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Wankier, Zakary S. | Use of computer tomography imaging to observe increased distal-end cortical bone around a percutaneous osseointegrated implant | Osseointegration (OI) is being used for the direct skeletal attachment of prosthetic limbs using an intramedullary stem that extends percutaneously from the subject's residual limb. For this technology to be successful, bone ingrowth and remodeling around the implant must occur. Physicians need an e... | 2022 | |
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Spurlock, Ella K. | Exploration of the 2-dimensional π-d conjugated coordination polymer Cu-benzenehexathoil | Coordination polymers (CPs) are a type of atomically precise material that has long been an area of study for materials chemists. Recently, research has advanced with twodimensional conjugated CPs as detailed synthetic schemes are developed to create highly atomically ordered, large-area sheets. The... | 2022 | |
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Terry, Anna | How social media influencers affect consumer's willingness to pay and their idealized self | While influencer marketing first dated back to the Gladiators in Ancient Rome and has been utilized to sell products in the modern era since 1890, the term "influencer" has gained new life with the rise of social media. Through continually exhibiting their lifestyle, Influencers earn a living by cul... | 2022 | |
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Sperber, Alexander M. | A novel approach to differentiating cardiac fibroblasts from induced pluripotent stem cells | Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, and such disease is caused by electrical, chemical, or biomechanical imbalances in the heart. The two most abundant cells comprising the heart that are responsible for these functions are cardiomyocytes and cardiac fibroblasts. I... | 2022 | |
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Montoya-Ortiz, Jaylie Denise | Changes to walking trajectories to avoid altitude-related threats | Walking in complex environments demands changes in locomotor behavior. Despite knowledge of how altitude threats, such as walking at high heights, affect spatiotemporal measures of gait, it is unclear how individuals select walking trajectories when there are altitude threats. The purpose of this st... | 2022 | |
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Kay, Sydnee | Influence of cultural fear of terrorism on imprisonment in Egypt | Terrorism has had an expansive impact on Egyptian culture and politics in the last century. With terror activity being somewhat regular in current president Sisi's Egypt, the general fear of terrorism has allowed President Sisi to imprison political dissidents, journalists, and others that could sup... | 2022 | |
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Ho, Tyler | Anteroposterior gait adjustments are the primary recovery strategies to repeated underfoot perturbations during turning gait | Background: Despite ample research examining human gait, much is still unknown about how humans navigate unpredictable terrain. Most research has analyzed strictly linear gait, which does not comprise all of the gait tasks in everyday ambulation. Instead, humans routinely employ complex gait movemen... | 2022 | |
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Excell, Katerina | The role of amyloid precursor protein in a model of alzheimer's disease | Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating disorder that leads to deterioration of cognition and memory. The prevalence of AD dramatically rises with age, and is also much greater in individuals with trisomy 21 (Down syndrome, DS). Many gene products are overexpressed in DS by virtue of having three ... | 2022 | |
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Henderson, Anna Christine | The Rising demand for secondhand: rhetorical drivers and sustainable implications of thrift shopping | Thrift shopping is not a new activity, but it is a newly trending hot topic. This thesis aims to look at the appeal of thrift shopping while also exploring the sustainability of this practice. By examining three different avenues of thrift, Goodwill, Depop, and especially focusing on Patagonia's Wor... | 2022 | |
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Beasley, Addison | Moving past the human/nature binary: catalyzing collective action to combat the climate crisis | Climate change is one of the prime social issues of the modern era. I argue that in order to achieve the necessary collective action to reduce the harmful effects of the climate crisis, society needs to move past the human/nature binary. This binary obfuscates the reality that humans have a place wi... | 2022 | |
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Domagala, Drue | Synthesis of protacs to inhibit toll-like receptors | The immune system is the body's defense against pathogens. Since it has to be able to withstand the fast-evolving nature of microscopic invaders, the immune system has a variety of mechanisms to recognize and destroy them. One way that pathogens are recognized is through toll-like receptor (TLR) sig... | 2022 | |
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Danielson, Hailey | If i should die before i wake | In my senior year at the University of Utah, I edited and improved upon the movel I wrote in the Honors Novel Writing Workshop course taught by Michael Gills. My novel If I Should Die Before I Wake is the story of a young woman named Emma meeting a young man named Cale by coincidence, and how they s... | 2022 | |
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Kingsley, Kayla | Blush the color of embarrassment | Pathological blushing is a chronic condition in which a person blushes uncontrollably more often and more intensely than a person who blushed regularly. | 2021 | |
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King, Scott | Effortful upward pitch glide as a predictor of non-volitional swallow function in individuals with upper versus lower motor neuron lesions | Objective: This study addressed the correspondence between maximum pharyngeal constriction (PCmax) during effortful upward pitch glide task using nasoendoscopy compared with measures from videofluoroscopic swallow studies (VFSS) of swallowing function in individuals with upper (UMN) vs lower motor n... | 2020 | |
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Hagemeyer, Troy | The importance of resolution with UAV remote sensing and structure from motion | The use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, has grown widely as they have grown less costly and more available to the public. One area of growth is in the remote sensing of snow and ice. In particular, structure from motion photogrammetry is used to determine snow depths through differential mappi... | 2020 | |
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Kimmel, Julianne | Text analysis of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adolescents and young adults | Suicide is a public concern for adolescents and young adults (AYAs), with rates rising across the United States. This generation often uses social media platforms to express suicidal thoughts and behaviors. The three-step theory (3ST) of suicide finds that strong suicide ideation progresses to actio... | 2021 | |
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Gambino, Danielle N. | Motivations to participate in the diabetes prevention program among overweight and obese women planning pregnancy | The purpose of this thesis was to describe self-reported motivators of overweight or obese reproductive-age women who enrolled in an online National Diabetes Prevention Program's Lifestyle Change Program (DPP LCP). Exploring preconception women's motivations could be a useful tool to shape intervent... | 2021 | |
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Movie Night: a creative analysis | "Movie Night" is a film about a woman with a haunting fear that her sexuality, or lack thereof, might harm a new relationship. The first scene presents how a lack of representation in media can lead to certain standards and stereotypes, and by putting an alternative in this film itself, I seek to pr... | 2021 | ||
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Ryan Stutsman | Explaining and evaluating the use of RDMA in high performance containers | Containers are an increasingly popular packaging framework for complex applications, offering benefits such as lightweight isolation, portability, and ease of deployment. These benefits have the potential to solve a myriad of issues that have long been present in the high performance computing world... | 2022 | |
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Non Belli Finis? | Among sources of valuable information from which to draw inspiration to be incorporated in modern analysis, texts such as foundational philosophy and science fiction novels might not be the first considerations for an actor of international scope. However, this discussion aims to highlight the valid... | 2022 | ||
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Ellingson, Lily ann | Relative: Identity, Portraiture, and Human Connection | Our relationships with others define us more than we realize. Our connections to family and community shape the ideas we have about ourselves in ways we dont notice until we step back and analyze them. The people we spend time with, how we relate tot hem, and how we define those relationships clarif... | ||
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Erickson, Mariah | False hearing and the N400: the effects of linguistic context on language perception | False hearing is a phenomenon where one mishears what has been said to them based on linguistic contextual cues used to make a prediction (Rogers et al., 2012). The incorrect hearing usually has similar phonemic properties to other likely words and syntactic relation to what was said prior. Our stud... | 2021 | |
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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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Clark, Tyler | Video game development during a pandemic: a student's perspective | This paper seeks to go over a student's journey of video game development during the Covid-19 pandemic. It will showcase the unique challenges of working on a project remotely and the development process that was set out by the University of Utah's Entertainment Arts and Engineering Capstone Class. ... | 2021 | |
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Checketts, Cynthia | Why white mice? improving biological literacy through animal history | Throughout the undergraduate experience, biology students are introduced to hundreds of experiments, theories, and principles, many of which are rooted in animal experimentation. However, in required and information-heavy biology courses, the erasure of animals from the scientific story-which repres... | 2021 |