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Modeling The Effect Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Azithromycin Prescription In General Practices Across The Uk, Oluwasegun Isaac Daramola
Modeling The Effect Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Azithromycin Prescription In General Practices Across The Uk, Oluwasegun Isaac Daramola
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In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was reported that some antibiotics were prescribed as a remedy for viral treatment and prophylaxis based on non-randomized, uncontrolled short clinical trials. A major antibiotic consulted being Azithromycin; a broad-spectrum macrolide selected based on its immunomodulatory effects in chronic inflammatory lung diseases, with a seasonal prescription increase of 21.5% in March 2020 compared to March 2019.
To analyze the effect and possible antimicrobial resistance impact of the pandemic on Azithromycin prescription across general practices in the United Kingdom (UK), this study uses a time series decomposition modeling method to compare a …
Developing A Strategy For Creating Affordable Student Housing Solutions, Juan D. Campolargo
Developing A Strategy For Creating Affordable Student Housing Solutions, Juan D. Campolargo
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College is becoming more and more expensive, and students are graduating with more and more debt. In 2021, we have almost 1.6 trillion dollars of student loan debt. While students are in college, they need a place to live, and this project will be about how to develop a strategy for creating affordable student housing solutions.
Housing should not be another cause of concern to students or really anyone.
The way it’s done is that people get more loans to pay for housing, or they work as much as they can when they’re not studying to pay for rent. Affordable …
Online Grocery Shopping: A Staple Of The Present -- And Maybe The Future?, Henry B. Chao
Online Grocery Shopping: A Staple Of The Present -- And Maybe The Future?, Henry B. Chao
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This project aims to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected people's food shopping tendencies, specifically focusing on the use of online grocers. It uses data collected by a team of researchers led out of Portland State University. This data consists of roughly 8000 surveys distributed starting in September of 2020. The survey asks respondents to discuss their demographics, household resources, and shopping tendencies.
In particular, this project wants to understand how inclined a respondent is to use online grocers based on their personal experience with COVID-19. To do this, the project uses a Latent Class Model (LCM) to classify …