely aware that the law did not exist to protect my family. We were "those people." The definition of "those people" has changed over time in our country. We have been (among others) slaves, imm... | Same-sex marriage - Law and legislation - United States | 2016-04 |
| 547 |
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Hammons, Liam | The lovecraftian chronotope: a formalist analysis of "At the Mountains of madness" | H. P. Lovecraft's fiction has long fascinated critics for the portrayals of cosmic terrors and indescribable monsters. The fiction, however, betrays a common structure and conceit that manifests Lovecraft's ideological and philosophical objectives. This essay applies Mikhail Bakhtin's chronotope the... | 2021 | |
| 548 |
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Caine, Benjamin | Low Cost Carriers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Prospects and Strategies | This paper assesses the economic opportunity for low-cost carriers (LCC) to successfully enter the sub-Saharan African (SSA) air transit market. To accomplish this, I address the future growth in passenger demand, the current state of African air travel infrastructure, and governmental barriers to s... | 2019 | |
| 549 |
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Citterman, Abigail R. | Low frequencies improve intensity discrimination for electrocutaneous artificial sensory feedback | The current standard of care for those living with upper-limb loss is unsatisfactory, with up to 50% of amputees abandoning their prostheses, citing unintuitive use and a lack of sensory feedback as critical factors. Electrocutaneous stimulation uses electrodes on the skin to evoke tactile sensation... | 2022 | |
| 550 |
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Harding, Anna Neibling | Low-Cost Surface Electromyogtraphy Sleeve for Quick and Repeatable Decoding of Motor Intent | Surface electromyography (sEMG) is a noninvasive way to decode motor intent for applications such as prosthesis control, virtual reality, and stroke or spinal cord rehabilitation. State-of-the-art methods of decoding motor intent used in myoelectric prostheses have limited capabilities, partially du... | 2019 | |
| 551 |
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Allam, Jeremy | Low-energy satellite transfer from Earth to Mars | A new type of satellite transfer that uses half the amount of fuel as conventional transfers has been discovered. This transfer, called a low-energy transfer, proved to work in 1991 when a Japanese satellite successfully went in orbit around the moon using this technique. Since then, more research h... | Space vehicles -- Dynamics -- Mathematics Space flight to Mars -- Mathematics | 2015-04 |
| 552 |
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Abele, Madison | Low-Income pregnant Women's Quality of Prenatal care | This research project focused on the quality of prenatal care for low-income women in Salt Lake City, Utah. A standardized instrument, The Quality of Prenatal Care Questionnaire was used to guide this study. It focused on Information Sharing, Anticipatory Guidance, Sufficient Time, Approachability, ... | 2018 | |
| 553 |
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Armstrong, Blair P. | Lower critical solution temperature behavior of elastin-coiled-coil polymer, a potential platform for treatment of non-hodgkin's lymphoma | Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma takes the lives of 20,000 Americans each year. When traditional therapies fail, clinicians have turned to a drug, rituximab, for treatment. However, rituximab is now curative for less than 50% of patients and new treatments are needed. Drug-free macromolecular therapeutics (DF... | 2021 | |
| 554 |
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Wallace, Joshua J. | Lyman-alpha emission as a probe of galaxy environments | As a result of resonant scatterings off hydrogen atoms, Lya emission from star-forming galaxies provides a potential probe of the neutral gas environment around them. In order to determine the utility of Lya emission as a probe of gas environments we study the effects of environmental anisotropy on ... | Galaxies - Spectra | 2014-05 |
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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 |
| 556 |
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Wayman, Cory | Made in heaven? when art and pornography share a bed | This Art History thesis investigates the relationship between the categories of pornography and art primarily through a visual and textual analysis of American artist Jeff Koon's series Made in Heaven. This analysis is furthered by a comparison of Koons's work to that of contemporary artists Marilyn... | 2019 | |
| 557 |
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Pearson, Cassidy | Major Urinary Protiens as a signal of genetic Quality and Infection status | The Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis suggests that susceptibility to infectious disease is so important that many physical traits, particularly secondary sexual characters, will evolve to signal genetic quality for resistance to prospective mates. We expanded upon this theory using the house mouse (Mus muscu... | 2018 | |
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Kearsley, Elizabeth A. | Making 360 and representing the aesthetics of nostalgia through documentary | 360 is a short documentary film I made that follows Micha Osuchowski, a young woman obsessed with the culture of the late 1990s and early 2000s, also referred to as the Y2K era. The film weaves together two aspects of Osuchowski's life, her occupation selling Y2K clothing online and skateboarding, a... | 2021 | |
| 559 |
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Cattani, Shelby I. | Making accomodations for millennial metal health in the workplace | 1.Executive Summary Employee wellness is important to address in a business for a variety of reasons. Even before the pandemic, anxiety and depression were estimated to cost the economy around 1 trillion dollars in lost productivity according to the World Health Organization (2021). There is an inte... | 2021 | |
| 560 |
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Davidson, Peter C. | Making Diego's Dream | Diego's Dream is a short documentary film about a young man named Diego Catalan who was brought from Mexico to the United States when he was only eight years old. In the film, Diego recounts his vivid memory of the experience of crossing the border as a child, and reflects on current issues of immig... | 2017 | |
| 561 |
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Tvrdik, Barbora | Male-Female Dynamics and Women's Power in Marriage: An Analysis of Mariama BA's Une Si Longue Lettre | The novel Une si longue lettre [So Long a Letter] (1979) by Senegalese author Mariama Bâ (1929-81) takes the form of a long, fictional letter of a newly-widowed woman named Ramatoulaye to her childhood friend Aïssatou. While writing this letter, she reflects upon her 25-year-long marriage and conf... | 2020 | |
| 562 |
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Heiner, Catherine | Man up: Sexual Violence, Masculinity, and Rhetoric | In discussion of sexual violence, very specific rhetoric is used. Discussions on the topic include questions of "what was she wearing? How much did she drink? Don't you think she was asking for it?" This language creates a situation where this action is perceived as an abnormal act of violence, rath... | 2017 | |
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Wang, Minna | Managing limited ECG access in a clinical cardiac electrophysiology setting | Electrocardiographic Imaging (ECGI) is a computational approach that seeks to reconstruct cardiac electrical activity with high precision from body surface ECGs by solving a numerical inverse problem. Though there have been great advancements in ECGI, there is still a need for progress in specific a... | Electrocardiography - Research; Heart - Diseases - Diagnosis; Body surface potentials | 2016-05 |
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Clegg, Zachary | Manifesting Nationalism During Interwar Germany and the United States (1933-39): Memorializing, Maintaining and Investing Nationalism Through Architecture | Political factions, states, nations and empires have used architecture as an expression of power for thousands of years - and there seems to be little chance of stopping. In the Interwar period of 1933-1939, a time of great nationalistic fervor, many nations throughout the world, including the Unite... | 2017 | |
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Shimko, Tyler | Mapping suppressors of premature sperm activation in C. Elegans | The sperm of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans move by a crawling motion, in contrast to mammalian sperm, which exhibit a swimming motion. This method of locomotion makes the sperm of C. elegans an excellent model for examining cell motility. In order to become motile, the sperm must undergo the ... | Caenorhabditis elegans -- Spermatozoa; Sperm activation | 2015-05 |
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Mailoux, Savannah | Mapping Vitality in Utah's Salt Lake County | The term vitality within the field of psychology is related to someone's energy or spirit as they move through different experiences in life. Most often, the term is associated with a sense of liveliness if someone were to possess high vitality, or a sense of dullness if someone were to possess low ... | 2019 | |
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Ferguson, Christina M. | Marital status and distress among low-income couples transitioning to parenthood | The transition to parenthood is associated with declines in couple relationship functioning and increases in psychological distress. Cohabiting and economically disadvantaged couples are at particular risk during this life transition. This study examined cohabitation as a potential risk factor for p... | Couples -- Psychology | 2015-04 |
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Wagstaff, Katya | Marketing the Arts: Social Media Marketing and University of Utah College of Fine Arts | This paper evaluates the effectiveness of social media marketing efforts for university performing arts events. This was accomplished by working with the marketing and communication team in the University of Utah 's College of Fine Arts to analyze the success of their social media marketing efforts ... | 2019 | |
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Eldredge, Nicolle | Maternal stress and the Development of infant regulatory processes | When mother-infant dyads engage in an effective form of communication, one where mother and infant both play an active role, the infant gains an understanding for the emotions that they feel. However, acute stress exposure may challenge the dyad's ability to effectively self-regulate prior to and fo... | 2014 | |
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Kim, Jon | Mathematical Foundations of Atonal Music Theory | Atonal music theory borrows much of its conceptual framework from the mathematical disclipline of set theory. Several music theoretical concepts, however, exceed the scope of set theory and are ill-defined as such. This document aims to help complete the mathematical foundation of atonal music theor... | 2018 | |
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Tang, Anna | Mathematical model of drug resistance in ER+ breast Cancer: the role of the microenvironment | One of the main obstacles to treating cancer is its ability to evolve and resist treatment. In this project, we are primarily interested mathematically modeling how the cancer microenvironment interacts with cancer cells and affects cancer's response to therapy. We aim to develop the mathematical mo... | 2023 | |
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Youatt, Catherine C. | Mathematics in Visual Art and Ballet | Cultures all over the globe utilize both mathematics and ballet to understand the world and to express their distinct realities. In this way, mathematics and art interact, both with math creating new visual art fields, like fractal artworks, and with art influencing mathematics, as with Renaissance ... | 2019 | |
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Busath, Abigail | Me & My Wishes: an Examination of Resident Preferences in Nursing Home Care Conferences | With an increasingly older population in the United States, many older adults are expected to dwell in nursing homes (NHs)-a place where they may also experience the end of their life (EOL). Despite the growing number of older adults in NHs, meaningful discussions about preferences for end-of-life (... | 2019 | |
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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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Foote, Charles R. | Measuring an ideas-based economy: an assessment of total factor productivity | This study presents a new empirical assessment of the ability of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) to measure the effects of innovation in aggregate and across different industries. Typically, TFP is estimated as a scale parameter of a production function fit to output and input data from industries o... | Industrial productivity; Total factor productivity | 2015-04 |
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Hayashi, Samantha | The Mechanism of Lysosome Movement During ER Stress | The Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) is a cellular organelle responsible for the synthesis and folding of secretory proteins. When protein import into the ER exceeds the its protein folding capacity, misfolded proteins accumulate and can potentially become toxic to the cell. This situation, termed ER stre... | 2019 | |
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Wang, Alison | Mechanistic studies of the electroanalytic reduction of CO2 TO CO: A BPY-MN(CO)3Coome model | Transition-metal electrocatalysts have previously been shown to convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, which is promising for future energy schemes. Recent efforts have focused on (N^N)Mn(CO)3X complexes due to their performance and exclusion of expensive metals (X = anionic ligand, N^N = bident... | 2023 | |
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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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McSweeney, Catherine Lindsay | Media representations: The health and beauty of the female body | This thesis examines the media representations of women in advertising through textual analysis. Discussed are the possible influences advertising and media have on obesity and health through the perceived pressures placed on women to maintain a body type and figure similar to the women in advertisi... | Women in advertising | 2015-05 |
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Urry, Joshua O. | The Mediating Role of Coping Behaviors in the Realtion Between Partner Relationship Quality and Infant Stress signs | Perceived social support and overall relationship quality between a pregnant woman and her partner could affect an infant's future emotional distress. There are many ways that a couple could cope behaviorally with conflicts that result from poor relationship quality. Indeed, a pregnant woman's copin... | 2020 | |
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Hermansen, Hillary | Mediating silence: translation in Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star | In Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star, a male narrator, Rodrigo, mediates a feminine and impoverished subject, Macabéa, for a middle class audience. Likewise, two male translators, Giovanni Pontiero and Benjamin Moser, mediate the original Brazilian work for their English-speaking audience. I... | Lispector, Clarice. Hora de estrela. English | 2016-04 |
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Siu, Grace | Medicaid expansion's ambiguous effects on abortion rates from 2009-2019 | This paper analyzes the effects of the Affordable Care Act, specifically Medicaid expansion, on abortion rates from 2009-2019. I start off the analysis with a Difference-in- Difference model, move on to a Two-Way Fixed Effects model, and then alter the model to include event time, where the event ye... | 2023 | |
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Yehle, Tobin | Memoized parsing with derivatives | Due to the computational complexity of parsing, constituent parsing is not preferred for tasks involving large corpora. However, the high similarity between sentences in natural language suggests that it is not necessary to pay the full computational price for each new sentence. In this work we p... | Parsing (Computer grammar) | 2016-04 |
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Hawkley, Jesse Dean | Metropolitan divergence segregation patterns in New York and Detroit | Segregation is usually defined in terms of limiting a certain ethnic group to a single area through discriminatory institutional practices like racially restrictive covenants or redlining. However, segregation is also affected by household decisions and demographic processes. Through the mid-twentie... | Residential segregation - Detroit; Residential segregation - New York | 2016-04 |
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Mann, Kyra | Microplastic water pollution spanning the wildland to urban gradient of red Butte Creek, Salt Lake City, Utah | Anthropogenic activities contribute to the presence and abundance of microplastics in aquatic habitats. Microplastic pollution poses risks to the health of humans, wildlife, and ecosystems, acting as vectors that carry harmful toxins and disease. However, there is relatively little research on the e... | 2021 | |
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Lee, Alyssa | Middle school student-generated ideas about math: definitions and utility | This study investigates student-generated ideas about mathematics, focusing specifically on students' definitions of math and their notions of math's utility. The study is designed to explore these concepts concurrently through two research questions: (1) How do middle school students define mathema... | 2023 | |
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Paseman, Anna Marie | Migration and Financial Innovation: Analyzing the Cost of Remittances Across Time and Space | Remittances are a substantial source of external financing and a tool for economic development. However, the efficacy of remittance flows is hindered by high remittance transaction costs. Acknowledging the high cost of remittance transactions, this thesis employs a quantitative analysis to examine t... | 2019 | |
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Biskupiak, Anya | Mindfulness: a multi-faceted solution to a failing criminal justice system? | Current rehabilitation programs are insufficient among U.S. prisons. A prison is often a place of intense stress, fear, and intense or anger-provoking situations. Since prison education has started to become common in more and more prisons, a course to help inmates address the daily stressors of lif... | 2023 | |
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Erturk, Ali Cem | Minimum wage employment effects | In this study, the employment to population ratios and unemployment rates of 16- 19- and 20-24-year-olds are modelled as a function of the minimum wage. The federal minimum remains constant while the state minimum increases in some states from 2010- 2019. Such a research question is useful because s... | 2023 | |
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Hoang, Uyen | The Misogyny of Climate Denialism and It's Influence on World Leaders' Climate Response | As our planet's climate crisis worsens every year, the actions of our world leaders become increasing imperative when addressing environmental issues. This research investigates the interconnectedness of misogyny and climate denialism by examining various identities and how they may influence, chang... | 2020 | |
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Spendlove, Natalie | Mitochondrial genetic variation among howler monkeys | By studying genetic variation of some of primates, researchers can more closely study the effects of deforestation and fragmentation. For this study, mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) are the primates of choice. The samples used in this study were collected by researchers doing fieldwork in... | Anthropology; Howler monkeys; Genetics | 2014-12 |
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Liu, Julianne | The mobilization of Asian Americans for environmental justice | Largely excluded from conceptions of racial injustice in the United States, Asian Americans also experience marginalization in the Environmental Justice (EJ) movement. This invisibility is reinforced by EJ literature, which contains comparatively little research on Asian Americans compared to other ... | 2021 | |
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Mallory, Halley | Modeled after Nature | The Anthropocene is the current geological epoch marked by human dominance. Among other changes, human-caused climate change has increased natural disasters, altering the conditions of life for communities around the world. Our best response to these catastrophes is to become more resilient. Case st... | 2018 | |
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Endow, Danielle Miyako | Modern representation of female protagonists in media: An exploration of identity | Coming from the perspective of a woman living in Utah, I have explored what it means to be an ambitious, yet lost individual in today's media. Over the course of one year I wrote a full-length screenplay that follows the journey of a woman who loses her sense of self and must find her way back by te... | Screenplay writing | 2014-12 |
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Johnson, Dylan | Modular forms, Elliptic Curves, and Their Connection to Fermat's Last Theorem | Fermat's Last Theorem (FLT) states that if n is an integer greater than three, the equation xn + yn = zn has no integer solutions with xyz 6= 0. This incredible statement eluded proof for over three-hundred years: in that time, mathematicians developed numerous tools which finally proved FLT in 1995... | 2020 | |
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Astin, Holly M. | Modulating Intestinal Liver X Receptor Activity to Alter the Development of Atherosclerosis in Zebrafish | 2016 | ||
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Astin, M. Holly | Modulating Intestinal Liver X Receptor Activity to Alter the Development of Atherosclerosis in Zebrafish | The liver X receptors (LXRs) are important regulators of lipid and cholesterol metabolism and control diverse pathways in development, reproduction, metabolism, immunity and inflammation. Thus, LXRs have potential as therapeutic targets for diseases as diverse as lipid disorders, atherosclerosis... | Liver X receptors - Research; Zebrafish - genetics | 2016-08 |
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Gambino, Danielle N. | Motivations to participate in the diabetes prevention program among overweight and obese women planning pregnancy | The purpose of this thesis was to describe self-reported motivators of overweight or obese reproductive-age women who enrolled in an online National Diabetes Prevention Program's Lifestyle Change Program (DPP LCP). Exploring preconception women's motivations could be a useful tool to shape intervent... | 2021 | |
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Webb, Jeanelle | Mountain West parental atitudes and barriers related to HPV vaccination in rural settings | HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the United States and can cause the following cancers: cervical, vulvar, vaginal, penile, anal and oropharyngeal. There is a vaccine to prevent 9 strains of HPV most commonly associated with cancer and genital warts. Unfortunately, rates... | 2021 | |
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Movie Night: a creative analysis | "Movie Night" is a film about a woman with a haunting fear that her sexuality, or lack thereof, might harm a new relationship. The first scene presents how a lack of representation in media can lead to certain standards and stereotypes, and by putting an alternative in this film itself, I seek to pr... | 2021 |