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Implementing Risk Tools to Prevent Hospital Readmission
<p>Implementing Risk Tools to Prevent Hospital Readmission</p> <p>Tara O’Connor</p> <p>Abstract</p> <p><strong>Background: </strong>Readmission reduction is one of the most important opportunities for reducing cost in today’s health care system.</p> <p><strong>Global Aim:</strong> To operationalize …
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Exploring Strategies to Prevent Harm from Web Search
… be considered as viable approaches for harm prevention in Web search environments, in addition to pure system and algorithmic solutions. Additional contributions of this thesis include methods of study design for the comparison of multiple paradigms that promote improved decision making, …
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Armourstone revetments : will standard design criteria prevent failure? /
Bank stabilization structures are used to prevent the loss of valuable land within the urban environment and the decision for the type of structure used depends on the properties of the stream. In the urban areas of Southern Ontario there is a preference for the use of armourstone blocks as bank …
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Barrier Coverage: Deploying Robot Guards to Prevent Intrusion
We use these barriers together with noncooperative zero-sum game theory to construct partial barriers. These are strategies for minimizing undetected intrusion when there is a limitation on available guard resources. We give equilibrium strategies for guards and intruder for the above three guard …
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Modular auger design to prevent clogging in suction
… Caribbean. By reducing clogging, the auger will prevent damage to the pump and reductions in productivity. A mathematical model of the auger system was created, then a small-scale physical model was built to test the concept. These tests exposed flaws in the mechanical details of the design, but …
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Sooner is better : covert action to prevent realignment
Why do states intervene covertly in some places and not others? This is a pressing question for theorists and policymakers because covert action is widespread, costly, and consequential. I argue that states wield it-whether by supporting political parties, arming dissidents, sponsoring coups, or …
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Strategies to Prevent Hospital Transfers in the SNF Environment
<p>This project focuses on the CNL curriculum element of <em>Care Environment Management. </em>The purpose of this project is to reduce hospital readmissions in geriatric patients who are currently having any changes of medical condition within the SNF microsystem. In this project, the CNL …
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Quantify Blood Loss to Prevent Escalation of Blood Loss
… blood loss (QBL) after each delivery to prevent the escalation of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), and decrease maternal mortality and morbidity related to PPH in Maternal Child Health (MCH). This project is initiated in a Northern California acute-care facility’s MCH department, which …
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Targeting protein kinases to manage or prevent Alzheimer’s disease
<p>Due to the pressing need for new disease-modifying drugs for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), new treatment strategies and alternative drug targets are currently being heavily researched. One such strategy is to modulate protein kinases such as cyclin-dependent kinase 1 (CDK1), cyclin-dependent kinase …
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Crotalus Snake Venom Preconditioning to Prevent Surgical Brain Injury
<p>Preventive measures are increasingly relevant to medical practice. Preconditioning, a preemptive therapy that administers mildly harmful stimuli to induce endogenous protective mechanisms before major injury, has been shown to minimize injury in many animal models. Given the elective nature of …
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Novel strategies to prevent and treat experimental pneumococcal disease
With over 90 different serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae unevenly distributed around the world, current vaccine formulations vary significantly in their ability to protect against invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). The adult pneumococcal vaccine is composed of capsular polysaccharide from 23 …
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Technological interventions to detect, communicate and prevent sexual assault
… the United Nations. Our work examines methods to prevent sexual assault, from pre-historic times to latest technologies, to inform contemporary designs. In this thesis, we investigate multiple methods to detect initial signs of assault and develop methods for communication and prevention of …
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Exploiting fitness trade-offs to prevent antifungal drug resistance
The evolution of drug resistance in pathogenic microorganisms is typically viewed as an inevitable consequence of the selective pressures imposed by antimicrobial agents. However, although certain drugs rapidly lose efficacy in the clinic, others remain refractory to resistance. In my thesis, I …
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Reforestation Management to Prevent Ecosystem Collapse in Stochastic Deforestation
… reforestation management in secondary forests to prevent irreversible ecosystem damage. We begin by setting the drift and volatility in stochastic primary forests. However, it is more manageable to take control of replantation. We employ a dynamic programing approach, integrating ecological and …
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Targeting CDK to Prevent and Treat Retinoblastoma and other Cancers
… CDK inhibitors would be more effective in prevention than treatment. To examine this, we leveraged pharmaceutical and genetic strategies to demonstrate that initiated retinal cells and nascent retinoblastoma tumors are exquisitely sensitive to CDK inhibition in vivo. To uncover what factors …
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Prevent Child Abuse Georgia: A Look at Management and Marketing
I did my internship at Prevent Child Abuse Georgia (PCA Georgia) which is Georgia’s only private, statewide community nonprofit organization with the sole objective of preventing child abuse. During the internship, I worked with the resource department team which includes the director of …
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Investigating novel therapeutic approaches and targets to prevent synapse degeneration
… the development of effective therapies aimed at preventing or halting neurodegeneration. Despite the continuously growing body of research elucidating the molecular mechanisms that modulate synaptic function and vulnerability, the contribution of these pathways to neurodegenerative diseases is …
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Gypsum seeding to prevent scale formation and improve separation efficiency
… that the use of silica as a seed material to prevent gypsum scaling should be investigated in future studies. In addition, the treatment of calcium sulphate-rich brines using EFC should be done in stages with the first stage focusing on maximum gypsum removal using a residence time of 5 hours …
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