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(2019-03-28)Department: Nursing SciencePatients with severe cognitive impairment experience undertreated pain because health care providers assessments rely on the gold standard of self-report. Observational tools that use behaviors indicative of pain are ...
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(2014-10-29)Department: Computer ScienceIn the field of image registration there is a pressing need for techniques that can assess the quality of a registration. Currently there is no widespread method to determine error in an image registration, a weakness of ...
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(2018-11-30)Department: BiostatisticsRisk scores developed from risk prediction models assist clinicians and patients as a decision support tool. Additionally, well supported risk scores can also be used as an adjusting risk factor in clinical research. ...
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(2020-04-02)Department: Hearing & Speech SciencesWhile the impact of various voice disorders on patient quality of life has been well characterized, the mechanisms leading to the development of voice disorders are not well understood. There is anecdotal evidence that ...
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(2011-12-09)Department: BiochemistryBIOCHEMISTRY ASSESSING THE COMPONENTS OF THE eIF3 COMPLEX AND THEIR PHOSPHORYLATION STATUS ADAM RICHARD FARLEY Dissertation under the direction of Professor Andrew J. Link The eukaryotic initiation factor 3 (eIF3) is ...
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(2021-04-21)This assessment looks at the educational landscape at One World Surgery (OWS), a Non-Government Organization that provides volunteer surgical and medical services to at-risk populations in Honduras and the Dominican Republic. ...
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(2012-12-07)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of individualized interventions for young children with persistent challenging behavior. Three children between the ages of 4 and 5 years participated in the ...
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(2022-03-25)Department: Special EducationFunctional Communication Training (FCT) aims to reduce rates of problem behavior by teaching clients to emit functionally equivalent mands and then teaching local verbal communities to reinforce manding and to place ...
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(2020-12)This study was designed to help Hope for San Diego (HFSD), a faith-based grantmaking organization in San Diego, California, measure the impact of their grantmaking program on the grantee organizations. Coffman and Beer’s ...
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(2021-04-28)Sustainability education is considered good when it successfully creates an awareness of the relationship of humans to the natural environment. Education that advances individuals’ knowledge, values, and attitudes and ...
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(2022-07-18)Department: EpidemiologyAcute respiratory infections (ARIs) are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children and are often viral in origin. Viral and bacterial ARIs have overlapping clinical presentations, causing uncertainty in ...
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(Law & Contemporary Problems, 2014)Calabresi’s theory of tort liability (1961) as a risk distribution mechanism established insurance as an objective of tort liability. Calabresi’s risk-spreading concept of tort has provided the impetus for much of the ...
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(2018-07-27)Department: Biomedical InformaticsFor many patients with chronic diseases, navigating the complex medical system to receive care can be a daunting task. Patients often need to see multiple providers and undergo multiple procedures, which can be physically ...
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(2013-05-28)Department: Community Research and ActionDespite myriad well-funded local and national initiatives to achieve health equity in the U.S., significant disparities in health between racial groups persist. Local health departments (LHDs) are one of the most salient ...
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(2005-12-19)Department: PsychologyFreestanding birth centers (FBCs) offer prenatal and childbirth services outside hospital settings where nurse-midwives are the primary providers for women with low risk pregnancies. Although previous research provides ...
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(Michigan Law Review, 2011)State constitutions are terribly important legal documents, but their interpretation is remarkably understudied (and, of course, highly undertheorized) in the academic literature. This review essay discusses Robert Williams’s ...
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(2018-04-13)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThis paper will discuss therapeutic outlets as a potential and viable treatment option for alleviating symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in military veterans. This paper will also discuss what the pursuit ...
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(2015-04-12)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Environmental Management and PolicyInfrastructure systems, comprised of various assets, are central to the economic, environmental, and cultural functioning of our society. Understanding the potential impacts to these assets from various threats is fundamental ...
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(2016-11-30)Department: Biomedical EngineeringNew therapies are needed to improve the mortality and morbidity of respiratory diseases, but few drug candidates for respiratory diseases are developed and only 3% drug candidates reach market (compared to 6-14% for other ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: Chemical and Physical BiologyWith the development of anti-cancer therapies that specifically target the tumor and its microenvironment, the current radiographic analysis of treatment response that uses one-dimensional changes in tumor size may not be ...