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Schlegel, Isabelle B. | Peptide-fab conjugates to improve treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration | Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD), a chronic disease of the eye and leading cause of blindness in Americans over 50, is often treated with agents that inhibit Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF). Ranibizumab is an anti-VEGF antibody fragment (Fab) effective at treating over 90% of AMD pat... | 2021 | |
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Frederiksen, Hunter | Pharmacokinetics of Locally Delivered Vancomycin as a Powder & in a Hydrogel | Orthopedic surgeons currently administer powder vancomycin directly over surgical sites in order to mitigate infections. Local antibiotic administration has been effective at reducing infections; however, there have been few preliminary studies investigating the pharmacokinetics of locally delivered... | 2018 | |
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Hahn, Carina | Plasmonically active silver nanowire structures for energy storage applications | Currently, there are no sustainable solutions available to meet the increasing demand for grid scale energy storage. Solar to fuel conversion has the potential to curb our dependence on natural gas and costly storage technologies by recycling waste products into chemical fuels. A realistic device mu... | Nanowires; Energy storage; Plasmons (Physics) | 2015-04 |
| 104 |
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Singh, Anand | Polyurethane molecular weight determination in catheters via gel permeation chromatography | Antimicrobial catheter extrusions are loaded with an antiseptic drug in order to help prevent catheter-related infections. Previous research has shown that polymer molecular weight (Mw) can be used to control drug loading levels. Polyurethane based resin and catheter shaft extrusion samples were cho... | Catheters - Research; Bacterial diseases - Prevention; Drug loading levels; Gel permeation chromatography; Diffusion distance; Antimicrobial catheter extrustions; Catheter shaft extrusions; Bacterial Infections; MATLAB | 2016-05 |
| 105 |
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Galvez, Heilly | Porosity Control in Titanium Dioxide Thin Films Through Low Temperature Block Copolymer Annealing | Perovskite solar cells have gained popularity in recent years due to their simplicity in manufacturing. The aim of this work is to provide a direct means to increase perovskite solar cell efficiency by increasing the contact surface area between the perovskite and the electron-transfer material (ETM... | 2019 | |
| 106 |
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Uchida, Kimberly Akimi | Post-translational regulation of the tumor suppressor PDCD4 | Expression of the tumor suppressor Programmed cell death 4 (PDCD4) is correlated with better survival outcomes in several types of cancer. When PDCD4 is coexpressed with protein arginine methyltransferase 5, however, this trend does not hold true, suggesting that PDCD4 methylation is involved in the... | Tumor suppressor proteins - Regulation | 2013-12 |
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Beus, Zachary | Power system stabilizer | The goal of this project, part of the Power Industry Consortium, was to design a power system stabilizer for a small grid-connected three phase synchronous generator. Power System Stabilizers control the excitation of synchronous generators to reduce lowfrequency oscillations on the grid and increas... | Voltage regulators; Power system stabilizers | 2015-05 |
| 108 |
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Chen, Jiahui | Practical and Configurable Network Traffic Classification using Probabilistic Machine Learning | Network traffic classification that is generally applicable and highly accurate is extremely valuable for many network security and management tasks. A flexible and easily configurable classification framework is ideal so it can be customized for use in many different networks. In this thesis we pro... | 2020 | |
| 109 |
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Fernandez, Megan E. | Preserving the Great Salt Lake: integrating low impact development for a sustainable future | The Great Salt Lake (GSL) faces significant challenges due to declining water levels, exacerbated by human activities and a variety of environmental factors. This research explores the potential of Low Impact Development (LID) as a solution to mitigate the impact of urban water use on the GSL's heal... | 2024 | |
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Lietzke, Stephanie | Removal of endotoxins from recombinant antithrombin | Endotoxins (also known as lipopolysaccharides or ETs) are a pyrogenic byproduct of the breakdown of gram-negative bacterial cell-walls, such as E. coli. They cause fever and septic shock in humans, and are therefore highly regulated by the FDA and USP. ETs are a common contaminant in recombinant pr... | Endotoxins - Research; Antithrombins - Therapeutic use; Sheep as laboratory animals - Research; endotoxin removal; Angiogenesis | 2016-04 |
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Blackburn, Alexander | Replicating Musical Style: Data-Driven Algorithmic Melody Composition | This thesis describes a novel technique to algorithmic composition which combines two data structures-an N-gram language model and an association network-with a user friendly interface meant for music producers. The MelodySmith is a music composition tool which incorporates this logic into a product... | 2018 | |
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Oyler, Anthony Fratto | Residential Photovoltaic and Storage in Utah: an in-Depth Analysis into Policy and Infrastrature | Variable fuel prices and the interest in pursuing less carbon intensive energy has led to a variety of federal and state policies for renewable energy. Solar photovoltaic (PV) has become a commonly used renewable technology. Despite a high upfront cost, solar PV has a long economic life, little main... | 2017 | |
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Bull, Auguest John | Robotic Grasp Control Using Tactile Feedback | As we move towards more autonomous robots, object interaction and manipulation remains difficult for robots. Grasping approaches vary from learning-based to traditional control means, each with their own challenges. Learning-based methods perform well on specific tasks, but struggle to move to other... | 2020 | |
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Marler, Tyler | The role of gangliar plexi in the treatment of atrial fibrillation | Introduction: Gangliar plexi (GP) are bundles of interconnected neurons found embedded in FPs (FPs) surrounding the atria of the heart. The function of these neurons is controversial but they may form a localized control system for the heart and play a role in the induction of atrial fibrillation (A... | Atrial fibrillation Treatment; Gangliar plexi | 2012-05 |
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Freckleton, K. Beau | Sarrus-based passive mechanism for rotorcraft perchings: Structural design and mass optimization | Current quad-rotors provide excellent maneuverability and opportunity for data collection in large scale areas such as agriculture, but lack the capability to maintain flight for an extended period of time. This is primarily due to a lack of energy supply, requiring operators to replace the battery ... | Drone aircraft; Drone aircraft -- Control systems; Sarrus | 2014-12 |
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Novy, Jenna | Selective and Localized Marking of Activated Dendritic Spines Using a Novel Genetic Construct, Slayr | The brain's ability to store memory is as remarkable as it is complex. The mechanism behind memory storage is still not fully understood and has become an essential question in the neuroscience field. Long-term memories are thought to form via the strengthening of specific connections between neuron... | 2020 | |
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Anderson, Sheyne | Sinap types a run-time language for data-description | Sinap IDE is an editor for graph-based programming languages (as distinct from textbased). To facilitate versatility in Sinap IDE it was necessary to design a language (Sinap's Type System) to generically describe families of well-formed cyclic data structures. This language can be used to maintain ... | 2017 | |
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Ticknor, Claire | Sintering of 3D printed steel-copper functionally graded materials | Over the past several years, additive manufacturing has continued to expand and advance toward more promising responses to high-performance multi-functional applications. One such response is the utility of functionally graded materials (FGMs). In an FGM, the composition and structure gradually chan... | 2021 | |
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Newton, James | Social behaviors in the developing Danio Rerio larva and adult Danionella | Larval zebrafish (Danio rerio) in most respects excel as an animal model in the study of neural networks, due to their small size and optical transparency. These traits permit optogenetic manipulation and live neuronal imaging of the entire brain, which when paired with behavioral analysis, have pot... | Zebrafish (Zebra danio) - behavior; Zebrafish - embryology; Zebrafish - physiology | 2016-04 |
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Clark, Calli | Studying hypothetical electromagnetic earthquake precursors using a global finite-difference time-domain model | Electromagnetic (EM) precursors may be detectable by satellites and ground-based stations before large earthquakes strike and destroy entire cities. However, earthquakes are near impossible to predict as the physics of earthquake precursors is still poorly understood. This paper reports a global... | earthquake prediction - Research; Seismology - Research; Earthquake hazard analysis; Earthquake precursors; Electromagnetic signals; Ionospheric physics; Finite-difference time-domain model | 2016-04 |
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Javdan, Shwan | Targeted HPMA copolymer-gemcitabine conjugates for the treatment of ovarian carcinoma | Each year in the United States, over 14,000 women die from ovarian cancer. Anthracyclines-a class of chemotherapeutics-have long been the primary treatment for this and many other cancers, yet they often leave patients with cardiotoxicity, hepatotoxicity, and a number of other adverse effects. Polym... | Ovaries -- Cancer -- Treatment; Polymeric drug delivery systems; Polymer-drug conjugates; pHPMA | 2015-12 |
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Lusted, Kitsel | Temperature dependence of leptospirillum ferriphilum during biooxidation of pyrite | Rare earth elements have properties that make them useful in advanced electronics, magnets, and batteries. However, they are difficult to isolate from their constituent elements, which results in an environmentally costly operation to refine them. An environmentally friendly alternative extraction m... | 2023 | |
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Johnson, Rhiannon | Thermal modulation of the semicircular canal afferent response in the oyster toadfish, opsanus tau | Current cochlear implant devices provide limited hearing ability to the deaf through electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve. Recent studies have shown that pulsed infrared (IR) radiation can also be used to stimulate the inner ear neurons and has the potential to be used in prostheses to help ... | Biomedical Engineering | 2012-05 |
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Traction estimation and control for mobil robots using wheel slip velocity | Mobile robots are used to venture through types of environments, at low wheel speeds, where wheel slip is a threat. Wheel slip is a hazard to mobile robots in that it introduces error in dead reckoning measurement and in some instances causes the robot to halt its forward progress. To compensate ... | Robots; Motion;Traction | 2008-12 | |
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Wang, Karissa M. | Transcription factor NFATc1's signaling pathway and role in cardiomyocyte function | Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia. It affects as many as 6.1 million people in the United States and increases their risk of stroke by 4-5 times. AF is evidently a very serious condition, but the scientific community does not yet fully understand its underlying mechani... | 2020 |