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| 1 |  | "I'll always be that awkward one": How mothers and adolescents jointly construct adolescent selves in conversation | Weeks, Trisha L. T. | adolescent development; conversation; identity; maternal scaffolding; narrative construction | Identity issues are a major concern in adolescence. Self-views inform and shape identity. Self views are negotiated through conversation about life events with important others. In this study, I analyze mother-teen conversations about identity confirming and identity challenging events from 92 adole... | 2013-05 |
| 2 |  | "Making do" in the land of opportunity: an exploration of the economic integration of refugees in Utah | Young, Yvette M. | sociology; American studies | In this project, I explore the economic integration of refugees resettled in Utah. I argue that previous models of economic integration have been applied to research in a piecemeal fashion and a more comprehensive approach is warranted. To fill this gap, I outline a Holistic Model of Refugee Economi... | 2018 |
| 3 |  | (NG) in the speech of Utah teens: testing automated coding using forced alignment | Johnson, Lisa M. | Historical English pronunciation of word- final as [ng] coalesced to [ŋ] in most dialects by about 1600 (Wells 1982a, b). • This research tests the use of Montreal Forced Aligner (MFA) to identify a "velar nasal plus" (VN+) variant (e.g., [ŋg]) in the speech of a multiethnic group of Utah teens... | 2020 | |
| 4 |  | A comparative study of personal and social adjustment of American-born descendants of Greek Immigrants and of native Americans in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1950 | Prpich, Mike | Greek Americans; Utah; Salt Lake City; Greek Americans; Indians of North America | The general purpose of this study is to compare the adjustment of tow groups of people that stand at different points in the process of assimilation. | 1953 |
| 5 |  | A comparison of fixation and fractal measures of eye movement when viewing pictures with affective valence | Story, Trent Nathan | Affect; eye movement; fixations; fractals | The goal of this research was to evaluate fractal statistics as an alternative method of quantifying eye movement when viewing pictures of different affective valence. Eye movement researchers have traditionally used measures of fixations and saccade variability to differentiate viewing patterns acr... | 2016 |
| 6 |  | A comparison of Gosiute material culture and the archaeology of Western Utah | Price, Sara Sue | Gosiute Indians; Gosiute Indians; Antiquities Utah; Antiquities | In archeology and ethnology the Great Basin has been not only one of the last, but is also one o the least studied sections of the United States. Many reports in both archeology and ethnology have been presented within the past twenty years but few attempts have been made to carrelate the cultures o... | 1952 |
| 7 |  | A Comparison of mental deterioration and intellectual functioning in senescent and brain-damaged subjects | Olson, Ray Willard | Age and intelligence; Brain damage; Psychological aspects | Although the performance of brain-damaged individuals on psychological tests has a somewhat longer investigational history, the phenomena of intellectual deterioration and dysfunctioning in senescent have recently been recognized as a fruitful area of study. | 1957 |
| 8 |  | A digital atlas of Utah wilderness | Warnick, Richard Michael | Atlas; geography; GIS; public lands; Utah; wilderness | Human-environment interaction has long been a primary theme of geographic thought. Public lands policies, and particularly wilderness designations, significantly shape the natural environment in western states such as Utah. Geographic information science and the Internet are now important parts of t... | 2011-12 |
| 9 |  | A history of paleotempestology and paleoecology from the British Virgin Island | Mueller, Joshua Robert | Biology; Caribbean Studies; Climate Change; Ecology | Global climate change poses significant threats to the Caribbean islands. However, little is known about the long-term disturbance regimes in island ecosystems. This research investigates the past 2000 years of hurricane activity as well as natural and anthropogenic fire disturbance through the anal... | 2018 |
| 10 |  | A history of the Utah State Federation of Labor, 1930-1940 | Douglas, Walter McGregor | Utah State Federation of Labor; Labor unions; Utah | The first labor union in Utah the Deseret Typographical Union, , was organized on August 3, 1868, before the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. This union was the beginning of the labor movement in Utah and eventually led to the formation of the Utah state Federation of Labor on ... | 1962 |
| 11 |  | A late pleistocene to early holocene climate, vegetation and fire history record for the bonneville basin, utah, usa | Howard, Kelsey Ann | Bonneville Basin; Climate; Vegetation; Fire History; Heinrich Events; Lake Bonneville; Paleoecology; Paleo Indians | The Bonneville basin of northwestern Utah acts as a significant source of paleoenvironmental data due to the sedimentary and geomorphic evidence left behind from the late Pleistocene Lake Bonneville. Macroscopic charcoal and pollen from wetland sediments of North Redden Springs, Utah (40˚ 00' 47.1"... | 2016-05 |
| 12 |  | A macroeconomic model for determining yields on municipal bond market for states under U.S. monetary union | Raihan, Mahfuz | Macroeconomy; municipal bond; probability of default; real business cycle; State Finance | This dissertation develops a macroeconomic model of state borrowing costs for the U.S. monetary union that is founded on the real business cycle theory. The model develops supply and demand side equations for the U.S. monetary union. It shows that the spread between the borrowing cost of a state and... | 2015-12 |
| 13 |  | A multilevel analysis of China's regional inequality in a geographic information system environment | Li, Yingru | China regional development; China economic development; China socioeconomic | China's reform and transition have dramatically accelerated the socioeconomic development in the last three decades. At the same time, the unequal distributions of wealth and social resources have been intensified. China's regional inequality has attracted more attention from both policy makers and ... | 2012-05 |
| 14 |  | A multitrait-multimethod investigation of depression and disability in rheumatoid arthritis | Peck, Judith R. | Depression; Rheumatoid arthritis; disability | A multitrait-multimethod (MtMm) procedure was used to investigate the magnitude of association between disability and depression as well as the convergent and discriminant validity of the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) Disability Index and two measure of depression, the Beck Depression Invent... | 1988-12 |
| 15 |  | A new ancestral diploid species of echinocereus endemic to southwestern utah and northern arizona | Wellard, Blake H. | Cactaceae; Caryophyllales; Conservation; Diploid; Echinocereus; Morphomertics | Echinocereus relictus B. Wellard is a newly described diploid (2n=22) species that is the presumed ancestor of the tetraploid (2n=44) E. engelmaniii. Echinocereus engelmannii subsp. engelmannii represents both diploid and tetraploid cytotypes. Diploid individuals are endemic to a narrow section of s... | 2017 |
| 16 |  | A new approach to the study of sexual violence: development and psychometric properties of a preliminary multi-item research instrument assessing rape-resistant attitudes | James, Colleen Marie | Sociology; Gender studies | Sexual violence is a significant problem in the United States. Recent social and political events, such as the #MeToo movement, have brought discussions about sexual violence, victim-blaming, and predatory behavior to the fore of public dialogue in important ways. Understanding, and thus eliminating... | 2019 |
| 17 |  | A paleoecological fire and vegetation history in Southeastern Wyoming | Carter, Vachel Ashley | Fire; Paleoecology; Vegetation; Wyoming | The Medicine Bow Range of southeastern Wyoming acts as a conduit for vegetation migration from Colorado into southeastern Wyoming. Macroscopic charcoal and pollen from Long Lake, Wyoming were used to reconstruct past fire and vegetation changes in conjunction with local, regional and broad-scale cli... | 2010-08 |
| 18 |  | A paleolimnological investigation of historical environmental change in East Canyon Reservoir | Higby Halseth, Deanna Renee | East Canyon Reservoir; Paleolimnology; Remote sensing; Reservoir; Utah; Water resources | East Canyon Reservoir is located 32 km east of Salt Lake City, Utah, and serves as a resource for irrigation, culinary water, and recreation. This research used paleolimnology and historical records to investigate the impacts of multiple stressors, including land clearance, dam construction and enl... | 2011-05 |
| 19 |  | A rangeland predictive phenological model for the upper Colorado River Basin and its web delivery | Zhang, Yuan | Decision support system; Multivariate adaptive regression splines; Phenological modeling; Phenology; Remote sensing; Upper Colorado River Basin | Understanding the spatially and temporally variant phenological responses and cycles can greatly assist the administrative planning, policy making and management in grazing, planting, and ecosystem conservation. The linkages of analysis as a basis for management have received increasing attention in... | 2013-08 |
| 20 |  | A reinterpretation of certain aspects of the late quaternary glacial history of little Cottonwood Canyon, Wasatch Mountains, Utah | McCoy, William Dennis | Glacial epoch; Utah; Little Cottonwood Canyon | Holocene and late Pleistocene deposits in the cirques and at the mouths of Little Cottonwood and Bells Canyons are reexamined. Stratigraphy, radiocarbon dating, lichenometry, and relative age dating methods provide evidence for a new age interpretation of glacier and rock glacier deposits. Of the re... | 1977 |
| 21 |  | A scale of relative difficulty of skills used in physical education activities | Lambson, John B. | physical education; children; ability testing | Undoubtedly every alert physical education teacher has, at some time, wondered if his particular field of instruction were not lagging behind in the matter of student classification and measurements. | |
| 22 |  | A social survey of the negro population of Salt Lake City, Utah | Christensen, James Boyd | African Americans; Utah; Salt Lake City; Social conditions | Prior to world War II the average oitizen in Salt Lake City was not conscious of the Negroes. From the time they arrived in the Great Salt Lake Basin with the original company of Mormon colonizers in 1847 until 1941 they constituted an average of .25% of the total population of Utah. | 1948 |
| 23 |  | A sociological study of Mexican assimilation in Salt Lake City | Allen, Joseph E. | Mexicans -- Utah -- Salt Lake City; Assimilation (Sociology) | The mere act of migration does not make a foreigner into a real member of a new community or a new nation. Consciously or unconsciously one takes much of the old group to the new. He carries his nationality with him wherever he may go. He will forget it or change it only with the passing of time and... | 1947 |
| 24 |  | A sociological survey of the Murray community | Clegg, Reed K. | Murray Utah; Communities; Community life | AIMS AND PURPOSES OF THE STUDY The general purpose of this study is to make an analysis of contemporary social life In Murray, its population, its folkways and Its Institutions* It is hoped that the author has been able to portray a true picture of life in the community, SCOPE AND METHOD Most commun... | 1937-08 |
| 25 |  | A study of negro housing in Salt Lake County | Kirkham, John Spencer | African Americans, Utah; Discrimination; Civil Rights; Demographics, Utah | An essay submitted to the faculty of the University of Utah in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors Degree of Bachelor of Arts | 1968 |