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A Description of Post-Graduation U.S. Nurse Residency Programs and Patient Outcomes They May Affect (2012-12-19)Department: Nursing ScienceDissertation under the direction of Professors Linda Norman and Ann Minnick Research Objective: The objective of this study was to establish a description of Nurse Residency Programs (NRPs) to identify if there is treatment ...
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(2020-11-13)Department: Nursing ScienceThere is little descriptive information regarding health services research variables in ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs). This study’s purpose was to describe working conditions, licensed nursing personnel functions, and ...
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(2013-08-01)Department: MathematicsWe consider various types of generalized bases in spaces of the type L^p(T), where T=[0,1]. More specifically, we determine whether there exists a system {f_n}_n, of the type under consideration, with the property f_n(t)>=0 ...
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(2012-07-26)Department: Electrical EngineeringCognitive robotics is one of the branches of robotics that is concerned with the design and implementation of robots that will accomplish cognitive tasks such as perceiving the dynamic world around them and making acceptable ...
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(2014-07-28)Department: EnglishJames Joyce scholars in the 1990s and early 2000s tried, without much success, to use hypertext to improve upon existing annotations of Ulysses. Joyce's estate put a freeze on such work in 2003. Now that Ulysses has entered ...
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(2023-03-08)Department: NeuroscienceLearning to read is an important milestone in children’s development. Factors in the home environment is been linked to the behavioral and neural correlates of reading, but further work is needed to unpack the underlying ...
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(2014-06-26)Department: MathematicsThe work in this dissertation is about modeling the spread of an infectious disease in a closed community with two basic public health interventions: (i) identifying and isolating symptomatic cases, and (ii) tracing and ...
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(2023-03-27)Department: ReligionSince the beginning of the slave regime, African American interpreters have turned to the Bible define meaning and to address the brutality of racism that their communities faced. Central to that search for meaning has ...
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(2023-07-20)Department: SpanishLiterary critics have demonstrated that Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1605, 1615) served as a template for eighteenth-century British writers to transcend the literary mode of romance and to create modern, realist ...
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(2007-12-17)Department: Biological SciencesFragile X Syndrome (FXS) is the most common form of inherited mental retardation. In this thesis, I describe my work using a Drosophila model to study cellular, molecular and genetic mechanisms that underlie the cognitive ...
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(2022-05-16)Department: Biomedical InformaticsOpioids are commonly prescribed for chronic pain. However, even when titrated appropriately, opioids may result in opioid-related adverse events (OAEs). Previous studies have defined OAEs categorically (e.g., did/did not ...
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(2008-07-31)Department: ManagementPrevious cross-cultural research focuses on the main effects of culture while neglecting the social contexts of negotiation. My dissertation examines how the interaction between cultural and contextual factors affects ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)In this paper we examine a dynamic model of the process by which multiple related lawsuits may be filed and combined; we also examine actions a defendant may employ that may disrupt the formation of a joint suit. Our initial ...
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(2005-04-07)Department: Electrical EngineeringEngineering design is a process of tradeoff analysis. Design decisions are evaluated, often involving quantitative comparisons between relevant metrics of goodness. Design space exploration formalizes the process of ...
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(2009-10-28)Department: Biomedical EngineeringAssessment of the restoration of load-bearing function is the central goal in the study of fracture healing process. During the fracture healing, two critical aspects affect its analysis: (1) material properties of the ...
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(2023-03-27)Department: Computer ScienceWhile it is advisable to be cautious in the face of new technological developments, aggressive negativity towards a piece of technology can cause fear and distrust in the technology. This is the case for deepfakes, which ...
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(2012-04-09)Department: Biomedical InformaticsRecord linkage is the task of identifying records from multiple data sources that refer to the same individual. Private record linkage (PRL) is a variant of the task in which data holders wish to perform linkage without ...
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(2022-05)Following a period during the COVID-19 pandemic when Chapman University was forced to deliver its education remotely, coupled with the sale of Brandman University, its at-scale online entity, Chapman entered a de facto ...
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(2009-07-22)Department: Biomedical InformaticsHealthcare organizations are often stymied in their efforts to prevent insider attacks that violate patient privacy. Numerous high-profile privacy breaches involving celebrities have brought this deficiency to the public's ...