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The local and the global: Gina Nahai and the taking up of serpents and stereotypes [PDF]
, 2007 Region, home and transnational migration are explored in terms of the transcultural complexities that reverberate through Iranian American Gina Nahai's Sunday's Silence.
Yousaf, N
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An Exploration of Poverty in Central Appalachia: Questions of Culture, Industry, and Technology [PDF]
KOME: An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry, 2015 By most government statistical definitions, Central Appalachia is one of the most impoverished regions in the United States. Many of the region’s residents are low-income, dependent on government benefits, have high rates of obesity and diabetes, and low
Cara Robinson
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Contingency Management for Smoking Cessation in Pregnancy
Marshall Journal of Medicine, 2017 This pilot study examined the feasibility of applying Contingency Management (CM), where the woman receives financial compensation for abstinence from smoking. Eleven subjects were recruited from Marshall’s OB clinic for the program.
Jacob Miller +4 more
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Understanding Barriers to HPV vaccine uptake in Appalachia [PDF]
, 2020 Every year in seven small counties of Ohio seventy-six people lose their lives to a completely preventable Human Papillomavirus-related cancer. These counties are not random, nor are they an anomaly.
Murphy, Michaela
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Household Food Insecurity and Dietary Saturated Fat in Rural Appalachia
Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 2019 Purpose: To explore the relationship between food insecurity and dietary saturated fat intake in rural Central Appalachia. Design: Cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from a longitudinal interventional study Sample: Baseline assessment of dietary ...
Frances Hardin-Fanning +2 more
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Lateral, 2018 This paper considers what effects a universal basic income could have on disrupting social and economic inequality in the tensions of urban/rural divide.
Caroline West
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Beyond formal groups: neighboring acts and watershed protection in Appalachia
International Journal of the Commons, 2016 This paper explores how watershed organizations in Appalachia have persisted in addressing water quality issues in areas with a history of coal mining. We identified two watershed groups that have taken responsibility for restoring local creeks that were
Heather Lukacs +2 more
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Overall requirements for an advanced underground coal extraction system [PDF]
, 1980 Underground mining systems suitable for coal seams expoitable in the year 2000 are examined with particular relevance to the resources of Central Appalachia. Requirements for such systems may be summarized as follows: (1) production cost; (2)miner safety;
Goldsmith, M., Lavin, M. L.
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Periodontal Status and Quality of Life: Impact of Fear of Pain and Dental Fear
Pain Research and Management, 2017 Background. Oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) is impacted by periodontal disease and orofacial pain. There is a limited research examining the impact of avoidance of care or physiological arousal related to the fear of pain response on ...
Casey D. Wright +6 more
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Geologic considerations in underground coal mining system design [PDF]
, 1981 Geologic characteristics of coal resources which may impact new extraction technologies are identified and described to aid system designers and planners in their task of designing advanced coal extraction systems for the central Appalachian region ...
Camilli, F. A. +3 more
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