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Development and Implementation of an Evidence-Based Buprenorphine-Naloxone Medication Assisted Treatment Program in a Primary Care Setting
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Opioid abuse is one of the most significant drug-related public health threats in the United States (U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, 2016). Approximately 115 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose in the United ...
Assessment of Obese Children within a Family-Based Intervention Pilot Study
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
About one third of children in the United States are overweight or obese. Multiple comorbidities coincide with obesity affecting children physically and emotionally, which in turn impacts obese children’s quality of life. ...
Two-Echelon Vehicle Routing Problems Using Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
In this thesis, we investigate new multi-echelon vehicle routing problems for logistics operations using unmanned autonomous vehicles. This can provide immediate tangible outcomes, especially in high-demand areas that are ...
Implementing an Evidence-Based Oral Health Assessment Tool (OHAT) in a Nursing Home
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
Literature substantiates that there is a relationship between poor oral health and cardiovascular risk, uncontrolled diabetes, aspiration pneumonia, poor nutritional status, and poor social life for the older adults, ...
Chronic Pain Management: Implementing Best Practice Strategies
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
The purpose of this project was to improve the monitoring of chronic pain patients at a rural primary care clinic by creating and implementing a chronic pain flow sheet and pain visit template within the electronic health ...
A New Reliability Assessment Model for Power Electronic Modules Considering Failure Mechanism Interaction
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
A reliability prediction method is proposed to determine the lifetime of IGBTs (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors) under power cycling test based on the performance of solder joint and wire bond. The failure characteristics ...
Screening for Youth Depression in Primary Care
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Video summarizing Ph.D. dissertation for a non-specialist audience.
The Effect of Stress on Task Capacity and Situational Awareness
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
In today’s industry, many occupations require manpower resources to include both labor and cognitive resources. As the technology is rapidly changing and businesses are becoming more dependent on cognitive performance, it ...
Integrated Projection and Regression Models for Monitoring Multivariate Autocorrelated Cascade Processes
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This dissertation presents a comprehensive methodology of dual monitoring for the multivariate autocorrelated cascade processes using principal component analysis and regression. Principle Components Analysis is used to ...
Transparent and Crack-Free Silica Aerogels
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
The process of making silica aerogels has been studied in detail over the past two decades due to its usage in a wide range of low end applications such as thermal insulators, supercapacitors etc., as well as high end ...