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E-Mentoring and Teacher Retention in the Mississippi Delta
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-02-04)The majority of Teach For America (TFA) teachers in the rural Mississippi Delta leave the region at the conclusion of their two-year teaching commitment with the TFA program. Though retaining teachers beyond two years is ... -
Early adolescents in adversity: A mixed methods approach to understanding psychosocial risks across four low- and middle-income countries
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-12-08)Early adolescents (ages 10-14) living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have heightened vulnerability to psychosocial risks, but available evidence from these settings is limited. The objective of this dissertation ... -
Early Childhood Education Quality and Family Engagement
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-08-24)Empirical literature demonstrates that the quality of early childhood education (ECE) impacts children’s learning in multiple domains. Quality rating and improvement systems (QRISs), which are active in nearly every state, ... -
Early Detection of Transition to Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome Using Physiological Time Series Data
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-10-29)Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) has an incidence rate of between 11 to 56\% in the PICU. Early prevention and treatment of MODS is important in the pediatric population as it increases mortality and leads to ... -
Early Development of Vaginal Microbicides to Decrease HIV Acquisition in Women
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-06-14)Women are disproportionately affected by HIV, with most infections in women occurring as a result of heterosexual intercourse. New HIV prevention strategies are needed that women could employ discretely, potentially without ... -
Early Hospital Readmisison Following Kidney Transplantation and Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-05-12)In the United States, 30% of kidney transplant (KT) recipients experience early hospital readmission (EHR), or readmission within 30 days of discharge following transplantation. Known predictors of EHR include older age, ... -
EARLY IMPLEMENTATION OF GUIDELINES FOR MANAGING YOUNG INFANTS WITH INFECTION IN RURAL BANGLADESH: AN IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH STUDY
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-01-13)Background: Neonatal infections remain a leading cause of newborn deaths globally. In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued guidelines for managing possible serious bacterial infection (PSBI) in young infants ... -
EARLY INTERCEPTION OF PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA BY TARGETING THE DYNAMIC TME: MODULATION OF NOVEL MICRORNA TARGETS AND UTILIZATION OF COMBINATION IMMUNOTHERAPY
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-03-22)Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA), or pancreatic cancer, is currently the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, and is projected to become the second leading cause surpassing those caused by ... -
EARLY LIFE EXPOSURES AND DEVELOPMENT OF ADHD IN CHILDHOOD
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-04-03)Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders that imposes an enormous cost to individual, family and society across lifespan and generations in the U.S. This ... -
Early life programming of cardiometabolic disease: the role of prenatal zinc, intrauterine growth, and the development of the fetal autonomic nervous system
(Johns Hopkins University, 2015-04-03)Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) are major causes of mortality and disease burden among developing countries, yet maternal and child undernutrition are also still of great concern. ... -
Early Prediction of Adverse Clinical Events and Optimal Intervention in Intensive Care Units
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-10-26)Adverse clinical events like cardiopulmonary arrest and multiple organ dysfunction are life-threatening events with potentially debilitating health outcomes and are a leading cause for mortality in intensive care unit (ICU) ... -
Early-Childhood Educator Instructional Practices for English Learners
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-11-09)English learners (EL) are the fastest growing subpopulation of U.S. public schools. ELs are expected to comprise nearly one-fourth of the school population by 2025. The increase in ELs is not met with enough well-prepared ... -
Early-Life Exposures and Adult Cancer Risk: A Life Course Approach to Cancer Prevention
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-12-21)Background Despite emerging evidence indicating the potential importance of early-life exposures for adult cancer risk, there is limited research investigating cancer risk factors in early-life. The goals of this ... -
EARLY-STAGE BREAST CARCINOMA MECHANICALLY REMODELS THE TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT TO PROMOTE CANCER PROGRESSION
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-05-09)The remodeling of the tumor microenvironment is a characteristic behavior that malignant tumors utilize to progress towards late stages of cancer. Though this has been observed in in vivo studies, the measurement of tumor ... -
Earthy Considerations: Transfigurations of Thought during the Anthropocene
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-10-21)This dissertation seeks to give expression to some ways that earthy forces affect democratic politics from within. Part one of the study engages the work of three influential Western political theorists—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ... -
EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE AND THE 2014 OUTBREAK: A LITERATURE REVIEW
(Johns Hopkins University, 2015-05-01)The Ebola outbreak in West Africa that started in December 2013 has sickened more than 25,000 people and taken more than 10,000 lives, making it the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded. A review of the chronology of ... -
ECOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON PROBLEMATIC CHILD BEHAVIOR: AN EXPLORATORY QUALITATIVE STUDY IN THE CONTEXT OF URBAN POVERTY IN EGYPT
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-09-03)Background: Disruptive behavioral problems (DBPs) are the most commonly identified mental health issues in children and have long-term health, social, and economic consequences. Community violence, lack of basic infrastructure, ... -
Ecological Predictors of Children's Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Outcomes
(Johns Hopkins University, 2014-06-30)Introduction: Ecological, transactional, and developmental theories suggest that contextual factors play a crucial role in children’s social, emotional, and behavioral development. Currently, little is known about the ... -
Ecologies of the Good Life: Forces, Bodies, and Cross-Cultural Encounters
(Johns Hopkins University, 2014-07-21)How do political responses to ecological problems shift once we take seriously the powers of natural forces to alter collective conditions and identities? What if the land was understood to be a co-creator of social life, ... -
ECONOMIC AND EDUCATIONAL DISPARITIES IN ACCESS, QUALITY AND COVERAGE OF PRIMARY HEALTHCARE SERVICES IN CONFLICT AFFECTED FRAGILE STATES: A SUBNATIONAL ANALYSIS OF GEOGRAPHIC PROXIMITY TO ORGANIZED VIOLENCE AND MAGNITUDE OF DISPARITIES IN CAMEROON, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, MALI AND NIGERIA
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-04-16)Background: The global emergency created by the COVID-19 pandemic turned the spotlight on the vulnerabilities experienced in conflict and fragile situations. A cohesive and equity-based PHC system can improve the delivery ...