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Usability testing of ramps used for boarding and disembarking public transportation vehicles
(2010)
Accessible public transportation facilitates participation in social and recreational activities. The slope of the ramps on public transportation vehicles affects accessibility of these vehicles. The changes in these ramp ...
How professional socialization and practice characteristics shape culturally competent care
(2010)
For this research, I used a sociological framework that draws on theoretical and empirical works that seek to understand health disparities and the social organization of health care. My purpose is to understand the factors ...
A preliminary examination of the associations among worksite environment, worksite health culture, and modifiable employee health risk
(2010)
In recent years, the focus of worksite health promotion has begun to shift from the individual employee to the worksite environment and health culture. The purpose of this study was to examine the cross-sectional associations ...
Envoys of the yellow emperor: The globalization and domestication of acupuncture focusing on a school of Asian medicine in Munich Germany
(2010)
This thesis explores the transnational flow of acupuncture and Chinese Medicine by focusing on an acupuncture school in Munich, Germany. A large part of the appeal of acupuncture in the West is that it is foreign and exotic, ...
The impact of anti-congestion policies on fuel consumption, carbon dioxide emissions and urban sprawl: Application of RELU-TRAN2, a CGE model
(2010)
RELU-TRAN (Regional Economy and Land Use and Transportation) is a numerically solvable general equilibrium model (Anas and Liu, 2007), which treats in a unified manner the regional economy, urban land use and urban personal ...
The influence of demographic factors, knowledge and beliefs on intention for mammography screening among Jordanian women
(2010)
Significance. Although breast cancer is a serious women's health problem in Jordan, little is known about women's screening behavior for this disease. Purpose. To better understand knowledge about breast cancer and screening, ...
The metaphysics of dementia: The intersection of personal identity and clinical ethics
(2010)
An advance directive is a legally binding contract which an individual of sound mind creates in order to direct care when she is no longer able to communicate her desires. The moral authority of a directive is derived from ...
Spatio-temporal landscape models for West Nile virus vector population abundance and distribution
(2007)
In response to the rapid spread of West Nile virus throughout North America there has been an increase in the number of mosquito vector surveillance and control programs. However, mosquito surveillance programs are costly ...
Geographical analysis of disease incidence, mortality, and deprivation: A study of people living with HIV/AIDS in northern Thailand
(2007)
In Thailand, the young population is living under the threat of getting HIV infected one way or the other. The main goal of this study is to understand the geographic patterns of HIV/AIDS in Chiang Rai, a northern province ...
Health care disparities in Buffalo, New York: The intersections of individual and community level factors
(2007)
Race, socioeconomic status (SES), and place/area of residence have been identified in sociological research as contributing to health disparities. Because individual level variables alone do not account for the complex ...