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Insignificant Impacts Of Covid-19 Stay-At-Home Orders On Chicago Air Quality, Adam W.T. Steffeck Aug 2021

Insignificant Impacts Of Covid-19 Stay-At-Home Orders On Chicago Air Quality, Adam W.T. Steffeck

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With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, reports of air quality improvements around the world resulting from the stay-at-home orders were widespread. However, for Chicago, no significant air quality improvements occurred despite large reductions in private vehicle transportation due to the lack of commuters. The city of Chicago is a nexus for long-haul transportation by trucks and trains, which did not decrease during the pandemic. These transportation sources use mostly diesel fuel engines and emit NOX, a precursor to tropospheric ozone, and PM2.5, both of which are harmful air pollutants. Using open access EPA air quality …


Kamila Clustering For A Mixed-Type Data Analysis Of Illinois Medicare Data, Heather Elizabeth Baldacci May 2021

Kamila Clustering For A Mixed-Type Data Analysis Of Illinois Medicare Data, Heather Elizabeth Baldacci

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services (CMS) releases annual reports regarding the Market Saturation and Utilization of nationwide Medicare coverage. CMS data provide an opportunity for an in-depth analysis of Medicare usage patterns within the United States that may provide insight into socioeconomic conditions in certain regions. To discover any potential patterns, the KAMILA (KAy-means for MIxed LArge data sets) clustering algorithm has been utilized within the most recent CMS dataset from 2018. Due to the large size of the original data set, the focus of this research has been limited to Illinois Medicare data, grouped by the 102 …


Law Library Blog (January 2021): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law Jan 2021

Law Library Blog (January 2021): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

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