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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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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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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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Poggio, Catherine Antoinette | A survey of qualitative research of experiences within women's health throughout a person's lifetime | The women's healthcare system encompasses a variety of milestone events a person could experience within their lifetime. The aim of this literature review is to describe themes, reflect upon the participant and physician relationship, and create an understanding for what happens within the realm of ... | 2021 | |
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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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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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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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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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Stukel, Cameron E. | Cognitive issues and abnormal balance following concussion: a clinical pilot study using EEG | Introduction: Concussion is a common injury across all ages and with varied causes, including car crashes, falls, combat and sports. Balance impairments are common and well-documented after concussion but less in known about what causes these impairments at the neural and kinematic level. The main a... | 2021 | |
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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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Razzouk, Jacob Anees | Does warning language impact perceptions? results from an exploratory experiment comparing English, Spanish, and Dual language E-Cigarette earning among Spanish speakers | 2021 | ||
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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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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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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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Usman, Minahil | Pediatric Oncology patients' conceptualization of cancer symptoms | Cancer treatments often involve intense and difficult procedures which can make children feel distressed while also disrupting their quality of life (Woodgate, 2008). Their ability to participate in daily activities becomes severely restricted and relationships with parents and siblings are also str... | 2023 | |
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Whitmore, Tabitha | Simultaneous measurement to human auditory nerve and brainstem potentials: efects of upward spread of excitation | Hearing sensitivity in infants and adults is often assessed by measuring brain waves in response to sound. Common neural measurements of hearing sensitivity are the compound action potential (CAP) and auditory brainstem response (ABR), which emphasize activity from neurons in the auditory nerve (AN)... | 2022 | |
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Lee, Cindie | Structured versus unstructured day: physical activity among adolescents during covid-19 | Background: Structured settings, specifically school, have been understood to promote physical activity (PA) in children. During the COVID-19 pandemic, students were required to attend school remotely, in an unstructured setting. The purpose of this study is to examine the physical activity of child... | 2022 |