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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"AI/AN"”.
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E-AI an emotion architecture for agents in games & virtual worlds
Characters in games and virtual worlds continue to gain improvements in both their visual appearance and more human-like behaviours with each successive generation of hardware. One area that seemingly would need to be addressed if this evolution in human-like characters is to continue is in the …
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Attainment Of Doctoral Degree For American Indian And Alaska Native Women
<p>The American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) population is challenged with diverse learning styles, high-risk behaviors, low economic status, low enrollment predictions, lower total education achievement, or lower graduate level higher education. However, AI/AN doctoral degree recipients may be …
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Risk Factors for Substance Use in the American Indian/Alaska Native Community
<p>Research has indicated that substance use is a significant problem in the American Indian/Alaska Native adolescent community. What is less understood are the risk and protective factors specific to this community. Using data available from the Communities That Care Youth Survey, we analyzed risk …
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Policy and Health (In)Equities among Native Elders
Sociological theory and literature in the study of disparities in health and access to care in old age has, with few exceptions, not considered important political contexts for the aging AI/AN community. Political histories have unique implications for this population, and particularly those in old …
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Examination Of The Relationship Between Amercian Indian Cultural Identity And Academic Performance Of Nursing Graduates
<p>There are great health disparities within the AI/AN population according to IHS documentation. Historical events such as complex political issues, poor education, boarding schools, and loss of language have heightened this difficult healthcare situation. Furthermore, issues such as lack of …
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Quality of Life among Southwest American Indians and Alaska Natives Living with the Hepatitis C Virus
… percent of infected persons have no symptoms and are unaware of their infection. It is significant to note that AI/ANs commonly contend with issues that prevent them from receiving or seeking medical care. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to: (a) Characterize the level of depression, …
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Indian Health Funding: Time For Change
… <p> Since the time of first contact with European immigrants, American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) have endeavored to protect their traditional ways of life, well-being, land bases, populations and forms of government. The policies of the United States toward its first peoples have undergone …
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A Retrospective Study of Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders in a Sample of Urban American Indian and Alaska Natives
… health disorders, co-occurring disorders (COD), and alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use (ATOD) among a sample of urban-dwelling adult American Indian and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) seeking behavioral health services from one metropolitan Indian clinic in Southwestern United States. A descriptive …
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Formative Assessment: Documenting Motor Vehicle Crashes and Local Perceptions with the Hualapai Tribe to Inform Injury Prevention Recommendations
Background: This research was designed to understand factors influencing Motor Vehicle Crashes (MVCs) on or near the Hualapai Tribe’s reservation in northwestern Arizona. The goal is to enable the Tribe to develop and implement a locally relevant MVC intervention program. The specific aims were to: …
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Mental Health And Social Engagement Among American Indian Elders
<p>Elderly American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) in the United States are increasing in number, and with their increase come a greater need for quality, culturally sensitive long term care. Mental health is one facet of overall health that is little explored for this particular population. …
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ResearchBuddy AI: LLM-Powered Assistant
This paper presents ResearchBuddy AI, an LLM-powered assistant that addresses modern research information overload problems. The project has three essential features, including finetuning of large language models for structured research paper summarization, prompt engineering for flexible …
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Opioid overdose trends in children, adolescents and young adults
… reaching record high mortality rates during the pandemic. While trends have been documented in adults, there is a need to examine these patterns among younger populations. Aim: This study analyzes opioid overdose mortality in children, adolescents, and young adults to examine trends in opioid …
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Context-Based classification of objects in topographic data
… world features as vector data objects. These can be point, line or area features. Each of these map objects is assigned to a descriptive class; for example, an area feature might be classed as a building, a garden or a road. Topographic data is subject to continual updates from cartographic …
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På AI-teknikens axlar : Om kunskapssociologin och stark artificiell intelligens
This dissertation is concerned with Sociology’s stance in the debate on Strong Artificial Intelligence, i.e. such AI that is able to shape new knowledge without human interference. There is a need for sociologists to realize the difference between two approaches to constructing AI systems: Symbolic …