NAVIGATING FAILURE: HOW LEADERS DEFINE, DETECT, AND MANAGE FAILURE IN HEALTHCARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT See

Background: Although Quality Improvement (QI) initiatives are widely implemented in healthcare, evidence suggests that failure is common. However, the concept of ‘QI failure’ remains underdefined in the literature, with few studies...

The Behavioural Features of Generalized Anxiety Disorder During the Perinatal Period: Identification, Assessment, and Diagnostic Implications See

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a leading mental health condition, associated with significant distress and impairment, especially during pregnancy and the postpartum (perinatal) period. However, GAD is a poorly defined mental health&#x...

Exploring the Evolutionary History of Yersinia pestis: A Persistent Pandemic Pathogen See

Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of the Black Death (1346-1353), has caused three historical and ongoing pandemics. The first Plague pandemic (541-740 CE), for which the Plague of Justinian was its herald (541-549 CE), the&...

Probing Phonon Coupling in Infrared Nanophotonic Materials with Electrons See

Phonon polaritons—quasiparticles arising from the coupling of photons and optical phonons—enable sub-diffractional control of infrared light in polar dielectrics. This thesis presents a study of the physics of phonon coupling in two inte...