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Luong, Katie | An examination of the relationship between positive covid-19 infection and vaccine hesitancy within the Utah recover study population | Vaccine hesitancy is defined by the World Health Organization as a "delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite availability of vaccination services," and is affected by a wide range of factors. Some of these factors identified in the literature include perceived safety and importance of vacc... | 2023 | |
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Lee, Alyssa | Middle school student-generated ideas about math: definitions and utility | This study investigates student-generated ideas about mathematics, focusing specifically on students' definitions of math and their notions of math's utility. The study is designed to explore these concepts concurrently through two research questions: (1) How do middle school students define mathema... | 2023 | |
| 78 |
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Kelly, Madeleine | Frameworks for social justice education in Montessori classrooms: educator perceptions and implementation | As American schools continue to diversify, issues of equity in schools remain unresolved and disparities between different racial and cultural groups have become more pronounced (Paris, 2012). Key components of the Montessori Method seem to align with aspects of a Social Justice Education (SJE) fram... | 2023 | |
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Larson, Brooke | Chacterization of signaling to the degradative pathways of the cell | Protein degradation in cells is a complex network of pathways that are distinct from each other but highly interconnected. Understanding how proteins are degraded in cells is important for understanding and developing treatments for diseases such as lysosomal storage diseases and neurodegenerative d... | 2023 | |
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Keate, Max (Makayla) | The American dream: how befief in meritocracy impacts the U.S. prison system | The United States continues to unquestionably violate the human rights of incarcerated individuals. Further, the nation does so with a general disregard to whether or not U.S. prison policies effectively prevent crime or in fact exacerbate it. This paper posits that widespread American belief in rad... | 2023 | |
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Kargi, Sahana | How the distribution of a society's prior beliefs affects the virality of information | Information diffusion is the process by which a piece of information disperses through a network. Whether it be computer viruses spreading via the internet or diseases transmitting through a school, understanding how information diffuses is extremely relevant to fields such as marketing, emergency m... | 2023 | |
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Jones, Aspen | Utah's foster parent training: a trauma-informed analysis | There is compelling evidence for why we need to pay attention to the negative effects of childhood trauma. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study determined that there is a correlation between childhood adversity and negative physical, neurological, and behavioral outcomes. When looking at th... | 2023 | |
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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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Holden, Ella | The impacts of climate change induced droughts on smallholder farmers in Latin America and the caribbean: poverty, food insecurity and drought adaptation strategies | Extreme weather events caused by climate change have serious implications. Drought, a natural disaster, has been worsened by climate change, and has had major consequences on the agricultural industry. While many farmers can adapt to major droughts, small-scale farmers in developing countries strugg... | 2023 | |
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Hunt, McKenna | Challenges locating the scene of emergency: a qualitative study of the EMS system in rwanda | Background: Timely pre-hospital emergency care significantly improves health outcomes. One substantial challenge delaying pre-hospital emergency care is in locating the patient requiring emergency services. The goal of this study was to describe challenges emergency medical services (EMS) teams in R... | 2023 | |
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Gutierrez-Prieto, Andrea | A Psychopy implementation of the artificial grammar learning paradigm: replication LAI (2015) | Phonology has long focused on not only occurrence of patterns, but also the absence of certain patterns. Various proposals have attempted to address this question by suggesting that this is due to biases that affect learnability. In addition to studying the presence and absence of phonological patte... | 2023 | |
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Gagon, Jordyn | Control of isolation induced aggression through activation of medial prefrontal cortex pyramidal neurons | In 2019, the surgeon general warned that social isolation was the deadliest epidemic facing society (Murthy, 2020). This has only been exacerbated as the effects of social isolation have been recently felt deeply across the globe as the world seemingly shut down in response to the novel Covid-19 pan... | 2023 | |
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Emoto, Ethan | User preferences in calendar applications | The role of user experience research in the software development cycle has been largely overlooked in favor of emphasizing the more technical elements. However, understanding the user's perspective is just as important as the engineering aspects in creating a beneficial application. This thesis expl... | 2023 | |
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Dhiman, Gareema | A novel organelle of the synapse | During neurotransmission, neurons constantly fuse and recycle synaptic vesicles from the presynaptic membrane. Like other organelles, synaptic vesicles and proteins must be removed when damaged or overused. Build-up of damaged proteins may underlie neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's Disease... | 2023 | |
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Do, Tiffany | Comparative transcriptomic assay of phellinus tremulae isolates to identify the genetic responses of environmental stress | Saprotrophic fungi are a diverse ecological group that can breakdown organic matter to obtain carbon. Due to their metabolic processes, they play an essential role in nutrient cycling within the microbial soil community. Despite the importance of saprotrophic fungi, little is known about their respo... | 2023 | |
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Decker, Julia | Obsessive-compulsive symptomology in LGBTQ+ Mormons: the role of social safety | While the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) can provide emotional relief, social belonging, and community support to many of its members, its doctrine often fails to affirm the needs of its LGBTQ+ and sexually/gender diverse (SGD) members. Church policy maintains that members of the ... | 2023 | |
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DeHaan, Matthew | Citizens West residential building energy modeling | Citizens West is a newly-built development in Downtown Salt Lake City. This building was built by the Giv Group and is 100%. The Giv Group strives to build sustainable but affordable living. In order to determine ways to decrease prices, a digital twin of Citizens West was built, validated, and simu... | 2023 | |
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Colby, Natalie | In depth: a collection of short stories on Queer Adolescence | This thesis is a collection of fiction short stories written over the course of my undergrad degree, with some produced particularly for this project. In these stories, I explore themes that are of particular interest to me, including, queer adolescence and the intersections between queerness and re... | 2023 | |
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Cockrell, Jacqueline | Campus interpersonal violence: understanding of University Policy | Interpersonal violence on university campuses and within university communities has always existed, but recently these issues are becoming more prevalent in the public eye. How universities handle these issues, the policies they put in place, and the efforts to reduce these incidents are ever-changi... | 2023 | |
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Chan, Tiffany | Why gender matters: an empirical case study of the China-Pakistan free trade agreement | China is one of the world's largest economies that boasts expansive and ambitious economic policies and has numerous trading partners across the globe. A closer look through an economic lens shows gender inequity runs pervasive. Thus, in this paper, I ask, "How does the presence and/or absence of ge... | 2023 | |
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Allen, Marina | The American revolution's impact on women's property rights: the changes in the legal property rights of women in the United States from 1765 to the present | This study details the shaping of women's property rights in the United States as it proceeds from the American Revolution. This specific event formed multiple political, social, and legal standards that are both visible and unseen in the postmodern United States. The associated literature for revie... | The American Revolution; women's property rights; paradigm; The United States | 2023 |
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Blake, Bennett J. | Art-secured lending and evaluating the loan-to-value ratio in art and real estate lending markets | I analyze the lending terms for loans with art as collateral. The standard loan-to-value (LTV) ratio offered by private banks is 50% of the value of a piece/collection, while for other tangible assets, such as real estate, LTV is often 80%. I use a linear regression model with common U.S. stock indi... | 2023 | |
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Wang, Albert Abdul-Barr | Two reflections on the capitol insurrection | Two Reflections on the Capitol Insurrection acts as a complementary set of essays for Albert Abdul-Barr Wang's extensive photo book The Cults of the Famous and the Dead (https://www.blurb.com/b/11471408-the-cults-of-the-famous-and-the-dead). The artist reflects on the impetus for his research projec... | 2023 | |
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Identification of potential causes for increased central line associated bloostream infection rates in the University of Utah NICU | The University of Utah Newborn Intensive Care Unit (UUNICU) has seen a recent increase in rate of Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) after an extended period of 965 days with no CLABSI's. Unfortunately, in the last three years, infection rate has been on average 2.6 CLABSI per ye... | 2023 | ||
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Nakano, Jamie | Tennis players and bowlers: the historical sociology of the CIA | Early CIA case officers recruited during the 1950s were characterized by similar upper-class backgrounds: wealthy families from the Northeast, preparatory school education, a degree from an Ivy League, and previous employment in white collar occupations. Anecdotal evidence reported that the next gen... | 2023 |