Common air quality pollutants such as particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, and ground- level ozone exhibit immense intra-urban variability. Though they are useful for regulatory compliance, …
Alcohol use disorder (AUD), defined as prolonged alcohol consumption despite negative consequences, is fundamentally a disease of associative memory. Individuals with AUD form short-term aversive …
Sepsis is a condition defined by life-threatening organ dysfunction due to the body’s immune response to infection or injury. Early diagnosis and initiation of treatment …
An organism’s survival relies on its ability to navigate through the environment. To perform this task, animals must construct a map of space and translate …
Complementary and integrative health (CIH) therapies are widely used and make up billions of dollars in out-of-pocket expenditures. This quality improvement project aimed to identify …
Objective: To understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the usage of family planning services in the State of Rhode Island. Study Design: The …
Intro/Background: While Rhode Island has a relatively low incarceration rate, it has the fourth highest probation rate in the nation, with 1 in 35 adults …
Objective: Sleep-related infant deaths are the 3rd leading cause of infant mortality. Little is known about how caregivers’ practices around infant sleep change over time …
Objective: The study objective was to determine if emergency department (ED) operational metrics, such as time to room or length of stay, are associated with …
As data structures become larger and more complex, methods of data analysis must evolve to harness the most accurate insights. Inspired by the challenges presented …
ABSTRACT of Developing a pharmacist-led asthma education pilot program at a local community health center in Providence, Rhode Island, by Andrés Amaya, ScM, Brown University, …
Background and objectives: Family physicians are well-positioned to provide abortion care during a time of restricted access across the United States7. CREATE (Continuing Reproductive Education …
Background and Objectives: Among the multitude of health effects on children associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been significant interruptions in the provision of …
Background: Wellness challenges experienced by adolescents and youth living with HIV (AYLWH) during the COVID-19 pandemic are unknown and could guide care during public health …
Introduction: This study addresses a significant gap in the literature by conducting semi-structured qualitative interviews to explore the experiences of institutionalization during acute suicidality, comparing …
Abstract of Impact of a Web-Based Educational Intervention on Primary Care and Health Insurance Literacy in Rural New Mexico Adolescents, by Alayna Barela, ScM, Brown …
The experiences of cisgender sexual minority and gender minority patients with cancer are different. Previous research has demonstrated that gender minority people are less likely …
Background and objectives: Over 2.4 million people have been displaced within the Thailand-Myanmar border region since 1988. The efficacy of community-driven health models within displaced …
Purpose Success for diverse learners is a shared goal among medical educators. This can be challenging to achieve, particularly during certain transition points, such as …
Abstract of The Cells and Molecules Underlying Mechanosensation, by Ruby Minh Lam, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2024. The somatosensory system provides us with a window …
The modern surfaces of planetary bodies throughout the solar system are shaped by their ancient thermal and interior evolution. Here we work to understand the …
Diffuse midline glioma (DMG) is the most aggressive primary brain tumor in children, with <10% surviving more than 2 years post-diagnosis. This tumor is inoperable …
What is photography? This deceptively simple question was foundational to the creation of photographic theory in the early 1970s, and has remained central to scholars …
Bangladesh has been globally recognized as a “development” success for its rapid improvement in maternal health, gender parity in education, and economic growth, with women's …
The critical roles of iron-sulfur (Fe-S) and molybdenum cofactor enzymes in biochemical processes have long intrigued scientists. This work delves into the construction of synthetic …
Two-dimensional nanomaterials are highly desirable for the development of a wide variety of advanced technologies, including sensing, energy storage, drug delivery, catalysis, and chemical protection, …
The motor system is vital for an organism’s survival. Information to control motor function flows from the brain and spinal cord, through peripheral nerves and …
This dissertation draws on the history of collective action and the resources of conceptual and critical political theory to develop an account of how the …
As a result of endogenous and exogenous sources of DNA damage, DNA is chemically labile, resulting in the modification of DNA nucleobases. If damage is …
Conversational assistive robots have the potential to help human users accomplish a wide range of daily tasks, such as cooking meals, performing exercises, or operating …
Semiconductor nanocrystals or quantum dots are semiconducting materials that are a few nanometers in size. Their tunable optical, electronic, and catalytic properties enabled by size, …
While virtual care had been growing in capability and use in preceding years, the onset of COVID-19 greatly accelerated these trends. Telemedicine and patient portals …
The interaction between crystals, magma, and exsolved volatiles in shallow magmatic conduits exerts first order controls on the eruptive style and intensity of terrestrial volcanic …
The Songliao Basin in Northeast China contains one of the most complete terrestrial sedimentary records of the Cretaceous and represents an important terrestrial paleoclimate archive. …
The Pliocene (5.33-2.58 million years before present (Ma)) is the most recent epoch of Earth’s history when atmospheric pCO2 levels were as high as the …
Individual-Level Data (IPD) approach has become increasingly popular as it does not depend on published results. Combining IPD across multiple studies usually adopts a multilevel …
Earth’s Moon, when viewed from Earth, always shows the same face. The compositional, topographic, and structural asymmetry between the Moon’s nearside and farside hemispheres has …
This dissertation examines themes of herding, mining, infrastructure, and environment in sixteenth and seventeenth century Huancavelica, Peru. Spanish colonial mining in the Americas flooded the …
In recent years, there has been an exponential growth in biopharmaceutical development stemming from its ability to treat previously incurable diseases and to go from …
In the realm of image-based regression, extracting comprehensive information is pivotal. Traditional methods like convolutional neural networks (CNNs) often employ max-pooling or average pooling in …
The studies herein utilize large-scale national databases from the National Survey of Family Growth and the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System to assess the relationship …
Large pre-trained transformer-based language models (PTLMs) have recently dominated the state-of-the-art in Information Retrieval tasks such as web search and question answering. Despite the advantages …
Background: Previous studies have indicated that married people are generally healthier than unmarried people, with lower mortality rates. Most work in this area has employed …
Abstract of “From Learning of the Sage to Learning of the Exemplary Person in a Constant State of Self-Examination: Tasan Chŏng Yakyong’s Restructuring of Confucian …
Background Exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) throughout gestation and childhood may impact cardiometabolic risk. Methods In 179 HOME Study participants (Cincinnati, OH; recruited …
The Standard Model of physics predicts the existence of triple-top quark production in association with a W boson or a non-top flavored quark from proton-proton …
El lacayo fingido (1599-1603) is a highly entertaining comedia palatina cómica, that is, a comedy of noble and royal protagonists situated at a geographic or …
The release of toxic substances from chemical manufacturing has been shown to have negative effects on the environment and human health. Recent studies have linked …
Lead halide perovskites have garnered extensive research attention since their discovery due to their unique optoelectronic properties, and high structure and composition tunability, which renders …
Cells are rich in a variety of diagnostic information, from morphology to nucleic acid, protein, and metabolite composition. Cells possess more data than any other …
Background: Mobile application mediated Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) is a data collection method commonly employed in health behavior research. EMA allows for health behavior researchers …
Throughout the course of evolution, one of the key driving forces that elaborately defined the relationship between the gut microbiome and the mammalian host was …
Metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) has a five-year relative survival rate of 14%. Most patients receive 5-FU (F) and folinic acid (FOL) combined with oxaliplatin (OX), …
This thesis investigates the effectiveness of the implementation of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (MVHAA) through case studies of New York and Pennsylvania. The MVHAA …
Diets and foodways and are intimately shaped by interregional processes and connections, such as imperial expansion. Despite substantial archaeological research into the immediate impact of …
Shared decision making (SDM) defines the goal of clinical communication as an agreement between physicians and patients to collaborate, incorporating patients’ opinions, preferences, and values …
This study uses a secondary quantitative data analysis of the 2016 Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey results to test the association between the incidence of IPV …
Using intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1989, 1991; The Combahee River Collective, 1977), this study identified socioeconomic disparities in Pap test use among Black U.S. women aged 21-44 …
This structured literature review explores trauma, race, and health from the perspective of the SWS and critical feminist theory. Further, as Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are …
Stakeholders were recruited via email and through colleague referrals to identify individuals with professional or academic experience with opioids, prescription drug monitoring, or overdose surveillance …
Cancer screening is an effective tool in reducing the burden of disease, especially for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers. However, current studies mostly focus on …
The purpose of this study is to examine patterns in specific health factors to suggest potential public health interventions towards addressing the childhood obesity epidemic …
Adverse experiences in childhood, ranging from neglect to resource scarcity to abuse, alter developmental trajectories and increase risk for reward-related psychopathologies. In humans, exposure to …
Countries around the world routinely adopt restrictive morality policies—non-economic, value-based issues such as abortion, LGBTQI+ rights, and religious education—thereby curtailing the rights of already marginalized …
Esta tese busca compreender a guerra cultural conservadora no Brasil contemporâneo, por meio de sua expressão na literatura e nos quadrinhos. Tendo o conceito gramsciano …
The photoisomerization reaction between quadricyclane (QC) and norbornadiene (NBD) is of interest beyond the ultrafast dynamics community as a candidate for molecular solar thermal systems. …
In subsequent elections, the 2017 #MeToo movement resulted in historic increases for women's representation in the US Congress. Based on previous electoral exchange theories, we …
Through its diaspora engagement policy, Ghana’s government invites Black Americans, a group with nebulous claims to a singular ancestral homeland, to return to a country …
Approximately half of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. In recent years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Congress …
I developed two public data systems deployed longitudinally in the wild: Drafty and Sketchy. Drafty is a tabular dataset of Computer Science professors that has …
Synaptic plasticity is a cellular substrate for learning and memory underlying many behaviors and cognitive function. Dysfunctional synaptic plasticity, both functional and structural, is a …
This dissertation examines the forms through which identification is courted and resisted in the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. …
This dissertation examines the forms through which identification is courted and resisted in the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. …
This project is a critical inquiry into the material, moving, and mediated bodies of the contemporary carceral state. Body Assembly argues that carceral power is …
This PhD thesis presents a comprehensive exploration of Earth’s upper mantle from global and regional perspectives, with a particular emphasis on the stable cores of …
This dissertation employs the idea of sacrifice as a central literary and political device through which to explore the blurring of aesthetic and political boundaries …
Pollution, the release of chemicals into the environment, is the result of current and historic industrial and waste management practices and a range of human …
This dissertation traces the impact of early Soviet social engineering and modernization projects on the contemporary musical life of Pamiris—peoples of the Pamir Mountains of …
Flexibility in rule use is crucial for learning, decision making, and future planning. Children that can flexibly use rules in novel contexts benefit both socially …