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Neurosurgical Decision-Making and Ethical Considerations in the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury
(2022)Globally, disparities in the availability of surgical care are prevalent, and for specialty care such as neurosurgery, services are typically scarce to non-existent. In low-and-middle-income countries, most medical centers ... -
Universal Health Coverage for the Poor and Informal Sector in Africa: A Health Financing Policy Analysis
(2022)Background:In their pursuit of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), a challenge African countries face is extending health coverage to the poor and informal sector. This group accounts for a significant proportion of the population ... -
Tree-Burning: Yu Hua and Can Xue as Writers of the Rhizome
(2022)The thesis explores how Chinese avant-garde writers Yu Hua and Can Xue’s early short fictions pose a profound stylistic and structural challenge to existing conventions of realist fictions in China. It mainly uses the idea ... -
Novel Designs of Radiomics-Integrated Deep Learning Models
(2022)Purpose: To investigate the feasibility of integrate radiomics and deep learning in computer-aided medical imaging analysis Methods: Two different approaches were investigated to integrate radiomics and deep leaning on ... -
An Invisible Conundrum: Visualizing “Queer Immobility” in the Contemporary PRC
(2022)Until the end of the 20th century, with the deepening of the Opening-up and Reform movement under the context of globalization and advancement of communication methods, both culture and economy in the PRC have achieved ... -
A Differentially Private Bayesian Approach to Replication Analysis
(2022)Replication analysis is widely used in many fields of study. Once a research is published, other researchers will conduct analysis to assess the reliability of the published research. However, what if the data are confidential? ... -
Bayesian Decoupling: A Decision Theory-Based Approach to Bayesian Variable Selection
(2022)The spike and slab prior offers a canonical approach to Bayesian variable selection, with caveats known to be data dimension and correlation. Motivated by the pitfalls of the spike and slab prior on high dimensional correlated ... -
An Extended Rouse Model of Inertial Particles Settling in Turbulent Boundary Layers
(2022)The settling of inertial particles in turbulence boundary layers plays an essential role in many meteorological, industrial and environmental processes, and is governed by multifarious mechanisms. First, turbulence alters ... -
Embodied Resonance: Using Movement Based Practice to Critically Engage Black Girlhood and K-12 Public Education
(2022)In the United States children spend anywhere from nine to thirteen years in school. During this time, children experience some of their most developmentally formative years of their life, which is often characterized as ... -
Development of a Media Awareness Campaign to Address Barriers to Childhood Cancer Treatment in Tanzania
(2022)According to Ward et al. 2019, there are 400,000 newly diagnosed pediatric cancer patients each year, with over 85% living in low-and middle-income countries. Even though some pediatric cancer types have more than 90% chance ... -
Assessing Facilitators and Barriers to Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Testing and Treatment and Comparing the Effectiveness of Arts-Based vs. School-Based Community-Engaged SCD Education Outreach Programs for Adolescents in Kalangala, Uganda
(2022)AbstractBackground: With the bulk of global sickle cell disease (SCD) research primarily focusing on high-income/low-burden countries, countries such as Uganda continue to report the highest rates of SCD as a result of this ... -
An Exploration of Gender and Teacher Wellbeing in Cambodia and Kenya: A Qualitative Study
(2022)Background: Teacher wellbeing is important because it impacts teachers’ ability to complete their work and also impacts student wellbeing. While published literature on teacher wellbeing has increased since the early 2000’s, ... -
Cyclical Navigations: In the In Between (exploring Black memory through embodied storytelling)
(2022)Cyclical Navigations: In the In Between is a creative process-based interdisciplinaryinstallation and paper that conceptualizes storytelling as a practice of embodied memory recollection. This work focuses on viewing storytelling ... -
Predicting Treatment Tolerance and Survival in Patients with Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma
(2022)In 2020, gastric cancer was the fifth most common cancer worldwide, and esophageal cancer was the eighth most common cancer worldwide (Global Cancer Observatory). Strategies for treatment of both cancers range from curative ... -
Renovating the Search Experience of Art Image Databases
(2022)With the emergence of the computer, the digital image has become one of the most prevalent visual mediums in the 21st century. This paper aims at analyzing the current limitations in interacting with digital image databases ... -
Important Pediatric Conditions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Clinician and Data-Driven Approach
(2022)Background: Emergency care sensitive conditions are defined as those for which rapid diagnosis and early intervention improve patient outcomes. This thesis aimed to develop a list of important pediatric conditions in low- ... -
Command or Control: Military Experience and the Secretary of Defense
(2022)In the relationship between military leaders and their civilian masters, the Secretary of Defense (SecDef) plays a unique role. He or she represents both the military enterprise and the non-military policymakers that control ... -
Why Have There Been No Great Female Art Forgers? A Survey of Art Forgery as a Gendered Phenomenon
(2022)Why are there no female art forgers? This paradoxical mystery can be attributed not only to prevailing patriarchal conceptions of art production and artists, but also to the very conceptual foundation of art forgery itself. ... -
Towards Dosimetric Improvement in HDR Brachytherapy, an Investigation of a Model Based Dose Calculation Algorithm - Acuros
(2022)Purpose: To evaluate dosimetric impact of heterogeneity from applicators and patient tissue between plans treated with tandem and ovoid applicators and interstitial needles calculated with the traditional Task Group 43 formulism ... -
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Tuberculosis Treatment for Migrant Workers in Shanghai, China
(2022)Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world's top infectious killers, particularly affecting poor and vulnerable populations. COVID-19, another severe acute respiratory syndrome, is raging worldwide and has a relatively ...
