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Moore, Kurt | Disproportionate associations between the financial crisis and firm valuation | In this thesis I assess the role of stock market valuation of publicly listed US firms through the financial and economic crisis of 2007-2011. To do so, for each firm in a large sample I apply the Rhodes-Kropf, Robinson, and Viswanathan(2005) approach to decompose the ratio of the market value of th... | Corporations -- United States -- Valuation; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 | 2014-12 |
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Stephens, Emily | Do children affect an abused parent's choice to seek treatment? | Intimate partner abuse is a major problem especially when there are children present. In attempt to stop the cycle of abuse, it is of critical importance to understand the impact children have on the relationships and the decision making process of those involved. I am conducting research to see ... | Family violence; Marital violence | 2016-05 |
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Russo, Jennifer | Do reproductive-age women increase their physical activity levels during the first four weeks of the diabetes prevention program? | Purpose: The purpose of this thesis was to determine if reproductive-age women enrolled in the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) increased their physical activity levels in the first four weeks of the lifestyle change program and to examine the relationship between physical activity levels and lifes... | | 2021 |
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Watson, Andre | Patterns of parasitism in a common Utah Rodent | Male-biased parasitism, where males are more commonly infected with and have higher parasite loads, is common across vertebrate taxa. Several factors could be driving this pattern. The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis suggests that higher testosterone levels in males suppress immune function whi... | | 2022 |
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Excell, Katerina | The role of amyloid precursor protein in a model of alzheimer's disease | Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating disorder that leads to deterioration of cognition and memory. The prevalence of AD dramatically rises with age, and is also much greater in individuals with trisomy 21 (Down syndrome, DS). Many gene products are overexpressed in DS by virtue of having three ... | | 2022 |
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Galinat, Shelby | Bipyrimidine solubility modeling for applications in NON-Aqueous redox flow batteries | Energy storage research has undergone transformative changes in the past 50 years. The increasingly concerning threat of climate change has emphasized the need for energy storage technology to facilitate renewable energy incorporation into the grid. Without energy storage, the fluctuations of wind a... | | 2022 |
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Campbell, Andrew | Asynchronous distributed }OT-Enabled customer characterization in distrubtion networks: theory and hardware implementation | This work proposes and implements an asynchronous distributed IoT (Internet of Things)-enabled customer characterization framework to classify customers' load consumption behaviors in electric distribution networks. More specifically, the proposed framework enables robust fully distributed clusterin... | | 2021 |
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Visser, Joshua | Characterization of G-quadruplexes in DNA repair protein gene sequences and the effects of oxidized guanine lesions on DNA base insertion and elongation | Guanine (G) is one of the four nucleo bases that make up the complex macromolecule deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). In addition to its ability to Watson-Crick base pair with cytidine (C), guanine can base pair with itself vianon-canonical, Hoogsteen base pairing and form a secondary structure of DNA ca... | DNA repair - Research; G proteins - Pathophysiology - Research; Oxidation, Physiological - Research; Membrane homogenization; Synthetic blood; Artificial oxygen carriers | 2016-05 |
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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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Erickson, Mariah | False hearing and the N400: the effects of linguistic context on language perception | False hearing is a phenomenon where one mishears what has been said to them based on linguistic contextual cues used to make a prediction (Rogers et al., 2012). The incorrect hearing usually has similar phonemic properties to other likely words and syntactic relation to what was said prior. Our stud... | | 2021 |
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Vu, Tessa | Spatial investigation of toxic sites and water a focus on racial equity | This study puts a spotlight on the relationships among toxic sites (i.e. Brownfields, Superfunds, and Toxic Release Inventories), income, race, and water features such as groundwater wells and streams, all within the Salt Lake County, Utah target area. There were two hypotheses to be tested, which a... | | 2022 |
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Evans, Kathryn S. | Defining the interaction between ETV4 and mediator subunit MED25 | Chromosomal rearrangements resulting in an overexpression of a subset of ETS transcription factors (ETV1, ETV4, ETV5, and ERG) are found in over 50% of prostate cancers (Tomlins et al., 2005). ERG and ETV1 have both shared and distinct gene targets, yet overexpression of ETV1 is often found to be as... | Transcription factors; Prostate -- Cancer -- Genetic aspects; ETV4 | 2015-05 |
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Fuller, Adam | Wynton Marsalis and Nicholas Payton: a compartative discourse | Jazz music has achieved the support of elite institutions, such as higher education and government arts initiatives, relatively recently. There is now a growing body of scholarly research on jazz history, performance practice, recordings, and music theory. However, there are widely differing concept... | | 2018 |
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Caylor, Natalie | "Everything I really want to do": aging in place during the covid-19 pandemic | Aging in place allows older adults to live in one's own home and community safely, independently and comfortably. The majority of older adults hope to age in place for as long as possible, and a number of supportive factors are necessary to make aging in place successful. Literature suggests these f... | successful aging; home- and community-based care and services; caregiving; technology; mental health | 2022 |
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Whalen, Zachary | Statesmen in the arena: The policy and politics of the ancient games | The intent of this work is to illuminate the many ways in which policy and politics influenced the games of Ancient Greece and Rome, and to demonstrate their importance in understanding the persistence of the games beyond their religiously driven origins. Utilizing numerous ancient sources, this th... | Olympic games (Ancient); Athletics - Greece - History; Athletics - Rome - History | 2016-04 |