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Failed Bank List, United States: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Fdic) Apr 2024

Failed Bank List, United States: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Fdic)

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Diagnostic Disclosure Using Script-Driven Imagery In Borderline Personality Disorder, Michelle Rodriguez Apr 2024

Diagnostic Disclosure Using Script-Driven Imagery In Borderline Personality Disorder, Michelle Rodriguez

Yale School of Medicine Physician Associate Program Theses

Borderline Personality Disorder is a widely underdiagnosed psychiatric disorder associated with stigma and misinformation, both in the general public and clinical settings. Current diagnostic disclosure methods do not consider borderline-specific challenges, such as interpersonal hypersensitivity and emotion dysregulation. This has led to discrepancies in patient-provider communication approaches, perpetuating underdiagnosis and negative diagnostic experiences, impacting recovery outcomes and attitudes toward the condition. We seek to determine the efficacy of using script-driven imagery as a method of diagnostic disclosure and psychoeducation versus current practice for individuals newly diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. Our randomized controlled trial will assess efficacy as the proportion …


Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Monitoring To Diagnose Acute Compartment Syndrome, Andres Yanez Apr 2024

Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Monitoring To Diagnose Acute Compartment Syndrome, Andres Yanez

Yale School of Medicine Physician Associate Program Theses

Acute compartment syndrome is a condition of increased pressure in injured extremities leading to decreased oxygen delivery and tissue death in the limb. This condition requires prompt diagnosis to avoid complications such as muscle death and amputation. The current diagnostic standards rely on clinical findings, which are subjective, or compartment pressure measurements, which are painful, invasive, and prone to error. Near-infrared spectroscopy has shown promise as a direct, objective, and non-invasive alternative in identifying compartment syndrome. Tibia fractures are the most common predisposing injury to compartment syndrome. We propose a randomized controlled trial evaluating near-infrared spectroscopy to test for compartment …


Photodynamic Therapy For Early Prevention Of Actinic Keratoses And Skin Cancer Post-Organ Transplant, Megan Karoly Apr 2024

Photodynamic Therapy For Early Prevention Of Actinic Keratoses And Skin Cancer Post-Organ Transplant, Megan Karoly

Yale School of Medicine Physician Associate Program Theses

Immunosuppressed solid organ transplant recipients are at a significantly increased risk of skin cancer and precursor actinic keratoses. Guidelines to protect against these lesions are not well-established. Existing data suggests that photodynamic therapy could be effective in the prevention of new actinic keratoses and skin cancers in this population. Therefore, we propose early intervention with photodynamic therapy to combat actinic keratoses and skin cancer in transplant recipients. We will conduct an intrapatient randomized clinical trial comparing two treatments of topical five-aminolevulinic acid photodynamic therapy to placebo on the face as adjuvants to standard sunscreen in transplant recipients within the first …


Discount Window Readiness, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors Apr 2024

Discount Window Readiness, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors

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Regimes For Lender Of Last Resort Assistance To Illiquid Monetary Institutions: Lessons In The Wake Of Credit Suisse, Paul Tucker Apr 2024

Regimes For Lender Of Last Resort Assistance To Illiquid Monetary Institutions: Lessons In The Wake Of Credit Suisse, Paul Tucker

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Too-Big-To-Fail Factsheet, Switzerland: Federal Department Of Finance Apr 2024

Too-Big-To-Fail Factsheet, Switzerland: Federal Department Of Finance

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Banking Stability: Federal Council Wants To Close Gaps In Too-Big-To-Fail Regulation, Swiss Federal Council Apr 2024

Banking Stability: Federal Council Wants To Close Gaps In Too-Big-To-Fail Regulation, Swiss Federal Council

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Ypfs Lessons Learned Oral History Project: An Interview With Jason Cave, Greg Feldberg, Vincient Arnold Apr 2024

Ypfs Lessons Learned Oral History Project: An Interview With Jason Cave, Greg Feldberg, Vincient Arnold

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Weekly Fed Report Still Drives Discount Window Stigma, Steven Kelly Apr 2024

Weekly Fed Report Still Drives Discount Window Stigma, Steven Kelly

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Essays On Capacity Constraints In Healthcare Industries, Hiroki Saruya Apr 2024

Essays On Capacity Constraints In Healthcare Industries, Hiroki Saruya

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

In this dissertation, we explore the effects of capacity constraints on various outcomes ofservice users (referred to as “patients”) in healthcare industries. In Chapter 1, we investigate the effect of facility congestion on the care outcomes and welfare of patients in the Japanese long-term care industry. In Chapter 2, we study the effect of congestion on the admission decisions of the Japanese nursing facilities. Together, Chapters 1 and 2 provide useful insights on the effect of congestion on the quantity and quality aspects of service production, in a market with regulated prices. In Chapter 3, we examine the effect of …


Microbial Controls On Globally Significant Methane Cycling In Wetlands And Forests, Wyatt Arnold Apr 2024

Microbial Controls On Globally Significant Methane Cycling In Wetlands And Forests, Wyatt Arnold

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Methane (CH4), like carbon dioxide (CO2), is a potent greenhouse gas that has played a critical role in the warming of the planet. Yet unlike CO2, virtually all of the methane emitted into the atmosphere is the product of biological activity. Specifically, it is the metabolic byproduct of a group of archaea that are collectively referred to as methanogens. These methanogens thrive in a diversity of habitats—from landfills, to ruminant guts, to the wood of trees—and excel at converting carbon into methane. Their vast presence and activity in natural environments, like wetlands and inland waters, accounts for more than half …


“The Geopoetics Of An Undiscovered Continent: Eurasianism As A Writing Practice”, John Anthony Stachelski Apr 2024

“The Geopoetics Of An Undiscovered Continent: Eurasianism As A Writing Practice”, John Anthony Stachelski

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Drawing on extensive archival research and a comprehensive body of scholarship, this dissertation offers a critical reimagining of early 20th-century Eurasianism through the prism of literature and art. Beginning with the proto-Eurasianist schema introduced by Konstantin Leontiev in the 19th century, I argue that the influence of his deeply aestheticized combination of politics and religious thought is essential to understanding the work of Eurasianism’s founders Petr Savitsky and Petr Suvchinsky, the figures around whom the ideology’s major split occurred. This dissertation challenges the way Eurasianism has often been understood and portrayed in scholarship, and simultaneously presents an original argument about …


Ensuring K-12 School Safety During A Respiratory Viral Pandemic, Dan Li Apr 2024

Ensuring K-12 School Safety During A Respiratory Viral Pandemic, Dan Li

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

In recent times, the world has witnessed an unprecedented global crisis with the outbreak of COVID-19. This pandemic has not only brought about a paradigm shift in our daily lives but has also significantly impacted various sectors of society, including the education system. K-12 schools are a major concern for viral transmission due to the close social interactions between children, crowded institutional environments, and suboptimal vaccine coverage. Children have close interactions with their household members, who are active in all sectors of society. The K-12 educational landscape has faced an array of challenges in the face of managing the COVID-19 …


The Impacts Of Economic Incentives On The Healthcare Safety Net, Justin Markowski Apr 2024

The Impacts Of Economic Incentives On The Healthcare Safety Net, Justin Markowski

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

The healthcare safety net is a foundational component of the broader US healthcare system. This collection of programs, organizations, and providers was created and structured by policy makers with the primary objective to expand access to high-quality healthcare in traditionally underserved communities. However, it is often unclear whether these policy efforts successfully counteract the systemic profit motives and baseline financial disincentives that are structured against certain patient groups and communities. This dissertation aims to explore the relationship between three sets of economic incentives and their respective policy environments, investigating the associated impacts on the performance and functioning of the safety …


Making Time: Boredom And The Infrastructure Of Modernity, Zachariah Michielli Apr 2024

Making Time: Boredom And The Infrastructure Of Modernity, Zachariah Michielli

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

The following dissertation is a project of infrastructure history. This project chiefly focuses on human-constructed time and boredom in the Western world. The Western world has worked collectively to control time for thousands of years. In the pre-modern era, time was primarily monitored using the Sun’s path across the sky. In that period, evidence demonstrates that time was a passive regulator known primarily through the movement of celestial bodies. The orbit of the Moon around the Earth generated the month, which could be measured in multiple ways. Months aided in counting the periods for the seasons and for the harvest. …


From Distraction To Interaction: Leveraging Robot-Driven Interplay For Effective Technical Education Amid Interruptions, Emmanuel Toks Adéníran Apr 2024

From Distraction To Interaction: Leveraging Robot-Driven Interplay For Effective Technical Education Amid Interruptions, Emmanuel Toks Adéníran

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation investigates the dynamic interplay between robotics and human adaptability in environments characterized by frequent interruptions, with a special focus on technical education and privacy considerations. Our research begins by examining the pervasive issue of interruptions in various settings, emphasizing their impact on productivity and safety. It then explores strategies that leverage technology, particularly robotics, to enhance human interruption tolerance and performance. A significant portion of the research is dedicated to understanding how robotics can aid individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). This exploration is extended to broader educational contexts, where robotics are employed to improve learning outcomes and …


The Death Of The American Dream, En Español: The Problem Of Latine Homeownership In The Late Twentieth Century, Gabriel Aron Ramirez Apr 2024

The Death Of The American Dream, En Español: The Problem Of Latine Homeownership In The Late Twentieth Century, Gabriel Aron Ramirez

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation examines trends in Latine homeownership between 1970 and 2000. It describes how Latines became homeowners in the absence of targeted subsidy programs. In so doing, it tracks fundamental changes in housing markets and housing policy as the New Deal order crumbled and the so-called neoliberal order arose. The dissertation comprises three parts. Part One narrates the federal government’s retreat from fair housing in the 1970s at the same time that executive agencies “discovered” the dire housing conditions faced by Latines across the country. Part Two describes how Latine-led nonprofit organizations, particularly the National Council of La Raza, responded …


Poetics Of The Letter: Translation And Correspondence In Augusto De Campos And Ana Cristina Cesar, Craig Osterbrock Apr 2024

Poetics Of The Letter: Translation And Correspondence In Augusto De Campos And Ana Cristina Cesar, Craig Osterbrock

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation examines the poetics of translation of Augusto de Campos (1931- ) and Ana Cristina Cesar (1952-1983), two of Brazil’s most important poet-translators of the second half of the twentieth century. I argue that their respective poetics of translation can be interpreted as a form of correspondence in which the translator corresponds with the author of the source text and with the potential reader of the target text. The focus of Augusto’s response to the demands of this double correspondence is the “letter” understood as the materiality of the source and target text. His response to the source text …


Matching Missions To Means: Targeted Resource Allocation In The Non-Profit Sector, Akshaya Suresh Apr 2024

Matching Missions To Means: Targeted Resource Allocation In The Non-Profit Sector, Akshaya Suresh

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation addresses the challenge of optimizing resource allocation in the non-profit sector. Non-profit organizations have to make real-time decisions that are not only efficient but also equitable. In many cases, new analytic approaches could allow for better informed, data-driven decision-making. Yet, despite their critical role, these organizations often lack the capacity to tap into these tools to increase their impact. This research attempts to bridge this gap through two applications: the identification of students with reading disabilities and the matching of volunteers to organizations. Chapter 2 critiques the current process for diagnosing reading disabilities among students, highlighting the inefficiencies …


Bronze Age Prone Burials Of The Mongolian Gobi Desert: An Anthropological Study Of Mortuary Traditions, Bukhchuluun Dashzeveg Apr 2024

Bronze Age Prone Burials Of The Mongolian Gobi Desert: An Anthropological Study Of Mortuary Traditions, Bukhchuluun Dashzeveg

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

The Late Bronze Age (LBA) and Early Iron Age (EIA) in Mongolia witnessed significant changes in mortuary practices, particularly the transition from prone burials to the slab grave tradition. This dissertation investigates the complex interplay between socio-cultural, political, and ideological factors that shaped these transformations, focusing on the reuse of burial spaces at the Shiriin Chuluu site in the Gobi Desert. In attempting to better understand the prone burial tradition of the Gobi and eastern Mongolia, I focus specifically on the history and utility of the prone concept as a category; the emergence and spread of these practices as a …


Utilizing Meta-Analytical And Causal Inference Methods To Evaluate The Impacts Of Environmental Risk Factors On Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Xiaoting Shi Apr 2024

Utilizing Meta-Analytical And Causal Inference Methods To Evaluate The Impacts Of Environmental Risk Factors On Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Xiaoting Shi

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is one of the most common hematologic malignancies in the world. Despite substantial efforts to identify causes and risk factors for NHL over the past few decades, the etiology of NHL is largely unclear. The overarching goal of this three-part dissertation is to use different meta-analytical and causal inference methods to identify and evaluate potential environmental risk factors for NHL. For the first project of this dissertation, we conducted an umbrella review to summarize the range, strength, and consistency of all associations between environmental risk factors and NHL reported in published meta-analyses. We identified 85 meta-analyses of …


Aristotle's Privations, Benjamin Koons Apr 2024

Aristotle's Privations, Benjamin Koons

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Aristotle’s hylomorphism—his analysis of material substances into form and matter—has seen a resurgence in contemporary metaphysics. Yet Aristotle himself appealed to a third principle of material substances—privation. This is surprising, since substances are supposed to be the paradigmatic beings in Aristotle’s ontology, and yet privations—what a substance should have but does not—seem to be a kind of non-being. Equally surprising, Aristotle also ascribes efficient causality to privations: a privation like the absence of a pilot from the ship can cause a shipwreck. What do privations have to be like to play these kinds of roles in Aristotle’s philosophy? Such roles …


Expressed Artificial Proteins That Induce Degradation Of The Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Beta Receptor, Emily Branham Apr 2024

Expressed Artificial Proteins That Induce Degradation Of The Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Beta Receptor, Emily Branham

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is a rapidly advancing field with diverse applications spanning from fundamental research to therapeutic interventions. With considerable opportunity for scientific creativity, emerging degradation strategies promise to expand the reach of this field to challenging targets that often elude conventional, small molecule-based degraders. Of particular interest in this report, transmembrane (TM) proteins represent more than half of all drug targets, yet their intrinsic properties present challenges for standard degradation approaches. Here, we describe a novel genetic approach to TPD, presenting the first example of expressible protein degraders: traptamer-based targeting chimeras (TRAPTACs). As their name implies, these innovative …


Interpretable Machine Learning And Causal Inference In Medicine And Public Health, Colleen Elise Chan Apr 2024

Interpretable Machine Learning And Causal Inference In Medicine And Public Health, Colleen Elise Chan

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Machine learning (ML) methods have seen rapidly increasing prevalence and adoption across many industries due to their ability to learn complex patterns from large amounts of data with high accuracy. However, these models often lack transparency, operating as opaque ``black boxes’’, which is especially concerning in high-stakes domains. Two key avenues to improve transparency and user trust are 1) developing interpretable ML models that explain their reasoning to users and 2) developing causal methods to estimate the effects of interventions from observational data when randomized controlled trials are infeasible. This dissertation addresses challenges and advances methods in interpretable ML and …


Public Vs. Private: The Industrial Organization Of Education And Other Regulated Markets, Fernando Pereira Cordeiro Apr 2024

Public Vs. Private: The Industrial Organization Of Education And Other Regulated Markets, Fernando Pereira Cordeiro

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation studies two distinct but equally essential industries: higher education and water utilities. In the context of higher education, I investigate the impact of subsidies on equilibrium prices and quality levels. For water utilities, I explore the differences between public and private providers in terms of productivity and investment. A theme that emerges from these seemingly disparate analyses is how public provision or subsidies affect and contrast with private firms' behavior. Throughout this process, I use the lens and methods of Industrial Organization to conduct my analysis, a choice motivated by the inherent nature of imperfect competition that characterizes …


Afrekete’S Touch: Black Queer Feminist Errantry And Global African Art, Alexandra Monet Thomas Apr 2024

Afrekete’S Touch: Black Queer Feminist Errantry And Global African Art, Alexandra Monet Thomas

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

The dissertation proposes that black queer feminist conceptual tools are advantageous to interpreting modern and contemporary art. Utilizing visual analysis and interdisciplinary black feminist criticism to analyze artwork by Mildred Thompson, Simone Leigh, Wangechi Mutu, Zanele Muholi, Senzeni Marasela, and others, becomes a way through which to build the concept of black queer feminist errantry. Defined as a political, aesthetic, and intellectual mode through which artists enact practices of wandering, refusal, fabulation, and waywardness, black queer feminist errantry was developed with the work of several scholars in mind, such as Sarah Jane Cervenak, Tavia Nyong’o, and Saidiya Hartman. The preface, …


Coding Sequence Dependent Mrna Decay Regulation, Damir Musaev Apr 2024

Coding Sequence Dependent Mrna Decay Regulation, Damir Musaev

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Post-transcriptional mRNA regulation shapes gene expression, yet the full extent of cis-regulatory sequences and how translation shapes the regulation of these elements is poorly understood. To identify conserved cis-regulatory elements shaping mRNA stability, I analyzed the features associated with differential mRNA decay in two vertebrate systems: steady-state HEK293 cells and developing zebrafish embryos. I found that strength of translation initiation (Kozak score), uORF content, codon optimality, AU-rich elements, microRNA binding sites, and ORF length function combinatorially to regulate mRNA stability. Surprisingly, machine learning analysis identified ORF length as the most important conserved feature regulating mRNA decay. I found that mRNAs …


Character In Conflict: Soldiers And Eighteenth-Century English Literary Character, Adam C. Keller Apr 2024

Character In Conflict: Soldiers And Eighteenth-Century English Literary Character, Adam C. Keller

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

“Character in Conflict” explores the function of the soldier as a literary character in multiple genres of literature across the long eighteenth century. It constructs a series of literary case studies drawn from multiple genres, supplemented at times by soldier memoirs, drill manuals, political pamphlets, and other historical materials, to argue that soldiers make an ideal test case for literary characterization. To that end, this project examines soldier-characters that appear in Theophrastan character books, early eighteenth-century comedy, and the mid eighteenth-century novel. “Character in Conflict” uses these character case studies to explore the transhistorical properties of martial form and situates …


Communities Of Practice To Improve The Delivery Of Contact Tracing For Tuberculosis By Community Health Workers: Antecedents And Mechanisms Of Action, Rachel Hennein Apr 2024

Communities Of Practice To Improve The Delivery Of Contact Tracing For Tuberculosis By Community Health Workers: Antecedents And Mechanisms Of Action, Rachel Hennein

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

Background: Community health workers (CHWs) play a key role in expanding access to health services. Providing CHWs with high-quality and relevant training is critical to facilitate their performance. Communities of Practice (CoPs) are a low-cost implementation strategy to promote continuous learning. CoPs are groups of professionals with a common goal who meet regularly, support each other, share knowledge, and innovate solutions. CoPs have been used within the health field to promote the delivery of evidence-based care by healthcare workers; however, there are a few gaps in our understanding of their utility. For example, few studies have assessed the effectiveness of …