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Schmutz, Emily | Transportation alternatives for little cottonwood canyon and their operational implications | Beginning in 2017, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) has worked on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) which provides transportation improvement alternatives for the heavy congestion that takes place in Little Cottonwood Canyon and feeder streets during the winter ski season. U... | 2021 | |
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Millar, Thomas | Center lines, turn lanes and bicycle infrastructure : bikeways in the United States and Salt Lake City's 1700 South corridor | Continuous and well-designed bicycle infrastructure plays an essential role in encouraging people to see and use the bicycle as a legitimate form of transportation and not only for recreation. In Salt Lake City, a common roadway striping design end bicycle lanes prematurely, requiring bicyclists to ... | Bicycle lanes - Utah - Salt Lake City; Bicycle lanes - United States | 2013-05 |
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Maruta, Nene | Reproductive health and Barriers to Care Among Women With Disabilities | Women with disabilities face many barriers when accessing healthcare. Barriers can include emotional stressors, inaccessible exam tables, and the lack of provider understanding about specific disabilities. Continued barriers to accessing reproductive healthcare for women with disabilities can impact... | 2020 | |
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Liu, Julianne | The mobilization of Asian Americans for environmental justice | Largely excluded from conceptions of racial injustice in the United States, Asian Americans also experience marginalization in the Environmental Justice (EJ) movement. This invisibility is reinforced by EJ literature, which contains comparatively little research on Asian Americans compared to other ... | 2021 | |
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Foott, Bettymaya | Light pollution hazards within ecosystems and mitigation strategies for the future | Light Pollution is a phenomenon caused by poor lighting design, and is increasing globally. Only recently are scientists beginning to fully understand how light pollution affects humans and the environment. Birds, which play an important role in our ecosystem, are vulnerable to light pollution effec... | Light pollution Lighting -- Environmental aspects | 2015-05 |
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Safiullah, Samah | The Social and Historical Reproduction of Japantown/Nihonmachi in Salt Lake City, Utah | My honors thesis is a historical, theoretical, and methodological approach to understanding the social and physical formation of Japantown and Japantown Street in Salt Lake City. I am interested in the formation of a specific ethnic enclave and micro-neighborhood which once existed. My thesis will a... | ||
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Cho, Yeajoon (Joon) | The Patriot: A Creative Exploration of Critical Race Theory in Film and Media | Bigotry pervades our daily lives and the idea of a patriot has drastically changed. Since the beginning of our recent political turbulence, jingoism has become prevalent, while sexism and racism follow a growing trend of prejudice. Delineating said jingoism through research and media is a powerful m... | 2019 | |
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Fernandez, Megan E. | Preserving the Great Salt Lake: integrating low impact development for a sustainable future | The Great Salt Lake (GSL) faces significant challenges due to declining water levels, exacerbated by human activities and a variety of environmental factors. This research explores the potential of Low Impact Development (LID) as a solution to mitigate the impact of urban water use on the GSL's heal... | 2024 | |
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Nilson, Jens C. | An examination of the bioethical and legal dilemmas surrounding genetic editing through narrative and story telling | Examining complex topics and issues through narrative and storytelling is a staple of the fiction genre. By presenting abstract problems and ethical dilemmas in a relatable context, and giving examples attached to real characters, the reader becomes emotionally and mentally invested in the issues fa... | 2022 | |
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Saifee, Zahra | A value-based exploration of Zion National Park and assessment of future solutions | This thesis is a case study which explores the development of Zion National Park. Currently, National Parks as a whole, and Zion National Park in particular, face issues of environmental degradation, lack of racial diversity, and the erasure of indigenous history. However, the most challenging part ... | 2022 | |
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Jensen, Sierra A. | Assessing Utah's 90th Percentile storm to understand bioretention design and cost to meet Utah's Modified stormwater mangeement rule | his research dissects and improves understanding of the implications of Utah's modified stormwater permit rule. By analyzing the 90th percentile (90th-P) storm depth calculation and modeling an urban watershed on the foothills of Salt Lake City, Utah; this project provides initial guidance to local ... | 2018 | |
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Emoto, Ethan | User preferences in calendar applications | The role of user experience research in the software development cycle has been largely overlooked in favor of emphasizing the more technical elements. However, understanding the user's perspective is just as important as the engineering aspects in creating a beneficial application. This thesis expl... | 2023 | |
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Parnell, Alycia M. | Finding home: discovering place in a changing world | In spring of 2010, I took a class called Global Environmental Issues from a professor in the biology department named Fred Montague, who had achieved a somewhat legendary status as a lecturer. He taught us science, the grim outlook of the environment, and the convoluted policies working against chan... | 2012-08 | |
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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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Slind, Hannah | Paper or plastic | Paper or Plastic explores the role of supermarkets and the dense net of class, sex, and race politics to be found therein. Through this collection of poetry, I examine the queasy culture surrounding consumer space. I broach topics such as the balance of America's societal scales, our notions of just... | 2021 | |
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Halberg, Nick | The Inverse effect of population growth on water use in Utah | The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute projects that Utah will experience rapid population growth over the next 45 years. It is commonly assumed that this sudden increase in population will subsequently lead to a sudden increase in the demand for water, thereby creating a need for new water diversions.... | 2020 | |
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Ruiz, Loren | Beneath the dark cloak of U.S. deportation: Bureaucratic distancing tactics employed by the deportation system | U.S. deportation policy is implemented behind a dark cloak of secrecy. Distancing tactics are employed throughout the deportation process to prevent those participating within the bureaucracy from feeling empathy for those they process. Pachirat (2011) provides a three-part template of analysis for ... | Deportation -- United States | 2015-05 |
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Oliva, Brenden Clark | Second hand stories | This collection of short stories examines human behavior through the lens of biology, particularly the present-day manifestations of evolutionary history. The stories' characters exhibit behavior that appears to contradict Darwinian concepts of individual success. On the surface they are self-destru... | American fiction - 21st century | 2012-05 |
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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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Hall, Adam | My story is an ode to black thought | |||
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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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Warner, Travis John | Using Term Spreads to Predict Recessions: a Comparison | Recessions have been a concern for government and business leaders and the populace in general for hundreds of years. From the Tulipmania in 1634 to the Great Depression in the 1930's to the Dot Com bubble to the Great Recession in 2007 they have all instilled fear and anxiety in the populace becaus... | 2017 | |
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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... | Salt Lake Valley; acknowledge; Wasatch Front | 2019 |
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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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Brown, Zackary | A man of genius makes no mistakes: Joycean textuality in contemporary writing | When James Joyce first published Ulysses in 1922, he was at the forefront of a literary movement that would forever change our conceptions of textuality. In crafting a text that contained intentional grammatical and syntactic errors, Joyce, I will argue, created a scenario in which a text's material... | Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses; Creation (LIterary, artistic, etc.) | 2015-08 |