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Heterogeneity in Mortgage Refinancing
(2022-06-22)Many households who would benefit from and are eligible to refinance their mortgages fail to do so. A recent literature has demonstrated a significant degree of heterogeneity in the propensity to refinance across various ... -
A Comparative Study of Radiomics and Deep-Learning Approaches for Predicting Surgery Outcomes in Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
(2022)Purpose: To compare radiomics and deep-learning (DL) methods for predicting NSCLC surgical treatment failure. Methods: A cohort of 83 patients undergoing lobectomy or wedge resection for early-stage NSCLC from our institution ... -
Preparing for the Next Pandemic: Exploring the Design of a New Pandemic Vaccine Facility (“PANVAX”) Through a Qualitative Study
(2022)The global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines has been inequitable: around 8 in 10 people in high-income countries have had at least one dose, compared with just 1 in 10 in low-income countries. Similar global vaccine inequity ... -
Implementation of Acuros XB Dose Calculation in to Clinical Radiation Therapy Workflows
(2022)Introduction: Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a common treatment techniquethat can be used to treat tumors for multiple cancer sites. Density heterogeneity in the target volume and beam path combined with small ... -
Hopefulness Among Individuals Living with Schizophrenia and their Caregivers in Tanzania: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model
(2022)Background: Hopefulness is a positive orientation or state of mind that can aid in the recovery and treatment for mental illness, as it can have significant impacts on clinical and psychosocial outcomes. As resource-constrained ... -
Mechanistic Study of a Radical SAM GTP 3’,8-cyclase MoaA in the Molybdenum Cofactor Biosynthetic Pathway
(2022)Molybdenum cofactor (Moco) is a ubiquitous cofactor essential for lives of most organisms. In humans, Moco is essential for healthy development of brain, and inability to produce Moco causes a fatal Moco deficiency (MoCD) ... -
Identification of Postoperative Pulmonary Complication Risk By Phenotyping Adult Surgical Patients Who Underwent General Anesthesia with Mechanical Ventilation
(2022)Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) remain a serious concern in health care. PPCs are associated with high rates of mortality and morbidity, intensive care admission, hospital length of stay, and resource utilization. ... -
How the Outside Gets in: Linking Social and Physical Environments with Physiology and Body Size in Wild Baboons
(2022)Environmental factors are a crucial determinant of an animals fitness. The effects of environment on fitness are often mediated by behavioral mechanisms as well as mechanisms that are ‘under the skin,’ such as growth and ... -
Machine Learning for Efficient and Robust Datacenter Performance Management
(2022)Modern datacenters host a wide range of applications. Managing application performance is critical for the overall cost efficiency of datacenter infrastructures. However, previous solutions struggle to address the unique ... -
TRANS/SUPER/NATURAL: Fear, Trembling, and Transsexuality in American Fiction
(2022)TRANS/SUPER/NATURAL: Fear, Trembling, and Transsexuality in American Fiction develops new ways of thinking about the biological, historical, and social elements that constitute what we call gender by identifying 20th-century ... -
Essays on the Economics of Pharmaceutical Regulation
(2022)This dissertation presents three essays on the economics of regulatory oversight in the pharmaceutical industry. The first essay provides an overview of pharmaceutical inspections and evaluates the characteristics ... -
In Pursuit of Utopia Between Sound and Sense: Luciano Berio’s “Linguistic Project”" of Meta-Music
(2022)This study explores Luciano Berio’s search for a utopian relationship between music and language. This utopian vision of pursuing the “eternal path between sound and sense” led him to initiate a series of “linguistic projects.” ... -
Decoding the olfactory map: targeted transcriptomics link olfactory receptors to glomeruli
(2022)The external world is perceived via sensory receptors arranged in highly organized systems according to functional strategies, which in turn reflect features of critical importance to both the sense and the animal. The receptor ... -
HOUSEHOLD MIGRATION AND HOUSING MARKETS
(2022)Housing market is one of the most important markets in the U.S. It is widely held that heterogeneity in the housing market plays an important part in affecting housing prices. My dissertation contributes to the literature ... -
Deep Photoacoustic Imaging and Acoustic Cavitation Mapping in Shockwave Lithotripsy
(2022)Kidney stone disease is a major health problem worldwide. Shockwave lithotripsy (SWL), which uses high-energy shockwave pulses to break up kidney stones, is extensively used in clinic. However, SWL can produce cavitation ... -
FtsZ assembly dynamics: Treadmilling, nucleation and membrane constriction
(2022)Bacterial cell division is tightly coupled to the dynamic behavior of FtsZ, a tubulin homolog. Recent experimental work \textit{in vitro} and \textit{in vivo} has attributed FtsZ’s assembly dynamics to treadmilling, where ... -
The Effect of Workforce Participation and Household Income Contribution on Women’s Healthcare Empowerment in Rural Bangladesh
(2022-04-08)Women in Bangladesh have gained increased access to paid work in the past decade yet still experience limited choices and access to resources, which threatens their ability to exercise control over healthcare for themselves ... -
Pre-Pandemic Viral Surveillance of Swine Farms in Northern Vietnam
(2022)Introduction: Global pandemics are major contributors to human morbidity and mortality, economic downturn, and lost productivity. In extraordinary circumstances like the COVID-19 pandemic, we see a showcase of these staggering ... -
Attending To Race: Exploring How Faculty, Trainees And Medical Students Operationalize Race In Medicine
(2022)Background. Race-based medicine assumes that genetic or biological differences account for the observed health differences among races. Race-based medicine has been shown to result in poor patient outcomes. Nevertheless, ... -
We Care About Your Privacy (When It Matters): How Firms Strategically Respond to Data Breach Incidents
(2022)With a growing concern for consumer data and online privacy, regulators around the world are placing numerous measures to educate individuals with their privacy choices and to require firms to prioritize consumer privacy. ...
