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Edward I. Hashimoto Home Office - 3D Rendering
No full textA 3D rendering of Dr. Hashimoto\u27s home office along with waiting room and exam area. Furniture and objects original to owner. His spouse and family left his home office and exam areas exactly as he left them, leaving us with a snapshot into his practice. The digital spaces were created using 3D scanning technology and photogrammetry
Mia Garcia transcript for audio interview
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Adriana interview transcript
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YA habian pasado: illiberal populism and the fall democracy
No full texthonors thesisCollege of Social & Behavioral SciencePolitical ScienceTyler PackDemocratic backsliding in favor of right-wing authoritarianism has been a severe concern of historians and political scientists across the world, including in states such as the United States of America and Israel among others. Both of these fields of study can look to the past where democracy had died and been supplanted by authoritarian right-wing policies previously to determine what could potentially happen and what could be avoided. One area of significant interest, in large part because of the regime\u27s longevity, is Francoist Spain, lasting from 1939 until 1975. Francisco Franco of the Spanish Nationalist faction violently overthrew and supplanted the democratically elected Republican Spanish government. Franco\u27s regime instituted "horrifically repressive" anti-democratic measures in a period that persisted from the Nationalist victory in 1939 until Franco\u27s death in 1975. Ultimately, the examination of the extent to which reactionary illiberal populism fueled the surge of fascism and the fall of democracy in Republican Spain from the period of 1930-1940 can help determine a reason why democracy fell and what factors caused that collapse. In this instance, through the use of illiberal and populist rhetoric focusing on sentiments of Catholic Nationalism and Martial populism, the conservative wings of the Spanish republic destroyed the Spanish republic in 1939. Ultimately, efforts to found democracies through cooperative foundational pacts, alleviating economic inequality, and securing international support can serve to mitigate this destructive rhetoric and preserve democratic institutions
Voice-controlled dual-site functional electrical stimulation to facilitate the tenodesis GRASP: a prototype study
No full texthonors thesisCollege of EngineeringMechanical EngineeringJacob GeorgeThis research aims to develop an assistive functional electrical stimulation (FES) device to enable the tenodesis grasp in C5 spinal cord injury (SCI) patients who maintain some proximal arm function but lack hand or wrist control. The tenodesis grasp is a transformative anatomical tool in which wrist extension causes passive finger flexion, enabling individuals with C6-C7 SCI to maintain prehensile ability and manipulate objects in their environment. Unfortunately, this assistive grasp is not available to those with C5 injuries as they are unlikely to have wrist functionality. However, FES is currently being used in medical settings to reactivate paralyzed muscles through electrical stimulation with the purpose of recovering functional movement. In our work, we developed a voice-controlled FES (VC-FES) device that utilizes dual-site stimulation to evoke the tenodesis grasp. VC-FES applied to a healthy population evoked the kinematic markers of the tenodesis grasp. VC-FES applied to SCI patients restored functional grasping to the patient who previously exhibited no hand function. When VC-FES was activated by healthy participants, the wrist extended from 31.2° to -25.6°, the middle PIP joint flexed from 37.8° to 81.1°, the middle MCP joint flexed from 16.7° to 59.8°, and most notably, the distance from the tip of the middle finger to the middle MCP joint decreased from 68.1 mm to 43.4 mm. In addition, this dual-site system enabled both SCI patients to grasp a 23-mm outer diameter foam utensil grip for more than 10 seconds at a time, even allowing one patient to feed himself independently, which he could not do without VC-FES. Artificially evoking functional grasps has the potential to increase C5 SCI patients\u27 functional capabilities, independence, and overall quality of life. The promising preliminary results shown here can help guide the design of future assistive devices meant to restore grasping capabilities for those with high-level SCIs
Utah media portrayals of Japanese American troops during world war II
No full texthonors thesisCollege of HumanitiesCommunicationGlen FeigheryWorld War II and the attack on the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor caused racist and bigoted actions to be taken against Japanese Americans in the United States. Executive Order 9066, signed by President Roosevelt in 1942, forced Japanese Americans on the West Coast to move from their homes into "relocation" camps in the interior West. The Army\u27s need for troops gave Japanese Americans an opportunity to show their patriotism and loyalty to the country that had interned them in camps. This brings up the question as to how they were portrayed by news organizations in the United States, specifically Utah, which had a thriving Japanese American community as well as an internment camp within its borders. This video documentary shows how Utah newspapers covered the Japanese American troops of the 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team, from statewide, larger newspapers like the Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune to smaller ones, such as the Millard County Chronicle and Utah Nippo. Some news accounts showed the bravery of the soldiers and their accomplishments. However, other than the Japanese-run Utah Nippo, all of them occasionally fell into racist wording and tropes that stained the country during this period. This project shows that bigotry and hatred can still be seen in some media, no matter what the recipients have accomplished for their country
Time poverty across race and gender in the United States
No full texthonors thesisCollege of Social & Behavioral ScienceEconomicsSarah SmallIn the United States, poverty has traditionally been defined by income thresholds set by the federal government, but this measure fails to account for the multidimensional nature of economic well-being. Building on feminist economic theory, this paper examines the concept of time poverty, which recognizes the significant role that time-beyond income-plays in maintaining household function. Using American Time Use Survey data from 2018-2023, the paper explores time poverty rates in the United States by race and gender, aiming to provide a more comprehensive understanding of economic disadvantage in the US. Employing two distinct measurements to quantify time poverty, I construct linear probability models that estimate the role gender and race play in the likelihood of being time poor. The results indicate that race is notably related to time poverty, with Black individuals being more likely to experience time poverty, particularly Black women. The findings suggest that time poverty is a crucial, yet underexplored, aspect of economic disadvantage, with implications for policies such as parental leave and childcare subsidies
Mathematical models of SARS-CoV-2 testing: explaining differences in test results among patients
No full texthonors thesisCollege of ScienceMathematicsFrederick R. AdlerTesting has been critical for quarantine, contact tracing, and surveillance measures for the COVID-19 pandemic. Even as the number of vaccinations increase, robust testing measures need to remain in place to track the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. However, the COVID-19 pandemic is difficult to track because no test has perfect sensitivity (no false negatives) and perfect specificity (no false positives), and the sensitivity and specificity change over the course of an infection. We adapted the fundamental epidemiological SIR model for spread of disease to model the number of cells infected with SARS-CoV-2 in a closed population. Preliminary models reveal that PCR tests, while currently regarded as the gold standard, are likely to produce false positives (and therefore falsely recommend people for quarantine) because these tests are extremely sensitive and detect dead viruses long after a patient has recovered from COVID-19 and is no longer infectious. Conversely, our model predicts that antigen tests may produce false negatives early in an infection before infected cells have released a large number of viruses. We extended these findings to simulate the time when tests are administered relative to the duration of true positivity, integrating scenarios where there is variation across people in infectious periods and symptom onset. This variation generates patterns of sensitivity and specificity that create uncertainty about the course of the pandemic, even with robust testing