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Groneman, Amanda | Educational Programming: A Coping and Distraction Trchnique in Pediatric Hospital Settings | The experience of hospitalization is a unique and typically difficult experience for most children. Many children's hospitals strive to provide various services to help children cope with the difficult emotions and distract them from the pain they may be feeling. In addition to Child Life Interventi... | | 2018 |
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Fronberg, Erik | Contextualizing emergency powers and climate crisis in liberal democracies | This thesis develops a theoretical framework for and responds to concerns regarding the use of emergency powers to combat climate change in liberal democracies. Consensus in the scientific community maintains that the window for acting to mitigate the worst effects of climate change is rapidly narro... | | 2022 |
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Murray, Clint | Keynes as theorist and investor | There is an abundance of literature that extensively explicates how various factors, notably probability theory, influenced John Maynard Keynes's thinking and economic theories in regards to the behavior of financial markets and the agents making decisions in those markets. Commentators, however, ha... | Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946 - Criticism and interpretation | 2016-04 |
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Roberts, Jordan | Parity and primacy in perspective : a second Anglophone decline or a second American century? | Much of the systemic theory in international relations focuses on a single explanatory variable: the distribution of capabilities, widely understood to be synonymous with the distribution of power. Despite the significant attention given to the distribution of power, there is still fundamental disag... | Balance of power - Research; International relations - Research; Great Britain - Foreign relations - 19th century; United States - Foreign relations - 21st century | 2013-05 |
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Thistle, Hanna Rose | Comparing traditional western & nontraditional holistic medicine: an integrative approach to health & wellness | | | 2020 |
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Dorsey, Bridget Forsha | Healthcare provider bias in estimating the health literacy of parents in a pediatric emergency department | Health literacy, defined as an individual's capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions, is a growing concern due to its significant effect on clinical communication and health outcomes. One aspect of this clinic... | | 2020 |
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Rios, Salma Angelica | Police response to intimate partner violence in communities of color | Intimate partner violence (IPV) and domestic violence are criminal and health crises in the United States that need to be treated and taken seriously. Although men can be victims of IPV, women constitute most victims. IPV is nothing new. However, what is new is that our societal ideas have shifted, ... | Intimate partner violence (IPV); police response; women of color | 2022 |
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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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Dean, Emma | The Effects of maternal resilience on newborn neurobehavioral outcomes | There is growing evidence that exposure to prenatal maternal stress may adversely affect fetal neurodevelopment by altering the fetal environment. In this study, we investigated whether maternal resilience can act as a moderator of the negative effects of maternal stress on newborn neurobehavioral o... | | 2020 |
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Willis, Brendan M. | Investigating the mediational role of meaning making in the association between moral injury and well-being | Most people at some point in their lives will encounter a situation where they witness, perpetrate, or fail to stop an action that seriously violates their moral beliefs, events that have recently been termed moral injuries. Litz and colleagues (2009) proposed a theoretical framework that suggests s... | Ethics - Psychological aspects; Mental health - Moral and ethical aspects | 2014-05 |
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Howard, Kathryn | Religious trauma effects on LGBTQ+ individuals in the LDS context religious trauma effects on LGBTQ+ individuals in the LDS context | In recent years, there has been more discussion around the trauma and trauma responses that come from being a queer individual (one who identifies with members of the LGBTQIA+ community) inside a high-demand religion that does not affirm existence or behaviors of LGBTQ+ individuals. Emerging literat... | | 2023 |
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Sánchez, Alexander Alberto | Reexamining global drug eradication policies: A systemic analysis of their ecological and societal effects in Mexico, Colombia and Afghanistan | Since 1961, the U.N. Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs has continued to be the overarching treaty that has been followed and enforced, as a prohibitionist international drug control model. By conducting a systematic review of primary and secondary sources, this paper demonstrates how U.N. establis... | Drug control -- Mexico; Drug control -- Colombia; Drug control -- Afghanistan | 2015-04 |
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Woolf, Katie | There's Something About Syria: Using Foreign Military Intervention in the Syrian Civil War to Assess Predictabilityin International Relations | This paper utilizes three strands of International Relations (IR) theory: realism, constructivism, and leadership theory to inform the actions of the United States and Russia in their intervention in the Syrian Civil War. First, a brief overview of the case is presented along with a review of the th... | | 2020 |
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Leibold, Katherine I. | The Electability of Atheists in the United States | Atheists are severely underrepresented in United States public offices. This underrepresentation is obvious when evaluating the religious affiliation of our elected officials in Congress in contrast to the religious affiliations of the general public. The underrepresentation of atheists in Congress ... | | 2018 |
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Matlock, Sara | Should we resurrect the glass-steagall act? | Banking regulations have been a hot topic on both sides of the aisle in every election cycle since 2010. Americans can expect the debate to continue in the upcoming midterms and again in the next presidential election. Minor changes in banking regulations may not make much of a difference in the liv... | | 2022 |
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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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Fine, Keli | Executive functioning and grade point average in college students | Research has demonstrated a positive correlation between Executive Functioning (EF) and Grade Point Average (GPA; Duckworth, Tsukayama, & May, 2010; Latzman, Elkovitch, Young, & Clark, 2010; Knouse, Feldman, & Blevins, 2014). However, previous studies have failed to give a comprehensive view of all ... | Executive functions (Neuropsychology); Academic achievement | 2014-12 |
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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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Choi, Andrew Young | The transnational marriage migration subjectivities of Filipina wives in Gwangju, South Korea | "Marriage migration" of "foreign brides" Into South Korea (henceforth Korea) has recently gained scholarly attention (e.g., Belanger et al., 2010). For blue-collar men, the changing status of women has lessened the availability of marriageable Korean women. This social decoupling has various labels,... | Intermarriage - Philippines; Intermarriage - Korea (South) - Kwangju-si; Filipinos - Korea (South) - Kwangu-si; Kwangju-si (Chŏlla-namdo, Korea) - Social conditions | 2012-05 |
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Jowers, Kaitlin | President Vladimir Putin and the Mask of Patriotism | With the current poor economic situation in Russia, Putin seems less keen on diversifying the economy than expanding Russia's influence worldwide. Indeed, while it would make sense in most countries to focus inward during domestic crises, Putin continually pushes Russia's resources, and focus, out, ... | | 2016 |
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Ahlstrom, Aubrey | The Effect of Religion on Adolescent Development | Religion is something many people deeply value; the United States is even built on the right of free religion. The Pew Research Center estimates that only about 15.8% of Americans lack some sort of religious affiliation (2018). According to the same study, about 73% of Utahns are Christians, with 55... | | 2019 |
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Tonks, Jacob | Politics without character: Liberal virtues and the situationist critique | A critique of virtue ethics has recently been raised by social psychologists who believe experimental psychology has all but proved the non-existence of character. In morally compromising situations, external situational factors have the greatest influence on choice, and therefore virtue as a stable... | Situation ethics; Virtue Choice (Psychology); Autonomy (Philosophy) | 2015-05 |
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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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Hoffman, Haley, Coleman, James; Turrill, Jonna; Medeiros-Ward, Nate; Strayer, David | The effect of technology use on distraction and safety in high school student pedestrians | The use of handheld technology in this country has grown at an exponential rate, and as a consequence younger generations are using these devices, often without the necessary precautions. Past research has shown that technology use presents an obvious distraction to drivers and pedestrians and poses... | Technology - Safety measures; Adolescent behavior | 2012-05 |
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Parnell, Alycia M. | Finding home: discovering place in a changing world | In spring of 2010, I took a class called Global Environmental Issues from a professor in the biology department named Fred Montague, who had achieved a somewhat legendary status as a lecturer. He taught us science, the grim outlook of the environment, and the convoluted policies working against chan... | | 2012-08 |