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Moo Moo In A Tutu, Bethany Stevens Dec 2018

Moo Moo In A Tutu, Bethany Stevens

Children's Book and Media Review

Moo Moo decides she is going to be a ballerina. Her loyal friend Mr. Quackers is worried, given that she’s never taken ballet lessons, but supportive nonetheless. Determined to share her talents with the world, Moo Moo both figuratively and literally crashes a ballet recital. Reception is less than warm from all but Mr. Quackers, who cheers enthusiastically for his friend. Although Moo Moo's plan to become a ballerina doesn't turn out as expected, her confidence remains undaunted. This fun book ends with Moo Moo plotting a new plan that the two pals can both participate in, setting up nicely …

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Mogie: The Heart Of The House, Nikki-Catrina Anderson Dec 2018

Mogie: The Heart Of The House, Nikki-Catrina Anderson

Children's Book and Media Review

Mogie is a ball-chasing, tail-wagging, moon-howling pup with a heart as true as true can be. Mogie comforts young Gage who used to be a ball throwing, race, running back-flipping boy, but has fallen sick and lost his mojo. Knowing just the right ways to comfort Gage in this difficult time, she sticks with him until he finds his mojo and is able to return home. Mogie’s story continues at the Ronald McDonald House where she stays to help the next child who comes sick and in need of a friend.

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Mogie: The Heart Of The House, Melissa Secor Dec 2018

Mogie: The Heart Of The House, Melissa Secor

Children's Book and Media Review

Mogie isn’t cut out to be a service dog. He fails at search-and-rescue and he isn’t calm enough to be a show dog. But when Mogie wanders into a special house in the middle of the city, he finds exactly what he’s meant to do. Mogie has a special talent at finding sick, sad kids and cheering them up by giving them exactly what they need. He makes friends with the sick children in the house, and helps them find their 'mojo.' He chases his ball, runs races, and does backflips- anything to make the children smile. When they don’t …

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Minnie Bow-Bot Robot, Amanda Durrant Dec 2018

Minnie Bow-Bot Robot, Amanda Durrant

Children's Book and Media Review

Minnie has a huge order of bows to make before the honey festival and doesn't know how she will get it all done in time. Daisy saves the day with a bow-making robot named Bow-Bot. Minnie and Daisy push the buttons and Bow-Bot is making the bows in no time. However, she soon runs out of ribbon and starts making bows out of anything she can find, like a chair and the curtains! The remote control breaks as they try to turn Bow-Bot off, but Minnie uses her bow grabber to push the OFF button on Bow-Bot. Minnie repairs the …

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Make It Now: Animals, Karen Abbott Dec 2018

Make It Now: Animals, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

This is a novel little book! There is no story, just adorable paper-doll forest animals with stands and accessories that can be popped-out for creative play. There is space on each doll for a child to color some portion of the animal or scenery. A colorful page of stickers is included on the last page for some additional personalization. Children can create a story of their own over and over again as they place and pretend with the figures.

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Life In The Ocean: The Story Of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle, Cynthia Phillips Dec 2018

Life In The Ocean: The Story Of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle, Cynthia Phillips

Children's Book and Media Review

Sylvia Earle has spent more than seven thousand hours underwater and has dedicated her life to studying the ocean. When she was a little girl she was given ample opportunities to study and explore her surroundings. She called her curiosity “investigations” and was determined from a young age to explore the ocean. She walked on the ocean floor deeper than anyone has ever walked, helped design underwater equipment, and enthusiastically observed ocean life. Sylvia Earle has become an advocate for protecting the sea. This picture book biography is about an amazing woman who changed the world.

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It's Monday, Mrs. Jolly Bones, Haley Singleton Dec 2018

It's Monday, Mrs. Jolly Bones, Haley Singleton

Children's Book and Media Review

Mrs. Jolly Bones is a quirky lady who does her chores quite differently than most. From laundry to gardening to a night in with her friends, her antics amuse and delight. She is assisted by many farm animals, including a cow, a goose, and a pig in performing her household duties. Take care, though--for if your child does become inspired by our dear Mrs. Jolly Bones, they may complete their chores as she does, which will result in a mess that in reality will probably not be as amusing as in the book.

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Hare And Tortoise, Kaley Durney Dec 2018

Hare And Tortoise, Kaley Durney

Children's Book and Media Review

Two competitors, one race course, and one finish line. Hare definitely has the advantage. He’s fast, he can dash, and can rush through meadows. Hare loves to win almost as much as he loves carrots. Tortoise, on the other hand, is not known for his speed, but he’s willing to compete against Hare. The race begins and Hare is off in a flash as Tortoise only starts to move. Hare has a substantial lead but gets distracted by the carrots in the carrot field. He can’t resist having a few carrots and taking a nap. Tortoise keeps on going and …

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Goats, Kristie Hinckley Dec 2018

Goats, Kristie Hinckley

Children's Book and Media Review

Goats live in the wild, but are also kept by people. Their hooves allow them to climb without slipping, which is one of their unique characteristics. Most goats are back, brown, or white. Some have spots or markings on them. Goats have horns and beards. They eat leaves, grass, grain, hay, and salt. People use goats for their milk and their meat. They can be friendly enough to keep as a pet! While male goats are called billy goats, females are called nannies and baby goats are called kids.

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Captain, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

Captain, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

Fifteen-year-old Billy joined the army and is being sent off to fight the Turks in Gallipoli. On the way there, he meets a boy named Captain and his donkey, Hey-Ho, who are in the service corps and are sent along with Billy’s platoon. They move from battle to battle, experiencing the horrors of war, but amidst all the fighting, Captain and Hey-Ho are always there providing relief to the troops, especially Billy. Captain and Billy develop a close friendship as they are both far underage. Two years later, fatigued and delusional, Billy accidentally shoots Captain and it almost destroys him. …

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Brambleheart, Olivia Noli Dec 2018

Brambleheart, Olivia Noli

Children's Book and Media Review

Twig is a young chipmunk living in a dystopian animal society based in a junk heap. Failing in all his classes, Twig decides to run away. He finds a dragon egg and becomes its surrogate father when the dragon hatches. With the help of the fire-breathing dragon, Twig suddenly excels at his Metal Craft classes. His professor is determined to prove that Twig is somehow cheating. Basil, a school bully, discovers the dragon and reports the truth to the professor, who then tries to enslave the dragon. Twig and his friend Lily rescue the dragon with the help of Basil …

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Brambleheart, Tessa Mcmillan Dec 2018

Brambleheart, Tessa Mcmillan

Children's Book and Media Review

Twig, a young chipmunk, feels like an outsider in the woodland community of the Hill because he doesn’t feel confident in the crafts he is taught at school. In the Hill, craft mastery determines a creature’s social standing. After a disastrous day, Twig runs away to escape his problems, but encounters a newborn dragon. Seeing no mother dragon, Twig adopts the baby and returns home to secretly care for it. Twig enlists his best friend, Lily, to care for the baby dragon and together they call it Char. Twig uses Char’s ability with fire to aid him with his craft …

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Born In The Wild: Baby Mammals And Their Parents, Sarah Rawle Dec 2018

Born In The Wild: Baby Mammals And Their Parents, Sarah Rawle

Children's Book and Media Review

Did you know that mama pandas cradle their babies for the first several days of their life, without even putting them down to eat or drink? Did you know that baby wolves need to have their moms chew their food? Read to learn more about baby wild animals and their mothers!

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Big Machines: The Story Of Virginia Lee Burton, Haley Singleton Dec 2018

Big Machines: The Story Of Virginia Lee Burton, Haley Singleton

Children's Book and Media Review

Virginia Lee Burton, the well-known author and artist of the books Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and The Little Engine that Could, dances across these pages as she illustrates images for her two sons, Aris and Michael. Burton’s artistic ability is the central focus of this book. It follows her illustrations as she uses her “magical wands” to create dinosaurs, horses, and, most importantly, machines. Her boys watch, enthralled as she brings machines to life in front of their eyes. Cable cars, crawler tractors, and trains all make an appearance.

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Bayberry Island: An Adventure About Friendship And The Journey Home, Taylor Harris Dec 2018

Bayberry Island: An Adventure About Friendship And The Journey Home, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

Twig and his friends, Lily and Basil, set off to take their baby dragon, Char, home. While sailing, they must find their way around a beaver dam, food shortage, and even a mighty storm. Their ship sinks, shipwrecking them on an island where they discover more baby dragons, Char’s siblings. When it becomes apparent that the dragons are fine on their own, Lily and Twig start building a way to go home. To their surprise, their enemy from back home, Professor Burdock, appears and with Basil’s help tries to smuggle the baby dragons off the island. Lily and Twig fight …

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Biogeographic Patterns Among Seed-Bearing And Spore-Bearing Plants Across The California Channel Islands, Benjamin E. Carter, C. Matt Guilliams Dec 2018

Biogeographic Patterns Among Seed-Bearing And Spore-Bearing Plants Across The California Channel Islands, Benjamin E. Carter, C. Matt Guilliams

Western North American Naturalist

Spore-bearing and seed-bearing plants differ in their ability to colonize islands from mainland sources. To assess the importance of these differences, we investigated patterns of species richness and species composition for the native bryophyte, fern, and seed plant floras of the California Channel Islands. Native richness was regressed against island area, maximum elevation, distance to mainland, distance to nearest propagule source along prevailing wind trajectories, and latitude for the 3 plant groups. Ordinations, Mantel tests, randomization tests, and an analysis partitioning beta diversity into turnover and nestedness components were used to identify similarities and differences in species composition across the …

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Collaborative Innovation In Global Teams: A Case Study Of The Startup Grind Inc. Global Community Team, Camey L. Andersen Dec 2018

Collaborative Innovation In Global Teams: A Case Study Of The Startup Grind Inc. Global Community Team, Camey L. Andersen

Student Works

The Startup Grind Inc. Global Community Team was studied to show how creativity and innovation occur in a global virtual team. Innovation occurred by choosing team members who were committed to a creative team environment. Team creativity online was strengthened by providing opportunities for the global virtual team to meet in person. Alternative brainstorming methods outside the scheduled team meetings also added to the overall innovation of the team. Flexibility with the virtual office and meetings provided a platform for the team to think outside the box. Team members achieved a unity of ideas as they used innovation and creativity …

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A Subversão Dos Estereótipos De Gênero Nos Contos Fantásticos De Lygia Fagundes Telles, Gabriela Oliveira Dec 2018

A Subversão Dos Estereótipos De Gênero Nos Contos Fantásticos De Lygia Fagundes Telles, Gabriela Oliveira

Theses and Dissertations

Em meio às mudanças políticas e sociais no Brasil da segunda parte do século XX, Lygia Fagundes Telles começa a se destacar literariamente através de seus romances e coletâneas de contos com caráter intimista. Apesar de não se considerar naquela época uma escritora militante, ela era engajada socialmente e realizava sua crítica de maneira sutil utilizando-se de táticas literárias, como a presença do gênero fantástico. Ela escreve durante uma época de extrema censura e repressão, aonde o conservadorismo impera principalmente nos moldes familiares. A sociedade continha um modelo de como cada homem e mulher deveria agir para se encaixar e …

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Frost450, A Novel Microtubule Targeting Agent: Resistance And Cross-Resistance In An Ovarian Cancer Cell Line, Jonathan Chancellor Fox Dec 2018

Frost450, A Novel Microtubule Targeting Agent: Resistance And Cross-Resistance In An Ovarian Cancer Cell Line, Jonathan Chancellor Fox

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Drug resistance remains problematic for chemotherapy treatments. As primary treatment strategies tend to lose potency against cancer, there is a need for treatment options that overcome drug resistance mechanisms. FROST450, a novel microtubule destabilizing agent, has proven anticancer effects that overcome taxane and multidrug resistance. However, to better understand the clinical potential of FROST450, in this study we examine the mechanisms and implications of acquired FROST450 resistance in an A2780 ovarian cancer cell line. Results indicate FROST450 resistance is associated with increased mitochondrial respiration and with changes in gene sequence or expression level of proteins associated with microtubules, and that …

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Wall Shear Stress In Simplified And Scanned Avian Respiratory Airways, Michael Sterling Farnsworth Dec 2018

Wall Shear Stress In Simplified And Scanned Avian Respiratory Airways, Michael Sterling Farnsworth

Theses and Dissertations

Birds uniquely produce sound through a vocal organ known as a syrinx. The presence of wall shear stress acting on the airway cells of any organism will affect how airway cells develop and multiply. Unique features of avian airway geometry and breathing pattern might have contributed to the development of the syrinx. This thesis examines wall shear stress in the trachea and first bronchi of avian geometries using computational fluid dynamics. The computational fluid dynamic simulations underwent grid- and time-independence studies and were validated using particle image velocimetry. Parameters such as bird size, bronchial branching angle, and breathing waveform were …

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Gut Microbiota Regulates The Interplay Between Diet And Genetics To Influence Insulin Resistance, Jeralyn Jones Franson Dec 2018

Gut Microbiota Regulates The Interplay Between Diet And Genetics To Influence Insulin Resistance, Jeralyn Jones Franson

Theses and Dissertations

Insulin resistance and obesity are major public health concerns. The impact of diet and genetics on insulin resistance and obesity is well accepted. Additionally, the gut microbiota has been shown to influence obesity and metabolic disorders. However, much remains to be understood about the role of gut microbiota in the development of insulin resistance and obesity. We utilized a mouse model lacking PAS kinase, a protein involved in cellular metabolism, in order to better understand the relationship between diet, genetics and the gut microbiota. Previous research has shown that mice lacking PAS kinase were protected from the effects of a …

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Microbial And Environmental Drivers Of Soil Respiration Differ Along Montane To Urban Transitions, Kerri Ann Russell Dec 2018

Microbial And Environmental Drivers Of Soil Respiration Differ Along Montane To Urban Transitions, Kerri Ann Russell

Theses and Dissertations

In natural ecosystems, like deciduous and coniferous forests, soil CO2 flux or soil respiration is highly variable and influenced by multiple factors including temperature, precipitation, dissolved soil organic carbon (DOC), dissolved organic matter (DOM), and bacterial and fungal biomass and diversity. However, as the human population continues to grow rapidly, so too do urbanized landscapes with unknown consequences to soil respiration. To determine the extent urbanization influences seasonal shifts in microorganisms and environmental drivers alter soil respiration, we evaluated bacterial and fungal communities, soil physiochemical characteristics, and respiration in forested and urbanizing ecosystems in three watersheds across northern Utah, USA. …

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The Bird And The Fish: Motion Field-Based Frame Interpolation In The Context Of A Story, Thomas Sterling Ellsworth Dec 2018

The Bird And The Fish: Motion Field-Based Frame Interpolation In The Context Of A Story, Thomas Sterling Ellsworth

Theses and Dissertations

Animating by hand can be a long and challenging process in part because of the necessity of drawing every frame by hand. 3D animation media minimize this problem with the use of automatically interpolated frames, but despite significant research no universally acceptable techniques have been demonstrated for 2 dimensional interpolation. In this paper we explore computer-assisted optimizations to the animation pipeline. Specifically, we utilize 3D motion fields to create more realistic in-between frames for sets of 2D ``key frames.'' We demonstrate our method by using it to create 2D special effects for a 30-second clip of an animated short film.

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Repopulation And Stimulation Of Porcine Cardiac Extracellular Matrix To Create Engineered Heart Patches, Silvia Juliana Moncada Diaz Dec 2018

Repopulation And Stimulation Of Porcine Cardiac Extracellular Matrix To Create Engineered Heart Patches, Silvia Juliana Moncada Diaz

Theses and Dissertations

Heart failure is the main cause of death for both men and women in the United States. The only proven treatment for patients with heart failure is heart transplantation. The goal of this research is to create patches of tissue that could mimic the function of the native heart to repair the damaged portions of the heart. In this study, whole porcine hearts were decellularized to create a 3D construct that was recellularized with cardiomyocytes (CM) differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells. At day 4 of differentiation, IPS-derived CMs were implanted onto cardiac extracellular matrix (cECM) and ten …

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Toward Real-Time Flip Fluid Simulation Through Machine Learning Approximations, Javid Kennon Pack Dec 2018

Toward Real-Time Flip Fluid Simulation Through Machine Learning Approximations, Javid Kennon Pack

Theses and Dissertations

Fluids in computer generated imagery can add an impressive amount of realism to a scene, but are particularly time-consuming to simulate. In an attempt to run fluid simulations in real-time, recent efforts have attempted to simulate fluids by using machine learning techniques to approximate the movement of fluids. We explore utilizing machine learning to simulate fluids while also integrating the Fluid-Implicit-Particle (FLIP) simulation method into machine learning fluid simulation approaches.

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Innate Immune Cell Phenotypes Are Dictated By Distinct Epigenetic Reprogramming, Kevin Douglas Adams Dec 2018

Innate Immune Cell Phenotypes Are Dictated By Distinct Epigenetic Reprogramming, Kevin Douglas Adams

Theses and Dissertations

The innate immune system is the first line of host defense against external exposures. During these initial encounters, antigen presenting cells - specifically monocytes and macrophages - modulate further inflammatory responses. Macrophages exist along a spectrum of phenotypic programs; on the inflammatory M1 end they enhance immune activity while on the anti-inflammatory M2 end they suppress further immune activation. Furthermore, within M2 macrophages there exist many subpopulations, namely M2a and M2d, each with specific roles during infection or exposure. We sought to compare the epigenetic profiles of these subpopulations of macrophages to determine key regulatory gene networks and factors that …

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Bobcat Abundance And Habitat Selection On The Utah Test And Training Range, Kyle David Muncey Dec 2018

Bobcat Abundance And Habitat Selection On The Utah Test And Training Range, Kyle David Muncey

Theses and Dissertations

Remote cameras have become a popular tool for monitoring wildlife. We used remote cameras to estimate bobcat (Lynx rufus) population abundance on the Utah Test and Training Range during two sample periods between 2015 and 2017. We used two statistical methods, closed capture mark-recapture (CMR) and mark-resight Poisson log-normal (PNE), to estimate bobcat abundance within the study area. We used the maximum mean distance moved method (MMDM) to calculate the effective sample area for estimating density. Additionally, we captured bobcats and estimated home range using minimum convex polygon (MCP) and kernel density estimation (KDE) methods. Bobcat abundance on the UTTR …

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Galleria Mellonella As An Alternate Infection Model For Burkholderia Species And A Comparison Of Suspension And Surface Test Methods For Evaluating Sporicidal Efficacy, Joseph D. Thiriot Dec 2018

Galleria Mellonella As An Alternate Infection Model For Burkholderia Species And A Comparison Of Suspension And Surface Test Methods For Evaluating Sporicidal Efficacy, Joseph D. Thiriot

Theses and Dissertations

Melioidosis is a neglected tropical disease that continues unabated in many countries, particularly in Southeast Asia. There is no vaccine and antimicrobial treatment is expensive and complicated. Virulence models are important tools used to investigate genes involved in pathogenesis. Galleria mellonella is the larvae of the wax worm moth that has been used to model various infections. Based on previous studies, we attempted to establish an infection model using Burkholderia pseudomallei and Burkholderia thailandensis, a related species which is avirulent in humans. Injections of various forms of these species (fresh and frozen) were used to develop Kaplan-Meier plots. We …

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Endocytosis As An Additional Mechanism Of Glucose Transport To The Hexose Transporter In Trypanosoma Brucei, Jongsu Choi Dec 2018

Endocytosis As An Additional Mechanism Of Glucose Transport To The Hexose Transporter In Trypanosoma Brucei, Jongsu Choi

Theses and Dissertations

Trypanosoma brucei is an extracellular kineotoplastid parasite that causes human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness. As trypanosomes undergo vector to host transition, heavy transcriptional adaptation such as metabolic shift to glycolysis and upregulated endocytosis occurs. Specifically, glycolysis in the infectious stage becomes the sole source of energy production; thus, the glucose transport mechanism in T. brucei provides one of the most promising therapeutic targets for development of new drugs to treat HAT. Despite an established trypanosome hexose transporter (THT) model for glucose transport across the plasma membrane, there remains gaps in the detailed mechanism of glucose transport …

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Using Non-Destructive Testing To Predict Bending Modulus Of Carbon Infiltrated-Carbon Nanotubes, Fred Stile Fagergren Dec 2018

Using Non-Destructive Testing To Predict Bending Modulus Of Carbon Infiltrated-Carbon Nanotubes, Fred Stile Fagergren

Theses and Dissertations

Fabrication of carbon infiltrated carbon nanotubes (CI-CNT) can result in large mechanical property variation, and methods to characterize properties usually involve destructive testing. Finding a non-destructive way to test for stiffness of this material reduces the number of parts that have to be made. It also simplifies testing of complex parts. The stiffness of CI-CNT beams is related to the type of carbon material infiltrated between the carbon nanotubes (CNTs), how it interacts with the CNTs, and how much of it there is. The amount of material can be estimated using the density of the beam, and both the type …

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