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Assessment Of The Accuracy Of The Diagnosis For Heart Failure In A Large Metropolitan Health Care System
(Nursing, 2014-12)
Purpose: There has been no significant improvement in heart failure (HF) readmissions regionally or nationally in the United States over the past decade. Additionally, there is no consensus nationally on defining the complex ...
Peer Victimization And The COMT Val158met Polymorphism: A Differential Susceptability Model
(Psychology, 2014-12)
The link between peer victimization and various health related negative outcomes ranging from physical to psychological has been well established in the literature (Hodges & Perry, 1999; Rigby, 2001). While there are many ...
The Prevalence And Responsiveness Of Head Injuries In A Chronic Disabling Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorder Population
(Psychology, 2014-12)
Injuries to the head cause problems in multiple domains, including cognitive functioning, emotion regulation, memory recall, and reaction time. Head injuries are often highly debilitating and cause patients to have a ...
"More Than Just A Piece In Their Games": Agency And The Docile Body In The Hunger Games And Reality Television
(English, 2014-12)
In recent years, with the rise of social media and normalized forms of surveillance there has been an increase in the visibility of how female bodies are policed within Western society. As the fight for women's rights ...
Evaluating The Impact Of A Shared Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Model To Minimize Counterfeit Drugs, Diverted Drugs, And Drug Shortages
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014)
The pharmaceutical supply chain in the United States of America (USA) is getting complicated and is often not controllable due to a globally open market, increasing online market, and many illegal activities. Consumers who ...
An Investigation Of Durability And Reliability Of HDPE Pipe For Large Diameter Water Transmission Applications
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2014-12)
The drinking water infrastructure in the North America requires a durable and reliable water transmission pipe material. Thus, it is important to study pipe performance, so that water utilities can benefit from cost-effective ...
Reduced Order Modeling Of Low-temperature Gas Discharges In Glow Mode
(Aerospace Engineering, 2014-12)
Gas discharge actuation of fluid dynamics phenomena has garnered significantattention in recent years due to their low-power requirements andtheir geometrical simplicity, amongst others. However, many of their actuationmechanisms ...
Petroleum Geology Of The Leonardian Age, Harkey Mills Sandstone: A New Horizontal Target In The Permian Bone Spring Formation, Eddy And Lea Counties, Southeast New Mexico
(Geology, 2014-12)
Lowstand, siliciclastic turbidite and submarine fan deposits within the Leonardian Bone Spring Formation have proved to be prolific targets for horizontal drilling across the northern portion of the Delaware Basin. Reservoir ...
An Exploration And Exploitation Pareto Approach To Surrogate Optimization
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014)
The experiments or simulations conducted by computers can be a tedious task,requiring substantial computational time. To find a global solution using a computerexperiments process, we usually need to perform many function ...
Determination Of Nicotine And Its Metabolites Accumulated In Fish Tissue Using Quechers And Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography And Tandem Mass Spectrometry
(Chemistry & Biochemistry, 2014-12)
The quantitative determination of nicotine and its major metabolites (cotinine and anabasine) in fish tissue was performed using hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) coupled with tandem mass spectrometry. ...