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Woolf, Katie | There's Something About Syria: Using Foreign Military Intervention in the Syrian Civil War to Assess Predictabilityin International Relations | This paper utilizes three strands of International Relations (IR) theory: realism, constructivism, and leadership theory to inform the actions of the United States and Russia in their intervention in the Syrian Civil War. First, a brief overview of the case is presented along with a review of the th... | | 2020 |
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Tennant, Karrin | Competitive nighttime stomatal response of Populus Trichocarpa during drought | Stomata are critical valves responsible for gas exchange on the leaf level. They control rates of transpiration and as such play a crucial role in terrestrial water cycling. When stomata open, water molecules in the intracellular leaf space are subject to evaporation, especially in dry conditions. T... | | 2021 |
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Keyser, Madison | Utah's Nonprofits: Effects on the Economy and Ties to Gender Employment Inequality | | | 2018 |
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Manwill, Emmylou | Grassroots yet global: the Idle No More indigenous movement in twenty-first century Canada | The focus of this thesis is the indigenous sovereignty and land rights movement, selfidentified as the "Idle No More movement" (INM), that began in opposition to federal Canadian policies in December 2012. While Canadian natives have organized in resistance before, the INM movement sticks out compar... | Idle No More (Movement); Protest movements - Canada; Indigenous peoples - Canada | 2014-05 |
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Lingenfelter, Isobel | Drawing the map | The act of recognition was painful at many levels of my personhood. If someone has ignored or treated you as if you did not exist, you can understand the pain that is generated by having a lack of recognition. To realize at the eco-psychology conference that I had been r... | Bears Ears National Monument (Utah); Inter-Tribal Coalition; Land management and environmental policy - United States | 2016-05 |
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Johnson, Nicholas J. | The inflation reducation act's medicare part D drug price negotiation: an unlikely outcome | The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law on August 16, 2022, and the passage of this unassuming piece of legislation marks one of the most important advancements in health care policy in the United States. A key component of the law is its efforts to increase access and affordability of... | Medicare part d; inflation reduction act; drug price negotiation | 2024 |
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Fink, Susan | The role of emotion regulation in understanding the link between benefit finding and adherence in adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes | Adolescents with type 1 diabetes find managing their disease difficult and they often experience problems in adhering to their diabetes regimen. Adolescents who are able to find benefits from their diabetes may be able to maintain better diabetes management, in part as they are able to process and r... | | |
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Christian, Lauren Piper | Utilizing feedback from Utah families with asthmatic children to mitigate air pollution health consequences | Air pollution is an ongoing public health threat in the US and in Utah. While air pollution triggers asthma, we know little about what parents of asthmatic children think about what schools, health care providers and policymakers should do to improve air quality and their children's health. Data to ... | | 2022 |
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Meaux, Scott Alan | Borders of immunity redefined under the scope of scale | Borders. A line in the sand as it were, a place with a definite beginning and a hazy ending. Whether respected or disregarded, an entity that most simply can't ignore. The choice to see them as helpful or to ensure harm, divisiveness washes away all connotation. Often defined in the classroom as an ... | | 2022 |
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Bunker, Kerrigan | Understanding the current State of food-based mutual aid in Salt Lake City for community resilience | Salt Lake City experienced a growth in food-related mutual aid networks throughout the pandemic that sought to provide food to those without. But now we are approaching the end of the third year of a world with COVID-19, the current state of mutual aid initiatives varies. The current study seeks to ... | | 2023 |
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McDaniel, Tyler | Utah's Pathways to Higher Education: a Critical, Quantitative Analysis | This work uses linear and nonlinear models in order to predict student success and pathways in higher education in the state of Utah. Postsecondary Grade Point Average is used as a metric for success in higher education. Pathways are identified using clustering analyses, which group observations a... | Higher education and state - Utah; Higher education and state - United States; Low-income students - United States | |
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Baker, Margaret | Comparative morphology of chenopodium berlandieri seeds and fruits from cowboy cave, Utah: implications for cultivation and domestication | The ancient shift from collecting and gathering native plants to the cultivation and domestication of those species was one of the most significant evolutionary transitions in human history. Due to recent advancements in archaeological techniques, the geographic occurrences of prehistoric plant cul... | Plants - Utah | 2016-05 |
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Galinat, Shelby | Bipyrimidine solubility modeling for applications in NON-Aqueous redox flow batteries | Energy storage research has undergone transformative changes in the past 50 years. The increasingly concerning threat of climate change has emphasized the need for energy storage technology to facilitate renewable energy incorporation into the grid. Without energy storage, the fluctuations of wind a... | | 2022 |
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Li, Danika | Understanding State-Sponsored Violence: Tiananmen Square | The Tiananmen Square Massacre presents an interesting puzzle to political scientists, as it contradicts traditional strategic theory that attacking one's own civilians erodes a government's base of power. The massacre defies these expectations through the ensuing decades of iron control the Communis... | | 2018 |
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Fuchs, Madeline | A case study on perceptions of homeless abatements in Salt Lake County | Homelessness impacts 12,442 Utahns every year. Several of these people live in encampments, these areas are particularly problematic because they often become places of heightened health, sanitation, and safety concerns. In order to mitigate these issues, several municipalities within Salt Lake Coun... | | 2023 |
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Jeff Rose | A case study on perceptions of homeless abatements in Salt Lake County | | | 2023 |
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Robertson, Stuart J. | Development of a Microbial Fuel Cell for Hypersaline Wastewater Treatment Applications | The proper treatment of wastewater generated by human activity is of paramount importance for the preservation of the quality of water sources. For effluents containing high salt concentrations, treatment requires expensive methods that require high energy usage and additional chemicals. Halotoleran... | | 2019 |
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Luong, Katie | An examination of the relationship between positive covid-19 infection and vaccine hesitancy within the Utah recover study population | Vaccine hesitancy is defined by the World Health Organization as a "delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite availability of vaccination services," and is affected by a wide range of factors. Some of these factors identified in the literature include perceived safety and importance of vacc... | | 2023 |
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Stoddard, Henry | The Importance of Planning in Rural Communities | City and Metropolitan Planning as a discipline is largely focused on the development and problem solving of dense urban living areas. This is largely due to the fact that urban areas contain the most people, therefore they require careful planning in order to function properly. It makes sense. But t... | | 2020 |
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Kaur, Kiman | The Intersections of Gender, Race, and the Environment: How can Queer Ecology Shift Power and Place in Ecosystems? | Colonization and colonialism in the United States (U.S.) create flawed social constructions of race and gender that perpetuate a hierarchical dominance of power based on one's identity. This hierarchy of power overwhelmingly marginalizes communities of color, especially womxn1 of color, while uplift... | | 2018 |
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Hawkins, Lisa | The social market: Commitment to responsibility in a changing generation | As the partisan divide in U.S. politics grows wider, actionable and proactive policy making becomes more difficult to achieve. To address growing social issues, then, a more flexible and evidence-based approach must be realized. In the last 40 years, the United States has employed varying levels of ... | Public opinion; Social responsibility of business | 2016-05 |
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Franklin, Jacob | Running forward | Founded in 2009 by Jacob Franklin and John Asher, Running Forward, is a non-profit organization that encourages healthy lifestyle choices in elementary school aged boys and girls by emphasizing nutrition, physical fitness, and personal growth through a mentality of empowerment. Running is the primar... | Running for children; Success - Psychological aspects | 2012-12 |
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Anderson, Lucius | The transhuman and posthuman in contemporary horror film: a case study for David Cronenberg's crimes of the future | As the uncertain future of humanity's relationship to technology causes widespread apprehension, themes related to transhuman and posthuman theory have begun to appear in the horror genre. By synthesizing posthuman and transhuman philosophy with horror criticism, this project aims to ascertain these... | | 2024 |
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Bashir, Mahreen Hamid | Where there are still animals: A poetic study on the earth as woman | They would like to feel they might be something better than animals. That's understandable: other animals might feel they are something different than "just animals" too. But we must contemplate the shared ground of our common biological being before emphasizing the difference" | American poetry - 21st century | 2015-12 |
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Emeney, Drew | Sensory experience in space: an analysis of phenomenology and wineries | Architects commonly design spaces for primary human needs based on design necessities, but dwelling is much more than just being sheltered; it is a subjective human experience. What you see, hear, touch, smell, or even taste can create a certain impression of a space. Therefore, the perceptions o... | Architecture; Winneries - Designs and plans | 2016-04 |