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| 1 |  | A performance evaluation of hot mix asphalt thin lift treatments | Sudbury, Daniel Scott | Asphalt; Cracking; Pavement; Performance; Thermal; Transportation | When applied at the right time, Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) Thin Lift Treatments (TLTs) extend the life of flexible pavements. Correct application depends largely upon pavement condition and rate of deterioration. State Highway Agencies (SHAs) utilize an Open Grade Surface Course (OGSC), Dense Grade Aspha... | 2017 |
| 2 |  | The artist is not present: Andy Warhol's 1967 Utah "hoax" as performance and self-portraiture | Hill, Scotti | Performance; self-portraiture | My thesis recounts Andy Warhol's 1967 controversy at the University of Utah, in which the artist sent actor Alan Midgette to lecture in his place. My first chapter incorporates critical source material from the University's student newspaper the Daily Utah Chronicle, including articles, eyewitness ... | 2011-08 |
| 3 |  | Comparing an object-oriented clinical data repository with its relational database counterpart | Bai, Shi | Patients; Queries; Performance | The computerized patient record is one of the most important and difficult problems in medical informatics. Relational database management systems have exhibited serious drawbacks when used to implement computerized patient records. First, representing the complicated hierarchy in medicine with re... | 1999-08 |
| 4 |  | The effects of utility value and choice on interest and learning in online classes | Fraughton, Tamra Ann | Choice; Interest; Motivation; Online learning; Performance; Utility value; Social psychology | As part of the Regulating Motivation and Performance Online Project (RMAPO) students completing an online HTML programming lesson demonstrated higher quiz scores and greater post lesson interest when initially provided information about how the skills could be used (personal or organizational applic... | 2011-12 |
| 5 |  | The me of yours and the me of mine: an investigation of subjective self and objective self in dance | Niu, Li-Sha | Choreography; Dance; Objective self; Performance; Subjective self | This thesis investigates how the subjective self and objective self are shaped by interacting with the world. It examines how self-awareness arises when we put ourselves in an unfamiliar environment. In this research, I include personal dance experiences that have illuminated my own subjective self... | 2011-08 |
| 6 |  | Performance evaluation of high strength alloy steel cast connector under quasi-static load | Dangol, Sharad | Cast; Connector; Evaluation; High Strength; Performance; Steel | High strength alloy steel cast connector refers to a bracing system to be used in James L. Greene Science Center, Columbia University in New York. The cast connectors, as the name suggests, are the connection elements in a bracing system that uses stainless steel rods as the braces instead of tradit... | 2013-05 |
| 7 |  | Stereotype threat and affirmation: the interactive effect of domain and gender identification, and different types of affirmation on women's math performance | Mazur, Dominika | Group affirmation; Group identification; Performance; Self affirmation; Social identity threat; Stereotype threat | This research applies the affirmation theory to situations of stereotype threat. We examined how group-affirmation influences math performance of women under stereotype threat and whether group-affirmation effects depend on the beliefs women hold regarding gender and math (i.e., how much they ident... | 2011-12 |
| 8 |  | Towards a decided body and choreography | Dryden, Nathan | Choreography; Dance; Passive; Performance; Presence; Sequencing | This thesis examines a state termed the decided body, which describes an engaging and qualitatively fluid presence in performance. My research explored this state of presence and drew from the embodied qualities arising out of the state as source material for choreography. Dancers were trained in ... | 2015-08 |
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