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Tripathy, Anurag | Nickel-Functionalized Solid-State Titania Nanotube Array for the Electrochemical Detection of Breath-Based Biomarkers in Colorectal Cancer | Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cancer in the United States with approximately 137,000 new cases each year, 50,000 of which are fatal due to belated screenings [1]. The gold-standard detection method is colonoscopy, a direct visualization tool that facilitates the removal of minor ... | 2019 | |
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Terrell, Makenna | Symptom Experiences of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer | Background/Objectives: Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer are a patient population that is oftentimes overlooked. The symptoms that they experience as a result of their cancer and cancer treatment negatively impact their quality of life. The purpose of this study was to analyze the prio... | 2019 | |
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Troester, Landon | Communities and New Americans: the Process of Joining and Building Communities Among 1880-1920 Immigrants and World War II Refugees | During the late 19th and early 20th century, the United States faced substantial changes in the nature of European immigration to the country. Unlike previous phases of immigration, many of the European arrivals were from Southern and Eastern Europe, and as a result struggled to identify existing cu... | 2019 | |
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Stucki, Kristen | Barries to Women's Access to Perinatal Mental Health Care in Rural Utah | Medicaid insures the majority of childbearing women visiting public health departments in rural Utah. A majority of these women live below the state and federal poverty thresholds, and few have more than a high school education. It is important that health resources be tailored to meet the unique ne... | 2019 | |
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Stahulak, Robert J. | Applying chiral field Theory to Neutron Star Moments of Inertia | In this work we examine the applications of neutron stars and their unique structure to provide limits on the range of possible equations of state which describe nuclear matter. We follow the history of developments in nuclear physics and discuss the current state of knowledge of neutron stars, incl... | 2019 | |
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Sorensen, Andrew | Validity of the Actigraph GT3X+ in children When Worn at the Wrist | Background: Low levels of physical activity and excessive amounts of sedentary behavior have been associated with higher risk of all-cause mortality as well as the incidence of mortality from numerous chronic diseases. Given the significant impact of physical activity on health, it is important to b... | 2019 | |
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Sivo, Jacob | Agile in the Wild - An in-Depth look into EAE Student Development Practice | There have been works produced on Agile techniques and their e#11;ectiveness in terms of both actual project progress as well as human factors, especially in industry. There are many training programs that companies enroll their employees in, such as ASPE. In these training programs, individuals are... | 2019 | |
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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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Siddiqui, Rija | Pilot Testing a Rapport Building Checklist with Law Enforcement and immigrant Communities | This study engages with local law enforcement authorities (LEAs) and immigrant service providers (SPs) in order to construct a list of recommended practices which can be implemented to enhance rapport between LEAs and immigrants. Producing an efficient list of practices requires the assessment of cu... | 2019 | |
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Shields, Carly | Needs of Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the Healthcare Setting | Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a developmental disability characterized by difficulties with social communication and repetitive and restrictive behaviors patterns (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1 in 59 children were ide... | 2019 | |
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Scholes, Connor G. | The Ethics of Uncertainty in Clinical Genetics Testing | Recent years have seen the explosive development of genetics and its subsequent use in medical practice. In the face of such rapid technological advancement that impacts the health of thousands each year and constitutes a multi-million-dollar industry, ethical analysis of the various shortcomings th... | 2019 | |
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Schoensee, Kohl | U of U Fsae Aero Package CFD Optimization & Structural FEA | I would like to thank my older brother, Luke Schoensee, for pushing me to develop Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models with ANSYS that are comparable to those developed by the top Formula SAE teams. I am grateful for the countless hours on the phone with Luke where he helped explain the problem... | 2019 | |
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Safiullah, Samah | The Social and Historical Reproduction of Japantown/Nihonmachi in Salt Lake City, Utah | My honors thesis is a historical, theoretical, and methodological approach to understanding the social and physical formation of Japantown and Japantown Street in Salt Lake City. I am interested in the formation of a specific ethnic enclave and micro-neighborhood which once existed. My thesis will a... | ||
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Saarela, Elise | "Negative news" isn't always negative: Utah journalists reflect on news values and audience engagement in the digital age | The purpose of this thesis is to explain the general notion of negativity in the news and how journalists perceive both their professional and personal standards. Specifically, journalists from Utah were interviewed to determine the main ethical values they consciously think of during their practice... | 2019 | |
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Rose, Brooke | Improving Mechanisms Between Interventional Community Partnerships to Better Promote Multidimensional Health | In the past, access to health care was often considered one of the most critical determinants of health status. However, in recent years the degree to which health care is considered to have a direct impact on health status has shifted. Depending on the source, only 10-20% of an individual's overall... | ||
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Robertson, Stuart J. | Development of a Microbial Fuel Cell for Hypersaline Wastewater Treatment Applications | The proper treatment of wastewater generated by human activity is of paramount importance for the preservation of the quality of water sources. For effluents containing high salt concentrations, treatment requires expensive methods that require high energy usage and additional chemicals. Halotoleran... | 2019 | |
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Randall, Lynettee | Young Adults, the Impact and Experience of Commemorative Practices | This study uses qualitative methodology to investigate the self-reported impact commemorative practices have on bereaved young adults. The act of commemoration is defined in the literature review with special emphasis on traditional and non-traditional methods. The difference between traditional and... | 2019 | |
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Roberts, Ashley | The View From Our Mother's House | The View from Our Mother's House is a novel about a family of three women struggling to understand and accept their past, full of abandonment and manipulation, while dealing with the immediate needs of the mother dying from Alzheimer's disease. This project combines research in the field of literatu... | 2019 | |
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Quackenbush, Cameron | The Great Salt Dustbowl: the Impacts of a Drying Ecosystem | The Salt Lake Valley faces a dire environmental situation: the drying of the Great Salt Lake (GSL). As state and local water authorities push forward with plans to further dam and divert the single largest input to the GSL, it is crucial to acknowledge the implications of a drying lake bed for the W... | 2019 | |
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Paseman, Anna Marie | Migration and Financial Innovation: Analyzing the Cost of Remittances Across Time and Space | Remittances are a substantial source of external financing and a tool for economic development. However, the efficacy of remittance flows is hindered by high remittance transaction costs. Acknowledging the high cost of remittance transactions, this thesis employs a quantitative analysis to examine t... | 2019 | |
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Pittam, Emily Buhler | Clinically Significant Outcomes of a Multidimensional Intensive Stuttering Clinic | This study examined the etiology, symptoms, and treatments of stuttering. Its main purpose was to report a series of treatment outcome measures of the 2018 University of Utah Intensive Stuttering Clinic (ISC). The clinic implemented both stuttering management treatment (behaviors and emotions relate... | 2019 | |
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Otruskinik, Jan | Bank Profitability, Mergers and Acquisitions: An Empirical Analysis for the US Economy | Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are popular strategies deployed by financial institutions to expand their balance sheets and consequently their market share. Economic and regulatory forces over the prior 30 years have been instrumental in driving M&A activity within the financial sector, yet limited ... | 2020 | |
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Norton, Alexander Santillano III | How Much of What We Did Was Good? | Many media commentators often remark that today's political climate is unhealthy and divisive. They speak of better days when people used to sit down in the same room, listen to each other, and find common ground. I believe that art, in the form of ‘music theater,' can achieve this goal. I note th... | 2019 | |
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Ortega-Flores, Laura Sofia | Contraception Knowledge and Attitudes Among Hispanic Women | Purpose: Unintended pregnancies are among the most troubling public health concerns and a major reproductive health issue in women's health (Yazdkhasti, Pourreza, Pirak & Abdi, 2015). Nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended, with the highest rates among Blacks, Hispanics, ... | 2019 | |
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Norris, Aileen | Dance as Activism: Exploring Gun Violence Through Movement and Text | In my thesis, I explore the potential for dance to take on an activist role, serving to springboard conversations and personal understandings of social issues in ways that conventional activism does not access. Through creative and textual research, I created a 20-minute long dance work titled "Aler... | 2019 |