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Filters: Collection: "ir_htoa" Year Start: 2016
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Fronberg, Erik | Contextualizing emergency powers and climate crisis in liberal democracies | This thesis develops a theoretical framework for and responds to concerns regarding the use of emergency powers to combat climate change in liberal democracies. Consensus in the scientific community maintains that the window for acting to mitigate the worst effects of climate change is rapidly narro... | 2022 | |
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Ortega-Flores, Laura Sofia | Contraception Knowledge and Attitudes Among Hispanic Women | Purpose: Unintended pregnancies are among the most troubling public health concerns and a major reproductive health issue in women's health (Yazdkhasti, Pourreza, Pirak & Abdi, 2015). Nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended, with the highest rates among Blacks, Hispanics, ... | 2019 | |
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Young, Michael | The Contributions of Elastin to Ligament Viscoelasticty | Ligaments exhibit viscoelastic behavior in response to strain. This behavior protects joints from injury during loading. Collagen is the primary structural component of ligaments, but does not account fully for the viscoelastic behavior. Elastin is another structural protein in ligaments, and provid... | 2017 | |
| 179 |
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Gagon, Jordyn | Control of isolation induced aggression through activation of medial prefrontal cortex pyramidal neurons | In 2019, the surgeon general warned that social isolation was the deadliest epidemic facing society (Murthy, 2020). This has only been exacerbated as the effects of social isolation have been recently felt deeply across the globe as the world seemingly shut down in response to the novel Covid-19 pan... | 2023 | |
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Myler, Laurel | Conversations with Caligula | Conversations with Caligula is a play in two acts which combines research in the field of psychology with an exploration of Ancient Roman history. Topics include the life and exploits of Caligula, third emperor of Rome; the writings of Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus; mental health, specifically sympt... | Mental illness in literature | 2016-04 |
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Christensen, Masen | Cooperative primers: Intersecting spherical model for optimization of linker and gap lengths | Detection of specific sequences of DNA is invaluable for diagnosing the presence of a pathogen, as well as other areas of genetic analysis. A common way of detecting DNA is replicating it millions of times through Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and using fluorescent molecules to detect those copies... | Pathogenic microorganisms - Detection; DNA - Research; Polymerase chain reaction - Research; Cooperative primers; Aluminum foam materials; Load frame | 2016-05 |
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Adams, Samuel I. | Correcting acoustic phase aberrations in focused ultrasound treatments for breast cancer | Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer worldwide. Early-stage localized cancers are currently treated with surgical lumpectomy and radiation. Focused ultrasound is a disruptive technology that can replace conventional surgical and radiation therapies to provide noninvasive cancer treatment. This... | 2021 | |
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Yeates, Milo | Counterfactual utilitarianism: a new metaphysical framework for consequentialist ethics | In the thesis I motivate, explain, and apply a new broadly consequentialist and utilitarian ethical framework: counterfactual utilitarianism. In contrast to other utilitarian frameworks which might calculate cumulative or average overall utility, counterfactual utilitarianism aims to reapply focus o... | 2024 | |
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Montgomery, Lauren | Creating a new class of cyanocarbons with unexplored chemistry | Organic charge transfer complexes have been known for decades, but have experienced a resurgence in recent years. This paper explores the properties of a cyano carbon molecule and its potential for use as an acceptor in charge-transfer complexes. Pentacyano-trifluoromethyl benzene [C6(CN)5CF3] was s... | 2023 | |
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Waung, Austin J. | Creating a Potential Solution for the Adverse Effects of Electric Vehicle Loading | The purpose of this project was to create a smart plug-adapter, which could limit the charging rate of electric vehicles, thereby allowing for greater control of the electric load. A user is able to control the charge rate through a cellular application. This project was designed to be utilized with... | 2019 | |
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Woolford, Dallin | Creating false memories using real-world objects: an attempt to expand upon a classic study | This study aimed to investigate the relationship between different types of stimulus presentation and their effects on both memory confidence and memory accuracy through researching the phenomenon known as false memories. Investigating ways to raise memory confidence and to still retain accurate mem... | 2023 | |
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Besic, Arnel | Creation and characterization of organic mixed conductors | Organic mixed ionic electronic conductors (OMIECs) are conjugated polymers that conduct both ions and electrons. These materials are promising for applications in healthcare and energy technologies, including biosensors and batteries. An obstacle for using these materials in next-generation technolo... | 2024 | |
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Redman, Simon | Critical Reroute | Due to network failure, underprovisioning, or temporary unanticipated increases in traffic, networks may become overloaded. In such situations, it may be desirable to prioritize some traffic flows over others, such as for public safety applications or priority customers. Solutions such as priority q... | 2018 | |
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Ventura, Glenda A. Palomino | Cultrally Sustaining Pedagogy : Educators' Pedagogical Support for Elementary Undocumented/Mixed Status Students | Educators should be informed and adapt their practice to meet the needs of the growing diversity in their classrooms; specifically when it comes to working with undocumented students and students in mixed-status families. This study examines the current educational research trends that emphasize the... | culturally sustaining pedagogy; teacher education; school climate; immigration; undocumented students | 2018 |
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Gibbons, Michael E. | CuO-SiO2 Particle Development and Experimental Apparatus for Chemical Looping with Oxygen Uncoupling (CLOU) | Chemical looping combustion (CLC) is a clean coal technology. It allows a nearly pure CO2 exhaust from a carbon based fuel burning power plant, which allows for more cost effective carbon sequestration. Chemical Looping with Oxygen Uncoupling (CLOU) is a subset of CLC that specialized in the transfe... | 2018 | |
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Avondet, Callie | Curriculum as resistance: social studies at the Hampton institute in the late nineteenth century | As the Civil War concluded, freed people claimed their freedom to literacy. Schools teaching both basic literacy and offering higher education for Black people were quickly established throughout the South, supported by missionary associations, the Freedmen's Bureau, and Black communities. In 1868 t... | 2022 | |
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Norris, Aileen | Dance as Activism: Exploring Gun Violence Through Movement and Text | In my thesis, I explore the potential for dance to take on an activist role, serving to springboard conversations and personal understandings of social issues in ways that conventional activism does not access. Through creative and textual research, I created a 20-minute long dance work titled "Aler... | 2019 | |
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Zamantakis, Alithia | The death of hetero and homo | "The Death of Hetero/Homo" is a theoretical examination of the ways in which sexuality, love, and desire are not merely abstract, innate concepts but have very real consequences as weapons in the process of abjection, particularly of trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming individuals. As gender ... | Sex (Psychology); Sex (Biology) | 2016-01 |
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Falvo, Jamie | Decomposition of ethnic wage gap in Utah and intermountain region | Hispanic workers on average earn less than white workers in both Utah and the Intermountain region. Average wage disparities in Utah and the Intermountain region are largely similar in magnitude, with various socioeconomic factors affecting these wage disparities. However, little is known about the ... | Income distribution - Utah; Wages - Utah | 2016-04 |
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Festin, Madeleine | Deep-seated gravitational slope deformation in the sawatch Range of Colorado | Deep-seated gravitational slope deformations (DSGSDs) are large-scale, creeping mass movements often involving entire mountain slopes. These enormous landslides may be on the order of kilometers in height and length but only move a few millimeters to centimeters a year. Secondary hazards are produce... | 2023 | |
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Streeter, Forest | Deficiency in regulator of G-Protein signaling, LOCO, protects D. Melanogaster from effects of a high Salt diet | Gerontology and studies of aging have been grappling with the effects of a westernized diet for decades now. Some of these effects include diseases related to overconsumption such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and many more. These pathologies are now contributor... | 2021 | |
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Lebenzon, Roxanne Macdonald | Defining Ballet: How the Culture Shapes the Expression of Art | Ballet is truly its own entity in the dance world. With its strict pedagogy and rich history, its evolution to modernity has taken a winding path. As ballet has transitioned into the new millennium, there has been consistent chatter about how to classify ballet. There are those who hold steadfast to... | 2017 | |
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Bracken, Kallie | Defining learning: mystifying machine learning as a powerful tool in a data-driven world | Until recently, the driving paradigm in software engineering has been to design applications for a predefined set of tasks. This approach, however, is quickly being dwarfed by data-driven applications which are designed to use knowledge and understanding to decide how they can best fulfill use... | Machine learning - Case studies; Machine learning - Study and Teaching; Machine Learning - Technique | 2016-04 |
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Lim, Koun (Kasha) | Deglycoyslation of glucose oxidase and its application within high power enzymatic fuel cells | To compensate for the increase of carbon dioxide level and the energy exhaust, an enzymatic fuel cell (EFC) has been investigated by researchers. In the paper, a chemical oxidative deglycosylation of an enzyme was investigated to furture improve EFCs. By deglycosylating an enzyme, the distance betwe... | Fuel cells - Research; Electric power - Research; Deglycosylation; Enzymatic fuel cell; Glucose oxidase | 2016-04 |
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Zubair, Jonathan | Design and Implementation of a Shrouded Rotor for Uncreasing Quadrotor Performance | Quadrotors have come to serve myriad purposes and have seen use as platforms for diverse activities including videography and remote sensing. These versatile aircraft, however, cannot remain in flight for extended periods of time. This is due to several factors including the aerodynamic regime in wh... | 2017 |