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Filters: Collection: "ir_htoa" Year Start: 2017
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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 | |
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Robe, John William | The Design and Implementation of Autonomous Robotic Systems | This research focuses on the development of an autonomous robotic system using Robot Operating System (ROS), with the purpose of competing in the NASA Robotic Mining Competition in collaboration with the Utah Robotic Mining Project team. While completing this research, the following discoveries were... | 2017 | |
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Kennedy, Ashley | Design of Optimal Carbonaceous Material from Carbon Capture for Use in Lithium-Ion Batteries | The utilization of carbon nanofiber obtained from carbon capture as a potential anodic material in lithium-ion batteries was investigated in this project. The carbon nanofiber obtained from the carbon capture process was designed to be optimal for use in lithium-ion batteries. Its suitability as an ... | 2018 | |
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Baker, Justin | Designed Swarming Behavior Using Optimal Transportation Newworks | Models of swarming behavior aid in disaster planning, direct the actions of ware- house robots, and can map the foraging characteristics of insects. These mod- els use the optimal behavior of individual agents to determine the behavior of the larger population. Optimal transportation is one such mod... | 2019 | |
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Linnebach, Shawn Michael III | Designing a large scale software application: the Histia Story | When designing a large-scale software system there are many aspects of software design that go into making a successful final product. This document seeks to give insight into the software design process, using my capstone project, Hestia, as a case study. Hestia is an all-encompassing household man... | 2021 | |
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Keller, Jackson | Designing for Interactivity: the Camera in 3D Video Games | This paper analyzes the effect that camera control has on art, design, and player experience in 3D video games. It will specifically explore the implications of various methods of camera control that have emerged during the brief history of 3D games: the first and third-person perspectives, fixed an... | 2019 | |
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Munn, Jackson | Determining microbial community composition and methane flux or red butte canyon sediment over time | Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that is released from the soil into the atmosphere, which contributes heavily to global warming. One potential way of reducing the amount of methane in the air is through studying methane consuming bacteria (methanotrophs) and how they interact with other microbes ... | 2022 | |
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Buchanan, Kathryn Leigh | Developing and Evaluating a Resilience Curriculum for Nurse Residency Programs | Purpose: There is a nursing shortage worldwide, which is partially due to nurses leaving the workforce prematurely. This phenomenon has been particularly prevalent within emergency, critical care, and oncology. This burnout has been linked to a concept termed "compassion fatigue", where nurses' abil... | 2017 | |
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Mawson, Seth | Developing sport-specific return-to-play testing protocols: incorporation of psychological assessment through self-appraisal in pilot testing for potential return-to-play protocols | 2022 | ||
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Rahislic, Emir | Development of a Copper-Based Oxygen Carrier for Chemical Looping with Oxygen Uncoupling | Chemical looping with oxygen uncoupling (CLOU) is a CO2-capture technology that is a special form of chemical looping combustion (CLC). It requires an oxygen carrier that cycles between two reactors picking up oxygen from one and delivering it to another for the combustion of solid fuels. An oxygen ... | 2017 | |
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Robertson, Stuart J. | Development of a Microbial Fuel Cell for Hypersaline Wastewater Treatment Applications | The proper treatment of wastewater generated by human activity is of paramount importance for the preservation of the quality of water sources. For effluents containing high salt concentrations, treatment requires expensive methods that require high energy usage and additional chemicals. Halotoleran... | 2019 | |
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Gilbert, Henry | Development of a Power over Ethernet (POE) Airu Sensor | Poor air quality has been linked to both health and economic concerns, and is a growing research topic in Salt Lake City. The AQ&U program at the University of Utah strives to develop a large network of low-cost air quality sensors (AirU's) to study air pollution throughout the Salt Lake valley. Man... | 2020 | |
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Ingold, Alexander | Development of a Utah optrode array for large scale optogenetics in non-human primate cortex: analysis of spatial excitation pattern using C-FOS expression | A central goal in neuroscience is to understand how neural circuits generate the computations that underlie neuronal responses, sensory perception, and behavior. This requires manipulating their activity and determining the results of these manipulations. Optogenetics is a versatile laboratory techn... | 2022 | |
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Feliciano, Jeppesen Garcia | Development of Computational Strategies for Improved Environmental Simulations of Water Energy Balances, Air Quality, and Energy Use | In the last decade, there has been more focus on urban microclimate due to concerns for inhabitants' health, water and energy resource consumption, and air quality. The Green Environmental Urban Simulations for Sustainability (GEnUSiS) project uses large computational platforms including the Quick U... | 2017 | |
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Radhakrishnan, Sridharan | Development of Low-Cost system for Myoelectric Prosthesis Control | The upper limb prosthetics field has advanced to where artificial hands can mimic human motions based on electrical signals emitted from muscular activation and can even open and close proportionate to the amplitude of signal they receive. However, these prostheses are very expensive, with some cost... | 2020 | |
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Bowman, Sadie | Development of non-toxic, inexpensive DNA Gel electrophoresis kit for CH EN K-12 outreach | The biochemical and biopharmaceutical industries are growing rapidly, and promoting hands-on STEM education in high schools is essential in getting kids interested. One of the most common and easily understood experiments is separating DNA samples using gel electrophoresis. However, Utah has consist... | 2022 | |
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Fife, Cody | Diary of a Pig: Considering Animal Perspective in Animal Liberation | In the early summer of 2017, an animal advocacy group risked arrest to enter Circle Four Farms in Milford, Utah and rescued two piglets named Lucy and Lizza from the facility. This group, called Direct Action Everywhere, was hoping to document and publicize forms of animal exploitation and abuse tha... | 2019 | |
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Wylie, Kathryn Niven | Differences Between Mother and Peer Listeners in the Encouragement Of Perspective-Taking | Existing literature implicates perspective-taking, the cognitive and affective process by which an individual comes to understand the viewpoint of another, in a broad variety of desirable outcomes. Although scaffolding is an oft-researched topic, there is little extant work on how scaffolding may en... | 2020 | |
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Laws, Tyler | Differences in Voice-Onset Time (VOT) in Spanish Between First Language (LI), Second Language (L@), and Heritage Speakers | Heritage speakers are individuals who acquire their first language (L1) in a naturalistic setting, such as the home. Then, they experience a change in linguistic environments and acquire a second language in the new environment, such as school, usually before the onset of adolescence. It is "the sec... | 2019 | |
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Reiss, Elizabeth | Digital Marketing in the 21st Century: the Evolution of the Department of Marketing at the University of Utah | The world of marketing has transformed significantly over the last few decades. Specifically, digital marketing has completely changed the industry in the 21st century. Digital marketing can be explained as "the marketing of products or services using digital technologies, mainly on the Internet, bu... | 2018 | |
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Koldewyn, Casey | Disabling Science Fiction | Representation of marginalized identities has broad implications for the lived realities of those identified and identifying as such. I argue that science fiction's representation of disability-both physical and mental-is of particular importance because of the genre's role in utopia-building, where... | 2018 | |
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Alverson, Michael | Discovery of novel crystal structures VIA generative adversarial networks | The idea of material discovery has excited and perplexed research scientists for centuries. Several different methods have been employed to find new types of materials, ranging from the arbitrary replacement of atoms in a crystal structure to advanced machine learning methods for predicting entirely... | 2021 | |
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Enquist, Anneke | Discovery of platinum (II) and azulene derivative cocrystals with fluorinated cyanoaromatics | Pentacyano-trifluoromethyl benzene was synthesized using a novel technique. Before isolation, it was noted that plate like crystals had formed leading to study regarding the ability of acetic acid to co-crystallize with pentacyanotrifluoromethyl benzene. The crystal structure of acetic acid with pen... | 2024 | |
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Lutz, Kevin | Discovery of platinum (II) cocrystals with highly fluorinated cyanocarbons | This thesis investigates new platinum(II) complex cocrystals with highly fluorinated cyanoaromatics. While π stacking compounds of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and cyanoaromatics have been reported, interactions with transition metal complexes have yet to be explored. Crystal structures for (pp... | 2023 | |
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Gardner, Jenna | The Disparity Between Student Science Writing and Professional Sciencetific Writing | There exists a disparity between student scientific writing and professional scientific writing. The audience, format, and intention of student papers as presented in the science classroom is different from those in the scientific field where the goal is to fully convince an unfamiliar audience and ... | 2017 |