USING FORMATIVE EVALUATION OF A COMMUNITY-BASED OPIOID OVERDOSE PREVENTION PROGRAM TO INFORM STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION FOR ADOPTION, IMPLEMENTATION, AND SUSTAINABILITY

Using formative evaluation of a community-based opioid overdose prevention program to inform strategic communication for adoption, implementation, and sustainability

Abstract Background Opioid addiction and overdose is a public health problem in the United States and is expected to remain with substance use increasing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Communities that approach this issue through multi-sector partnerships experience more positive health outcomes.Understanding motivation for stakeholder engagement in

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A Review of Closed-Form Cramér-Rao Bounds for DOA Estimation in the Presence of Gaussian Noise Under a Unified Framework

The Cramér-Rao Bound (CRB) for direction of arrival (DOA) estimation has been extensively studied over the past four decades, with a plethora of CRB expressions reported for various parametric models.In the literature, there are different methods to derive a closed-form CRB expression, but many derivations tend to involve intricate matrix m

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Genetic structuring in farmed and wild Gilthead seabream and European seabass in the Mediterranean Sea: implementations for detection of escapees

Microsatellite markers were used to investigate the genetic structure of the two most important cultured fish in the Mediterranean Sea, the gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) and the European seabass Power Scooters (Dicentrarchus labrax), from two (one wild and one farmed) populations in Western Mediterranean (Spain) and from two (one wild and one f

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