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Corsetti, Tana | The awareness of environmental issues in Vietnam, China, and The United States | Objectives: Environmental awareness is a global concern and there are few comparative studies of awareness among populations in different countries. The aim of this study was to investigate college students' knowledge of environmental concerns in the USA, Vietnam and China. Study design: Cross-natio... | | 2021 |
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Lebrecht, Marley | The Effect of a Close Friendship on the Number of suicide Attempts Executed by Adolescent Girls | Adolescent suicide is the second leading cause of death in people ages 15-19, and the rates of adolescent suicide are rising. Research has focused on risk and protective factors for adolescent suicide, but the effects of friendship have received less attention. Existing research suggests that friend... | | 2017 |
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McNatt, Shannon D., | Do Family Demographics Explain Middles-Class Status? Utah VS United States | Using United States Census data from 1980 to 2010, I analyze the role demographics play in a family attaining middle/upper-class status versus being economically lower-class. My study looks at age, race, education, parental structure, and family size, the influence each has on a family's status, and... | | 2019 |
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Hoffman, Haley, Coleman, James; Turrill, Jonna; Medeiros-Ward, Nate; Strayer, David | The effect of technology use on distraction and safety in high school student pedestrians | The use of handheld technology in this country has grown at an exponential rate, and as a consequence younger generations are using these devices, often without the necessary precautions. Past research has shown that technology use presents an obvious distraction to drivers and pedestrians and poses... | Technology - Safety measures; Adolescent behavior | 2012-05 |
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McLean, Hailey | Healthcare Encounters of Formerly Homeless Individuals Supported by the Housing first Program | Homeless individuals often have high utilization of emergency healthcare services. With United States healthcare costs continuing to rise encouraging appropriate utilization as a way to lower costs and improve outcomes is becoming a priority. This study examined the healthcare encounters of formerly... | | 2018 |
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Halberg, Nick | The Inverse effect of population growth on water use in Utah | The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute projects that Utah will experience rapid population growth over the next 45 years. It is commonly assumed that this sudden increase in population will subsequently lead to a sudden increase in the demand for water, thereby creating a need for new water diversions.... | | 2020 |
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Arave, Mariah | Life elevated: investigating the association between altitude and depression | The purpose of this research is to explore the relationship between altitude and depression. Evidence obtained from previous studies show that hypoxia can cause changes in the levels of mood-regulating neurotransmitters, potentially affecting mental health. There is also a region in the western Unit... | University of Utah | 2018 |
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Ferguson, Christina M. | Marital status and distress among low-income couples transitioning to parenthood | The transition to parenthood is associated with declines in couple relationship functioning and increases in psychological distress. Cohabiting and economically disadvantaged couples are at particular risk during this life transition. This study examined cohabitation as a potential risk factor for p... | Couples -- Psychology | 2015-04 |
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Olson, Eve | Voice Onset Time in Arabic and English Stop Consonants | In this project, I investigate the voice onset time (VOT) of stop consonants as produced by Arabic speakers in comparison to English speakers. In English, there exists a phonological contrast between voiced and voiceless pronunciations of bilabial, alveolar, and velar stop consonants. These pairs ar... | | 2017 |
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Murray, Clint | Keynes as theorist and investor | There is an abundance of literature that extensively explicates how various factors, notably probability theory, influenced John Maynard Keynes's thinking and economic theories in regards to the behavior of financial markets and the agents making decisions in those markets. Commentators, however, ha... | Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946 - Criticism and interpretation | 2016-04 |
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Endow, Danielle Miyako | Modern representation of female protagonists in media: An exploration of identity | Coming from the perspective of a woman living in Utah, I have explored what it means to be an ambitious, yet lost individual in today's media. Over the course of one year I wrote a full-length screenplay that follows the journey of a woman who loses her sense of self and must find her way back by te... | Screenplay writing | 2014-12 |
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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 |
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McInnis, Tillie | Disruptive power: A comparison of political voice for non-elites after the great depression and the recession of 2008 | This thesis investigates how non-elites influence policymaking in a time of large income and wealth inequality. To do this, I examine the tactics of disruptive power used by two groups following two major economic downturns in the U.S.: the industrial workers after the Great Depression in the 1930s ... | Power (Social sciences); Elite (Social sciences) | 2015-05 |
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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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Taheri, Kiana | Stories of transgressions: individual diffrences in the presence of specific scripts in narratives of negative experiences | This study examined the relationship between attachment styles, individuals' narratives of their transgressions, and indicators of well-being. We asked 82 university students (56 females and 26 males) with an average age of 21.85 (SD=3.99) to provide six narratives of times they hurt another individ... | Transgressions, cultural studies and education | 2012-05 |
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Shaw, Megan | Pilot Project: Quality of Childcare | Employment has shown to be an important step in a refugee's successful integration into their host environment, providing both financial and social health benefits to the refugee. This pilot study evaluated the change in quality of child care provided by child care providers, all refugee women, afte... | | 2018 |
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Lopez, Mauricio | The broken promise of inclusive development: the case of Peru | In recent years, Peru has been one of the fastest growing economies in the world, outpacing emerging giants of the developing world such as Brazil and Russia. From 2003 to 2011 Peru's GDP per capita almost tripled. Nevertheless, currently almost one third of the Peruvian population still lives in po... | Peru - Economic conditions - Regional disparities; Inclusive development | 2013-05 |
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Hughes, Emma | The implications of carbon abatement for industrial composition and firm value | Marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs) serve as a representation of the costs or savings associated with various actions aimed at reducing green house gas (GHG) emissions. This thesis investigates whether investors could have earned abnormal stock returns by constructing portfolios that exploit diff... | | 2023 |
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Kenney, Devin | Monumental failure: the navajo tribe and radiotoxic wastes | The extraction of uranium has a troubled history in the Navajo Nation, a history born of lack of representation, lack of interest, and ultimately, lack of regard for human life. The United States government failed to carry out their obligation to protect the health and economic well-being of the Nav... | Navajo Tribe - Government relations; Uranium mines and mining - Environmental aspects - United States; Uranium mines and mining - Waste disposal - Navajo Indian Reservation | 2012-05 |
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Hawkins, Lisa | The social market: Commitment to responsibility in a changing generation | As the partisan divide in U.S. politics grows wider, actionable and proactive policy making becomes more difficult to achieve. To address growing social issues, then, a more flexible and evidence-based approach must be realized. In the last 40 years, the United States has employed varying levels of ... | Public opinion; Social responsibility of business | 2016-05 |
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Hall, Adam | My story is an ode to black thought | | | |
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Porras, Adrian M. | Acoustic emission monitoring on reinforced concrete frames with improved seismic resilience | In modern structural engineering, reinforced concrete (RC) structures are wildly adopted due to their strength in resisting compressional and flexural loads. Moreover, RC structures can be precast or cast-in-place and have been used for many applications, such as footings, beams, and columns. Howeve... | | 2020 |
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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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Nazarenko, Elena | Current and future financial wellbeing of old age Russian pensioners | This paper compares pensioners' income with cost of living and subsistence minimum level to gauge financial wellbeing of pensioners. Using data from Russia Longitudinal Monitoring survey (RLMS-HSE), I formally test whether pensioners' income covers the cost of living across five regions: Moscow, Sai... | Old age pensions -- Russia; Retirees -- Russia -- Economic conditions | 2015-03 |
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Siu, Grace | Medicaid expansion's ambiguous effects on abortion rates from 2009-2019 | This paper analyzes the effects of the Affordable Care Act, specifically Medicaid expansion, on abortion rates from 2009-2019. I start off the analysis with a Difference-in- Difference model, move on to a Two-Way Fixed Effects model, and then alter the model to include event time, where the event ye... | | 2023 |