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"Adapt and Overcome": The Relationship Between Emergency Departments and the Opioid Epidemic

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2020-January-01
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In my thesis, I argue that the opioid epidemic poses challenges but also opportunities for emergency departments to assess and improve their performance under duress for the betterment of future generations and ailments to come. I first delve into the...

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"It's Gotta be the Shoes": A Case Study on Shoes, Distance Running, and Technology in Sport

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2021-January-01
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Over one weekend at the beginning of October 2019, Eliud Kipchoge's sub-two-hour marathon in the INEOS 1:59 Challenge and Brigid Kosgei's world-record-breaking Chicago Marathon win reset the clock in terms of what was believed to be humanly possible in the...

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A Collaborative Exploration of Mapuche Medicine as a Form of Resistance against Chilean-Imposed Westernization

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2025-May-24
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The Mapuche are an Indigenous nation who have historically lived in southern Chile and Argentina, where their ancestral territory, Wallmapu, is located. Although the Mapuche largely succeeded in resisting Spanish conquest, the establishment of the Chilean Republic in 1810 and...

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A Collaborative Exploration of Mapuche Medicine as a Form of Resistance against Chilean-Imposed Westernization

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2025-May-24
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The Mapuche are an Indigenous nation who have historically lived in southern Chile and Argentina, where their ancestral territory, Wallmapu, is located. Although the Mapuche largely succeeded in resisting Spanish conquest, the establishment of the Chilean Republic in 1810 and...

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