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Davis, Ryan | "A torrent of words": colonial printers and the public, 1765-1775 | Although printers had long been important in colonial society and politics, it was not until 1765 that they fully realized their potential in shaping colonial attitudes and behavior. With Parliament's institution of the Stamp Act, an outraged public insisted that newspaper publishers assume a more a... | Printing; social aspects; United States; history; 18th century | 2012-05 |
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Reyna Rivarola, Alonso Rafael | "Aguantamos porque no nos Queda De Otra" (we holdup because we have no other option): Everyday resistance in the lives of Latina immigrant U.S. hospitality industry workers | Latina immigrant workers in the United States are often rendered invisible by mainstream society. These women, especially when fulfilling service occupations, such as hotel housekeeping jobs, are expected to work in silence and in deference to those in "higher" positions of power (e.g. supervisors a... | Hospitality industry; employees; United States; Hispanic American women; employment | 2013-06 |
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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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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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Burt, Zachary | The 1968 election and the birth of the contemporary presidential nomination process | The 1968 election was a landmark election in American political history. In the summer of 1968, Vice President Hubert Humphrey was nominated by the Democratic Party. This nomination was controversial, and the Democrats' summer convention was chaotic and infamous. Humphrey gained the nomination due t... | Democratic national convention - 1968 | 2012-05 |
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Marcinek, Michael | 36 frames: a self portrait | There is no doubt that we live in a highly mediated culture, more and more images are readily available to us. We view them instantaneously as events are unfolding on our computers, tablets, cellphones, as well as in newspapers and on television. We are constantly barraged and influenced by images f... | Photography; self-portraits | 2012-05 |
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Kemp, Rose | A checklist for outstanding teaching of first grade literacy | Children typically learn to read and write early on in their lives. This is a crucial time for literacy education, generally referred to as the development of early literacy. At this time, "...it is such an important goal [to teach reading] that it is impossible to walk into a firstgrade classroom o... | Reading (Primary); first grade (Education) | 2013-05 |
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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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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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German, Massiell | A genetic analysis of VSX2 function in the mouse eye | Vsx2 is a homeodomain-containing transcription factor essential for maintenance of neuroretinal identity and neurogenesis. Vsx2 is believed to function via mechanisms that are strictly cell-intrinsic. However, recent research reveals evidence for involvement of Vsx2-mediated cell non-autonomous mech... | Neurogenesis - physiology | 2012-05 |
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Thompson, Geneva EB | A history of interest covergence in University of Utah diversity related policies and programs | This paper will look at the history of interest convergence of the University of Utah Administration hi the implementation of diversity related programs and policies. Diversity programs and policies, especially with the pending ruling on Affirmative Action from the Supreme Court, are continuously un... | University of Utah - Faculty; University of Utah - Students; Affirmative action program in education - Utah - Salt Lake City; Minorities - Education (Higher) - Utah - Salt Lake City | 2013-04 |
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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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Craner, Bethlyn "Buffy" Sage | A nation of inequality: The effects of inequality on health, crime and economic achievement | Income inequality is on the rise, growing rapidly since the mid 1970's in the United States of America (Weeks 2007). This study will investigate the effects an increasing gap between the affluent and impoverished has on critical factors of social welfare. A meta-assessment will be performed combinin... | Income inequality - United States | 2012-05 |
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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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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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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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Sullivan, Steven M. | A trace formula for G2 | An n-dimensional matrix representation of a group G on a vector space V is a homomorphism from G to GL(V). For our purposes, we consider an irreducible representation to be a representation which cannot be decomposed into the direct sum of smaller-dimensional representations. Let H be a subgroup of ... | Trace formulas | 2013-05 |
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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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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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Oritt, Madeleine | Accessibility to HIV/AIDS medications in resource-limited countries | This research examines the impact of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) on accessibility to HIV/AIDS medications for populations in resource-limited countries. This World Trade Organization agreement created provisions by which these countries can obtain o... | 2013 | |
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Turner, Joselyn | Accurate communication : explaining a medical technology to a mass audience | The purpose of this thesis project is to describe the process I have taken, and that others could follow, to use the written communication tecliniques that I have learned during my undergraduate career to accurately inform a non-medically trained mass audience of a medical technology. Clear communic... | Medical technology; Communication and technology | 2013-05 |