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Improving Post-Hospital Care for Patients with Complex Medical and Social Needs: Evaluation of a Transitional Care Clinic
(2018-05-21)
The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), created in 2010, was a sweeping national effort to reduce preventable readmissions by linking them to hospital payment. However, the law’s effects at the aggregate level ...
Implementation of a Spanish Language Track at a Family Medicine Residency Program
(2018-05-21)
U.S. legal and ethical standards for healthcare dictate that patients with limited English proficiency receive language-concordant treatment, yet patients commonly receive inappropriate care due to inadequate language ...
Challenges in Health Care: Cultural and Structural Barriers to Care for Hispanic Children
(2018-05-21)
Hispanics are both the largest and youngest major ethnic or racial minority in the
United States, and the majority of the individuals in this group are the U.S.-born children
of foreign-born parents. They have a distinct ...
Dying a Good Death: End-of-Life Decision-Making for Terminally Ill Christians
(2018-05-21)
With the ever-growing number of medical technologies and treatments that exist that are able to postpone the time of death and extend dying, the ethics of end-of-life care for terminally ill patients has become a popular ...
An Exploration of Harry Potter and its Effect on the Millennial Generation
(2018-04-23)
The Harry Potter phenomena has spanned the globe from its publication in 1997. Even today, several years after the last book was published and the last movie released, Harry Potter continues to enthrall readers around the ...
Music and the Soul: Character Formation to Transcendence
(2018-08-09)
This creative thesis explored music’s effects on the human soul. I used the lenses of Plato’s “Republic,” Alan Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind,” and Rodger Scruton’s “Understanding Music,” to explore music’s power ...
Puerto Rico and the United States: how the political relationship led to a humanitarian crisis in the island
(2018-05-21)
Former governor Alejandro García Padilla’s announcement that Puerto Rico could not pay its 72-billion-dollar debt prompted debates regarding the role the United States should play in Puerto Rico’s ability to restructure ...
Testing of New Front-End Electronics for the Hadron Calorimeter at CERN
(2018-05-21)
The Hadron Calorimeter (HCAL), a major component of the Compact Muon
Solenoid (CMS) detector at CERN, is designed to detect hadrons produced in proton
proton collisions supplied by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The ...
Petrophysical Well Log Attributes of the Late Devonian Duvernay Shale in Alberta, Canada
(2018-05-21)
The Duvernay Shale is an upper Devonian interval of organic-rich laminated, dark, bituminous, thermally mature mud rocks and carbonates that are interbedded with gray-green calcareous shales. The Duvernay is currently an ...
Asymptotics for mean field games of market competition
(2018-12-04)
The goal of this thesis is to analyze the limiting behavior of solutions to a system of mean field games developed by Chan and Sircar to model Bertrand and Cournot competition. We first provide a basic introduction to ...