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Martin, Kaylee N. | Student domain interest and its impact on systems thinking in General Education | There have not been many empirical investigations into the benefits of various specialized general education pathways offered by colleges and universities. This study will investigate systems thinking outcomes related to environment and health fields from programs specifically offered by the Univers... | | 2022 |
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Flores, Ashley | Survey of pediatric audiologist on their use of loudness perception measures | The goal of hearing aid fitting is to ensure that low-level sounds are audible, average-level sounds are comfortable, and more intense sounds are loud but not too loud. The uncomfortable loudness level (UCL) threshold helps define the patient's dynamic range, which is used during device fitting. A 2... | | 2021 |
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Kiel, Drew | How branding influences our willingness to pay for necessity products | Though marketing has existed in one manner or another for the duration of human history, the field has only seen strong development since the beginning of the 20th century. Marketing is now an inescapable part of everyday life and companies across every industry advertise of to us as potential custo... | | 2021 |
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Martin, Isaac | A result concerning the F-Signature and the torsion divisors of strongly F-Regular singularities | Polstra showed that the cardinality of the torsion subgroup of the divisor class group of a local strongly F-regular ring is finite. In this thesis, we first provide an expository introduction to the field of F-singularities before improving upon Polstra's result by proving that the reciprocal of th... | | 2021 |
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Reiss, Elizabeth | Digital Marketing in the 21st Century: the Evolution of the Department of Marketing at the University of Utah | The world of marketing has transformed significantly over the last few decades. Specifically, digital marketing has completely changed the industry in the 21st century. Digital marketing can be explained as "the marketing of products or services using digital technologies, mainly on the Internet, bu... | | 2018 |
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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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Brown, Audrey | Analyzing response patterns of olfactory bulb glomeruli at low odorant concentration regimes | Sensory input to the olfactory system begins with the binding of an odorant molecule to an olfactory receptor (OR) contained on the surface of an olfactory sensory neuron (OSN). Olfactory bulb (OB) glomeruli receive information from OSNs containing the same OR type and are thought to help process se... | | 2021 |
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Campbell, Andrew | Asynchronous distributed }OT-Enabled customer characterization in distrubtion networks: theory and hardware implementation | This work proposes and implements an asynchronous distributed IoT (Internet of Things)-enabled customer characterization framework to classify customers' load consumption behaviors in electric distribution networks. More specifically, the proposed framework enables robust fully distributed clusterin... | | 2021 |
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Loveland, Jessica | Sociolinguistic differences between Japanese and English as seen through English translations of Manga | Manga (Japanese graphic novels) is a growing market in the United States and allows readers from foreign countries access to literature in a way that is enjoyable and easily accessible. However, translating manga from Japanese to English provides an interesting challenge as the Japanese language enc... | Comic books, strips, etc -- Japan; Japanese language -- Social aspects; English language -- Social aspects | 2016-05 |
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Weaver, Shannon | Free Clinic Health Education Classes: an Analysis of Efficacy, Barriers, Power Dynamics, and Disparities | Part I- Power Dynamics Present in Health Education Classes at a Free Clinic Objective: The purpose of this paper is to analyze dynamics between patients, staff, and volunteers at a free clinic. Certain power dynamics within health care are inherent and beneficial, such as a provider prescribing medi... | | 2017 |
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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 |
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Coronado, Yvette Sonia Gonzalez | The pedagogy of sistahood : Living in this skin in the classroom | Historical and contemporary social dynamics have constructed a 'commonsense' of Latina youth as submissive characters to el macho (the male), in addition to portrayals as sexually promiscuous, destined for marriage and pregnancy, quiet, resistant learners, and as lacking in ambition. These deficit m... | Hispanic American teenage girls; Social conditions | 2009 |
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Goller, Nicholas | Iterative game development: What goes into making an effective game and the lessons learned from making two games | Imagine you are told you have two semesters to make a game. You have a team of over ten people ready to help out. You even have the basic idea of what the game will be about. How hard can it be? Well, it is not that hard to make "a game" in two semesters. A competent coder can hack together a game... | Computer games - Design | 2016-04 |
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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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King, Scott | Effortful upward pitch glide as a predictor of non-volitional swallow function in individuals with upper versus lower motor neuron lesions | Objective: This study addressed the correspondence between maximum pharyngeal constriction (PCmax) during effortful upward pitch glide task using nasoendoscopy compared with measures from videofluoroscopic swallow studies (VFSS) of swallowing function in individuals with upper (UMN) vs lower motor n... | | 2020 |
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Beller, Annastasia | Heartstrung: a choreographic expedition into the Queer female experience | This project follows a journey in learning how to portray a queer female experience on a ballet stage in a way that both produces emotional resonance and dissuades ostracization. Through the process of creative research, I choreographed a fiveminute- long contemporary ballet duet entitled "HeartStru... | | 2022 |
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Woolston, Caleb M. | Impact of trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress symptoms on baseline self-reported safety behaviors versus observer-rated safety behaviors during the trauma film paradigm | Background: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a high burden disorder marked by safety behaviors (SB), which are covert or overt actions used to escape distressing feelings or places. However, literature suggests scores on observer-rated and self-reported SBs can be discrepant, creating a need... | | 2022 |
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Kearsley, Elizabeth A. | Making 360 and representing the aesthetics of nostalgia through documentary | 360 is a short documentary film I made that follows Micha Osuchowski, a young woman obsessed with the culture of the late 1990s and early 2000s, also referred to as the Y2K era. The film weaves together two aspects of Osuchowski's life, her occupation selling Y2K clothing online and skateboarding, a... | | 2021 |
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Lindley, Clara | Pre-surgery inflammatory and angiogenesis biomarkers as predictors of 12-month cancer-related distress: results from the colocare study | Background Patients with colorectal cancer commonly suffer from complex psychological distress. Elevated distress may be linked to systemic biomarkers. We investigated associations of biomarkers of inflammation and angiogenesis with cancer-related distress (CTXD) score. Methods N = 315 patients (sta... | | 2023 |
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Gonzalez, Carmen Adraiana Flores | Multicultural Literacy in the 21st Century Classrooms | The study focuses on how multicultural literacy is integrated into everyday lessons in the elementary classroom(s). A benefit of multicultural literacy in education is that it can create a sense of belonging in the students, which increases their engagement, and desire to learn. Furthermore, multicu... | | 2017 |
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Hunter, Lea | The "tampon tax" public discourse of policies concerning menstrual taboo | The "tampon tax" is a policy in which feminine hygiene products are taxed as "luxury goods" despite the fact that many countries exempt "necessary goods" - such as basic groceries and medical products-from sales tax. In the summer of 2015, the Canadian parliament took steps to exempt feminine hygien... | Women's rights - United States; Sales tax - Law and legislation | 2016-04 |
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Greenberg, Kevin | The effect the duration and location of rest breaks have on sustained attention and reaction time | Humans general system of sustained attention is susceptible to fatigue. The Attention Restoration Theory postulates when the system is fatigued exposure to natural environments may help to restore the fatigued resources. However, the duration and location of exposure needed is unknown, therefore the... | Rest periods; Hours of labor | 2016-04 |
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Robbins, Colt | Legality of sex work as a national project in post-colonial egypt | This thesis will analyze the gendering of nationalism in post-colonial Egypt. The thesis will begin by explaining how the military occupation of Egypt led to the development of laws that governed women's sexuality and specifically sex work. It will then analyze how 20th-century Egyptian intellectual... | | 2022 |
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Finnegan, McCauley Craig | Checking the Wrong Box: Limitations of the Eeoc's Effectiveness for Supporting Organizational diversity and Inclusion in the 2020S | This thesis explores the impacts of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and federal discrimination laws on organizational diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives. Using an inductive thematic analysis of qualitative data from phone interviews with diversity leaders in a variety of ro... | | 2020 |
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Franchina, Jordan Avery | Measurement of bond dissociation energies of transition metal molecules | Measuring thermochemical and kinetic properties of chemical systems has always; been a central theme of chemistry. Knowing these properties assists us in assessing; whether or not a chemical reaction is energetically feasible, efficient, and worthwhile.; Theoretical chemistry has now developed suffi... | Chemical systems; thermochemical; kinetic; modeling | 2018-04 |