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  Ethnic variations in the association between obstructive sleep apnea and tooth loss 

  Virk, Serat (2023)

  OBJECTIVES: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is the most prevalent life-threatening sleeping disorder with adverse consequences. Tooth loss is a suggested morphologic risk factor for OSA with a scope of racial variation. The ...
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  Designing money: culture and the political construction of modern monetary regimes 

  Olsson, Erik (2023)

  Why do countries have different monetary systems? Existing theories of monetary development generally focus on the economic forces driving such developments or on the power of states to impose their preferred systems. These ...
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  Scaling up early childhood development programs in low- and middle-income countries: understanding the determinants of scaling up early childhood development in Zambia 

  Alade, Mayowa Oluwatosin (2023)

  BACKGROUND: Evidence supports the importance of Early Childhood Development (ECD) interventions to improve children's health, lifelong productivity, and human capital. However, ECD programs are not scaled sufficiently to ...
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  Generating strategies and recommendations for implementation and sustainability of healthcare-based food assistance programs: a mixed methods assessment 

  Rudel, Rebecca Katherine (2023)

  BACKGROUND: Recognizing the connection between food insecurity and health, healthcare institutions in the past decade have begun to provide food assistance to patients. Healthcare-based food assistance programs have ...
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  Adaptive strategies in non-convex optimization 

  Zhuang, Zhenxun (2022)

  Modern applications in machine learning have seen more and more usage of non-convex formulations in that they can often better capture the problem structure. One prominent example is the Deep Neural Networks which have ...
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  Good news for the poor? The church and community development in South Africa 

  James, Marylee M. (Boston University, 1990)

  There is a wide gap between what donors and agencies for development aid believe that they are accomplishing, and what the recipients of such aid perceive to be the purposes and achievements of those agencies and donors. ...
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  Telling bold lies: Martin Luther's theology of deception 

  Woods, Stephanie Anne (2023)

  Luther’s theological and ethical consideration of lying is founded on protecting the reputation and welfare of the neighbor. In sermons, prayer books, catechisms, lectures, letters, and table talks, Luther addresses lies ...
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  The desire to upload: a theological analysis of transhumanist advocacy for life-extension and immortality 

  Villegas, Seth (2023)

  Transhumanism is a movement dedicated to radically changing the human condition through technology, including by extending lifespan in one of three ways: (1) a biological approach that focuses on reducing the effects of ...
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  Exposure to greenness and the natural landscape: understanding the impacts on urban health and heat 

  Brochu, Paige A. (2023)

  BACKGROUND: In the past decade urbanization has increased, with over half the world’s population and 83% of the total United States population, residing in urban areas as of 2021. Urbanization has the potential to decrease ...
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  Assessing the suitability and feasibility of targeted and selective campaigns for measles control and elimination: a scoping review and re-aim based evaluation of the first selective measles-rubella campaign in Senegal 

  Bhatnagar, Barkha (2023)

  BACKGROUND: Measles is a leading cause of death among children globally. Nationwide non-selective campaigns together with routine immunization have sharply reduced measles cases and deaths in many low- and middle-income ...

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