Schools are important environments for health as children spend a majority of their day at school. The increased availability of food resources in school neighborhoods is a growing concern, yet the school neighborhood food ...

This dissertation consists of two essays on disaster risk and equity return predictability. The first essay proposes new measures of firm-level and market level disaster risk from deviation of put-call symmetry, which is ...

In this dissertation, we start by studying the operator system maximal tensor product, called max, in [17] from different perspectives. One approach is by the factorization technique used in Banach spaces [11] and operator ...

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe psychiatric disorder where interpersonal dysfunction is central as a result of impairments in social cognitive abilities, specifically in mentalizing. A neuropeptide model ...

Purpose The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility of training and coordinating pharmacy students to deliver motivational interviewing (MI) education with patients who have hypertension and low medication ...

The widespread use of high efficiency III–V multi-junction solar cells is limited by the cost and brittleness of Ge wafers that are used as templates for epitaxial growth. In order to provide an affordable and scalable ...

Determination of near-fault ground deformation during and after an earthquake is key to understanding the physics of earthquakes. Observations with high spatial resolution and accuracy of natural faults that have experienced ...

The ability of certain materials to deform in response to an electrical field or, conversely, generate an electrical field due to mechanical stimuli has tantalizing implications in fields ranging from biology to engineering. ...

The understanding of impact polystyrene structure-property relations was previously limited to ex situ analysis. Developing in situ analysis methods for morphology development and interfacial tension characterization would ...

PURPOSE: The 340B Drug Pricing Program was established in 1992 for covered entities to stretch Federal resources and provide eligible patients with comprehensive services. Pediatric hospitals were recognized as eligible ...