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Garg, Gauri | Physical activity and nutrition correlation with white matter hyperintensities on brain MRI | OBJECTIVE Our aim is to identify a correlation between the level of physical activity or nutritional intake and white matter hyperintensity (WMH) on MRI of the brain. BACKGROUND White matter hyperintensities are a radiographic marker of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD). Individual's levels of ph... | | 2023 |
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Sorensen, Andrew | Validity of the Actigraph GT3X+ in children When Worn at the Wrist | Background: Low levels of physical activity and excessive amounts of sedentary behavior have been associated with higher risk of all-cause mortality as well as the incidence of mortality from numerous chronic diseases. Given the significant impact of physical activity on health, it is important to b... | | 2019 |
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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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Blake, Bennett J. | Art-secured lending and evaluating the loan-to-value ratio in art and real estate lending markets | I analyze the lending terms for loans with art as collateral. The standard loan-to-value (LTV) ratio offered by private banks is 50% of the value of a piece/collection, while for other tangible assets, such as real estate, LTV is often 80%. I use a linear regression model with common U.S. stock indi... | | 2023 |
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Isom, Anika | Amniotic fluid treatment of vocal fold injury in an in vivo rabbit model | Hyaluronic acid (HA) injectables are a standard treatment for vocal fold injuries in both clinical and research settings. Results from these treatments are not permanent, however, and may vary in effectiveness. Because of this, there is a significant clinical interest in finding an alternative for H... | Vocal folds; rheology; wound healing of vocal folds; hyaluronic acid; amniotic fluid; regenerative medicine | 2022 |
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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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Johnson, Stuart | Connection between price elasticity and Beta: The case of the oil industry | Price elasticity and Beta are cherished variables in Economics and Finance, respectively. Price elasticity is a measure of a percent change in the quantity of a good demanded divided by the percent change in its price. Beta is the covariance of a firm's return with respect to the market, divided by ... | Price elasticity of demand; Beta (Firm); Oil industries | |
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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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Du Pre, Jessie J. | Gender differences in recollected consistency or change in same sex sexuality across the lifespan: Measuring linkages between flexibility in sexual attraction, behavior, and love propensity | The flexibility of same sex attractions, engagement in same sex sexual behaviors, and propensity to fall in love with same sex partners were examined by assessing selfreported change over time in men and women of heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual orientations. We sought to examine whether the l... | Same sex attraction; Gender differences | 2015-12 |
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Simon, Philip C. | A study of the optimized load of a traveling wave thermoacoustic heat engine | Thermal interaction between differentially heated solid material and ambient gas in a resonator can lead to self-sustained oscillations or the transportation of heat in accordance with the thermoacoustic effect, first explained by Lord Rayleigh. In this research the phenomenon is employed in a lo... | Thermoacoustic engine - Research; Energy conservation | 2016-03 |
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Dart, Emily | Diversity and metabolic potential of microbial communities in a site of continental serpentinization | The geochemical process of serpentinization releases energy and organic carbon: two of the basic requirements need ed to support life. Sites of active serpentinization in the deep subsurface provide the intriguing possibility of a non-photosynthetically -supported biosphere. However, serpentinizatio... | Microbial ecology - Research; Serpentine - Environmental aspects; Gros Morne National Park (N.L.); Syntrophomonadaceae; Serpentinizaiton; Tabeland Ophiolite | 2016-05 |
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Van der Merwe, Mark | Learning 3D Reconstructions for Geometrically aware Robotic Grasping | Robotic grasping is a crucial subtask of many important robotic applications, such as in-home robotic assistance, emergency responce robots, and industrial robotics. Deep learning has enabled remarkable improvements in robotic grasp synthesis for previously unseen objects from partial object views. ... | | 2020 |
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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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Herbert-Voss, Ariel | Generating audio mixtures using deep convolutional neural networks | Deep neural networks have recently been used in a generative capacity to separate and convolve the content and style of two input images. This is done using a joint cost function during gradient descent that encodes information about style and content to iteratively calculate forward node activation... | Computer sound processing; Computer music; Machine learning; Neural networks; Audio mixtures; Spectrograms; Split integer scaling | 2016-05 |
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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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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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Goel, Divyam | Evidence-based medicine in times of crises: what we can learn from covid-19 to adapt early on in a pandemic | Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the current philosophical paradigm by which contemporary healthcare practices are guided. A related field, evidence-based public health (EBPH), similarly advises practices in the field of public health. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated weaknesses in th... | | 2022 |
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Mailoux, Savannah | Mapping Vitality in Utah's Salt Lake County | The term vitality within the field of psychology is related to someone's energy or spirit as they move through different experiences in life. Most often, the term is associated with a sense of liveliness if someone were to possess high vitality, or a sense of dullness if someone were to possess low ... | | 2019 |
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Wankier, Zakary S. | Use of computer tomography imaging to observe increased distal-end cortical bone around a percutaneous osseointegrated implant | Osseointegration (OI) is being used for the direct skeletal attachment of prosthetic limbs using an intramedullary stem that extends percutaneously from the subject's residual limb. For this technology to be successful, bone ingrowth and remodeling around the implant must occur. Physicians need an e... | | 2022 |
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Stephan, Chandler | Family and Urban Structures as Determinants of Income Mobility Differences in Salt Lake | Income mobility is the measure of the difference between a child's income and their parent's income. A higher rate of mobility is indicative of a greater ability to positively change income over generations while a lower rate means there is less mobility. A higher rate of mobility can reduce the amo... | | 2017 |
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Miller, Curtis | Explaining Utah's gender gap in wages | Women earn less than men, and the disparity between men's and women's wages in Utah is larger than the same disparity at the national or regional levels. Little is known as to why Utah has a larger wage gap than the nation or its neighbors. In this paper, we use Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition to decom... | Women -- Employment -- Utah; Wage differentials -- Utah; Gender gap | 2015-08 |
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Livnat, Yotam | A Less Obvious Connection: the Relationship Between Religious Coping and the Development of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder in a Military Sample | While there has been a well-documented negative correlation between religious coping and post-traumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder in military samples, there has been little research in to potential reasons for this relationship. It has been proposed that in many ways religion wo... | Post-traumatic stress disorder - Patients - Religious life | |
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Stewart, Patrick | A Real-World Investigation of the Attentional Capture Paradigm | Attention directs awareness toward important objects, like food or predators, and filters out unimportant objects, like familiar scenery. Two modes of visual attention have been identified: goal-directed and stimulus-driven (Simons, 2000). Goal-directed attention refers to a deliberate search for ob... | | 2017 |
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Esplin, Jess | Capital account liberalization & income inequality: 1980-2009 | In this paper, I examine the relationship between income distribution and the capital market account from 1980 to 2009 across a sample of developed and semi-developed countries. A review of the literature suggests that capital account liberalization raises income inequality. Several factors alleged ... | Income distribution - Mathematical models | 2016-04 |
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Hopkins, Stephanie | Lost in Translation: Perceptions of Patient Centered Care Among Iraqi Muslim Women | Iraqi Muslim women encounter many barriers to receiving patient-centered care in the U.S. health system. When expectations between the patient and provider differ and a disconnect or misunderstanding occurs, Iraqi women can be at risk for unintended poor quality care. Health providers have incentive... | | 2019 |