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Title: Alcohol Use and Mental Health Issues In Fifth-Year College Students
Author: Zuber, Pilar
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Mental health
Description: The purpose of this study was to develop a profile of at-risk 5th-year students by assessing the relationships between heavy alcohol use and mental health issues, on academic performance in 5th-year students. This secondary analysis study used the...

Title: Consistency results in the theory of continuous functions and selective separability
Author: Barman, Doyel
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics
Description: We study of the notion of selective separability(SS), which was introduced by Marion Scheepers, and its connection with the game-theoretic strengthening, strategically selective separable spaces (SS+). It is known that every set of countable &pi-w...

Title: Distance Based Linear Regression Model And Its Application To Microbiome Association Studies
Author: Sheikhi Kiasari, Masoumeh
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics, Statistics
Description: In the past few decades, pairwise distance based statistical methods have beendeveloped to identify spatial and/or temporal clusters of disease, study the association between the dissimilarity of ecological communities and distance in geographical...

Title: Evaluating Sexual Prejudice Among Substance Abuse Counselors
Author: Powell, James
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Mental health, Queer studies
Description: ABSTRACTJAMES EDWARD POWELL. Evaluating sexual prejudice among substance abuse counselors. (Under the direction of DR. JOHN R. CULBRETH) Sexual minority individuals seeking substance abuse treatment services are not immune from barriers of sexual ...

Title: Evaluation of Acute Care Providers' Opioid Prescribing Practices in Chronic Non-Cancer Pain
Author: Buckner, Kimberly
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Over 760,000 people have died from an opioid overdose since 1999. In 2019, the opioid epidemic claimed more than 70,000 lives, with over 1.6 million having an opioid use disorder. Literature suggests an association between increased opioid prescri...

Title: Examining Predictors of Reduction in Drinking Risk Level Among Severe-Risk Trauma Patients Following a Brief Counseling Intervention
Author: Moro, Regina
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Public health, Psychology
Description: The purpose of this study was to identify potential predictors of alcohol screening and brief intervention outcomes for severe-risk drinkers. Specifically, age, gender, race, blood alcohol level, counseling intervention type, type of injury, hazar...

Title: Generalized semiparametric varying-coefficient models for longitudinal data
Author: Qi, Li
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics, Statistics, Biometry
Description: In this dissertation, we investigate the generalized semiparametric varying-coefficient models for longitudinal data that can flexibly model three types of covariate effects: time-constant effects, time-varying effects, and covariate-varying effec...

Title: Polymer Mediated Delivery of Oligonucleotide and Trans Genes Toward More Efficient and Specific Therapies for Dystrophinopathies and Dystroglycanopathies
Author: Tucker, Jason
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Biology, Neurosciences
Description: Muscular dystrophies are genetic disorders caused by mutations in more than 30 genes, with no cure or effective treatment. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by frame-shift mutations in the dystrophin gene with little or no functional dys...

Title: The effects of physical activity and nutrition on the stress management, interpersonal relationships and alcohol consumption of college freshmen
Author: Salandy, Simone
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Public health
Description: Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the changes of health behaviors in college students as they transition through their freshman year. Methods: At a southern public university, the author surveyed 167 freshmen, ages 18 to 25, to examin...