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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Medicine -- Research"”.
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An Ethically Informed Consideration of the Use of a Waiver of Informed Consent in Emergency Medicine Research
… as a mechanism for protecting patients and research subjects from abuses. But recent technological advances in the field of emergency medicine research have created new challenges for informed consent procedures. As a result, in 1996 the FDA passed a “Final Rule,” which provides for a waiver …
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Characterization of Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine via Computational Fluid Flow Analysis of Dynamic Contrast Enhanced – Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) Images
… have been made within the field of regenerative medicine over the last few decades with the goal of creating biological substitutes to mimic tissue for research and wound healing purposes. Simply put, regenerative medicine works by understanding and then manipulating the processes by which cells …
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Elucidating the Relationship between Chinese Medicine and Systems Biology: A Multi-Sited Ethnography
Ever since Chinese medicine encountered modern science in the late nineteenth century, the relationship between the two traditions has been extremely one-sided. At best, scientists perceived Chinese medicine as an archive of primitive knowledge from which potentially useful drugs could be …
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PROFILES OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE MUSIC THERAPY JOURNALS
… citation. Results indicated a broad range of research topics with a rapid rise in music and medicine research beginning in the 1980s. Research authors in music therapy comprise a diverse group of authors both from the United States and abroad. This study highlighted transitions in …
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Strategies Ambulatory Practice Leaders Use In Optimizing Electronic Medical Record Systems
… negatively associated with the practice of medicine. Research regarding the challenges related to implementing and adopting EMR systems has been abundant. However, there is little research on EMR optimization strategies within ambulatory practice settings. This qualitative phenomenological …
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Increasing Inclusion of Participants, Leveraging Gut Microbiomes, and Optimizing Machine Learning Models to Advance Warfarin Precision Medicine
Precision medicine, one of the promises of the future of clinical medicine, will not be realized without challenges. Here, focusing on an individual pharmaceutical therapeutic, warfarin, we demonstrate idealistic benefits, realistic caveats, and paths to improving the benefits and equity of …
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Factors Predicting Return to Play in Sports-Related Concussion: An Empirical Evaluation
… have become a top priority within the sports medicine research spectrum. In order to properly understand the complex nature of concussion management, multiple aspects of the injury were explored including the psychobiological nature of the injury, risk for further injury, diagnostic concerns, …
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Novel effects of Prefoldin Pathway on Intestinal Homeostasis via Dietary Restriction in Drosophila melanogaster
<p>The field of medicine research is embroiled in a battle against aging. Particular focus is on the extension of lifespan and health-span. Lifespan duration is affected by many factors, one of which is the maintenance of the intestines of the organism. Homeostasis of the intestines is controlled …
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A wearable, wireless sensor system for sports medicine
… providing the opportunity for furthering sports medicine research. System performance and results are evaluated, and ideas for future work and system improvements are presented.
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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) psychotherapy in contemporary China: a qualitative study of TCM practitioners' perspectives
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a distinct system with a profound history and a comprehensive scholarship. TCM posits a different understanding of the human body, mind, and mental health disorders compared to Western medicine. Research is limited on the application of TCM to mental health …
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Predictive Modelling Approach to Data-Driven Computational Preventive Medicine
… to data-driven computational preventive medicine and offers an alternative framework to statistical analysis in preventive medicine research. In the early parts of this research, this thesis presents research by proposing a synergy of machine learning methods for detecting patterns and …
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Clinico-epidemiological profile of cardiac admissions at a district level hospital in South Africa: a cohort study
… disease. Despite this notable burden, research describing cardiac admissions at the district level is limited and thus, area-specific studies are warranted to provide a perspective on SA's unique population of rich genetic, geographic, social, and cultural diversity. The aim of this …
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Clinico-epidemiological profile of cardiac admissions at a district level hospital in South Africa: a cohort study
… disease. Despite this notable burden, research describing cardiac admissions at the district level is limited and thus, area-specific studies are warranted to provide a perspective on SA's unique population of rich genetic, geographic, social, and cultural diversity. The aim of this …
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Gastrointestinal motility and the role of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH)
This thesis explores the relation between gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and gastrointestinal symptoms and dysmotility. In primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS), a patient group with high levels of GnRH antibodies, associations between objective signs and symptoms of autonomic dysfunction (AD), …
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Navigating transitions out of post-secondary education: a mixed methods study of emerging adult mental health and access to support pre-and post-graduation
… dropout from mental health services. While much research has examined transitions into university and campus-based service access, scarce evidence exists on how to support student mental health as they transition out of postsecondary programs, and ensuring continuity of care post-graduation is a …
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Exploring risk-taking and health in immigrant adolescents to Canada: A unique focus on the “healthy immigrant effect”
The Healthy Immigrant Effect (HIE) describes the phenomenon in which immigrants initially experience better health outcomes than the host population, followed by a gradual decline in health across time and generations. While the HIE has been widely documented among adults, less is known about how …
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The Role of System-Level Primary Care Characteristics and Immigration Status as Predictors of Non-Urgent Emergency Department Presentations
Non-urgent health conditions are best served in primary care settings (e.g. family practices and walk-in clinics). Despite this, patients commonly present to emergency departments (EDs) for non-urgent conditions, especially with upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs). This leads to poor patient …
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Exploring Contemporary Risk-Taking in Canadian Adolescents
This thesis explored contemporary risk-taking within the Canadian adolescent population. It involved two quantitative studies and one qualitative study. Quantitatively, it involved a psychometric analysis to develop and validate new adolescent risk-taking scales focused on engagement in …
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Towards High-resolution Computational Approaches for Structure-based Drug Discovery
… in addressing practical issues in pharmaceutical research and development, and in enhancing our capability in the search for new safe drugs.
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Perceptions of Ghanaian Women Regarding Breast Cancer Screening Behavior
… with an incidence rate of 15 to 35 per 100,000. Research into factors that influence engagement of Ghanaian women in breast cancer screening is limited and the existing literature has produced conflicting results. This research aimed to enhance understanding of Ghanaian women’s knowledge, beliefs …
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