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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 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-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 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 ... -
Quantification of DNA content using 3D Optical Projection Tomographic Microscopy for Early Cancer Diagnosis
(2014-02-24)Aneuploidy, an accepted biomarker for malignancy, is typically assessed by flow (FCM) and image cytometry (ICM). We used optical projection tomographic microscopy (OPTM) for assessing cellular DNA content using different ... -
Quantification of Life-stage Transition Behaviors in Harmful Algae and their Implications for Pelagic and Benthic Distributions
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) occur when accumulations of algae or algal toxins have adverse impacts on aquatic ecosystems, public health and/or coastal resources. Many of the behavioral and physiological functional traits ... -
Quantification of uncertainties in snow accumulation, snowmelt, and snow disappearance dates
(2013-11-14)Seasonal mountain snowpack holds hydrologic and ecologic significance worldwide. However, observation networks in complex terrain are typically sparse and provide minimal information about prevailing conditions. Snow ... -
Quantifying and Modeling the Influence of Forest on the Magnitude and Duration of Mountain Snow Storage in the Pacific Northwest, USA
Forests strongly influence the amount and duration mountain snow storage because forest cover modifies both snow accumulation and ablation processes. Quantifying and predicting forest effects on snow processes and snow ... -
Quantifying and Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Local Government Cement and Asphalt Purchasing
As the effects of anthropogenic climate change come to bear, increasing numbers of local governments are engaging in climate action planning to quantify and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Only recently, however, ... -
Quantifying and Restoring Stand-Level Spatial Pattern in Dry Forests of the Eastern Washington Cascades
(2013-07-25)There is increasing evidence that spatial heterogeneity at multiple scales is a critical component of ecosystem resilience and adaptive capacity. In frequent-fire pine and mixed conifer forests in the western US, pre-settlement ... -
Quantifying Crime Displacement After A Hot-Spot Intervention
(2013-07-25)Research has shown that urban crime concentrates in specific urban areas, leading practitioners to combine criminological theory to help inform policies and strategies on how to address this phenomenon. Outside of measuring ...