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D.I.Y. Health: How Emerging Technology Empowers People to Prevent Future Health Issues and Hospital Interior Spaces
(2017)According to insurance and risk management firm Acrisure, there are more than 40,000 health-related software apps for smartphones with currently only 0.01% of the world’s population using them. This demonstrates an untapped ... -
Daptomycin versus Vancomycin for Empiric Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus among Hospitalized Patients: An Institutional Cost-Breakpoint Analysis
(May 2013)Background: Bacteremia caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is associated with increased hospitalization days, costs, and mortality. Daptomycin was shown to be noninferior to vancomycin in a phase III ... -
Data Mining A PeopleSoft Database To Assist In Developing Student Retention Interventions
(2016-12)Per a Bellwether Education Partners study (Aldeman, 2015, p. 8), "As of 2013, there were 29.1 million college dropouts versus 24.5 million Americans who dropped out with less than a high school diploma. In pure, raw numbers, ... -
Data Structure and Management Summer Internship at the Smithsonian Gardens 2017
(2017)I am minoring in Business Administration, and the Gardens needed an Administrative Intern. After the infamous Women’s March in D.C., many of the exhibits were damaged/ruined. The Gardens were and are still collecting ... -
Data-Driven Parameter Selection in Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning
(2017)Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is one of the most common therapies for prostate cancer. IMRT’s goal is to kill the tumor while sparing nearby healthy organs (bladder, rectum and femoral heads). Multiple ... -
Data-driven Techniques For Estimation And Stochastic Reduction Of Multiscale Systems
(2012-12)Parametric estimation of stochastic processes is one of the most widely used techniques for obtaining effective models, given a discrete dataset. Often, the experimental or observational datasets are not explicitly generated ... -
Data-Morphic Analyzing Approach for Understanding a Tennis Racket: Comparison of Tennis Rackets in UH Tennis Club
(2017)The shapes in the beginner group are relatively moderate than other groups. Some similar shapes are found in the intermediate group while extremely sharp shapes appear in the advanced group. I believe the reason that ... -
Database of redox potentials of porphyrins and related macrocycles
(2012-05)Thermodynamic half wave potentials for oxidation and reduction of porphyrins and related macrocycles which have appeared in the literature from 1997 to 2011 are collected and categorized as a function of compound structure ... -
Dataset Modification To Improve Machine Learning Algorithm Performance And Speed
(2014-05)We propose two pre-processing steps to classification that apply convex hull-based algorithms to the training set to help improve the performance and speed of classification. The Class Reconstruction algorithm uses a ... -
David Lang and the so-called laws of nature
(2015-05)David Lang is a celebrated American composer whose unique voice often employs strict, process-based compositional techniques. His works exhibit a mastery of contrapuntal techniques rooted in early music but also follow ... -
DEAL OR NO DEAL: REDUCING PRODUCTION DEVIANCE
(2015-08)Production deviance, a form of counterproductive work behavior (CWB), refers to such behaviors as leaving early, procrastinating, and wasting resources. It costs organizations billions of dollars annually (Bennett & Robinson, ... -
Death as Confrontational and Embracing in Symbolism
(2018)Death was hardly a new subject in the visual arts in the late-nineteenth century, having been depicted often in Christian and mythological narratives and symbolically in still lifes, portraits and landscapes. The Symbolists ... -
Decision Making in Social Networks
(December 2)We investigate how the network topology of social networks impacts decision making. First we look at sequential models of decision making with feedforward network toplogies. We see how rational agents incorporate knowledge ... -
Decision Making Processes for School Administrators for Bilingual Programs
(2012-05)This study explores the decision-making process principals utilize when making instructional decisions for Limited English Proficient (LEP) students. This mixed-methods research design will facilitate an in depth look into ... -
Decision-Making for Autonomous Systems in Partially Observable Environments
(2013-05)Decision-making for autonomous systems acting in real world domains are complex and difficult to formalize. For instance, consider the task of autonomously navigating a mobile robot in an automated manufacturing facility. ... -
Decisional balance: alcohol decisional balance intervention for heavy drinking undergraduates
(Substance use & misuse, 2015-11)Background: This study evaluated a decisional balance intervention among heavy drinking undergraduates and compared a non-weighted decisional balance proportion (DBP; Collins, Carey, & Otto, 2009) to a participant-weighted ... -
Decisional Balance: Theory, History, Research, and Directions for Alcohol Research
(May 2013)This study seeks to replicate and extend decisional balance (DB) research by implementing a DB intervention among heavy drinking undergraduates, and comparing the traditional non-weighted DB proportion (DBP; Collins, Carey, ... -
Deconstructed Decentralization and Ethnic Conflict
(2016-06-03)Decentralization, particularly federalism, is often presented as an institutional solution for ethnic conflict. Yet, the literature on decentralization and conflict is inconclusive; some scholars argue that decentralization ... -
Deconstructing Mother Guilt: Single Mothers Can Effectively Raise an Emotionally Healthy and Well-Developed Male Child
(Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, 2000)Single mothers raising children on their own can be the result of a family breakdown, separation, divorce, or the result of a decision to have a baby without a partner. The family structure occurs in lower, middle, and ...