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Simon, Philip C. | A study of the optimized load of a traveling wave thermoacoustic heat engine | Thermal interaction between differentially heated solid material and ambient gas in a resonator can lead to self-sustained oscillations or the transportation of heat in accordance with the thermoacoustic effect, first explained by Lord Rayleigh. In this research the phenomenon is employed in a lo... | Thermoacoustic engine - Research; Energy conservation | 2016-03 |
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Chan, Ka Ho | A survey of exchange rate systems with focus on currency boards and on Hong Kong's experience in particular | The choice of an exchange rate regime can make or break a regional economy. While a stable currency is useful to businesses, exchange rate flexibility also has its proponents. This thesis will first describe a brief history of exchange rate systems. Then, it will provide a survey and analysis of the... | Foreign exchange rates - China - Hong Kong; Currency boards - China - Hong Kong | 2014-05 |
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Poggio, Catherine Antoinette | A survey of qualitative research of experiences within women's health throughout a person's lifetime | The women's healthcare system encompasses a variety of milestone events a person could experience within their lifetime. The aim of this literature review is to describe themes, reflect upon the participant and physician relationship, and create an understanding for what happens within the realm of ... | 2021 | |
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Ashurst, Blayze | A telemetry communication system for ucubesat | The goal of U CubeSat club at the University of Utah is to launch the University of Utah's first CubeSat into space, and thus inspire future engineering students at the U to develop and launch increasingly capable CubeSats. My contributions to this project was to determine the requir... | 2022 | |
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Sullivan, Steven M. | A trace formula for G2 | An n-dimensional matrix representation of a group G on a vector space V is a homomorphism from G to GL(V). For our purposes, we consider an irreducible representation to be a representation which cannot be decomposed into the direct sum of smaller-dimensional representations. Let H be a subgroup of ... | Trace formulas | 2013-05 |
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Wall, Alyssa Victoria Mae | A tradition of appropriation of culture for political gain: Music in Korea | Although appropriation of music by political organizations and individuals is a practice in no way unique to Korea, analysis of the phenomenon on the peninsula provides valuable insight its strength in real-world political arenas. This project provides an analysis of the appropriation of music for ... | Music - Korea - History; Cultural property | 2016-05 |
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Saifee, Zahra | A value-based exploration of Zion National Park and assessment of future solutions | This thesis is a case study which explores the development of Zion National Park. Currently, National Parks as a whole, and Zion National Park in particular, face issues of environmental degradation, lack of racial diversity, and the erasure of indigenous history. However, the most challenging part ... | 2022 | |
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Johnson, Bennett | A Wideneing Divide: An Examination of Constitutional Polarization in Supreme Court Nomination Hearings | At its core, this paper seeks to explore polarization and partisanship within Supreme Court nomination hearings. The role partisanship plays in contemporary nomination hearings has appeared to increase greatly, leaving many wondering if the Supreme Court has lost its sanctity as a neutral arbiter of... | 2020 | |
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Palomaki, Kya | A world without nukes: International relations perspectives | What if nuclear weapons had been neither invented nor discovered? This is the question I take into consideration in this paper. This interesting scenario begs the answer parroted by bloggers and students of politics alike-without nuclear weapons, there would be nothing to stop belligerents from inva... | Security, International; International relations; Nuclear weapons; World politics -- 21st century | 2015-05 |
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Bowe, Abigail | Abigail Bowe: Art Portfolio 2020 Life Drawings and Character Design | This year, I've worked to improve my skillset in concept and character design. With my emphasis in animation and minor in drawing under my Film & Media Arts major. I've dedicated most of my coursework to learning about the elements of design, character appeal and artistic development. This part sem... | 2020 | |
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Anderson, Jay T. | Abnormal Stock Returns and Hurricanes Event Study of the five Most Destructive Hurricanes to make Landfall in the United States Since 2005 | This paper tests how stock prices respond to information that may affect a company's value in a material fashion. I evaluate stock price reactions to the five most destructive hurricanes to make landfall in the United States since 2005. The event study aims to analyze short-term stock price reaction... | 2017 | |
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Kehr, David | Abnormal Stock Returns and Venture Capital Funding Event Study of Six Down Round Venture Capital Funding Announcement Dates | This paper analyzes the reaction of stock prices to the announcement of a round of financing raised by a venture capital-backed firm at a valuation lower than in a previous round. The event study is performed to analyze short-term stock price reactions prior to and following the announcement of a do... | 2018 | |
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Blanton, Joseph P. | AC Magnetic Susceptibility of Sub-Millimeter Superconductor Samples at Extreme Conditions | Superconductivity is a unique state of matter observed at cryogenic temperatures in many materials. Superconductors are defined as materials that have zero DC electrical resistance and perfect diamagnetism below a critical transition temperature, Tc. These properties are very useful for many applica... | 2018 | |
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Hodgson, Keeton R. | Accelerating DNA Sequence Alignment | Precision medicine can provide breakthroughs in current medical technology and treatment. The ability to prescribe a speci#12;c cure to a speci#12;c disease for a spe- ci#12;c person can greatly reduce the cost of medical treatments, reduce mistakes in the medical #12;eld, and increase the e#11;ecti... | 2018 | |
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Oritt, Madeleine | Accessibility to HIV/AIDS medications in resource-limited countries | This research examines the impact of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) on accessibility to HIV/AIDS medications for populations in resource-limited countries. This World Trade Organization agreement created provisions by which these countries can obtain o... | 2013 | |
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Jones, David | Accounting in State and Local Governments | Cash-basis accounting, the antecedent of the increasingly popular accrual-basis model of accounting, recognizes economic events in financial statements when the cash inflows or outflows associated with those transactions occur. This framework is intuitive and straightforward to apply, as each transa... | 2022 | |
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Turner, Joselyn | Accurate communication : explaining a medical technology to a mass audience | The purpose of this thesis project is to describe the process I have taken, and that others could follow, to use the written communication tecliniques that I have learned during my undergraduate career to accurately inform a non-medically trained mass audience of a medical technology. Clear communic... | Medical technology; Communication and technology | 2013-05 |
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Porras, Adrian M. | Acoustic emission monitoring on reinforced concrete frames with improved seismic resilience | In modern structural engineering, reinforced concrete (RC) structures are wildly adopted due to their strength in resisting compressional and flexural loads. Moreover, RC structures can be precast or cast-in-place and have been used for many applications, such as footings, beams, and columns. Howeve... | damage; structure; Moreover | 2020 |
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Shapiro, Darien | Activation of transient receptor potential ankyrin-1 by wood smoke particulate material | Exposure to wood smoke particulate matter (WSPM) has been linked to exacerbation of pre-existing respiratory conditions such as asthma, development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and premature deaths. While it is clear that WSPM exposure is hazardous to human health, the molecular ... | Smoke; Physiological effect | 2012-05 |
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Lillquist, John | Active Cadence Braking (ACB) for Safer Recreational Rehabilitation | Recreational rehabilitation is a proven way to provide a therapeutic experience and enhancement of quality of life for individuals with disabilities. The Mountain Chair is a device developed for individuals with high level traumatic spinal cord injuries (HL-SCI) to provide them with a system compara... | ||
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Pollock, Chaniece | Addressing the emotional health of college students through a therapuetic cooking class | This study hypothesized that a unique cooking class, focusing on cooking and mindful eating to reduce stress, had the potential to improve the emotional health of college students. Cooking meals is shown to improve physical health, but there is a limited amount of research tying cooking skills to em... | College students; emotional health; Cooking; Health aspects | |
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Zimmerman, Danielle N. | Adherence engineering in a central line dressing change | Infections associated with Central Line Dressing Changes (CLDC) represent a significant cost in healthcare and human life, with approximately 250,000 cases a year and costs of up to $29,000 per single episode (OʼGrady et al., 2002; Shannon et al., 2006). The introduction of a kit designed in accord... | Intravenous catheterization; Complications; Bandages and bandaging | 2014-05 |
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Calder, Dallen | Adipocyte enhancer binding protein 1 (AEBP1) as a potential therapeutic target to combat cardiac fibrosis | Fibrosis is one of the major hallmarks of heart failure (HF) progression and is characterized by fibroblast activation and excess extracellular matrix (EMC) deposition. RNA sequencing of myocardial tissue acquired from HF patients showed a significant upregulation of adipocyte enhancer binding prote... | 2022 | |
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Hardy, Clinton J. | Adolescent perception of negative admission pressures and affective reactions in outdoor behavioral healthcare | This represents the first empirical inquiry into the perception of negative admission pressures (P-NAPs; e.g., perception of force or threat associated with entering treatment) among adolescents. Prior to this report, P-NAPs had only been studied within adult treatment contexts. In this study, P-NAP... | Adventure therapy for teenagers - Psychological aspect; Teenagers - Counseling of | 2014-04 |
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Brown, Victoria | Adthing: a Student Experience | The University of Utah is known for their experiential learning experiences for students. The Dean of the David Eccles School of Business (Dean Randall), wanted to further this concept in his own programs, specifically in the marketing discipline. The idea and focus is to create a student advertisin... | 2018 | |
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Willis, Hannah | Advancing the right to health: lessons for improving the negotiation powers of Medicare | The United States (US) spends more per capita on prescription drugs than other high-income countries (Sarnak, Squires & Bishop, 2017). Yet, the high cost of drugs does not translate to better health outcomes. In fact, the US has a significantly lower life expectancy at birth and higher death rates f... | 2023 | |
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Jackson, Dale Jay | Aerodynamic mixing losses and discharge coefficients due to film cooling from a symmetric turbine airfoil in transonic flow | Aerodynamic losses and discharge coefficients are obtained for two different Pratt and Whitney axisymetric turbine airfoils with film cooling holes. Blade 3 results are given for the blowing ratios, of 0.42, 0.73, and 1.28. The pressure ratios are 1.18, 1.45, and 2.07 for the "ambient" tests and 1.1... | Mechanical Engineering | 1998-12 |
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Miller, Matthew | The Affordable Care Act and the Future of us Healthcare: Consumer Driven Care and Value Driven Care | Healthcare in the United States has drastically changed over the last two hundred years. Today, the United States has the most technologically advanced medical care in the world. But, as a result, costs have soared and currently account for 17% of the GDP, which is significantly higher than in other... | 2017 | |
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Pannier, Samantha T. | African Americans, women, and the 1910 Flexner report: progressive medical reform and professional exclusion | Between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century the American medical profession expanded greatly both in size and in attention paid to scientific knowledge. During this time African Americans, women, and even African American women gained access to medical education through the prolifera... | Medicine - Study and teaching - United States; Women in medicine - United States; African Americans in medicine - United States | 2016-04 |
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Sivo, Jacob | Agile in the Wild - An in-Depth look into EAE Student Development Practice | There have been works produced on Agile techniques and their e#11;ectiveness in terms of both actual project progress as well as human factors, especially in industry. There are many training programs that companies enroll their employees in, such as ASPE. In these training programs, individuals are... | 2019 | |
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Loftus, Patrick D. | Agonist binding of herg K+ channels inhibits epithelial cell extrusion but not apoptosis in MDCK monolayers; providing possibilities to cancer metastasis regulation | Metastasis is commonly referred to as cancerous cell movement from an original site to one or more sites elsewhere in the body. When these moving cancerous cells are malignant, an individual's chance of survival is decreased. In order for epithelial cells to move they are detached from the epitheliu... | Biomedical Engineering | 2012-01 |
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Arave, Rowan A. | AKT1 activation promotes the development of melanoma metastasis | Metastases are the major cause of melanoma-related mortality. Previous studies implicating aberrant AKT (or protein kinase B) signaling in human melanoma metastases led to the evaluation of the effect of activated AKT1 expression in non-metastatic BRAFV600E/cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor 2a nu... | Melanoma; genetics; research; metastasis; genetics; research; biochemistry; genetics | 2015-12 |
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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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Green, Jared | Algebraic reconstruction optimization through precomputation of weights matrix | There are several methods for volumetric scene analysis. This research focuses on real-time optimization of the ray-driven projector for forward and backward projections in the application of medical x-ray imaging. One of the current methods used by Computed Tomography systems to produce 3D medical ... | 2021 | |
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Kavalam, Nisha | Alternative breaks: The integration of community engagement and social justice | Alternative Breaks is a national practice among higher education institutions in the United States: programs vary in structures, but essentially students and staff/faculty participate in a week of service and education in another community, domestically or internationally, around a specific social i... | Service learning; Alternative breaks | 2015-12 |
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Stannius, Austin Gunter | America's Jihad: The constructivist prescriptions for military strategy within the Islamic world | Since 2001, the United States of America has lead a frustrating and often complex Global War on Terror. Efforts have shown small effect in nation building and difficulty in obtaining longitudinal results from counter insurgency efforts. Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, conduct... | Operation Iraqi Freedom - United States; Operation Enduring Freedom - United States; Iraq war, 2003-2011- Afghanistan | 2014-05 |
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Keate, Max (Makayla) | The American dream: how befief in meritocracy impacts the U.S. prison system | The United States continues to unquestionably violate the human rights of incarcerated individuals. Further, the nation does so with a general disregard to whether or not U.S. prison policies effectively prevent crime or in fact exacerbate it. This paper posits that widespread American belief in rad... | 2023 | |
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Williams, Savannah | American Exceptionalism and its Roles in Foreign Intervention and Culture | American exceptionalism is a multi-faceted concept with not one simple definition. These facets are not mutually exclusive, but are in fact intertwined. One facet endorses the United States as an "exceptional" nation with an equally "exceptional" story - rising from a group of British colonies to no... | 2014 | |
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Allen, Marina | The American revolution's impact on women's property rights: the changes in the legal property rights of women in the United States from 1765 to the present | This study details the shaping of women's property rights in the United States as it proceeds from the American Revolution. This specific event formed multiple political, social, and legal standards that are both visible and unseen in the postmodern United States. The associated literature for revie... | The American Revolution; women's property rights; paradigm; The United States | 2023 |
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Isom, Anika | Amniotic fluid treatment of vocal fold injury in an in vivo rabbit model | Hyaluronic acid (HA) injectables are a standard treatment for vocal fold injuries in both clinical and research settings. Results from these treatments are not permanent, however, and may vary in effectiveness. Because of this, there is a significant clinical interest in finding an alternative for H... | Vocal folds; rheology; wound healing of vocal folds; hyaluronic acid; amniotic fluid; regenerative medicine | 2022 |
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Byers, Athena | An account of white saviorism | White saviorism -- the phenomenon whereby White people lend assistance to non-White people and either see themselves, or are encouraged to see themselves, as "saving" those people -- has slowly gained more public awareness in recent years. There are many fields in which White saviorism arises, such ... | simplicity; humanitarian | 2021 |
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Seastrand-Bachynski, Sara Jayne | An act to decrease childhood obesity rates in the U.S. | The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 was signed into law in order to address alarming childhood obesity rates in the U.S. In this paper, I address the importance of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 and how it enhances child health by improving the food environment for children in public ... | Childhood obesity; Utah | 2014-05 |
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Chavez, Nestor M. | An analysis of anxiety, depression, PTSD, and resilience in prelicensure nursing students during a global pandemic | The COVID-19 pandemic has been a global tragedy. These unprecedented times have created and continue to create traumatic events: emotional stress, anxiety, and potentially depression and PTSD for many US residents (CDC, 2021). These negative feelings can be described as stressful emotions, an overwh... | nurses; COVID 19 | 2021 |
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Jones, Tanner | An analysis of stress patterns in bolognese | Bolognese, the language native to Bologna, Italy, exhibits a stress pattern that is mostly predictable, and tends to be word-final. This pattern becomes more interesting when it interacts with other phonotactic and morphophonological constraints. The two most prominent influences that cause stress t... | 2024 | |
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Gonzalez, Marcos David | An Analysis of the Court of Arbitration system: Status & Power Through the Lens of Laugther | Laughter is a nonverbal communication that demonstrates status and power across contexts such as hospital wards, fraternities, and even the United States Supreme Court. While it may be humorous in nature, the implications of laughter as a symbol that gathers perceived status, a mediator of social hi... | United States; Court of Arbitration | 2020 |
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Gonzalez, Juan Carlos | An analysis of Utah's Chicano civil rights movement through S.O.C.I.O. and its involvement in affirmative action programs, 1964-1984 | Utah's Chicano Civil Rights Movement developed under unique circumstances in comparison to the greater Chicano Civil Rights Movement in the Southwestern States. While Chicanos outside of Utah chose to march, boycott and have sit-ins, those in Utah worked alongside government officials in order to ac... | SOCIO; Hispanic Americans; civil rights; Utah; Chicano movement; history; affirmative action programs | 2013-05 |
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Arnoholt, Alayna | An analysis on the influence of anxiety in post error slowing | Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders and affect 15.7 million Americans each year (Lépine, 2002, p. 4). Anxiety is associated with reduced productivity, physical distress, and other diseases such as depression. Anxiety could also be influential in error response (Compton et a... | Americans | 2021 |
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Meier, John E. | An evaluation of the quality of contemporary ray tracing methods on architectural materials | Predictive computer graphics can be used to visualize the appearance of an object or scene from a virtual design. A seminal experiment in that field was performed in 1984 to evaluate the perceptual quality of computer graphics images with a physical model of the scene. The original study was limited... | Ray tracing algorithms | 2009-05 |
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Maciel, Alexa | An examination of chronic patients receiving psychosocial support through online health communities | People living with chronic diseases are increasingly utilizing the internet for healthrelated reasons. The existence of Online Health Communities (OHCs) allows for chronic patients to easily connect with similarly diagnosed patients and keep track of medical records. The purpose of this thesis is to... | 2021 | |
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Jabini, Mohammad Emad | An Examination of Switchover Costs | This thesis project focuses on firm strategies that target consumer switchover costs of three industries: pharmaceuticals, information technology, and food processing. The project explores those that involve increasing customer dependency, predatory marketing, and hidden fees, which improve firms' b... | 2018 |