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Thissen, Caitlin | Establishing sense of place in an urban desert wasteland : reconsidering traditional design materials in contemporary building | A reconsideration of traditional and sustainable construction materials should not only be encouraged in the contemporary age, but should support the establishment of a more engaging spatial experience, culturally and ecologically. Traditional building and design materials preserve the local charact... | Sustainable architecture - Arizona; Building materials - Arizona; Pueblo architecture - Arizona | 2013-05 |
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Moelling, Leah I. | Eurypterid paleoecology : characterization and analysis of a late Silurian shallow marine fossil assemblage from southern Ontario, Canada | Eurypterids were giant chelicerate arthropods that have been extinct since the Permian Period. Eurypterids are rare as fossils, and many eurypterid fossils are likely skeletons shed during life (molts), which make it problematic when seeking to determine the types of environments in which they lived... | Eurypterida | 2013-05 |
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Fontaine, Nick | Evaluating conductive pedot:PSS hydrogel in promoting neural rehabilitation | Peripheral nervous injuries (PNI) affect millions of individuals every year and present a significant challenge for physicians. Surgeons have used suturing techniques to repair short sections of damaged nervous tissue, but past a critical distance must resort to nerve guidance conduits (NGC). One ma... | | 2022 |
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Cocke, Rebecca C. | Evaluating the Catalytic Activity of Iron and Nickel Impurities in Bare High-Pressure High-Temperature Nanodiamond | Many metal nanoparticles are used as catalysts for various reactions and are held on supports. High-Pressure High-Temperature nanodiamonds (HPHT ND) are able to support metal nanoparticles even under strenuous chemical environments due to their robust nature. The production of HPHT ND includes the u... | | 2018 |
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Mason, Indigo | Evaluating, implementing, and supporting sexual health programming for young adults at The University of Utah | Sex, sexuality, and reproduction are intimately tied to what it means to be human. The field of sexual and reproductive health explores the nuances and connections between intimacy, pregnancy, and birth with economic, social, and political power. Even though the field has made remarkable strides, st... | | 2021 |
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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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Goel, Divyam | Evidence-based medicine in times of crises: what we can learn from covid-19 to adapt early on in a pandemic | Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the current philosophical paradigm by which contemporary healthcare practices are guided. A related field, evidence-based public health (EBPH), similarly advises practices in the field of public health. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated weaknesses in th... | | 2022 |
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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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Fan, Huijun | Examination of Y-Deterium isotope effects for the solvolysis of model isoprenoid compounds | Model isoprenoid compounds can undergo two distinct pathways, dissociative or associative nucleophilic substitution depending on the conditions used. The dissociative pathway consists of two steps, involving a carbocation intermediate where the formation of that carbocation is rate determining. The ... | Isopentenoids; Solvolysis; Deuterium - Isotopes | 2012-05 |
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Choi, Andrew Young | Examining off-task behaviors as regulatory mediators of long-term interest and performance online | Learning via the Internet requires greater reliance on self-regulation (Artino & Stephens, 2009). Online students have easier access to both interesting related materials (i.e.,lesson-related videos) and unrelated materials (i.e., social media). Initial results from the Regulation of Motivation and ... | Internet literacy - Study and teaching; Regulation of Motivation and Performance Online (RMAPO) | 2012-05 |
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Salmi, Luciana P. | Examining the Combined Effects of Social Support and Maternal Prenatal Mood on Newborn Neurobehavior | A large body of research shows that exposure to maternal prenatal anxiety may be linked to adverse birth outcomes and impaired psychophysiological functioning in infancy (Barker, Jaffee, Uher, & Maughan, 2011). The majority of research has been focused on birth outcomes leaving a gap in the literatu... | | 2018 |
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Victorine, Paige | Examining the DBT ways of coping checklist and therapist expectancies as predictors of success in DBT gift group participants | Researchers have long focused on which variables play a role in managing the stress-illness relationship, and more specifically, emotion dysregulation (Linehan, 1993; McCrae, 1984). The current study examined psychologically dysregulated individuals (n=22), who had been recommended by their primary... | Dialectical behavior therapy | 2016-04 |
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Shaaban, Karim | Examining the Efficiency of Securities Ownership in the United States | The disastrous years following the Stock Market Crash of 1929 led to a series of reforms by President Roosevelt to stabilize the failing economy. The passing of the New Deal laws coupled with more recent laws passed by President Bush and President Obama have led to extensive regulation of the financ... | | 2019 |
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Flach, Brian | Examining the effects of whisker trimming on mouse brain cell growth | Hoxb8 microglia are a particular breed of scavenger cells in the brain which have been related to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)-like behavior among other behavioral disorders. These cells have been found to reach full maturity during a period of neurological development known as the critical ... | Obsessive-compulsive disorder - Research; Microglia - Research; Mice as laboratory animals - Research; Whiskers; Scavenger cells; Hoxb8 microglia | 2016-04 |
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Fine, Keli | Executive functioning and grade point average in college students | Research has demonstrated a positive correlation between Executive Functioning (EF) and Grade Point Average (GPA; Duckworth, Tsukayama, & May, 2010; Latzman, Elkovitch, Young, & Clark, 2010; Knouse, Feldman, & Blevins, 2014). However, previous studies have failed to give a comprehensive view of all ... | Executive functions (Neuropsychology); Academic achievement | 2014-12 |
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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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Huntzinger, Olivia | Experiences with public transit among older and younger adults experiencing homelessness in Salt Lake County, Utah | The population of people experiencing homelessness (PEH) over the age of 50 has risen in recent years. Low income individuals, especially PEH, have a higher need for public transit to meet basic needs, such as food, healthcare, shelter, and social connection. The purpose of this study was to better ... | | 2022 |
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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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Ryan Stutsman | Explaining and evaluating the use of RDMA in high performance containers | Containers are an increasingly popular packaging framework for complex applications, offering benefits such as lightweight isolation, portability, and ease of deployment. These benefits have the potential to solve a myriad of issues that have long been present in the high performance computing world... | | 2022 |
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Mroz, Max | Exploration of Magnetic Field Actuated Strings of Spherical Magnets for Swimming Robot Locomotion | Robots capable of operating in fluid have a variety of applications from biomedical devices to use in piping systems for monitoring and inspection. If these robots can be driven remotely by methods other than traditional motors, they can be less technologically complex, safer and more durable. The f... | | 2017 |
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Spurlock, Ella K. | Exploration of the 2-dimensional π-d conjugated coordination polymer Cu-benzenehexathoil | Coordination polymers (CPs) are a type of atomically precise material that has long been an area of study for materials chemists. Recently, research has advanced with twodimensional conjugated CPs as detailed synthetic schemes are developed to create highly atomically ordered, large-area sheets. The... | | 2022 |
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Cox, Mitchell | Exploring exercise adherence: the impact of exercise intensity and variability on affect during exercise | Physical exercise increases affect, and increased affect is associated with greater adherence to exercise. Group exercise is a popular form of exercise, yet little is known regarding the impact of exercise intensity and variability on during-exercise affect. Furthermore, little is known regarding th... | Psychology | 2014-04 |
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Garcia, Anthony D. | Exploring galactic chemical abundance of phosphorus in the ultra-violet with HST | Ultra violet observed spectral data taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) are made available to the public. These data sets have been extracted into one-dimensional and flux-calibrated spectral data, and are ready for analysis. We have normalized the extracted spectra with a Planck black body cu... | Milky Way - Phosphorus content | 2014-05 |
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Hansen, Luke Freedom | Exploring the Effects of Virtual Reality on Empathy and Charitable Fundraising | The focus of this Honors thesis is to explore the effects of Virtual Reality ("VR") on empathy. More specifically, the purpose is to compare and contrast the ability of VR to evoke empathy against that of traditional two-dimensional media ("2D"). To accomplish this I (alongside a group of my peers) ... | | 2018 |
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Weeks, Rory | Exploring the ecogothic in Marian Womack's "black isle" | We live in a frightening time. It is an age of anxiety, loneliness, and terror as the looming specters of climate collapse and innumerable environmental crises enter unbidden into our reality to an ever-greater extent, to the point that we often just need to look outside in order to observe the horr... | | 2021 |