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Demystifying the Art in Spanish Art Song in late Nineteenth-Century Spain
AbstractThis dissertation seeks to uncover the components of Spanish art song through history, culture and musical contributions that set the pathway of the evolution of this art form. It aims to enlighten readers so that ... -
Density and Built Environments on Suicide Rates: Improving Urban Planning for Mental Health and Well-being
This thesis examines the relationship between the Built Environment and suicide mortality rates, focusing on improving urban planning standards and practices to promote mental health and well-being in communities. The ... -
Density Control of Multi-Agent Systems with Safety Constraints: A Markov Chain Approach
The control of systems with autonomous mobile agents has been a point of interest recently, with many applications like surveillance, coverage, searching over an area with probabilistic target locations or exploring an ... -
Density dependence without resource partitioning on an online petitioning platform
Online petitions are a collective action tactic that leverages digital affordances in pursuit of discursive opportunities. Prior efforts to explain why some petitions are more successful than others emphasize signer ... -
Density of pediatric dentists and preventive dental care utilization for Medicaid-enrolled children in Washington State
Purpose: This study evaluates the relationship between pediatric dentist density and dental care use for Medicaid-enrolled children in Washington. Methods: This is a cross-sectional analysis of 604,885 children ages 0-17 ... -
Dental Care Utilization for Children with Special Health Care Needs in Washington State’s Access to Baby and Child Dentistry Program
Objectives: To identify potential disparities affecting young children with special health care needs (CSHCN) within public dental programs by evaluating preventive dental care utilization rates in Washington State’s Access ... -
Dental Needs of Oncology Inpatients at Seattle Children’s Hospital
Background: Over 15,000 children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer annually in the US. Guidelines suggest a dental examination be completed prior to starting cancer-directed therapies, but there is little data on ... -
Dental Utilization by Pediatric Patients Attending the 2015 Dental Home Day
Purpose: To describe dental care utilization of patients who participated at the Dental Home Day (DHD) in 2015. Additionally, to determine if, among participants receiving free dental care for one year, insurance type is ... -
Dental Utilization for Medicaid-‐Enrolled Children with Cystic Fibrosis
Background: Despite a highly cariogenic diet and frequent use of inhaled xerostomia-inducing medications, children with CF are believed to be at a lower risk for dental caries (tooth decay) compared to other children. A ... -
Dentro de la "tierra del Hombre Nuevo": la Federación de mujeres y el discurso de la Nueva Mujer en la revista cubana Mujeres
(2006)The dissertation analyses the construction of the discourse of the New Cuban Woman after 1959 within the changing language used by both the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), its leadership and its official voice, the magazine ... -
The dependence of clouds and their radiative impacts on the large-scale vertical velocity
(2007)Middle-tropospheric vertical velocity(o500) is used to isolate the effect of large-scale dynamics on the observed radiation budget and cloud properties in the Tropics. The ratio of shortwave to longwave cloud forcing ... -
Dependence of tropical precipitation on changes in cross-equatorial atmosphere and ocean heat transport in global warming simulations
The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is an area of convection encircling the earth near the equator where the northern and southern hemisphere (SH) Hadley cells converge. If a forcing (e.g. aerosol emissions decline) ... -
Dependency Parsing for Tweets
This thesis concentrates on the problem of dependency parsing for Twitter texts. Twitter texts, also called tweets, are a typical kind of web domain language with many informal and specific linguistic phenomena (Eisenstein, ... -
Depletion of dAKAP1 signaling complexes accompanies pathological changes in mitochondrial dynamics during breast cancer progression
The dual-specificity A-kinase anchoring protein 1 (dAKAP1) is a mitochondrial anchoring protein responsible for recruiting protein kinase A (PKA), along with other signaling molecules, to the outer mitochondrial membrane ... -
Depositional environments, basin evolution and tectonic significance of the Eocene Chumstick Formation, Cascade Range, Washington
(1988)The Chumstick Formation represents a Paleogene, humid-tropical, alluvial-fan system which filled a wrench-fault basin in Washington State. Chumstick deposition was characterized by stream-flow processes; low ($$1 m/k.y.) ... -
Depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate use and the concentration of Gardnerella vaginalis in vaginal secretions: A cross-sectional study
Studies have observed an association between depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) use and bacterial vaginosis (BV). This well-powered cross-sectional study found no association between DMPA use and vaginal fluid ... -
The Depot: A New Intermodal Transit Facility in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan
For over 100 years, railroad development has been resisted within Afghanistan even as foreign powers have vied for control. Due to current efforts driven by foreign investment, a seventy-five kilometer section of railroad ... -
Depression and Anxiety Among HIV+ Men who have Sex with Men and Men who have Sex with Women in China
Background: China is currently experiencing an emerging HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men (MSM). Though studies have investigated biomedical risk factors and HIV prevention initiatives among Chinese MSM, few ... -
Depression and comorbid PTSD in veterans: evaluation of collaborative care programs and impact on utilization and costs
(2007)Depressed patients with comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are often more functionally impaired and more severely mentally ill than patients with depression alone. However, few studies have examined depression ... -
Depression and Death in Diabetes; 10-year follow up of all cause and cause specific mortality in a diabetic cohort
(2013-07-25)Background: When depression co-occurs with type 2 diabetes, adverse bidirectional interactions increase the burden of both illnesses. In addition to affecting patient's health, functioning, and quality of life, this ...