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Taggart, Maxwell M. | A novel MRI-based screening method for assessing atrio-esophageal fistula risk following cardia ablation | Atrio-esophageal fistulas affect 1 in 2000 patients who undergo cardiac ablation procedures with a mortality rate of 93%. Methods for detecting atrio-esophageal fistula formation that are objective and non-invasive could reduce the mortality associated with this disease. This study was performed ret... | Magnetic resonance imaging; Cardia ablation; Trio-esophageal fistual | 2014-12 |
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Chan, Ka Ho | A survey of exchange rate systems with focus on currency boards and on Hong Kong's experience in particular | The choice of an exchange rate regime can make or break a regional economy. While a stable currency is useful to businesses, exchange rate flexibility also has its proponents. This thesis will first describe a brief history of exchange rate systems. Then, it will provide a survey and analysis of the... | Foreign exchange rates - China - Hong Kong; Currency boards - China - Hong Kong | 2014-05 |
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Zimmerman, Danielle N. | Adherence engineering in a central line dressing change | Infections associated with Central Line Dressing Changes (CLDC) represent a significant cost in healthcare and human life, with approximately 250,000 cases a year and costs of up to $29,000 per single episode (OʼGrady et al., 2002; Shannon et al., 2006). The introduction of a kit designed in accord... | Intravenous catheterization - Complications; Bandages and bandaging | 2014-05 |
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Hardy, Clinton J. | Adolescent perception of negative admission pressures and affective reactions in outdoor behavioral healthcare | This represents the first empirical inquiry into the perception of negative admission pressures (P-NAPs; e.g., perception of force or threat associated with entering treatment) among adolescents. Prior to this report, P-NAPs had only been studied within adult treatment contexts. In this study, P-NAP... | Adventure therapy for teenagers - Psychological aspect; Teenagers - Counseling of | 2014-04 |
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Kooyman, Makaelyn | Alarm fatigue: An alarming situation | As the healthcare system of the United States continues to advance technologically, it seems that one cannot enter an intensive care unit (ICU) without being inundated with alarms from various monitors and pumps. Alarm fatigue, defined as the lack of response to an alarm due to sensory overload and... | Patient monitoring - Nursing; Monitor alarms (Medicine); Nurses - Attitudes; Medical instruments and apparatus; Alarm reaction | 2014-12 |
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Stannius, Austin Gunter | America's Jihad: The constructivist prescriptions for military strategy within the Islamic world | Since 2001, the United States of America has lead a frustrating and often complex Global War on Terror. Efforts have shown small effect in nation building and difficulty in obtaining longitudinal results from counter insurgency efforts. Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, conduct... | Operation Iraqi Freedom - United States; Operation Enduring Freedom - United States; Iraq war, 2003-2011- Afghanistan | 2014-05 |
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Williams, Savannah | American Exceptionalism and its Roles in Foreign Intervention and Culture | American exceptionalism is a multi-faceted concept with not one simple definition. These facets are not mutually exclusive, but are in fact intertwined. One facet endorses the United States as an "exceptional" nation with an equally "exceptional" story - rising from a group of British colonies to no... | | 2014 |
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Seastrand-Bachynski, Sara Jayne | An act to decrease childhood obesity rates in the U.S. | The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 was signed into law in order to address alarming childhood obesity rates in the U.S. In this paper, I address the importance of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 and how it enhances child health by improving the food environment for children in public ... | Childhood obesity - Utah | 2014-05 |
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Oman, Candace | Art's "background of flame" and the Paterian temperament of art | This thesis examines how Walter Pater uses hot and cold imagery in his descriptions to further his understanding of art, arguing that it contains both beauty and commentary, whether social, political, etc. Beginning with Studies in the History of the Renaissance, Pater associates heat with the sensu... | English | 2014-05 |
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Anjewierden, Scott | Automated kinematic analysis of pre-pluse inhibition in larval zebrafish | Animals differentially ignore or attend to sensory information depending on their immediate environment. A significant example of this phenomenon is audiomotorpre-pulse inhibition (PPI), in which the startle response to a loud noise is suppressed by a preceding stimulus of lower intensity. This a... | Zebra danio - Development; Kinematics - Research; Kinematic parameters; Swim kinematics; Pre-pulse inhibition | 2014-12 |
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Estrada, Johanna | BCR-ABL1 compound mutations combining key kinase domain positions confer clinical resistance to ponatinib in Philadelphia cromosome-positive leukemia | CML 1s caused by a random reciprocal translocation that joins the ABL1 gene on chromosome 9, with the BCR gene on chromosome 22. The result is the formation of the oncogenic BCR-ABL1 gene. This derivative chromosome is widely known as the Philadelphia Chromosome (Ph+), and it encodes a deregulated, ... | Leukemia -- Genetic aspects -- Research Leukemia -- Treatment -- Research | 2014-04 |
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Hyde, Katie M. | Bhutanese refugee women's lived reproductive health experience in Salt Lake City, Utah | This research project focused on family planning and reproductive health care access among Bhutanese refugees in Salt Lake City, Utah. Four questions guided this study: (1) What contraceptive methods do female Bhutanese refugees use to control fertility/space births? (2) What reproductive health car... | Women refugees - Utah - Salt Lake City - Health and hygiene; Women refugees - Bhutan - Health and hygiene; Reproductive health services - Utah | 2014-05 |
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Mimi Locher | The body in modern architecture: Perceptions, philosophies and design consequences in the work of Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto | This thesis explores the place of the human body in architectural design during the modern period. A brief history of using the human body as design inspiration is given, which includes a discussion on our tendencies as humans to use anthropomorphism, cognitive patterns, and our body to understand t... | Architecture - Human factors | 2014-05 |
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Jackson, Rachel | Breastfeeding and the media: race representations in formula advertisements targeting new parents | Research has shown that mediated advertisements can play a role in a woman's decision about whether or not to breastfeed her baby. Percentages of breastfeeding among African American women have been shown in national data to be significantly lower than other races in the United States. There have be... | Communication | 2014 |
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Smith, Hayden | Brown v. Board: The racial meridian: Racial segregation in the U.S. public education system before and after Brown v. Board of Education 1954 | The primary concentration of this project is an analysis of post-Brown v. Board segregation issues within the public education sphere. I focus primarily on the legal history of school desegregation in Texas as it is a Southern state with a long history of racial segregation. Furthermore, Texas effec... | Segregation in education - Texas | 2014-04 |
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Olschewski, Erin | C is for carrots, community gardens, and co-ops: A thematic analysis of the ways in which Sesame Street tackles nutrition, sustainability, and social justice | In the realm of entertainment education and media studies, there is a sizable amount of research linking children's nutrition and early educational television shows. However, there is a paucity of work that attempts to connect nutrition with sustainability and/or social justice in the context of chi... | Children's television programs -- Social aspects; Nutrition in mass media; Sesame Street (Television program); Social justice in mass media; Sustainability in mass media | 2014-12 |
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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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Greenwood, Riley Joseph | Changes in earnings distribution in Peru: 2004-2014 | This thesis explores the changes in earnings distribution among heads of household in Peru from 2004 to 2014 by applying Dinardo, Fortin, and Lemieux's methodology of counterfactual distributions and decompositions. Various measures indicate that earnings inequality among heads of household reduce... | Earnings Distribution; Inequality; Counterfactual | 2014-12 |
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Twombly, Jessica | Collaborative methods of special education and general education teachers | A growing number of students with disabilities are being served in general education classrooms. Research has shown that inclusive education programs can be as effective as pullout or self-contained special education units (Fitch, 2003). Research has also shown that co-teaching is an effective servi... | Special education; Teaching teams | 2014-04 |
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Konecny, Kassandra | Communicating walls | This thesis consists of 30 pages of poems and an essay introduction that details everything from my writing process to the meanings and/or collective themes of the poems themselves. With the combination of newly written poems and older poems I've written over the course of my college career, I have ... | American poetry - 21st century | 2014-05 |
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Meadows, Natalie | Communication is key: A critical analysis of Spanish language policies and ideologies in healthcare settings in the United States | Effective communication is a vital component in providing quality healthcare. Communication between patients and their healthcare providers has been shown to have substantial effects on health outcomes. According to the 2012 U.S Census 5% of the U.S population who identifies as Hispanic or Latino re... | Language policy - United States; Hispanic Americans - Medical care | 2014-08 |
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Gunter, Tobee Paige | Comparison of patient and provider assessments of response to therapy for psoriatic arthritis | People with psoriatic arthritis routinely rate their disease severity less favorably than their providers (Krueger, 2001) (Baughman, 2011). Little is known about how patients and providers perceive response to therapy. Discrepancies in perceptions of therapy response may indicate that providers are ... | Psoriatic arthritis; Psoriatic arthritis -- Patients -- Attitudes | 2014-12 |
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Neville, Roselyn | Constitutively activated AKT is not sufficient to keep cells alive following epithelial cell extrusion | The PI3 kinase (PI3K)/AKT signaling pathway regulates many fundamental behaviors of the cell. If any of the key members of this pathway are deregulated, it can lead to malignant changes in the cell. AKT enhances the survival of cells by inhibiting pro-apoptotic processes, and promoting pathways for ... | PI3K/AKT - Chemistry; Cancer metastasis | 2014-05 |
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Balagopal, Namisha | Consumer purchasing & behavior: A consideration of the combined influence of culture & conformity on consumer decisions | Formerly, management has been able to understand their consumers simply through the experience of selling and purchasing. However, current growth trends of various industries, firms, and world markets have removed decisions makers from having direct contact with consumers. Firms now highly depend on... | Consumer behavior | 2014-12 |
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Egan, Derek | Coordinating humanitarian operations | Humanitarian operations are critical for saving human life and mitigating financial damages. Natural disasters cause a large demand for humanitarian relief within the United States of America, and create a need for coordination between and within governmental and non-governmental organizations in or... | Humanitarian assistance - United States; Disaster relief - United States; Emergency management - United States | 2014-05 |
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Alder, Isabella | Creating community: Facilitating an engaged resettlement process for refugee status families in the Salt Lake Valley to promote greater self-reliance | There are approximately 12 million refugees in the world today and roughly 50,000 of these individuals have resettled to the Salt Lake Valley. Upon their arrival to Utah, families with refugee status are paired with one of a small number of organizations to assist them in the process of resettlemen... | Refugees -- Utah -- Salt Lake Valley Resettlement | 2014-05 |
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Ansari, Adam | Designing Polymer Coated Carbon Nanotube Detectors for Alkane Vapors | Alkane vapors are difficult to be detected in oil pipelines until a leak exceeds 1% of the total flow. Yet, an alkane leak can cause severe security, environmental, and human health problems if it is not identified or addressed. Detecting low concentrations of alkanes will lead to the detection of s... | | 2014 |
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Long, Danielle | Diabetes risk, physical activity, and the physical environment | The current exploratory study investigated the relationships among subjective and objective physical environment ratings, physical activity, and diabetes status. The basic question was whether diabetics were less physically active than non-diabetics and if this lack of physical activity was due to d... | Psychology | 2014-05 |
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Maxwell, Netanya Elise | Differentiation in elementary classrooms | In conjunction with the Utah Educational Policy Research center and under the supervision of Dr. Andrea Rorrer, this paper examines the current research surrounding differentiation in public elementary school (K-5) classrooms in the United States. This paper will seek to find a clear, singular defin... | Individualized instruction; Mixed ability grouping in education; Education; Elementary | 2014-04 |
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Moore, Kurt | Disproportionate associations between the financial crisis and firm valuation | In this thesis I assess the role of stock market valuation of publicly listed US firms through the financial and economic crisis of 2007-2011. To do so, for each firm in a large sample I apply the Rhodes-Kropf, Robinson, and Viswanathan(2005) approach to decompose the ratio of the market value of th... | Corporations -- United States -- Valuation; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 | 2014-12 |
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Markham, Airyana | Dressing the part: Early Christian identity North Africa, 100-200 CE | The study of early Christian identity in the second-third centuries is problematic. This is because there is a paucity of material evidence and assigning a religious affiliation to that evidence is highly contested. For this reason, early Christian identity is often viewed by scholars in a distinct,... | Clothing and dress -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Identification (Religion); Christian life -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 | 2014-12 |
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Prestgard-Duke, Michael | Dynamin localization in Caenorhabditis Elegans | Dynamin is a 100-KDa GTPase that is essential for endocytosis. The classic model of endocytosis is a sequential mechanism: first, cell membrane is bent and internalized via the formation of a clathrin coat; next, dynamin facilitates GTP hydrolysis, resulting in membrane scission as the newly formed ... | Caenorhabditis elegans; Guanosine triphosphatase; Endocytosis | 2014-05 |
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Tang, Nicolas | El Argenchino: A personal memoir | This personal memoir follows the life of Nicolas Tang, a 25 year old student at the University of Utah. Though still very young, Nicolas has already traveled much of the world and speaks fluently in three languages. He was born in Argentina, raised in Bolivia, and is of Chinese heritage. Recently, h... | Tang, Nicolas Immigrants -- United States -- Biography Chinese Americans -- Biography South Americans -- United States | 2014-12 |
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Ruan, Ting | Endogenous ceramide contributes to cardiovascular complications in Type II diabetes by decreasing the association between PP2A and I2PP2A | Cardiovascular complications are the leading cause of death in individuals with conditions associated with insulin resistance, e.g. type 2 diabetes, diet-induced obesity. In patients with type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular complications are 2-4 times more prevalent. One common cardiovascular complicati... | Ceramides - Physiological effect; Diabetic angiopathies | 2014 |
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Lipman, Joshua | Environmental ethics in the Book of Mormon | Current LDS environmental theology, championed by George Handley, includes critiques of Mormon pioneer history, analyses of the Doctrine of Covenants (the LDS book of laws), and LDS influenced nature writing such as the work of Terry Tempest-Williams. However the lack of ecological thought dedicated... | Book of Mormon - Criticism, interpretation, etc | 2014-12 |
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Velarde, Valerie | The exchange of sexually explicit cell phone pictures (sexting) among high school students | The sending, receiving, and forwarding of sexually explicit pictures via cell phone, a relatively recent phenomenon known as sexting, has recently received substantial media attention, including reports of serious consequences for some of those engaged in sexting (e.g., suicidal ideations, sex offen... | Sexting; Adolescents; Social media | 2014-05 |
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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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Cox, Mitchell | Exploring exercise adherence: the impact of exercise intensity and variability on affect during exercise | Physical exercise increases affect, and increased affect is associated with greater adherence to exercise. Group exercise is a popular form of exercise, yet little is known regarding the impact of exercise intensity and variability on during-exercise affect. Furthermore, little is known regarding th... | Psychology | 2014-04 |
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Garcia, Anthony D. | Exploring galactic chemical abundance of phosphorus in the ultra-violet with HST | Ultra violet observed spectral data taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) are made available to the public. These data sets have been extracted into one-dimensional and flux-calibrated spectral data, and are ready for analysis. We have normalized the extracted spectra with a Planck black body cu... | Milky Way - Phosphorus content | 2014-05 |
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Blanton, Natalie | Female inmate sexual health literacy and disparities in the Salt Lake County jail | The rates of women interacting with the criminal justice system are increasing steadily yet little is known about the experiences of these women within the system as well as the latent effects that follow them throughout their lives. With a sociological perspective, one comes to understand the imm... | Incarcerated women; Sexual health; Reproductive health; Contraception; Women's experiences; Health literacy | 2014-05 |
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Longino, Erika | Field guide for the inquisitive urban ecologist | This thesis consists of an independent mixed-media publication, or zine, which explores five specific case studies that demonstrate urban ecology. These projects exemplify urban ecological thinking and can be used as a field guide to understanding the urban landscape in Salt Lake City, Utah. These ... | Urban ecology (Sociology); City planning - Environmental aspects | 2014-12 |
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Kirby, Kaltin | Finding a character | My thesis revolves around the idea of creating a character. There have been countless theatre practitioners and theorists Stanislvasky to Meisner who have tried to develop the "best way" to create a character. This project centers around my personal process to create a character based on my traini... | Acting | 2014-05 |
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Jochim, Jordan | Forging a truce, forcing an encounter: James Baldwin and the paradox of injury | In States of Injury, Wendy Brown argues that emancipatory projects premised upon the "injured identity" of oppressed groups work inadvertently to solidify hierarchical social structures and generates forms of resentment that are ultimately self-defeating. As such, she urges the abandonment of injure... | Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 - Criticism and interpretation; Political science - Philosophy; Power (Social science) | 2014-05 |
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Barton, Dylan Okechukwu | Friends in all the wrong places? gang involvement and the relevance of attachment theory | Gang involvement and gang activity are serious problems in the U.S. While the societal cost of gang activity is undisputed, there are mounting concerns for gang members themselves who suffer greater risk for adverse life events and personal victimization than their non-gang involved peers (Krohn et ... | Gang members - Psychology; Attachment behavior in adolsescence | 2014-05 |
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Borrowman, William | Gas exchange of co-occurring plant species of the Great Basin Desert in an irrigated common garden | The majority of plants in the Great Basin ecosystem have adapted to cope with drought during summer. While general characteristics of these plants have been studied in non-managed environments it is important to investigate the physiology of these plants when additional water is supplied. In this ... | Urban heat island -- Prevention; Desert plants -- Ecology -- Great Basin -- Research; Plant ecophysiology -- Research; Irrigation -- Environmental aspects; Red Butte Garden (Salt Lake City, Utah) | 2014-04 |
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Potter, Brianna | Graphene Imaging and Electronic Properties | This thesis explores the process required to determine the near-field photocurrent of single- and multi-layered graphene. The experimental procedures for both imaging the graphene as well as collecting data for the near-field photocurrent are described. The imaging and data collection were both to b... | | 2014 |
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Manwill, Emmylou | Grassroots yet global: the Idle No More indigenous movement in twenty-first century Canada | The focus of this thesis is the indigenous sovereignty and land rights movement, selfidentified as the "Idle No More movement" (INM), that began in opposition to federal Canadian policies in December 2012. While Canadian natives have organized in resistance before, the INM movement sticks out compar... | Idle No More (Movement); Protest movements - Canada; Indigenous peoples - Canada | 2014-05 |
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Myrick, Trevor | The horror of sexual violence: The representations of rape in American horror story | This thesis looks at the representation of rape in American Horror Story, considering its formal and narrative construction alongside critical responses, drawing attention to both innovative and stereotypical aspects of its function within the series. While the series generally revels in representin... | Art/Art History | 2014-05 |
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Lee, Angela | How Creative Movement Practices, Such as Storytelling and Personal Narrative, Act as a Medium for People with Disabilities to Understand and Express Identity | After experiencing a multitude of various special needs programs (ranging from dance to climbing to personal training) in the surrounding Salt Lake City area, I found a focus on the interaction between special education and dance. Specifically, I turned to Tanner Dance to participate and assist in t... | | 2014 |
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Hanley, Grace | How engaging in mind-focused or body-focused Eastern practices affects the way people narrate challenging events | Yoga and meditation could influence how individuals mentally process and narrate their difficult experiences from the past. Specifically, such practices could result in increased exploration, growth, and positive resolution in narratives, compared to neutral conditions. Past researchers have employe... | Narration (Rhetoric) - Psychological aspects; Mediation - Therapeutic use; Yoga - Therapeutic use | 2014-05 |
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Jin, Zhao | How is the company's stock risk associated with its demand elasticity? | I examine a sample of 20 companies to see if individual total stock risk is associated with its product or service demand elasticity. My evidence is consistent with my first hypothesis that elastic firms' stock prices are more strongly affected by the changes in the input cost than are inelastic fir... | Elasticity (Economics); Risk; Stocks; Stock risk | 2014-05 |
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Yazzie, Rose | How to effectively align the Utah Effective Teaching Standards with American Indian values : a first step for elementary school teachers | Many times we find that American Indian students are disengaged in their K-12 education and classroom practices can conflict with their culture. This disconnect between value structures can make it difficult to navigate the educational pipeline leading to low college enrollment and attrition. This p... | American Indian education - Utah | 2014-04 |
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Steadham, Angela | Human trafficking in Utah, America and the world | To define human trafficking is to describe one of the most inhumane crimes in daily practice. It is modern day slavery. Human Trafficking is the recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring, and receipt of persons by coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or force to exploit them. The ... | Human trafficking - United States | 2014-07 |
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Weaver, Bradley | Hypoxia and the mesenchymal transition in glioma | Recent advances in targeted therapy for cancer have had little influence on survival for patients diagnosed with Glioblastoma (GBM, WHO Grade IV tumors), and median survival time remains stagnant at 12-15 months post diagnosis. Genomic profiling of GBM indicates clear phenotypic subsets of these tum... | Glioblastoma multiforme; Gliomas; Hypoxia; Mesenchymal transition | 2014-04 |
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Wang, Wenyi | Imaging in a homogeneous aluminum plate by using ultrasonic waves | This project is about detecting and imaging damage (such as cracks) in a plate by using ultrasonic waves. The waves are generated by a source (an ultrasonic transducer) that is part of a robot that can move on the plate. The waves traveling in the plate are recorded at a receiver (another ultrasonic... | Ultrasonic transducer - Mathematics; Kirchoff migration - Research | 2014-12 |
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Cohen, Susan | In search of visual privacy in a technological world | Americans value a "right to privacy" even though that right is not spelled out in the Constitution, and only loosely defined in a patchwork of federal and state laws. Much of our understanding of privacy is rooted in the Fourth Amendment, but when the First Congress wrote the Fourth Amendment, no on... | Privacy, Right of - United States; Electronic surveillance - United States | 2014-05 |
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Gardner, Kelly | Individual differences in inhibition and emotion | The objective of this study was to examine if negative emotion can play an influential role on inhibition through attentional control. Higher levels of working memory capacity (WMC) have been correlated with faster inhibition times attributed to greater tolerance of automatic processes and better... | Emotion | 2014-12 |
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Goodman, Angela | The influence of interpersonal relationships and mindfulness on sleep quality | The distress of not getting restful, restorative sleep can have damaging effects on interpersonal relationships, and stressful relationships can, in turn, disturb sleep. The associations between sleep and interpersonal functioning are not well understood. In addition, the literature on individual di... | Sleep - Psychological aspects; Sleep - Social aspects; Interpersonal relations; Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy | 2014-05 |
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Immonen, Jacob | Integrating Smartphone Technology in Chemical Engineering Research, Education, and Outreach | Since smartphones are such a widely used and popular technology in modern times it makes sense to integrate a technology that is easily accessible and incredibly useful into chemical engineering research, education and outreach. Upon completion of this project two Android applications (apps) have be... | | 2014 |
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Matyi, Joshua Matthew | Intelligence and neural activation : a test of the relationship between the neural efficiency hypothesis and repetition suppression | The Neural Efficiency Hypothesis (NEH) states that individuals with higher measured intelligence exhibit less neural activation on relatively simple tasks compared to those with lower intelligence (Haier et al., 1988). Furthermore, this phenomenon may interact with repetition suppression, or the red... | Intelligence levels - Physiological aspects; Neural networks (Neurobiology) | 2014-05 |
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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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Tran, Amy | Investigating the strategic patterns in LBO funds | In the mid-2000s, public-to-private transactions reappeared when the United States experienced a second leveraged buyout boom. Most sponsors are paid a management fee of 2% on the fund's capital and receive a carried interest of 20% of the profits realized by the fund. Two literature reviews serve a... | Leveraged buyouts--United States--Finance | 2014-08 |
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Rush, Jacob | Is it not just for me to do what i will with mine own? Redressing the egalitarian's pareto dilemma | In this paper, I consider one justification for people's sincere, daily choices - G.A. Cohen's ethos of justice - that seeks to (a) discourage people from demanding incentives for choosing highly productive lines of work and (b) motivate them to do choose the most socially useful occupation. Cohen f... | Pareto dilemma | 2014-05 |
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Ehmann, Kylee | Jane Austen's realism revisited: Pride & Prejudice, Emma and Sanditon in the digital age | There are hundreds of film, television and book adaptations of Jane Austen's novels in the world, all different retellings and interpretations of the original source texts. And while these adaptations' quality is typically judged based on its fidelity to the original novels, this value judgement on... | Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 - Criticism and interpretation | 2014-12 |
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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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Norris, Garrett | Kanji education for non-Chinese character background language learners: bone oracle script and Shirakawa kanji science | The logographic writing system used in Japanese and Chinese, known as kanji or hanzi /H ^ respectively, is a source of both fascination and frustration for students faced with learning the thousands of characters necessary for literacy in either of these Asian languages. This is often compounded by ... | Kanji - education | 2014-05 |
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Rush, Jacob | The Kantian concept of the person, rationality and Socrates' death | In this paper, I consider Socrates' death sentence in The Apology and his choice to accept his death sentence in The Crito. I structure his choice in a Kantian manner. First, I argue that Socrates has a duty to himself, as a rational agent, to (a) act as a promisekeeping individual and (b) perform t... | Socrates - Death and burial; Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1824 - Ethics | 2014-05 |
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Haxhiu, Elird | The labor market implications of unification between Albania and Kosovo | This paper estimates the impact that political unification between the currently independent states of Albania and Kosovo would have on the labor markets in each country. Specifically, it analyzes and quantifies by analogy the propensity of workers in Kosovo to migrate to Albania seeking employment ... | Albania - Economic conditions; Kosovo (Republic) - Economic conditions | 2014-04 |
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Wallace, Joshua J. | Lyman-alpha emission as a probe of galaxy environments | As a result of resonant scatterings off hydrogen atoms, Lya emission from star-forming galaxies provides a potential probe of the neutral gas environment around them. In order to determine the utility of Lya emission as a probe of gas environments we study the effects of environmental anisotropy on ... | Galaxies - Spectra | 2014-05 |
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Eldredge, Nicolle | Maternal stress and the Development of infant regulatory processes | When mother-infant dyads engage in an effective form of communication, one where mother and infant both play an active role, the infant gains an understanding for the emotions that they feel. However, acute stress exposure may challenge the dyad's ability to effectively self-regulate prior to and fo... | | 2014 |
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Spendlove, Natalie | Mitochondrial genetic variation among howler monkeys | By studying genetic variation of some of primates, researchers can more closely study the effects of deforestation and fragmentation. For this study, mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) are the primates of choice. The samples used in this study were collected by researchers doing fieldwork in... | Anthropology; Howler monkeys; Genetics | 2014-12 |
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Endow, Danielle Miyako | Modern representation of female protagonists in media: An exploration of identity | Coming from the perspective of a woman living in Utah, I have explored what it means to be an ambitious, yet lost individual in today's media. Over the course of one year I wrote a full-length screenplay that follows the journey of a woman who loses her sense of self and must find her way back by te... | Screenplay writing | 2014-12 |
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Jenson, Donovon | No low hanging fruits: salient factors for good nutrition by socioeconomic status | In recent years increasing obesity rates have become a major concern in the United States. Statistics show socioeconomic status plays a big role in obesity outcomes, with those of lower SES more likely to be obese. Although exercise and stress have also been shown as important contributors to obesit... | Obesity - United States | 2014-04 |
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Fullmer, Alexander T. | Optimization of gamma/hadron separation under variable source intensities and energy spectra | The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory consists of an array of water Cherenkov tanks that can detect extensive air showers (EAS) generated by astrophysical cosmic rays and gamma rays. One of the greatest challenges in using the HAWC observatory to search for astrophysical gam... | Gamma ra sources - Observations; Cosmic rays - Observations; Gamma ray astronomy - Research | 2014-05 |
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Veenema, Arthur | The original: A process of producing a short film | The thematic goal of my short film The Original was to explore the blurred nature between reality and artificiality that arises from emerging technology. The Original questions an individual's place amongst the simulated realities that have come to compose our world. The concepts behind my script we... | Motion pictures -- Production and direction | 2014-12 |
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Hales, Laurel | Physics show and tell and elementary science education | It is a well-known fact that American children are performing below their peers in international science and mathematics examinations, leading to what is commonly called the STEM education crisis. This project was created in an attempt to resolve this crisis by improving elementary school science ed... | Science - Study and teaching (Elementary) - United States | 2014-05 |
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Radhakrishnan, Parvathi | PI3K inhibitors as potential new therapy against breast cancer progression | Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) and their pleiotropic effectors play key roles in metastasis. Met and Ron are RTKs that have been shown to contribute to tumor growth and metastasis in both animal models and in patients. Recently, an alternative Ron isoform known as "short-form" Ron (sfRon) was asso... | Breast - Cancer - Treatment - Research; Protein - tyrosine kinase - inhibitors - Therapeutic use; Enzyme inhibitors - Therapeutic use. - Research; Biology - Research | 2014-05 |
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Mizero, Daniel | The political and regulatory challenges of effectively implementing an international accounting system | These are pivotal times in accounting history. Globalization, world trade and financial market integration have given international accounting standards increased relevance and priority. The possibility of worldwide use of a single set of international accounting standards could provide tremendous v... | International accounting standard | 2014-07 |
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Burns, Henrik | The political economy of international terms of trade and agricultural sustainability: The case of Cuba | For this thesis project I investigated the relationship between international terms of trade and agricultural sustainability for the case of Cuba. To understand the effect of trade relations on agricultural policy I explored Cuba's relationship with the Soviet Union, its largest trading partner betw... | Trade regulation - Cuba; Agriculture and state - Cuba; Cuba - Commerce | 2014-05 |
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Silver, Michelle Anne | Pre-sleep arousal in healthy adults reporting childhood trauma: implications for the development of insomnia | Childhood trauma is associated with increased mental and physical illness in adulthood. Disrupted sleep may be one mechanism by which trauma adversely affects health. Current literature states that sleep is essential in restoration of cognitive functioning and stress regulation. In addition, insomni... | Insomnia; Childhood trauma | 2014-04 |
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Richins, Luke | Preventing corporate fraud | This thesis is written with the purpose of exploring employee's perception of the effect of different methods of corporate fraud prevention on their own behavior. To accomplish this, this paper will explore the definition of fraud, potential prevention methods, and analyze data retrieved from a surv... | Corporations - Corrupt practices - Prevention; Fraud - Prevention | 2014-04 |
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Reiser, Alexander | Providing healthcare for the uninsured: How the media frames conflicting ideologies in achieving the same goal | Current coverage of the Affordable Care Act (AC A) is just one opportunity to analyze the use of media in framing health care policy. An examination of the history of media and their influence surrounding the implementation of the AC A in 2013 and a veto for additional funding of the State Children'... | Medical policy - United States; Medically uninsured persons - United States; Healthcare in mass media | 2014-08 |
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Parkinson, Angela Lei | Proving woman: From Heloise to Heloisian an examination of the authenticity debate surrounding the letters of Heloise of the Paraclete | This thesis examines and resists the tendency for a total subsumption of the identity of Heloise of the Paraclete, the 12th century abbess perhaps best known today for her tempestuous affair with Peter Abelard, within and under his identity. The authenticity debate surrounding the three letters addr... | Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164 -- Criticism and interpretation | 2014-11 |
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Saperstein, Elizabeth | Punctuated equilibrium and the Patriot Act 2001 | An all-encompassing theory to describe the policy-making process in modern political systems has yet to be determined. Therefore, no theory currently exists that uncontestably predicts future policy outcomes. In an attempt to describe the policy process and account for the process as one that fluctu... | Patriot Act (U.S.); Punctuated equilibrium (Evolution) | 2014-08 |
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Yoo, Chaekyung | Purification and physical characterization of intrinsically disordered lea protein from arabidopsis thaliana | For many decades, it was assumed that protein function was dependent on the ability of polypeptides to fold into stable three-dimensional structures specified by their amino acid sequences. But since about 2000, it has become apparent that there are functional proteins, or portions of proteins, that... | Intrinsically disordered proteins | 2014-08 |
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Thompson, Patrick C. | Redesigning communities: The case for utopias | This thesis studies the importance of Utopian city planning in attempting to transform our communities and solve the social issues faced throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries. Idealist city plans originated as a genre of literature dating back to the 16th Century, playing a vital social role throug... | Utopias -- United States City planning -- United States | 2014-05 |
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Bingham, Kouver | Reflection groups and coxeter groups | In this paper we give a survey of the theory of Coxeter Groups and Reflection groups. This survey will give an undergraduate reader a full picture of Coxeter Group theory, and will lean slightly heavily on the side of showing examples, although the course of discussion will be based on theory. We'll... | Finite groups | 2014-07 |
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Grahmann, Bridget N. | Refugee use of the women, infants and children program | This study examines the experience refugee families have with the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program, and attempts to identify the difficulties they have in order to make suggestions that might result in more efficient use of the WIC program among the refugee population. Thirty women enrolled... | Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (U.S.); Women refugees -- United States; Women refugees -- Food | 2014 |
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Chon, Douk | Role of the trait neuroticism in stress processes and a possible link to cardiovascular disease | The dispositional approach to an individual's personality is well accepted throughout psychology, and neuroticism is one of the primary traits in this approach. Studies show that "persons high in neuroticism are self- critical and sensitive to the criticism of others" (Lahey, 2009, p.241).Neuroticis... | Neuroticism - Health aspects; Cardiovascular system - Diseases - Psychological aspects | 2014-04 |
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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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Streng, Tara Kay | Sexual assault within the American university system: A review of policies, student perspectives, and recommendations | Part I - University Sexual Assault Policy Analysis and Recommendations Objective: Sexual violence within the collegiate environment is a pressing issue within American society. One way to address sexual violence is through the adaptation and implementation of a sexual assault policy by colleges and ... | Sex crimes - United States; College students - Crimes against - United States | 2014-12 |
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Neofitos, Evangelos | Solid timber: emerging construction methods and materials | Today, more than ever, the construction industry, the architecture industry, and our environment is in dire need of renewable materials. Out of the multitude of standardized materials within the building industry, wood is the most sustainable. This research focuses on the evaluation of cross-laminat... | Building, Wooden - Design and construction; Laminated wood construction | 2014-05 |
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Vlasic, Kajsa | Storytelling and the patient experience: Narratives of breast cancer survivors | Through my young life, I have been fortunate enough to be surrounded and supported by a loving and extended family of mothers. Although I will only have one biological mom, I have collected other women as role models and confidantes who have guided and spoken words of encouragement through my most i... | Breast cancer patients' writings | 2014-12 |
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Farrall, Nicholas | Structural characterization of the full-length exocyst complex by transmission electron cryo-microscopy | The exocyst is a conserved octameric protein complex in eukaryotes that is essential for tethering and fusion of vesicles to the plasma membrane. Composed of eight subunits, it is essential for growth, secretion, and developmental processes and has been implicated in cell motility, autophagy, cell d... | Saccaromyces cerevisaie - Cytology; Cryomiscroscopy - Research | 2014-05 |
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Watkins, Ryan Davis | Suppression of lymphangiogenesis using VEGF-C trap | The lymphatic system is responsible for controlling systemic fluid buildup. Lymphangiogenesis is a dynamic process involving sprouting, and maintaining new lymphatic vasculature. Vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) is as a key growth factor that induces lymphangiogenesis by binding VEGF re... | Lymphatics - Growth; Vascular endothelial growth factors - Antagonists; Lymphangiogenesis; VEGF-C trap | 2014-05 |
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Sanchez, Eliana C. | Surgery or mutilation?: How autonomy can strengthen the anti-FGM movement | The World Health Organization (WHO) defines female genital mutilation as any alteration to the female external genitalia or genital organs for nonmedical reasons. This definition is both over- and under-inclusive. Western cosmetic surgeries, such as vaginal rejuvenation, are technically included in ... | Female genital mutilation | 2014-05 |
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Schwendiman, Lindsai Gren | Surrogacy and sisterhood: How female alliances challenge patriarchal society in Shakespeare | In Shakespeare's plays, women sometimes form alliances to protect each other from the oppressive patriarchal expectations of their time. These relationships often manifest as surrogate mother-daughter relationships, or a more sisterly connection. In Hamlet, Queen Gertrude adopts Ophelia as a surroga... | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women; Women in literature; Patriarchy in literature | 2014-12 |
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Atalaya, Candelaria | Time and light souvenirs | I was a young photography student in my home country of Peru when I built my first Pinhole camera as one of the many school assignments, and long before I came to United States. For my very first picture, I placed the Pinhole camera on the school patio the elements of the composition for the project... | Photography, Pinhole; Photography, Artistic | 2014-12 |
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Harrell, Haylee | To whom it may concern: a one act | What am I? My child you are caramel. You are white sugar, you are brown sugar, you are milk and butter and vanilla all heated into one. Sweet on the lips but strong and sticky-you are a treat, you are a gift, my child you are a decadence. But they call me mulatto…Mama don't like that word, best no... | American drama - 21st century | 2014-05 |
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Schwartz, Maisie | Travel in dance education: what's the pointe? | The purpose of my project was to examine the benefits of travel in dance education to determine if international travel is something the University of Utah Department of Ballet should continue to support The funding and allowance of training and performance-based travel abroad has long been a point ... | Dance - Study and teaching; Travel - Philosophy | 2014-05 |
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Bennion, David | Validation of force pedals for bilateral strength asymmetry testing | Over 125,000 anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgeries are performed each year in the United States. Rates of re-injury to the reconstructed ACL or contralateral ACL up to 49% have been reported in certain populations. Altered biomechanics-including bilateral asymmetry in knee extensor st... | Anterior Cruciate Ligament - Surgery; Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction - methods | 2014-12 |
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Oman, Candace | Who you gonna call?: Domestic responses to the threat of nuclear terrorism | The World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001 demonstrated the threat of terrorism in the twenty-first century-and made the prevention of nuclear terrorism all the more pressing. Despite the newfound attention to nuclear terrorism, the possibility of nuclear attacks, and, later, nuclear terro... | History | 2014-05 |
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Belgard, Sena | Why volunteer? Perspectives from college students | In present day America, college students have many demands on their time, including classes, family obligations, and work. New theories from the field of developmental psychology indicate changes in the length and timing of the transition from adolescence to adulthood, and have proposed a new develo... | Young volunteers - Utah; Volunteers - Utah | 2014-05 |
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Bertelsen, Brandon | Word of the wild | Many people value and experience what the natural world has to offer and many people do not. The opportunities that exist outdoors include recreation, education, development, and therapy. Everything I do, school, work, volunteer, and play, is to better provide outdoor experiences for people of all... | Outdoor life - Psychological aspects | 2014-12 |
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Edson, Shauna | Writing center programming inside out | Writing Center programs serving refugee, sexual minority and other underserved populations are expanding but there is little evidence to support their effectiveness. The purpose of this research is to examine the effectiveness of writing center programs and determine the populations utilizing writin... | Writing centers - United States - Research - Methodology | 2014-08 |
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Russell, Curtis | The Zion curtain: A documentary play | The Zion Curtain is a documentary play about the collision of ideology and civil rights, using the words of real people to trace the roots and show the effects of reactionary, homophobic doctrines in the Mormon Church. Every "um," "uh," and pause is performed as spoken in original interviews by the ... | Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Latter Day Saint churches; Mormon gays | 2014-04 |