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Reduce the Rooming Time
… the Rooming Time by the Medical Assistant is to reduce the rooming time from thirteen minutes to ten minutes. In the Department of Adult and Family Medicine, there are about eighty physicians who are supported by eighty medical assistants. The appointment length is twenty minutes. The rooming …
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Does Infant Formula Availability Reduce Breastfeeding?
… that import of infant formula significantly reduces breastfeeding duration. The effects are stronger in areas where breastfeeding rates generally are higher, that is, in rural areas, among women with low education and among women that do not work full time.</p>
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Mental health courts reduce crime rates.
… assault, motor vehicle theft, and larceny were reduced in counties with mental health courts. This study is one of the first studies to look at the nationwide success of mental health courts.
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Periodic feedback to reduce cholesterol levels
The effectiveness of biweekly feedback regarding blood total cholesterol (TCH) to assist dietary adherence and lower blood TCH levels was assessed in a mixed population of healthy and cardiac diseased subjects (S) engaging in an unsupervised mall walking program. Based upon screening with a …
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Methods to reduce transient floor vibrations
… considered several experimental methods to reduce unwanted floor motion as well as analytical procedures aimed at a better understanding of the phenomenon. A series of test floors were designed and constructed expressly for vibration experiments. Various viscoelastic treatments and second …
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A behavioral intervention to reduce presurgical anxiety
<p>A multiple baseline study was conducted across five hysterectomy patients between the ages of 30-36. Three patients received a treatment intervention consisting of general and sensory information, muscle relaxation, a cognitive coping technique, and a pre-anesthetic interview. Two yoked, placebo …
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Does Carpooling To/From Work Reduce Stress?
… to investigate whether carpooling to/from work reduces stress levels in adults. Many people (including the investigator) have long commutes to/from work everyday. Long commutes are not only costly, but they are also very stressful. The reason for conducting this research study is to make adults …
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Reduce the charge risking applying migration tracers
… studies are made to identify, understand and reduce the pre-drill risk of a well. In the Norwegian North Sea, the charge risk became the most important risk, as charge failure accounts for the main reason of being a dry well for post well analysis. Although the Norwegian North Sea is an area …
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Evaluating Active Interventions to Reduce Student Procrastination
… The most effective techniques known to reduce procrastination are resource-intensive and do not scale well to large classrooms. In this thesis, we examine three course interventions designed to both reduce procrastination and be scalable for large classrooms. Reflective writing …
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Breast Cancer Rehabilitation: Does Physical Activity Reduce Fatigue?
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer that affects women in the United States. For 2010, it was estimated that there were 207,090 new cases of invasive breast cancer diagnoses in women (ACS, 2010). The treatment for breast cancer can include surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Following …
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HOW TO REDUCE TRANSPLANT STRESS IN URBAN TREES
… and post planting pruning can help reduce transplant stress and improve establishment, root development, and ecosystem service provision in young urban trees. It addresses four main questions: (i) whether substrate amendment with Ascophyllum nodosum extracts can accelerate nursery …
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Teaching Speech Delivery Skills to Reduce Speech Anxiety
… program designed to teach speech skills and reduce their anxiety would be beneficial. Previous studies have focused on reducing speech anxiety without teaching speech skills, or have taught speech skills without recording their occurrence. Procedure. Instructions and behavioral rehearsal were …
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Acts of kindness in close relationships reduce depression
This study investigated the benefits of performing kind acts within close relationships. Practicing kindness has been shown to strengthen relationships and increase social support. It was expected to be particularly relevant for needy people who are driven by a need for closeness and are vulnerable …
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Remedies to reduce user susceptibility to phishing attacks
… remedial solutions that can be implemented to reduce user susceptibility. To answer the study's main objectives, a qualitative approach was adopted. Semi-structured interviews and interview schedules were used for data collection. The research discussed the two main theories governing the …
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Targeting the Endocannabinoid System to Reduce Inflammatory Pain
… the selective MAGL inhibitor JZL184 would reduce nociceptive behavior in the carrageenan test. JZL184 significantly attenuated carrageenan-induced paw edema and mechanical allodynia, whether administered before or after carrageenan. Complementary genetic and pharmacological approaches …
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An eICU/ICU Collaborative to Reduce Sepsis Mortality
<p>Sepsis costs over 20 billion dollars annually to treat making it the most expensive diagnosis for hospitals (Afrefian, et al., 2017) and carries with it an average mortality rate of 45% (SCCM, 2016). The eICU/ICU collaborative project was developed to improve sepsis mortality at Sutter Health’s …
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A Mechanistic-Based Approach to Reduce Biological Adhesion
… to develop environmentally benign coatings to reduce biological adhesion. Recent mechanistic insights suggest that the marine mussel, Mytilus edulis, adheres with proteins that undergo oxidative cross-linking. Our work has focused on taking a mechanistic approach to defeat adhesion with the …
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Non-invasive interventions top reduce low back dysfunction
This study aims to quantitatively evaluate the low back condition so that low back dysfunction can be identified and classified when measurements show a variance from the normal. The evaluation is done by using the hysteresis concept. In this study, subjects received two different types of …
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Information Interventions to Reduce Maternal Mortality in Indonesia
<p>Indonesia consistently records higher levels of maternal mortality than other countries in Southeast Asia with its same level of socioeconomic development. I use a quasi-experimental, difference-in-differences approach to understand whether the role of information on the risk of death in …
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