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QMRA: Exposure model sensitivity to input parameters, critical review of dose-response models, and application in assessing risk of aging drinking water distribution systems
In the United States (US) and around the world, aging water infrastructure is a public health problem because drinking water infrastructure is coming to the end of its useful life with components in some areas being over ... -
Quad-Rotor Path Planning for Cluttered and Uncertain Environments
This thesis investigates the validity of the path planning algorithm that was developed in a previous study for cluttered and uncertain environments with high-performance and low-performance computing environments.Using ... -
Quadrant distribution of tropical cyclone inner-core kinematics in relation to environmental shear
(2014-04-30)Airborne Doppler radar data collected in tropical cyclones by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration WP-3D aircraft over an eight-year period (2003-2010) is used to statistically analyze the vertical structure of ... -
Quadruple Langmuir Probe Measurements of a Hall Effect Thruster Plume
Measuring time-dependent plasma parameters requires a diagnostic capable of making instantaneous measurements. A quadruple Langmuir probe measures the instantaneous electron temperature, electron density, and ion velocity. ... -
Qualitative Assessment of Hot Debriefs for Code Teams at Seattle Children’s Hospital
Seattle Children’s Hospital recently implemented ‘hot debriefs’ for code teams that respond to cardiac or respiratory resuscitation code events. Hot debriefs are meetings immediately after the code event where the code ... -
Qualitative mid-term evaluation of a maternal and child health training and research capacity building program in Kenya
Kenya has made gains to reduce their maternal mortality ratio of 400 per 100,000 live births and under 5 mortality rate of 71 per 1,000 live births. Human resources continue to be a challenge for the Kenyan Health System. ... -
Qualitative Process Evaluation of the Yéego! Healthy Eating and Gardening Program at Two Navajo Elementary Schools
Introduction: School-based health promotion interventions are one approach to reducing population health disparities, but few studies evaluate the implementation process to understand how it produced the outcomes. As part ... -
Qualitative stability properties of matrices
(1985)A matrix A is sign stable if some matrix with the same sign pattern of positive, negative, and zero entries has all eigenvalues with negative real parts. It is potentially stable if it is not sign unstable. The system A x ... -
A Qualitative Study of How First-Generation Chican@/Latin@ Students Experience Access and Engagement in Undergraduate Research
Chican@/Latin@ students are underrepresented in higher education and even fewer are accessing and completing graduate degrees. In order to continue on the doctoral pathway, students must have accessed services that will ... -
Quality and Capacity Decisions in Service Industry
(2013-11-14)In this research we provide different analytical models that capture the effects of quality of service. We consider quality of service as a measure separate from capacity decision and analyze the effects of these decisions ... -
Quality improvement assessment of inpatient medical stabilization for restrictive eating disorders among adolescents during COVID-19
University of Washington Abstract Quality improvement assessment of inpatient medical stabilization for restrictive eating disorders among adolescents during COVID-19 Jennifer Rynning Chair of the Supervisory Committee:Daniel ... -
Quality of care, asymmetric information, and patient outcomes in U.S. for-profit and not-for-profit renal dialysis facilities
(1998)Economic theory suggests that investor-owned firms exhibit superior performance compared to their not-for-profit competitors due to efficiency gains realized from profit maximization incentives. Others argue that ownership ... -
Quality of Life of New Parents Participating in a Community-based, Professionally-facilitated New Parent Support Group
Background: Each year, millions of people become parents, an event ranked by many as one of the most impactful experiences in their lives. Previous studies have documented the effect of this event on new parents' quality ... -
Quality of Life of New Parents Participating in a Community-based, Professionally-facilitated New Parent Support Group
Background: Each year, millions of people become parents, an event ranked by many as one of the most impactful experiences in their lives. Previous studies have documented the effect of this event on new parents' quality ... -
Quality of Life of New Parents Participating in a Community-based, Professionally-facilitated New Parent Support Group
Background: Each year, millions of people become parents, an event ranked by many as one of the most impactful experiences in their lives. Previous studies have documented the effect of this event on new parents' quality ... -
Quality of the Bainbridge Island Shoreline Master Program: A Multi-Criteria Perspective
The Washington Shoreline Management Act was passed by the State Legislature in 1971, and was adopted by voters in 1972. The Act’s purpose is to “prevent the inherent harm in an uncoordinated and piecemeal development of ... -
Quality-Driven Cross Layer Design of Video Transmissions over MIMO Systems
Mobile data traffic has been exponentially increasing during the past years. With the prevalence of video-enabled mobile devices such as smart phones, more than half of the total mobile data traffics are attributed to ... -
Quantification and Modeling of Black Carbon Exposure for Seattle Commuters
Background: Exposure to traffic-related air pollution may be elevated during commute trips, but could vary with different transportation microenvironments and commuting behavior. Given the variety of commute options available ... -
Quantification and Prediction of Human Fetal (-)-Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)/11-OH-THC Exposure to Inform Neurodevelopmental Toxicity of Cannabis
Prenatal cannabis use is associated with various detrimental outcomes in the offspring, the foremost being neurodevelopmental toxicity1-5. Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the most abundant psychoactive compound in cannabis ... -
Quantification and regulation of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and TSH messenger RNA in salmon
(1997)Thyroid activity is regulated by the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis. Using a recently developed radioimmunoassay (RIA) for coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), an in vitro pituitary ...