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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 ... -
Moral Hazard in Hierarchical International Agreements: Bilateral Swap Agreements, Reserve Accumulation, and the Private Sector
(2022)There are various sources of moral hazard in IPE. In this paper, I contribute by examining whether bilateral swap agreements (BSAs) cause moral hazard in central banks and the private sector. Using an original dataset on ... -
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 ... -
A Convolutional Neural Network for SPECT Image Reconstruction
(2022)Purpose: Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is considered as a functional nuclear medicine imaging technique which is commonly used in the clinic. However, it suffers from low resolution and high noise because ... -
Veterans and the Inter-Branch Tension Over Use of Force Decisions
(2022)The tension between Congress and the president over which branch controls the use of military force abroad has existed since America’s founding. Congress' constitutional powers over declarations of war and military funding ... -
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? ... -
Association of Parental Mental Health with Youth Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparison between 2018 and 2020 in Chongqing, China
(2022)Background: Maladjustment, categorized as internalizing and externalizing behaviors, is a process whereby an adolescent is unable to satisfy the psychological needs successfully. Youth behavioral problems may strengthen ... -
Development of a Photothermal Treatment Planning Workflow for use in Synergistic Immuno-Photothermal-Nanotherapy (SYMPHONY)
(2022)Approximately half of bladder cancer diagnoses are late stage/show metastatic spread. The current standard treatment option for these diagnoses is cisplatin chemotherapy, however 40% of patients are ineligible to receive ... -
Development of a Method to Detect and Quantify CT Motion Artifacts: Feasibility Study
(2022)Artifacts are known to reduce the quality of CT images and can affect statistical analysis and quantitative utility of those images. Motion artifact is a leading type of CT artifact, due to either voluntary or involuntary ... -
Continuous MRI Coil Quality Control Using Clinical Imaging Data
(2022)PurposeCurrent testing requirement for individual coil elements are only once per year. Over time the coils degrade due to near continuous use and mishandling, causing elements to become faulty or die. Faulty coil elements ... -
The Striving Trap: Chinese 996 Work Culture, Online and Offline Perspectives
(2022)The concerns and questions of this paper focus on what happened when Chinese Internet tech companies initiated an overtime working schedule known as “996—working from 9am to 9pm a day, six days a week—in terms of the intertwined ... -
Feminists without Feminism: Women’s Online Movement in Contemporary China
(2022)With the widespread stigmatization of “women’s rights” in China, I observed that young women increasingly reject the identification of “feminists.” In comparison, some of them voice their opinions on social media advocate ... -
Associations between Self-Stigma and Emotional Wellbeing Among Orphans
(2022)Researchers have been searching for ways to improve outcomes for orphaned and separated children (OSC) worldwide. OSC have a particularly high rate of mental health disorders and lower emotional wellbeing. Stigma has been ... -
Study of the Photon-Counting Computed Tomography
(2022)Purpose: To compare image quality at low- and routine-doses between a photon-counting (PCCT) and an energy integrating (EICT) CT system at different patient sizes and to evaluate the effect of pulse pileup on PCCT. Methods: ... -
Evaluation of radiation therapy produced Cherenkov light emissions used for photo-activation of psoralen (AMT)
(2022)Purpose: Radiotherapy Enhanced by Cherenkov photo-Activation (RECA) is a novel radiation treatment method that seeks an anti-cancer effect with the introduction of a psoralen compound administered for treatment. The goal ... -
Chollywooding and Pandering: The Present and Future of Sino-Hollywood Negotiation
(2022)The relationship between China and Hollywood has been a contested subject as a result of complicated historical trajectories. Whether during the Republican era or during the post-1994 period when Hollywood films were reimported ... -
An Internalized Spectator: Judgment in Arendt’s Kant Lectures
(2022)In this paper I revisit a perplexing question about Arendt’s theory of judgment: what is the relationship between the normative function of judgment and the perspective of the vita contemplativa in her Kant Lectures. Pace ... -
Capacity Assessment and Planning of COVID-19-Vaccination Sites: A Mathematical and Simulation Approach
(2022)Background: To control and minimize the spread of COVID-19, vaccination among the population to achieve herd immunity is important. However, optimizing the vaccination capacity for facility-based vaccination sites and mass ... -
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, ... -
Counter-Objection Examples in Normative Theory
(2022)In this paper, I aim to outline the structure of counterexample objection and provide some points for consideration regarding its methodological effectiveness. In order to highlight the peculiarities of counterexample objection, ...
