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Meeting the Need for Emergency Medicine Physicians: A National Study of Factors Influencing Medical Specialty Career Choice
(2019)
Objective: The process by which medical students choose a specialization is incompletely understood, especially as related to factors that influence changes in specific career interest during medical school. Women and ...
Family Risk and Protective Factors for Binge Eating-Related Concerns in a Nationally Representative Sample of Young Adults in the United States
(2019)
Binge eating-related concerns (i.e., emotions and cognitions associated with binge eating, such as embarrassment over amount eaten and fear of losing control over eating) have been found to prospectively predict eating ...
Freight Transport and Health: A Comprehensive Investigation of Planning and Public Participation within U.S. Host Communities.
(2013)
Transportation-related air and noise pollution from heavy-duty freight engines is associated with respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses, cancer, diabetes, nervous system and cognitive effects, hospital admissions, sleep ...
Young Families in the Community: An Exploratory Analysis of Child Welfare Contact Among Young Mothers and their Children
(2020)
The dominant frame in the literature regarding pregnancy and parenting among women with a history of child welfare contact is that of teen pregnancy as social crisis. This project reconsiders the issue of pregnancy and ...
Intergenerational Effects of Citizenship Status, Psychosocial Stress, and Family Influences Among Second-Generation Immigrant Youth
(2019)
Children of immigrants are the fastest growing population of children in the United States. Compared to children of US born parents, children of immigrants face unique social and economic circumstances, which have profound ...
Was That a Seizure? Diagnosis in Lived Experience and Medical Practice
(2021)
This dissertation examines how people with epilepsy and physicians make sense of seizure and epilepsy. Seizures are transient phenomena during which people lose control over parts of body-mind function. This can mean the ...
The Knowledge Grid: A Platform to Increase the Interoperability of Computable Knowledge and Produce Advice for Health
(2018)
Here we demonstrate how more highly interoperable computable knowledge enables systems to generate large quantities of evidence-based advice for health. We first provide a thorough analysis of advice. Then, because advice ...
Persistent Pathogens and Incident Stroke in Mexican Americans.
(2012)
Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death and a leading cause of disability in adults in the US. Nearly 800,000 people suffer a stroke annually, and more than 143,000 deaths occur as a result. Hispanic Americans are the ...
Joint Mean and Covariance Modeling of Matrix-Variate Data
(2018)
This dissertation addresses theory, methodology, and applications for joint mean and covariance estimation with matrix-variate data. Chapters 2 and 3 consider joint mean and covariance estimation in the Kronecker product ...
Severe Illness Associated With Respiratory Viruses: Burden and Temporal Dynamics
(2020)
Acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRI) are a substantial source of global morbidity and mortality, particularly among young children. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza are consistently observed to ...