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Shackelford, David | Graduating from the Electoral College : a critique on the electoral system of America | Our country is founded on democracy and the will of the people, but in the 2000 election the majority of citizens in the United States voted for the losing candidate. This result, of course, only is possible through the system called the Electoral College. This paper traces the history of the Electo... | Electoral college; Presidents - United States - Election | 2013-05 |
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Potter, Brianna | Graphene Imaging and Electronic Properties | This thesis explores the process required to determine the near-field photocurrent of single- and multi-layered graphene. The experimental procedures for both imaging the graphene as well as collecting data for the near-field photocurrent are described. The imaging and data collection were both to b... | 2014 | |
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Manwill, Emmylou | Grassroots yet global: the Idle No More indigenous movement in twenty-first century Canada | The focus of this thesis is the indigenous sovereignty and land rights movement, selfidentified as the "Idle No More movement" (INM), that began in opposition to federal Canadian policies in December 2012. While Canadian natives have organized in resistance before, the INM movement sticks out compar... | Idle No More (Movement); Protest movements - Canada; Indigenous peoples - Canada | 2014-05 |
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Feltovich, Lucia | The grat equalizer | 2021 | ||
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Quackenbush, Cameron | The Great Salt Dustbowl: the Impacts of a Drying Ecosystem | The Salt Lake Valley faces a dire environmental situation: the drying of the Great Salt Lake (GSL). As state and local water authorities push forward with plans to further dam and divert the single largest input to the GSL, it is crucial to acknowledge the implications of a drying lake bed for the W... | 2019 | |
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Pacholarz, Natalia | The Great Salt Lake: drought, pollution, and economic impacts | This thesis analyzes the causes which are leading the Great Salt Lake to dry up and decrease in size. Furthermore, it examines the environmental implications of this trend, in particular looking at the impacts for air quality and pollution. This paper also discusses the economic impacts from these e... | 2021 | |
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Kleinman, Megan | The green bond revolution: is it sustainable? | Green bonds, innovative financial instruments that have entered the bond market in recent years, have sparked a revolution for activists, investors, and issuers with their use of proceeds model. I examine corporate green bonds through historical research, investigation of the certification process, ... | 2020 | |
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Blunt, Connor | Guan YU from romance of the three kingdoms and his portrayal in smite by HI-REZ studios | When looking through current research on games, few studies look at the impacts they can have on people's perceptions of another culture. Due to culturally important stories being made into games, potentially by people not from the original culture, there can be miscommunications of significant mome... | 2023 | |
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Reynolds, Mira | Guilt and shame among military personnel and veterans who have experienced military sexual trauma | Objective: Sexual trauma is more likely to result in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in women than other types of trauma. Women who have suffered any form of trauma are also more likely to experience guilt and shame than men. However, less is known about the relationship of guilt and shame wit... | Sexual violence - Military; Post-traumatic stress disorder - Research - United States | 2016-05 |
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Christensen, David S. | Harmonization of EU-U.S. regulatory standards: challenges and opportunities | The prevailing trend of lower tariffs over the past half century has dramatically increased global trade flows and has exposed many previously invisible non-tariff barriers to trade, including trade-distorting regulatory practices. In this paper, I provide a broad overview of current practice and th... | United States. Trade Development.; Eurupoean Union trade relations; Harmonizing standards | 2012-05 |
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Gates, Abigail | Health Care in the United States: Disparities and Distrust in the Black Community | During the time of slavery, Black and African Americans were mistreated and abused as research subjects in medical studies. This mistreatment continued into the 20th century with the Tuskegee Syphilis study and continues today in many doctor's offices throughout America. This paper begins by looking... | 2020 | |
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Bacon, Brandon Todd | Healthcare culture and the innovation climate of the Salt Lake Valley | Healthcare innovation has become an important issue over the past ten years in the health industry. However, consistently fostering the development and integration of new ideas and technologies into healthcare often runs counter to long held organizational norms and values. Many healthcare systems b... | Medical care - Utah - Salt Lake Valley; Organization change - Utah - Salt Lake City | 2013-05 |
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McLean, Hailey | Healthcare Encounters of Formerly Homeless Individuals Supported by the Housing first Program | Homeless individuals often have high utilization of emergency healthcare services. With United States healthcare costs continuing to rise encouraging appropriate utilization as a way to lower costs and improve outcomes is becoming a priority. This study examined the healthcare encounters of formerly... | 2018 | |
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Inglesby, Kelsey | Healthcare innovation: An examination of process improvement | The term healthcare innovation has been floating around different healthcare systems for quite some time, but it is becoming more and more common for healthcare systems to place an emphasis on innovation in their company. There are many forms of healthcare innovation, three forms of innovation will ... | Health care reform; Healthcare innovation | 2015-05 |
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Dorsey, Bridget Forsha | Healthcare provider bias in estimating the health literacy of parents in a pediatric emergency department | Health literacy, defined as an individual's capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions, is a growing concern due to its significant effect on clinical communication and health outcomes. One aspect of this clinic... | 2020 | |
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Nagy, Jadelynn | Healthcare team members' views on social determinants of health screening and referral practices in a pediatric emergency department | Suboptimal social determinants of health (SDH) are associated with increased pediatric emergency department (PED) use. However, while SDH screening and referral are recommended in clinical guidelines and their implementation is extending to PEDs, there is limited understanding of views from PED heal... | 2023 | |
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Beller, Annastasia | Heartstrung: a choreographic expedition into the Queer female experience | This project follows a journey in learning how to portray a queer female experience on a ballet stage in a way that both produces emotional resonance and dissuades ostracization. Through the process of creative research, I choreographed a fiveminute- long contemporary ballet duet entitled "HeartStru... | 2022 | |
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Gallegos, Morgan | Her | This creative exploration is a study of how a girl comes to identify herself in an increasingly judgmental and harsh world. Her is a collection of short stories that are linked together through one character. The stories are intentionally fragmented to display the fragmentary nature of identity. Eac... | American fiction - 21st century | 2012-05 |
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Gibbs, Drake S. | The hero's journey as found within outer wilds | The "Monomyth", otherwise known as the "The Hero's Journey," is the title of the seventeen steps Campbell described in his examination of myths, legends, and fables across the world. Even in the tales of today, the presence of the Monomyth still is seen in many narratives, including the newest story... | 2023 | |
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Ardovino, Anthony | Heroes of rock: A design post mortem exploring the video game design process as it relates to player satisfaction | The player experience is the heart of a video game and it is the core concept behind what makes a video game engaging and fun. For my senior capstone project I designed, produced, and managed a video game titled Heroes of Rock. I lead an 11 person team over the duration of my senior year to create a... | Video games production; Psychological theory | 2013-05 |
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Pace, Eliza Jane | High School curriculum on social media and mental wellbeing: combating the negative effects through education and application | Over the past ten years, there has been a significant rise of depression and suicide rates in adolescents. These rates coincide almost exactly with the rise in smartphone use and the development of social media. Evidence of multiple studies over the last twenty years suggests that social media plays... | 2021 | |
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Carroll, Steven Michael | High-frequency trading: a survey of market impact | The May 6th "flash crash," the result of an overly large sell order in "e-mini" futures on the S&P 500 index, caused American share and future indices to drop approximately 10% in a matter of minutes, only to recover most of the loss by the end of the trading day. At the time, market volatility was ... | High-frequency trading; Financial market - United States | 2012-08 |
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Fischer, Paul | High-Performance Computing Performance Metric Analysis | At present, a signi#12;cant amount of ongoing scienti#12;c research relies on computational models. High-performance computing (HPC) resources are often required to obtain results in a reasonable amount of time. However, as physical and practical limitations constrain the performance progression of ... | 2019 | |
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Kutschke, Michael | Hip joint center differences between dual fluoroscopy, functional hip, and coda - establishing a reference standard | Measurements of joint angles, moments, and forces may be highly sensitive to positional changes in the center of a joint. Due to its deep location, the human hip joint center (HJC) can be difficult to determine. Previous studies have defined the HJC relative to external landmarks using infrared moti... | Hip joint; Hip joint center | 2015-05 |
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Roth, Andrew L. | Historical perspectives: portraits from civil war america | Over the course of two semesters, working with Professor Maureen O'Hara Ure of the Department of Art and Art History, I developed a series of historical portraits in latex paint and collage elements culled from various magazines. I began each subject's portrait with a charcoal sketch and a latex und... | Portraits; Brown, John, 1800-1859; Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895; Truth, Sojourner, 1797-1883; Grant, Ulysses S., 1852-1929; Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870; Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891; Lincoln, Abraham,1809-1865 | 2012-05 |
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Shane Macfarlan | Historical trauma and autosomal recessive diseases in American Indian/Alaskan native communities | |||
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Jensen, Emma Margaret | The history and legacy of the "Russian" violin bow hold | Bow hold is a critical component of violin technique; it greatly influences an artist's tone production and virtuosity. Because bow hold is based in part on performance style and individual preference, various approaches have been introduced over the past centuries. One such approach, the "Russian" ... | 2021 | |
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Cardiff, Cayman | The history, present and future of Spanish pragmatics instruction for advanced Spanish L2+ language learners | This paper is a review of current and past literature about pragmatics and pragmatics instruction. The review includes a brief description of acquisition of pragmatics as well as the history of pragmatics. Details the lack of research in the field, the actions prompting more in- depth research on th... | 2023 | |
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Thomas, Nathaniel | The HIV-protective bystander effect in macrophages is viral glycoprotein dependent and likely conferred via upregulation of ISG IFITM3 | During an immune response against a specific antigen, often during viral infections, T cells not specific to the antigen can be activated, a phenomenon known as bystander response. The "bystander response" has been studied extensively in T cells, but when examined for macrophages through the lens of... | 2022 | |
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Goodger, Sally | The Holocaust and Identity in Young Adult Fantasy: Jane Yolen's Briar Rose and Ryan Graudin's Wolf by Wolf | This thesis examines Briar Rose by Jane Yolen and Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin, two novels that broaden conversations about the Holocaust by using fantastic elements to examine Holocaust identity issues. "Fantasy" and "fantastic" are understood here in a broad sense, accounting for all fantastic sub... | 2017 | |
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Myrick, Trevor | The horror of sexual violence: The representations of rape in American horror story | This thesis looks at the representation of rape in American Horror Story, considering its formal and narrative construction alongside critical responses, drawing attention to both innovative and stereotypical aspects of its function within the series. While the series generally revels in representin... | Art/Art History | 2014-05 |
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Rodriguez, Mayra | Hospital Acquired Bloodstream Infections in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic stem Cell Transplantation | Purpose The purpose of this thesis was to investigate hospital acquired bloodstream infections, in pediatric patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), using a subset of data from an ongoing study. The goal of the larger study was to track changes in central line-associated ... | 2020 | |
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McFarland, Casey | Hospital-Acquired pressure injury risk in medical intensive care unit patients with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study | Background: Hospital acquired pressure injuries (HAPrIs), defined as injuries to the skin or underlying tissue as a result of pressure or pressure in combination with shear, occur in approximately 6% MICU patients at the University of Utah hospital. HAPrIs are associated with longer length of hospit... | 2021 | |
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Pozernick, Audrey | The house, the ghost, and the grave presentations of the racial hybrid and mixed raced phenomenologies in literature and in creative writing | 2024 | ||
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Kiel, Drew | How branding influences our willingness to pay for necessity products | Though marketing has existed in one manner or another for the duration of human history, the field has only seen strong development since the beginning of the 20th century. Marketing is now an inescapable part of everyday life and companies across every industry advertise of to us as potential custo... | 2021 | |
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Lee, Angela | How Creative Movement Practices, Such as Storytelling and Personal Narrative, Act as a Medium for People with Disabilities to Understand and Express Identity | After experiencing a multitude of various special needs programs (ranging from dance to climbing to personal training) in the surrounding Salt Lake City area, I found a focus on the interaction between special education and dance. Specifically, I turned to Tanner Dance to participate and assist in t... | 2014 | |
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Hanley, Grace | How engaging in mind-focused or body-focused Eastern practices affects the way people narrate challenging events | Yoga and meditation could influence how individuals mentally process and narrate their difficult experiences from the past. Specifically, such practices could result in increased exploration, growth, and positive resolution in narratives, compared to neutral conditions. Past researchers have employe... | Narration (Rhetoric) - Psychological aspects; Mediation - Therapeutic use; Yoga - Therapeutic use | 2014-05 |
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Jin, Zhao | How is the company's stock risk associated with its demand elasticity? | I examine a sample of 20 companies to see if individual total stock risk is associated with its product or service demand elasticity. My evidence is consistent with my first hypothesis that elastic firms' stock prices are more strongly affected by the changes in the input cost than are inelastic fir... | Elasticity (Economics); Risk; Stocks; Stock risk | 2014-05 |
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Bartlett, Sarah | How minority parties can increase voter mobilization and affect national elections in a two-party system | The American electoral system inhibits minority parties from gaining sufficient power to affect national politics or elections. This claim is proved by U.S. history and the lack of minority parties holding major offices. This paper studies the religious right movement, a minority group in America, t... | Elections - Research - United States; Republican Party (U.S. :1854 - ) - Religion - 21st century; Green Party (U.S); Minorities - Political activity - United States | 2012-05 |
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Norton, Alexander Santillano III | How Much of What We Did Was Good? | Many media commentators often remark that today's political climate is unhealthy and divisive. They speak of better days when people used to sit down in the same room, listen to each other, and find common ground. I believe that art, in the form of ‘music theater,' can achieve this goal. I note th... | 2019 | |
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Guzman, Kristina | How personal characteristic influence shopping habits post covid-19 | The pandemic altered the way of life permanently for people around the world, coining the phrase, "new normal," as we adjust to post-pandemic life. For my honors thesis, I chose to focus on consumer behavior changes associated with this "new normal." Specifically, I studied the impact of various for... | 2023 | |
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Terry, Anna | How social media influencers affect consumer's willingness to pay and their idealized self | While influencer marketing first dated back to the Gladiators in Ancient Rome and has been utilized to sell products in the modern era since 1890, the term "influencer" has gained new life with the rise of social media. Through continually exhibiting their lifestyle, Influencers earn a living by cul... | 2022 | |
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Kargi, Sahana | How the distribution of a society's prior beliefs affects the virality of information | Information diffusion is the process by which a piece of information disperses through a network. Whether it be computer viruses spreading via the internet or diseases transmitting through a school, understanding how information diffuses is extremely relevant to fields such as marketing, emergency m... | 2023 | |
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Yazzie, Rose | How to effectively align the Utah Effective Teaching Standards with American Indian values : a first step for elementary school teachers | Many times we find that American Indian students are disengaged in their K-12 education and classroom practices can conflict with their culture. This disconnect between value structures can make it difficult to navigate the educational pipeline leading to low college enrollment and attrition. This p... | American Indian education - Utah | 2014-04 |
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South, Koriann | How to stop AI from ruining the world: designing and pilot testing integrated al-ethics assignments | I would like to thank my thesis mentor, Dr. Eliane Wiese, for guiding me through the research process and supporting me for the past 3 years. I would also like to thank Ph.D. student Noelle Brown, Dr. Alan Kuntz, Dr. Suresh Venkatasubramanian, and Dr. Mu Zhang, who I worked with on this project. Par... | 2022 | |
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Hadfield, Nicholas | Human pathways to the Great Salt Lake | How is the Great Salt Lake connected to our sense of place as residents of the Salt Lake Valley? This thesis seeks to explore the Great Salt Lake's spiritual, environmental, and economic importance to past, present, and future inhabitants of the Salt Lake Valley. To do so, the paper explores differ... | City planning - Utah; Great Salt Lake (Utah) | 2016-04 |
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Steadham, Angela | Human trafficking in Utah, America and the world | To define human trafficking is to describe one of the most inhumane crimes in daily practice. It is modern day slavery. Human Trafficking is the recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring, and receipt of persons by coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or force to exploit them. The ... | Human trafficking - United States | 2014-07 |
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Stevens, Fergus D. | Human-Algorithm Interactions with Fundamental and Predatory Trading Robots | Algorithmic participation in financial markets has been a growing phenomenon since the early 1990s. This paper uses experimental data and simulations to analyze the interaction between humans and trading algorithms. Interactions between humans and algorithms are observed through laboratory sessions ... | 2020 | |
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Jones, Kathryn K. | Hybrid Enzyme-Bimetallic Nanoparticle System for Tandem Oxidation Catalysis | Metallic nanoparticles are commonly used as catalysts in industrial and academic settings. Recent observations that bimetallic nanoparticles can have enhanced activity over their monometallic counterparts has increased the interest in their synthesis and application to new catalytic systems. Combini... | 2020 | |
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Lan, Yung-Chi | HYPO-osmolarity and glucose starvation localizes slm1 to mitochondria- A novel stress response pathway | Synthetic Lethal with Mss4 1 (Slm1) is a key protein found in the crossroad of the Membrane Compartment of Can1 (MCC) and the Membrane Compartment of TORC2 (MCT). The two compartments on the plasma membrane of budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) are responsible for APC transporter regulation an... | 2022 | |
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Weaver, Bradley | Hypoxia and the mesenchymal transition in glioma | Recent advances in targeted therapy for cancer have had little influence on survival for patients diagnosed with Glioblastoma (GBM, WHO Grade IV tumors), and median survival time remains stagnant at 12-15 months post diagnosis. Genomic profiling of GBM indicates clear phenotypic subsets of these tum... | Glioblastoma multiforme; Gliomas; Hypoxia; Mesenchymal transition | 2014-04 |
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Gordon, Matthew | Hysteresis and the learning-By-doing mechanism in the monetary policy context: a bayesian vector autoregression appoach | Standard macroeconomic theory typically assumes that output in the long-run is independent of the short-run business cycle. The hysteresis hypothesis assumes the contrary and supposes that short-run economic shocks can have a permanent effect on the level of output. This paper empirically tests the ... | 2022 | |
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Lanier, Deandra | I am: the wake of postpostmodernism | The goal of this "essay," a compilation of the genres of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism, is to figure out where contemporary fiction is headed and what postmodernism might be leaving in its wake. This essay is an attempt to push critique through the lens of fiction. It seems that the progre... | 2011 | |
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Najarian, Anastasia S. | I Choose Life Project : Resolving the Disparity of Political and Human Rights Interventions a Strategic Communication Plan to Implement Treatment for Trauma and Suicide Prevention and Reduce Global Conflict VIA Digital Diplomacy | If one is faced with the daunting challenge of climbing Mount Everest or entering a battlefield, the best option is to follow the lead of someone who has done it before, rather than someone who has only read about it. Such is the case with current trends in addressing human rights interventions for ... | 2018 | |
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Fackler, Anderson N. | Identification of Kin-20 and UNC-119 Knockout suppressors associated with neuronal development and maintenance in C. elegans | Neurons comprise the nervous system-the essential signaling and communication system for nearly all multicellular organisms. To coordinate cells across an entire organism, they must grow to be relatively long. Therefore, neurons extend axons from the cell body. Immature neurons extend growth cones a... | 2018 | |
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Johnson, KariAnne Rencher | Identification of PASK substrates and/or interacting proteins | PAS kinase (PASK) is an evolutionary conserved serine/threonine kinase that appears to have a role in the regulation of cellular energy metabolism. It has previously been shown that mice lacking PASK (PASK"/_ mice) are resistant to the development of hepatic steatosis (lipid accumulation in the live... | Biology | 2012-05 |
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Identification of potential causes for increased central line associated bloostream infection rates in the University of Utah NICU | The University of Utah Newborn Intensive Care Unit (UUNICU) has seen a recent increase in rate of Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) after an extended period of 965 days with no CLABSI's. Unfortunately, in the last three years, infection rate has been on average 2.6 CLABSI per ye... | 2023 | ||
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Black, Alyssa | Identifying hybrid male sterility genes in Drosophila Pseudoobscura | Speciation, the process of one species splitting into two separate species, often involves the evolution of hybrid sterility or hybrid inviability. These reproductive isolating barriers are caused by negative interactions between genes called hybrid incompatibilities. Identifying hybrid incompatibil... | Infertility, Male -- Genetic aspects Drosophila pseudoobscura -- Genetics Male sterility genes | 2015-05 |
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Ong, Elaine | Identifying Natural Genetic Modifiers of Apoptosis and Retinal Degeneration | Apoptosis, or cell death, is an integral part of many diseases such as neurodegeneration, retinal degeneration, and cancer, yet it is unclear how apoptosis varies among individuals in a population. Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a retinal degeneration disease characterized by phenotypic heterogeneity ... | 2018 | |
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Khuu, Scott | Identifying Retinoic Acid Dependent Mechanisms of Neural Crest Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition | Cancer metastasis is one of the distinguishing traits that make the disease difficult to treat. The steps of tumor invasion are similar to a process called epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT). Retinoic acid (RA) is shown to inhibit EMT and may cause an increased transcription of the gene, ski... | 2017 | |
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Danielson, Hailey | If i should die before i wake | In my senior year at the University of Utah, I edited and improved upon the movel I wrote in the Honors Novel Writing Workshop course taught by Michael Gills. My novel If I Should Die Before I Wake is the story of a young woman named Emma meeting a young man named Cale by coincidence, and how they s... | 2022 | |
| 562 |
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Wang, Wenyi | Imaging in a homogeneous aluminum plate by using ultrasonic waves | This project is about detecting and imaging damage (such as cracks) in a plate by using ultrasonic waves. The waves are generated by a source (an ultrasonic transducer) that is part of a robot that can move on the plate. The waves traveling in the plate are recorded at a receiver (another ultrasonic... | Ultrasonic transducer - Mathematics; Kirchoff migration - Research | 2014-12 |
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Child, Skylee | Imaining an ultimate approach to the healthcare system in the 21st century | 2023 | ||
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Vyas, Yash | Immigrants and financial capability in Canada | Immigration has accounted for 65% of Canadian population growth for the past five years, and this percentage is growing. By 2035, immigration is expected to account for nearly all of Canada's net population growth. As the number of immigrants continue to grow, many are beginning to wonder if immigra... | 2023 | |
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Jindrich Kopecek | Immunomodulation improves cancer cell clearance by T cells during multi-antigent T cell hybridizer therapy | 2024 | ||
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Herman, Ryan | The Impact of Dodd-Frank Legislation on the Mortagage Market Risk Environment: A Quantitative and Qualitative Examination | Within the last decade, the United States endured what is contemporaneously considered to be the most devastating economic recession since the Great Depression. While a complex array of factors contributed to the downturn, a significant and material contributor was the collapse of the housing market... | 2018 | |
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Farese, Ludovica | The impact of Global Health education in American Academic Medical Center (AAMCS) | Global health has become an increasingly popular field of study among college and graduate students in the United States. A growing body of literature purports the benefits of Global Health Education (GHEs) in American Academic Medical Centers (AAMCs), including introduction to a wider spectrum of d... | 2018 | |
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Rebekah Shrader | The impact of paid family leave on fertility rates in the U.S. | 2024 | ||
| 569 |
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Foote, Carol | The Impact of Past Drug Enforcement Legislation and Potential Success of a Three-Pronged Approach to the Opioid Epidemic | The opioid epidemic has gained widespread attention over the past decade as overdose and addiction rates soar across the country. Opioid abuse has been a problem for the United States dating back to the Civil War. With the pain revolution and aggressive marketing tactics by prescription drug manufac... | 2018 | |
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Au, Alexander | Impact of population density of left atrial remodeling in patients with atrial fibrillation | Atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common cardiac arrhythmia and a leading cause of stroke, is characterized by structural changes, or remodeling, in tissues of the left atrium (LA). Late Gadolinium-Enhancement Magnetic Resonance Imaging (LGE-MRI) can noninvasively detect remodeling in the LA, allow... | Atrial fibrillation Treatment | 2012-05 |
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Brown, Athena | The impact of social media on behaviors and attitudes toward television advertsiing | Since the year 2000, the average attention span has dropped from 12 seconds to eight seconds (Microsoft, 2015). This weakened ability to focus may be the result of an increased use of social media by today's society. On social media platforms, the content shared is mainly short-form content, meaning... | 2023 | |
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Quinn, Chloe | The impact of the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River: options for the future | The Grand Canyon and the Colorado River at its base are iconic natural features of the western United States that are revered by many. This landscape may be well known for its resplendent red canyon walls and beautiful river with huge whitewater, but it is also famous for the monstrous dams that con... | 2023 | |
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Woolston, Caleb M. | Impact of trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress symptoms on baseline self-reported safety behaviors versus observer-rated safety behaviors during the trauma film paradigm | Background: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a high burden disorder marked by safety behaviors (SB), which are covert or overt actions used to escape distressing feelings or places. However, literature suggests scores on observer-rated and self-reported SBs can be discrepant, creating a need... | 2022 | |
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Holden, Ella | The impacts of climate change induced droughts on smallholder farmers in Latin America and the caribbean: poverty, food insecurity and drought adaptation strategies | Extreme weather events caused by climate change have serious implications. Drought, a natural disaster, has been worsened by climate change, and has had major consequences on the agricultural industry. While many farmers can adapt to major droughts, small-scale farmers in developing countries strugg... | 2023 | |
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Black, Taylor Madison | Impacts of Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Outlier Body Mass Indices on Pediatric Asthma Outcomes | There are seven million children in the United States impacted by asthma [1]. When assessing the severity of a child's asthma, it is important to take into account risk factors known to affect child hood asthma. Two such risk factors that are modifiable include parental tobacco smoke exposure (TSE)... | Asthma - Child; Tobacco smoke - Health aspects - United States | 2015-05 |
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Lloyd, Lauren | Implementing education on objectification theory and why it is more beneficial for women's issues than the body positivity movement | 2022 | ||
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Beams, Alexander | Implications of antibiotic use for co-infections when a fitness trade-off for resistance is present | How much does indiscriminate antibiotic use promote the spread of antibiotic-resistant infections in a population? Assuming a fitness trade-off for resistance exists, it is possible for an antibiotic-vulnerable strain to outlast a resistant type within an untreated host carrying both. That means pru... | Drug resistance in microorganisms -- Mathematical models Co-infections | 2015 |
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Hughes, Emma | The implications of carbon abatement for industrial composition and firm value | Marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs) serve as a representation of the costs or savings associated with various actions aimed at reducing green house gas (GHG) emissions. This thesis investigates whether investors could have earned abnormal stock returns by constructing portfolios that exploit diff... | 2023 | |
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Ribble, Leah | The implications of childhood maltreatment and current life stress for pregnant women's hair cortisol concentrations | The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is one of the core components of the body's stress system. As such, the HPA axis is responsive to many different stressors, including those in childhood-such as childhood maltreatment-as well as sources of current life stress. The product of the HPA axis... | 2023 | |
| 580 |
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Stoddard, Henry | The Importance of Planning in Rural Communities | City and Metropolitan Planning as a discipline is largely focused on the development and problem solving of dense urban living areas. This is largely due to the fact that urban areas contain the most people, therefore they require careful planning in order to function properly. It makes sense. But t... | 2020 | |
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Hagemeyer, Troy | The importance of resolution with UAV remote sensing and structure from motion | The use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, has grown widely as they have grown less costly and more available to the public. One area of growth is in the remote sensing of snow and ice. In particular, structure from motion photogrammetry is used to determine snow depths through differential mappi... | 2020 | |
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Thomas, Payton J | Importance sampling techniques for genetic circuit analysis | Genetic circuits have been identified as a promising technology that could revolutionize several areas, including biofuels, biomanufacturing, and medicine. Despite the tremendous potential of this technology, there are significant challenges associated with its development and implementation. One of... | 2023 | |
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Luchinovich, Aleksandr | Improving measurement techniques of thin film solar cells | New, innovative solar cell technologies such as CZTS, CdTe, and hybrid perovskite solar cells are constantly being pursued in order to deliver better cost per Watt performance. Moreover, cost and long term reliability(25 years or more) are important factors that are currently considered. The Scarpu... | Solar cells - Testing; Thin films - Research; Electric power - Research; Thermal admittance spectroscopy | 2016-05 |
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Rose, Brooke | Improving Mechanisms Between Interventional Community Partnerships to Better Promote Multidimensional Health | In the past, access to health care was often considered one of the most critical determinants of health status. However, in recent years the degree to which health care is considered to have a direct impact on health status has shifted. Depending on the source, only 10-20% of an individual's overall... | ||
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Hendrickson, Hannah | Improving Outcomes for People Facing Homelessness | Despite extravagant health care spending in the United States today, a real and significant disparity still exists: The large homeless population is underrepresented in receiving good health care. Research shows the United States (U.S.) is missing its target of providing quality health care to all i... | 2017 | |
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Asplund, Brenna | In border country: The nature of magic and reality in Terry Pratchett's Discworld | Magic and reality in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series are difficult to place among well-known fantasy tropes and dichotomies. Defining either magic or reality in his invented world (either as opposed to each other or as different aspects of each other) is nearly impossible. Reality on the Disc is ... | Pratchett, Terry. Discworld series | 2015-04 |
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Warren, Bailey J. | In context of consumer education: the environmental, human health, and community based externalities of confinement operations in Brazil | Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (henceforth CAFOs) are a signature feature of modern food production and consumption. This thesis will explore the various types of environmental pollution and contamination that surround CAFOs and what this means for neighboring ecosystems, human health, and t... | 2022 | |
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Colby, Natalie | In depth: a collection of short stories on Queer Adolescence | This thesis is a collection of fiction short stories written over the course of my undergrad degree, with some produced particularly for this project. In these stories, I explore themes that are of particular interest to me, including, queer adolescence and the intersections between queerness and re... | 2023 | |
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Fine, Elizabeth | In His Own Hands: Autonomy in the Legend of Theophilus | Looking at stories that embodied medieval values, there are none that do it so well as the "Legend of Theophilus," the story of a man who, after making a contract with the Devil to regain his lost status in his community, prays to Mary to save him from his sins. After Theophilus's extended repentanc... | 2019 | |
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Kobe-Rundio, Maya | In Our Element: Outdoor Recreation as a Tool for Female Empowerment and Community Building | This research investigates the meanings of outdoor recreation in the lives of college-aged female-identified and non-binary individuals. Qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 16 current students and recent graduates of the University of Utah generated rich narratives on the themes of challeng... | 2019 | |
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Johnson, Kent | In search of a universal model for personal data | A comprehensive model of personal data provides citizens across the globe with protections to breaches of personal data and facilitates the sharing of valuable data. Personal data are valuable to those who create it and those who use it. Creating a universal model for personal data enables that valu... | Personal data protection; OpenID; Facebook Connect | 2012-05 |
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Cohen, Susan | In search of visual privacy in a technological world | Americans value a "right to privacy" even though that right is not spelled out in the Constitution, and only loosely defined in a patchwork of federal and state laws. Much of our understanding of privacy is rooted in the Fourth Amendment, but when the First Congress wrote the Fourth Amendment, no on... | Privacy, Right of - United States; Electronic surveillance - United States | 2014-05 |
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Weller, Kristine C. | Incarceration, art, and agency: newspaper portrayals as an outlet for creative expression inside Japanese American relocation camps | The purpose of this thesis is to explore the role of art in publications created by interned Japanese Americans during World War II. Newspapers and magazines published inside internment camps were examined to see how they depicted art as a response to various needs and loss, in what ways camp public... | 2023 | |
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Lei, Jeffrey KaChon | Increased gluti expression in mouse cardiomyocytes preserves mitochondrial function but is insufficient to attenuate pressure overload-induced contractile dysfunction | Lifelong over-expression of GLUT1 transporter in the heart has been shown to preserve contractile function after aortic constriction. However it is unclear whether this protective effect is due to GLUT1 overexpression itself or due to reprogramming of heart metabolism as a result of long-term increa... | Bioengineering | 2013-04 |
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Stephanz, Megan | Increasing the Stability of Thylakoid Biocatalyst Bio-Solar Cells Through the Use of Oxygen Species Material Scavengers | Global energy requirements will only increase with time. While fossil fuels can be relied upon for several more centuries, they would produce vast amounts of carbonaceous byproducts. This undesirable fact makes renewable options like bio-solar cells, which are clean, inexpensive, and take advantage ... | 2016 | |
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Liu, Jia | Indicators of Burden in Conversations Between Caregivers | When facing a challenge to provide sufficient resources and services to a growing elderly population, family caregivers will be required to provide the majority of care at home, leading to increased stress and burden. While this phenomenon is well-recognized in the research literature, and many atte... | 2018 | |
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Gardner, Kelly | Individual differences in inhibition and emotion | The objective of this study was to examine if negative emotion can play an influential role on inhibition through attentional control. Higher levels of working memory capacity (WMC) have been correlated with faster inhibition times attributed to greater tolerance of automatic processes and better... | Emotion | 2014-12 |
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Edgette, Ashley | Individual, collective, and neighborhood political capital : relationships of change, power, and love in Salt Lake City | In this study, I examine how three Latina community leaders from the Riverbrook neighborhood of Salt Lake City enact their political capital. My three measures of political capital are perceptions of individual power, community relationships, and influence in the larger school-community setting. Mot... | Community leadership - Utah - Salt Lake City; Hispanic American mothers - Utah - Salt Lake City | 2013-08 |
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Helm, Audrey | The individuality of women characters in Shakespearean drama: a study of much ADO about nothing and Macbeth | The individuality of Shakespeare's female characters is often underestimated. Many modern Shakespeare readers view his plays through a contemporary lens, which prevents a complex understanding of the way Shakespeare portrays highly individualized female characters, who operate in complex, male-led s... | 2023 | |
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Mark Matheson | The individuality of women characters in shakespearean drama: a study of much ado about nothing and macbeth | 2023 |