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Stephens, Mason | Effect of prolonged nature exposure on mindfulness and P300 Amplitude | This study utilized a quasi-experimental, within-subjects design to explore the effects of a 5-day nature immersion on perceived mindfulness, behavioral performance, and brain wave activity using Electroencephalography (EEG) to assess the amplitude of the P3a and P3b Event-Related Brain Potentials. ... | | 2020 |
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Astrid Ji | Effective portfolio diversification strategies in variouse economic conditions | This thesis examines the effectiveness of portfolio diversification strategies in inflationary periods by analyzing the performance of various portfolios in economic conditions before, during, and after inflationary periods. By analyzing historical data to a variety of 10 asset classes, this study p... | | 2023 |
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Hellige, Charles Joseph | Effective, Equitable Community engagement process: A case study of the participatory design process between the University of Utah and the Uintah-ouray reservation | In order to understand and strengthen the process of participatory design within the University of Utah's School of Architecture, this paper will analyze the case study of an undergraduate senior design studio using the participatory process to design a high school with the Northern Ute Tribe on the... | | 2018 |
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| Effects of Acute Hypoxia and High pCO2 on Total Protein Content and Metabolic Enzyme Activity in Rockfishes (Sebastes SPP.) | Climate change is altering ocean chemistry and wind-driven upwelling regimes. In the California Current System (CCS), these changes are exposing nearshore fishes to increasing levels of high pCO2 and hypoxia. These stressors co-occur during upwelling events, lasting hours to days, and both have the ... | | 2019 |
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Thorne, Samanta | Effects of Bribery and Terrorism to 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics' Profitability | The purpose of this paper is to analyze effects that bribery and the 9/11 terrorist attacks had on the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic games' profitability. More specifically in terms of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee's (SLOC) operating budget and how the two events affected committee actions to... | | 2019 |
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Hunter, Jessie Rabe | Effects of British Columbia's Carbon Tax on CO2 Emissions and Net Gasoline Sales | In 2008, British Columbia implemented the first comprehensive carbon tax in North America which covers nearly three quarters of all emitters in the province. This paper analyzes the effects of British Columbia's carbon tax on CO2 emissions and net gasoline sales using differences-in-differences and ... | | 2020 |
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Grimmett, Rollin | Effects of Hypoxia and High Fat Diet on D. Melanogaster Heart Physiology | Heart disease severely affects millions of people worldwide, and is caused by various environmental and genetic factors. The aim of this study is to examine the combined physiological effects of hypoxia and a high fat diet (two known causes) on Drosophila Melanogaster heart structure. Sets of adult ... | | 2017 |
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Smith, Sarah | Effects of Mitochondrial Mobility on Astrocyte Function | Within the brain, astrocytes provide support and influence the excitability of neurons by regulating the extracellular levels of potassium (K+) and glutamate. These glial cells play a vital role in neural homeostasis by regulating the concentration of neurotransmitters at the synapse, therefore modu... | | 2018 |
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Muehlman, Jayanti | Effects of Wind-Generated Underwater Noise on Southern right Whale Group Dynamic | The goal of this study was to investigate whether underwater noise affects the grouping behavior of southern right-whale (Eubalaena australis) mother-calf pairs at Península Valdés, Argentina. This area is a major calving ground for the population that occupies the western South Atlantic. Two larg... | | 2020 |
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Gerton, Marina | Effects of carbon sources on secondary metabolite production by teredinibacter turnerae | Shipworms are wood-digesting marine bivalves that rely upon symbiotic bacteria for cellulose digestion. The symbiotic bacteria, which grow intracellularly in shipworm gill tissue, produce cellulases that are then transported to the shipworm's cecum. It has also been hypothesized that the bacteria pr... | | 2023 |
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Chong, Alisha | Effects of increasing sleep duration on C-Reactive protein, insulin sensitivity, and blood pressure in adults with habitual short sleep | Short sleep, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes are all highly prevalent health issues in modern society. Previous findings demonstrate that obtaining short sleep is linked to an increased risk of cardiometabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. However, the mechanisms un... | | 2023 |
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Chong, Alisha | Effects of increasing sleep duration on C-reactive protein, insulin sensitivity, and blood pressure in adults with habitual short sleep | | | 2023 |
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Kearns, Ireland Rose | Effects of trem-1 expression on acute phase seizures in a mouse model of viral-induced epilepsy | Around 70 million people worldwide suffer from epilepsy, a neurological disorder that causes unprovoked and persistent seizures. A dominant cause of acquired epilepsies are from injuries to the central nervous system (CNS), such as viral infection of the CNS that results in brain inflammation (encep... | | 2022 |
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Lebrecht, Maranda | Effects of ventilatory regimens on the prevalence of a common gastrointestinal disease in neonates | Necrotizing Enterocolitis, or NEC, is a common intestinal disease of preterm neonates. It is believed that bacterial colonization increases the risk of NEC. This study examines whether the type of ventilation of the neonate, either mechanical ventilation (MV) or non-invasive support (NIS), and the ... | Enterocolitis, Neonatal necrotizing - Research; Newborn infants - Diseases; Sheep as laboratory animals - Research; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Lymphocytes | 2016-05 |
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King, Scott | Effortful upward pitch glide as a predictor of non-volitional swallow function in individuals with upper versus lower motor neuron lesions | Objective: This study addressed the correspondence between maximum pharyngeal constriction (PCmax) during effortful upward pitch glide task using nasoendoscopy compared with measures from videofluoroscopic swallow studies (VFSS) of swallowing function in individuals with upper (UMN) vs lower motor n... | | 2020 |
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Voyles, Jonathan Ross | Efforts Toward Establishing ML-McAs a Robust Depth Discriminant of Seismic Sources at Local (<150 km) Distances | Few scientific fields have been as dramatically accelerated by war as Earth science. Prior to the twentieth century, Earth science was largely dominated by natural philosophers debating whether the Earth had been formed by a ball of magma that solidified or a ball of liquid that precipitated. This g... | | 2020 |
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Sedley, Andrew | Egocentric Navigation in a Morris Water Maze for Testing Memory Formation in Mice | Mouse models are crucial to understanding not only sensory and cognitive neurological processes, but also diseases, disabilities, and responses to pharmacological or surgical treatments. Behavioral tests are essential assets in the description of these models. The Morris Water Maze is a common behav... | | 2018 |
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Meisinger, Piper M. | Egocentric Versus Allocentric: Finding a Superior Learning Strategy in Novel Small-Scale Spatical Learning | Navigational learning strategies have been identified as key skills required to effectively and accurately comprehend novel spaces. Specifically we looked at whether egocentric or allocentic learning strategies would be more effective for a young adult population with simulated field-of-view (FOV) l... | | |
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Tang, Nicolas | El Argenchino: A personal memoir | This personal memoir follows the life of Nicolas Tang, a 25 year old student at the University of Utah. Though still very young, Nicolas has already traveled much of the world and speaks fluently in three languages. He was born in Argentina, raised in Bolivia, and is of Chinese heritage. Recently, h... | Tang, Nicolas Immigrants -- United States -- Biography Chinese Americans -- Biography South Americans -- United States | 2014-12 |
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Gordon, Oakley Benedict | Electing representative representatives: a case for modified single transferable voting in American legislative elections | American government is founded upon the principle that its rulers should represent and be elected by its citizenry. To this end, America and its states elect large deliberative bodies charged with representing the people within their jurisdictions. The architects of federal and state governments, ho... | American government; Voting - United States | 2012-05 |
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Sriram, Ananya | Electrochemical Impedance Analysis of Gold-Polyurethane Nanocomposite | Neural prosthetic devices are used to record and transmit electrical signals to modulate neural tissue functionality. Electrodes in the devices are currently made using traditional electronic materials. These materials are generally not biocompatible and those that are, can be stiff, triggering an i... | | 2020 |
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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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Lee, Hye-ri | Eliciting event type: Rumination and emotional complexity | Past research has found positive associations between emotional complexity (the subjective experience of multiple simultaneous emotions; Hervas & Vazquez, 2011) and having a ruminative cognitive style. Numerous studies have suggested that the association between emotional complexity and rumination a... | Emotions and cognition Depression; Mental Emotional complexity; Event type | 2015-04 |
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Bischoff, Amanda | Elucidating the Mechanism and Predicting the Selectivity of the bis(Pyridine) Silver Permanganate Oxidatiin | The Movassaghi group has recently reported several total syntheses of epipolythiodiketopiperazine derivatives (ETPs), a class of natural products with potent biological activity. A crucial step in their synthesis oxidizes two to four tertiary C-H bonds to form tertiary alcohols using (bis)pyridine s... | | 2016 |
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Juarez, Sergio Arturo | Empirical Analysis of the Participation Behaviors of Investors on Crowdfunding Platforms | This project examines the phenomenon of crowdfunding, which allows individuals to seek investments for a project, campaign, or venture. Typically this is done via the Internet, through the participation of large numbers of investors (or backers) who invest or donate small amounts of money. The reaso... | | 2017 |