There are some limitations to this dataset. Firstly, the public-use NSDUH data is only available in two-year averages; thus the registration rate data may not correspond exactly with the marijuana outcome data, leading to a loss of precision for these estimates.Secondly, the NSDUH measures of substance use are self-reported. If individuals are more likely to…
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The approach is thus motivated by the economic theory of program participation
There are three important distinctions between California’s initiative and the earlier medical marijuana statues discussed in section 1.2.1. First, since the law stated that patients needed a doctor’s “recommendation” — not “prescription” — for medicinal marijuana, physicians did not need to violate federal law to qualify their patients.Second, unlike the state medical marijuana initiatives of…
We sought to characterize the extent of policy cooccurrence across diverse social policy domains
To our knowledge, no prior studies have examined how frequently related policies co-occur, a necessary step to lay the foundation for rigorous analytic solutions. For researchers aiming to estimate individual policy effects, guidance is needed on how to evaluate whether the impacts of policy co-occurrence on estimation are likely to undermine the study. In some…
The cost of the added wires can be amortized when using multiple data lanes
A voltage-controlled oscillator, where the oscillation frequency changes as a function of the control voltage, then creates the output clock. Through negative feedback, the control signal forces the output clock phase to be aligned with the input clock phase, resulting in zero phase error.Like the PLL, a DLL can also provide an accurate timing relationship…
A greater weighted number of RMDs within a 3-mile buffer was associated with a lower odds of heavy use
As methamphetamines and opioids are the leading causes of drug overdose fatalities in Hawai‘i , an overwhelming majority of unhoused individuals bore severe drug overdose risk; necessitating the urgent development/implementation of targeted community resources and services to reduce overdose-related harms within Hawai‘i unhoused communities. Additionally, community participants reported poor outcomes on all health indices with…
It is unclear how brain response patterns would differ if performance was impaired
During a cognitive task, these ongoing processes are suspended as attention is shifted to the task demands, resulting in reduced cingulate activation. Such anterior cingulate deactivation has been observed across a variety of tasks, and increases with greater working memory demands, suggesting reallocation of attentional and working memory resources . Thus, subtle attentional and working…
Proposition 2 implies that congregational mergers should increase the adoption rate of new technologies
Pastors, trained in centralized seminary programs, were a scarce and expensive resource, occasionally serving multiple congregations at once. Pastors in these roles frequently pressured their congregations to consolidate resources and merge into a single entity ; Grace Lutheran Church.Importantly, these congregational mergers occurred for reasons that were unrelated to agricultural fertilizer use. Indeed, we show…
Norms and attitudes around marijuana use are rapidly changing
As a reminder, for the purposes of this dissertation, motives were conceptualized as cognitive explanations for a behavior that provides insight into the context and circumstances of a behavior . However, in line with Cooper’s Motivational Model of Alcohol Use which is based on Cox and Klinger’s model , use of alcohol and/or other drug…
Oblique rotation was favored over orthogonal rotation as it allows for factors to covary
Gender matters when examining the association between substance use and mental health outcomes, not only because prevalence rates of depression, anxiety, and substance use differ by gender , but also because what drives individuals to use might differ by gender as well as the ensuing use behaviors. Additionally, although differences in use prevalence continue to…
Microbial larvicides are also considered safe for non-target organisms and human health
Human population size for each cluster, stratified into three age groups will be ascertained from our existing data. We will obtain age-group level aggregated morbidity data from local hospitals and clinics where the sampled residents seek treatment. These clinical data are reported to the Ministry of Health of Kenya and hence are publicly available. We will determine…