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Savage, Erica | Total Factor Productivity in the Construction Industry | Conventional wisdom asserts productivity growth within the construction industry has been in decline for decades in comparison to other US industries. If productivity is indeed low, there is an enormous opportunity for construction firms to create value. The purpose of this study is to test the conv... | 2018 | |
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Bunting, Abraham | Towards water sustainability - improving water usage disclosure | As the amount of interest and capital invested in sustainable companies, indices, and funds has ballooned, the demand for sustainability data on which to base investment has increased significantly. Investors, companies, and regulators have all petitioned the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC... | 2023 | |
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Traction estimation and control for mobil robots using wheel slip velocity | Mobile robots are used to venture through types of environments, at low wheel speeds, where wheel slip is a threat. Wheel slip is a hazard to mobile robots in that it introduces error in dead reckoning measurement and in some instances causes the robot to halt its forward progress. To compensate ... | Robots; Motion;Traction | 2008-12 | |
| 1004 |
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Kirkegaard, Matthew | Transboundary water conflict, cooperation, and regional integration: Mercosur and the La Plata Basin | Water politics become diplomatic concerns when watersheds cross international borders. But how do these relationships between states change when the nature of these international borders themselves change through economic and political integration? The purpose of this study is to consider the relati... | MERCOSUR (Organization); Water-supply - South America; Water-supply - Political aspects | 2016-05 |
| 1005 |
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Wang, Karissa M. | Transcription factor NFATc1's signaling pathway and role in cardiomyocyte function | Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia. It affects as many as 6.1 million people in the United States and increases their risk of stroke by 4-5 times. AF is evidently a very serious condition, but the scientific community does not yet fully understand its underlying mechani... | 2020 | |
| 1006 |
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Corcoran, James | Transfers in professional soccer: how they create value | Soccer, the world's most popular sport, continues to see immense growth. Clubs, now with more money at their disposal than ever before, seek any marginal advantage they can get over their competitors. One such way clubs seek to gain an advantage is by acquiring players through transfers. For teams c... | 2024 | |
| 1007 |
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Mclntire, Jake Alex | Transformed into omnipresence | During my time at the University of Utah I have developed a body of work revolving around the dichotomy and coexistence of absence and presence. My fundamental inspiration spurs from the death of my Mother and a lost connection to religion. I understand absence and presence as reciprocal fluid state... | Art/Art History | 2013-05 |
| 1008 |
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Sunkaraneni, Tarun | Transformer-Based Observers in Psychotherapy | Motivational Interviewing is a style of psychotherapy which has shown success as a method for treating addiction and substance abuse problems. In recent years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques have shown promising results in assisting Motivational Interviewing (MI) training and advancing... | 2020 | |
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Miller, Megan | Transforming spaces: Women's use of communication technology in the Middle East and North Africa | This paper deals with the use of communication technology by women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and how it relates to concepts of private and public space, i.e., gendered spatial segregation. Using available scholarship and data on female Internet usage in the MENA region as well as se... | Communication technology - Social aspects - Middle East; Communication technology - Social aspects - North Africa | 2012-06 |
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Anderson, Lucius | The transhuman and posthuman in contemporary horror film: a case study for David Cronenberg's crimes of the future | As the uncertain future of humanity's relationship to technology causes widespread apprehension, themes related to transhuman and posthuman theory have begun to appear in the horror genre. By synthesizing posthuman and transhuman philosophy with horror criticism, this project aims to ascertain these... | 2024 | |
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Crapo, Micah L. | Transitioning Control: Examining the Individual Differences Between Automatic and Controlled Processes | Transitioning control is the process of switching attentional behaviors between voluntary (controlled attention) and involuntary (automaticity) cognition. The objective of this study was to examine individual differences in the ability to transition between automatic and controlled processes. In a r... | 2016 | |
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Vermillion, Alex N. | Transitioning Outside of the Binary | Labels were created to create distinctions between words in order to classify and better understand our surrounding world. Gendered labels (i.e. man, woman, trans, queer, non-binary, etc.) serve the same purpose of classifying while also aiding the overall function of systematic privileges in our so... | 2016 | |
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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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Schmutz, Emily | Transportation alternatives for little cottonwood canyon and their operational implications | Beginning in 2017, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) has worked on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) which provides transportation improvement alternatives for the heavy congestion that takes place in Little Cottonwood Canyon and feeder streets during the winter ski season. U... | 2021 | |
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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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Aderibigbe, Justis | Trends in the usage of bidentate phosphines as ligands in nickel catalysis of hydrogenation reactions | A critically important process in catalysis is the formation of an active catalyst from the combination of a metal precursor and a ligand, as the efficacy of this reaction governs the amount of active catalyst. This review is a compacted but comprehensive review of reactions catalyzed by nickel and ... | 2021 | |
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Scott, Isabelle | Tropical analog to the log canonical threshold | In algebraic geometry, the log canonical threshold is a property of singularities of planar curves. While singularities have multiplicities, the log canonical threshold can be a more telling invariant. It helps to classify curves beyond what the multiplicity indicates by examining how quickly the in... | Geometry, Algebraic | 2013-04 |
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Wang, Albert Abdul-Barr | Two reflections on the capitol insurrection | Two Reflections on the Capitol Insurrection acts as a complementary set of essays for Albert Abdul-Barr Wang's extensive photo book The Cults of the Famous and the Dead (https://www.blurb.com/b/11471408-the-cults-of-the-famous-and-the-dead). The artist reflects on the impetus for his research projec... | 2023 | |
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Schoensee, Kohl | U of U Fsae Aero Package CFD Optimization & Structural FEA | I would like to thank my older brother, Luke Schoensee, for pushing me to develop Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models with ANSYS that are comparable to those developed by the top Formula SAE teams. I am grateful for the countless hours on the phone with Luke where he helped explain the problem... | 2019 | |
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Karahalios, Vasiliki | The Unassuming Subversion of Jacksonian-ERA Democracy: An Analysis of Mary Edmonia Lewis's Minnehaha and Hiawatha of 1868 | By the mid-nineteenth century, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had become one of the most celebrated poets in the United States. The publication of his poem The Song of Hiawatha in 1855 established him as the great American epic poet of the 19th-century. Not only was The Song of Hiawatha widely read and ... | 2019 | |
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Woodruff, Derek | Uncovering Synaptic Defects resulting from loss of the intellectual disability and autism-associated gene Kirrel3 | Neurodevelopmental disorders severely impact an individual's life. Surprisingly, the genetic and cellular cause of over half of intellectual disability cases and more than 80% of autism spectrum disorders remain undiscovered1,2. It is likely that mutations in molecules regulating synapse development... | 2017 | |
| 1022 |
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Sarah F. Small | Uncovering the microeconomic costs of reproductive care in the United States | 2024 | ||
| 1023 |
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Sarah F. Small | Uncovering the microeconomic costs of reproductive care in the United States | 2024 | ||
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Liddell, Nicholas | Undergraduate Recruiting for Accounting Majors | The objective of this paper is to describe the process of recruiting for undergraduate accounting and finance majors. Because human capital that comes from U.S colleges is an immensely important resource for businesses across the globe, students have stress and pressure placed on them from their ear... | 2020 | |
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Badizadegan, Parisa | Understanding and evaluating effective technology integration in the classroom | The current study analyzed four major research questions: (1) Are the attitudes and beliefs of pre‐service teachers correlated with constructivist/traditionalist approaches to technology integration? (2) Does prior technology usage predict constructivist/traditionalist approaches to technology int... | High technology and education | 2015-04 |
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Walker, Kortnie | Understanding and treating diabetic retinopathy | Diabetic retinopathy is a neurovascular disease of the retina and is the leading cause of blindness in the working-age population in the United States. Complications as a result of hyperglycemia and diabetes mellitus (DM) break down the blood-retina barrier (BRB) and retinal vasculature. Current tre... | Diabetic retinopathy | 2015-05 |
| 1027 |
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Amaechi, Ayana | Understanding sex differences in early predictors of pathological aggression with a mouse model | Antisocial behavior (ASB) is characterized by aggression, violence, drug use, thrillseeking behavior, and delinquent behavior. While childhood and adolescent maltreatment contribute to the ontogeny of this condition, converging evidence suggests that genetic factors play an equally important role. T... | MAOA; pathological aggression; sex differences; stress; early development; animal models | 2021 |
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Li, Danika | Understanding State-Sponsored Violence: Tiananmen Square | The Tiananmen Square Massacre presents an interesting puzzle to political scientists, as it contradicts traditional strategic theory that attacking one's own civilians erodes a government's base of power. The massacre defies these expectations through the ensuing decades of iron control the Communis... | 2018 | |
| 1029 |
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Bunker, Kerrigan | Understanding the current State of food-based mutual aid in Salt Lake City for community resilience | Salt Lake City experienced a growth in food-related mutual aid networks throughout the pandemic that sought to provide food to those without. But now we are approaching the end of the third year of a world with COVID-19, the current state of mutual aid initiatives varies. The current study seeks to ... | 2023 | |
| 1030 |
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Sageser, Emily | Understanding the radial distribution of dwarf satellite galaxies beyond the virial radii | Dark matter has been theorized to exist for over 80 years based on astronomical observations but has yet to be found in terrestrial experiments. Named for its lack of interaction with the electromagnetic field, dark matter does not absorb, reflect, or emit electromagnetic radiation making it undetec... | 2023 | |
| 1031 |
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Robinson, Rayne | Understanding unmet social need in Utah's pediatric population: how can social needs by addressed in patient populations? | Background: Social determinants of health (SDoH) are the environmental conditions, material attributes, and patterns of social engagement that shape an individual's health exposures and health behaviors, contribute to an individual's health outcomes, and can place individuals at risk for poor health... | 2022 | |
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Valle, Ciriac I. Alvarez | Undocumented Undergraduates in the Utah System of Higher Education | This thesis focuses on how undocumented students navigate institutions of higher education in the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE), and considers the specific culture, legislation, and demographics of the state of Utah. Following my personal experience as an undocumented student, I interviewed... | 2017 | |
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Kopcrak, Gina | Unearthing Hamlet in Ulysses | Although Ulysses is a complex work, it is possible to discover aspects of it by close reading and analyzing specific aspects of particular episodes. I use a variety of critics of Ulysses to discover aspects of Shakespeare's play Hamlet in the Scylla and Charybdis episode, the ninth episode of Ulysse... | Hamlet (Legendary character) - Examination; Joyce, James, 1882 -1941. Ulysses - Examination; Shakespeare criticism | 2012-07 |
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Powell, Cheyenne | The unforgiven: Pathways to homelessness | Homelessness is a socially constructed problem. We as a society do not take the time to truly listen to the concerns of those who are still impact us in our day to day lives. In this current study, the use of qualitative data was analyzed to determine and understand pathways to homelessness. The pur... | Homelessness - United States | 2016-04 |
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Tara L. Deans | Unraveling the Q system function in prokaryotes | 2024 | ||
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Crompton, Patrick | Urban planning public engagement: the importance of values research in pedagogy | This paper provides a comparison of how public engagement for planners is described in academic literature and how public engagement is accomplished in real world planning projects This is accomplished through an analysis of academic writing on the subject and a selection of modern planning projects... | City Planning | 2016-05 |
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Green, Philip | US venture capital and the effects of diversification | This paper is a discussion of the effects of diversification in venture capital (VC) portfolios. The venture capital structure is formed by three components: the firm, a fund (or funds), and portfolio companies within each fund. One single firm can have simultaneous active funds, which typically las... | Diversification in industry; Venture Capitalism | 2012-05 |
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Bitter, Anne Marie | The use of "Women's Safety" in Criminalization VS. Decriminalization Arguments about Prostitution in the U.S. | This thesis analyzes academic discourse arguing for and against the criminalization of prostitution within the U.S. It specifically investigates how claims about women's safety are used by both sides in this debate, examining four common frameworks that shape appeals to women's safety: physical harm... | 2019 | |
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Wankier, Zakary S. | Use of computer tomography imaging to observe increased distal-end cortical bone around a percutaneous osseointegrated implant | Osseointegration (OI) is being used for the direct skeletal attachment of prosthetic limbs using an intramedullary stem that extends percutaneously from the subject's residual limb. For this technology to be successful, bone ingrowth and remodeling around the implant must occur. Physicians need an e... | 2022 | |
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Townsend, Colby | The use of scripture in 1 Enoch 1-36 | This study analyzes the use of prior authoritative literature in the Book of Watchers (BW), an ancient Jewish text written ca. 200 BCE. The authors of this text were intimately familiar with several texts that would later become part of the Hebrew Bible, and they interacted with and altered the na... | Book of watchers - Criticsm | 2016-05 |
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Emoto, Ethan | User preferences in calendar applications | The role of user experience research in the software development cycle has been largely overlooked in favor of emphasizing the more technical elements. However, understanding the user's perspective is just as important as the engineering aspects in creating a beneficial application. This thesis expl... | 2023 | |
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Lee, Zachary | Using Drosophila to investigate p53 life-or-death decisions | The p53 tumor suppressor is a central regulator of cellular responses to DNA damage. When DNA damage cannot be repaired most cells undergo p53-dependent cell death. Thisp55-mediated apoptosis is important to eliminate cells with damaged genomes and provides an important block to the development of c... | Biology | 2013-05 |
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Hull, Sofi | Using network analysis to visualize the role of emotion in murder mystery novels | Heightened emotion is a key element at the root of the crimes in most mystery novels. Despite this, not much literature exists examining the part emotion plays in the structure of classic detective fiction. Network analysis provides a new avenue for exploring the role of emotion between characters i... | 2021 | |
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Warner, Travis John | Using Term Spreads to Predict Recessions: a Comparison | Recessions have been a concern for government and business leaders and the populace in general for hundreds of years. From the Tulipmania in 1634 to the Great Depression in the 1930's to the Dot Com bubble to the Great Recession in 2007 they have all instilled fear and anxiety in the populace becaus... | 2017 | |
| 1045 |
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Young, Ashli | Utah Women with Bleeding Disorders: Experiences with Pregnancy and Childbirth | Approximately 1% of women in the U.S. have a bleeding disorder (BD), yet many are not aware of their condition despite symptoms such as heavy menstrual bleeding. Women with BDs are more likely to experience heavy obstetrical bleeding compared to those without BDs. However, population-based data on p... | 2019 | |
| 1046 |
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Jones, Aspen | Utah's foster parent training: a trauma-informed analysis | There is compelling evidence for why we need to pay attention to the negative effects of childhood trauma. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study determined that there is a correlation between childhood adversity and negative physical, neurological, and behavioral outcomes. When looking at th... | 2023 | |
| 1047 |
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Keyser, Madison | Utah's Nonprofits: Effects on the Economy and Ties to Gender Employment Inequality | 2018 | ||
| 1048 |
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McDaniel, Tyler | Utah's Pathways to Higher Education: a Critical, Quantitative Analysis | This work uses linear and nonlinear models in order to predict student success and pathways in higher education in the state of Utah. Postsecondary Grade Point Average is used as a metric for success in higher education. Pathways are identified using clustering analyses, which group observations a... | Higher education and state - Utah; Higher education and state - United States; Low-income students - United States | |
| 1049 |
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Butler, Alexandra D. | Utah's sex education controversy: Is it relevant today? | Utah's policy of abstinence only sex education is a contentious issue. Some worry that, if not taught in school, young people will not obtain accurate information on sex, contraceptives, and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). Others fear that teaching safe sex will encourage adolescent sexual a... | Sex instruction -- Utah | 2015-05 |
| 1050 |
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Hoff, Cassidy | The Utes Nickname: Mascots, Symbols, and Nickname a Critical Discourse Analysis | The University of Utah maintains a unique relationship with the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in northeast Utah. The University has permission from the Ute Indian Tribe to use the "Utes" nickname for athletic purposes. Yet, existing outside of the nickname's sphere, and withou... | 2017 | |
| 1051 |
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Delacenserie, Jessica | Utilizing classroom technology to strengthen elementary education | There is a disconnect in the current education system where there is an abundance of technology accessible to students but it is not being used in a way that enhances their education. The majority of software currently used in primary schools simply transfers books, homework assignments, etc. to mob... | Education, Elementary; Computer-assisted instruction; Education - Effect of technological innovations on | 2016-05 |
| 1052 |
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Christian, Lauren Piper | Utilizing feedback from Utah families with asthmatic children to mitigate air pollution health consequences | Air pollution is an ongoing public health threat in the US and in Utah. While air pollution triggers asthma, we know little about what parents of asthmatic children think about what schools, health care providers and policymakers should do to improve air quality and their children's health. Data to ... | 2022 | |
| 1053 |
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Laverty, Morgan | Utilizing Intensive Outpatient Care in Health Systems for High-Risk, High-Cost Patients to Address the Growing Healthcare Problem in the United States | The healthcare industry in the United States of America is in desperate need of change, as healthcare expenses continue to rise at an unsustainable rate. One critical component of this problem is the healthcare super utilizer, or "super user," population. Though it comprises only 10% of all patients... | 2017 | |
| 1054 |
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Tiwari, Sarthak | Utilizing light scattering spectroscopy and machine learning to differentiate heterogenous tissue samples | Current biopsy approaches either lack depth penetration or real-time analysis. Light scattering spectroscopy (LSS) aims to address these issues, and our goal is to investigate the use of LSS for identifying cardiac conduction tissues. LSS data were collected from donor tissue samples and created a 3... | 2023 | |
| 1055 |
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Davidson, Olivia | Utilizing synthetic biology to improve platelet transfusion outcomes | Platelets are essential to blood clotting. Due to a high risk of bacterial infection, donor platelets have short shelf -lives. As a result, being able to maintain a constant supply of platelets in vitro would be clinically valuable. This could be accomplished by using synthetic biology to guide stem... | Blood platelets - Transfusion - Research; Stem cells - Therapeutic use; Synthetic biology; Hematopoietic stem cells; Erthropoientin | 2016-05 |
| 1056 |
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Whitfield, Mitch | Validating Visual-Manual Detection Response Take Measurements in Simulated Distracted Driving | The advancement of technological devices (any electronic device affecting the driver) for vehicles has resulted in improved functionality and capability. However, this extreme progression has resulted in the increased likelihood of impaired driving. Because of the development of this technology, the... | 2017 | |
| 1057 |
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Palmieri, Nikole | Validation of a nonlinear optimization algorithm for reconstruction of diffused images | Living tissue is a diffusive light-scattering medium, preventing traditional fluorescence microscopy from being used as a diagnostic imaging modality. To determine microscopy from being used as a diagnostic imaging modality. To determine whether the nonlinear optimization algorithm developed for C... | Diagnostic imaging; Mathematical optimization; Image processing; Diffusion distance; Computational Cannula Microscopy; Nonlinear optimization; MATLAB | 2016-04 |
| 1058 |
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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 |
| 1059 |
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Sorensen, Andrew | Validity of the Actigraph GT3X+ in children When Worn at the Wrist | Background: Low levels of physical activity and excessive amounts of sedentary behavior have been associated with higher risk of all-cause mortality as well as the incidence of mortality from numerous chronic diseases. Given the significant impact of physical activity on health, it is important to b... | 2019 | |
| 1060 |
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Paul Larsen | Vanguards: a play | 2012 | ||
| 1061 |
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Geisler, Emil | Variable stretch textures on the GPU | In computer graphics, a texture is an image that is overlaid on a triangle when the object is rendered. Textures allow for objects to have more complicated appearances than just a single color across the triangle. Usually when a triangle is stretched, the texture stretches uniformly with it. However... | 2023 | |
| 1062 |
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Lotz, Mahalia G. | Victim/Survivor Notifications on Utah Sexual Assault Kit Re-Traumatization & Engagement in the Criminal Legal System | This paper provides context for the creation, discovery, and aftermath of the multitude of unsubmitted sexual assault kits. It continues by describing the efforts of the Utah Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) group to address the issues created by the unsubmitted kits. This paper specifically exa... | 2019 | |
| 1063 |
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Clark, Tyler | Video game development during a pandemic: a student's perspective | This paper seeks to go over a student's journey of video game development during the Covid-19 pandemic. It will showcase the unique challenges of working on a project remotely and the development process that was set out by the University of Utah's Entertainment Arts and Engineering Capstone Class. ... | 2021 | |
| 1064 |
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Roberts, Ashley | The View From Our Mother's House | The View from Our Mother's House is a novel about a family of three women struggling to understand and accept their past, full of abandonment and manipulation, while dealing with the immediate needs of the mother dying from Alzheimer's disease. This project combines research in the field of literatu... | 2019 | |
| 1065 |
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Bryan Bonner | Virtual reality and its effects on empathy and leadership theory | 2018 | ||
| 1066 |
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Som, Sarita | Virus-like weapons used for competition in wild plant populations | Plant diseases caused by bacterial pathogens pose significant economic challenges globally, necessitating the exploration of alternative methods for controlling bacterial infections in plants. Tailocins, virus-like weapons produced by bacteria, have emerged as potent antibacterial agents and hold po... | 2023 | |
| 1067 |
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Hansen, James Christian | Visionary Minds, Visionary Worlds: Analyzing Three Video Games from Fumito Ueda, Hidetaka Miyazaki, and Jenova Chen | The objective of this thesis is to analyze Fumito Ueda's Shadow of the Colossus, Hidetaka Miyazaki's Dark Souls, and Jenova Chen's Journey in order to see how together they represent the storytelling potential of video games. Each embody in their work the notion that games as a medium can convey and... | 2018 | |
| 1068 |
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Leonard, Nicole | Vitamin D deficiency in flight attendants and pilots | Vitamin D is a curious molecule. While humans do get some vitamin D from their diet, most of it is synthesized in the body, so it does not fit the definition of a vitamin-a molecule that must come from the diet. Vitamin D synthesis is initiated by the UVB (290-320 nm) portion of ultraviolet radiatio... | Vitamin D deficiency; Flight attendants -- Nutrition; Air pilots -- Nutrition; Ultraviolet radiation -- Physiological effect | 2015-04 |
| 1069 |
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Chau, Hy | The vix and its applications in the market | Since its first introduction in 1993, the Chicago Board Option Exchange's (CBOE's) Market Volatility Index, the VIX, has become more and more popular among traders and investors in the market. If used correctly, not only is the VIX able to provide traders with useful information to evaluate the mark... | Chicago Board Options Exchange.; Market Volatility Index; Hedge funds - United States - Management; Corporate finance | 2012-05 |
| 1070 |
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Olson, Eve | Voice Onset Time in Arabic and English Stop Consonants | In this project, I investigate the voice onset time (VOT) of stop consonants as produced by Arabic speakers in comparison to English speakers. In English, there exists a phonological contrast between voiced and voiceless pronunciations of bilabial, alveolar, and velar stop consonants. These pairs ar... | 2017 | |
| 1071 |
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Barber, Shaelyn | Volunteer Tourism in Cambodia: Persuasive Strategies of Recruitment and Postcolonial Impacts | An emergent area within tourism is volunteer tourism, in which people journey to developing countries and perform service as part of their trip. These volunteers are typically young, well-educated Westerners. International volunteering is an increasingly popular option for tourists traveling abroad,... | 2019 | |
| 1072 |
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Kelley, Logan T. | Weighing Abell 2029: How Different Assumptions Change a Galaxy Cluster's Mass | At a given mass, the amount of galaxy clusters within some volume greatly depends on certain cosmological parameters. Examples of such parameters are: how much total mass there is (nm), the equation of state parameter of dark energy (w), and the scale of fluctuations (o8). These quantities can be me... | 2020 | |
| 1073 |
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Jones, Hannah Lisbeth | Weighing iconography of love in classical and early hellenistic art: considering allusions and metraphor in images of aphrodite balancing EROS | Though images of Eros and Aphrodite are prolific, appearing in many material and literary sources, scenes of erotostasia, or the weighing of Eros by Aphrodite, are rare and have been historically overlooked in the study of Greek art. However, the four cataloged scenes of Aphrodite raising a balance ... | Art/Art History | 2012-08 |
| 1074 |
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Jarvis, Thomas | Welfare in the United States: its current State and future directions | Public policy experts have proposed numerous combinations of liberal and conservative welfare policies in an attempt to capture the positive aspects of each and create a more efficient and equitable approach to welfare. In these times of economic turbulence it is paramount to understand where welfar... | Political Science | 2012-05 |
| 1075 |
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Wilson, Alexis | West Antarctica as a Natural Laboratory for Cloud Microphysics | Clouds contribute to energy regulation in the global climate system. Remote and unaffected by local pollution sources, Antarctica offers a unique laboratory to study clouds and their influence on the surface energy budget. The study of these clouds is particularly interesting as global temperatures ... | 2017 | |
| 1076 |
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Chen, Cynthia | What are we teaching? The translation of exoticism as pedagogy in Schumann and Tchaikovsky | Musical scholars have often studied exoticism-the evocation and representation of cultures outside of one's own-through racial, national, gender, class, and other identities. These studies commonly lead to the taxonomical classification of musical gestures and further questions on the purpose and l... | Music - Philosophy and aesthetics; Music appreciation; Music - Instruction and study | 2016-05 |
| 1077 |
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Hazelton, Christal Rosa A. | What We tell Children: Queer Representation in Children's Animation | In this paper, I explore the history of queer representation in mainstream children's media -- both implicit and explicit -- and the historical movements that influenced their structures. Starting with the emergence of the "buddy" genre in the late 1950s and early 1960s, I use this as the basis of i... | 2018 | |
| 1078 |
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Meadows, Tyla | When anger fades: changes in sadness and fear after narrating angry events | Humans relate to each other through shared stories of past experiences. Telling stories about emotionally charged memories gives the narrator an avenue through which to process the event and the emotions they felt as it happened. Previous research suggests that this narrative experience may lead to ... | 2021 | |
| 1079 |
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Smith, Enoch | When men are the victims: The incidence of sexual assault against men | Men's experiences of sexual assault have long been a controversial issue. Feminist thinkers like Catherine Mackinnon and Susan Brownmiller have theorized sexual assault as a natural outgrowth of or tool designed to perpetuate women's disempowerment, whereas more liberal thinkers perceive sexual assa... | Male rape victims; Sex crimes | 2016-04 |
| 1080 |
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Ryder, Keenan | Where Industry Meets Academia: An Analysis of Software Development Methodologies in Practice | This thesis examines the three main software development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, and Spiral) in academic thought and industry implementation. Data and observations for this thesis have been gathered from industry research journals, academic reports, theses, Department of Defense Reports and... | 2020 | |
| 1081 |
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Bashir, Mahreen Hamid | Where there are still animals: A poetic study on the earth as woman | They would like to feel they might be something better than animals. That's understandable: other animals might feel they are something different than "just animals" too. But we must contemplate the shared ground of our common biological being before emphasizing the difference" | American poetry - 21st century | 2015-12 |
| 1082 |
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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 |
| 1083 |
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Pecchia-Beekum, Annika | Who's got the pants?: breeching distinctions of power in restoration theatre and pre-hays code hollywood | In the 1660s, after the Restoration of Charles II to the throne, female performers acted on stage for the first time, leading to increasingly sexualized female characters and investigations into gender roles. "Breeches" roles, where women cross-dressed, became progressively more popular, with actres... | Cross-dressing - History; Cross-dressing in art; Gender & sexualities in minds & cultures | 2012-05 |
| 1084 |
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Chan, Tiffany | Why gender matters: an empirical case study of the China-Pakistan free trade agreement | China is one of the world's largest economies that boasts expansive and ambitious economic policies and has numerous trading partners across the globe. A closer look through an economic lens shows gender inequity runs pervasive. Thus, in this paper, I ask, "How does the presence and/or absence of ge... | 2023 | |
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Chuaqui, Anna Magdalena | Why the left loses in Mexico | This paper explores the question: Why has the largest left-of-center party in Mexico, the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), failed to win a presidential election since democratization? Through an analysis of the presidential campaigns of 200,2006, and 2012, this paper seeks to explain the fa... | Partido de la Revolución Democrática (Mexico); Mexico -- Politics and government -- 2000- | 2016 |
| 1086 |
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Ford, Zippy | Why the Wage GAP? | Why does it seem as though women are still paid less than their male counterpart? That is because they are. The wage gap still exists and is not estimated to fully close until 2152. There are many reasons why women are paid less than men. The first is the lack of transparency in companies, sometimes... | 2017 | |
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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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Checketts, Cynthia | Why white mice? improving biological literacy through animal history | Throughout the undergraduate experience, biology students are introduced to hundreds of experiments, theories, and principles, many of which are rooted in animal experimentation. However, in required and information-heavy biology courses, the erasure of animals from the scientific story-which repres... | 2021 | |
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Melvin, Kendahl L. | Why women don't run: Addressing the gender disparity in political representation in the United States | A record number of women were elected to Congress in the November 2014 elections, making the 114th Congress the first to boast over 100 females (McGregor, 2014). With 104 women, it seemed that the current Congress was a positive step for American political parity (Warner, 2015). However, this achiev... | Women -- Political activity -- United States; Women legislators -- United States | 2015-08 |
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Fitzwilliam, Roxanne | The Window Control and Catharsis | This paper is a companion to the animated short I made, called The Window. In this paper, I aim to comprehensively reflect upon the project itself, the inspirations and meaning behind it, as well as the process of making it. I will also explain how this project has worked as a form of art therapy an... | 2019 | |
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?Amos N. Guiora | Wolves not watchdogs: systemic and unpunished abuse in federal prisons | 2024 | ||
| 1092 |
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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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Peterson, Myranda | The Wounded Heater: A Descriptive Analysis of the Thematic Material of the Wounded Healer Archetype in Connection with the The Therapeutic Healing Process | The following thesis project is a critical analysis of Greek mythology, particularly the myth of Asklepios as The Wounded Healer, and why the best therapists often embody this archetypal energy in alchemical transformation. Mythology has been used to inform practice in the helping professions throug... | Greek mythology; Asklepios; Wounded healer; Depth psychotherapy; Narrative; Helping professions; Medicine | 2019 |
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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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Fierro, Jasmine A. | Writing home: language as a vehicle for Latina/O identity formation | Latinas/os living in the United States experience a cultural split between their native culture and the American culture that blocks the creation of a whole Self. Each culture stakes a claim in their identity even if it tears them in opposing directions. In the United States, many Latinas/os assimil... | 2013 | |
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Draper, Mark Helzen | Writing off nature: how literacy changes our relationship with the natural | This thesis will examine how writing has changed our relationship with the natural world. Using a phenomenological methodology in combination with media theory, I will examine the costs and benefits of the revolutionary invention of alphabetic writing on that relationship to our lived-experience of ... | 2022 | |
| 1097 |
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Fuller, Adam | Wynton Marsalis and Nicholas Payton: a compartative discourse | Jazz music has achieved the support of elite institutions, such as higher education and government arts initiatives, relatively recently. There is now a growing body of scholarly research on jazz history, performance practice, recordings, and music theory. However, there are widely differing concept... | 2018 | |
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Azuma, Mariko | Yin Yu Tang and the effects of re-contextualization on vernacular architecture | My paper on the cultural and architectural re-contextualization of Yin Yu Tang, or Hall of Abundant Shelter, at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, MA, has two main goals: 1) to consider the connections between architecture, space, and the family in a traditional Chinese house; and 2) to exami... | Peabody Essex Museum - Exhibitions, Hall of Abundant Shelter; Architecture, Chinese - Exhibitions | 2016-04 |
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Scott, Kali | You Do You: A Theoretical Exploration of Audience Agency in Theatre | This thesis explores the relationship between audiences and performers in theatre. Contemporary companies which consciously tamper with this relationship are analyzed. Particular focus is on companies that explore the extent to which the audience can directly affect a performance. The reasoning of c... | 2017 | |
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Randall, Lynettee | Young Adults, the Impact and Experience of Commemorative Practices | This study uses qualitative methodology to investigate the self-reported impact commemorative practices have on bereaved young adults. The act of commemoration is defined in the literature review with special emphasis on traditional and non-traditional methods. The difference between traditional and... | 2019 |