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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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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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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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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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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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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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Brandt, Ellissa Kathryn | Assessment of bilateral muscle function symmetry in female alpine skiers | A recent theory for the high occurrence of ACL injuries in female athletes is the presence of asymmetric leg muscle function. Unfortunately, information relative to the bilateral muscle function for the legs of female alpine skiers is lacking. Therefore the primary aim of this project is to examine ... | Anterior Cruciate Ligament - injuries; Skiers, Female; Single leg counter movement jump - Research; Single leg time to stabilization - Research | 2012-05 |
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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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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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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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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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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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Gagon, Jordyn | Control of isolation induced aggression through activation of medial prefrontal cortex pyramidal neurons | In 2019, the surgeon general warned that social isolation was the deadliest epidemic facing society (Murthy, 2020). This has only been exacerbated as the effects of social isolation have been recently felt deeply across the globe as the world seemingly shut down in response to the novel Covid-19 pan... | 2023 | |
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Mawson, Seth | Developing sport-specific return-to-play testing protocols: incorporation of psychological assessment through self-appraisal in pilot testing for potential return-to-play protocols | 2022 | ||
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Arreguin, Jamine | The effect of mild traumatic brain injury on turning stability | Background: There are minimal studies that focus on the margin of stability (MoS) as a whole when looking at dynamic stability in gait for individuals with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Research on turning gait is important since it is common during daily life and has a high risk for falls and... | 2023 | |
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Brooks, Megan | Establishing baseline numbers for isometric back muscle endurance in the dance population | Purpose: Medical professionals can better recognize and treat injuries caused by deviation, such as back pain when normative and baseline values are determined. Dancers are often a forgotten athletic population. Researchers have yet to determine dancers' normative back and core muscle endurance valu... | 2023 | |
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Lewis, Grace | Finding a new normal: a scholarly personal narrative on resilience during the covid-19 pandemic | This thesis is a Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) that explores the study of resilience and resilience theory through anecdotes. Through a personal anecdote, the theme of resilience will be introduced followed by a general overview of the study of resilience from a historical and multidisciplinary... | 2021 | |
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Weaver, Shannon | Free Clinic Health Education Classes: an Analysis of Efficacy, Barriers, Power Dynamics, and Disparities | Part I- Power Dynamics Present in Health Education Classes at a Free Clinic Objective: The purpose of this paper is to analyze dynamics between patients, staff, and volunteers at a free clinic. Certain power dynamics within health care are inherent and beneficial, such as a provider prescribing medi... | 2017 | |
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Nagy, Jadelynn | Healthcare team members' views on social determinants of health screening and referral practices in a pediatric emergency department | Suboptimal social determinants of health (SDH) are associated with increased pediatric emergency department (PED) use. However, while SDH screening and referral are recommended in clinical guidelines and their implementation is extending to PEDs, there is limited understanding of views from PED heal... | 2023 | |
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Holden, Ella | The impacts of climate change induced droughts on smallholder farmers in Latin America and the caribbean: poverty, food insecurity and drought adaptation strategies | Extreme weather events caused by climate change have serious implications. Drought, a natural disaster, has been worsened by climate change, and has had major consequences on the agricultural industry. While many farmers can adapt to major droughts, small-scale farmers in developing countries strugg... | 2023 | |
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Paulsen, Tennille S. | The influence of body position on intra-abdominal pressure | Introduction: Pelvic floor disorders (PFDs), including urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse, are common among women. The study of PFDs has yet to be fully explored within exercise and sport science. The measurement of intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) during physical activity may help establi... | Pelvic girdle - Research; Intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) - Research | 2012-05 |
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Caine, Teah | The influence of compression on behavioral estimates of frequency resolution | This study focuses on the ability of the auditory system to decompose sounds into their individual frequency components. This "frequency resolution" is a fundamental aspect of auditory processing and is known to influence the perception of speech and other ecologically relevant stimuli. Invasive phy... | Cochlear compression - Research; Cochlea's basilar membrane | 2012-05 |
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Ramous, Caroline | Is Intact Endothelial Cell Autophagy Required for Training-Induced Vascular Adaptations? | Macroautophagy is operational during basal conditions to maintain intracellular organelle and protein quality control, but is upregulated during cellular stress (e.g., dynamic exercise) to adapt to changing nutritional and energy demands. We tested the hypothesis that intact endothelial cell (EC) au... | 2020 | |
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Schmid, Cheyenne | Joint position sense in knee osteoarthritic patients | Osteoarthritis (OA) is a slow progressing degenerative joint disease affecting approximately 10% of the United States population. The incidence of OA increases with age due to the continual loading of the knee joint throughout life and is one of the main causes of chronic pain and disability in the ... | Knee -- Diseases -- Exercise therapy; Osteoarthritis; Joint position sense | 2014-08 |
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Eike, Daniel Aaron | Nutritional Assessment of Children Ages 0 - 5 Years in Rural Punjab, India | Malnutrition is a major health risk that affects nearly 50% of children in India. The state of Punjab has been termed the "breadbasket" of India because of its massive agricultural production. Despite this, children throughout Punjab still suffer from high rates of malnutrition. The purpose of this ... | Nutrition - in infancy & childhood - Punjab | 2016-12 |