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A "Right for Every American:" Understanding the Concept of a "Human Right to Health" in the Context of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
(2012-12)This project examines the role that the concept of a “human right to health” played in the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). It analyzes this topic through the study of speeches made by ... -
A "Trinitarian" Theology of Religions? An Augustinian Assessment of Several Recent Proposals
(2007-05-04)Contemporary theology is driven by a quest to make the doctrine of the Trinity “relevant” to a wide variety of concerns. Books and articles abound on the Trinity and personhood, the Trinity and ecclesiology, the Trinity ... -
A 3D Active Microwave Imaging System for Breast Cancer Screening
(2008-12-11)A 3D microwave imaging system suitable for clinical trials has been developed. The anatomy, histology, and pathology of breast cancer were all carefully considered in the development of this system. The central component ... -
A Balance Between Body Power And Electric Prosthesis For An Above Elbow Patient
(1993)Over the period of the last four years it has been possible to monitor in greater detail a pattern ofsupply of myoelectric prosthesis to patients within the Trent Region The pattem of supply of myoelectric prosthesis has ... -
A Bargaining Theory of the “Edwards’ Effect” in the 2007-8 Democratic Presidential Primary
(2009)2008’s Democratic Presidential Primary will go down as one of the most competitive races in recent history. Two candidates, Senators Barack Obama (Illinois) and Hillary Clinton (New York), fought a see-saw battle to obtain ... -
A baseline paleoecological study for the Santa Cruz Formation (late–early Miocene) at the Atlantic coast of Patagonia, Argentina
(Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2010-06)Coastal exposures of the Santa Cruz Formation (late-early Miocene, southern Patagonia, Argentina) between the Coyle and Gallegos rivers have been a fertile ground for recovery of Miocene vertebrates for more than 100 years. ... -
A basic-systems approach to autobiographical memory
(Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2005-04-01)Memory for complex everyday events involving vision, hearing, smell, emotion, narrative, and language cannot be understood without considering the properties of the separate systems that process and store each of these forms ... -
A Bayesian Approach to Graphical Record Linkage and Deduplication
(Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2016-10-01)© 2016 American Statistical Association.We propose an unsupervised approach for linking records across arbitrarily many files, while simultaneously detecting duplicate records within files. Our key innovation involves the ... -
A Bayesian approach to joint analysis of multivariate longitudinal data and parametric accelerated failure time
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A Bayesian Approach to Understanding Music Popularity
(2015-05-08)The Billboard Hot 100 has been the main record chart for popular music in the American music industry since its first official release in 1958. Today, this rank- ing is based upon the frequency of which a song is played ... -
A Bayesian Dirichlet-Multinomial Test for Cross-Group Differences
(2016)Testing for differences within data sets is an important issue across various applications. Our work is primarily motivated by the analysis of microbiomial composition, which has been increasingly relevant and important ... -
A Bayesian Forward Simulation Approach to Establishing a Realistic Prior Model for Complex Geometrical Objects
(2018)Geology is a descriptive science making itself hard to provide quantification. We develop a Bayesian forward simulation approach to formulate a realistic prior model for geological images using the Approximate Bayesian ... -
A Bayesian Hierarchical Model with SNP-level Functional Priors Applied to a Pathway-wide Association Study.
(2010)Tremendous effort has been put into study of the etiology of complexdiseases including the breast cancer, type 2 diabetes,cardiovascular diseases, and prostate cancers. Despite large numbers of reported disease-associated ... -
A Bayesian model for misclassified binary outcomes and correlated survival data with applications to breast cancer
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A Bayesian Model for Nucleosome Positioning Using DNase-seq Data
(2015)As fundamental structural units of the chromatin, nucleosomes are involved in virtually all aspects of genome function. Different methods have been developed to map genome-wide nucleosome positions, including MNase-seq and ... -
A Bayesian Model of Cognitive Control
(2014)"Cognitive control" describes endogenous guidance of behavior in situations where routine stimulus-response associations are suboptimal for achieving a desired goal. The computational and neural mechanisms underlying this ... -
A Bayesian Strategy to the 20 Question Game with Applications to Recommender Systems
(2017)In this paper, we develop an algorithm that utilizes a Bayesian strategy to determine a sequence of questions to play the 20 Question game. The algorithm is motivated with an application to active recommender systems. We ... -
A Beautiful Noise: A History of Contemporary Worship Music in Modern America
(2015)How did rock and roll, the best music for worshipping the devil, become the finest music for worshipping God? This study narrates the import of rock music into church sanctuaries across America via the rise of contemporary ... -
A BENCH-TOP PROTOTYPE OF A VARIABLE STIFFNESS PROSTHESIS
(2005)A prototype of a variable stiffness prosthetic joint has been constructed and tested. The joint is based on two actuator subsystems arranged in an antagonistic configuration. Each actuator subsystem is composed of a small, ...
