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Developing Condition-Specific Hospice Formularies for Congestive Heart Failure and Depression Conditions and The Evaluation of Their Economic Impact
(2006-08-15)
With the increasing costs of providing pharmaceutical care, hospices in the U.S
are burdened with the high costs of providing optimum healthcare. There is a need to
implement cost-containment strategies such as drug ...
Developing Critical Consciousness of ‘Nice’ Dysconscious Racism: An Analytic Autoethnography of a K-5 General Music Specialist at a High-Needs Title I School
(2023-08-01)
The purpose of this analytic autoethnography was to explore how enacting critical consciousness (CC) through critical reflection, inquiry, discourse, and action developed my critical awareness of ‘nice’ dysconscious racism ...
Developing Human Capital through Apprenticeships: A Post-Intentional Phenomenological Study of an Insurance Industry Learning Model
(2019-07-16)
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore a dual-training apprenticeship program in the United States (U.S.) insurance industry through the shared lived experience of adult participants. The ...
Developing Methods for Detecting Cotton Fiber Identity Theft
(2009-07-06)
This study focused on determining ways to detect identity theft of cotton fibers through developing identification tests from fibers to end products. Cotton types examined in this study include: Extra-Long Staple cotton ...
Developing More Ways for Children to Share Their Perceptions of Parenting Behaviors
(2010-08-16)
The primary purpose of this study was to modify an existing parent report measure on perceptions of parenting behaviors for use with children, as well as examine the relationships among child perceptions of parenting ...
Developing Nucleic Acid-Based Tools for Precision Medicine
(2019-07-23)
Nucleic acid aptamers are new therapeutic tools that are growing in use in the bionanotechnology field. Understanding their behavior and engineering their structure is desirable for many applications due to unique advantages ...
Developing omics and cell culture resources in non-model organism for their application in elucidating complex trait evolution in natural populations.
(2022-08-15)
In the past, researchers chose models organisms to answer research questions based on their simplicity in morphology, domestication, and/or life history traits. Now, with high throughput sequencing (HTS) rapidly becoming ...
Developing Single page application with best practices
(2017-04-26)
Browsers have been around since early 1990 and have been used for disseminating information using HTML, CSS and Javascript. Initially, Javascript was used as client side scripting language and its use was limited to data ...
Developing Successful Conductors: A Survey of Feedback Methods for Undergraduate Instrumental Conducting Courses
(2020-07-30)
Few studies have explored feedback methods in undergraduate instrumental conducting
courses. The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the various methods of verbal
(spoken/written) and nonverbal feedback ...
Developing Teaching Materials for Spanish Heritage Speakers with Hearing Loss
(2022-04-27)
The purpose of this thesis is to address the challenges of teaching gender agreement to Heritage Speakers (HS) of Spanish with a mild, moderate, and moderately-severe hearing loss. I discuss a series of combined approaches ...
Developing, Evaluating, and Comparing Multiple Parcel Delivery Networks Using Agent-Based Simulation
(2021-07-29)
This dissertation focuses on assessing and developing multi-tier hub-and-spoke parcel delivery networks. The multi-tier concept has been developed to enhance network performance by reducing delivery time and operational ...
Development and Adjustment of MDOT’s Pavement Condition Ratings (PCRs)
(2022-11-30)
Pavement condition assessment is a fundamental activity of every pavement management system (PMS). It determines the overall road network condition, as well as possible maintenance and rehabilitation activities (M&R) for ...
Development and Application of a Functional Apparel Framework Using Mixed Methods
(2019-07-26)
This study employed a mixed method approach to develop and apply the proposed Multidimension Functional Apparel Framework (MFAF) to two separate case studies. The proposed functional apparel framework was developed from ...
Development and Application of Composite Beam Theory on FRP Reinforced Concrete Flexural Members
(2021-01-19)
Although there are specifications and approaches for the design of concrete flexural members reinforced with FRP, most of them were derived from empirical data. In order to obtain the rigorous theoretical definition of ...
Development and Application of Composite Material Lamination Theory for Printed Circuit Boards
(2012-08-03)
Layers incorporating carbon fiber materials have been proposed to enhance the reliability of high performance printed circuit board production configurations. The carbon fiber layers feature high stiffness and high thermal ...
Development and application of diagnostic SNP marker resources for Northern (Micropterus salmoides salmoides) and Florida (Micropterus salmoides floridanus) largemouth bass.
(2015-07-29)
Efforts to improve recreational fisheries have included widespread stocking of Micropterus salmoides floridanus outside its native range of peninsular Florida. Hybridization of Florida bass (M. salmoides floridanus) with ...
Development and Application of Grain Distillers Dried Yeast for Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei
(2013-04-23)
In recent years there has been an increasing interest in developing low-cost feeds for the Pacific white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei. High prices and limited supply are the main factors that have affected primarily feed ...
Development and Application of New Platforms for Oligonucleotide and Protein Assays
(2020-07-20)
Sensitive and rapid detection of infectious disease is becoming very significant to improve human health. We have seen that the sensitive methods often required expensive, and sophisticated instruments. Biosensors are ...
Development and Application of Non Marine Ingredients Based Diets for Pacific White Shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei: Examining the Suitability of Alternative Lipid Sources
(2013-01-09)
The Pacific white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei, is globally cultured due to its ability to tolerate and effectively grow and survive across a wide range of salinities, ease of reproduction, availability of domesticated ...
Development and Application of One Dimensional Multi-component Reactive Transport Models
(2012-12-14)
The overarching goal of this dissertation is to develop reactive transport models and explore their applications to groundwater remediation problems. The primary focus of this dissertation is aimed at developing models ...