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Facilitating Coastal Stormwater Management in North Carolina: Runoff Estimation and Institutional Education
(2014-04-18)In coastal North Carolina, increased surface runoff from urban, agricultural, and forestry development contaminates coastal waters and has led to extensive shellfishing area closures. Coastal communities looking to restore ... -
Facilitation of Stakeholder Input in the National Environmental Policy Act Process
(2015-04-01)Use of effective communication techniques can greatly facilitate the process of receiving stakeholder input. Section 102(2) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA) offers a chance for members ... -
Facilitators and Barriers to Naloxone Kit Use Among Opioid-Dependent Patients Seeking Treatment at Medication Assisted Therapy Clinics in North Carolina, USA
(2016)Naloxone – an opioid antagonist that reverses the effects of opioids, including potential death from overdose – is increasingly being distributed in non-medical settings. We conducted a mixed methods study administering ... -
Facilitators and Barriers to the Advancement of Oral Health on the Global Health Agenda: A Qualitative Study with Key Oral Health Stakeholders
(2022)Dental caries accounts for the primary burden of disease globally,1 a burden which falls heavily on those least able to access treatment.2 Despite this burden, oral health remains neglected on the global agenda. Thus, we ... -
Facility-Level Factors Affecting Implementation of the Option B+ Protocol for Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
(2018)Background: In 2013, Tanzania adopted the Option B+ protocol for prevention of mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, whereby all HIV-positive pregnant women initiate lifetime antiretroviral therapy (ART). Option B+ ... -
Facing Our Flesh: A Theological Analysis of Body Formation in Lent and Easter
(2016)In this dissertation, I develop a theological account of human embodiment by exploring the relationship between the liturgical practices of an Episcopal parish during Lent and Easter and church members’ bodies. My objective ... -
Fact-Checking in Buenos Aires & the Modern Journalistic Struggle Over Knowledge
(2019-04-15)In news environments all around the world, journalists are frazzled about what they consider to be a deplorable state of the media. With large demographics of consumers having access to digital technologies and new methods ... -
Factor Associated with Treatment Initiation of Multidrug Resistance Tuberculosis in Jakarta, Indonesia: A Mixed-Method Study
(2021)Background: Indonesia has one of the highest TB burdens in the world and is one of ten countries that accounted for 77% of the global gap between treatment enrollment and the estimated number of new cases of MDR/RR-TB in ... -
Factor Models to Describe Linear and Non-linear Structure in High Dimensional Gene Expression Data
(2011)An important problem in the analysis of gene expression data is the identification of groups of features that are coherently expressed. For example, one often wishes to know whether a group of genes, clustered because of ... -
Factors Affecting Glucose Uptake in Tissue-engineered Human Skeletal Muscle
(2019)Tissue-engineered skeletal muscle myobundles offer a promising approach for developing a human in vitro model of healthy and diseased muscle for drug development and testing. Their three-dimensional structure offers a better ... -
Factors Affecting the Likely Use of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for Young African American Men Who Have Sex with Men
(2018)African-American young men who have sex with men (YMSM) are seven and three times more likely than their White and Hispanic counterparts, respectively, to be infected with HIV. Once-daily oral co-formulated tenofovir disoproxil ... -
Factors affecting the occurrence of redox-sensitive elements in groundwater systems
(2021)Groundwater is an increasingly important source of water for many parts of the world. Redox sensitive elements, like uranium, chromium, arsenic, and vanadium, are known to occur naturally in some groundwater systems, and ... -
Factors Affecting Ultraviolet Exposure in Coastal Waters of the Florida Keys: Effects on Nearshore and Offshore Coral Reef Tracts
(2007-05)We have investigated how the loss of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) in the water column due to photobleaching allows for increased penetration of UV radiation near coral reefs in the Florida Keys. Extended ... -
Factors Associated with Birth Spacing and Contraceptive Use in Leogane, Haiti
(2012)AbstractAbstractAbstractAbstract AbstractSpacing the inter-pregnancy interval to more than two years reduces maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Modern contraceptive use can reduce maternal morbidity and mortality ... -
Factors Associated with Distribution of Leishmaniasis Disease and Vectors in Madre de Dios, Peru
(2015)While the Madre de Dios department of Peru has the nation's highest leishmaniasis incidence, limited research on the disease and its sand fly vector exists in the region. Considering the diverse and adaptive nature of sand ... -
Factors Associated with Tuberculosis Treatment Default Amongst Migrant and Mobile Populations in Myanmar
(2017)Background: Ending the global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic by 2035 will substantially depend on the effective control of the “lost to follow-up” (LTFU) from TB treatment. Myanmar is one of the 14 countries with high burden ... -
Factors Impacting Grandparent and Grand Child Communication Across Sex- Related Topics in Kenya
(2016)Background: Although many studies have investigated sexual communication between parents and children in Kenya, none have focused singularly on grandparent and grandchild communication when grandparents are primary caregivers. ... -
Factors Impacting Sustainable Implementation of Adolescent Mental Health Interventions: A Qualitative Stakeholder Analysis
(2021)Background: Mental health challenges comprise a significant share of the global disease burden among adolescents. In many global settings, mental health services are limited and few adolescent mental health interventions ... -
Factors Motivating Emergency Department Attendance Among Patients with Non-Urgent Musculoskeletal Disorders: a Case Study in Qatar
(2015)Background: The rise in the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) places a high burden on healthcare services, especially in the emergency departments (EDs) of hospitals in Western and European countries. MSD-related ...
