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Filters: Collection: "ir_htoa" Year Start: 2019
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Chong, Alisha | Effects of increasing sleep duration on C-Reactive protein, insulin sensitivity, and blood pressure in adults with habitual short sleep | Short sleep, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes are all highly prevalent health issues in modern society. Previous findings demonstrate that obtaining short sleep is linked to an increased risk of cardiometabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. However, the mechanisms un... | 2023 | |
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Chong, Alisha | Effects of increasing sleep duration on C-reactive protein, insulin sensitivity, and blood pressure in adults with habitual short sleep | Effective literature instruction is an essential part of building secondary students' analytical skills, cultural capital, empathy, and sense of belonging in school. In this paper, I hypothesize that English language learners may not receive the same opportunities as their English-proficient peers t... | translanguaging; literary fluency; emergent bilinguals; language arts; English language learners; secondary education | 2023 |
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Dean, Emma | The Effects of maternal resilience on newborn neurobehavioral outcomes | There is growing evidence that exposure to prenatal maternal stress may adversely affect fetal neurodevelopment by altering the fetal environment. In this study, we investigated whether maternal resilience can act as a moderator of the negative effects of maternal stress on newborn neurobehavioral o... | 2020 | |
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Kearns, Ireland Rose | Effects of trem-1 expression on acute phase seizures in a mouse model of viral-induced epilepsy | Around 70 million people worldwide suffer from epilepsy, a neurological disorder that causes unprovoked and persistent seizures. A dominant cause of acquired epilepsies are from injuries to the central nervous system (CNS), such as viral infection of the CNS that results in brain inflammation (encep... | 2022 | |
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Muehlman, Jayanti | Effects of Wind-Generated Underwater Noise on Southern right Whale Group Dynamic | The goal of this study was to investigate whether underwater noise affects the grouping behavior of southern right-whale (Eubalaena australis) mother-calf pairs at Península Valdés, Argentina. This area is a major calving ground for the population that occupies the western South Atlantic. Two larg... | 2020 | |
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King, Scott | Effortful upward pitch glide as a predictor of non-volitional swallow function in individuals with upper versus lower motor neuron lesions | Objective: This study addressed the correspondence between maximum pharyngeal constriction (PCmax) during effortful upward pitch glide task using nasoendoscopy compared with measures from videofluoroscopic swallow studies (VFSS) of swallowing function in individuals with upper (UMN) vs lower motor n... | 2020 | |
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Voyles, Jonathan Ross | Efforts Toward Establishing ML-McAs a Robust Depth Discriminant of Seismic Sources at Local (<150 km) Distances | Few scientific fields have been as dramatically accelerated by war as Earth science. Prior to the twentieth century, Earth science was largely dominated by natural philosophers debating whether the Earth had been formed by a ball of magma that solidified or a ball of liquid that precipitated. This g... | 2020 | |
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Sriram, Ananya | Electrochemical Impedance Analysis of Gold-Polyurethane Nanocomposite | Neural prosthetic devices are used to record and transmit electrical signals to modulate neural tissue functionality. Electrodes in the devices are currently made using traditional electronic materials. These materials are generally not biocompatible and those that are, can be stiff, triggering an i... | 2020 | |
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Nuntapreda Alexander Nicholas | The electrolytic deposition of iron ore: a green alternative to traditional smelting | This project was undertaken to determine how to produce metallic iron, the primary component in steel, in a more sustainable manner. Traditionally, iron is smelted inside of an energy-intensive blast furnace that releases large amounts of carbon products into the atmosphere. It is critical to determ... | 2024 | |
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Richards, Lindsay | Employment trends and covid-19 in Utah | In this thesis I will evaluate the state of the Utah job market before and after the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. During the first year after initial economic downturn, Utah emerged as an economic stronghold, and Salt Lake City metropolitan area had the lowest average unemploym... | 2021 | |
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Meza, Francisco | Empowering inclusivity: assessing the necessity and impact of language access plans in local governments | This study investigates the critical role of language access plans in local governments to ensure equitable access to public services and foster civic participation among linguistically diverse communities. The research aims to shed light on the responsibilities of local government and the broader i... | 2024 | |
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Richards, Ayden | Environmental externality valuation: a timeline to financial materiality | Environmental policy regulating the greenhouse gas emissions of public companies is likely to become more prevalent in the coming years. Therefore, it is essential for public companies and investors alike to understand how the implementation of environmental policy will affect the valuation of publi... | 2021 | |
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Young, Tyler | Equity value implications of a spinoff for the parentco | This paper investigates the shareholder value implications of spinoffs for the seller (ParentCo) among public companies. In 2022 alone, U.S. firms announced 44 significant spinoffs and completed 20, representing over $61 billion in value.1 As one of the most common strategic transactions companies t... | 2024 | |
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Gesteland, Chase Hans | Equity, diversity, and inclusion in engineering education: the need for progressive pedagogical frameworks and social justice perspectives | Racism is one of the defining characteristics of the history of the United States, and historical racism pervades many of its institutions to this day. Addressing the issue of systemic racism is a colossal task, and requires constant scrutiny of existing policy as well as dedicated efforts to produc... | 2022 | |
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Brooks, Megan | Establishing baseline numbers for isometric back muscle endurance in the dance population | Purpose: Medical professionals can better recognize and treat injuries caused by deviation, such as back pain when normative and baseline values are determined. Dancers are often a forgotten athletic population. Researchers have yet to determine dancers' normative back and core muscle endurance valu... | 2023 | |
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Scholes, Connor G. | The Ethics of Uncertainty in Clinical Genetics Testing | Recent years have seen the explosive development of genetics and its subsequent use in medical practice. In the face of such rapid technological advancement that impacts the health of thousands each year and constitutes a multi-million-dollar industry, ethical analysis of the various shortcomings th... | American; College of Medical Genetics; Subsequent | 2019 |
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Fontaine, Nick | Evaluating conductive pedot:PSS hydrogel in promoting neural rehabilitation | Peripheral nervous injuries (PNI) affect millions of individuals every year and present a significant challenge for physicians. Surgeons have used suturing techniques to repair short sections of damaged nervous tissue, but past a critical distance must resort to nerve guidance conduits (NGC). One ma... | 2022 | |
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Mason, Indigo | Evaluating, implementing, and supporting sexual health programming for young adults at The University of Utah | Sex, sexuality, and reproduction are intimately tied to what it means to be human. The field of sexual and reproductive health explores the nuances and connections between intimacy, pregnancy, and birth with economic, social, and political power. Even though the field has made remarkable strides, st... | 2021 | |
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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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Grandy, Hailey | Examining the associations between maternal intrusiveness and detachment and cognitive and language skills in 18-month-old children | Sensitive parenting refers to the degree to which a parent responds to a child's needs punctually and appropriately. In contrast, insensitive parenting occurs when a parent is less attuned to their child's needs and often comes in two distinct forms: detachment and intrusiveness. Detachment occurs w... | 2023 | |
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Stitt, John | Examining the associations between maternal sensitivity and infant responses to the still face paradigm | The Still Face Paradigm is used to assess infants' responses to the absence of normal social interaction with the parent. Infants' responses to this moderately stressful task - both physiologically and behaviorally - can help us understand how emotion regulation develops during infancy. The current ... | 2021 | |
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Melby, Lindsey Rose | Examining the effects of alcohol use and post-traumatic stress disorder on deployment-related traumatic brain injuries through measurements of subcortical volume changes | Currently, our accuracy in predicting the lasting effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is low, due to large sample heterogeneity. Possible negative lasting effects of TBI include mental health disorders and substance use disorders (SUDs). Links between TBI, alcohol use, and Post-Traumatic Stress ... | individuals; PTSD symptoms; subcortical | 2024 |
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Shaaban, Karim | Examining the Efficiency of Securities Ownership in the United States | The disastrous years following the Stock Market Crash of 1929 led to a series of reforms by President Roosevelt to stabilize the failing economy. The passing of the New Deal laws coupled with more recent laws passed by President Bush and President Obama have led to extensive regulation of the financ... | 2019 | |
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Huntzinger, Olivia | Experiences with public transit among older and younger adults experiencing homelessness in Salt Lake County, Utah | The population of people experiencing homelessness (PEH) over the age of 50 has risen in recent years. Low income individuals, especially PEH, have a higher need for public transit to meet basic needs, such as food, healthcare, shelter, and social connection. The purpose of this study was to better ... | 2022 | |
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Ryan Stutsman | Explaining and evaluating the use of RDMA in high performance containers | Containers are an increasingly popular packaging framework for complex applications, offering benefits such as lightweight isolation, portability, and ease of deployment. These benefits have the potential to solve a myriad of issues that have long been present in the high performance computing world... | 2022 |