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Clark, Tehya | The Production Process of a Traditional Animated Short Film | This Thesis will detail the process of the production of a short film. The film is produced using traditional animation with some supplementary digital technology, for editing, shooting, and pre production. I will go over the process which starts with pitching, script writing, audio recording, story... | 2020 | |
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Child, Christopher Davis | Professional estimation of value | Business valuation experts are often asked to provide litigation consulting for cases involving disputes between two or more interested parties where claimed damages are determined based on a total firm value. The judgment or settlement amounts in these cases are largely determined by the standards ... | Business - Valuation | 2012-05 |
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Robinson, Mercedes Summer | Professional vs. nonprofessional exercise advice and injury correlations in campus recreation facility users | Purpose: Risk of injury, when participating in an exercise program, is always present; however when the exercise program is poorly designed or not designed for the individual, the risk of injury increases significantly. Poorly designed exercise programs stem from individuals seeking advice for exerc... | Sports injuries | 2016-01 |
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Schott, Willem Olson | Promotion vs. education in choosing "real food" | The agro-industrial system in the United States contributes to an abundance of human and ecological health problems from social injustices and public health issues to global warming and ecological degradation. In response to these problems, universities across the country are joining the Real Food C... | College students -- Food Food preferences; Real food | 2015-04 |
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Freckleton, Mitchell W. | Proportional representation and the electoral college: An analysis of electoral reform in the U.S. and U.K. | We all know he famous Abraham Lincoln quote from the Gettysburg Address, "A government of the people by the people, for the people." However, do Americans and even British citizens feel like "the people" are in charge o f the government? With constant criticism directed at the representational democ... | Proportional representation -- United States; Proportional representation -- Great Britain; Electoral reform | 2015-12 |
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Ballard, Truman R. | The Pros and Cons of Microfinance: Personal Observations from Ghana, Guatemala and Peru | Microfinance is defined as "financial services especially in the form of micro loans provided to impoverished individuals and groups in poor and developing regions".1 While social entrepreneurs strive to solve social problems by using a variety of businessrelated techniques, this paper will focus sp... | 2017 | |
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Kelsey, Khrystine Danielle | Prostitution and the construction of female identity | In the modern and postmodern worlds, most people see sex work as something on the fringes of society, yet prostitution and its history reflect mainstream modern women's sexuality and sexual life in myriad ways. This paper will examine how sex work exemplifies constructs of female identity. Writings ... | Prostitution Women -- Identity | 2015-04 |
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Nash, Alexander | The Proto-Indo-European urheimat: The Armenian hypothesis | This thesis analyzes the viability of the Armenian Hypothesis, which places the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Armenian Highland (Gamkrelidze & Ivanov 1990, Kavoukjian 1987). Arguments supporting the hypothesis are evaluated in the light of linguistic, archeological, and genetic evidence. Afte... | Proto-Indo-European langauge; Armenian Highlands | 2015-12 |
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Pehrson, Alexandria | Providers Responses to the Implementation of one Key Question(R) into the University of Utah Healthcare System | Unintended pregnancies account for almost half of all pregnancies in the United States. An unplanned pregnancy can lead to negative health and social consequences for both the mother and child (Gold, Sonfield, Richards, & Frost, 2009). Unintended pregnancy is also correlated with an increased burden... | 2019 | |
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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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Cash, M. Gabriela | The psychopath: legally, but not morally, responsible | Psychopaths present a peculiar problem for philosophers of legal and moral responsibility. They acknowledge the rules and conventions of society but are impervious to the moral foundations of these rules and conventions. This phenomenon may be attributed to the psychopaths' lack of empathy that lead... | Psychopaths - Ethics | 2012-05 |
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DeGrauw, Alexandria R. | Public understanding, opinions about hot topics in Science | Because of a recent decrease in people who believe science is beneficial to society, organizations like the Association for the Advancement of Science have sought to improve communication between scientists and the public in order to increase the public's opinion of science (Pew Foundation, 2015). H... | 2018 | |
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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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Christensen, Kiana | Quantifying Patterns of Squamate Dental Complexity | Squamate reptiles are ideal subjects for investigating relationships between diet and dentition patterns because they exhibit wide dietary diversity and taxonomic abundance. Most previous research is qualitative and limited to a basic assessment of the influence diet has on dentition (Hotton, 1955; ... | 2020 | |
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Tuft, Marie | Quantitative analysis of virus trafficking in a biological cell | Virus replication is a complex process that is important to understand. If a virus is to successfully infect a host cell it must travel from the cell wall to the nucleus by hijacking that cell's existing transport system of microtubules. This motion occurs as two iterated steps: passive diffusion th... | Viruses -- Reproduction -- Mathematical models; Virus trafficking | 2015-05 |
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Qin, Heidi | Queer and Trans Students of Color: Survival and Resistance in Predominately White Institutions | As institutions continue to rethink and redefine the praxis and pedagogy of diversity, young queer and trans students of color continue to be left behind. While the intersections of race and gender become increasingly evident, the body of literature centering those at the intersections of being a qu... | 2017 | |
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Boren, Alex | Questioning my answers: Exploring Cloud Atlas in relation to my B.U.S. degree, "Philosophy for Life" | In my sophomore year, I wanted to choose courses that helped me question my answers. Choosing a traditional major felt too restrictive, so I created my own major through the Bachelor of University Studies program. Titled "Philosophy for Life," my major includes courses from 13 academic disciplines o... | Mitchell, David (David Stephen). Cloud Atlas; Philosophy | 2015-04 |
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Stoddard, Kari | Racially and ethnically diverse midlife women's health needs and symptom experience during the menopausal transition | The menopausal transition (MT) and post-menopause involves a systemic development in which bothersome symptoms can occur. While symptoms occur for women across all racial and ethnic groups, some symptoms are worse for racially and ethnically diverse women compared to White women. Because of risks as... | acupuncture; evidence-based non-pharmacologic interventions; Group Medical Visits; perimenopause; menopausal transition; post-menopause | 2022 |
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Estrella, Itzel | Radiation doses for Nuclear Medicine Procedures: a Compiled Resource | Many types of diagnostic and therapeutic imaging in nuclear medicine require radiation as an essential part of the procedure. These entail different amounts of dose and exposure to the patient. Doctors, technologists, and patients in nuclear medicine often wonder how much dose and exposure is associ... | 2017 | |
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Stovall, Karen L. | Reasons for cohabitation on the outcome of relationship quality and satisfaction | Cohabitation before marriage has become a common choice for many couples in North America. Reasons for couples deciding to live together can vary, including a desire to spend more time together or to combine finances and avoid the hassles of living apart. When looking at reasons for deciding to live... | Unmarried couples; Relationship quality; Cohabitation | 2015-04 |
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Dutson, Matthew J. | Reconstruction of Cosmic Ray Geometry using Cherenkov backscattering | Fluorescence detectors are often used to examine the energy spectrum and arrival directions of ultra high energy cosmic rays. An accurate reconstruction of geometry is key when determining both energy and direction. In the past, it has been necessary to build multiple fluorescence detectors to take ... | 2017 | |
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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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Djokovich, Alexander Cataldo | Reducing waste in supply chains in pursuit of a sustainable and socially responsible future | The purpose of this research project is to propose solutions for reducing waste to optimize supply chains that are both workable and yield tangible results when applied by firms as theorized. In addition to the well-established cost-saving rationale behind reducing supply chain waste, the pressing i... | 2023 | |
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Sánchez, Alexander Alberto | Reexamining global drug eradication policies: A systemic analysis of their ecological and societal effects in Mexico, Colombia and Afghanistan | Since 1961, the U.N. Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs has continued to be the overarching treaty that has been followed and enforced, as a prohibitionist international drug control model. By conducting a systematic review of primary and secondary sources, this paper demonstrates how U.N. establis... | Drug control -- Mexico; Drug control -- Colombia; Drug control -- Afghanistan | 2015-04 |
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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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Ellis, James H. | Refractory status epilepticus and chronic kidney disease in a large pedigree due to a variant in the mitochondrial encoded trna phenylalanine (MT-TF) gene | Mitochondrial disorders present with a wide spectrum of neurological manifestations. Clinical syndromes are described largely by phenotypic indicators. Epilepsy is a common but not universal feature. Myoclonus epilepsy with ragged red fibers (MERRF) is a common clinical syndrome that presents with e... | 2018 | |
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Grahmann, Bridget N. | Refugee use of the women, infants and children program | This study examines the experience refugee families have with the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program, and attempts to identify the difficulties they have in order to make suggestions that might result in more efficient use of the WIC program among the refugee population. Thirty women enrolled... | Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (U.S.); Women refugees -- United States; Women refugees -- Food | 2014 |
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Steiner, William | Regulation of protein complexes during hedgehog signal transduction | The Hedgehog (Hh) pathway is an evolutionarily conserved signaling pathway essential in embryonic development and tissue homeostasis. Several cancers can form as a result of Hh pathway dysfunction. The G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) Smoothened (SMO) is activated upon binding of the secreted Hh pr... | 2021 | |
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Guerrero, Jimena Murillo | The relationship between common factors and specific interventions in psychotherapy | The effectiveness of psychotherapy depends on a combination of specific interventions and nonspecific interventions, or common factors (CFs), that are widely used across different approaches in therapy. CFs are generic characteristics and behaviors across different approaches of therapy such as the ... | 2020 | |
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Bryan, Candace | The relationship between Native Americans and Museums: a case study of the natural history museum of Utah | Taking a class about Native American studies opened my eyes to the many problems the Native American community has had to face for decades. One of those problems was with something I've enjoyed my entire life: museums. Museums have always been a place of wonder and learning for me. I never was taugh... | 2020 | |
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Fields, Aalia | The relationship between preschoolers' engagement in book reading and self-regulation | Children's engagement in literacy-related tasks has been identified as a contributor of literacy skills and achievement for elementary age children (Guthrie, Wigfield, & You, 2012). However, literature is limited on the development of reading engagement and its predictors, especially for young presc... | Reading (Preschool); Human behavior | |
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Ellingson, Lily ann | Relative: Identity, Portraiture, and Human Connection | Our relationships with others define us more than we realize. Our connections to family and community shape the ideas we have about ourselves in ways we dont notice until we step back and analyze them. The people we spend time with, how we relate tot hem, and how we define those relationships clarif... | ||
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Richardson, John R. | Religious Liberty, Equal Protection, and the Utah Compromise | The conflict between religious freedom and civil rights for LGBT Americans is often seen as a zero-sum game. Legal battles over wedding cakes and floral arrangements have garnered national attention and result in a court-sanctioned winner and loser. States and local governments across the country ha... | 2018 | |
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Howard, Kathryn | Religious trauma effects on LGBTQ+ individuals in the LDS context religious trauma effects on LGBTQ+ individuals in the LDS context | In recent years, there has been more discussion around the trauma and trauma responses that come from being a queer individual (one who identifies with members of the LGBTQIA+ community) inside a high-demand religion that does not affirm existence or behaviors of LGBTQ+ individuals. Emerging literat... | 2023 | |
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Lietzke, Stephanie | Removal of endotoxins from recombinant antithrombin | Endotoxins (also known as lipopolysaccharides or ETs) are a pyrogenic byproduct of the breakdown of gram-negative bacterial cell-walls, such as E. coli. They cause fever and septic shock in humans, and are therefore highly regulated by the FDA and USP. ETs are a common contaminant in recombinant pr... | Endotoxins - Research; Antithrombins - Therapeutic use; Sheep as laboratory animals - Research; endotoxin removal; Angiogenesis | 2016-04 |
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Blackburn, Alexander | Replicating Musical Style: Data-Driven Algorithmic Melody Composition | This thesis describes a novel technique to algorithmic composition which combines two data structures-an N-gram language model and an association network-with a user friendly interface meant for music producers. The MelodySmith is a music composition tool which incorporates this logic into a product... | 2018 | |
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Maruta, Nene | Reproductive health and Barriers to Care Among Women With Disabilities | Women with disabilities face many barriers when accessing healthcare. Barriers can include emotional stressors, inaccessible exam tables, and the lack of provider understanding about specific disabilities. Continued barriers to accessing reproductive healthcare for women with disabilities can impact... | 2020 | |
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Tran, Kathy Thanh | Reproductive rights of incarcerated women: Disrupting the system in the women's jail | The history of the reproductive rights of incarcerated women and the current trends of mass incarceration demonstrate the prevalence of the hegemonic system that still expects women to embrace a maternal and feminine role. Historically, the United States has incarcerated women because they break awa... | Women prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States; Reproductive rights | 2015-05 |
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Oyler, Anthony Fratto | Residential Photovoltaic and Storage in Utah: an in-Depth Analysis into Policy and Infrastrature | Variable fuel prices and the interest in pursuing less carbon intensive energy has led to a variety of federal and state policies for renewable energy. Solar photovoltaic (PV) has become a commonly used renewable technology. Despite a high upfront cost, solar PV has a long economic life, little main... | 2017 | |
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Jensen, Elizabeth | Resilience in Bereaved Dementia Caregivers | Resilience is defined by Luther et al. 2000, as "a dynamic process encompassing positive adaptation within the context of significant adversity" (p. 543). According to Luther, two conditions are implied in this definition: "(1) exposure to significant threat or severe adversity; and (2) the achievem... | 2018 | |
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Bader, Cecily | The Response of Arabidopsis Mutant BPS1-2 on Salt Media | How would our world change if salt tolerance could be engineered in plants? The Arabidopsis mutant bps1-2 has been shown to respond differently on salt media than a nonmutated plant would. In normal conditions, the bps1-2 mutant will arrest development in the root and shoot shortly after germination... | 2017 | |
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Fishburn, Laura | Restoration, Repentance, and Reformation: the Sermon's Higher Purpose in the Legend of Theophilus | "Restoration, Repentance, and Reformation: The Sermon's Higher Purpose in the Legend of Theophilus" seeks to analyze the function of a bishop's sermon at the end of the medieval myth of a man named Theophilus, who lives in France. Theophilus, a good man, commits a grave error and makes a deal with t... | 2018 | |
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Gappmaier, Andrea | Restorative justice: Refocusing the lens on the American criminal justice system | The traditional punitive justice system has failed American citizens. The United States has over 25 percent of the world's prison population and when released, three in four offenders will be back in prison within five years of their release date. High costs, estranging members of society, and rac... | Criminal justice, Administration of - United States | 2016-05 |
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Kunz, Ashley | Returns to education based off educational quality: a study of American lawyers | Attending college is an important decision for many individuals to make and this choice has a cost associated with it, as well as the opportunity to increase one's earnings post-baccalaureate. This paper explores the returns to wages for attending college and the subsequent impact of attending an el... | 2021 | |
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Blackley, Taylor | The Rhetoric of Donald Trump: Continuing an American Discourse of White supremacy | This thesis is about function of racist discourse and ideology, and its effects on bodies, past to present. In particular, it undertakes a critical interrogation of the rhetoric of President Donald J. Trump, which has exacerbated racial tensions and further authorized White supremacist ideology. It ... | 2020 | |
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Cheek, Isaac | Rights of nature for the Colorado River | The Colorado River is the backbone of civilization in the Western United States, and it is facing an unprecedented environmental crisis. As drought tightens its grip on the Basin, a diverse array of stakeholders and policymakers are postured to negotiate a new policy regime for the Colorado River. T... | 2022 | |
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Kleinman, Rachel | The rise of the big three: are institutional investors proactive environmental and social change agents? | 2022 | ||
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Henderson, Anna Christine | The Rising demand for secondhand: rhetorical drivers and sustainable implications of thrift shopping | Thrift shopping is not a new activity, but it is a newly trending hot topic. This thesis aims to look at the appeal of thrift shopping while also exploring the sustainability of this practice. By examining three different avenues of thrift, Goodwill, Depop, and especially focusing on Patagonia's Wor... | 2022 | |
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Stein, Sabrina | River Nymph, Earth Goddess: a Female Narrative on the Power of Outdoor Adventure Experiences | The primary focus of this thesis is to reveal aspects of the female reality in outdoor adventure experiences. An outdoor adventure experience occurs at any time where one is intentionally outside, appreciating nature often through a type of physical activity. My method is intentional introspection a... | 2018 | |
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Bull, Auguest John | Robotic Grasp Control Using Tactile Feedback | As we move towards more autonomous robots, object interaction and manipulation remains difficult for robots. Grasping approaches vary from learning-based to traditional control means, each with their own challenges. Learning-based methods perform well on specific tasks, but struggle to move to other... | 2020 | |
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Mumford, Jacqueline | The Role of Accounting and Finance Professors in U.S. Government Spending Education | The national debt, and related government spending, of the United States is a dangerous, growing problem. A mix of unaccountable decision makers and uninformed public allow the perpetuation of this important issue. Finance and accounting professors have the unique opportunity and background to educa... | 2020 | |
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Excell, Katerina | The role of amyloid precursor protein in a model of alzheimer's disease | Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating disorder that leads to deterioration of cognition and memory. The prevalence of AD dramatically rises with age, and is also much greater in individuals with trisomy 21 (Down syndrome, DS). Many gene products are overexpressed in DS by virtue of having three ... | 2022 | |
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Vandamme, Elise-Marie | The role of dehydroepiandrosterone in the pathophysiology of Tourette syndrome: preclinical studies | Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurodevelopmental condition with a marked male predominance (M: F= 3:1), characterized by multiple motor and one or more vocal tics for more than one year and beginning before the age of 18 (Robertson, 2019). Our understanding of TS pathophysiology remains limited; as a ... | 2022 | |
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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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Marler, Tyler | The role of gangliar plexi in the treatment of atrial fibrillation | Introduction: Gangliar plexi (GP) are bundles of interconnected neurons found embedded in FPs (FPs) surrounding the atria of the heart. The function of these neurons is controversial but they may form a localized control system for the heart and play a role in the induction of atrial fibrillation (A... | Atrial fibrillation Treatment; Gangliar plexi | 2012-05 |
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Nau, Adam | The role of heparan sulfate in maintaining stereotyped birdsong | Song learning in Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata) occurs during a critical period between 30-90 post hatch days, and involves acquisition of an acoustic model and a sensorimotor period of increasingly improving imitation of this model. Young birds sing highly variable songs early during this pe... | Birdsongs - Research; Zebra finch - Research; Songbirds - Behavior; Heparan sulfate; Taeniopygia guttata; Neural circuitry | 2016-04 |
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Russell, Nicole | The Role of Introns Within Alpha Conotoxin Genes in Cone Snails | Cone snails, of which there are more than 600 species, have attracted a lot of attention. Cone snails, found in warm tropical waters across the world, are predators and produce venoms comprising diverse toxins. These toxins, termed conotoxins, have been the subject of a great amount of research. Whi... | 2016 | |
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Du, Wantong | The role of mRNA decay in a genetic switch | Genes can be switched on or off by regulatory proteins. For example, two genes may each synthesize a protein that downregulates the other gene, creating a repressor- repressor switch that has two stable steady states: one being when the first gene is "on" and the second gene is repressed, and the ot... | Messenger RNA - Research; Genetic regulation - Research; Genetic switch; Gene repression; Neural circuitry | 2016-04 |
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Jimenez, Valeria | The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Promoting Higher Education Among Latina/O Youth: The Case of Latinos in Action (LIA) of Utah | Nonprofit organizations have been at the forefront of helping newly-arrived immigrants and refugees integrate into society, advocating for marginalized communities, and ensuring that Latina/o youth are reaching for higher education. Nonprofit organizations have helped to fill in the gaps that the Un... | 2018 | |
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Bender, Austin | The role of ornithine, polyamines, and amino acid accumulation in the growth of melanoma | A frequent adaptation in the development of melanoma is the downregulation of argininosuccinate synthetase 1 (ASS1), the rate limiting enzyme in the production of the amino acid arginine from citrulline and aspartate. It is known that ASS1 is required for cells to proliferate in the absence of argin... | 2024 | |
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Forrest, Lauren N. | The role of perception in eating disorders | Individuals with eating disorders often suffer from severe body dissatisfaction and distorted perceptions of the body (Bruch, 1969; Cash & Deagle, 1997; Farrell, Lee, & Shafran, 2005). Though populations with eating disorders may perceive their body sizes differently, most previous work has investig... | Eating disorders - Psychological aspects | 2012-05 |
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Martin, Julia Vienna Gardner | The role of socioeconomic status in understanding ethnic differences among remerging adults with type 1 diabetes | Emerging adulthood is often characterized as a "high-risk period" for emerging adults (EAs) with T1D as they have higher HbA1c (a metric of glucose control across the last 3- 4 months) and poorer self-management compared to other age groups. Emerging adults may also experience disparities associated... | 2023 | |
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Wang, Zhirong | The role of the autism-associated gene kirrel3 in synapse formation | Alterations in the gene Kirrel3 are repeatedly associated with intellectual disability and autism. Kirrel3 regulates synapse formation in C. elegans but the role of Kirrel3 in synapse formation in the mammalian brain is unknown. In mice, Kirrel3 is expressed in specific cell types throughout the bra... | Autism -- Genetic aspects; Synapses; Kirrel3 gene; Synapse formation | 2015-04 |
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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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Wheeler, Maya | Role of WNT-Dependent Neurogenesis in Functional Recovery Following Spinal Cord Injury | In humans and other adult mammals, spinal cord injury leads to a permanent loss of motor and sensory function. The biggest obstacle to recovery is the inability of severed axons and neurons to regenerate. During embryogenesis, all vertebrates have a population of neural stem cells called radial glia... | 2019 | |
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Lloyd, Cailey N. | The Role of Written Input in the Acquisition of a German-Like Pattern of Final Devoicing by Native English Speakers: Evidence from a Listening Task | In German, underlyingly voiced obstruents are devoiced in final position (e.g., the word ‘wheel' /ʁad/ is pronounced [ʁat]). Adult, native English-speaking learners of German are known to experience difficulty acquiring phonological processes such as German final devoicing. It has been hypothes... | 2020 | |
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Kannan, Sarmishta Diraviam | The Role that Lysosomes and Autophagy play in Alveolar soft parts Sarcoma, clear cell Sarcoma and Synovial Sarcoma | Sarcomas are cancer of the connective tissue and are very deadly group of cancers. Two of the sarcoma types, alveolar soft parts sarcoma (ASPS) and clear cell sarcoma (CCS) have a unique vacuolar morphology. This unique morphology is absent in synovial sarcoma (SS). We believe that the unusual morph... | 2017 | |
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Nguyen, Nam | Roles of Transient Receptor Potenitial Ankyrin-1 and Vanilloid-3 in Endoplasmic Reticulum stress and Cytotoxicity in Lung Epithelial Cells | Air pollution is a growing global health issue with considerable local relevance. In particular, exposure to wood smoke particulate matter (WSPM) is associated with the development and exacerbation of chronic inflammatory conditions and irreversible damage of the airways and alveoli. However, exact ... | 2020 | |
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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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Kurumada, Colten | Salary cap accounting: The unique financial constraint for professional sports organizations | The objective of this thesis is to better understand how salary caps affect the financial management of organizations in professional sports leagues, with a primary focus on the National Basketball Association (NBA). There are certain rules related to the salary cap that are specified in the NBA's... | Sports administration; Sports - Finance | 2016-04 |
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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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Najarian, Anastasia S. | Save Somebuddy: A Trauma-Informed Program to Promote Emotional Regulation, Encourage a sense of Community, and Prevent Suicide Among Youth in a School Setting: A Pilot Study | SAVE SOMEBUDDY is a global initiative to simplify brain science into ordinary actions (Van der Kolk, 2014). Students are taught to "save yourself and help a buddy" by practicing program tools through a community focused buddy system intended to inspire a trauma-sensitive classroom and school environ... | 2019 | |
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Goates, Elizabeth | Scrm at Intermountain Heathcare: Hurricane Maria | On September 20, 2017 Hurricane Maria struck the island of Puerto Rico. The effects of the hurricane halted production at Baxter Medical's three plants located on the island. This document takes a look at how Intermountain Healthcare, headquartered in Salt Lake City, dealt with the effects of the hu... | 2019 | |
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Christopherson, Anna | Search for the highest energy gamma rays of galactic origin using telescope array low energy fluorescence detectors | Telescope Array (TA) is the largest cosmic ray detector in the Northern Hemisphere, designed to measure cosmic rays with energies greater than 1018 eV. TA combines three fluorescence telescope sites, which are each instrumented with 12-14 telescopes, surrounding an array of 507 surface detectors tha... | 2022 | |
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Gregersen, Dylan | Searching for extragalactic stars among candidate halo moving clusters | We seek to identify stars accreted into the Milky Way which are remnants of its merging with smaller galaxies or star clusters. In our approach, we selected stars from candidate moving clusters in the Milky Way's Halo. These stars were grouped by similar stellar characteristics: orbital energy, orbi... | Halo stars; Extragalactic origins; Milky Way | 2012-05 |
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Oliva, Brenden Clark | Second hand stories | This collection of short stories examines human behavior through the lens of biology, particularly the present-day manifestations of evolutionary history. The stories' characters exhibit behavior that appears to contradict Darwinian concepts of individual success. On the surface they are self-destru... | American fiction - 21st century | 2012-05 |
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Naegle, Kyrah | Secure Base Script Attachment Representation and Behavior Problems in Middle Childhood | The security of a child's attachment to a caregiver is a critical component of a child's early development. This study examined correlations between children's attachment security and their behavioral issues, and how these varied between low-risk and high-risk groups of children. Participants includ... | 2020 | |
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Morgan, Connor | Securitizing Climate Change Examining the Impact of the National Security Frame on Utah Political Elites | The partisan divide over climate change in the United States has led to long-term inaction in creating policies aimed at mitigating and adapting to the changing climate. This study explores one option for bridging the gap: reframing the discussion of climate change to better appeal to those who do n... | 2019 | |
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Smithee, Katrina | Seeing into A doll's house through windows of feminism and mounting an epic production thereof : a dramaturgical production file | The development and performance of a theatrical work is a complex process which involves myriad decisions and many participants. One of the most essential contributors is the Dramaturg, the individual responsible for guiding the production and ensuring that the final product is cohesive and true to ... | Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906. Dukkehjem; Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 - Dramatic production | 2013-05 |
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Parsawar, Sai | Selecting for supremacy: brahminical supremacy and hindu nationalism in the United States Indian Diaspora | The Indian population in the United States has grown dramatically since 1965 due to changes in immigration laws which now favor those who have technical skill sets and who come from privileged caste backgrounds. The guidelines and restrictions on immigration for Indians resulted in the phenomenon of... | 2022 | |
| 883 |
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Novy, Jenna | Selective and Localized Marking of Activated Dendritic Spines Using a Novel Genetic Construct, Slayr | The brain's ability to store memory is as remarkable as it is complex. The mechanism behind memory storage is still not fully understood and has become an essential question in the neuroscience field. Long-term memories are thought to form via the strengthening of specific connections between neuron... | 2020 | |
| 884 |
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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 |
| 885 |
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Duffin, Calder | Sequence Activity Relaqtionships in a Radical Sam Peptide Maturase | Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide Tte1186a and several point mutation variants are synthesized using solid phase peptide synthesis with FMOC amino acids. Substrate recognition and thioether linkage formation from the radical S-adenosyl methionine Tte1186 maturase is d... | 2020 | |
| 886 |
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Niederjohn, Krista | Sex and sexuality: a reflection of society as seen through theatre | My honors thesis at the University of Utah consists of two parts: a performance, and a paper. Both focus on the idea of the arbitrary definition of sex and sexuality. Sex is defined as: "sexual activity, including specifically sexual intercourse." Sexuality is defined as: "a capacity for sexual feel... | Sex in the theater | 2013-08 |
| 887 |
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Shimko, Alison | Sex as a Potential Source of Bias in Adult Judgments of Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorder | Previous research has shown the tendency for people to assign negative attributes to children with a variety of disabilities including neurodevelopmental disorders. The purpose of this study was to examine potential differences in ratings assigned by participants based on their sexes (Rater Male (RM... | 2017 | |
| 888 |
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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 |
| 889 |
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Owens, Spenser | Shareholder Activism and Gender Diversity | This paper will study gender diversity on corporate boards and in management positions within S&P 500 firms. I will review the literature on shareholder activism, and introduce anecdotes on what activist investors have done to influence gender diversity in firms. I will then perform quantitative ana... | 2018 | |
| 890 |
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Lee, Alexis Pearl | Shifting physical activity patterns among women: The historical and potential future impacts on pelvic floor and skeletal health | Successes in the battle for gender equality have helped empower women to become more physically active through exercise and sport in recent times than any other point in history, particularly since the passage of Title IX. As a result, many women are choosing programs of high intensity with impact, ... | Exercise - Physiological aspects | 2016-04 |
| 891 |
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Hanrahan, Molly | Short-Term medical missions: a tool for understanding damaging practices, best practices, and program evaluation | Short-term medical missions (STMMs), defined generally as short-length trips (ranging from 1 week to several months) where participants from one country travel to another country to provide medical or health-related care, have grown in popularity and number in recent years. As STMMs have grown, the ... | 2020 | |
| 892 |
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Heiner, Catherine | SHOTS FIRED | Recent national headline have drawn attention to the use of "trigger warnings" on college campuses. These warnings, initially used to help survivors of traumatic events, have been described as a way to infantilize college students and a precursor to censorship. This project will examine the circumst... | 2017 | |
| 893 |
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Matlock, Sara | Should we resurrect the glass-steagall act? | Banking regulations have been a hot topic on both sides of the aisle in every election cycle since 2010. Americans can expect the debate to continue in the upcoming midterms and again in the next presidential election. Minor changes in banking regulations may not make much of a difference in the liv... | 2022 | |
| 894 |
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Donovan, Morgan | Shower stills | Ever since some of its earliest discovered forms, such as the painting of figures on cave walls, the creation of art has sought to understand the human condition. Now within our constantly changing society, it is increasingly important to continually explore the structure of humanity and the ways in... | Portrait photography | 2013-05 |
| 895 |
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Peck, Torri | Sibling support in families where multiple members have been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes | Type 1 diabetes (T1D) requires consistent management. In addition to being distressing for the individual diagnosed with T1D, it also affects the people around them, especially the family. Families members provide support for the person diagnosed with T1D, with parents playing a major role (especial... | 2021 | |
| 896 |
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Hunter, Samuel | Signaling Role of the Hamp Domain in the Escherichia Coli Serine Chemoreceptor | The chemoreceptor Tsr enables Escherichia coli to track serine gradients in its environment. Binding of serine to the periplasmic domain propagates a signaling conformational change through other domains of the chemoreceptor molecule to modulate the activity of CheA, a kinase associated with t... | Chemoreceptors - Research | 2016-07 |
| 897 |
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Prestgard-Duke, Robert | The significance of Chinese nuclear arms to American efforts toward the 1968 treaty of nonproliferation | In the midst of the heightened climate of fear and militarism of the Cold War, an event shocked America and the rest of the world-the Chinese successfully created and exploded a nuclear bomb based on highly enriched uranium on October 16, 1964, at their Lop Nurtest site in Inner Mongolia. The unvei... | Nuclear nonproliferation | |
| 898 |
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Bauer, Malea | Silence is violence: a nationakl legislative proposal for the criminalization of the enabler to institutional abuse | For centuries, institutions have exploited their power to abuse the vulnerable and avoid culpability. In many cases, the abuse would not have been possible if not for the institutional underpinnings which protect the perpetrators. These people, who initiate cover ups or turn a blind eye, ought to be... | 2023 | |
| 899 |
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Olsen, Nicholas | Simple Molecular Models for Chiral Crystallization | Chiral molecules play an important role in many biological processes.1 Important chiral biomolecules include certain amino acids, sugars, DNA, RNA, and many proteins. Chiral molecules have enantiomers, mirror-image isomers that cannot be superimposed on each other. The classic analogy to enantiomers... | 2020 | |
| 900 |
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Whitmore, Tabitha | Simultaneous measurement to human auditory nerve and brainstem potentials: efects of upward spread of excitation | Hearing sensitivity in infants and adults is often assessed by measuring brain waves in response to sound. Common neural measurements of hearing sensitivity are the compound action potential (CAP) and auditory brainstem response (ABR), which emphasize activity from neurons in the auditory nerve (AN)... | 2022 | |
| 901 |
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Anderson, Sheyne | Sinap types a run-time language for data-description | Sinap IDE is an editor for graph-based programming languages (as distinct from textbased). To facilitate versatility in Sinap IDE it was necessary to design a language (Sinap's Type System) to generically describe families of well-formed cyclic data structures. This language can be used to maintain ... | 2017 | |
| 902 |
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Ticknor, Claire | Sintering of 3D printed steel-copper functionally graded materials | Over the past several years, additive manufacturing has continued to expand and advance toward more promising responses to high-performance multi-functional applications. One such response is the utility of functionally graded materials (FGMs). In an FGM, the composition and structure gradually chan... | 2021 | |
| 903 |
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Smith, Enoch | Sisterwives & submission?: gender power dynamics in polygynist marriages | Polygamy has caught national attention. Most of it has focused on court proceedings against the FLDS Church's alleged child sexual abuse practices, and TV shows like Big Love and Sisterwives. Both present polar opposite perspectives on the practice, but what do we really know about the practice? My... | Apostolic United Brethren; Polygamy - United States | 2015-06 |
| 904 |
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young, Sierra Kame'ekua | Sleep quality & early life war exposure: insomnia among vietnamese older adults in the vietnam health and aging study | We aim to explore the associations between insomnia, early-life war-related stressors, recent life events, and other health and environmental factors in a sample of 2,447 older Vietnamese adults derived from the 2018 Vietnam Health and Aging Study (VHAS). Insomnia is one of the main symptoms of a va... | 2023 | |
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Blair, Coral Dean | Snakes as a possible winter reservoir for Western equine encephalitis virus | viruses; equine; snakes | 1964 | |
| 906 |
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Safiullah, Samah | The Social and Historical Reproduction of Japantown/Nihonmachi in Salt Lake City, Utah | My honors thesis is a historical, theoretical, and methodological approach to understanding the social and physical formation of Japantown and Japantown Street in Salt Lake City. I am interested in the formation of a specific ethnic enclave and micro-neighborhood which once existed. My thesis will a... | ||
| 907 |
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Newton, James | Social behaviors in the developing Danio Rerio larva and adult Danionella | Larval zebrafish (Danio rerio) in most respects excel as an animal model in the study of neural networks, due to their small size and optical transparency. These traits permit optogenetic manipulation and live neuronal imaging of the entire brain, which when paired with behavioral analysis, have pot... | Zebrafish (Zebra danio) - behavior; Zebrafish - embryology; Zebrafish - physiology | 2016-04 |
| 908 |
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Andruski, Jordan Joseph | The social contract of international politics | The purpose of this research paper is to examine the extent to which states engage in the proposed idea of a currently forming international social contract and what effect have institutions had on this development. More specifically, the paper will examine the extent to which the development of int... | Social contract; International relations | 2013-05 |
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Le, Van | Social externalities of community college education | It has been repeatedly shown that increasing a person's level of education increases their income earning potential as well. This correlation is used to support recent tuition-subsidies for community college students that several states -such as Oregon and Tennessee -have begun to implement and t... | Municipal universities and colleges | 2016-04 |
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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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Morgan, Kate | Social media as the modern diary: authenticity and prevalence of personal record keeping | Social media is one of the newest forms of publishing, catering mainly to an individual and their thoughts to an audience ranging from anyone who uses a particular platform, to a curated list of those they have allowed to follow them. It has become a part of daily life for many, allowing anyone to p... | Social Media; Personal Records; Journaling; Authenticity | 2023 |
| 912 |
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Jimenez, Cecilia Cardozo | Social-Emotional Problems in Toddlers: Relationship with Language Development and Autism Risk | Purpose:Children with language delays are at increased risk for persistent difficulties such as language disorder, learning disability, and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Further, the presence of a language delay may also indicate risk for social-emotional problems. However, research examining so... | Language Development Disorders - in infancy & childhood | 2016-08 |
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Loveland, Jessica | Sociolinguistic differences between Japanese and English as seen through English translations of Manga | Manga (Japanese graphic novels) is a growing market in the United States and allows readers from foreign countries access to literature in a way that is enjoyable and easily accessible. However, translating manga from Japanese to English provides an interesting challenge as the Japanese language enc... | Comic books, strips, etc -- Japan; Japanese language -- Social aspects; English language -- Social aspects | 2016-05 |
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Manwill, Savannah | The sociolinguistics of Basque in the U.S. | This thesis examines the history of the Basques (both in Europe and the United States), the ethnolinguistic vitality of Basque in the U.S. (including the role of language and language revitalization efforts), and some linguistic features of Basque today. It makes use of various articles, studies, an... | Basque language - Social aspects - United States; Sociolinguistics - United States | 2013-05 |
| 915 |
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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 |
| 916 |
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Yang, Kevin | The Soluble (PRO) Renin Receptor does not Influence Lithium-Induced Diabetes Insipidus but does Provoke Beigning of White Adipose Tissue in Mice | Earlier we reported that the recombinant soluble (pro) renin receptor sPRR-His upregulates renal aquoporin-2 (AQP2) expression, and attenuates polyuria associated with nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI) induced by vasopressin type 2 receptor (V2R) antagonism. Patients that receive lithium therapy ... | ||
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Peterson, Mikal | Somatic chromosome pairing in interspecific drosophila hybrid and hybried rescue crosses | Homologous chromosomes of somatic tissue pair together in Drosophila. One current model proposes that somatic pairing starts in an undirected manner; when sites on the chromosome, called "buttons", come into contact and pair. Then, after this initial pairing, the rest of the chromosome then synapses... | 2022 | |
| 918 |
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Williams, Zachary | Spatial Configuration and Life for People with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | We live in a world designed for a specific type of person. This thesis investigates the needs of a marginalized group that is not often considered in our modern discourse when talking about disability. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) affects 1 in 11 people and causes an inability to ... | 2018 | |
| 919 |
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Vu, Tessa | Spatial investigation of toxic sites and water a focus on racial equity | This study puts a spotlight on the relationships among toxic sites (i.e. Brownfields, Superfunds, and Toxic Release Inventories), income, race, and water features such as groundwater wells and streams, all within the Salt Lake County, Utah target area. There were two hypotheses to be tested, which a... | 2022 | |
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Jensen, Trey W. | Spectral evolution in high redshift quasars from the final boss sample | We report on a study of the spectral variations in a sample of 102,150 quasars from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III). After mitigating selection effects and Malmquist bias over the redshift range 2:1 □ z □ 3:5, we create high... | Quasars -- Spectra; Red shift -- Observations; Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey; Sloan Digital Sky Survey; Redshift evolution | |
| 921 |
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Olivia Hanson | Spinal cord injury-induced neuropathic pain & the gut microbiome: a review | Most spinal cord injuries (SCI) result in spinal cord injury-induced neuropathic pain (SCINP). SCI-NP is a major healthcare concern given the extensive burden it places on both patients and the healthcare system. This, coupled with the lack of effective and available treatments for those suffering f... | 2022 | |
| 922 |
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Auduong, Priscilla | Spinal muscular atrophy modeled in drosophila melanogaster | Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is the most commonly inherited cause of death in children (Park, Kariya, & Monani, 2010 for review). This disease is characterized by a loss of motor neurons which leads to muscle degeneration, paralysis, and eventual death by respiratory failure (Monani, 2005 for revie... | Spinal muscular atrophy - Research; Drosophila melanogaster - Researcher | 2012-05 |
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Johnson, Valerie E. | Spiritualism in Salt Lake City newspapers from 1920 to 1930 | After World War I, a religious fervor known as Spiritualism spread across Europe and America. Spiritualism was characterized by the use of seances, psychics, automatic writing, mediums, and spirit photographs to prove the existence of spirits and the afterlife. It was especially popular with soldier... | Communication | 2013-05 |
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Thompson, Lauren | SptlC2 Deletion in Endothelial Cells: Implications for Arterial Function | Using pharmacological and genetic approaches to inhibit whole-body ceramide biosynthesis, our laboratory showed that this sphingolipid contributes importantly to hypertension and vascular dysfunction associated with diet-induced obesity in mice. Here we tested the hypothesis that inducible, endothel... | 2020 | |
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Thomas, J Payton | Stability of genetic oscillators with distributed delayed feedback | Genetic oscillators govern periodic phenomena in biology including circadian rhythms and are also the basis of biological clocks used in the design of synthetic genetic circuits. Models of genetic oscillators tend to neglect biological detail, however, because biological systems tend to be too compl... | 2023 | |
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Wainer, Tobin | Star clusters in the triangulum galaxy: star cluster catalog and mass function fitting | We construct a catalog of star clusters in the Triangulum Galaxy (M33). The catalog is the result of the Local Group Cluster Search (LGCS) citizen science project through Zooniverse, where users classify images from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We base our star cluster catalog on the fraction o... | 2021 | |
| 927 |
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Whalen, Zachary | Statesmen in the arena: The policy and politics of the ancient games | The intent of this work is to illuminate the many ways in which policy and politics influenced the games of Ancient Greece and Rome, and to demonstrate their importance in understanding the persistence of the games beyond their religiously driven origins. Utilizing numerous ancient sources, this th... | Olympic games (Ancient); Athletics - Greece - History; Athletics - Rome - History | 2016-04 |
| 928 |
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Taheri, Kiana | Stories of transgressions: individual diffrences in the presence of specific scripts in narratives of negative experiences | This study examined the relationship between attachment styles, individuals' narratives of their transgressions, and indicators of well-being. We asked 82 university students (56 females and 26 males) with an average age of 21.85 (SD=3.99) to provide six narratives of times they hurt another individ... | Transgressions, cultural studies and education | 2012-05 |
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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 |
| 930 |
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Hawe, Samantha | Strained alliance: American ideal and Saudi expertise in fostering Islamic extremism | During the Cold War, the United States and Saudi Arabia worked together to bolster the efforts of Islamic fundamentalist groups who were battling the Soviet Union. The training, funding, and connections given to some groups in that era led to many of the conflicts in the Middle East today, such as... | Islamic fundamentalism; Radicalism | 2016-05 |
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Hahm, Suhyun | Stressors of varying properties induce differences in the modulation of behavior and biology | Stress induces enduring behavioral and biological consequences. Despite its pervasiveness, the biological and neural processes underlying its effects remain largely unknown. The existing literature generally examines the repercussions of stress from the aspect of a single stressor; however, stressor... | 2022 | |
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Skedros, Gregory Athanasios | Structural and material changes in the sheep radius from newborn to adult: Functional adaptation versus developmental constraint | Bones that exhibit marked changes in structural and material characteristics during ontogeny are potentially useful for studying the mechanisms that produce functional adaptations. The diaphyseal region of the sheep radius was examined because it is relatively simply loaded in cranial-caudal bending... | Functional adaptations - Sheep; Developmental constraint - Sheep; Ontogeny | 2015-08 |
| 933 |
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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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Lee, Cindie | Structured versus unstructured day: physical activity among adolescents during covid-19 | Background: Structured settings, specifically school, have been understood to promote physical activity (PA) in children. During the COVID-19 pandemic, students were required to attend school remotely, in an unstructured setting. The purpose of this study is to examine the physical activity of child... | 2022 | |
| 935 |
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Martin, Kaylee N. | Student domain interest and its impact on systems thinking in General Education | There have not been many empirical investigations into the benefits of various specialized general education pathways offered by colleges and universities. This study will investigate systems thinking outcomes related to environment and health fields from programs specifically offered by the Univers... | 2022 | |
| 936 |
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Dyer, Jamie | Studies of Spectral Variability of Quasars with Multi-Epoch Analyses | Quasars are supermassive black holes known to drive galaxy formation. They can have masses up to 109 solar masses and are the most luminous known objects in the sky, making them very important trackers of cosmic evolution. Given the large amount of research already surrounding quasar astrophysics, t... | 2017 | |
| 937 |
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Bull, August John | Studying Galois Representations Using Elliptic Curves | Diophantine equations and their solution sets are prominent subjects of study in number theory. These equations are often studied modulo prime numbers or prime ideals in field extensions. Galois Theory is well-suited to study field extensions, but Galois groups are often mysterious. To remedy this, ... | 2020 | |
| 938 |
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Clark, Calli | Studying hypothetical electromagnetic earthquake precursors using a global finite-difference time-domain model | Electromagnetic (EM) precursors may be detectable by satellites and ground-based stations before large earthquakes strike and destroy entire cities. However, earthquakes are near impossible to predict as the physics of earthquake precursors is still poorly understood. This paper reports a global... | earthquake prediction - Research; Seismology - Research; Earthquake hazard analysis; Earthquake precursors; Electromagnetic signals; Ionospheric physics; Finite-difference time-domain model | 2016-04 |
| 939 |
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Collingridge, Brooklyn | Substance use disorder treatment limitations for women veterans experiencing homelessness | The risk of developing substance use disorder (SUD) is particularly high among women Veterans experiencing homelessness. Access to high-quality tailored healthcare in Veterans' primary care centers-known as Patient-Aligned Care Teams (PACTs)-is needed in order to address the unique combination of ge... | 2024 | |
| 940 |
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Enriquez, Trisha Pauline Diaz | Substrate use within the drosophila melanogaster species subgroup | Effective sensory perception is a vital aspect of survival for living organisms such as Drosophila. More specifically, olfaction, or the sense of smell, is essential because the detection of odors allows it to find potential food, danger, or specifically, where to lay eggs. This review will examine ... | 2021 | |
| 941 |
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Lami, Morgan | Subverting the Stereotype: Sherman Alexie's an Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian as a crucial Intervention in Today;s Language Arts Classrooms | Sherman Alexie is known as the contemporary voice for the modern American Indian because of his deep and wide popularity amongst many different ethnic and racial groups. His novels and short stories have become very popular in classrooms and libraries across the nation. By being the voice of a whole... | 2016 | |
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Prince, Stephen Tanner | Super Mario Maker and Dashiegames a Youtube, Folk Palimpsest | Folklore is traditional, informal, unofficial culture. And right now, on the internet, it's changing everything you know about entertainment. In this thesis, I look at the gaming tradition, past and present, and at the major game developer Nintendo. I present Nintendo's fascinating history, and an a... | 2019 | |
| 943 |
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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 |
| 944 |
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Rowe, Ana Bruns | The suppression of signal-switching defects in the Escherichia coli serine chemoreceptor | The model bacterium Escherichia coli contains a chemotaxis system that allows the cell to change its swimming behavior in response to its environment. As the cell swims, transmembrane chemoreceptors detect concentration changes in attractant and repellent compounds and transmit signals across the in... | 2023 | |
| 945 |
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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 |
| 947 |
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Flores, Ashley | Survey of pediatric audiologist on their use of loudness perception measures | The goal of hearing aid fitting is to ensure that low-level sounds are audible, average-level sounds are comfortable, and more intense sounds are loud but not too loud. The uncomfortable loudness level (UCL) threshold helps define the patient's dynamic range, which is used during device fitting. A 2... | 2021 | |
| 948 |
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Hernandez, Joshua L. | Surveying Preparedness in Operations management and information systems students and evaluating the importance of soft skills in the Job Market | Organizations around the world are becoming progressively more multinational, and complex as they seek competitive advantages in markets that experience changing consumer tastes, shifting technologies, and economic challenges. As a result, hiring managers do not seek merely to fill positions, but in... | 2018 | |
| 949 |
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Mead, Brodie | Sustainability and Organizational Mindulness in the Outdoor Industry | This research theorizes that characteristics of mindfulness can be cultivated in organizations through a focus on environmental sustainability. It thematically evaluates sustainability goals that correlate to organizational mindfulness and mindful organizing. The research examines organizations in t... | 2020 | |
| 950 |
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Herman, Christian | Sustainable asylum responsibility distribution in the European Union: A case for tradable refugee quotas as a replacement for the Dublin Regulation | Achieving an optimal distribution of the state-by-state responsibility for granting asylum to refugees has been a longstanding challenge in the European Union. This challenge has been especially apparent in the last several years following the escalation of conflicts, particularly including the civi... | Political refugees - Government policy - European Union countries; Refugees - Government Policy - European Union countries; Dublin Regulation | 2015-12 |
| 951 |
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Jowers, Jackson F. | Sustainable support for America's children: the expanded child tax credit of 2021 and the pressing need to implement a bipartisan, long-term child allowance policy in the United States | The United States has a vested interest in providing support for families raising children. Over the past 25 years, the country has used a tax code provision known as the Child Tax Credit (CTC) to provide financial assistance to parents raising children. This paper presents a synthesis of relevant p... | 2022 | |
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Terrell, Makenna | Symptom Experiences of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer | Background/Objectives: Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer are a patient population that is oftentimes overlooked. The symptoms that they experience as a result of their cancer and cancer treatment negatively impact their quality of life. The purpose of this study was to analyze the prio... | 2019 | |
| 953 |
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Reece, Eric J. | Synthesis and Characterization of Proton Conducting Silica Nano-Particles for use in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells | One of the fastest growing fields in scientific research is alternative energy. This has led to an investigation into the various aspects of fuel cells and their components due to their highly efficient energy conversion and low CO2 emissions. The efficiency of fuel cells is highly dependent on the ... | 2019 | |
| 954 |
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Cantrell, Rachel Lou-La Vonne | Synthesis of Antibiotic Scaffolds Inspired by the Tan 1057-D Biologically Active Natural Product Through the Utilization of Ullmann Copper(I) and Gold Cyclization Chemistry | As bacterial resistance to drugs continues to rise, the search for new antibiotics is of paramount importance. One key element to finding successful antibiotics is to uncover small molecules that act through novel mechanisms of action in order to decrease the risk of cross-resistance and provide ant... | 2020 | |
| 955 |
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Domagala, Drue | Synthesis of protacs to inhibit toll-like receptors | The immune system is the body's defense against pathogens. Since it has to be able to withstand the fast-evolving nature of microscopic invaders, the immune system has a variety of mechanisms to recognize and destroy them. One way that pathogens are recognized is through toll-like receptor (TLR) sig... | 2022 | |
| 956 |
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Randolph, Charlotte | Synthesis of VLC-Pufas relating to macular degenerative diseases | Very Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (VLC-PUFAs) are non-dietary fatty acids that are more than 24 carbons long and include more than one double bond. The specific compound we have focused on is 32:6 n-3: a 32-carbon molecule having 6 cis alkenes with the alkenes beginning at the omega 3 carb... | 2022 | |
| 957 |
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Javdan, Shwan | Targeted HPMA copolymer-gemcitabine conjugates for the treatment of ovarian carcinoma | Each year in the United States, over 14,000 women die from ovarian cancer. Anthracyclines-a class of chemotherapeutics-have long been the primary treatment for this and many other cancers, yet they often leave patients with cardiotoxicity, hepatotoxicity, and a number of other adverse effects. Polym... | Ovaries -- Cancer -- Treatment; Polymeric drug delivery systems; Polymer-drug conjugates; pHPMA | 2015-12 |
| 958 |
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Harris, Maxene | Targeting generational segmentations in advertisements through psychoraphic attributes: the coca-cola company | Millennials have become the largest segment of consumers in the United States as of 2019, surpassing the Baby Boomer generation by over half a million people. Generation Z, while not as large in size, has become a driving influence in targeted marketing segmentation because of how influential their ... | 2021 | |
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Pierce, Curtis | Technology Adoption as a Predictive Measure of Financial Performance | This study examines the connection between technology adoption and the financial performance of firms measured as daily stock returns. Using an event study methodology, I test the hypothesis that technology adoption is a statistically significant predictor of abnormal returns. Specifically, I analyz... | 2017 | |
| 960 |
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Judd, David Paul | Telomere proteins of Drosophila melanogaster: HipHop and MSK81 | DNA molecules encoding two proteins, HipHop and MSK81, were cloned into bacteria so as to make large amounts of these proteins that bind to telomeres of Drosophila (fruit fly) chromosomes. The goal was to determine whether known DNA binding motifs are present in HipHop and MSK81. Understanding how t... | Biology | 2012-05 |
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Lusted, Kitsel | Temperature dependence of leptospirillum ferriphilum during biooxidation of pyrite | Rare earth elements have properties that make them useful in advanced electronics, magnets, and batteries. However, they are difficult to isolate from their constituent elements, which results in an environmentally costly operation to refine them. An environmentally friendly alternative extraction m... | 2023 | |
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Gallafent, Jessica | The Temperature Sensitivity of Leaf Litter Breakdown in Streams and Rivers with Variable nutrient Supply | A significant fraction of terrestrial carbon is processed and stored in surface waters. Elevated global temperature and eutrophication are major changes that influence the processing of carbon in streams and rivers through the breakdown of organic matter. Independently, increases in temperature and ... | 2019 | |
| 963 |
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Nakano, Jamie | Tennis players and bowlers: the historical sociology of the CIA | Early CIA case officers recruited during the 1950s were characterized by similar upper-class backgrounds: wealthy families from the Northeast, preparatory school education, a degree from an Ivy League, and previous employment in white collar occupations. Anecdotal evidence reported that the next gen... | 2023 | |
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Roestenburg, Jessica | Testing the Perceptual Salience of Spectral Content in Zebra Finch Song | Birds actively adjust the resonance properties of the upper vocal tract during singing, which results in specific harmonic structures of song elements. To what degree upper vocal tract filtering is relevant for the perceptual salience of song is poorly understood. This research utilizes (1) a biolog... | 2018 | |
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Kimmel, Julianne | Text analysis of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adolescents and young adults | Suicide is a public concern for adolescents and young adults (AYAs), with rates rising across the United States. This generation often uses social media platforms to express suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The three-step theory (3ST) of suicide finds that strong suicide ideation progresses to actio... | 2021 | |
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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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Johnson, Rhiannon | Thermal modulation of the semicircular canal afferent response in the oyster toadfish, opsanus tau | Current cochlear implant devices provide limited hearing ability to the deaf through electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve. Recent studies have shown that pulsed infrared (IR) radiation can also be used to stimulate the inner ear neurons and has the potential to be used in prostheses to help ... | Biomedical Engineering | 2012-05 |
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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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Savage, Erica | Total Factor Productivity in the Construction Industry | Conventional wisdom asserts productivity growth within the construction industry has been in decline for decades in comparison to other US industries. If productivity is indeed low, there is an enormous opportunity for construction firms to create value. The purpose of this study is to test the conv... | 2018 | |
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Bunting, Abraham | Towards water sustainability - improving water usage disclosure | As the amount of interest and capital invested in sustainable companies, indices, and funds has ballooned, the demand for sustainability data on which to base investment has increased significantly. Investors, companies, and regulators have all petitioned the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC... | 2023 | |
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Traction estimation and control for mobil robots using wheel slip velocity | Mobile robots are used to venture through types of environments, at low wheel speeds, where wheel slip is a threat. Wheel slip is a hazard to mobile robots in that it introduces error in dead reckoning measurement and in some instances causes the robot to halt its forward progress. To compensate ... | Robots; Motion;Traction | 2008-12 | |
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Kirkegaard, Matthew | Transboundary water conflict, cooperation, and regional integration: Mercosur and the La Plata Basin | Water politics become diplomatic concerns when watersheds cross international borders. But how do these relationships between states change when the nature of these international borders themselves change through economic and political integration? The purpose of this study is to consider the relati... | MERCOSUR (Organization); Water-supply - South America; Water-supply - Political aspects | 2016-05 |
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Wang, Karissa M. | Transcription factor NFATc1's signaling pathway and role in cardiomyocyte function | Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia. It affects as many as 6.1 million people in the United States and increases their risk of stroke by 4-5 times. AF is evidently a very serious condition, but the scientific community does not yet fully understand its underlying mechani... | 2020 | |
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Corcoran, James | Transfers in professional soccer: how they create value | Soccer, the world's most popular sport, continues to see immense growth. Clubs, now with more money at their disposal than ever before, seek any marginal advantage they can get over their competitors. One such way clubs seek to gain an advantage is by acquiring players through transfers. For teams c... | 2024 | |
| 976 |
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Mclntire, Jake Alex | Transformed into omnipresence | During my time at the University of Utah I have developed a body of work revolving around the dichotomy and coexistence of absence and presence. My fundamental inspiration spurs from the death of my Mother and a lost connection to religion. I understand absence and presence as reciprocal fluid state... | Art/Art History | 2013-05 |
| 977 |
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Sunkaraneni, Tarun | Transformer-Based Observers in Psychotherapy | Motivational Interviewing is a style of psychotherapy which has shown success as a method for treating addiction and substance abuse problems. In recent years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques have shown promising results in assisting Motivational Interviewing (MI) training and advancing... | 2020 | |
| 978 |
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Miller, Megan | Transforming spaces: Women's use of communication technology in the Middle East and North Africa | This paper deals with the use of communication technology by women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and how it relates to concepts of private and public space, i.e., gendered spatial segregation. Using available scholarship and data on female Internet usage in the MENA region as well as se... | Communication technology - Social aspects - Middle East; Communication technology - Social aspects - North Africa | 2012-06 |
| 979 |
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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 | |
| 980 |
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Crapo, Micah L. | Transitioning Control: Examining the Individual Differences Between Automatic and Controlled Processes | Transitioning control is the process of switching attentional behaviors between voluntary (controlled attention) and involuntary (automaticity) cognition. The objective of this study was to examine individual differences in the ability to transition between automatic and controlled processes. In a r... | 2016 | |
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Vermillion, Alex N. | Transitioning Outside of the Binary | Labels were created to create distinctions between words in order to classify and better understand our surrounding world. Gendered labels (i.e. man, woman, trans, queer, non-binary, etc.) serve the same purpose of classifying while also aiding the overall function of systematic privileges in our so... | 2016 | |
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Choi, Andrew Young | The transnational marriage migration subjectivities of Filipina wives in Gwangju, South Korea | "Marriage migration" of "foreign brides" Into South Korea (henceforth Korea) has recently gained scholarly attention (e.g., Belanger et al., 2010). For blue-collar men, the changing status of women has lessened the availability of marriageable Korean women. This social decoupling has various labels,... | Intermarriage - Philippines; Intermarriage - Korea (South) - Kwangju-si; Filipinos - Korea (South) - Kwangu-si; Kwangju-si (Chŏlla-namdo, Korea) - Social conditions | 2012-05 |
| 983 |
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Schmutz, Emily | Transportation alternatives for little cottonwood canyon and their operational implications | Beginning in 2017, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) has worked on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) which provides transportation improvement alternatives for the heavy congestion that takes place in Little Cottonwood Canyon and feeder streets during the winter ski season. U... | 2021 | |
| 984 |
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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 |
| 985 |
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Aderibigbe, Justis | Trends in the usage of bidentate phosphines as ligands in nickel catalysis of hydrogenation reactions | A critically important process in catalysis is the formation of an active catalyst from the combination of a metal precursor and a ligand, as the efficacy of this reaction governs the amount of active catalyst. This review is a compacted but comprehensive review of reactions catalyzed by nickel and ... | 2021 | |
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Scott, Isabelle | Tropical analog to the log canonical threshold | In algebraic geometry, the log canonical threshold is a property of singularities of planar curves. While singularities have multiplicities, the log canonical threshold can be a more telling invariant. It helps to classify curves beyond what the multiplicity indicates by examining how quickly the in... | Geometry, Algebraic | 2013-04 |
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Wang, Albert Abdul-Barr | Two reflections on the capitol insurrection | Two Reflections on the Capitol Insurrection acts as a complementary set of essays for Albert Abdul-Barr Wang's extensive photo book The Cults of the Famous and the Dead (https://www.blurb.com/b/11471408-the-cults-of-the-famous-and-the-dead). The artist reflects on the impetus for his research projec... | 2023 | |
| 988 |
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Schoensee, Kohl | U of U Fsae Aero Package CFD Optimization & Structural FEA | I would like to thank my older brother, Luke Schoensee, for pushing me to develop Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models with ANSYS that are comparable to those developed by the top Formula SAE teams. I am grateful for the countless hours on the phone with Luke where he helped explain the problem... | 2019 | |
| 989 |
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Karahalios, Vasiliki | The Unassuming Subversion of Jacksonian-ERA Democracy: An Analysis of Mary Edmonia Lewis's Minnehaha and Hiawatha of 1868 | By the mid-nineteenth century, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had become one of the most celebrated poets in the United States. The publication of his poem The Song of Hiawatha in 1855 established him as the great American epic poet of the 19th-century. Not only was The Song of Hiawatha widely read and ... | 2019 | |
| 990 |
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Woodruff, Derek | Uncovering Synaptic Defects resulting from loss of the intellectual disability and autism-associated gene Kirrel3 | Neurodevelopmental disorders severely impact an individual's life. Surprisingly, the genetic and cellular cause of over half of intellectual disability cases and more than 80% of autism spectrum disorders remain undiscovered1,2. It is likely that mutations in molecules regulating synapse development... | 2017 | |
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Liddell, Nicholas | Undergraduate Recruiting for Accounting Majors | The objective of this paper is to describe the process of recruiting for undergraduate accounting and finance majors. Because human capital that comes from U.S colleges is an immensely important resource for businesses across the globe, students have stress and pressure placed on them from their ear... | 2020 | |
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Badizadegan, Parisa | Understanding and evaluating effective technology integration in the classroom | The current study analyzed four major research questions: (1) Are the attitudes and beliefs of pre‐service teachers correlated with constructivist/traditionalist approaches to technology integration? (2) Does prior technology usage predict constructivist/traditionalist approaches to technology int... | High technology and education | 2015-04 |
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Walker, Kortnie | Understanding and treating diabetic retinopathy | Diabetic retinopathy is a neurovascular disease of the retina and is the leading cause of blindness in the working-age population in the United States. Complications as a result of hyperglycemia and diabetes mellitus (DM) break down the blood-retina barrier (BRB) and retinal vasculature. Current tre... | Diabetic retinopathy | 2015-05 |
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Amaechi, Ayana | Understanding sex differences in early predictors of pathological aggression with a mouse model | Antisocial behavior (ASB) is characterized by aggression, violence, drug use, thrillseeking behavior, and delinquent behavior. While childhood and adolescent maltreatment contribute to the ontogeny of this condition, converging evidence suggests that genetic factors play an equally important role. T... | MAOA; pathological aggression; sex differences; stress; early development; animal models | 2021 |
| 995 |
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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 | |
| 996 |
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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 | |
| 997 |
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Sageser, Emily | Understanding the radial distribution of dwarf satellite galaxies beyond the virial radii | Dark matter has been theorized to exist for over 80 years based on astronomical observations but has yet to be found in terrestrial experiments. Named for its lack of interaction with the electromagnetic field, dark matter does not absorb, reflect, or emit electromagnetic radiation making it undetec... | 2023 | |
| 998 |
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Robinson, Rayne | Understanding unmet social need in Utah's pediatric population: how can social needs by addressed in patient populations? | Background: Social determinants of health (SDoH) are the environmental conditions, material attributes, and patterns of social engagement that shape an individual's health exposures and health behaviors, contribute to an individual's health outcomes, and can place individuals at risk for poor health... | 2022 | |
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Valle, Ciriac I. Alvarez | Undocumented Undergraduates in the Utah System of Higher Education | This thesis focuses on how undocumented students navigate institutions of higher education in the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE), and considers the specific culture, legislation, and demographics of the state of Utah. Following my personal experience as an undocumented student, I interviewed... | 2017 | |
| 1000 |
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Kopcrak, Gina | Unearthing Hamlet in Ulysses | Although Ulysses is a complex work, it is possible to discover aspects of it by close reading and analyzing specific aspects of particular episodes. I use a variety of critics of Ulysses to discover aspects of Shakespeare's play Hamlet in the Scylla and Charybdis episode, the ninth episode of Ulysse... | Hamlet (Legendary character) - Examination; Joyce, James, 1882 -1941. Ulysses - Examination; Shakespeare criticism | 2012-07 |