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The Pediatric Medical Home Model: A Policy Recommendation to Increase Healthcare Quality for Children in Poverty
The pediatric medical home is a family-centered approach to providing comprehensive primary care. In a medical home, healthcare professionals work with patients and their families to ensure all medical and non-medical ... -
Pendleton Scott Clark: Life and Works
Pendleton Scott Clark was an active architect in Lynchburg, Virginia and surrounding areas from 1920 until his death in 1975. The firm Clark started in the 1950's; Clark, Nexen, and Owen; is still practicing in Lynchburg ... -
Performance Practice of Thomas Tallis: An Educational Perspective (thesis)
A choral student's formative music education is often provided by a high school choir. For many student's, this is where they will receive the bulk of their music education. Consequently, it is extremely important for high ... -
Periodicals as Handbooks for Doing Gender and Doing Difference: Racialized Womanhood in Cosmopolitan and Essence Magazines from 1978-2000 (thesis)
. . . This means that, simultaneously, black women in America and white women in America were receiving very different messages from popular and political culture, as both the (black) welfare queen and the (white) feminist ... -
Periods of Linearly Recurring Sequences (thesis)
In this thesis, we investigate sequences defined by linear recurrence relations. These are sequences whose subsequent terms are generated using some linear combination of the previous terms. We call the equation that ... -
Permutation Formula (thesis)
Runs in permutations and similar topics have been studied by various authors under different names. Hegarty examined permutations of finite abelian groups which avoid what he called progressions. Riordan studied 3-runs ... -
The Persistent Problem of Gender Inequality in the Twenty-First Century: Why Sweden's Care and Leave Policies Are Not the Panacea (thesis)
This study focuses on the effects of leave and care policies in Germany, Spain, the UK, and Sweden. Leave and care policies are distinguished as two of the most important social policies affecting women's and men's work-care ... -
Person' as a Family Resemblance Concept
For the purposes of this paper, the question of the concept 'person' is directed toward the use of 'person' that concerns "having or not having rights." I do not intend to pursue personality, identity, or any of the many ... -
The Personal as Political: Conservative Women and their Deep Stories
Many conservative women feel largely unheard and unrepresented by the current political system. Out of the ten women who answered the question “do you feel adequately represented by your chosen political party?” only three ... -
Personal Honor and the Possibility for Redemption
What exactly is redemption? Webster's defines it as "an act or instance of repairing or restoring," and "expiation of guilt or wrong." More to the heart of the matter, is it possible to redeem oneself in an honor society ... -
Personal Identity in Illness
Locke argues that personal identity consists in consciousness, not the substance of either the soul or the body. I raised objections to Locke and offered criticism of Locke raised by others. Determining that an element of ... -
Personal Responsibility in Healthcare for Low Socioeconomic Individuals
Health is the accumulation of the past and a hard life manifests itself in poor health. The link between poverty and health is a highly complex issue and there is no silver bullet to address the problem. However there are ... -
The Philosopher of Pluralism: An Examination of John Hick's Pluralist Hypothesis
An innovative philosopher of religion and renowned theologian, John Hick is deeply concerned with the manifold issues surrounding the modern inter-religious dialogue. Recognizing both the validity of human thought and ... -
A Philosophical Analysis of the Traditional Christian Orthodox Concept of Hell
This thesis opens with the distinction between two models of hell -- the so-called static and dynamic. The static model asserts that damned individuals are punished only tor their sins accumulated during their temporal ... -
Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychonalysis
The problem remains: how is the essential nature of man to be dealt with without falsifying that essential nature in the process. "Man" as defined by the transcendental nature of thought versus a finite, individual , human ... -
Picking Pockets for Profit: Wage Theft and the Fair Labor Standards Act
I will start with a brief history of the FLSA and the purposes for the legislation. I will also outline wage and hour requirements under the FLSA, the remedies available to workers when an employer fails to satisfy those ... -
Pinochet and the Chicago Boys: Integrating Poverty into Chile's Human Rights Conversation (thesis)
From 1973 to 1990, Augusto Pinochet ruled Chile as a callous military dictator. During his reign, Pinochet's regime committed manifold human rights violations against innocent Chileans -- tens of thousands were unjustly ... -
Pioneers of Populism in the 20th Century and the Prevalence of Populist Leaders in the 21st Century
The organization of this paper is as follows. First, it will provide a review on the conceptualization of populism. Then, it will describe the emergence of populist pioneers, their ideologies, their political approaches ... -
Pius IX and papal infallibility : La tradizione son' Io! (thesis)
Pius IX was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable men ever to occupy the chair of Saint Peter. He was one of the most devout, beloved popes in history, but also one of the most controversial and detested. He promoted ... -
Place and Displacement. LACS396 Capstone, 2013
Place has become a powerful metaphor to convey a sense of personal belonging, though the notion of place goes far beyond physical or geographical location. Environment, conservation, politics, religion, myth, personal and ...