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Spatial analysis of mental health and suicide clustering among older adults in North Carolina: An exploratory analysis

open access: yesSSM - Mental Health, 2022
Late-in-life suicide is a major public health issue, with adults over 65 comprising 18% of all suicide deaths. Yet, little research has identified geographic concentrations of older populations at-risk for the psychological conditions in the pathway of ...
Sophia C. Ryan   +3 more
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Optimizing sequestered carbon in forest offset programs: balancing accounting stringency and participation

open access: yesCarbon Balance and Management, 2019
Background Although there is broad agreement that negative carbon emissions may be required in order to meet the global climate change targets specified in the Paris Agreement and that carbon sequestration in the terrestrial biosphere can be an important
Lindsey Wise   +7 more
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Sociodemographic Factors and Health Insurance Coverage Are Associated with Invasive Breast Cancer in Tennessee: Appalachian and Non-Appalachian County Comparison

open access: yesWomen's Health Reports, 2022
Background: Tennessean women experience the 12th highest breast cancer (BC) mortality in the United States. Yet, few studies have examined BC outcomes among Tennessean women in and outside of Appalachia.
Faustine Williams   +4 more
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Obesity Risk Factors for Women Living in the Appalachian Region: An Integrative Review

open access: yesOnline Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 2011
Research Objective: This paper examines the current literature on obesity among women living in the Appalachian region and looks at factors contributing to obesity in this area.
Tara O’Brien, Laura A Talbot
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Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2015
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale is a documentary collaboratively produced by Tom Hansell, Patricia Beaver, and Angela Wiley. This short video features previously unpublished footage recorded by Helen Lewis, John Gaventa, and Richard Greatrex as part of ...
Tom Hansell   +2 more
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The local and the global: Gina Nahai and the taking up of serpents and stereotypes [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Exploring Job Resources for Female Employees’ Job Strain: The Case of U.S. Federal Employees

open access: yesTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2022
It becomes critical to the success of organiza­tions to figure out how to effectively remedy female employees’ stress, given the sheer number of female employees in most organizations.
Yongbeom Hur
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Saints at the River and Selected Poems

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2007
In these four short videos, southern Appalachian poet Ron Rash reads three poems and an excerpt from his novel, Saints at the River. Drawing upon local knowledge and lore, memory, current events, and personal experience, Rash's writing explores his ...
Ron Rash
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Ecological niche modeling reveals habitat differentiation and climatic vulnerability in two imperiled, sympatric southern Appalachian carnivorous plants

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Understanding the habitat requirements of imperiled flora is critical for informing ex situ conservation practices, designing effective reintroduction strategies, and understanding how climate change will impact such species, especially in montane regions with high levels of environmental heterogeneity. In southern Appalachia, USA, the
Nicholas J. Chang   +6 more
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Writing Appalachia: An Excerpt

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2020
Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd introduce Writing Appalachia, an anthology of Appalachian literature concerned with \"simultaneously representing, complicating, and furthering the discourse on the Appalachian region and its cultures.\" Excerpted ...
doaj   +1 more source

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