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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Potential Outcome"”.
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The use of computer aided lung sound analysis to characterise adventitious lung sounds: a potential outcome measure for respiratory therapy
… insufficient accurate, reliable and sensitive outcome measures. Lung sounds provide useful, specific information for assessing and monitoring respiratory patients. However, standard auscultation techniques are too subjective to allow them to be used as an outcome measure. In this research, …
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The Relationship Between Training and Organizational Commitment in the Health Care Field
… organizational commitment can be considered as a potential outcome of training and development activities. Furthermore, the perceived access to training opportunities provides are more useful measure than hours spent in training supporting the recommendation that future research be conducted in …
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Causal Inference Beyond Estimating Average Treatment Effects
… For example, instead of estimating the mean of potential outcomes in a group, we may want to estimate the distribution of the potential outcomes. Understanding the distribution implies understanding the mean, but not vice versa. Therefore, more sophisticated causal inference can be made from the …
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Validation and clinical Implementation of novel devices analysing physical activity and range of motion in the setting of spine surgery
… arms aim’s to examine range-of-motion as a potential outcome measure. The latter arm within the scope of the thesis is limited to a validation study with 2 separate emerging technologies; an inertial based sensor system and a digital goniometer. Together these two arms pave way for …
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A partial dependence factorial analysis to deal with selection bias in observational studis
… bias, with the resulting approaches – Rubin’s Potential Outcome Approach(Rosenbaum and Rubin,1983; Rubin, 1991,2001,2004) or Heckman’s Selection model (Heckman, 1979) – being widely accepted and used as the best fixes. These solutions to the bias that arises in particular from self selection …
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Exploring the design and analysis of complex experiments: Selective randomization and peer influence
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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The Royal Bafokeng nation, a Case Study for the resource Curse
… elite due to the natural resource and the potential outcome for natural resource abundant economies. This paper argues that the Bafokeng Nation of South Africa provide an unusual case study for the resource curse. The Bafokeng's institutional strength is examined and the incentives facing …
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Investigation of Infectious Disease Associations with Cognitive Impairment using Electronic Medical Records
… were assessed using TriNetX’s Compare Outcomes module, which balanced age, race, and sex distributions through propensity score matching before survival analysis. Kaplan–Meier curves and matched measures of association were then used to estimate infection-specific hazard ratios for …
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Redefining Burnout: Exploring Common Conceptualizations and the Neurophysiology of Chronic Stress to Establish an Integrated Allostatic Model
… phenomenon associated with numerous adverse outcomes for employees and organizations. Unfortunately, burnout is not well understood and research to this point has been flawed due to a lack of consensus on the definition, dimensionality, and context of the construct. Prevalent …
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The anatomy of a magic moment on a guided, all-inclusive, multiday adventure in New Zealand from a guide's perspective
… has become an expectation rather than a potential outcome of tourism experiences. Guests now arrive seeking personal growth and self-discovery within condensed timeframes, placing new emotional and professional demands on guides. This expectation has major implications for future guiding …
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Professional involvement: Requirements as students and trends following certification
… during their entry-level education could potentially impact the decisions and directions these students choose to pursue as young professionals. By recognizing and understanding this possible influence, athletic training education programs (ATEP) can better construct their curriculum …
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The Influence of Human Disturbance on Avian Frugivory and Seed Dispersal in a Neotropical Rainforest
… decline. Beyond outright species loss, one potential outcome is modification of species interactions that are integral to ecosystem functioning. To investigate this possibility, I asked whether human activity influences avian frugivory and seed dispersal, bird-fruit interactions that …
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Essays in econometrics
… Under binary treatment and finite support of the potential outcomes, we introduce a transition matrix representation of the potential outcome pair. We show that it can be used to characterize the identified region of the joint distribution for the potential outcomes, which in turn generates the …
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Devising jurisprudential strategies for the maintenance of constitutionalism in the context of one party domination
… and socio-political implications that impact the outcome of politically sensitive litigation to the extent that the principles of constitutionalism are bound to be imperilled. The courts, and more particularly the Constitutional Court, should be alive to the possible detrimental impact of …
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The Majority of the Diaphragm Immune Transcriptome Profile Rescued in Mdx Mice by Microdystrophin Gene Therapy was maintained by Voluntary Wheel Running
… of physical activity in DMD individuals is a potential outcome of current clinical studies investigating microdystrophin treatment; therefore, understanding the impacts of physical activity on the immune system, particularly for the diaphragm, may be important to minimize risk. Recently, the …
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Hope in the untenable: Seeking asylum in Samos, Greece
… which ethnographic material might be examined: potential, outcome, emotion, and timing. In considering each of these four tracks of hoping, engagements with hope reveal conscious evaluation and a continual effort to focus on and achieve what is valued. When examined through the lens of the …
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Evaluation of an Orthotic Intervention for the Management of Pregnancy Related Pelvic Girdle Pain (PGP)
… series was therefore undertaken to explore the potential effectiveness of the customised DEFO in reducing pain and improving function and quality of life in women with chronic (> 3months) PGP. The single case study series also afforded an opportunity to identify potential outcome measures that …
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Essays on Propensity Score Methods for Causal Inference in Observational Studies
… thus the association between the treatment and outcome can be due to some unmeasured variable that affects both the treatment and the outcome. Chapter 3 focuses on conducting sensitivity analysis to assess the robustness of the estimated quantity when the unconfoundedness assumption is violated. …
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Advances in Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling with Tree-based Methods
… This subroutine is also important in avoiding potential overfitting. Our third contribution proposes a framework for causal inference through Bayesian recursive partitioning that allows joint modeling of the covariate balancing and the potential outcome. With a retrospective perspective, we …
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Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE public investments: impact on education, adaptation and preferences
… at the local level, varied to mixed decision outcomes regarding stated preferences on whether to continue the programme or not. The study attempts to decipher this by investigating whether feelings are driven by past wild animal encounters and whether the stated programme preferences are in …
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