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301 Fontaine, NickEvaluating conductive pedot:PSS hydrogel in promoting neural rehabilitationPeripheral nervous injuries (PNI) affect millions of individuals every year and present a significant challenge for physicians. Surgeons have used suturing techniques to repair short sections of damaged nervous tissue, but past a critical distance must resort to nerve guidance conduits (NGC). One ma...2022
302 Cocke, Rebecca C.Evaluating the Catalytic Activity of Iron and Nickel Impurities in Bare High-Pressure High-Temperature NanodiamondMany metal nanoparticles are used as catalysts for various reactions and are held on supports. High-Pressure High-Temperature nanodiamonds (HPHT ND) are able to support metal nanoparticles even under strenuous chemical environments due to their robust nature. The production of HPHT ND includes the u...2018
303 Mason, IndigoEvaluating, implementing, and supporting sexual health programming for young adults at The University of UtahSex, sexuality, and reproduction are intimately tied to what it means to be human. The field of sexual and reproductive health explores the nuances and connections between intimacy, pregnancy, and birth with economic, social, and political power. Even though the field has made remarkable strides, st...2021
304 Goel, DivyamEvidence-based medicine in times of crises: what we can learn from covid-19 to adapt early on in a pandemicEvidence-based medicine (EBM) is the current philosophical paradigm by which contemporary healthcare practices are guided. A related field, evidence-based public health (EBPH), similarly advises practices in the field of public health. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated weaknesses in th...2022
305 Grandy, HaileyExamining the associations between maternal intrusiveness and detachment and cognitive and language skills in 18-month-old childrenSensitive parenting refers to the degree to which a parent responds to a child's needs punctually and appropriately. In contrast, insensitive parenting occurs when a parent is less attuned to their child's needs and often comes in two distinct forms: detachment and intrusiveness. Detachment occurs w...2023
306 Stitt, JohnExamining the associations between maternal sensitivity and infant responses to the still face paradigmThe Still Face Paradigm is used to assess infants' responses to the absence of normal social interaction with the parent. Infants' responses to this moderately stressful task - both physiologically and behaviorally - can help us understand how emotion regulation develops during infancy. The current ...2021
307 Salmi, Luciana P.Examining the Combined Effects of Social Support and Maternal Prenatal Mood on Newborn NeurobehaviorA large body of research shows that exposure to maternal prenatal anxiety may be linked to adverse birth outcomes and impaired psychophysiological functioning in infancy (Barker, Jaffee, Uher, & Maughan, 2011). The majority of research has been focused on birth outcomes leaving a gap in the literatu...2018
308 Victorine, PaigeExamining the DBT ways of coping checklist and therapist expectancies as predictors of success in DBT gift group participantsResearchers have long focused on which variables play a role in managing the stress-illness relationship, and more specifically, emotion dysregulation (Linehan, 1993; McCrae, 1984). The current study examined psychologically dysregulated individuals (n=22), who had been recommended by their primary...Dialectical behavior therapy2016-04
309 Melby, Lindsey RoseExamining the effects of alcohol use and post-traumatic stress disorder on deployment-related traumatic brain injuries through measurements of subcortical volume changesCurrently, our accuracy in predicting the lasting effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is low, due to large sample heterogeneity. Possible negative lasting effects of TBI include mental health disorders and substance use disorders (SUDs). Links between TBI, alcohol use, and Post-Traumatic Stress ...individuals; PTSD symptoms; subcortical2024
310 Flach, BrianExamining the effects of whisker trimming on mouse brain cell growthHoxb8 microglia are a particular breed of scavenger cells in the brain which have been related to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)-like behavior among other behavioral disorders. These cells have been found to reach full maturity during a period of neurological development known as the critical ...Obsessive-compulsive disorder - Research; Microglia - Research; Mice as laboratory animals - Research; Whiskers; Scavenger cells; Hoxb8 microglia2016-04
311 Shaaban, KarimExamining the Efficiency of Securities Ownership in the United StatesThe disastrous years following the Stock Market Crash of 1929 led to a series of reforms by President Roosevelt to stabilize the failing economy. The passing of the New Deal laws coupled with more recent laws passed by President Bush and President Obama have led to extensive regulation of the financ...2019
312 Turner, JacksonExpansion method for eigenvalue problems: theories, algorithms, and applicationsThe Laplacian operator plays a ubiquitous role in the differential equations that describe many physical systems. These include, for example, vibrating membranes, fluid flow, heat flow, and solutions to the Schrödinger equation. In this paper, we investigate a method to find the eigenfunctions of t...example; computation2021
313 Huntzinger, OliviaExperiences with public transit among older and younger adults experiencing homelessness in Salt Lake County, UtahThe population of people experiencing homelessness (PEH) over the age of 50 has risen in recent years. Low income individuals, especially PEH, have a higher need for public transit to meet basic needs, such as food, healthcare, shelter, and social connection. The purpose of this study was to better ...2022
314 Ryan StutsmanExplaining and evaluating the use of RDMA in high performance containersContainers are an increasingly popular packaging framework for complex applications, offering benefits such as lightweight isolation, portability, and ease of deployment. These benefits have the potential to solve a myriad of issues that have long been present in the high performance computing world...2022
315 Mroz, MaxExploration of Magnetic Field Actuated Strings of Spherical Magnets for Swimming Robot LocomotionRobots capable of operating in fluid have a variety of applications from biomedical devices to use in piping systems for monitoring and inspection. If these robots can be driven remotely by methods other than traditional motors, they can be less technologically complex, safer and more durable. The f...2017
316 Spurlock, Ella K.Exploration of the 2-dimensional π-d conjugated coordination polymer Cu-benzenehexathoilCoordination polymers (CPs) are a type of atomically precise material that has long been an area of study for materials chemists. Recently, research has advanced with twodimensional conjugated CPs as detailed synthetic schemes are developed to create highly atomically ordered, large-area sheets. The...2022
317 Weeks, RoryExploring the ecogothic in Marian Womack's "black isle"We live in a frightening time. It is an age of anxiety, loneliness, and terror as the looming specters of climate collapse and innumerable environmental crises enter unbidden into our reality to an ever-greater extent, to the point that we often just need to look outside in order to observe the horr...2021
318 Hansen, Luke FreedomExploring the Effects of Virtual Reality on Empathy and Charitable FundraisingThe focus of this Honors thesis is to explore the effects of Virtual Reality ("VR") on empathy. More specifically, the purpose is to compare and contrast the ability of VR to evoke empathy against that of traditional two-dimensional media ("2D"). To accomplish this I (alongside a group of my peers) ...2018
319 Day, BaileyExploring the ethical event horizon: assessing an approach to responsible siting in black hole imaging2024
320 Exploring the ethical event horizon: assessing an approach to responsible siting in black hole imagingThe field of astronomy has a history of approaching large-scale development projects with a limited gauge of the interests of stakeholders beyond the immediate scientific community. Traditional processes of decision-making have demonstrated little regard for the broader communities affected by major...2024
321 Reimers, NoelleExploring the role of lipied metabolism in hepatocellular carcinomaHepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an aggressive cancer with poor survival rates and limited treatment options whose prevalence is expected to increase up to 137% by 2030. Existing therapies outside of liver resection or transplantation have poor efficacy, and few new treatment options have been deve...2021
322 Davis, Kacey A.Expression and Purification of Augertoxins: Searching for Novel Protein Folds in Venomous Marine SnailsThis study describes a method for bacterial expression and purification of previously uncharacterized proteins. The proteins chosen for this study come from auger snail toxins, which have evolved to help the snail hunt and kill their prey. Evolutionary pressure between predator and prey selects for ...2018
323 Machado, LiamExtending Support for Floating-Points in the Boogie and Smack Software VerifiersSoftware verification, which aims to prove critical properties about programs using rigorous formal methods based on logic, is an active area of research in the field of computer science. In particular, the veri#12;cation of floating-points is a topic of paramount importance, given their ubiquity ac...Boogie's; verification; floating- point2019
324 Coplan, Caitlin DeniseFabrication and Application of Aluminum NanostructuresPlasmonics, the phenomenon resulting from light interactions with nanoscale structures, is an active field for nanoscale manipulation of light. By varying the metal, size, and shape, plasmonic nanostructures can be tuned to interact with a broad spectral range of light. Commonly used plasmonic mater...spectroscopies; photocatalysis; photovoltaics.2019
325 Erickson, MariahFalse hearing and the N400: the effects of linguistic context on language perceptionFalse hearing is a phenomenon where one mishears what has been said to them based on linguistic contextual cues used to make a prediction (Rogers et al., 2012). The incorrect hearing usually has similar phonemic properties to other likely words and syntactic relation to what was said prior. Our stud...2021
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