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Assessment of the Health Status and Needs of Bahraini Women.
(2010)
Women’s health problems in Bahrain are varied and create a major challenge for the health system, increasing demand on health centers and requiring provision of comprehensive health services for women throughout their life ...
A Micro-Analytical System for Complex Vapor Mixtures - Development and Application to Indoor Air Contaminants.
(2012)
This dissertation concerns the development of two fully integrated, automatically controlled, field-deployable Si-microfabricated gas chromatograph (µGC) prototypes, and their application to indoor-air monitoring of ...
Implementation and Optimization of an in vivo Photo-crosslinking Methodology to Define Direct Targets of Transcriptional Activators.
(2012)
Protein-protein interactions are primarily used to accomplish many biological processes. Understanding protein-protein interactions, particularly, the direct interacting proteins and mechanism for interaction, is instrumental ...
Registered Nurses' Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture: The Influence of Nursing Unit Leadership
(2011)
Healthcare leaders often report more positive perceptions of patient safety culture than other employees within organizational structures. However, charge nurses have not been differentiated from staff nurses as unit ...
Cognitive Role of Medial PFC in Error Processing: Lessons Learned from Healthy Children and Pediatric OCD, Anxiety, and ASD.
(2012)
Although the tendency to err may be considered to be an unavoidable human quality, the ability to effectively acknowledge and to make up for previous mistakes during task execution varies from one person to the next. ...
Engineering the Quantitative PCR Assay for Decreased Cost and Complexity.
(2011)
The quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is an assay of target nucleic acid concentration. Clinical applications of quantitative PCR include measurement of HIV viral load, measurement of bacterial infection, and ...
Integrative Statistical Learning with Applications to Predicting Features of Diseases and Health.
(2011)
This dissertation develops methods of integrative statistical learning to studies of two human
diseases - respiratory infectious diseases and leukemia. It concerns integrating statistically
principled approaches to connect ...
Campbell/Spillane Substance Use Research - Interview with Denise Kandel
(2010-09-07)
Denise Kandel, Ph.D., is a medical sociologist and epidemiologist, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Psychiatry at Columbia University and Head of the Department of Epidemiology of Substance Abuse at the New York State ...
Receptor Regulation of Osmolyte Homeostasis in Neural Cells in Response to Hyposmotic Stress.
(2010)
Cell swelling can have profound deleterious effects in the brain and is observed to occur during several pathological conditions. Upon swelling, cells regulate their volume through the extrusion of various osmolytes. ...
Defining the Helper T Cell Contribution to Helicobacter pylori Gastritis.
(2011)
Mouse models of H. pylori disease develop chronic gastritis due to an immune response dependent upon IFNg and CD4+ T cells, but several reports demonstrate that IL-17A, a cytokine associated with mucosal inflammatory ...