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Doxey, Lauren | "An exact portrait of the people": the need for Gender Parity in U.S. congress for legitimate government | Though women received the right to vote in 1919 with the ratification of the nineteenth amendment, women still hold few elected positions. In the United States Congress, women make up 19.4% of the body. When groups are not represented fully, this affects the quality of the representation they recei... | Women legislators; United States; attitudes | 2016-08 |
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Barton, Tanner | "Check please": the role of checklists in improving outcomes and patient value in healthcare | The American healthcare system is constantly on the search for ways to improve. There are many ways to achieve this, be it through improving care or decreasing the financial burden placed on patients. One method that has received increased attention in recent years is the implementation of checklist... | 2021 | |
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Caylor, Natalie | "Everything I really want to do": aging in place during the covid-19 pandemic | Aging in place allows older adults to live in one's own home and community safely, independently and comfortably. The majority of older adults hope to age in place for as long as possible, and a number of supportive factors are necessary to make aging in place successful. Literature suggests these f... | 2022 | |
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de Andrade, Debora Brito | "Nadie Me Entiende" [No one understand me]: impacts of cultural and language barriers on social isolation and loneliness in Spanish-speaking older adults | Cultural and language barriers during the older stages of life can lead to an increased risk for social isolation and loneliness. Furthermore, Spanish-speaking adults are more likely to have poor access to care in Utah and in the rest of the United States, which decreases the likelihood of detection... | 2021 | |
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Saarela, Elise | "Negative news" isn't always negative: Utah journalists reflect on news values and audience engagement in the digital age | The purpose of this thesis is to explain the general notion of negativity in the news and how journalists perceive both their professional and personal standards. Specifically, journalists from Utah were interviewed to determine the main ethical values they consciously think of during their practice... | 2019 | |
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Jorgensen, Mercedes Lyn | "Popular" vs. "award-winning" literature for children | As the field of children's literature has grown and volved over the past several years, an increasing number of awards have emerged to recognize quality children's books. The award lists are developed by committees of adults, but previous research (Lehman, 1991; Nilsen, Peterson & Searfoss, 1980; ... | Children; books and reading; children's literature; study and teaching | 2016-03 |
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Hunter, Lea | The "tampon tax" public discourse of policies concerning menstrual taboo | The "tampon tax" is a policy in which feminine hygiene products are taxed as "luxury goods" despite the fact that many countries exempt "necessary goods" - such as basic groceries and medical products-from sales tax. In the summer of 2015, the Canadian parliament took steps to exempt feminine hygien... | Women's rights - United States; Sales tax - Law and legislation | 2016-04 |
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Stott, Trevor | "The wanderers" novel project | The title of the novel is "The Wanderers." My objective in writing this book was first and foremost to create something personally meaningful, which might connect with readers by touching on something in the cultural zeitgeist of young Millennials coming of age in an era of drastic change and global... | American fiction - 21st century | 2015-04 |
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Nagie, Doug | "We go where they go" a history of anti-racist action | Anti-Racist Action was a national network of local anti-racist activist groups that mobilized in North America from 1987 until 2013. It grew from conflict in the Minneapolis punk scene, when an anti-racist skinhead crew of friends called the Baldies organized to eject white-power skinheads from thei... | 2019 | |
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Goodwin, Dane | (UN)Known Origin | My research and artworks utilize traditional hand done and modern digital printmaking techniques. Some processes inherently convey a sense of being handmade, such as wood cut relief printing and intaglio printing; these techniques rely strongly on the hand of the artist, directly transferring handma... | Printing techniques; traditional printing; digital printing | 2017 |
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Hinchman, Colin | 4D flow characteristics of left atrial blood flow after atrial fibrillation | Atrial fibrillation is the most prevalent cardiac arrhythmia and causes increased risk for stroke, yet accurate pathophysiological diagnosis remains a challenge. This study aimed to further investigate the physiologic biomarkers in the left atrium (LA) related to atrial fibrillation (AF) using 4D fl... | 2019 | |
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Fuchs, Madeline | A case study on perceptions of homeless abatements in Salt Lake County | Homelessness impacts 12,442 Utahns every year. Several of these people live in encampments, these areas are particularly problematic because they often become places of heightened health, sanitation, and safety concerns. In order to mitigate these issues, several municipalities within Salt Lake Coun... | 2023 | |
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Temme, Jack | A closer look at aberrant muscle function | When a skeletal muscle is inhibited from operating at its full function it is called an aberrant muscle. Such inhibition tends to occur after joint trauma in order to protect the injured area from further aggravation. However, inhibition can linger after the injury is healed, which negatively impact... | 2021 | |
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Hanes, Josh T. | A comparison of nuclear thermal rockets with traditional chemical rockets for space transport | The Solar System has multiple destinations that private and governmental space agencies are planning to explore. Missions within the Solar System are both exorbitantly expensive and time intensive projects that involve high risks for the organizations involved. A mission that is currently being... | Nuclear rockets - research; space vehicles - design - research; nuclear thermal rockets; chemical rockets; space transport | 2016-04 |
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Rebentisch, Kayla, | A content analysis and comparison of hashtag popularity of nicotine and cannabis posts on Instagram | Marketing exposure through social media is an identified risk factor for nicotine and cannabis use. The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze the exposure-selected hashtags found on Instagram to understand the potential reach of nicotine and cannabis marketing on this social media platform. An I... | 2023 | |
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Gomez-Alvarez, Lorhen | A crisis on the border: an unexpected crisis or an expected outcome? | Increased immigration from the Northern Triangles countries has strained the current asylum structures. Overhauling detention and long wait times have plagued the system after the initial arrival of a large group of unaccompanied minors and then subsequently the arrival of large migrant caravans. Th... | 2019 | |
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Gregrich, Madison | A dance between concepts: integration of science and movement | The purpose of this Honors thesis paper is to provide educational evidence that the integration of movement in the classroom affects learning in deep and meaningful ways. I wanted to experience this creative process and investigate, firsthand, how integrating a core subject into a creative dance env... | 2018 | |
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Lee, Charles Chang Suk | A demonstration apparatus for optical pumping of rubidium | Optical pumping refers to the use of light in order to elevate ("pump") the spin (intrinsic angular momentum) of an atom or molecule. This process is of interest from a pedagogical and experimental perspective because it encapsulates fundamental properties of atomic physics and quantum mechanics. Fu... | Optical pumping -- Research Spin exchange -- Research Rubidium isotopes -- Research | 2015-05 |
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Smith, Jaclynn Kehaulani | A feasibility trial to determine the effect of mindfulness on weight-loss maintenance | PURPOSE: Over 70% of all adults in the U.S. have overweight and obesity. Weight loss is often recommended to improve overall health and risk of disease. However, weight regain following intentional weight loss is common and diminishes initial improvements. Therefore, interventions aimed at attenuati... | 2023 | |
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Uong, Amber | A female's first year of college stress, mental health, and alcohol | Transitioning to college marks a critical period of change in a student's life. Students become exposed to new environments that require adaptation. College courses come with academic expectations that are typically higher than those experienced in high school. This honors thesis will review academi... | 2018 | |
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Brown, Zackary | A man of genius makes no mistakes: Joycean textuality in contemporary writing | When James Joyce first published Ulysses in 1922, he was at the forefront of a literary movement that would forever change our conceptions of textuality. In crafting a text that contained intentional grammatical and syntactic errors, Joyce, I will argue, created a scenario in which a text's material... | Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses; Creation (LIterary, artistic, etc.) | 2015-08 |
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VandenBerge, Keely | A mentorship model for educationally underrepresented high school students interested in the nursing profession | Evidence demonstrates that when workforce diversity does not reflect the population receiving care, patients' care and outcomes can be negatively affected (Sullivan Commission, 2004). One of the many approaches to addressing this complex issue is the use of mentorship programs to increase diversity ... | 2020 | |
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Curtis, Caleb A. | A Mycenecan enviorment: an analyasys of textual and archaelogical data from the aegean, c1400 BCE-2023 CE | The historical climate of the Aegean is a topic that has become a focus among scholars as of late. In the face of anthropogenic climate change, the urge to look back to the past to see the outcome that climate had on the environment and how past people reacted to those events is strong. Looking to t... | 2023 | |
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Sonderegger, John Christian | A New Era: War, Crime, Terrorism and Propaganda in the Digital Age | The evolution of the Internet has changed global dynamics and international relations drastically, possibly more than any other single invention or creation. But the Internet is not just a singular action, object, or device, it is the connection of communications, relationships, ideologies, governme... | 2018 | |
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Shimanski, Isabel | A New Protocol for First Responders for Hypothermic Pulselessness in Pediatric Patients | In the summer of 1986, a two-and-a-half-year-old girl, named Michelle, was submerged in a creek near Salt Lake City for a total of 62 minutes from initial submersion to removal by rescuers [7]. The young girl showed no signs of life, and was found pulseless, flaccid, cyanotici, and with fixed and di... | 2020 | |
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Sperber, Alexander M. | A novel approach to differentiating cardiac fibroblasts from induced pluripotent stem cells | Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, and such disease is caused by electrical, chemical, or biomechanical imbalances in the heart. The two most abundant cells comprising the heart that are responsible for these functions are cardiomyocytes and cardiac fibroblasts. I... | 2022 | |
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Taggart, Maxwell M. | A novel MRI-based screening method for assessing atrio-esophageal fistula risk following cardia ablation | Atrio-esophageal fistulas affect 1 in 2000 patients who undergo cardiac ablation procedures with a mortality rate of 93%. Methods for detecting atrio-esophageal fistula formation that are objective and non-invasive could reduce the mortality associated with this disease. This study was performed ret... | Magnetic resonance imaging; Cardia ablation; Trio-esophageal fistual | 2014-12 |
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Dhiman, Gareema | A novel organelle of the synapse | During neurotransmission, neurons constantly fuse and recycle synaptic vesicles from the presynaptic membrane. Like other organelles, synaptic vesicles and proteins must be removed when damaged or overused. Build-up of damaged proteins may underlie neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's Disease... | 2023 | |
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Gilbert, John | A novel tool to capture neural activity across an entire brain using C-FOS as an indicator | Immunohistochemical staining for the expression of the immediate early gene c-Fos is a powerful tool to measure neuronal activation of neurons across an entire brain. The results of c-Fos immunostaining are often quantified by counting the number of immunolabeled cells in a region of interest (ROI) ... | Brain - Localization of functions - Research; Brain - Physiology - Research; Brain mapping - Research; Memory - Research; Mice as laboratory animals - Research; Brain activity; Immunohistochemical staining | 2016-05 |
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McWhorter, Bryn A. | A nuclear Iran: The economic, political, and social impetus behind negotiations | In a shocking 2013 policy shift, the Islamic Republic of Iran entered into negotiations with the United Nations Security Council in an attempt to resolve the longstanding issue of the alleged militaristic components of its nuclear energy program. Following decades of hostile tensions with Western po... | Nuclear nonproliferation -- Iran; Iran -- Politics and government -- 1997- Iran -- Foreign relations -- 1997- | 2015 |
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Godfrey, Rose | A porcine model for the development and testing of preoperative skin preparations | Clinical preoperative skin preparations (PSPs) do not eradicate skin flora dwelling in the deepest dermal regions. Survivors constitute a persistent infection risk. In search of solutions, we created a porcine model intended for PSP developmental testing. This model employed microbiological techniqu... | 2022 | |
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Gutierrez-Prieto, Andrea | A Psychopy implementation of the artificial grammar learning paradigm: replication LAI (2015) | Phonology has long focused on not only occurrence of patterns, but also the absence of certain patterns. Various proposals have attempted to address this question by suggesting that this is due to biases that affect learnability. In addition to studying the presence and absence of phonological patte... | 2023 | |
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Stewart, Patrick | A Real-World Investigation of the Attentional Capture Paradigm | Attention directs awareness toward important objects, like food or predators, and filters out unimportant objects, like familiar scenery. Two modes of visual attention have been identified: goal-directed and stimulus-driven (Simons, 2000). Goal-directed attention refers to a deliberate search for ob... | 2017 | |
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Martin, Isaac | A result concerning the F-Signature and the torsion divisors of strongly F-Regular singularities | Polstra showed that the cardinality of the torsion subgroup of the divisor class group of a local strongly F-regular ring is finite. In this thesis, we first provide an expository introduction to the field of F-singularities before improving upon Polstra's result by proving that the reciprocal of th... | 2021 | |
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Simon, Philip C. | A study of the optimized load of a traveling wave thermoacoustic heat engine | Thermal interaction between differentially heated solid material and ambient gas in a resonator can lead to self-sustained oscillations or the transportation of heat in accordance with the thermoacoustic effect, first explained by Lord Rayleigh. In this research the phenomenon is employed in a lo... | Thermoacoustic engine - Research; Energy conservation | 2016-03 |
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Chan, Ka Ho | A survey of exchange rate systems with focus on currency boards and on Hong Kong's experience in particular | The choice of an exchange rate regime can make or break a regional economy. While a stable currency is useful to businesses, exchange rate flexibility also has its proponents. This thesis will first describe a brief history of exchange rate systems. Then, it will provide a survey and analysis of the... | Foreign exchange rates - China - Hong Kong; Currency boards - China - Hong Kong | 2014-05 |
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Ashurst, Blayze | A telemetry communication system for ucubesat | The goal of U CubeSat club at the University of Utah is to launch the University of Utah's first CubeSat into space, and thus inspire future engineering students at the U to develop and launch increasingly capable CubeSats. My contributions to this project was to determine the requir... | 2022 | |
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Wall, Alyssa Victoria Mae | A tradition of appropriation of culture for political gain: Music in Korea | Although appropriation of music by political organizations and individuals is a practice in no way unique to Korea, analysis of the phenomenon on the peninsula provides valuable insight its strength in real-world political arenas. This project provides an analysis of the appropriation of music for ... | Music - Korea - History; Cultural property | 2016-05 |
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Saifee, Zahra | A value-based exploration of Zion National Park and assessment of future solutions | This thesis is a case study which explores the development of Zion National Park. Currently, National Parks as a whole, and Zion National Park in particular, face issues of environmental degradation, lack of racial diversity, and the erasure of indigenous history. However, the most challenging part ... | 2022 | |
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Johnson, Bennett | A Wideneing Divide: An Examination of Constitutional Polarization in Supreme Court Nomination Hearings | At its core, this paper seeks to explore polarization and partisanship within Supreme Court nomination hearings. The role partisanship plays in contemporary nomination hearings has appeared to increase greatly, leaving many wondering if the Supreme Court has lost its sanctity as a neutral arbiter of... | 2020 | |
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Palomaki, Kya | A world without nukes: International relations perspectives | What if nuclear weapons had been neither invented nor discovered? This is the question I take into consideration in this paper. This interesting scenario begs the answer parroted by bloggers and students of politics alike-without nuclear weapons, there would be nothing to stop belligerents from inva... | Security, International; International relations; Nuclear weapons; World politics -- 21st century | 2015-05 |
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Bowe, Abigail | Abigail Bowe: Art Portfolio 2020 Life Drawings and Character Design | This year, I've worked to improve my skillset in concept and character design. With my emphasis in animation and minor in drawing under my Film & Media Arts major. I've dedicated most of my coursework to learning about the elements of design, character appeal and artistic development. This part sem... | 2020 | |
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Anderson, Jay T. | Abnormal Stock Returns and Hurricanes Event Study of the five Most Destructive Hurricanes to make Landfall in the United States Since 2005 | This paper tests how stock prices respond to information that may affect a company's value in a material fashion. I evaluate stock price reactions to the five most destructive hurricanes to make landfall in the United States since 2005. The event study aims to analyze short-term stock price reaction... | 2017 | |
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Kehr, David | Abnormal Stock Returns and Venture Capital Funding Event Study of Six Down Round Venture Capital Funding Announcement Dates | This paper analyzes the reaction of stock prices to the announcement of a round of financing raised by a venture capital-backed firm at a valuation lower than in a previous round. The event study is performed to analyze short-term stock price reactions prior to and following the announcement of a do... | 2018 | |
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Blanton, Joseph P. | AC Magnetic Susceptibility of Sub-Millimeter Superconductor Samples at Extreme Conditions | Superconductivity is a unique state of matter observed at cryogenic temperatures in many materials. Superconductors are defined as materials that have zero DC electrical resistance and perfect diamagnetism below a critical transition temperature, Tc. These properties are very useful for many applica... | 2018 | |
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Hodgson, Keeton R. | Accelerating DNA Sequence Alignment | Precision medicine can provide breakthroughs in current medical technology and treatment. The ability to prescribe a speci#12;c cure to a speci#12;c disease for a spe- ci#12;c person can greatly reduce the cost of medical treatments, reduce mistakes in the medical #12;eld, and increase the e#11;ecti... | 2018 | |
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Jones, David | Accounting in State and Local Governments | Cash-basis accounting, the antecedent of the increasingly popular accrual-basis model of accounting, recognizes economic events in financial statements when the cash inflows or outflows associated with those transactions occur. This framework is intuitive and straightforward to apply, as each transa... | 2022 | |
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Porras, Adrian M. | Acoustic emission monitoring on reinforced concrete frames with improved seismic resilience | In modern structural engineering, reinforced concrete (RC) structures are wildly adopted due to their strength in resisting compressional and flexural loads. Moreover, RC structures can be precast or cast-in-place and have been used for many applications, such as footings, beams, and columns. Howeve... | 2020 | |
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Zimmerman, Danielle N. | Adherence engineering in a central line dressing change | Infections associated with Central Line Dressing Changes (CLDC) represent a significant cost in healthcare and human life, with approximately 250,000 cases a year and costs of up to $29,000 per single episode (OʼGrady et al., 2002; Shannon et al., 2006). The introduction of a kit designed in accord... | Intravenous catheterization - Complications; Bandages and bandaging | 2014-05 |
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Calder, Dallen | Adipocyte enhancer binding protein 1 (AEBP1) as a potential therapeutic target to combat cardiac fibrosis | Fibrosis is one of the major hallmarks of heart failure (HF) progression and is characterized by fibroblast activation and excess extracellular matrix (EMC) deposition. RNA sequencing of myocardial tissue acquired from HF patients showed a significant upregulation of adipocyte enhancer binding prote... | 2022 | |
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Hardy, Clinton J. | Adolescent perception of negative admission pressures and affective reactions in outdoor behavioral healthcare | This represents the first empirical inquiry into the perception of negative admission pressures (P-NAPs; e.g., perception of force or threat associated with entering treatment) among adolescents. Prior to this report, P-NAPs had only been studied within adult treatment contexts. In this study, P-NAP... | Adventure therapy for teenagers - Psychological aspect; Teenagers - Counseling of | 2014-04 |
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Brown, Victoria | Adthing: a Student Experience | The University of Utah is known for their experiential learning experiences for students. The Dean of the David Eccles School of Business (Dean Randall), wanted to further this concept in his own programs, specifically in the marketing discipline. The idea and focus is to create a student advertisin... | 2018 | |
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Willis, Hannah | Advancing the right to health: lessons for improving the negotiation powers of Medicare | The United States (US) spends more per capita on prescription drugs than other high-income countries (Sarnak, Squires & Bishop, 2017). Yet, the high cost of drugs does not translate to better health outcomes. In fact, the US has a significantly lower life expectancy at birth and higher death rates f... | 2023 | |
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Miller, Matthew | The Affordable Care Act and the Future of us Healthcare: Consumer Driven Care and Value Driven Care | Healthcare in the United States has drastically changed over the last two hundred years. Today, the United States has the most technologically advanced medical care in the world. But, as a result, costs have soared and currently account for 17% of the GDP, which is significantly higher than in other... | 2017 | |
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Pannier, Samantha T. | African Americans, women, and the 1910 Flexner report: progressive medical reform and professional exclusion | Between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century the American medical profession expanded greatly both in size and in attention paid to scientific knowledge. During this time African Americans, women, and even African American women gained access to medical education through the prolifera... | Medicine - Study and teaching - United States; Women in medicine - United States; African Americans in medicine - United States | 2016-04 |
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Sivo, Jacob | Agile in the Wild - An in-Depth look into EAE Student Development Practice | There have been works produced on Agile techniques and their e#11;ectiveness in terms of both actual project progress as well as human factors, especially in industry. There are many training programs that companies enroll their employees in, such as ASPE. In these training programs, individuals are... | 2019 | |
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Arave, Rowan A. | AKT1 activation promotes the development of melanoma metastasis | Metastases are the major cause of melanoma-related mortality. Previous studies implicating aberrant AKT (or protein kinase B) signaling in human melanoma metastases led to the evaluation of the effect of activated AKT1 expression in non-metastatic BRAFV600E/cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor 2a nu... | Melanoma - Genetics - Research; Metastasis - Genetics - Research; Biochemistry; Genetics | 2015-12 |
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Kooyman, Makaelyn | Alarm fatigue: An alarming situation | As the healthcare system of the United States continues to advance technologically, it seems that one cannot enter an intensive care unit (ICU) without being inundated with alarms from various monitors and pumps. Alarm fatigue, defined as the lack of response to an alarm due to sensory overload and... | Patient monitoring - Nursing; Monitor alarms (Medicine); Nurses - Attitudes; Medical instruments and apparatus; Alarm reaction | 2014-12 |
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Green, Jared | Algebraic reconstruction optimization through precomputation of weights matrix | There are several methods for volumetric scene analysis. This research focuses on real-time optimization of the ray-driven projector for forward and backward projections in the application of medical x-ray imaging. One of the current methods used by Computed Tomography systems to produce 3D medical ... | 2021 | |
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Kavalam, Nisha | Alternative breaks: The integration of community engagement and social justice | Alternative Breaks is a national practice among higher education institutions in the United States: programs vary in structures, but essentially students and staff/faculty participate in a week of service and education in another community, domestically or internationally, around a specific social i... | Service learning; Alternative breaks | 2015-12 |
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Stannius, Austin Gunter | America's Jihad: The constructivist prescriptions for military strategy within the Islamic world | Since 2001, the United States of America has lead a frustrating and often complex Global War on Terror. Efforts have shown small effect in nation building and difficulty in obtaining longitudinal results from counter insurgency efforts. Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, conduct... | Operation Iraqi Freedom - United States; Operation Enduring Freedom - United States; Iraq war, 2003-2011- Afghanistan | 2014-05 |
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Keate, Max (Makayla) | The American dream: how befief in meritocracy impacts the U.S. prison system | The United States continues to unquestionably violate the human rights of incarcerated individuals. Further, the nation does so with a general disregard to whether or not U.S. prison policies effectively prevent crime or in fact exacerbate it. This paper posits that widespread American belief in rad... | 2023 | |
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Williams, Savannah | American Exceptionalism and its Roles in Foreign Intervention and Culture | American exceptionalism is a multi-faceted concept with not one simple definition. These facets are not mutually exclusive, but are in fact intertwined. One facet endorses the United States as an "exceptional" nation with an equally "exceptional" story - rising from a group of British colonies to no... | 2014 | |
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Allen, Marina | The American revolution's impact on women's property rights: the changes in the legal property rights of women in the United States from 1765 to the present | This study details the shaping of women's property rights in the United States as it proceeds from the American Revolution. This specific event formed multiple political, social, and legal standards that are both visible and unseen in the postmodern United States. The associated literature for revie... | The American Revolution; women's property rights; paradigm; The United States | 2023 |
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Isom, Anika | Amniotic fluid treatment of vocal fold injury in an in vivo rabbit model | Hyaluronic acid (HA) injectables are a standard treatment for vocal fold injuries in both clinical and research settings. Results from these treatments are not permanent, however, and may vary in effectiveness. Because of this, there is a significant clinical interest in finding an alternative for H... | Vocal folds; rheology; wound healing of vocal folds; hyaluronic acid; amniotic fluid; regenerative medicine | 2022 |
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Seastrand-Bachynski, Sara Jayne | An act to decrease childhood obesity rates in the U.S. | The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 was signed into law in order to address alarming childhood obesity rates in the U.S. In this paper, I address the importance of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 and how it enhances child health by improving the food environment for children in public ... | Childhood obesity - Utah | 2014-05 |
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Chavez, Nestor M. | An analysis of anxiety, depression, PTSD, and resilience in prelicensure nursing students during a global pandemic | The COVID-19 pandemic has been a global tragedy. These unprecedented times have created and continue to create traumatic events: emotional stress, anxiety, and potentially depression and PTSD for many US residents (CDC, 2021). These negative feelings can be described as stressful emotions, an overwh... | 2021 | |
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Gonzalez, Marcos David | An Analysis of the Court of Arbitration system: Status & Power Through the Lens of Laugther | Laughter is a nonverbal communication that demonstrates status and power across contexts such as hospital wards, fraternities, and even the United States Supreme Court. While it may be humorous in nature, the implications of laughter as a symbol that gathers perceived status, a mediator of social hi... | 2020 | |
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Arnoholt, Alayna | An analysis on the influence of anxiety in post error slowing | Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders and affect 15.7 million Americans each year (Lépine, 2002, p. 4). Anxiety is associated with reduced productivity, physical distress, and other diseases such as depression. Anxiety could also be influential in error response (Compton et a... | 2021 | |
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Maciel, Alexa | An examination of chronic patients receiving psychosocial support through online health communities | People living with chronic diseases are increasingly utilizing the internet for healthrelated reasons. The existence of Online Health Communities (OHCs) allows for chronic patients to easily connect with similarly diagnosed patients and keep track of medical records. The purpose of this thesis is to... | 2021 | |
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Jabini, Mohammad Emad | An Examination of Switchover Costs | This thesis project focuses on firm strategies that target consumer switchover costs of three industries: pharmaceuticals, information technology, and food processing. The project explores those that involve increasing customer dependency, predatory marketing, and hidden fees, which improve firms' b... | 2018 | |
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Nilson, Jens C. | An examination of the bioethical and legal dilemmas surrounding genetic editing through narrative and story telling | Examining complex topics and issues through narrative and storytelling is a staple of the fiction genre. By presenting abstract problems and ethical dilemmas in a relatable context, and giving examples attached to real characters, the reader becomes emotionally and mentally invested in the issues fa... | 2022 | |
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Luong, Katie | An examination of the relationship between positive covid-19 infection and vaccine hesitancy within the Utah recover study population | Vaccine hesitancy is defined by the World Health Organization as a "delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite availability of vaccination services," and is affected by a wide range of factors. Some of these factors identified in the literature include perceived safety and importance of vacc... | 2023 | |
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Farnsworth, Jennifer | An exploration of narrative medicine with pediatric cancer patients using a symptom tracking APP | This exploration places a special focus on narrative as a means of restoring empathy and understanding to medical care, especially to a population so vulnerable to confusion and miscommunication - children. The larger project, from which this thesis project is derived, is the development and evaluat... | 2021 | |
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Franco, Ximena | An in-depth analysis of the court system's response to a child's psychological well-being in domestic violence custody hearings | In a child custody hearing where domestic violence is present in the household, court appointed evaluators are tasked to investigate the nature of the alleged domestic abuse, the offender and victims, and the threat of ongoing violence after the separation. Prior research illuminates how the court t... | domestic violence; child custody; psychological intervention; courts | 2023 |
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Robinson, Tian | An initial examination of themes surrounding english writing education at an international branch campus | The research question this paper aims to answer is, how and to what effect do internationalizing American universities and IBCs help their L2 English-speaking students transition from high school writing to standard American college writing, and what challenges still remain? To answer this question,... | 2020 | |
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Bethards, Kylie | Analysis of AYA cancer patient priority symptoms through text mining software | Background Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer face frightening and often debilitating effects of their cancer. To support the care of AYAs, healthcare providers need to understand their distinct experiences, including their priority symptoms -- those that take the forefront of a pa... | 2021 | |
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Zhu, Judy | Analysis of the pH-dependent equilibrium relationship between the guanine oxidation products 5-guanidinohydantoin and iminoallantoin | Oxidation of 2'-deoxyguanosine (dG) results in the major two-electron product 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine (dOG) that can undergo further oxidation to other products. One such product is 5-guanidinohydantoin (dGh) that is highly mutagenic and has been found in vivo. The ring architecture of d... | Oxidation; guanine oxidation products; 5-guanidinohydantoin; Iminoallantoin; Equilibrium relationship | 2015-05 |
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Brown, Audrey | Analyzing response patterns of olfactory bulb glomeruli at low odorant concentration regimes | Sensory input to the olfactory system begins with the binding of an odorant molecule to an olfactory receptor (OR) contained on the surface of an olfactory sensory neuron (OSN). Olfactory bulb (OB) glomeruli receive information from OSNs containing the same OR type and are thought to help process se... | 2021 | |
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Klein, Paxtion Annalee | Analyzing the Implications of the "Tax cuts and jobs act of 2017" on United States Corporations | In December 2017 United States Congress signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA). The major elements of the federal income tax reform for corporations include (1) reducing the statutory tax rate to 21% from 35%; (2) changing to a territorial tax system from a global tax system; (3) i... | 2018 | |
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Uchida, Allison Miaki | Analyzing the implications of the accounting standard update, topic 842 | In 2010 the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) made a proposal to modify the current United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) rules in regard to leases, summarized in ASC 840. The proposed changes would alter the entire way in which companies reporting in accordanc... | Accounting statements and guidelines; Accounting standards update | 2016-05 |
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Sharma, Kapil | Analyzing the relationship between PDM2 and B-catenin proteins in human cancers | Tumorigenesis is promoted by the manipulation of several co-factors and pathways, in which PKM2 and P-catenin proteins play a significant role in a variety of cancers. New research states that these two hegemonic cancer proteins directly bind with each other and may provide a new angle for cance... | Pyruvate kinase - Research; Tumorigensis - Research | 2016-04 |
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Lee, Kaul | Anger Co-Rumination Among Same-Sex Adolescent Peers | Co-rumination refers to an extensive discussion of problems, speculation about problems, and focus on negative emotions engaged in by two or more people. Research on emotion coping suggests that co-rumination, or dwelling on problems, leads to problematic emotional adjustment. Girls have been found ... | 2019 | |
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Frank, Monet | Antecedents to Social Media Influencer Effectiventess | Marketing is extremely susceptible to shifts within industry techniques, consumer receptivity, and general trends within the consumer-based world in which we live. It is therefore vital for businesses and their marketing applications to respond to the everchanging dynamics within the industry in ord... | 2020 | |
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Ho, Tyler | Anteroposterior gait adjustments are the primary recovery strategies to repeated underfoot perturbations during turning gait | Background: Despite ample research examining human gait, much is still unknown about how humans navigate unpredictable terrain. Most research has analyzed strictly linear gait, which does not comprise all of the gait tasks in everyday ambulation. Instead, humans routinely employ complex gait movemen... | 2022 | |
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Kober, Derek | Anthropogenic Climate Change and Pollen Trends: Analyzing genera-specific impacts and correlations with temperature and precipitation across the United States (1990-2018) | Studies have shown that human-driven climate change is associated with both higher airborne pollen concentrations and extended allergy seasons. Research particularly indicates that the concentration of pollen is positively correlated to increasing temperatures. This study aims to analyze the pollen ... | 2023 | |
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Hammock, Chris | Anthropology, Ethnography, and Documentary Film: Reflecting on a Documentary Journey | A comparative analysis of underlying ethical dilemmas in anthropology and documentary work, founded on the production of a short student documentary highlighting an ethnographic anthropology research project. The documentary studies academic field, classic ethnographic documentaries, and personal ac... | 2018 | |
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Carpenter, McKenna | The anticorruption efficacy of the sarbanes-oxley act: examining the impact on fraud, independence, and turnover | This paper investigates the effect of the anticorruption 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on corporate governance characteristics like board independence and, by extension, on executive turnover and other corporate reactions to fraud. Specifically, I compare fraud cases pre- and post-SOX--controlling f... | 2022 | |
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Rohaj, Aarushi | Apoptosis efficiency of the transfected elephant and human P35 vectors in P53 varying leiomyosarcoma cells | Comparative Oncology is an approach that integrates and connects commonly occurring cancers seen in animals, into studies focused on cancer biology, prevention, and treatment in humans. Studies show that natural mechanisms can suppress cancer 1,000 times more adequately in certain animals than in hu... | 2021 | |
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Ho, Athena | The Application of Gamification to improve preparation for entry-level professions | Today in the job market, more employers are seeking candidates with strong soft skills, who will better fit the company culture. Unfortunately, post-graduate students are discovering that they are lacking the necessary soft skills, and that they are underprepared to enter the job market in general. ... | 2018 | |
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Stahulak, Robert J. | Applying Chiral Field Theory to Neutron Star Moments of Inertia | In this work we examine the applications of neutron stars and their unique structure toprovide limits on the range of possible equations of state which describe nuclear matter.We follow the history of developments in nuclear physics and discuss the current state ofknowledge of neutron stars, includ... | 2019 | |
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Stahulak, Robert J. | Applying chiral field Theory to Neutron Star Moments of Inertia | In this work we examine the applications of neutron stars and their unique structure to provide limits on the range of possible equations of state which describe nuclear matter. We follow the history of developments in nuclear physics and discuss the current state of knowledge of neutron stars, incl... | 2019 | |
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Mann, Sara | Applying the theory of planned behavior to aggressive treatments at the end-of-life | Physicians and other health care experts are continuously studying the efficacy of treatments and their long-term effects. For instance, research has shown that aggressive end-of-life care could be potentially more harmful to the patient than previously known. Naturally, this has led to a wave of ... | Terminal care; Death | 2016-04 |
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Townsend, Colby J. | Appropriation and adaptation of J material in the Book of Mormon | This study explores the influence of the King James Bible (KJV) on the Book of Mormon (BM) by examining how the BM appropriates and adapts the text of the J source of the Pentateuch-a narrative strand from Genesis to Deuteronomy-and weaves phrases, ideas, motifs, and characters into the text. I iden... | Book of Mormon - Criticism, Textual | 2016-05 |
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Shah, Diya | The appropriation of Sacajawea by the women's suffrage movement | This project examines why Sacajawea was an attractive figure to be resurrected and appropriated during the U.S. suffrage movement, especially in the 1890s to 1920s. To understand the construction and use of Sacajawea, I analyzed about 25 newspaper articles published about Sacajawea in the 1900s and ... | Sacagawea Women -- Political activity -- United States; Women -- Suffrage -- United States | 2015-05 |
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Felton, Caroline | The Argumentation of Relious Policy Change in Restoration England | During the 15th and 16th centuries in England, there was significant political and religious turmoil. Following the English Civil Wars and a secular tyrant, the English people exuberantly welcomed King Charles II. Charles began his reign with enthusiasm for political reform and religious freedom. De... | 2019 | |
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Oman, Candace | Art's "background of flame" and the Paterian temperament of art | This thesis examines how Walter Pater uses hot and cold imagery in his descriptions to further his understanding of art, arguing that it contains both beauty and commentary, whether social, political, etc. Beginning with Studies in the History of the Renaissance, Pater associates heat with the sensu... | English | 2014-05 |
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Blake, Bennett J. | Art-secured lending and evaluating the loan-to-value ratio in art and real estate lending markets | I analyze the lending terms for loans with art as collateral. The standard loan-to-value (LTV) ratio offered by private banks is 50% of the value of a piece/collection, while for other tangible assets, such as real estate, LTV is often 80%. I use a linear regression model with common U.S. stock indi... | 2023 | |
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Mallender, Zachary | Assay of the dreem device on sleep metrics and an exploration of sleep staging in chronic short sleepers during time in bed extension | Despite clear and plentiful research that sleeping less than seven hours per night has a wide array of health consequences, a large portion of American adults report sleeping less than seven hours per night and thus receive chronic insufficient sleep. Many studies exploring the consequences of insuf... | 2022 | |
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Kozlowski, Zoe | Assessing the Contraceptive Needs of Homeless Women in Salt Lake City, Utah | Background: Homeless women across the US have reduced access to contraception and reproductive healthcare. They are at especially high risk for sexual trauma, contracting HIV or other sexually transmitted infections, and suffering from mental and physical conditions and substance use disorders. The ... | 2018 | |
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Jensen, Sierra A. | Assessing Utah's 90th Percentile storm to understand bioretention design and cost to meet Utah's Modified stormwater mangeement rule | his research dissects and improves understanding of the implications of Utah's modified stormwater permit rule. By analyzing the 90th percentile (90th-P) storm depth calculation and modeling an urban watershed on the foothills of Salt Lake City, Utah; this project provides initial guidance to local ... | 2018 | |
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Renz, Andy | Assessment of exercise-stimulated tissue oxygenation in calf muscle with functional MRI | Peripheral artery disease (PAD) affects millions of patients in the USA, and effective diagnosis and management of PAD is a major clinical goal. One promising avenue of research towards the goal is through functional MRI, which provides non-invasive measurement of tissue oxygenation. For a group of ... | Arteries - Diseases - Diagnosis; Magnetic resonance imaging - Research; Calf muscle; Peripheral arterial disease; MATLAB | 2016-04 |
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Cordova, Lauren A. | Associations Between Race, Education Level, Socioeconomic Status and Contraceptive Disontinucation after 1 year of Free Contraceptives in Salt Lake county | Unplanned pregnancies make up nearly half of all pregnancies. This prompted the HER Salt Lake Project to offer free contraceptives to women in Salt Lake County, Utah. Discontinuation or switching of free contraceptives is linked to race, education level, socioeconomic status, and the choice of contr... | 2020 | |
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Campbell, Andrew | Asynchronous distributed }OT-Enabled customer characterization in distrubtion networks: theory and hardware implementation | This work proposes and implements an asynchronous distributed IoT (Internet of Things)-enabled customer characterization framework to classify customers' load consumption behaviors in electric distribution networks. More specifically, the proposed framework enables robust fully distributed clusterin... | 2021 | |
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Hynes, William | Audience Tailoring: Implications for Narrative Identity | In the present study, I examined the extent and effect of audience tailoring in a sample of college-going emerging adults (n = 106). Participants reported four narratives for the researcher, and then edited them for mothers and friends, producing eight edited narratives each (n = 848 narratives) in ... | 2017 | |
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Anjewierden, Scott | Automated kinematic analysis of pre-pluse inhibition in larval zebrafish | Animals differentially ignore or attend to sensory information depending on their immediate environment. A significant example of this phenomenon is audiomotorpre-pulse inhibition (PPI), in which the startle response to a loud noise is suppressed by a preceding stimulus of lower intensity. This a... | Zebra danio - Development; Kinematics - Research; Kinematic parameters; Swim kinematics; Pre-pulse inhibition | 2014-12 |
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Tanner, Trevor | The automation of a discontinuous membrane extruder | One quarter of American troop deaths in the Middle East were classified as "potentially survivable." Of these, over 90 percent of the battlefield deaths and over 80 percent of the deaths in treatment centers were attributed to one factor: blood loss. Blood's limited supply, short half-life, and r... | Blood - Transfusion - Research; Membrane homogenization; Synthetic blood; Artificial oxygen carriers | 2016-05 |
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Rasmussen, Katie | Awareness and Access to Support Resources Among Refugee Women in Salt Lake City Experiencing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence | This paper addresses the complex issue of refugee women and their susceptibility to sexual and gender-based violence. Refugees are more susceptible to this violence as a result of their increased vulnerability when they are displaced, as well as changing gender roles and environments as they are for... | 2018 | |
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Corsetti, Tana | The awareness of environmental issues in Vietnam, China, and The United States | Objectives: Environmental awareness is a global concern and there are few comparative studies of awareness among populations in different countries. The aim of this study was to investigate college students' knowledge of environmental concerns in the USA, Vietnam and China. Study design: Cross-natio... | 2021 | |
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Esposito, Camila | Axl Inhibitors for Pancreatic Cancer Treatment | Background: In the United States more than 46,000 people will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Although it is relatively rare, pancreatic cancer is the 4th leading cause of cancer death in men and women. Gemcitabine, the most common treatment for pancreatic cancer has less than 10% partial respo... | Pancreas - Cancer - Research | 2016-05 |
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Atencio, Mitchell M. | Back to Bagatelles: Realizing the Remainder of Ligett's Musica Ricercata | György Ligeti completed Musica Ricercata in 1953, and shortly thereafter transcribed six of the movements into the 6 Bagatelles for wind quintet. Much of the scholarship surrounding Ligeti's transitional period discusses Musical Ricercata, a pivotal work for Ligeti marking divergence in composition... | 2019 | |
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Venugopal, Nikila | Baldwin in Conversation: Love and Black Lives Matter | With rising tensions surrounding racial inequality in the United States, and the national prominence of the Black Lives Matter Movement, it is hardly surprising that the works of James Baldwin have had a revival in popular culture and literature. Throughout his writings, Baldwin has advocated for Bl... | 2018 | |
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Otruskinik, Jan | Bank Profitability, Mergers and Acquisitions: An Empirical Analysis for the US Economy | Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are popular strategies deployed by financial institutions to expand their balance sheets and consequently their market share. Economic and regulatory forces over the prior 30 years have been instrumental in driving M&A activity within the financial sector, yet limited ... | 2020 | |
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Stucki, Kristen | Barries to Women's Access to Perinatal Mental Health Care in Rural Utah | Medicaid insures the majority of childbearing women visiting public health departments in rural Utah. A majority of these women live below the state and federal poverty thresholds, and few have more than a high school education. It is important that health resources be tailored to meet the unique ne... | 2019 | |
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Enda, Michael | Bayesianism in a Social Context | In this paper I push for and defend the adoption of a Bayesianism belief structure. Bayesianism is a belief structure based on the probability axioms of Kolmogorov. Given this, Bayesianism inherits the mathematical formulations of its origin. In order to explain and motivate the adoption of Bayesian... | 2019 | |
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Estrada, Johanna | BCR-ABL1 compound mutations combining key kinase domain positions confer clinical resistance to ponatinib in Philadelphia cromosome-positive leukemia | CML 1s caused by a random reciprocal translocation that joins the ABL1 gene on chromosome 9, with the BCR gene on chromosome 22. The result is the formation of the oncogenic BCR-ABL1 gene. This derivative chromosome is widely known as the Philadelphia Chromosome (Ph+), and it encodes a deregulated, ... | Leukemia -- Genetic aspects -- Research Leukemia -- Treatment -- Research | 2014-04 |
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Poma, Sasha | Being latina: the crossroads of identity in U.S.-Latino literature | This thesis focuses on issues of Latina identity in U.S.-Latino literature and my personal experience as a woman of Latin American descent. Specifically, the thesis uses Gloria Anzaldúa's groundbreaking work, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza to define and contextualize the Latina feminism i... | 2022 | |
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Yu, Stephone Lai Ming | The Belief that Optimism Improves Performance (China) | In 2015, researchers Tenney, Logg, and Moore published their research on the lay belief that optimism improves performance. The research was initially inspired by another study introducing the idea of prescribed optimism (Armor et al., 2008). Their research was spurred by an observation that has bee... | 2017 | |
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Ruiz, Loren | Beneath the dark cloak of U.S. deportation: Bureaucratic distancing tactics employed by the deportation system | U.S. deportation policy is implemented behind a dark cloak of secrecy. Distancing tactics are employed throughout the deportation process to prevent those participating within the bureaucracy from feeling empathy for those they process. Pachirat (2011) provides a three-part template of analysis for ... | Deportation -- United States | 2015-05 |
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Rathbun, Lauren Elizabeth | Beyond classical: mixing in the belt. An exploration of musical theatre singing | Belt, mix and classical are three terms for distinguishing the different sounds used in musical theatre vocal repertoire. Each requires different techniques regarding resonance space, vowels, laryngeal position, and breath management. For years, there has been a debate among vocal pedagogues questio... | Voice type (Singing) | 2015-08 |
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Hyde, Katie M. | Bhutanese refugee women's lived reproductive health experience in Salt Lake City, Utah | This research project focused on family planning and reproductive health care access among Bhutanese refugees in Salt Lake City, Utah. Four questions guided this study: (1) What contraceptive methods do female Bhutanese refugees use to control fertility/space births? (2) What reproductive health car... | Women refugees - Utah - Salt Lake City - Health and hygiene; Women refugees - Bhutan - Health and hygiene; Reproductive health services - Utah | 2014-05 |
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Dove-Swisher, Taylor | Bias-Coppected Estimation for singles-event studies | Single-firm event studies used in securities fraud litigation are prone to statistical bias. Brav and Heaton (2015) describe three potential issues: low statistical power to detect price impacts, confounding effects that cannot be averaged out, and an effect bias in the upward direction. The effect ... | 2017 | |
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Zhao, Michael | Binary Hermitian Forms and Optimal Embeddings | Let L=K be a quadratic extension of global fields, and OL the ring of integers of L. We prove two correspondences between (i) binary L-hermitian forms which represent 1 and optimal embeddings of L into a quaternion algebra, (ii) integral binary OL-hermitian forms which represent 1 and embeddings of ... | 2017 | |
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Tazehabadi, Tara | Bioinformatics to detect functional interactions important for the DNA repair enzyme mutyh | DNA is the blueprint of all biological life as it provides the means necessary for sharing of genetic information. DNA is formed and stabilized by interactions between four unique bases, Adenine (A), Cytosine (C), Guanine (G), and Thymine (T) which come together in predetermined patterns to create a... | 2022 | |
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Beseris, Ethan | Biological impact protection in human facial hair | Our study investigated selective mechanisms that influenced the evolution of facial hair in human males (Homo sapiens). Beards are often perceived as an indicator of masculinity and social dominance in men, suggesting that they may play a role in male contest competition. Some authors propose that t... | 2018 | |
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Galinat, Shelby | Bipyrimidine solubility modeling for applications in NON-Aqueous redox flow batteries | Energy storage research has undergone transformative changes in the past 50 years. The increasingly concerning threat of climate change has emphasized the need for energy storage technology to facilitate renewable energy incorporation into the grid. Without energy storage, the fluctuations of wind a... | 2022 | |
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Gaykowski, Logan Sara | Birth Control and Depression: Science VS. the Media | Previous research has shown that the media can have a large effect on how readers internalize news and information, as well as on their choices, opinions and behaviors. Research has also shown that the media often reports scientific findings inaccurately or not in their entire form, providing reader... | 2017 | |
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Ellingson, Drew | Bitangent lines to planar quartic curves in algebraic and tropical geometry | Bitangents are lines which are tangent to a curve at two points. The bitangents of a classical quartic are well understood, and a result originally due to Cayley tells us that there are always precisely 28 bitangents to a generic quartic plane curve. When looking at Tropical Geometry, the situation ... | Tropical geometry; Curves, Quartic; Curves, Algebraic; Bitangents | 2015-04 |
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Bekeris, Michael Joseph | Block Copolymers and Nanosphere Lithography as a Bottom-up Fabrication Tool for Facilitating Deterministic Lateral Displacement | With the capability to separate red blood cells and exosomes, deterministic lateral deisplacement (DLD) has established itself as a great utility in biological sparation applications on both the microscale and nonoscale. Current methods of employing DLD on the nonoscale require electron beam lithogr... | 2020 | |
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Kingsley, Kayla | Blush the color of embarrassment | Pathological blushing is a chronic condition in which a person blushes uncontrollably more often and more intensely than a person who blushed regularly. | 2021 | |
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Mimi Locher | The body in modern architecture: Perceptions, philosophies and design consequences in the work of Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto | This thesis explores the place of the human body in architectural design during the modern period. A brief history of using the human body as design inspiration is given, which includes a discussion on our tendencies as humans to use anthropomorphism, cognitive patterns, and our body to understand t... | Architecture - Human factors | 2014-05 |
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Allen, Ashley K. | Borderline Personality Disorder During Pregnancy, Physiology, and Correlations Between Borderline Symptoms and Newborn Neurobehavior | Prior research has shown prenatal stress and parental mental illness impair developmental well-being for infants. However, literature examining borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms during pregnancy and infant neurobehavioral outcomes for women with BPD are largely lacking. The purpose of t... | 2018 | |
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Meaux, Scott Alan | Borders of immunity redefined under the scope of scale | Borders. A line in the sand as it were, a place with a definite beginning and a hazy ending. Whether respected or disregarded, an entity that most simply can't ignore. The choice to see them as helpful or to ensure harm, divisiveness washes away all connotation. Often defined in the classroom as an ... | 2022 | |
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Tallman, Lance | Breaking the mold: using epistolary architecture to craft a new type of video game narrative | Breaking the Mold: Using Epistolary Architecture to Craft a New Type of Video Game Narrative discusses the uniqueness of classic epistolary literary works, such as Bram Stoker's Dracula, and demonstrates how applying the storytelling techniques of these texts can allow game developers to create a ne... | 2022 | |
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Jackson, Rachel | Breastfeeding and the media: race representations in formula advertisements targeting new parents | Research has shown that mediated advertisements can play a role in a woman's decision about whether or not to breastfeed her baby. Percentages of breastfeeding among African American women have been shown in national data to be significantly lower than other races in the United States. There have be... | Communication | 2014 |
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Allen, Lucy | Breath Messenger: Bodily Communication for Two | The Breath Messenger is a device that deepens empathy between two people by transferring the sensation of breathing. | 2020 | |
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Smith, Hayden | Brown v. Board: The racial meridian: Racial segregation in the U.S. public education system before and after Brown v. Board of Education 1954 | The primary concentration of this project is an analysis of post-Brown v. Board segregation issues within the public education sphere. I focus primarily on the legal history of school desegregation in Texas as it is a Southern state with a long history of racial segregation. Furthermore, Texas effec... | Segregation in education - Texas | 2014-04 |
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Robertson, Jaden | Building a better podium | Podium construction (also referred to as one-plus-five or five-over-one) has become the predominant typology for new multi-family construction in Salt Lake City over the past decade.⁴ Its low-cost construction has made it popular with developers due to its high return on investment and with city p... | 2021 | |
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Olschewski, Erin | C is for carrots, community gardens, and co-ops: A thematic analysis of the ways in which Sesame Street tackles nutrition, sustainability, and social justice | In the realm of entertainment education and media studies, there is a sizable amount of research linking children's nutrition and early educational television shows. However, there is a paucity of work that attempts to connect nutrition with sustainability and/or social justice in the context of chi... | Children's television programs -- Social aspects; Nutrition in mass media; Sesame Street (Television program); Social justice in mass media; Sustainability in mass media | 2014-12 |
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Eccles, Patrick Nolan | The Cabal reflection: A post mortem of an entertainment arts and engineering capstone project | This document will serve as Patrick Eccles' Honors Thesis at the University of Utah and will reflect upon the process and result of his and his team members' senior project within the Entertainment Arts and Engineering program: the 3D Puzzle Platformer A Divided Light . On the senior project team, P... | Computer games - Design; Cabal Process | 2015-08 |
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Peterson, Ezekiel | Calibration of Low-Cost Ozone Detectors to Measure a Key-Indicator of Summertime air Quality in the Salt Lake Valley | The air quality measurement boards developed by the University of Utah department of electrical engineering and evaluated by the department of chemical engineering were calibrated for the measurement of ozone. The redox sensors in these boards had a strong inverse response to increases in ozone conc... | 2018 | |
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Cockrell, Jacqueline | Campus interpersonal violence: understanding of University Policy | Interpersonal violence on university campuses and within university communities has always existed, but recently these issues are becoming more prevalent in the public eye. How universities handle these issues, the policies they put in place, and the efforts to reduce these incidents are ever-changi... | 2023 | |
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Camara, Barbara | Can More Sensitive Caregiving Buffer the Effects of Maternal Depression on Child Problem Behavior? | In 2012, CDC researchers found that 11.5% of women delivering a live birth that year had postpartum depressive symptoms (Ko, Rockhill, Tong, Morrow, & Farr, 2017). Children who have been exposed to maternal depressive symptoms in their first year of life tend to show elevated deficits in a variety o... | 2019 | |
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Fett, Natasha | Can Pilates Improve Self-Efficacy in People with Multiple Sclerosis? | Background: Multiple sclerosis is a degenerative neurological disease in which people experience impaired physical function and increased fatigue. These symptoms lead to decreased participation in activities which leads to exacerbated symptoms. This vicious cycle can cause one to experience lowered ... | 2014 | |
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Esplin, Jess | Capital account liberalization & income inequality: 1980-2009 | In this paper, I examine the relationship between income distribution and the capital market account from 1980 to 2009 across a sample of developed and semi-developed countries. A review of the literature suggests that capital account liberalization raises income inequality. Several factors alleged ... | Income distribution - Mathematical models | 2016-04 |
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Wachter, Kira | Career Immersion Prior to Graduation: an Analysis o the Efficacy of Student Marketing Agencies | Modern college graduates are faced with a hiring paradox: employers are more willing to hire workers with experience, but college graduates lack professional experience when they graduate. Many educational disciplines encourage experiential work as a solution to this problem. In the marketing indust... | 2017 | |
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Topham, Emily | Caregiver inclusion in ideal discharge teaching: implications for transitions from hospital to home | Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore 1) quantitative patient-caregiver ratings of discharge readiness using the Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale (RHDS), and 2) perceptions of caregivers regarding their discharge preparation and whether and how discharge preparation impacted post-d... | 2021 | |
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Nilsen, Grady Cole | The Celebrity Product Endorser in American Advertising: Five Components of a Successful Campaign | This thesis seeks to provide information and insight for any brand that is considering utilizing a celebrity advocate to sell its product or service. An analysis is presented within the framework of Professor Robert Cialdini's book, Influence: The Power of Persuasion. First, the history of the celeb... | 2017 | |
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Furrer, Summer | Cellular and subcellular localization patterns of hepatitis delta virus in sjogren's syndrome salivary gland tissue | Primary Sjogren's syndrome (pSS) is an autoimmune disorder, predominantly affecting women, that causes dry eyes, dry mouth, fatigue, and other extraglandular manifestations (Le Goff et al., 2017). It has been shown that chronic pathogen exposure can lead to development of autoimmune diseases such as... | 2022 | |
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Andersen, Kara | Cervical dorsal root ganglion imaging for studying neuronal nocicieptive ciruit changes in migranine models | Migraine neuroscience is a field in its infancy, with migraine being a remarkably common yet poorly understood sensory circuit disorder. It is characterized by attacks of unilateral, throbbing craniofacial pain, with sensitivity to movement, visual, auditory, and other afferent inputs. Migraines can... | 2022 | |
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Larson, Brooke | Chacterization of signaling to the degradative pathways of the cell | Protein degradation in cells is a complex network of pathways that are distinct from each other but highly interconnected. Understanding how proteins are degraded in cells is important for understanding and developing treatments for diseases such as lysosomal storage diseases and neurodegenerative d... | 2023 | |
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Mortensen, Mikala | Challenges in Playing the Flute and Their Specfiic Application to Solo Flute Literature | The left (binding) margin of the thesis should be 1.5 inches and the other three margins 1.0 inch. The text should be double spaced 12 point Times New Roman and follow standard format for your discipline. Thus the body of a Mathematics Thesis might be composed in a LaTex, a Social Science Thesis wou... | 2016 | |
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Hunt, McKenna | Challenges locating the scene of emergency: a qualitative study of the EMS system in rwanda | Background: Timely pre-hospital emergency care significantly improves health outcomes. One substantial challenge delaying pre-hospital emergency care is in locating the patient requiring emergency services. The goal of this study was to describe challenges emergency medical services (EMS) teams in R... | 2023 | |
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Adams, Taylor | Change in trait impressions of the self and others | This study examined how trait judgments of the self and others change over time. The research question that was addressed was "Do the changes in trait impressions of the self parallel the changes in trait impressions of others?" One hundred and twenty-five college students rated the frequency of cha... | 2018 | |
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Greenwood, Riley Joseph | Changes in earnings distribution in Peru: 2004-2014 | This thesis explores the changes in earnings distribution among heads of household in Peru from 2004 to 2014 by applying Dinardo, Fortin, and Lemieux's methodology of counterfactual distributions and decompositions. Various measures indicate that earnings inequality among heads of household reduce... | Earnings Distribution; Inequality; Counterfactual | 2014-12 |
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Jensen, Madeline | Changes in microbial diversity in storm-water green infrastructure | Increased urbanization has led to excess nutrients in urban ecosystems. Stormwater Green Infrastructure (SGI) is a method to capture these nutrients and prevent runoff. However, an increased understanding of ecosystem processes is needed to create more efficient SGIs. Past studies have shown that pl... | 2022 | |
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Montoya-Ortiz, Jaylie Denise | Changes to walking trajectories to avoid altitude-related threats | Walking in complex environments demands changes in locomotor behavior. Despite knowledge of how altitude threats, such as walking at high heights, affect spatiotemporal measures of gait, it is unclear how individuals select walking trajectories when there are altitude threats. The purpose of this st... | 2022 | |
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Russell, Sloan | Changing brand perception: Changing university students' attitude toward a company and enabling a talented recruiting pool | Students often participate in internships to gain real-world experience before entering the workforce. This proves beneficial to students, allowing them to apply the skills they learned via higher education and develop problem-solving abilities, while employers find internships allow them to recruit... | Business education (Internship); Marketing | 2015-04 |
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Barker, Adam | Characteristics of salespeople that drive top sales pepformance in techonolgy companies | This paper sets out to determine what drives top sales performance in technology companies. Specifically, this analysis focuses on characteristics of the salespeople in one software company and excludes factors such as the company's incentive structure, customer concentration within regions serviced... | 2022 | |
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Barbeau, William | Characterization of a New Ribosome Associated Quality Control Pathway | Proteins are life's double edged sword. Proteins are essential macromolecules of life, and the tasks that some proteins accomplish are quite marvelous. At the same time, if proteins misfold they have the potential to kill the cell that harbors them. It is becoming increasingly clear that proteins ha... | Ribosomes - Research | 2016-12 |
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Tarboton, Paisley | Characterization of Apoptosis and Inhibitory Neurons in Cortical Organoids Generated from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. | Modeling human brain diseases in a laboratory setting is critical to understanding the underlying pathology and developing new treatments for patients. Organoids are 3D tissue cultures that provide a promising way to model human brain development in vitro and have been used previously to gain novel ... | 2018 | |
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Visser, Joshua | Characterization of G-quadruplexes in DNA repair protein gene sequences and the effects of oxidized guanine lesions on DNA base insertion and elongation | Guanine (G) is one of the four nucleo bases that make up the complex macromolecule deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). In addition to its ability to Watson-Crick base pair with cytidine (C), guanine can base pair with itself vianon-canonical, Hoogsteen base pairing and form a secondary structure of DNA ca... | DNA repair - Research; G proteins - Pathophysiology - Research; Oxidation, Physiological - Research; Membrane homogenization; Synthetic blood; Artificial oxygen carriers | 2016-05 |
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Bell, Marisa | Characterization of Polyphenols in I. Umbellifera | Secondary metabolites in plants, including polyphenolics, may be responsible, in part, for diversity in the tropics. Variation in chemical defense among species of trees encourages specificity in herbivorous insects. Due to the short lifespan of insects compared to trees, diversity in chemical defen... | 2018 | |
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Weeks, Lily | Chattering humor and crooked habits: disability as metaphor in early modern English drama | This honors thesis project examines representations of disability in early modern English plays. I analyze two little-known plays of the period: Look About You (c. 1600) and The Fair Maid of the Exchange (1607), both anonymous works. Through the characters of Redcap and Cripple, these plays present ... | 2023 | |
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Finnegan, McCauley Craig | Checking the Wrong Box: Limitations of the Eeoc's Effectiveness for Supporting Organizational diversity and Inclusion in the 2020S | This thesis explores the impacts of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and federal discrimination laws on organizational diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives. Using an inductive thematic analysis of qualitative data from phone interviews with diversity leaders in a variety of ro... | 2020 | |
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Reyes, Abby Michelle | Chicana/o student journalism, Peldaños 1974-1977 | My engagement with a local student news publication named Venceremos, which had first been published 1993 and was later revived after a five-year hiatus in 2008, provoked larger-scale critical inquiry on the history of alternative Chicano/a journalism in the state of Utah and the University of Utah ... | Martinez, Gilbert A -- Interviews; Student newspapers and periodicals -- Utah -- Salt Lake City; Mexican American newspapers -- Utah -- Salt Lake City; Mexican American college students -- Utah -- Salt Lake City; National Geographic peldaños | 2015-04 |
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Burton, Kaitlyn | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Views on Homosexuality and How it Relates to Labeling Theory | This piece serves as an investigation and critique into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and their views of same-sex marriage, as well as the treatment of those experiencing same-sex attraction within the church. This will be done in part by using official church doctrine that has bee... | 2019 | |
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Geskes, Kelli Kristina | Circumplex Based Interpersonal Processes Contribute to Link Between Self-Regulation and Social Outcomes | A variety of individual differences in aspects of self-regulation (e.g., grit, self-control, conscientiousness) predict important life outcomes, such as wellbeing, vocational success, and physical health. Most conceptual models of these associations emphasize intrapersonal processes (e.g., inhibitio... | 2020 | |
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Perez, Yerry | Cita a matchmaking mobile app: an analysis of why developers choose certain frameworks | Software developers have an array of tools to help them create new technologies. Therefore, it is important that they distinguish which tools are right for the task they are trying to complete. As time progresses new tools for developers emerge and some gain popularity faster than others. This thesi... | 2021 | |
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DeHaan, Matthew | Citizens West residential building energy modeling | Citizens West is a newly-built development in Downtown Salt Lake City. This building was built by the Giv Group and is 100%. The Giv Group strives to build sustainable but affordable living. In order to determine ways to decrease prices, a digital twin of Citizens West was built, validated, and simu... | 2023 | |
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Cockrell, Nicholas Allan | Civil Rights and the Cold War: How Racism Undermined United States Leadership on Human Rights | After World War II, the United States found itself in the difficult position of trying to be a human rights leader while also reckoning with its own record on race relations. Trying save its image, the United States entered a propaganda war with the Soviet Union. Throughout the 1950s and 60s, the Un... | 2020 | |
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Pittam, Emily Buhler | Clinically Significant Outcomes of a Multidimensional Intensive Stuttering Clinic | This study examined the etiology, symptoms, and treatments of stuttering. Its main purpose was to report a series of treatment outcome measures of the 2018 University of Utah Intensive Stuttering Clinic (ISC). The clinic implemented both stuttering management treatment (behaviors and emotions relate... | 2019 | |
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Tu, Christianna L. | Closing the health development gap: An analysis of health spending in Southeast Asia | Financing health development through increased domestic resource allocation is a topic of substantial discussion for the post-2015 development agenda. Past development strategies, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), have relied on wealthy country aid commitments in order to fund inter... | Medical care - Southeast Asia - Finance | 2015-08 |
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Garzella, Erin | Coinfection of Malaria and gammaherpesvirus in B cells and macrophages | Malaria kills over 600,000 people a year. 67% of those deaths are children under five and pregnant women. Some children get malaria, but they do not die. The reasons for this are not completely understood. Malaria is caused by the Plasmodium parasite, and in sub-Saharan Africa Plasmodium falciparum ... | 2023 | |
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Twombly, Jessica | Collaborative methods of special education and general education teachers | A growing number of students with disabilities are being served in general education classrooms. Research has shown that inclusive education programs can be as effective as pullout or self-contained special education units (Fitch, 2003). Research has also shown that co-teaching is an effective servi... | Special education; Teaching teams | 2014-04 |
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Krueger, Adrienne | The commune in commodities: Bruno braquehais's photography of the Paris commune of 1871 | Perhaps no other photographer of the Paris Commune has received as much art historical attention as Bruno Braquehais. Within this scholarship, he is heralded as unique, either framed as the dedicated photojournalist of the Commune or as the sole photographer sympathetic to the cause of the Commune. ... | 2021 | |
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Konecny, Kassandra | Communicating walls | This thesis consists of 30 pages of poems and an essay introduction that details everything from my writing process to the meanings and/or collective themes of the poems themselves. With the combination of newly written poems and older poems I've written over the course of my college career, I have ... | American poetry - 21st century | 2014-05 |
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Rashid, Inakhshmi | Communication between young adults and family members with type 2 diabetes | With a staggering 537 million adults living with type 2 diabetes (T2D) as of 2021, T2D has become one of the most prevalent chronic conditions in the world. Lowering this prevalence is possible as T2D is preventable through healthy lifestyle habits, even amongst people with an increased risk due to ... | 2023 | |
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Meadows, Natalie | Communication is key: A critical analysis of Spanish language policies and ideologies in healthcare settings in the United States | Effective communication is a vital component in providing quality healthcare. Communication between patients and their healthcare providers has been shown to have substantial effects on health outcomes. According to the 2012 U.S Census 5% of the U.S population who identifies as Hispanic or Latino re... | Language policy - United States; Hispanic Americans - Medical care | 2014-08 |
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Troester, Landon | Communities and New Americans: the Process of Joining and Building Communities Among 1880-1920 Immigrants and World War II Refugees | During the late 19th and early 20th century, the United States faced substantial changes in the nature of European immigration to the country. Unlike previous phases of immigration, many of the European arrivals were from Southern and Eastern Europe, and as a result struggled to identify existing cu... | 2019 | |
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Meredith, Sarah | The Community and School Factors Effecting Student Achievement in Utah Public School Districts | In 2017, the Office of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst (LFA) published a report titled "What Drives Student Achievement Across States?" finding that, "educational attainment of adults has the largest and most consistent impact on k-12 student achievement." This was analysis on three measure of studen... | 2020 | |
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Seshan, Thulasi | Comparative Indigenous Water Law in the Western United States and Australia | In 2010 the United Nations declared that water was a human right. Yet indigenous peoples around the world still do not have full access to water- to their human right. This paper attempts to understand what water rights indigenous people do have, and how those can be expanded to meet international h... | 2018 | |
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Baker, Margaret | Comparative morphology of chenopodium berlandieri seeds and fruits from cowboy cave, Utah: implications for cultivation and domestication | The ancient shift from collecting and gathering native plants to the cultivation and domestication of those species was one of the most significant evolutionary transitions in human history. Due to recent advancements in archaeological techniques, the geographic occurrences of prehistoric plant cul... | Plants - Utah | 2016-05 |
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Do, Tiffany | Comparative transcriptomic assay of phellinus tremulae isolates to identify the genetic responses of environmental stress | Saprotrophic fungi are a diverse ecological group that can breakdown organic matter to obtain carbon. Due to their metabolic processes, they play an essential role in nutrient cycling within the microbial soil community. Despite the importance of saprotrophic fungi, little is known about their respo... | 2023 | |
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Eric Nhem | Comparing Educational Engagement and Extracurricular Activity Participation for First-Generation Versus Continuing-Generation College Students | First-generation college students (FGCS) typically have difficulty adjusting to college compared to continuing-generation college students (CGCS). Previous research has found that FGCS are less engaged in their higher education classes. However, engagement in college should also include participatio... | 2018 | |
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Yamada, Kaylene | Comparing Tollerance of Neotoma Lepida on Native Versus Novel Toxic Diets | Herbivorous animals often ingest plants that protect themselves with chemicals, and these toxins typically differ in composition from plant to plant. For instance, juniper (Juniperus osteosperma) is dominated by terpenes, such as α-pinene, whereas creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) contains a cockta... | 2017 | |
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Thistle, Hanna Rose | Comparing traditional western & nontraditional holistic medicine: an integrative approach to health & wellness | 2020 | ||
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Gunter, Tobee Paige | Comparison of patient and provider assessments of response to therapy for psoriatic arthritis | People with psoriatic arthritis routinely rate their disease severity less favorably than their providers (Krueger, 2001) (Baughman, 2011). Little is known about how patients and providers perceive response to therapy. Discrepancies in perceptions of therapy response may indicate that providers are ... | Psoriatic arthritis; Psoriatic arthritis -- Patients -- Attitudes | 2014-12 |
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Odendahl, Nathan | Comparison of popular force fields for molecular modeling of proteins applied to ice binding of the tenebrio molitor antifreeze protein | Ice Binding Proteins (IBPs) are a class of proteins that affect the melting and freezing temperatures of ice. While substantial research has been conducted to understand the properties of IBPs, experimental and molecular dynamics simulations have not satisfactorily explained the mechanism of the i... | Antifreeze proteins - Research; Ice binding proteins; Tenebrio molitor; Antifreeze protein; Force fields | 2016-04 |
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Tennant, Karrin | Competitive nighttime stomatal response of Populus Trichocarpa during drought | Stomata are critical valves responsible for gas exchange on the leaf level. They control rates of transpiration and as such play a crucial role in terrestrial water cycling. When stomata open, water molecules in the intracellular leaf space are subject to evaporation, especially in dry conditions. T... | 2021 | |
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Sowards, Steffan | Computational fluid dynamics modeling for Respiratory airflow patterns of python regius | The phylogenetic distribution and mechanisms underpinning unidirectional pulmonary airflow, in which gases pass through a portion of the lung in an identical direction during both aspiration and expiration, are poorly understood. Until recently, it was thought this pattern of flow required unique fe... | 2018 | |
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Gilbert, Andrew | Computational modeling of the rat hippocampus for improving neural stimulation | Neural prostheses are used to restore some level of function to tissue damaged by disease. It is important to model and correctly identify the relationship between electrical stimulation and neural response to provide a framework for prosthetic stimulation. This work will show a struc... | Neural stimulation - Research; Hippocampus (Brain) - Research; Memory - Research; Rats as laboratory animals - Research; Neural prosthetic | 2016-05 |
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Dibble, Alicia G. | Computer Simulation-Aided Design of Single-Ion Conducting Structures for Solid Polymer Electrolytes in Lithium0ion Batteries | Lithium-ion batteries are commonplace in consumer devices, but the volatility of the liquid electrolyte used in those batteries poses an innate safety risk that must be combated if the batteries are to maintain their preferential status in modern technology. One alternative to liquid electrolytes is... | 2019 | |
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Guynn, Isaac P. A. | Confirming and quantifying ectoine production in Salinovibrio SP. eagsl in hypersaline culture | Salinivibrio sp. EAGSL was isolated from the Great Salt Lake in 2017 and has since been the focus of promising research in the field of microbial electrochemistry. Namely, S. EAGSL is an organism with both halotolerance and electroactivity, giving it a unique ability to bridge the gap between power ... | 2022 | |
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Cook, Uinta Blue | Connecting Cultures, Connecting People: U.S. Public Diplomacy in Cuba | The theory of soft power, as described by Joseph Nye (1990), is evaluated, along with the theory behind public and cultural diplomacy as a means of engaging foreign publics in order to promote international rules in line with the practicing country's own goals and values. The tenets and implements o... | soft power; public diplomacy; cultural diplomacy; Cuba | 2017 |
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Wood, Weston G. W. | Consciousness is a Conversation Towards an Eco-Dialogical Theory of Communication | Within the expanding field of environmental communication we make what we assume are well-justified assumptions about communication, and then rely on those assumptions about communication to make sense of "the environment." In other words, environmental communication is often the study of how we tal... | Ecology; Dialogue; Voice; Bateson; Dolar; Abram; Systems; Deep Ecology; Psychoanalysis; Metalogue; Addiction; Patriarchy; Capitalism; Individualism | 2017 |
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Neville, Roselyn | Constitutively activated AKT is not sufficient to keep cells alive following epithelial cell extrusion | The PI3 kinase (PI3K)/AKT signaling pathway regulates many fundamental behaviors of the cell. If any of the key members of this pathway are deregulated, it can lead to malignant changes in the cell. AKT enhances the survival of cells by inhibiting pro-apoptotic processes, and promoting pathways for ... | PI3K/AKT - Chemistry; Cancer metastasis | 2014-05 |
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Barth, Charles | Construction of space, time, and free will through sound in Paradise lost | John Milton's Paradise Lost makes frequent reference to sound and music in its descriptions of heaven, Earth, and hell, and substantial research has been dedicated to dissecting how the poem's descriptions develop a figurative and literal hierarchy between these realms and their inhabitants. Much co... | 2021 | |
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Balagopal, Namisha | Consumer purchasing & behavior: A consideration of the combined influence of culture & conformity on consumer decisions | Formerly, management has been able to understand their consumers simply through the experience of selling and purchasing. However, current growth trends of various industries, firms, and world markets have removed decisions makers from having direct contact with consumers. Firms now highly depend on... | Consumer behavior | 2014-12 |
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Iacono, Alyssa | Context affects undergraduates' goals and engagement behaviors when learning online | The Self-regulation of motivation (SRM) model (Sansone & Thoman, 2005) suggests that two types of motivation are crucial while learning a task: Goals-defined (e.g., value and expectancy of learning), and experience-defined (e.g., if the task is interesting). Using an online HTML lesson, initial resu... | Web-based instruction -- Psychological aspects; Online learning | 2015-04 |