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Assessing Value and Optimizing Decision-Making in Post-Acute Care Across Diverse Populations
(2024-01-29)My dissertation investigates the enhancement of value in post-acute care (PAC) within the U.S. healthcare system, focusing on the largest source of geographic variation in Medicare costs. It combines individual preferences, ... -
An assessment of antenatal care among Syrian refugees in Lebanon
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: After more than three years of violence in Syria, Lebanon hosts over one million Syrian refugees creating significant public health concerns. Antenatal care delivery to tens of thousands of pregnant Syrian ... -
Assessment of Self-Injurious Thoughts Using A Behavioral Test
(American Psychiaric Publishing, 2007)OBJECTIVE: The assessment of self-injurious thoughts has been limited by a reliance on what individuals are willing or able to report explicitly. The authors examined a new method that measures self-injurious thoughts by ... -
Assessment of whole blood thrombosis in a microfluidic device lined by fixed human endothelium
(Springer US, 2016)The vascular endothelium and shear stress are critical determinants of physiological hemostasis and platelet function in vivo, yet current diagnostic and monitoring devices do not fully incorporate endothelial function ... -
Asset Bubbles and the Cost of Economic Fluctuations
(Wiley, 2011)Lucas (1987, 2003) estimates that the cost of economic fluctuations is low; a social planner would pay no more than 0.1% of (permanent) consumption to eliminate all future business cycle fluctuations. The current paper ... -
Asset Fire Sales and Credit Easing
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Asset Managers and Financial Instability: Evidence of Run Behavior and Run Incentives in Corporate Bond Funds
(2015-06-26)Asset managers may be a source of systemic risk due to their risk-taking strategies and vulnerability to dramatic outflows. Investor withdrawals trigger asset sales and redemption costs that only impact remaining investors ... -
Asset Pricing at the Millennium
(Blackwell Publishing, 2000)This paper surveys the field of asset pricing. The emphasis is on the interplay between theory and empirical work and on the trade-off between risk and return. Modern research seeks to understand the behavior of the ... -
Assimilation of the Plutonic Roots of the Andean Arc Controls Variations in U-series Disequilibria at Volcan Llaima, Chile
(Elsevier, 2011)U-series disequilibria provide important constraints on the processes and time scales of melt production, differentiation, and transport in subduction settings. Such constraints, which are essential for understanding the ... -
Assimilation, multiculturalism, and colorblindness: Mediated and moderated relationships between social dominance orientation and prejudice
(Elsevier BV, 2012)Using correlational and experimental data, we examined the degree to which personal and perceived normative support for the acculturation ideologies of assimilation, multiculturalism, and colorblindness mediated and moderated ... -
Assistance magnitude versus metabolic cost reductions for a tethered multiarticular soft exosuit
(American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2017)When defining requirements for any wearable robot for walking assistance it is paramount to maximize the user’s net metabolic benefit, while limiting the metabolic penalty of carrying the system’s mass. Thus, the aim of ... -
Assisted partner notification services to augment HIV testing and linkage to care in Kenya: study protocol for a cluster randomized trial
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: HIV case-finding and linkage to care are critical for control of HIV transmission. In Kenya, >50% of seropositive individuals are unaware of their status. Assisted partner notification is a public health strategy ... -
Assistive Exoskeleton for Injury Prevention During Downhill Walking
(2015-04-08)This thesis presents a device designed to reduce muscular effort during downhill walking. The designed solution is a soft wearable exoskeleton consisting of an air spring, a wearable soft fabric interface that attaches the ... -
Association between Body Mass Index and Prognosis of Colorectal Cancer: A Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Studies have reported conflicting results on the association between body mass index (BMI) and prognosis of colorectal cancer. Therefore, we have conducted a meta-analysis of prospective studies, which examined the association ... -
Association between childhood adversities and long-term suicidality among South Africans from the results of the South African Stress and Health study: a cross-sectional study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2014)Objective: Suicide and suicidal behaviours are significant public health problems and a leading cause of death worldwide and in South Africa. We examined the association between childhood adversities and suicidal behaviour ... -
The Association between Hypertension and Depression and Anxiety Disorders: Results from a Nationally-Representative Sample of South African Adults
(Public Library of Science, 2009)Objective Growing evidence suggests high levels of comorbidity between hypertension and mental illness but there are few data from low- and middle-income countries. We examined the association between hypertension and ... -
Association between intimate partner violence and poor child growth: results from 42 demographic and health surveys
(World Health Organization, 2016)Abstract Objective: To determine the impact of intimate partner violence against women on children’s growth and nutritional status in low- and middle-income countries. Methods: We pooled records from 42 demographic and ... -
Association between parental psychopathology and suicidal behavior among adult offspring: results from the cross-sectional South African Stress and Health survey
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Prior studies have demonstrated a link between parental psychopathology and offspring suicidal behavior. However, it remains unclear what aspects of suicidal behavior among adult offspring are predicted by ... -
Association Between Sleep Duration and Diabetes in Black and White Adults
(American Diabetes Association, 2013)OBJECTIVE To examine racial differences in sleep duration and its relationship with diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We used data from a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults (n = 130,943) participating in ... -
The association between smoking and subsequent suicide-related outcomes in the National Comorbidity Survey panel sample
(Springer Nature, 2008)Controversy exists about whether the repeatedly-documented associations between smoking and subsequent suicide-related outcomes (SROs; ideation, plans, gestures, and attempts) are due to unmeasured common causes or to ...