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Filters: Collection: "ir_htoa" Year Start: 2019
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Thomas, Nathaniel | The HIV-protective bystander effect in macrophages is viral glycoprotein dependent and likely conferred via upregulation of ISG IFITM3 | During an immune response against a specific antigen, often during viral infections, T cells not specific to the antigen can be activated, a phenomenon known as bystander response. The "bystander response" has been studied extensively in T cells, but when examined for macrophages through the lens of... | 2022 | |
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Boyd, Taylor Alexis | Homeostatic plasticity in inherited eye disease | Retinitis Pigmentosa is rare inherited retinal disease that causes progressive blindness as an affected individual ages. Blindness is a significant public health issue, and visual impairment, especially when varying over the lifespan, can have immense impact on community health. For my honors thesis... | 2021 | |
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Rodriguez, Mayra | Hospital Acquired Bloodstream Infections in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic stem Cell Transplantation | Purpose The purpose of this thesis was to investigate hospital acquired bloodstream infections, in pediatric patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), using a subset of data from an ongoing study. The goal of the larger study was to track changes in central line-associated ... | 2020 | |
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McFarland, Casey | Hospital-Acquired pressure injury risk in medical intensive care unit patients with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study | Background: Hospital acquired pressure injuries (HAPrIs), defined as injuries to the skin or underlying tissue as a result of pressure or pressure in combination with shear, occur in approximately 6% MICU patients at the University of Utah hospital. HAPrIs are associated with longer length of hospit... | 2021 | |
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Pozernick, Audrey | The house, the ghost, and the grave presentations of the racial hybrid and mixed raced phenomenologies in literature and in creative writing | Creative writing communicates social experiences, worlds, and histories from one source to another. As stories are interconnected with the storyteller, the fictions often told are intertwined with identity politics and are more deeply understood through the socio-political context in which the autho... | 2024 | |
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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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Norton, Alexander Santillano III | How Much of What We Did Was Good? | Many media commentators often remark that today's political climate is unhealthy and divisive. They speak of better days when people used to sit down in the same room, listen to each other, and find common ground. I believe that art, in the form of ‘music theater,' can achieve this goal. I note th... | 2019 | |
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Guzman, Kristina | How personal characteristic influence shopping habits post covid-19 | The pandemic altered the way of life permanently for people around the world, coining the phrase, "new normal," as we adjust to post-pandemic life. For my honors thesis, I chose to focus on consumer behavior changes associated with this "new normal." Specifically, I studied the impact of various for... | 2023 | |
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Terry, Anna | How social media influencers affect consumer's willingness to pay and their idealized self | While influencer marketing first dated back to the Gladiators in Ancient Rome and has been utilized to sell products in the modern era since 1890, the term "influencer" has gained new life with the rise of social media. Through continually exhibiting their lifestyle, Influencers earn a living by cul... | 2022 | |
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Kargi, Sahana | How the distribution of a society's prior beliefs affects the virality of information | Information diffusion is the process by which a piece of information disperses through a network. Whether it be computer viruses spreading via the internet or diseases transmitting through a school, understanding how information diffuses is extremely relevant to fields such as marketing, emergency m... | 2023 | |
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South, Koriann | How to stop AI from ruining the world: designing and pilot testing integrated al-ethics assignments | I would like to thank my thesis mentor, Dr. Eliane Wiese, for guiding me through the research process and supporting me for the past 3 years. I would also like to thank Ph.D. student Noelle Brown, Dr. Alan Kuntz, Dr. Suresh Venkatasubramanian, and Dr. Mu Zhang, who I worked with on this project. Par... | 2022 | |
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Stevens, Fergus D. | Human-Algorithm Interactions with Fundamental and Predatory Trading Robots | Algorithmic participation in financial markets has been a growing phenomenon since the early 1990s. This paper uses experimental data and simulations to analyze the interaction between humans and trading algorithms. Interactions between humans and algorithms are observed through laboratory sessions ... | 2020 | |
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Jones, Kathryn K. | Hybrid Enzyme-Bimetallic Nanoparticle System for Tandem Oxidation Catalysis | Metallic nanoparticles are commonly used as catalysts in industrial and academic settings. Recent observations that bimetallic nanoparticles can have enhanced activity over their monometallic counterparts has increased the interest in their synthesis and application to new catalytic systems. Combini... | 2020 | |
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Lan, Yung-Chi | HYPO-osmolarity and glucose starvation localizes slm1 to mitochondria- A novel stress response pathway | Synthetic Lethal with Mss4 1 (Slm1) is a key protein found in the crossroad of the Membrane Compartment of Can1 (MCC) and the Membrane Compartment of TORC2 (MCT). The two compartments on the plasma membrane of budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) are responsible for APC transporter regulation an... | 2022 | |
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Gordon, Matthew | Hysteresis and the learning-By-doing mechanism in the monetary policy context: a bayesian vector autoregression appoach | Standard macroeconomic theory typically assumes that output in the long-run is independent of the short-run business cycle. The hysteresis hypothesis assumes the contrary and supposes that short-run economic shocks can have a permanent effect on the level of output. This paper empirically tests the ... | 2022 | |
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Identification of potential causes for increased central line associated bloostream infection rates in the University of Utah NICU | The University of Utah Newborn Intensive Care Unit (UUNICU) has seen a recent increase in rate of Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) after an extended period of 965 days with no CLABSI's. Unfortunately, in the last three years, infection rate has been on average 2.6 CLABSI per ye... | 2023 | ||
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Varghese, Alyssa A. | Identification of virulence factors in invasive haemophilus influenzae isolates causing disease in Utah Children | Haemophilus influenzae can cause serious disease in children. After widespread use of the H. influenzae serotype b (Hib) vaccine, H. influenzae serotype a (Hia) became a significant cause of invasive infection in Utah. Although most Utah Hia isolates belong to a sequence type theorized to be less in... | 2021 | |
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Danielson, Hailey | If i should die before i wake | In my senior year at the University of Utah, I edited and improved upon the movel I wrote in the Honors Novel Writing Workshop course taught by Michael Gills. My novel If I Should Die Before I Wake is the story of a young woman named Emma meeting a young man named Cale by coincidence, and how they s... | 2022 | |
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Child, Skylee | Imaining an ultimate approach to the healthcare system in the 21st century | 2023 | ||
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Vyas, Yash | Immigrants and financial capability in Canada | Immigration has accounted for 65% of Canadian population growth for the past five years, and this percentage is growing. By 2035, immigration is expected to account for nearly all of Canada's net population growth. As the number of immigrants continue to grow, many are beginning to wonder if immigra... | 2023 | |
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Kendell, Isaac | Immunomodulation improves cancer cell clearance by T cells during multi-antigent T cell hybridizer therapy | Treatment of hematopoietic malignancies is challenging due to systemic side effects of current treatments and the possibility of relapse. Multi-antigen T cell hybridizer (MATCH) therapy is a novel treatment system composed of antibody fragments conjugated with morpholino oligonucleotides, which hybr... | 2024 | |
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Larson, Jack | The impact of paid family leave on fertility rates in the U.S. | This analysis seeks to determine the impact of paid family leave (PFL) laws on fertility rates across the United States, where, unlike in other industrialized nations, no federal mandate exists. The study focuses on the six states that implemented PFL laws prior to 2021 and explores how these polici... | 2024 | |
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Brown, Athena | The impact of social media on behaviors and attitudes toward television advertsiing | Since the year 2000, the average attention span has dropped from 12 seconds to eight seconds (Microsoft, 2015). This weakened ability to focus may be the result of an increased use of social media by today's society. On social media platforms, the content shared is mainly short-form content, meaning... | 2023 | |
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Quinn, Chloe | The impact of the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River: options for the future | The Grand Canyon and the Colorado River at its base are iconic natural features of the western United States that are revered by many. This landscape may be well known for its resplendent red canyon walls and beautiful river with huge whitewater, but it is also famous for the monstrous dams that con... | 2023 | |
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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 |