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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Hazard Modeling"”.
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The Influence of Diversity on Government Durations in Parliamentary Systems
… across 12 countries and applied Cox proportional-hazard modeling to examine the relationships between age and education and the duration of governments in parliamentary systems. The independent variables were age and education level for members of parliamentary governments across central Europe. …
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Development and assessment of remotely derived variables in current southern pine beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis Zimm.) hazard mapping in North Carolina, USA
… to assist and improve on the current federal SPB hazard modeling being conducted for North Carolina by the USDA Forest Service – Forest Health Protection's Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team (FHTET). In our study, predictive SPB susceptibility models were developed for each physiographic …
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Depression and Death in Diabetes; 10-year follow up of all cause and cause specific mortality in a diabetic cohort
… Pathways Epidemiologic Study. Cox proportional hazard modeling was used to examine the relationships between depression status and mortality over a 10-year period Results: We found a significant, positive relationship between depression and all cause as well as non-cardiovascular, non-cancer …
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The Impact of Comorbidities on the Incidence of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia among Elderly Patients with Diabetes Mellitus
… age, sex, ethnicity. Using Cox prpoprtional hazard modeling following subjects for 10 years, diabetes was associated with higher risk of both Any-CI and All-D. This association was independent of microvascular or macrovascular complications, other chronic diseases, or geriatric conditions. …
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Information Technology and Its Transformational Effect on the Health Care Industry
… the Diffusion of Electronic Medical Records: A Hazard Modeling Analysis. This study, positioned at the inter-organizational level, draws upon adoption and diffusion literature to predict the likelihood of EMR adoption by hospitals. I theorize that adoption is driven by factors such as the …
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Effect of Obesity on Outcomes following Total Hip/Total Knee Arthroplasty among Medicare Beneficiaries with Osteoarthritis
… Survival analyses using cox proportional hazard modeling were conducted for 30-day hospital readmission and mortality. Normal weight was used as the reference category in all multivariable analyses. Differential effects of obesity were also examined by race/ethnicity and gender. …
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Modeling the societal impact of natural hazards
… models for societal consequences of natural hazards which are often neglected in traditional risk analysis. The impact of natural hazards is far-reaching and evident based on past disasters such as Hurricane Katrina (2005) and Superstorm Sandy (2012). The vulnerability of the nation’s …
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Probabilistic Modeling of Shallow Landslides at Regional Scales
… dissertation aimed to improve mapping landslide hazard by integrating process-based and data-driven statistical models. To achieve this, we organized the dissertation into four chapters that begins with motivation and background (Chapter 1) and a climate change vulnerability assessment to access …
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Organizational, Operational, and Behavioral Causes of Product Recalls
… dataset and recurrent event Cox proportional hazard and propensity score matching models, I find that adverse plant inspection outcomes serve as warning signs for future recalls. I incorporate FDA investigator experience to identify reasons for, and effects of, investigator complacency in …