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Black, Taylor Madison | Impacts of Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Outlier Body Mass Indices on Pediatric Asthma Outcomes | There are seven million children in the United States impacted by asthma [1]. When assessing the severity of a child's asthma, it is important to take into account risk factors known to affect child hood asthma. Two such risk factors that are modifiable include parental tobacco smoke exposure (TSE)... | Asthma - Child; Tobacco smoke - Health aspects - United States | 2015-05 |
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Shimko, Tyler | Mapping suppressors of premature sperm activation in C. Elegans | The sperm of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans move by a crawling motion, in contrast to mammalian sperm, which exhibit a swimming motion. This method of locomotion makes the sperm of C. elegans an excellent model for examining cell motility. In order to become motile, the sperm must undergo the ... | Caenorhabditis elegans -- Spermatozoa; Sperm activation | 2015-05 |
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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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Tonks, Jacob | Politics without character: Liberal virtues and the situationist critique | A critique of virtue ethics has recently been raised by social psychologists who believe experimental psychology has all but proved the non-existence of character. In morally compromising situations, external situational factors have the greatest influence on choice, and therefore virtue as a stable... | Situation ethics; Virtue Choice (Psychology); Autonomy (Philosophy) | 2015-05 |
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Beus, Zachary | Power system stabilizer | The goal of this project, part of the Power Industry Consortium, was to design a power system stabilizer for a small grid-connected three phase synchronous generator. Power System Stabilizers control the excitation of synchronous generators to reduce lowfrequency oscillations on the grid and increas... | Voltage regulators; Power system stabilizers | 2015-05 |
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McSweeney, Catherine Lindsay | Media representations: The health and beauty of the female body | This thesis examines the media representations of women in advertising through textual analysis. Discussed are the possible influences advertising and media have on obesity and health through the perceived pressures placed on women to maintain a body type and figure similar to the women in advertisi... | Women in advertising | 2015-05 |
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Khoury, Mark | Muscle activity changes due to immobilization and partial weight bearing of the lower leg | Tibial fractures account for half a million hospitalizations per year. Although clinical treatment of tibial fractures requires immobilization of the affected limb and partial weight bearing (PWB) prescriptions, the effects of this treatment protocol on gait and muscle activity have not been studied... | Muscles -- Physiology; Tibia -- Wounds and injuries; Muscle activity; Partial weight bearing | 2015-05 |
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Kerr, Lindsay Tarbet | Notes and a narrative to accompany a piano recital | I wrote this thesis in connection with my hour-long senior recital, held April 19, 2015 as the culmination of my work as an undergraduate student in the piano performance program. The thesis includes extended and short program notes for each of the compositions included in my recital: Frederic Chopi... | Piano - Performance | 2015-05 |
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Sadler, Alexandria | Organizational structure and framing process in the Chilean University student movement | The 2011-2015 Chilean university student movement for free, public and quality education has brought education to the forefront of Chilean politics. In 2015 students continue to mobilize through student federations at each university, even as the government beings to implement free higher education.... | Student movements - Chile | 2015-05 |
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Tuft, Marie | Quantitative analysis of virus trafficking in a biological cell | Virus replication is a complex process that is important to understand. If a virus is to successfully infect a host cell it must travel from the cell wall to the nucleus by hijacking that cell's existing transport system of microtubules. This motion occurs as two iterated steps: passive diffusion th... | Viruses -- Reproduction -- Mathematical models; Virus trafficking | 2015-05 |
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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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Zhu, Judy | Analysis of the pH-dependent equilibrium relationship between the guanine oxidation products 5-guanidinohydantoin and iminoallantoin | Oxidation of 2'-deoxyguanosine (dG) results in the major two-electron product 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine (dOG) that can undergo further oxidation to other products. One such product is 5-guanidinohydantoin (dGh) that is highly mutagenic and has been found in vivo. The ring architecture of d... | Oxidation; guanine oxidation products; 5-guanidinohydantoin; Iminoallantoin; Equilibrium relationship | 2015-05 |
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Shah, Diya | The appropriation of Sacajawea by the women's suffrage movement | This project examines why Sacajawea was an attractive figure to be resurrected and appropriated during the U.S. suffrage movement, especially in the 1890s to 1920s. To understand the construction and use of Sacajawea, I analyzed about 25 newspaper articles published about Sacajawea in the 1900s and ... | Sacagawea Women -- Political activity -- United States; Women -- Suffrage -- United States | 2015-05 |
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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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McInnis, Tillie | Disruptive power: A comparison of political voice for non-elites after the great depression and the recession of 2008 | This thesis investigates how non-elites influence policymaking in a time of large income and wealth inequality. To do this, I examine the tactics of disruptive power used by two groups following two major economic downturns in the U.S.: the industrial workers after the Great Depression in the 1930s ... | Power (Social sciences); Elite (Social sciences) | 2015-05 |
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Fernandez, Florence | Evaluation of environmental education in high school science courses across Salt Lake City, Utah | While the effects of pollution become Incredibly more evident in the air of the Salt Lake Valley, many Utah high school students still lack the knowledge and information necessary to take preventative and immediate actions to protect their health and their environment. In this study, the reasons for... | Environmental education -- Utah -- Salt Lake City; Science -- Study and teaching -- Utah -- Salt Lake City; Air -- Pollution -- Utah -- Salt Lake City | 2015-05 |
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Waller, Rosalie G. | Exome sequence comparison of seventy-seven multiple myeloma cases identifies potential risk alleles | Multiple Myeloma (MM) is a heritable cancer of plasma cells with poor prognosis. Although a few genomic risk-loci have been identified for MM, no risk variants have been published that explain MM heritability. We hypothesize MM heritability is due to rare germ-line variants that can be discovered th... | Multiple myeloma -- Genetic aspects; Exomes; Exome sequence; Risk alleles | 2015-05 |
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Black, Alyssa | Identifying hybrid male sterility genes in Drosophila Pseudoobscura | Speciation, the process of one species splitting into two separate species, often involves the evolution of hybrid sterility or hybrid inviability. These reproductive isolating barriers are caused by negative interactions between genes called hybrid incompatibilities. Identifying hybrid incompatibil... | Infertility, Male -- Genetic aspects Drosophila pseudoobscura -- Genetics Male sterility genes | 2015-05 |
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Walker, Kortnie | Understanding and treating diabetic retinopathy | Diabetic retinopathy is a neurovascular disease of the retina and is the leading cause of blindness in the working-age population in the United States. Complications as a result of hyperglycemia and diabetes mellitus (DM) break down the blood-retina barrier (BRB) and retinal vasculature. Current tre... | Diabetic retinopathy | 2015-05 |
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Redmond, Nicholas K. | Elephants and empire: The Asian elephant, from Alexander to Akbar | This thesis studies the prominence of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus maximus) in the historical record. The purpose is to show the impact of elephas on human affairs, most notably in the formation and destruction of empires. Of these empires, two are of primary importance: the conquests of Alex... | Elephants -- War use -- History | 2015-05 |
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Schryver, Hannah M. | EEG and cognitive correlates of elementary task performance | Studying human information processing allows researchers to better understand the operations of the human brain. While a large body of research has used reaction times and cognitive correlates to quantify information processing, electrophysiological correlates improve knowledge of cortical activity.... | Performance -- Measurement; Cognitive neuroscience; Electroencephalography | 2015-05 |
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Butler, Alexandra D. | Utah's sex education controversy: Is it relevant today? | Utah's policy of abstinence only sex education is a contentious issue. Some worry that, if not taught in school, young people will not obtain accurate information on sex, contraceptives, and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). Others fear that teaching safe sex will encourage adolescent sexual a... | Sex instruction -- Utah | 2015-05 |
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Tran, Kathy Thanh | Reproductive rights of incarcerated women: Disrupting the system in the women's jail | The history of the reproductive rights of incarcerated women and the current trends of mass incarceration demonstrate the prevalence of the hegemonic system that still expects women to embrace a maternal and feminine role. Historically, the United States has incarcerated women because they break awa... | Women prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States; Reproductive rights | 2015-05 |
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Palomaki, Kya | A world without nukes: International relations perspectives | What if nuclear weapons had been neither invented nor discovered? This is the question I take into consideration in this paper. This interesting scenario begs the answer parroted by bloggers and students of politics alike-without nuclear weapons, there would be nothing to stop belligerents from inva... | Security, International; International relations; Nuclear weapons; World politics -- 21st century | 2015-05 |
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Lee, Charles Chang Suk | A demonstration apparatus for optical pumping of rubidium | Optical pumping refers to the use of light in order to elevate ("pump") the spin (intrinsic angular momentum) of an atom or molecule. This process is of interest from a pedagogical and experimental perspective because it encapsulates fundamental properties of atomic physics and quantum mechanics. Fu... | Optical pumping -- Research Spin exchange -- Research Rubidium isotopes -- Research | 2015-05 |