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A 10 year retrospective study of the National Rehabilitation Centre Abu Dhabi: Trends, population characteristics, associations and predictors of treatment outcomes
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-04-04)Data extracted from case notes of all NRC patients from February 2002 to August 2011were analyzed to obtain a descriptive profile and changes in trends during this period. The data were extracted manually using a template ... -
A Balanced Scorecard for Assessing the Quality & Provision of Health Services in UNHCR Refugee Camps
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-03-18)Background Worldwide, there are over 46.3 million individuals who are uprooted from their homes. For the 2014 mid-year report, the UNHCR population of concern included 13 million refugees, 26 million internally displaced ... -
A Bald Eagle in the Land of Muhammad
A lack of information regarding American foreign policy in the Middle East can lead to deleterious political decision-making. There are many people both in the civilian world and the world of government that view Middle ... -
A Bald Eagle In The Land Of Muhammad: American Foreign Policy In The Middle East
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-06-17)A lack of information regarding American foreign policy in the Middle East can lead to deleterious political decision-making. There are many people both in the civilian world and the world of government that view Middle ... -
A Binder-Free Electrocatalytic Cathode for Lithium Oxygen Batteries
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-05-06)Lithium oxygen (Li-O2) batteries have promising potential as a next generation energy storage technology due to their high specific energy density of 3500 Wh/kg. However, Li-O2 batteries are still in early development and ... -
A biochemical and cell biological characterization of TAFAZZIN in a novel Barth syndrome cell model
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-12-28)Barth syndrome (BTHS) is an X-linked disease characterized by cardio- and skeletal myopathy, hypotonia, growth delay, neutropenia, and 3-methylglutaconic aciduria. Patients have mutations in the TAZ gene on chromosome Xq28 ... -
A BIOINFORMATIC PIPELINE FOR THE ANALYSIS OF PROTEIN MICROARRAY DATA WITH APPLICATIONS TO MALARIA AND LUNG CANCER STUDIES
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-04-22)Bioinformatic pipelines are steps taken to transform data from a raw measurement to a form that enables direct biological inference. These steps vary across assays and different methods can have important impacts on ... -
A boson learned from its context, and a boson learned from its end
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-10-18)The Higgs boson was the last particle of the Standard Model of particle physics to be discovered. So far, its properties have been consistent with the Standard Model expectations. This thesis presents a series of analyses, ... -
"A breath of fresh air…literally and figuratively": Volunteering at three non-profit farms in Maryland
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-06-25)The literature about agricultural volunteering is growing, but there is a need for more qualitative research on the subject. Volunteering’s implications for volunteers, farms, and communities are especially important to ... -
A CALCIUM IMAGING APPROACH TO INVESTIGATE TYPE II COCHLEAR AFFERENT ACTIVITY AFTER TRAUMA
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-11-02)Auditory information is sent to the central nervous system from the cochlea through type I and type II cochlear afferents. While the function of the type I afferents is relatively well understood, definitive proof for the ... -
A Case Study Analysis about the Use of a Digital Transition Portfolio for Secondary Students with Mild to Moderate Disabilities in an Urban Inclusive High School Classroom
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-04-15)This qualitative single case study examined how one teacher used a digital portfolio in an inclusive urban high school career research and development (CRD) class over one semester. Specifically, this research described ... -
A Case Study Approach To Exploring Social Emotional Learning Program Implementation
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-10-25)Public schools in the United States are charged with meeting increasingly rigorous student accountability measures despite evidence indicating vast racial and socioeconomic disparities in student achievement across the ... -
A CASE STUDY OF BISPHENOL A (BPA) RISK COMMUNICATION: GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, INTEREST GROUPS AND THE MEDIA
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2014-10-22)Bisphenol A (BPA) is a high-production chemical found in the food supply that has been the subject of public health concerns over the last decade. Government agencies, public health and environmental organizations, industry ... -
A case-control epigenome-wide study of schizophrenia
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-03-15)Schizophrenia (SZ) is severe neuropsychiatric disorder with significant costs to the individual and society. Accumulating evidence points to the role of DNA methylation (DNAm) in either pathogenesis or as a biomarker of ... -
A case-control study of household air pollution and tuberculosis in women and young children in urban India
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-01-12)Background: Household air pollution (HAP) is a known risk factor for many respiratory diseases, however the association between HAP and tuberculosis (TB) is still inconclusive. The purpose of this study is to characterize ... -
A CHARACTERIZATION OF NETWORK PERFORMANCE: THE ROLE OF COMMUNICATION DIRECTIONALITY AND SYSTEM HETEROGENEITY
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-08-27)Networked dynamical systems’ ability to preserve the system equilibrium in the face of disruptive events or persistent disturbances can be an indication of the convergence efficiency and quantified as a measure of system ... -
A CHOICE BETWEEN DESPOTISMS: COMPARING WESTERN AND EASTERN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PARADIGMS
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-08-27)This paper claims that the way infrastructure is developed, more than a boring and technical topic, demonstrates a regime’s character. As the 20th century was dominated by Western-led infrastructure efforts including such ... -
A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Symptom-based versus Tuberculin Skin Test-based Screening of Household Tuberculosis Contacts Under 5 Years of Age
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-03-01)Background: Interventions to prevent tuberculosis (TB) for children are poorly implemented worldwide. TB preventive therapy (TPT) is highly-effective at preventing TB disease in household contacts < 5 years old, but only ... -
A Combinatorial Analysis of the Eigenvalues of the Laplacian Matrices of Cographs
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-05-10)Cographs, also known as complement reducible graphs or decomposable graphs, are a recursively defined class of graphs built from a single vertex by the operations of disjoint union and join. The eigenvalues of a cograph's ... -
A COMMUNITY OF BABBLERS: FAILURES OF COMMUNICATION IN THE RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH NOVEL, 1902-1925
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-08-24)A Community of Babblers: Failures of Communication in the British and English Novel 1902-1925 is a comparative study of Russian Symbolism and English modernism that investigates how the novels of these traditions address ...