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Guzman, Kristina | How personal characteristic influence shopping habits post covid-19 | The pandemic altered the way of life permanently for people around the world, coining the phrase, "new normal," as we adjust to post-pandemic life. For my honors thesis, I chose to focus on consumer behavior changes associated with this "new normal." Specifically, I studied the impact of various for... | 2023 | |
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Festin, Madeleine | Deep-seated gravitational slope deformation in the sawatch Range of Colorado | Deep-seated gravitational slope deformations (DSGSDs) are large-scale, creeping mass movements often involving entire mountain slopes. These enormous landslides may be on the order of kilometers in height and length but only move a few millimeters to centimeters a year. Secondary hazards are produce... | 2023 | |
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Brooks, Megan | Establishing baseline numbers for isometric back muscle endurance in the dance population | Purpose: Medical professionals can better recognize and treat injuries caused by deviation, such as back pain when normative and baseline values are determined. Dancers are often a forgotten athletic population. Researchers have yet to determine dancers' normative back and core muscle endurance valu... | 2023 | |
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Biskupiak, Anya | Mindfulness: a multi-faceted solution to a failing criminal justice system? | Current rehabilitation programs are insufficient among U.S. prisons. A prison is often a place of intense stress, fear, and intense or anger-provoking situations. Since prison education has started to become common in more and more prisons, a course to help inmates address the daily stressors of lif... | 2023 | |
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Bauer, Malea | Silence is violence: a nationakl legislative proposal for the criminalization of the enabler to institutional abuse | For centuries, institutions have exploited their power to abuse the vulnerable and avoid culpability. In many cases, the abuse would not have been possible if not for the institutional underpinnings which protect the perpetrators. These people, who initiate cover ups or turn a blind eye, ought to be... | 2023 | |
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Weinberger, Caton | Infant attachment security as a predictor of academic outcomes among children who experienced early adversity: a mediational analysis examining executive functioning and language skills during early childhood | Identifying predictors of classroom success is critical for supporting children's education. My first aim was to examine whether infant attachment security is positively associated with four cognitive outcomes among a high-risk sample of children: pre-academic language skills and executive function ... | 2022 | |
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Peterson, Mikal | Somatic chromosome pairing in interspecific drosophila hybrid and hybried rescue crosses | Homologous chromosomes of somatic tissue pair together in Drosophila. One current model proposes that somatic pairing starts in an undirected manner; when sites on the chromosome, called "buttons", come into contact and pair. Then, after this initial pairing, the rest of the chromosome then synapses... | 2022 | |
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Nilson, Jens C. | An examination of the bioethical and legal dilemmas surrounding genetic editing through narrative and story telling | Examining complex topics and issues through narrative and storytelling is a staple of the fiction genre. By presenting abstract problems and ethical dilemmas in a relatable context, and giving examples attached to real characters, the reader becomes emotionally and mentally invested in the issues fa... | 2022 | |
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Mallender, Zachary | Assay of the dreem device on sleep metrics and an exploration of sleep staging in chronic short sleepers during time in bed extension | Despite clear and plentiful research that sleeping less than seven hours per night has a wide array of health consequences, a large portion of American adults report sleeping less than seven hours per night and thus receive chronic insufficient sleep. Many studies exploring the consequences of insuf... | 2022 | |
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Olivia Hanson | Spinal cord injury-induced neuropathic pain & the gut microbiome: a review | Most spinal cord injuries (SCI) result in spinal cord injury-induced neuropathic pain (SCINP). SCI-NP is a major healthcare concern given the extensive burden it places on both patients and the healthcare system. This, coupled with the lack of effective and available treatments for those suffering f... | 2022 | |
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Jowers, Jackson F. | Sustainable support for America's children: the expanded child tax credit of 2021 and the pressing need to implement a bipartisan, long-term child allowance policy in the United States | The United States has a vested interest in providing support for families raising children. Over the past 25 years, the country has used a tax code provision known as the Child Tax Credit (CTC) to provide financial assistance to parents raising children. This paper presents a synthesis of relevant p... | 2022 | |
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Halberg, Charles | On causality in machine learning | Although the studies of causal inference and machine learning arose independently, there are emerging intersections which are proving fruitful for both fields. One of the major modern challenges in AI is to develop robust, generalizable models which can perform across a number of different tasks wit... | 2022 | |
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Draper, Mark Helzen | Writing off nature: how literacy changes our relationship with the natural | This thesis will examine how writing has changed our relationship with the natural world. Using a phenomenological methodology in combination with media theory, I will examine the costs and benefits of the revolutionary invention of alphabetic writing on that relationship to our lived-experience of ... | 2022 | |
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Andersen, Kara | Cervical dorsal root ganglion imaging for studying neuronal nocicieptive ciruit changes in migranine models | Migraine neuroscience is a field in its infancy, with migraine being a remarkably common yet poorly understood sensory circuit disorder. It is characterized by attacks of unilateral, throbbing craniofacial pain, with sensitivity to movement, visual, auditory, and other afferent inputs. Migraines can... | 2022 | |
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Christian, Lauren Piper | Utilizing feedback from Utah families with asthmatic children to mitigate air pollution health consequences | Air pollution is an ongoing public health threat in the US and in Utah. While air pollution triggers asthma, we know little about what parents of asthmatic children think about what schools, health care providers and policymakers should do to improve air quality and their children's health. Data to ... | 2022 | |
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Woolston, Caleb M. | Impact of trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress symptoms on baseline self-reported safety behaviors versus observer-rated safety behaviors during the trauma film paradigm | Background: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a high burden disorder marked by safety behaviors (SB), which are covert or overt actions used to escape distressing feelings or places. However, literature suggests scores on observer-rated and self-reported SBs can be discrepant, creating a need... | 2022 | |
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Munn, Jackson | Determining microbial community composition and methane flux or red butte canyon sediment over time | Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that is released from the soil into the atmosphere, which contributes heavily to global warming. One potential way of reducing the amount of methane in the air is through studying methane consuming bacteria (methanotrophs) and how they interact with other microbes ... | 2022 | |
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Kleinman, Rachel | The rise of the big three: are institutional investors proactive environmental and social change agents? | 2022 | ||
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Hall, Adam | My story is an ode to black thought | |||
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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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Gills, Lyra | Living while alive: a brief proposal for Puerto Piramides, Argentina, to attain Blue Zone Project Community (BZPC) status | In 2004, Blue Zones, or places where men and women live well past 90 or 100 years of age, were discovered by Dan Buettner and his team from National Geographic. Today, there are five well known Blue Zones, as well as four Blue Zone Project Communities that can be found. | Blue Zones; centenarians | 2021-05 |
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Tazehabadi, Tara | Bioinformatics to detect functional interactions important for the DNA repair enzyme mutyh | DNA is the blueprint of all biological life as it provides the means necessary for sharing of genetic information. DNA is formed and stabilized by interactions between four unique bases, Adenine (A), Cytosine (C), Guanine (G), and Thymine (T) which come together in predetermined patterns to create a... | 2022 | |
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Thomas, Nathaniel | The HIV-protective bystander effect in macrophages is viral glycoprotein dependent and likely conferred via upregulation of ISG IFITM3 | During an immune response against a specific antigen, often during viral infections, T cells not specific to the antigen can be activated, a phenomenon known as bystander response. The "bystander response" has been studied extensively in T cells, but when examined for macrophages through the lens of... | 2022 | |
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Pace, Eliza Jane | High School curriculum on social media and mental wellbeing: combating the negative effects through education and application | Over the past ten years, there has been a significant rise of depression and suicide rates in adolescents. These rates coincide almost exactly with the rise in smartphone use and the development of social media. Evidence of multiple studies over the last twenty years suggests that social media plays... | 2021 | |
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Schlegel, Isabelle B. | Peptide-fab conjugates to improve treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration | Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD), a chronic disease of the eye and leading cause of blindness in Americans over 50, is often treated with agents that inhibit Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF). Ranibizumab is an anti-VEGF antibody fragment (Fab) effective at treating over 90% of AMD pat... | 2021 |