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Veenema, Arthur | The original: A process of producing a short film | The thematic goal of my short film The Original was to explore the blurred nature between reality and artificiality that arises from emerging technology. The Original questions an individual's place amongst the simulated realities that have come to compose our world. The concepts behind my script we... | Motion pictures -- Production and direction | 2014-12 |
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Hales, Laurel | Physics show and tell and elementary science education | It is a well-known fact that American children are performing below their peers in international science and mathematics examinations, leading to what is commonly called the STEM education crisis. This project was created in an attempt to resolve this crisis by improving elementary school science ed... | Science - Study and teaching (Elementary) - United States | 2014-05 |
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Radhakrishnan, Parvathi | PI3K inhibitors as potential new therapy against breast cancer progression | Receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) and their pleiotropic effectors play key roles in metastasis. Met and Ron are RTKs that have been shown to contribute to tumor growth and metastasis in both animal models and in patients. Recently, an alternative Ron isoform known as "short-form" Ron (sfRon) was asso... | Breast - Cancer - Treatment - Research; Protein - tyrosine kinase - inhibitors - Therapeutic use; Enzyme inhibitors - Therapeutic use. - Research; Biology - Research | 2014-05 |
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Mizero, Daniel | The political and regulatory challenges of effectively implementing an international accounting system | These are pivotal times in accounting history. Globalization, world trade and financial market integration have given international accounting standards increased relevance and priority. The possibility of worldwide use of a single set of international accounting standards could provide tremendous v... | International accounting standard | 2014-07 |
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Burns, Henrik | The political economy of international terms of trade and agricultural sustainability: The case of Cuba | For this thesis project I investigated the relationship between international terms of trade and agricultural sustainability for the case of Cuba. To understand the effect of trade relations on agricultural policy I explored Cuba's relationship with the Soviet Union, its largest trading partner betw... | Trade regulation - Cuba; Agriculture and state - Cuba; Cuba - Commerce | 2014-05 |
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Silver, Michelle Anne | Pre-sleep arousal in healthy adults reporting childhood trauma: implications for the development of insomnia | Childhood trauma is associated with increased mental and physical illness in adulthood. Disrupted sleep may be one mechanism by which trauma adversely affects health. Current literature states that sleep is essential in restoration of cognitive functioning and stress regulation. In addition, insomni... | Insomnia; Childhood trauma | 2014-04 |
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Richins, Luke | Preventing corporate fraud | This thesis is written with the purpose of exploring employee's perception of the effect of different methods of corporate fraud prevention on their own behavior. To accomplish this, this paper will explore the definition of fraud, potential prevention methods, and analyze data retrieved from a surv... | Corporations - Corrupt practices - Prevention; Fraud - Prevention | 2014-04 |
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Reiser, Alexander | Providing healthcare for the uninsured: How the media frames conflicting ideologies in achieving the same goal | Current coverage of the Affordable Care Act (AC A) is just one opportunity to analyze the use of media in framing health care policy. An examination of the history of media and their influence surrounding the implementation of the AC A in 2013 and a veto for additional funding of the State Children'... | Medical policy - United States; Medically uninsured persons - United States; Healthcare in mass media | 2014-08 |
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Parkinson, Angela Lei | Proving woman: From Heloise to Heloisian an examination of the authenticity debate surrounding the letters of Heloise of the Paraclete | This thesis examines and resists the tendency for a total subsumption of the identity of Heloise of the Paraclete, the 12th century abbess perhaps best known today for her tempestuous affair with Peter Abelard, within and under his identity. The authenticity debate surrounding the three letters addr... | Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164 -- Criticism and interpretation | 2014-11 |
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Saperstein, Elizabeth | Punctuated equilibrium and the Patriot Act 2001 | An all-encompassing theory to describe the policy-making process in modern political systems has yet to be determined. Therefore, no theory currently exists that uncontestably predicts future policy outcomes. In an attempt to describe the policy process and account for the process as one that fluctu... | Patriot Act (U.S.); Punctuated equilibrium (Evolution) | 2014-08 |
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Yoo, Chaekyung | Purification and physical characterization of intrinsically disordered lea protein from arabidopsis thaliana | For many decades, it was assumed that protein function was dependent on the ability of polypeptides to fold into stable three-dimensional structures specified by their amino acid sequences. But since about 2000, it has become apparent that there are functional proteins, or portions of proteins, that... | Intrinsically disordered proteins | 2014-08 |
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Thompson, Patrick C. | Redesigning communities: The case for utopias | This thesis studies the importance of Utopian city planning in attempting to transform our communities and solve the social issues faced throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries. Idealist city plans originated as a genre of literature dating back to the 16th Century, playing a vital social role throug... | Utopias -- United States City planning -- United States | 2014-05 |
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Bingham, Kouver | Reflection groups and coxeter groups | In this paper we give a survey of the theory of Coxeter Groups and Reflection groups. This survey will give an undergraduate reader a full picture of Coxeter Group theory, and will lean slightly heavily on the side of showing examples, although the course of discussion will be based on theory. We'll... | Finite groups | 2014-07 |
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Chon, Douk | Role of the trait neuroticism in stress processes and a possible link to cardiovascular disease | The dispositional approach to an individual's personality is well accepted throughout psychology, and neuroticism is one of the primary traits in this approach. Studies show that "persons high in neuroticism are self- critical and sensitive to the criticism of others" (Lahey, 2009, p.241).Neuroticis... | Neuroticism - Health aspects; Cardiovascular system - Diseases - Psychological aspects | 2014-04 |
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Freckleton, K. Beau | Sarrus-based passive mechanism for rotorcraft perchings: Structural design and mass optimization | Current quad-rotors provide excellent maneuverability and opportunity for data collection in large scale areas such as agriculture, but lack the capability to maintain flight for an extended period of time. This is primarily due to a lack of energy supply, requiring operators to replace the battery ... | Drone aircraft; Drone aircraft -- Control systems; Sarrus | 2014-12 |
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Streng, Tara Kay | Sexual assault within the American university system: A review of policies, student perspectives, and recommendations | Part I - University Sexual Assault Policy Analysis and Recommendations Objective: Sexual violence within the collegiate environment is a pressing issue within American society. One way to address sexual violence is through the adaptation and implementation of a sexual assault policy by colleges and ... | Sex crimes - United States; College students - Crimes against - United States | 2014-12 |
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Neofitos, Evangelos | Solid timber: emerging construction methods and materials | Today, more than ever, the construction industry, the architecture industry, and our environment is in dire need of renewable materials. Out of the multitude of standardized materials within the building industry, wood is the most sustainable. This research focuses on the evaluation of cross-laminat... | Building, Wooden - Design and construction; Laminated wood construction | 2014-05 |
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Vlasic, Kajsa | Storytelling and the patient experience: Narratives of breast cancer survivors | Through my young life, I have been fortunate enough to be surrounded and supported by a loving and extended family of mothers. Although I will only have one biological mom, I have collected other women as role models and confidantes who have guided and spoken words of encouragement through my most i... | Breast cancer patients' writings | 2014-12 |
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Farrall, Nicholas | Structural characterization of the full-length exocyst complex by transmission electron cryo-microscopy | The exocyst is a conserved octameric protein complex in eukaryotes that is essential for tethering and fusion of vesicles to the plasma membrane. Composed of eight subunits, it is essential for growth, secretion, and developmental processes and has been implicated in cell motility, autophagy, cell d... | Saccaromyces cerevisaie - Cytology; Cryomiscroscopy - Research | 2014-05 |
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Watkins, Ryan Davis | Suppression of lymphangiogenesis using VEGF-C trap | The lymphatic system is responsible for controlling systemic fluid buildup. Lymphangiogenesis is a dynamic process involving sprouting, and maintaining new lymphatic vasculature. Vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) is as a key growth factor that induces lymphangiogenesis by binding VEGF re... | Lymphatics - Growth; Vascular endothelial growth factors - Antagonists; Lymphangiogenesis; VEGF-C trap | 2014-05 |
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Sanchez, Eliana C. | Surgery or mutilation?: How autonomy can strengthen the anti-FGM movement | The World Health Organization (WHO) defines female genital mutilation as any alteration to the female external genitalia or genital organs for nonmedical reasons. This definition is both over- and under-inclusive. Western cosmetic surgeries, such as vaginal rejuvenation, are technically included in ... | Female genital mutilation | 2014-05 |
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Schwendiman, Lindsai Gren | Surrogacy and sisterhood: How female alliances challenge patriarchal society in Shakespeare | In Shakespeare's plays, women sometimes form alliances to protect each other from the oppressive patriarchal expectations of their time. These relationships often manifest as surrogate mother-daughter relationships, or a more sisterly connection. In Hamlet, Queen Gertrude adopts Ophelia as a surroga... | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women; Women in literature; Patriarchy in literature | 2014-12 |
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Atalaya, Candelaria | Time and light souvenirs | I was a young photography student in my home country of Peru when I built my first Pinhole camera as one of the many school assignments, and long before I came to United States. For my very first picture, I placed the Pinhole camera on the school patio the elements of the composition for the project... | Photography, Pinhole; Photography, Artistic | 2014-12 |
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Harrell, Haylee | To whom it may concern: a one act | What am I? My child you are caramel. You are white sugar, you are brown sugar, you are milk and butter and vanilla all heated into one. Sweet on the lips but strong and sticky-you are a treat, you are a gift, my child you are a decadence. But they call me mulatto…Mama don't like that word, best no... | American drama - 21st century | 2014-05 |
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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 |