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Understanding and Improving Input for Quantitative Risk Analysis in the Construction Industry
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Risk analysis in the construction industry involves identifying risk events that could potentially affect a project and its delivery, quantifying those risks, and developing mitigation strategies to enhance project success. This thesis aims to improve the process of risk analysis through the...
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Fall 2019
In this thesis, we study merge-and-shrink (M&S), a flexible abstraction technique for generating heuristics for cost optimal planning. We first propose three novel merging strategies for M&S, namely, Undirected Min-Cut (UMC), Maximum Intermediate Abstraction Size Minimizing (MIASM), and Dynamic...
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Understanding and influencing exercise behavior in hematologic cancer survivors: An examination of the intention-behavior gap
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Background: Regular exercise participation improves health and quality of life (QoL) in hematologic cancer survivors (HCS), yet many are insufficiently active. Because few who intend to exercise actually translate their intention into behavior, examining the intention-behavior gap (I-B gap) in...
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Spring 2018
Patients who have a severe mental illness such as psychosis experience a greater burden in terms of poor physical and mental health outcomes or adverse health outcome/s (AHO). The etiological factors for AHO include the illness itself, medication side effects, poor diet and lifestyle, substance...
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Fall 2023
Death is no stranger to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Extreme prematurity, congenital abnormalities, and other complexities that may occur surrounding pregnancy and delivery can turn what was hoped to be a very exciting moment in a family’s life into one of despair and grief. There are...
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Fall 2012
There is limited information on families’ decisions regarding their (dis)continuation of weight management care. This thesis includes two complementary studies that examined this issue. First, an integrative review was performed to characterize predictors of and reasons for attrition in pediatric...
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Understanding clinical nurses' intent to stay and the influence of leadership practices on intent to stay
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Background: High nursing turnover and early nursing career exit rates evidenced by the current global nursing shortage is the impetus for effective strategies aimed at retaining nurses in their current positions. Nurses’ behavioral intentions to leave or stay are not well understood. Aim: This...