Browsing Theses and Dissertations, Electronic (ETDs) by Title
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HAND AND UPPER EXTREMITY DONATION A GUIDE TO CLINICAL AND FAMILY SUPPORT FOR ORGAN PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATIONS
(Johns Hopkins University, 2014-03-26)Abstract Loosing a limb due to extensive trauma, severe burns, or from infection, can be devastating and mentally taxing on an individual. With the advent of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA), individuals ... -
Hands-On Network Machine Learning
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-12-10)This thesis is a general overview of spectral methods on networks, and how you can use tools from a network’s eigenspace to understand and explain the network more deeply. Networks are some of the most fundamental building ... -
Hans Fries and Niklaus Manuel: Evidence, Inquiry, and Knowledge in Swiss Painting (1430–1530)
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-09-11)This dissertation investigates the role played by legal definitions of evidence and veracity in the development of pictorial naturalism in late medieval and early modern Swiss painting. With the growing impetus in the ... -
Happiness: a Policy Perspective
(Johns Hopkins University, 2014-02-24)Objectives: this thesis examines the relationship between government policy and life satisfaction (happiness). This is accomplished through three related aims: a) to determine whether subjective or objective health are ... -
HARNESSING FLOW-INDUCED FLUTTER OF FLAPPING FLAGS FOR HEAT TRANSFER, MIXING, AND ENERGY HARVESTING
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-07-16)Fluid-structure interaction is ubiquitous in natural and engineering systems. While in engineering applications, these aeroelastic phenomena have historically been considered as detrimental, in Nature there are widespread ... -
Harnessing label-free Raman spectroscopy for metastatic cancer diagnosis and biologic development
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2019-09-05)Optical spectroscopy is unique amongst experimental techniques in that it can be performed in near-physiological conditions, achieve high molecular specificity, and explore dynamics on timescales ranging from nanoseconds ... -
Harnessing Mechanisms of Immune Modulation by Sorafenib to Augment the Efficacy of Cellular Immunotherapy
(Johns Hopkins University, 2015-03-06)The tumor microenvironment is established and maintained through the complex interactions of tumor cells with host stromal elements. Therefore, therapies that target multiple cellular components of the tumor may be most ... -
Harnessing the Power of -Omics to Uncover Novel Targets of Investigation in Mitochondrial Disorders
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-06-04)Methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), propionic acidemia (PA), and Barth syndrome (BTHS) are three inborn errors of intermediary mitochondrial metabolism where the primary metabolic defects are well defined, but there is limited ... -
Harvesting Farmland: An Analysis of National Factors Contributing to the Use of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions as a Food Security Strategy
(Johns Hopkins University, 2014-08-15)This thesis analyzes factors contributing to the recent trend of nations purchasing, leasing, or otherwise acquiring agricultural land abroad as a food production resource. These “large-scale land acquisitions” (LSLAs) ... -
Has the Administrative State Been Able to Adhere to Constitutional Principles As It Expanded?
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-08-23)This paper answers the question, has the administrative state been able to adhere to constitutional principles as it expanded? The principles of popular sovereignty, limited government, separation of powers, checks and ... -
Hazard Mitigation: An Alternative Approach to Reactionary Federal Disaster Spending
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-05-13)Prior to 1950, the U.S. federal government rarely provided assistance to states after a disaster occurred. Today however, declaring a Presidential Disaster Declaration (PDD) and providing Federal Emergency Management Agency ... -
“HE TELLS YOU YOUR WORK IS TO GIVE BIRTH”: REPRODUCTIVE COERCION AND COVERT USE OF CONTRACEPTION AMONG FEMALE INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE SURVIVORS IN NAIROBI, KENYA
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-04-02)Background: Women’s reproductive autonomy is limited by reproductive coercion (RC), or interference in contraceptive and reproductive decisions via direct intervention, threats, or pressure. Women experiencing intimate ... -
Healing Environments for Critically Ill Children: Development of a multidisciplinary and integrated approach to sleep, sedation, delirium and early mobilization
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2018-04-27)Pediatric Intensive Care Unit mortality rates have decreased significantly in the last decade, but the proportion of children surviving with significant functional morbidity is rising. For decades, hospital routines have ... -
Health and Human Rights in Post-Conflict Eastern Burma: Militarization, Risk and Community Responses
(Johns Hopkins University, 2014-02-26)Executive Summary Background Despite recent political reforms in Burma, human rights abuses are ongoing in ethnic regions in the country. Fighting continues in some areas, and ceasefires in others have not brought an end ... -
Health Care for Common Mental Illnesses: The Impact of National Insurance Reforms on Utilization and Spending and A Study of Services Provided in General Medical Settings
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-06-08)Depression and anxiety affect more Americans than any other mental illness. Although effective treatments are available, treatment is often inadequate, delayed, or absent altogether. Individuals with depression or anxiety ... -
HEALTH OUTCOMES IN OLDER ADULTS WITH CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2020-03-26)In the United States, longevity is increasing, and more adults are living into old age, a stage of life when age-related biologic and physiologic mechanisms predispose individuals to cardiovascular disease (CVD) in a context ... -
Health Plan Participation in the Medicare Managed Care Market
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2015-05-19)BACKGROUND: The payment and regulatory policies facing Medicare managed care plans have changed considerably over time, but rather than being evidence-based, these policy changes have often been politically motivated. ... -
HEALTH POLICY ANALYSIS FOR THE CARE OF POWDER EXPLOSION VICTIMS AND GENERAL BURN PATIENTS
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-10-30)Objective: The three studies individually aim to investigate the predisposing factors for Acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients with burn injury using Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) criteria, the factors ... -
HEALTH POLICY RESPONSES AND NEWS MEDIA COVERAGE OF AN EMERGING OUTBREAK: THE CASE OF EBOLA
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-04-25)The Ebola outbreak of 2014-2015 and the resulting media and policy responses provide an important case for studying dreaded communicable diseases and other public health emergencies that will test public health policy ... -
HEALTH SYSTEM DECISION-MAKERS AT THE HELM OF IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY EVALUATION OF AN EMBEDDED IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH MODEL IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2021-01-22)ABSTRACT Problem Statement Efforts that bring together diverse health system stakeholders alongside researchers to collaboratively design, produce, and apply research evidence are gaining traction. Embedded implementation ...