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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 ...
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(2009-12-17)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesASSESSMENT OF A MEASURE OF RESPONSE CONFIDENCE FOR A SPEECH RECOGNITION TASK IN NOISE JOHN ANDREW DUNDAS Dissertation under the direction of Gary P Jacobson, Ph.D. The development of a measure of response confidence ...
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(2021-04-30)As a person progresses through different stages of certification as a behavior analyst, mentorship becomes an extremely important component in the further building of both technical, or clinical, and soft skills. The context ...
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(2023-11-16)Department: Biomedical EngineeringGlaucoma is characterized by degeneration of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), which can be assessed by thickness measurement on optical coherence tomography (OCT) B-scans. However, detecting early-stage glaucoma remains ...
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(2009-04-20)Department: Nursing ScienceThere is much evidence indicating that cancer and its treatment has an impact on the lives of cancer patients’ families, as well as on the patients themselves. At present, however, there is no questionnaire to assess the ...
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(2006-04-14)Department: PsychologyComplications of obesity resulting from hyperphagia remain the leading cause of death in Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). This study introduces the Hyperphagia Questionnaire (HQ), a new 13-item, informant-based measure that ...
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(2003-12-17)Department: Biomedical EngineeringPancreatic islet transplantation is a promising treatment for type 1 diabetes. However, current efforts to study islet transplantations are hampered by the lack of a non-invasive method of imaging islets and quantifying ...
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(2015-07-21)Department: BiostatisticsBIOSTATISTICS ASSESSMENT OF PROPENSITY SCORE PERFORMANCE IN SMALL SAMPLES EMILY PETERSON Thesis under the direction of Professor Tatsuki Koyama In observational studies, treatment selection is determined by the ...