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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 ...
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(JAMA DERMATOLOGY, 2019-05)IMPORTANCE The well-being and development of children is strongly influenced by parents' physical and psychosocial health. Data from small, clinic-based studies suggest that sleep loss may be common in parents of children ...
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(2016-11-11)Department: Civil EngineeringPotentially high risk medical procedures are performed in hospital operating rooms (ORs) across the country on a daily basis. There are detailed and stringent procedures in place for routine practices, such as handwashing ...
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(2020-06-16)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesThe assistant principalship is often viewed as a stepping stone to the principalship, but this framing of the position has resulted in the potential contributions of assistant principals to be overlooked. The three chapters ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-11-29)
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(2013-12-09)Department: Biomedical InformaticsClinical providers frequently document patient encounters using unstructured text. Although such text contains a wealth of data useful for improving healthcare, extracting it can be difficult. Natural language processing ...
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(PLoS One, 2019-08-22)Background Biomarkers of monocyte activation (soluble CD14 [sCD14]), inflammation (interleukin-6 [IL-6]), and altered coagulation (D-dimer) are associated with increased mortality risk in people with HIV. The objective ...
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(BMJ-British Medical Journal, 2020-02-05)OBJECTIVE To assess whether an association exists between financial links to the indoor tanning industry and conclusions of indoor tanning literature. DESIGN Systematic review. DATA SOURCE PubMed, Embase, ...
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(2016-07-26)Department: Community Research and ActionThe association between neighborhood-level racial segregation and low birth weight among Black infants was systematically reviewed and meta-analyzed. Seven major databases (e.g., PubMed, PsycINFO) were searched, and ten ...
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(JAMA Oncology, 2022-11-17)IMPORTANCE Glioblastoma is the most lethal primary brain cancer. Clinical outcomes for glioblastoma remain poor, and new treatments are needed. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether adding autologous tumor lysate-loaded ...
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(JAMA Network Open, 2019-04)IMPORTANCE Asia is home to the largest diabetic populations in the world. However, limited studies have quantified the association of diabetes with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Asian populations. OBJECTIVES ...