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Richins, Luke | Preventing corporate fraud | This thesis is written with the purpose of exploring employee's perception of the effect of different methods of corporate fraud prevention on their own behavior. To accomplish this, this paper will explore the definition of fraud, potential prevention methods, and analyze data retrieved from a surv... | Corporations - Corrupt practices - Prevention; Fraud - Prevention | 2014-04 |
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Russell, Curtis | The Zion curtain: A documentary play | The Zion Curtain is a documentary play about the collision of ideology and civil rights, using the words of real people to trace the roots and show the effects of reactionary, homophobic doctrines in the Mormon Church. Every "um," "uh," and pause is performed as spoken in original interviews by the ... | Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Latter Day Saint churches; Mormon gays | 2014-04 |
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Smith, Hayden | Brown v. Board: The racial meridian: Racial segregation in the U.S. public education system before and after Brown v. Board of Education 1954 | The primary concentration of this project is an analysis of post-Brown v. Board segregation issues within the public education sphere. I focus primarily on the legal history of school desegregation in Texas as it is a Southern state with a long history of racial segregation. Furthermore, Texas effec... | Segregation in education - Texas | 2014-04 |
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Estrada, Johanna | BCR-ABL1 compound mutations combining key kinase domain positions confer clinical resistance to ponatinib in Philadelphia cromosome-positive leukemia | CML 1s caused by a random reciprocal translocation that joins the ABL1 gene on chromosome 9, with the BCR gene on chromosome 22. The result is the formation of the oncogenic BCR-ABL1 gene. This derivative chromosome is widely known as the Philadelphia Chromosome (Ph+), and it encodes a deregulated, ... | Leukemia -- Genetic aspects -- Research Leukemia -- Treatment -- Research | 2014-04 |
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Weaver, Bradley | Hypoxia and the mesenchymal transition in glioma | Recent advances in targeted therapy for cancer have had little influence on survival for patients diagnosed with Glioblastoma (GBM, WHO Grade IV tumors), and median survival time remains stagnant at 12-15 months post diagnosis. Genomic profiling of GBM indicates clear phenotypic subsets of these tum... | Glioblastoma multiforme; Gliomas; Hypoxia; Mesenchymal transition | 2014-04 |
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Twombly, Jessica | Collaborative methods of special education and general education teachers | A growing number of students with disabilities are being served in general education classrooms. Research has shown that inclusive education programs can be as effective as pullout or self-contained special education units (Fitch, 2003). Research has also shown that co-teaching is an effective servi... | Special education; Teaching teams | 2014-04 |
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Maxwell, Netanya Elise | Differentiation in elementary classrooms | In conjunction with the Utah Educational Policy Research center and under the supervision of Dr. Andrea Rorrer, this paper examines the current research surrounding differentiation in public elementary school (K-5) classrooms in the United States. This paper will seek to find a clear, singular defin... | Individualized instruction; Mixed ability grouping in education; Education; Elementary | 2014-04 |
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Cox, Mitchell | Exploring exercise adherence: the impact of exercise intensity and variability on affect during exercise | Physical exercise increases affect, and increased affect is associated with greater adherence to exercise. Group exercise is a popular form of exercise, yet little is known regarding the impact of exercise intensity and variability on during-exercise affect. Furthermore, little is known regarding th... | Psychology | 2014-04 |
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Hardy, Clinton J. | Adolescent perception of negative admission pressures and affective reactions in outdoor behavioral healthcare | This represents the first empirical inquiry into the perception of negative admission pressures (P-NAPs; e.g., perception of force or threat associated with entering treatment) among adolescents. Prior to this report, P-NAPs had only been studied within adult treatment contexts. In this study, P-NAP... | Adventure therapy for teenagers - Psychological aspect; Teenagers - Counseling of | 2014-04 |
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Kirby, Kaltin | Finding a character | My thesis revolves around the idea of creating a character. There have been countless theatre practitioners and theorists Stanislvasky to Meisner who have tried to develop the "best way" to create a character. This project centers around my personal process to create a character based on my traini... | Acting | 2014-05 |
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Hanley, Grace | How engaging in mind-focused or body-focused Eastern practices affects the way people narrate challenging events | Yoga and meditation could influence how individuals mentally process and narrate their difficult experiences from the past. Specifically, such practices could result in increased exploration, growth, and positive resolution in narratives, compared to neutral conditions. Past researchers have employe... | Narration (Rhetoric) - Psychological aspects; Mediation - Therapeutic use; Yoga - Therapeutic use | 2014-05 |
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Rush, Jacob | Is it not just for me to do what i will with mine own? Redressing the egalitarian's pareto dilemma | In this paper, I consider one justification for people's sincere, daily choices - G.A. Cohen's ethos of justice - that seeks to (a) discourage people from demanding incentives for choosing highly productive lines of work and (b) motivate them to do choose the most socially useful occupation. Cohen f... | Pareto dilemma | 2014-05 |
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Willis, Brendan M. | Investigating the mediational role of meaning making in the association between moral injury and well-being | Most people at some point in their lives will encounter a situation where they witness, perpetrate, or fail to stop an action that seriously violates their moral beliefs, events that have recently been termed moral injuries. Litz and colleagues (2009) proposed a theoretical framework that suggests s... | Ethics - Psychological aspects; Mental health - Moral and ethical aspects | 2014-05 |
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Matyi, Joshua Matthew | Intelligence and neural activation : a test of the relationship between the neural efficiency hypothesis and repetition suppression | The Neural Efficiency Hypothesis (NEH) states that individuals with higher measured intelligence exhibit less neural activation on relatively simple tasks compared to those with lower intelligence (Haier et al., 1988). Furthermore, this phenomenon may interact with repetition suppression, or the red... | Intelligence levels - Physiological aspects; Neural networks (Neurobiology) | 2014-05 |
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Rush, Jacob | The Kantian concept of the person, rationality and Socrates' death | In this paper, I consider Socrates' death sentence in The Apology and his choice to accept his death sentence in The Crito. I structure his choice in a Kantian manner. First, I argue that Socrates has a duty to himself, as a rational agent, to (a) act as a promisekeeping individual and (b) perform t... | Socrates - Death and burial; Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1824 - Ethics | 2014-05 |
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Burns, Henrik | The political economy of international terms of trade and agricultural sustainability: The case of Cuba | For this thesis project I investigated the relationship between international terms of trade and agricultural sustainability for the case of Cuba. To understand the effect of trade relations on agricultural policy I explored Cuba's relationship with the Soviet Union, its largest trading partner betw... | Trade regulation - Cuba; Agriculture and state - Cuba; Cuba - Commerce | 2014-05 |
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Sanchez, Eliana C. | Surgery or mutilation?: How autonomy can strengthen the anti-FGM movement | The World Health Organization (WHO) defines female genital mutilation as any alteration to the female external genitalia or genital organs for nonmedical reasons. This definition is both over- and under-inclusive. Western cosmetic surgeries, such as vaginal rejuvenation, are technically included in ... | Female genital mutilation | 2014-05 |
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Farrall, Nicholas | Structural characterization of the full-length exocyst complex by transmission electron cryo-microscopy | The exocyst is a conserved octameric protein complex in eukaryotes that is essential for tethering and fusion of vesicles to the plasma membrane. Composed of eight subunits, it is essential for growth, secretion, and developmental processes and has been implicated in cell motility, autophagy, cell d... | Saccaromyces cerevisaie - Cytology; Cryomiscroscopy - Research | 2014-05 |
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Watkins, Ryan Davis | Suppression of lymphangiogenesis using VEGF-C trap | The lymphatic system is responsible for controlling systemic fluid buildup. Lymphangiogenesis is a dynamic process involving sprouting, and maintaining new lymphatic vasculature. Vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) is as a key growth factor that induces lymphangiogenesis by binding VEGF re... | Lymphatics - Growth; Vascular endothelial growth factors - Antagonists; Lymphangiogenesis; VEGF-C trap | 2014-05 |
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Wallace, Joshua J. | Lyman-alpha emission as a probe of galaxy environments | As a result of resonant scatterings off hydrogen atoms, Lya emission from star-forming galaxies provides a potential probe of the neutral gas environment around them. In order to determine the utility of Lya emission as a probe of gas environments we study the effects of environmental anisotropy on ... | Galaxies - Spectra | 2014-05 |
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Fullmer, Alexander T. | Optimization of gamma/hadron separation under variable source intensities and energy spectra | The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory consists of an array of water Cherenkov tanks that can detect extensive air showers (EAS) generated by astrophysical cosmic rays and gamma rays. One of the greatest challenges in using the HAWC observatory to search for astrophysical gam... | Gamma ra sources - Observations; Cosmic rays - Observations; Gamma ray astronomy - Research | 2014-05 |
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Neofitos, Evangelos | Solid timber: emerging construction methods and materials | Today, more than ever, the construction industry, the architecture industry, and our environment is in dire need of renewable materials. Out of the multitude of standardized materials within the building industry, wood is the most sustainable. This research focuses on the evaluation of cross-laminat... | Building, Wooden - Design and construction; Laminated wood construction | 2014-05 |
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Thompson, Patrick C. | Redesigning communities: The case for utopias | This thesis studies the importance of Utopian city planning in attempting to transform our communities and solve the social issues faced throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries. Idealist city plans originated as a genre of literature dating back to the 16th Century, playing a vital social role throug... | Utopias -- United States City planning -- United States | 2014-05 |
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Mimi Locher | The body in modern architecture: Perceptions, philosophies and design consequences in the work of Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto | This thesis explores the place of the human body in architectural design during the modern period. A brief history of using the human body as design inspiration is given, which includes a discussion on our tendencies as humans to use anthropomorphism, cognitive patterns, and our body to understand t... | Architecture - Human factors | 2014-05 |
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Hyde, Katie M. | Bhutanese refugee women's lived reproductive health experience in Salt Lake City, Utah | This research project focused on family planning and reproductive health care access among Bhutanese refugees in Salt Lake City, Utah. Four questions guided this study: (1) What contraceptive methods do female Bhutanese refugees use to control fertility/space births? (2) What reproductive health car... | Women refugees - Utah - Salt Lake City - Health and hygiene; Women refugees - Bhutan - Health and hygiene; Reproductive health services - Utah | 2014-05 |