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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Concurrent use"”.
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Assessing Concurrent Use of Opioids and Benzodiazepines Using Urine Drug Test Results
The purpose of this dissertation was to assess concurrent use of benzodiazepines and opioids, using laboratory results from urine toxicology records. The opioid crisis is an ongoing public health issue that has spanned over two decades. Drug overdose death is now the leading cause of accidental …
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ALCOHOL AND MEDICATION USE IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER ADULTS: UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECT OF ALCOHOL AND CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM-ACTING MEDICATIONS ON THE RISK FOR FALLS
Introduction: Aging, comorbid conditions, and use of medications render older adults more susceptible to alcohol-disease or alcohol-drug interactions that may lead to harmful outcomes. In this dissertation project the risk profile of alcohol and medications use among older adults was investigated. …
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Concurrent Stimulant and Atypical Antipsychotic Drug Use in Children and Adolescents Diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Background: Multiple psychotropic drug use is highly prevalent in children and adolescents despite the lack of sufficient safety and efficacy data for such use. Few studies evaluated the concurrent use of stimulant and atypical antipsychotic agents in children and adolescents diagnosed with …
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New Business Initiatives and Financial Performance
… o f improvement in financial performance with use o f new business initiatives such as JIT, TQM, and ABC. The investigation is organized into three areas o f inquiry that telescope from the general to the specific to reach a conclusion regarding the efficacy of initiatives. The first two …
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Profile and anticoagulation outcomes of patients on warfarin therapy in an urban hospital in Cape Town: a review of records of patients attending Victoria Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
Background: Warfarin is the most frequently used oral anticoagulant worldwide and it is the oral anticoagulant of choice in South Africa for reducing thrombosis - related morbidity and mortality. However, the safety and efficacy of warfarin therapy depends mainly on careful monitoring and …
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Arsenic trioxide in ovarian cancer
… It was found that As2O3 treatment caused both apoptosis induction and caspase-independent cell death involving mitochondrial dysfunction. This was accompanied by endoplasmic reticulum stress induction and an increase in intracellular glutathione (GSH) level. The latter was in turn …
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Combined Relaxation and Cognitive Restructuring Skills in the Control of Borderline Essential Hypertension
… of this study was to investigate the potential usefulness of combined relaxation and cognitive restructuring in the control of non-medicated, borderline essential hypertensives. Few studies in the literature (Chesney & Black, 1986; Seer & Raeburn, 1980) have targeted the borderline hypertensive …
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Describing the determinants of problem gaming in South Africa : a longitudinal approach
… by a score of 10 in some cases. For robustness, concurrent use of the PGSI and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) measurement criteria for problem gambling is advised. Although it remains undetermined whether problem gambling is best understood as an ordinal or a …
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Resistance training and recovery: influence of dietary supplements, combined trreatment therapies, and gender
… supplements and, in a separate analysis, the use of an anti-inflammatory and nutritional intervention on recovery from resistance exercise in trained men and women. Additionally, the study served to evaluate the influence of gender on skeletal muscle recovery following an exhaustive bout of …
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A determination of air-sea gas exchange and upper ocean biological production from five noble gases and tritiugenic helium-3
… forcing. Tritium, an isotope of hydrogen, is useful in tandem with its daughter helium-3 as a tracer for water mass ages. In this thesis, a fourteen month time-series of the five noble gases, helium-3 and tritium was measured at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site. The …
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The Effects of Prednisone and Prednisone Plus Ultralow-dose Aspirin on Coagulation Parameters in Healthy Dogs
… Conclusions and Clinical Relevance: Prednisone caused hypercoagulability in healthy dogs evidenced by increased MA and fibrinogen and decreased antithrombin activity. Concurrent use of ultra-low dose aspirin had no effect on measured TEG parameters. Intra-individual variation in some TEG …
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A determination of air-sea gas exchange and upper ocean biological production from five noble gasses and tritiugenic helium-3
… forcing. Tritium, an isotope of hydrogen, is useful in tandem with its daughter helium-3 as a tracer for water mass ages. In this thesis, a fourteen month time-series of the five noble gases, helium-3 and tritium was measured at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site. The …
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Measures from complexity science provide manufacturing companies with insights previously unavailable to them
… obtained based on this common framework by the use of Entropy and QanalYSis respectively. A methodology for the creation of the framework, its measurement and validation is then proposed and tested. Three case studies have been carried out in the actual processes of a manufacturing company. The …
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Investigating the ocean’s biological pump using thorium-235 and polonium-210
… can greatly impact atmospheric CO2 levels. Tools used to quantify the flux of biologically relevant elements such as POC and biogenic silica via the biological pump are radioisotopes – naturally-occurring clocks which allow us to look back in time to study oceanic processes. In this thesis, the …
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Evaluation of Tissue Health and Interventions for the Prevention of Pressure Ulcers in Persons with Spinal Cord Injury
… Health Evaluation Toolbox (THEToolbox) was used to determine the impact on tissue health of independent pressure relief (IPR) on a standard cushion and weight-shifting by a dynamic cushion. The overall improvements in tissue health with use of dynamic cushion are similar though smaller in …
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Distributed On-line Training for Object Detection on Embedded Devices.
… energy limitation etc for embedded devices. Use of Transfer Learning technique, Data Parallelism and Model Parallelism in this study reduces the resource consumption of such devices. Besides, retraining the model with continuous streaming data helps to improve the accuracy of the model as …
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An evaluation of two approaches to drinking risk reduction with college students: cognitive-behavioral skills training and motivational feedback
… The effectiveness of matching alcohol abuse interventions with participant's stage of change was also explored. The study's design utilized an assessment only control group and collateral informants to strengthen the validity of the conclusions. Participation in the cognitive-behavioral …
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Traditional Chinese Medicine Use for Health-Related Quality of Life, a Secondary Analysis of the INCLD Health Data
… the United States. These treatments are commonly used in overall health maintenance to promote health and for disease prevention. However, there is a lack of information on how TCM affects Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL). Objectives: The objectives of this study are to evaluate the …
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Evaluation of blunder detection by air traffic controllers using two different display types
… the FAA has initiated evaluates the simultaneous use of three and four closely spaced parallel runways. These operations would allow cost efficient capacity increases through concurrent use of already constructed runways and through the construction of additional runways at existing airports. …
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Elucidating sexual and reproductive health knowledge and interpersonal correlates and predictors of contraceptive use behaviors among young adults 18-24
… both pregnancy and STD/Is is dual contraceptive use: the concurrent use of a highly effective contraceptive method and a condom. Objectives: This dissertation aims to increase our understanding of the psychosocial constructs associated with contraceptive and condom use. This project: 1) examines …
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