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Schwendiman, Lindsai Gren | Surrogacy and sisterhood: How female alliances challenge patriarchal society in Shakespeare | In Shakespeare's plays, women sometimes form alliances to protect each other from the oppressive patriarchal expectations of their time. These relationships often manifest as surrogate mother-daughter relationships, or a more sisterly connection. In Hamlet, Queen Gertrude adopts Ophelia as a surroga... | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women; Women in literature; Patriarchy in literature | 2014-12 |
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Streng, Tara Kay | Sexual assault within the American university system: A review of policies, student perspectives, and recommendations | Part I - University Sexual Assault Policy Analysis and Recommendations Objective: Sexual violence within the collegiate environment is a pressing issue within American society. One way to address sexual violence is through the adaptation and implementation of a sexual assault policy by colleges and ... | Sex crimes - United States; College students - Crimes against - United States | 2014-12 |
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Olschewski, Erin | C is for carrots, community gardens, and co-ops: A thematic analysis of the ways in which Sesame Street tackles nutrition, sustainability, and social justice | In the realm of entertainment education and media studies, there is a sizable amount of research linking children's nutrition and early educational television shows. However, there is a paucity of work that attempts to connect nutrition with sustainability and/or social justice in the context of chi... | Children's television programs -- Social aspects; Nutrition in mass media; Sesame Street (Television program); Social justice in mass media; Sustainability in mass media | 2014-12 |
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Anjewierden, Scott | Automated kinematic analysis of pre-pluse inhibition in larval zebrafish | Animals differentially ignore or attend to sensory information depending on their immediate environment. A significant example of this phenomenon is audiomotorpre-pulse inhibition (PPI), in which the startle response to a loud noise is suppressed by a preceding stimulus of lower intensity. This a... | Zebra danio - Development; Kinematics - Research; Kinematic parameters; Swim kinematics; Pre-pulse inhibition | 2014-12 |
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Moore, Kurt | Disproportionate associations between the financial crisis and firm valuation | In this thesis I assess the role of stock market valuation of publicly listed US firms through the financial and economic crisis of 2007-2011. To do so, for each firm in a large sample I apply the Rhodes-Kropf, Robinson, and Viswanathan(2005) approach to decompose the ratio of the market value of th... | Corporations -- United States -- Valuation; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 | 2014-12 |
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Atalaya, Candelaria | Time and light souvenirs | I was a young photography student in my home country of Peru when I built my first Pinhole camera as one of the many school assignments, and long before I came to United States. For my very first picture, I placed the Pinhole camera on the school patio the elements of the composition for the project... | Photography, Pinhole; Photography, Artistic | 2014-12 |
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Wang, Wenyi | Imaging in a homogeneous aluminum plate by using ultrasonic waves | This project is about detecting and imaging damage (such as cracks) in a plate by using ultrasonic waves. The waves are generated by a source (an ultrasonic transducer) that is part of a robot that can move on the plate. The waves traveling in the plate are recorded at a receiver (another ultrasonic... | Ultrasonic transducer - Mathematics; Kirchoff migration - Research | 2014-12 |
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Balagopal, Namisha | Consumer purchasing & behavior: A consideration of the combined influence of culture & conformity on consumer decisions | Formerly, management has been able to understand their consumers simply through the experience of selling and purchasing. However, current growth trends of various industries, firms, and world markets have removed decisions makers from having direct contact with consumers. Firms now highly depend on... | Consumer behavior | 2014-12 |
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Markham, Airyana | Dressing the part: Early Christian identity North Africa, 100-200 CE | The study of early Christian identity in the second-third centuries is problematic. This is because there is a paucity of material evidence and assigning a religious affiliation to that evidence is highly contested. For this reason, early Christian identity is often viewed by scholars in a distinct,... | Clothing and dress -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Identification (Religion); Christian life -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 | 2014-12 |
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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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Freckleton, K. Beau | Sarrus-based passive mechanism for rotorcraft perchings: Structural design and mass optimization | Current quad-rotors provide excellent maneuverability and opportunity for data collection in large scale areas such as agriculture, but lack the capability to maintain flight for an extended period of time. This is primarily due to a lack of energy supply, requiring operators to replace the battery ... | Drone aircraft; Drone aircraft -- Control systems; Sarrus | 2014-12 |
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Taggart, Maxwell M. | A novel MRI-based screening method for assessing atrio-esophageal fistula risk following cardia ablation | Atrio-esophageal fistulas affect 1 in 2000 patients who undergo cardiac ablation procedures with a mortality rate of 93%. Methods for detecting atrio-esophageal fistula formation that are objective and non-invasive could reduce the mortality associated with this disease. This study was performed ret... | Magnetic resonance imaging; Cardia ablation; Trio-esophageal fistual | 2014-12 |
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Gunter, Tobee Paige | Comparison of patient and provider assessments of response to therapy for psoriatic arthritis | People with psoriatic arthritis routinely rate their disease severity less favorably than their providers (Krueger, 2001) (Baughman, 2011). Little is known about how patients and providers perceive response to therapy. Discrepancies in perceptions of therapy response may indicate that providers are ... | Psoriatic arthritis; Psoriatic arthritis -- Patients -- Attitudes | 2014-12 |
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Beus, Zachary | Power system stabilizer | The goal of this project, part of the Power Industry Consortium, was to design a power system stabilizer for a small grid-connected three phase synchronous generator. Power System Stabilizers control the excitation of synchronous generators to reduce lowfrequency oscillations on the grid and increas... | Voltage regulators; Power system stabilizers | 2015-05 |