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Smith, Enoch | Sisterwives & submission?: gender power dynamics in polygynist marriages | Polygamy has caught national attention. Most of it has focused on court proceedings against the FLDS Church's alleged child sexual abuse practices, and TV shows like Big Love and Sisterwives. Both present polar opposite perspectives on the practice, but what do we really know about the practice? My... | Apostolic United Brethren; Polygamy - United States | 2015-06 |
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Palomino, Sara I. | Diglossia: The case of Quechua languages & Spanish | Individuals who grow up speaking an indigenous language in Peru, have historically struggled between maintaining their native mother tongue as a means of constructing their identity and connecting to their cultural heritage; versus, being pressured to linguistically shift to Spanish, as this languag... | Diglossia (Linguistics); Quechua language -- Social aspects -- Peru; Spanish language -- Social aspects -- Peru | 2015-07 |
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Miller, Curtis | Explaining Utah's gender gap in wages | Women earn less than men, and the disparity between men's and women's wages in Utah is larger than the same disparity at the national or regional levels. Little is known as to why Utah has a larger wage gap than the nation or its neighbors. In this paper, we use Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition to decom... | Women -- Employment -- Utah; Wage differentials -- Utah; Gender gap | 2015-08 |
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Hannon, Jackson | National strategy and military doctrine in Afghanistan and Iraq and the creation of the office of foreign affairs and reconstruction | The 9/11 terror attacks in New York by al Qaeda have largely been considered a landmark moment in American hist ory, and in the path of the Bush presidency. While the Bush administration had something of a general foreign policy and guiding strategy, the attacks on 9/11 were a seminal moment for the... | United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century; United States -- Military policy; United States -- Military relations -- Afghanistan; United States -- Military relations -- Iraq; United States -- Foreign relations -- Afghanistan; United States -- Foreign relations -- Iraq | 2015-08 |
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Skedros, Gregory Athanasios | Structural and material changes in the sheep radius from newborn to adult: Functional adaptation versus developmental constraint | Bones that exhibit marked changes in structural and material characteristics during ontogeny are potentially useful for studying the mechanisms that produce functional adaptations. The diaphyseal region of the sheep radius was examined because it is relatively simply loaded in cranial-caudal bending... | Functional adaptations - Sheep; Developmental constraint - Sheep; Ontogeny | 2015-08 |
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Rathbun, Lauren Elizabeth | Beyond classical: mixing in the belt. An exploration of musical theatre singing | Belt, mix and classical are three terms for distinguishing the different sounds used in musical theatre vocal repertoire. Each requires different techniques regarding resonance space, vowels, laryngeal position, and breath management. For years, there has been a debate among vocal pedagogues questio... | Voice type (Singing) | 2015-08 |
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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 |
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Melvin, Kendahl L. | Why women don't run: Addressing the gender disparity in political representation in the United States | A record number of women were elected to Congress in the November 2014 elections, making the 114th Congress the first to boast over 100 females (McGregor, 2014). With 104 women, it seemed that the current Congress was a positive step for American political parity (Warner, 2015). However, this achiev... | Women -- Political activity -- United States; Women legislators -- United States | 2015-08 |
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Heman, Claire | Intersections | This creative thesis explores the intersections of identity, gender, and sexuality, relevant topics in our times of binary gender roles and pervasive heteronormative social structures. This thesis is divided into two parts: 1) an introductory essay to place the creative work in an existing conversat... | Gender identity in literature; Sexual orientation in literature | 2015-08 |
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Tu, Christianna L. | Closing the health development gap: An analysis of health spending in Southeast Asia | Financing health development through increased domestic resource allocation is a topic of substantial discussion for the post-2015 development agenda. Past development strategies, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), have relied on wealthy country aid commitments in order to fund inter... | Medical care - Southeast Asia - Finance | 2015-08 |
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Eccles, Patrick Nolan | The Cabal reflection: A post mortem of an entertainment arts and engineering capstone project | This document will serve as Patrick Eccles' Honors Thesis at the University of Utah and will reflect upon the process and result of his and his team members' senior project within the Entertainment Arts and Engineering program: the 3D Puzzle Platformer A Divided Light . On the senior project team, P... | Computer games - Design; Cabal Process | 2015-08 |
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Zamantakis, Alithia | Invisible bodies: LGBTQIA youth in the juvenile legal system | Scholars, such as Michelle Alexandra and Angela Y. Davis, and activists alike have begun to voice the inequitable conditions through which people of color are funneled into the prison industrial complex and laws are racially biased, so as to relegate people of color to a space of invisibility. It is... | Juvenile justice, Administration of - United States; GLBTQIA youth | 2015-09 |
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Du Pre, Jessie J. | Gender differences in recollected consistency or change in same sex sexuality across the lifespan: Measuring linkages between flexibility in sexual attraction, behavior, and love propensity | The flexibility of same sex attractions, engagement in same sex sexual behaviors, and propensity to fall in love with same sex partners were examined by assessing selfreported change over time in men and women of heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual orientations. We sought to examine whether the l... | Same sex attraction; Gender differences | 2015-12 |
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Herman, Christian | Sustainable asylum responsibility distribution in the European Union: A case for tradable refugee quotas as a replacement for the Dublin Regulation | Achieving an optimal distribution of the state-by-state responsibility for granting asylum to refugees has been a longstanding challenge in the European Union. This challenge has been especially apparent in the last several years following the escalation of conflicts, particularly including the civi... | Political refugees - Government policy - European Union countries; Refugees - Government Policy - European Union countries; Dublin Regulation | 2015-12 |
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Javdan, Shwan | Targeted HPMA copolymer-gemcitabine conjugates for the treatment of ovarian carcinoma | Each year in the United States, over 14,000 women die from ovarian cancer. Anthracyclines-a class of chemotherapeutics-have long been the primary treatment for this and many other cancers, yet they often leave patients with cardiotoxicity, hepatotoxicity, and a number of other adverse effects. Polym... | Ovaries -- Cancer -- Treatment; Polymeric drug delivery systems; Polymer-drug conjugates; pHPMA | 2015-12 |
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Freckleton, Mitchell W. | Proportional representation and the electoral college: An analysis of electoral reform in the U.S. and U.K. | We all know he famous Abraham Lincoln quote from the Gettysburg Address, "A government of the people by the people, for the people." However, do Americans and even British citizens feel like "the people" are in charge o f the government? With constant criticism directed at the representational democ... | Proportional representation -- United States; Proportional representation -- Great Britain; Electoral reform | 2015-12 |
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Nash, Alexander | The Proto-Indo-European urheimat: The Armenian hypothesis | This thesis analyzes the viability of the Armenian Hypothesis, which places the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Armenian Highland (Gamkrelidze & Ivanov 1990, Kavoukjian 1987). Arguments supporting the hypothesis are evaluated in the light of linguistic, archeological, and genetic evidence. Afte... | Proto-Indo-European langauge; Armenian Highlands | 2015-12 |
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Christensen, Bryce | Evolution, living patterns, and mitochondrial genetic variations in chimpanzees | The study of genetic variation in chimpanzees allows researchers to determine evolutionary origins, population dynamics, living patterns, and more; the focus of this thesis is on the Pan troglodytes verus subspecies of chimpanzees of western Africa. After reviewing the literature, I set out to test ... | Chimpanzees -- Genetics; Chimpanzees -- Evolution; Mitochondrial DNA | 2015-12 |
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Bashir, Mahreen Hamid | Where there are still animals: A poetic study on the earth as woman | They would like to feel they might be something better than animals. That's understandable: other animals might feel they are something different than "just animals" too. But we must contemplate the shared ground of our common biological being before emphasizing the difference" | American poetry - 21st century | 2015-12 |
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Thomas, Madison | Possible systems of female sexuality | Previous research found that women tend to exhibit sexual fluidity more than men (Diamond, 2008). This conclusion has led to the desire for research to unde rstand sexuality and the possible life events that impact ideas, behaviors, and sexual identity. The main research question being explored in t... | Women - Sexual behavior | 2015-12 |
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Chen, Jason J. | Dissecting the genetic and learned components of oscine birdsong | The interplay of genetically encoded and learned components in the development of the learned vocal signals of birdsong and human speech in not fully understood (Forstmeier et al, 2009). The fact that song is a learned vocal behavior does not imply the lack of a genetic basis in acquiring vocalizati... | Birdsongs -- Research; Songbirds -- Genetics -- Research; Zebra finch -- Research; Nature and nurture -- Research; birdsong; Taeniopygia guttata | 2015-12 |
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Arave, Rowan A. | AKT1 activation promotes the development of melanoma metastasis | Metastases are the major cause of melanoma-related mortality. Previous studies implicating aberrant AKT (or protein kinase B) signaling in human melanoma metastases led to the evaluation of the effect of activated AKT1 expression in non-metastatic BRAFV600E/cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor 2a nu... | Melanoma - Genetics - Research; Metastasis - Genetics - Research; Biochemistry; Genetics | 2015-12 |
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Kavalam, Nisha | Alternative breaks: The integration of community engagement and social justice | Alternative Breaks is a national practice among higher education institutions in the United States: programs vary in structures, but essentially students and staff/faculty participate in a week of service and education in another community, domestically or internationally, around a specific social i... | Service learning; Alternative breaks | 2015-12 |
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Astin, Holly M. | Modulating Intestinal Liver X Receptor Activity to Alter the Development of Atherosclerosis in Zebrafish | | | 2016 |
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Mortenson, Alexandra | No Longer a Guest: Christianity's Role in Hwang Sok-Yong's Metaphorical Exorcism | The title of Hwang Sŏk-Yŏng's historical fiction The Guest refers in part to two foreign ideologies that were introduced to Korea in the modern era-Christianity and Communism. The Guest explores the suffering caused by the arrival of these two foreign ideologies. The purpose of this thesis is to a... | | 2016 |