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  • Refining a more complete theory of environment, safety, and health management strategy using case studies

    Creator:
    Maxwell, Elisabeth D.
    Abstract:
    Environment, safety and health (ESH) research has a strong tradition of conducting research in manufacturing to improve workplace ESH conditions and has tied its management strategy and technical practices to many significant priorities: illness and injury prevention, environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility, compliance with regulatory and insurance requirements, and dealing...
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    Dissertation
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        AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Elisabeth D. Maxwell for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy

  • Experiences and Correlates of Healthcare Discrimination Among Saudis in the United States

    Creator:
    Sinky, Tassnym Hussein
    Abstract:
    Healthcare discrimination is associated with various health-related attitudes, behaviors, intentions, and outcomes including provider avoidance, underutilization or increased use of healthcare services, use of alternative means of healthcare, delays in medical care, less satisfaction with care, poor health behaviors, and poorer health outcomes. Since 2001, Muslims and Arabs in the...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    , 2006; Ren, Amick, & Williams, 1999; Sorkin, Ngo-Metzger, & De Alba, 2010; Thorburn, Faith, Keon

  • Vernier Picket Fence Test : A Non-Imaging Method to Localize the Radiation Isocenter with Submillimeter Accuracy

    Creator:
    Wong, Jennifer
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    Vernier Picket Fence (VPF) offers a method to achieve submillimeter accuracy for aligning the QA phantom to the radiation isocenter without the use of x-ray imaging. VPF tests are read similarly to vernier calipers. The maximum detector signal determines the optimal matching between MLC defined dose strips and detector positions....
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    : Equation 1 where 𝑑!"# is the picket fence spacing, 𝑁 is the number of dose strips, and 𝑑

  • The Relationship between Retirement Timing and Mortality : A Population-Based Longitudinal Study among Older Adults in the United States

    Creator:
    Wu, Chenkai
    Abstract:
    Retirement is one of the most important transitional events in later life. Despite a large body of research examining the impacts of retirement on health, questions still remain regarding the relationship between retirement timing and subsequent health and survival. Previous research examining the existence, direction, and magnitude of the relationship...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Species Distribution Modeling of Citizen Science Data as A Classification Problem with Class-Conditional Label Noise

    Creator:
    He, Liqiang
    Abstract:
    Species distribution models (SDM), which quantify the correlation between the distribution of a species and environmental factors, are increasingly used to map and monitor animal and plant distributions in the context of awareness of environmental change and its ecological consequence. For perfect data, this is a straightforward classification problem from...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Writing Center and Dr. Adam D. Haley for the sincere help during the thesis writing. I thank my research

  • About good work

    Creator:
    Lee, Wei-Tau
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    This research is an effort to explore the nature of good work, a concept that describes work that is beneficial to the physical, psychological, and social dimensions of its stakeholders, including and especially the worker. This effort is divided into four distinct parts. First, the construct of good work is...
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    Dissertation
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    referred to in other manuscripts as (Lee, in preparation, d). 5 2. Elements of Good Work

  • The sum of its parts : investigating the component pieces of GenderMag

    Creator:
    Hill, Charles
    Abstract:
    Previous work introduced the GenderMag method, a software inspection method used to help software creators identify features within their software that are not gender-inclusive. Inclusiveness of software (gender or otherwise) matters because supporting diversity matters—it is well-known that the more diverse a group of problem-solvers, the higher the quality of...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    what the user’s perceived goals are [1], and (d) they summarize data about users in a relatable and

  • Influence of Processing Parameters on the Inactivation of Salmonella spp. During the Cooking Step of Jerky Production Using a Commercial-Scale Dehydrator

    Creator:
    Minarsich, Joey
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    United States Department of Agriculture-Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) guidelines for beef jerky processing support producers' ability to satisfy the performance standard requirements for achieving a 5-log reduction in Salmonella and E. coli O157:H7. The first compliance guide for jerky processors was created in response to several Salmonella outbreaks...
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    Masters Thesis
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    validation study were provided by Commercial Dehydrators, Inc. of Eugene, OR. Thanks to Darryl Hastings

  • Machine learning for improving the quality of citizen science data

    Creator:
    Yu, Jun
    Abstract:
    Citizen Science is a paradigm in which volunteers from the general public participate in scientific studies, often by performing data collection. This paradigm is especially useful if the scope of the study is too broad to be performed by a limited number of trained scientists. Although citizen scientists can contribute...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    : (a) observer, (b) location, (c) visit, and (d) species. Observer information (e.g. name, ID and

  • The impact of social capital on well-being in rural communities

    Creator:
    Harrison, Jane L.
    Abstract:
    This study seeks to explore the relationship between social capital and well-being in the rural Western United States. Mixed methods were employed to understand the concepts from multiple angles, using both profile and process indicators. An econometric approach used profile indicators and relied on data from 414 counties in the...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation