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Jordan, Benjamin Waltz | From sewer to soil: planetary boundaries, metabolic rift and Salt Lake City's wastewater treatment | Salt Lake City's water resource recovery facility (WRRF) is undergoing a multi-year upgrade in order to reduce nitrogen-induced eutrophication in the Great Salt Lake. Carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles all converge at WRRFs where they can, in part, be managed. In this paper, I perform a general... | | 2021 |
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Parker, Dwight | From the margins to the middle: a patient-centered approach to primary care for refugees in Utah | In a country where even English-speaking minorities are often at a disadvantage, refugees' circumstances - especially as a result of social instability, language and cultural differences, level of education, and income - can render the American health care system frightening, inaccessible, incompreh... | Immigrants - United States; Health care - United States | 2012-05 |
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Narasipura, Eshan Amruth | Full synthesis of enzymatically cleavable linker between 929-designed ankyrin repeat protein and 17-dimethlyamino geldanamycin | Targeted cancer therapeutics are an important and promising field of cancer research due to their ability to reduce the off target effects produced in other therapies such as chemotherapy. Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADC) are one such therapeutic that specifically target cancer cells through antibody-... | | 2021 |
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Pham, John V. | The function of the protein VCP/CDC48-associated mitochondrial stress-responsive 1 in mammals | Although mitochondrial dysfunction has been linked to many human diseases, mitochondrial interacting proteins and protein quality controls are just beginning to be understood. The objective of our study was to characterize the function of the VMS1 protein in mammals. We determined the role of Vms1 o... | Mitochondrial disorders; Mitochondrial diseases - genetics; VMS1 | 2012-05 |
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Gardner, Shalyce | Functional test for possible genetic modififers of piga defficiency | PIGA deficiency is a rare X-linked recessive disorder that lacks effective treatment options. A protein encoded by the PIGA gene catalyzed the first step in biosynthesis of Glycosylphatidylinositol (GPI) anchors. Partial loss of function mutations in PIGA can prevent a cell from being able to synthe... | | 2023 |
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Lethaby, Aidan | Functional validation and improvement of a low-cost control system for assistive robotic devices | The goal of this research is to increase the affordability of portable and intuitive control systems for assistive robotic devices used by patients and researchers. Current control systems are either expensive or utilize unintuitive inputs such as foot-mounted inertia measurement units (for prosthes... | | 2022 |
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Ward, Bridget E. | Functionalizing a hemagglutinin epitope tag for induced mitochondrial protein degradation in saccharomyces cerevisiae | Mitochondria are organelles known for their role in many critical cellular processes including the production of metabolic energy in eukaryotic cells. In order to produce this energy, mitochondria continually transport metabolites across the impermeable mitochondrial inner membrane. The transport of... | | 2022 |
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Zhang, Conan | Fund Raising Game Development Through Crowdfunding | This paper seeks to formally review and evaluate a Kickstarter campaign launched by a team of five students at the University of Utah. First, an introduction to the topic and its environment is outlined to clarify where the project came from. Next, an overview of the product's design and development... | | 2017 |
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Capener, Jacob | G Protein-Coupled resecptor kinase 2 mediated phosphorylation for The Activation of Smoothened | The Hedgehog (Hh) pathway is a cell signaling pathway that is involved in embryonic development and adult tissue maintenance in vertebrates. Improper functioning of this pathway can lead to developmental disorders and several forms of cancer. Despite the pathway's biological importance, the transduc... | | 2020 |
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Imig, Julie | Galactic Evolution of Phosphorus and Sulfur Using Star Clusters | The chemical composition of a galaxy changes as it evolves, so understanding the evolutionary processes of individual elements can be powerful tools in unravelling the history of a galaxy. Phosphorus is considered one of the key building blocks of life, and sulfur is an alpha-element, a tracer of su... | | 2017 |
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Spackman, James | Game feel development analysis of student game final project | Game feel expresses the unique "feeling" a game provides to the player and is seen as an underdeveloped language that game developers are looking to leave their mark on. Achieving good game feel is challenging and requires a substantial number of resources through slow incremental developmental test... | | 2023 |
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Sencion, Maglay | Gardens on food security and health of resettled refugees in the Salt Lake City Area | There are several nutritional challenges that refugees and immigrants face during and after migration. Often, they arrive in their new countries with nutrition deficiencies due to cultural and language barriers, poor housing, and low socioeconomic conditions. Following their arrival, recently resett... | | 2023 |
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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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Mothershead, Alaina | Gay Cuba: Oppression Under the Revolutionary Government | Following the otherwise socially progressive Cuban revolution, government-sponsored homophobia and anti-gay state-sponsored popular culture constructed a narrative to separate homosexuality from revolutionary modernity and instead associate it with U.S. decadence, therefore justifying the persecutio... | | 2019 |
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Nielson, Clark | Gel-Cast fluorapatite scaffolding for bone repair | Calcium-phosphate bioceramics have long been attempted as replacement bone substitutes due to their resemblance to the mineral component of natural bone tissue, and because their dissolution byproducts can elicit new bone growth. Many studies have demonstrated that fluoridated hydroxyapatite, or flu... | | 2021 |
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Du Pre, Jessie J. | Gender differences in recollected consistency or change in same sex sexuality across the lifespan: Measuring linkages between flexibility in sexual attraction, behavior, and love propensity | The flexibility of same sex attractions, engagement in same sex sexual behaviors, and propensity to fall in love with same sex partners were examined by assessing selfreported change over time in men and women of heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual orientations. We sought to examine whether the l... | Same sex attraction; Gender differences | 2015-12 |
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Hatch, Kyleigh M. | Gender differences in the correlations between mobile personal financial management technology and financial outcomes | | | 2021 |
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Tibolla, tyler | Gendered differences in advertisting | A growing number of consumers find it important that companies take a stand on social issues and begin to support those businesses more who align with their personal views. If corporations continue to ignore large percentages of the population, they cannot meet the needs of those consumers. There is... | | 2022 |
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Herbert-Voss, Ariel | Generating audio mixtures using deep convolutional neural networks | Deep neural networks have recently been used in a generative capacity to separate and convolve the content and style of two input images. This is done using a joint cost function during gradient descent that encodes information about style and content to iteratively calculate forward node activation... | Computer sound processing; Computer music; Machine learning; Neural networks; Audio mixtures; Spectrograms; Split integer scaling | 2016-05 |
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Loret, Amy | Genetic Modifiers of Severity in Collagen VI-Related Muscular Dystrophy | Collagen VI-related muscular dystrophies (COL6-RD) display phenotypic heterogeneity that includes mild Bethlem myopathy (BM), intermediate (INT), and severe Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy (UCMD) phenotypes. COL6-RD are characterized by mutations within the collagen VI genes (COL6A1, COL6A2, a... | | 2019 |
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Rahmati, Kasra | Genetically Modified Chemotaxis Signaling Protein Chey Binds to the Rotor Protein Flin to Control the Direction of Flagellar Rotation in Escherichia Coli | Bacterial chemotaxis is the directed movement of a bacterium in response to environmental chemical stimuli. Cells of E. coli, for example, swim by rotating their flagella and direct their movement by regulating reversals between counterclockwise (CCW) and clockwise (CW) rotation. The switch from CCW... | | 2020 |
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Scott, Brooklyn | Genomic insights into lineage specific differences in macaque social behavior | Studies of behavioral variation in primates are increasingly examining the role that genes have in determining social styles. The genus Macaca, for which phylogeny plays a central role in behavior, represents a useful group to explore behavioral genetics. Differences in macaque aggression and age of... | | 2021 |
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Acosta, Lehi | Genotype-dependent susceptibility to influenza and titer-virulence discordance | The influenza a virus (IAV) is a major source of human mortality and both recent and anticipated pandemics make understanding this major human pathogen of paramount importance1,2. The use of mouse models allows us to experimentally manipulate critical variables to more fully understand the dynamics ... | Influenza A virus - Research; Mice as laboratory animals - Research; Transmissibility; Virulence; Viral titers; Erythropoeintin | 2016-05 |
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Bischoff, Sarah | Genre Experimentation and Argumentative Efficacy in Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans and Viet Thanh Nguyen's the Sympathizer | In Contesting Genres in Contemporary Asian American Fiction, Betsy Huang posits that genre experimentation within Asian American literature rebels against the xenophobic histories of various crime genres. This thesis contests that view, reading genre experimentation as both a defying of genre histor... | | 2018 |
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Le, Bao Gia | The geometry of bivariate splines on triangulated polygons | | | 2022 |