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Neatrour, Anna; Myntti, Jeremy; Brunsvik, Matt; Witkowski, Alan; McBride, Brian; Maringanti, Harish | A Clean Sweep: The Tools and Processes of a Successful Metadata Migration | In 2016, the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library migrated digital asset management systems from CONTENTdm, a vendor provided solution from OCLC, to Solphal, a homegrown system utilizing several open source tools. During the migration, issues with metadata led to a large-scale metadata c... | Digital libraries; Systems migration | 2017 |
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Jayamohan, Harikrishnan | Advances in microfluidics and lab on a chip technologies | Advances in molecular biology are enabling rapid and efficient analyses for effective intervention in domains like biology research, infectious disease management, food safety and bio-defense. The emergence of microfluidics and nanotechnologies has enabled both new capabilities and instrument sizes ... | Microfluidics; Lab on a chip; Point of care; PCR; Isothermal amplification; High resolution melting analysis; Cytogenetics; Protein detection; Next generation sequencing; Sample preparation; Library preparation; Cell sorting | 2017 |
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Sung, Yun Ju | An empirical comparison of meta-analysis and mega-analysis of individual participant data for identifying gene-environment interactions | Meta-analysis combining results from multiple studies is a standard practice in GWAS. For genetic main effects, meta-analysis has been shown to provide comparable results as mega-analysis that jointly analyzes the pooled data from the available studies. Gene-environment interaction (GEI) studies are... | Gene-environment interactions | 2017 |
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Eddings, Eric | Catalytic liquefaction of municipal sewage sludge over transition metal catalysts in ethanol-water co-solvent | Catalytic liquefaction of (Municipal sewage sludge) MSS over transition metal catalysts in ethanol-water co-solvent (EWCS) was investigated. The effect of operating parameters like temperature, holding time, and ethanol-water ratio was discussed. CuSO4 was selected as the most efficient catalyst. Th... | Sludge; Catalytic liquefaction; Ethanol-water; Biocrude | 2017 |
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Brooking, Haisley; Bernard, Philip; Skliar, Mikhail; Zhang, Huanan | Characterization of exosomes | Exosomes are nano-vesicles secreted by cells. They are found in extracellular space and all body fluids. This poster describes the methods for the isolation and characterization of the exosomes and my plans for future research. | Cancer--Research | 2017 |
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Dong, Jiawei | Consolidation and permeability of flocculated kaolinite sediment | Vast oil sand resources are located in the province of Alberta, Canada, where water-based oil sands extraction operations are found including extraction and separation of the bitumen from the clay, sand, and water. The production of each barrel of synthetic crude oil (SCO) requires 2 m3 of processe... | Consolidation; Flocculation; Kaolinite; Permeability | 2017 |
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Yamaguchi, Ayako | Development of techniques to deliver transgenes into neurons of amphibians | Society for Neuroscience Meeting 2017 | viral vector; Xenopus laevis; vocalizations | 2017 |
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Rashid, Khalid; Powell, Kody | Dynamic simulation, control, and design of a novel solar thermal hybrid power plant | Solar power is among the promising technologies leading towards cleaner fuel. However, there are still technological challenges regarding the reliability of power generation due to its intermittency. This work demonstrates the synergies that exist in integrated hybrid systems, where a dispatchable f... | Solar energy--Research; Solar thermal energy--Research; Solar power plants--Research | 2017 |
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Bianchi, Carlo | Energy demands for commercial buildings with climate variability based on emission scenarios | The impacts of a changing climate are wide-ranging in both impact and scope. This paper investigates the effect that realistic climate variability would have on building energy demands in Salt Lake City, UT to inform planning for air quality impacts. Energy demand scenarios were derived using climat... | BEM; EnergyPlus; Emissions; Climate; Energy | 2017 |
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Yu, Zhou | Homeownership Attainment of Adult Children in Urban China: Parental Attributes and Financial Support | Soaring homeownership and housing prices have made it more difficult for newcomers to climb the housing ladder without parental support. This study relies on China Household Finance Survey microdata in 2015 to examine the role of parental attributes and financial support on adult children's homeowne... | Demographics; Intergenerational mobility; Parental income transfers; Parental attributes | 2017 |
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Eddings, Eric | Hydrothermal liquefaction of high protein microalgae via clay material catalysts | Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) is a promising method to convert wet microalgae into a petroleum-like biocrude. In this paper, we demonstrated the HTL of microalgae Spirulina over various clay material catalysts and open up interesting perspectives for efficiently liquefaction processes. The clay ca... | Catalysis; algae; hydrothermal liquefaction | 2017 |
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Eddings, Eric | Hydrothermal liquefaction of microalgae over transition metal supported TiO2 catalyst | Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of microalgae Nannochloropsis (NAS) over various transition metal M/TiO2 (M = Fe, Co, Ni, Mo, and Mn) was investigated. Ni/TiO2 was the most effective catalyst to improve the yield and quality of biocrude and the liquefaction conversion. Ni/TiO2 was characterized ... | Hydrothermal liquefaction Microalgae; Catalyst; Biocrude; Ni/TiO2 | 2017 |
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Yu, Zhou, Haan, Michael, Yi, Chengdong | The Inception of Housing Pathways in Urban China: The Declining Household Formation of Young Adults from 2011 to 2017 | The homeownership rate of young adults has surged to an unprecedented level in urban China, despite rising housing prices and significant rural-urban migration. A trend analysis of nationally representative microdata shows that household formation is the missing link in the paradox and that many you... | Household formation; headship rates; young adults; migration; institutional barriers; housing pathways | 2017 |
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Witkowski, Alan; Neatrour, Anna; Myntti, Jeremy; McBride, Brian | Massive newspaper migration - Moving 22 million records from CONTENTdm to Solphal | Utah Digital Newspapers is a pioneering digital newspapers program at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library. Recently, a small project team completed a successful migration away from CONTENTdm onto a home-grown system called Solphal, built using open-source applications. The migration p... | Digital libraries; Systems migration | 2017 |
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Lawton, Kristy J. | Motor neurons tune premotor activity in a vertebrate central pattern generator | Central patterns generators (CPGs) are neural circuits that drive rhythmic motor output without sensory feedback. Vertebrate CPGs are generally believed to operate in a top-down manner in which premotor interneurons activate motor neurons that in turn drive muscles. In contrast, the frog (Xenopus la... | CPG; feed back; synchrony; vocal; vocalization; Xenopus | 2017 |
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Rahman, Aowabin | Predicting electricity consumption for commercial and residential buildings using deep recurrent neural networks | This paper presents a recurrent neural network model to make medium-to-long term predictions, i.e. time horizon of ≥ 1 week, of electricity consumption profiles in commercial and residential buildings at one-hour resolution. Residential and commercial buildings are responsible for a significant fr... | Building Energy Modeling; Machine learning; Recurrent neural networks; Deep learning; Electric load prediction | 2017 |
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Mabey, Linda J.; Wheeler, Kathleen; Ronconi, Julia McDougal; Smith, Jackie A. | What Do Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nurses Know About Trauma Treatment? | APRNs have identified the need for psychotherapy training to treat psychological trauma. APRN graduate programs should evaluate their curriculum and increase content on the treatment of psychological trauma using evidenced-based psychotherapy models. | advanced practice psychiatric nurse, education, psychotherapy, trauma | 2017 |
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Gibson, Bryan | Wireframes for Patient Facing Real Time Safety Dashboard | Presentation developed to 1) prevent safety issues whenever possible, and 2) react quickly and effectively when safety issues occur. | Safety record; Patient care | 2017 |
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Scott, Kali | You do you: A theoretical exploration of audience agency in theatre | How is audience agency implemented in today's theatre? What elements are used in this type of performance? How do audiences react to such experiences? | 2017 | |
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Thomas, Tran T. D. | Evaluation of renewable energy technologies and their potential for technical integration and cost-effective use within the U.S. energy sector | Energy demands, environmental impacts of energy conversion, and the depletion of fossil; fuels are constant topics of discussion in the energy industry. Renewable energy technologies; have been proposed for many years to address these concerns. However, the transformation; from traditional methods o... | Renewable energy; Power generation; Electrical grid; Emerging energy systems; System integration | 2017-07 |
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Smith, Amanda D. | Modeling two-phase flow and vapor cycles using the generalized fluid system simulation program | This work presents three new applications for the general purpose fluid network solver code GFSSP developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center: (1) cooling tower, (2) vapor-compression refrigeration system, and (3) vapor-expansion power generation system. These systems are widely used across eng... | Modeling; Fluid systems; Cooling tower; Vapor compression refrigeration, vapor power cycle | 2017-09 |
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Rahman, Aowabin | Predicting fuel consumption for commercial building with machine learning algorithms | This paper presents a modeling framework that uses machine learning algorithms to make longterm, i.e. one year-ahead predictions, of fuel consumption in multiple types of commercial prototype buildings at one-hour resolutions. Weather and schedule variables were used as model inputs, and the hourly ... | Building energy modeling; Machine learning; Prediction; Heating load; Data-driven modeling | 2017-08 |
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Tran, Thomas T. D. | System scaling approach and thermoeconomic analysis of a pressure retarded osmosis system for power production with hypersaline draw solution: A Great Salt Lake study | Osmotic power with pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) is an emerging renewable energy option for locations where fresh water and salt water mix. Energy can be recovered from the salinity gradient between the solutions. This study provides a comprehensive feasibility analysis for a PRO power plant in a ... | Pressure retarded osmosis; Power generation; Renewable energy; Hydroelectric; Levelized cost | 2017-06 |
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Woolcott, Liz; Myntti, Jeremy | Choose Your Own Research Adventure: Developing a Technical Services Based Research Project | Presentation given at the Utah Library Association Conference, Sandy, UT. | Presentation given at the Utah Library Association Conference, Sandy, UT. | 2017-05-08 |
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Schliep, Karen | Critical analysis of information: an epidemiologic perspective | A slideshow presentation discussing methods for critically evaluating medical literature and observational studies | Life sciences literature--Evalutation | 2017-04-21 |