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Showing 1 to 20 of 441 for “"Prescriptions"”.
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Prescriptions and universalizability: a defence of Harean ethical theory
R.M. Hare had an ambitious scheme of providing a unified account of meta-ethics and normative ethics by combining expressivism with Kantianism and utilitarianism. The project of this thesis is to defend Hare’s theory in its most ambitious form. This means not just showing how the expressivist, …
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Improving Early Season Sidedress Nitrogen Rate Prescriptions for Corn
Corn requires the most nitrogen (N) of cereal grain crops and N supply is correlated with grain yield. Canopy reflectance has been used to assess crop N needs and to derive optimum application rates in mid-season corn. Canopy reflectance has not been useful for N rate determination in early season …
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Counterfactual Prescriptions Via Hierarchical ML For Missed Chemotherapy Appointment Prevention
Missed medical appointments, including cancellations and no-shows, disrupt clinical workflows, reduce efficiency, and compromise patient care. Using 1.8 million chemotherapy appointments from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, this study develops a hierarchical machine learning framework that first …
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Exploring the Structure and Development of Management Prescriptions for Public Lands
Management prescriptions that describe desired conditions for resources and visitor experiences have become widely accepted as an important component of public land management plans. However, very little effort is spent on evaluating and learning about this part of the planning process. This …
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Building galaxy models with self-consistent prescriptions for stellar and nebular emission
A galaxy's spectrum is the sum of light emitted by stars and gas, modulated by intervening dust. Translating between the observed flux from galaxies and meaningful astrophysical quantities relies on ``stellar population synthesis'' (SPS) models. These models include descriptions for the light …
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Antibiotic Resistance: Use of Delayed Prescriptions for Viral Syndromes in Urgent Care
… prescribing, sometimes called “wait and see” prescriptions, may reduce antibiotic use for viral syndromes in primary care settings. The overall purpose of this scholarly project is to explore delayed prescriptions used by providers in two urgent care settings, with a potential to reduce the …
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Empirical and theoretical observations in trade secrecy : statutory prescriptions and endogenous growth
Recent scholarship has suggested that trade secrecy may be as important, if not more important, than patenting as an intellectual property protection mechanism in the United States economy. While patent protection has always been an institution in the United States as a result of its inclusion in …
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Becoming a man: the prescriptions of manhood and manliness in early modern England
… is centred upon identifying and exploring the prescriptions and perceptions of manhood and manliness in England during the period c.1580-c.1700. It traces shifts in emphasis of the defining characteristics of manhood across the long-seventeenth century. Moreover, the centrality of both social …
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The Effect of Different Prescriptions Used by Teachers in an Ipi Mathematics Program
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:45:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7219849.pdf: 2749196 bytes, checksum: d9b7397a9b500c465debca8a44d956fc (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Relating Racial Disparities to Financial Concerns and Shared Decision Making in Opioid Prescriptions
… examine the relationship between race and opioid prescriptions in hospitals. While other researchers have previously provided evidence that Black patients receive, ceteris paribus, fewer opioid prescriptions than White patients in American hospitals, this work adds three components of analysis. …
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Pharmacists' Rating of Relevance of Available Information in Deciding the Validity of Opioid Medication Prescriptions
… with making decisions regarding the validity of prescriptions. Some have proposed factors that should be considered when evaluating a prescription's validity. Yet, there is little known about the decision process that pharmacists employ at the time of dispensing and what information pharmacists …
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Opioid Reduction Initiative: A Retrospective Review of Prescriptions Among Various Providers, Observation, and Future Recommendations
… opioids account for 5% of the 191 million opioid prescriptions, with 80% of the opioids prescribed going unused (Stulberg et al., 2019).Aim: This project utilized a retrospective review of kidney transplants completed between February 2021 and August 2021 to establish the number of outpatient …
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Nonopioid therapies in the treatment of chronic pain and their abilities to reduce opioid prescriptions
… of chronic pain, their ability to reduce opioid prescriptions, and assess their pros and cons. Three different forms of alternative treatments were chosen: 1) psychotherapeutic treatment Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, 2) Eastern Medicine Acupuncture, and 3) pharmacological class cannabinoids. …
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Assessing the Disruptive Vulnerability of Broadcast News: An Ex-Post Analysis Generating Ex-Ante Prescriptions
This dissertation endeavors to assess the disruptive vulnerabilities of the broadcast news (BN) industry via a retrospective *ex-post* analysis with the objective of developing forward-looking *ex-ante* prescriptive and performative remedies for BN and the broader journalism industry. Through the …
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Exercise Rehabilitation Efficacy and Optimal Exercise Training Prescriptions for Improved Health Outcomes in People with Type 2 Diabetes
… rehabilitation and the components of exercise prescriptions on optimizing health outcomes for people with diabetes (DM). Exercise is an accepted part of the diabetes management regime to help prevent or slow the progression of the disease. A combined aerobic and resistance training protocol is …
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The derivation of fire hazard indices and burning prescriptions from climatic and ecological features of the fynbos biome
… conservation goals to provide meaningful burning prescriptions for the biome. The United States National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) is based on Rothermel's analytical fire model. Vegetation characteristics are summarised in a fuel model and used in the NFDRS together with weather variables …
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The derivation of fire hazard indices and burning prescriptions from climatic and ecological features of the fynbos biome
… conservation goals to provide meaningful burning prescriptions for the biome. The United States National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) is based on Rothermel's analytical fire model. Vegetation characteristics are summarised in a fuel model and used in the NFDRS together with weather variables …
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Antipsychotic prescribing as a treatment of dementia in British Columbia: physician-level characteristics associated with receiving potentially inappropriate prescriptions
… were older, had lower incomes, used more prescriptions, contacted a physician more, and had higher comorbidity scores compared to patients who did not receive an antipsychotic. Rarity of outcomes, decreased rate of antipsychotic prescriptions, and little indication of practice-variation …
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Comparing Distance-Based Vs. Time-Based Exercise Prescriptions Of Walking And Running For Improvement Of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors
The many benefits of participation in a regular physical activity program are well-documented (Haskell et al., 2007; Pate et al., 1995). Brisk walking and jogging are commodes of exercise that is easily measured and evaluated by a self-report method that is comin both clinical and research …
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Case study on re-architecting of established enterprise software product : major challenges encountered and SDM prescriptions from lessons learned
The paper studies a real word project of an enterprise software product re-architecting at a mid-sized telecommunication company. It begins with a description of the company and the software product, as well as an elaboration of the project under study. Using written surveys and follow-up …
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