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The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
Southern Spaces, 2008 Tennessee Jamboree poster, LaFollette, Tennessee, late 1960s. Part of a wave of local, post-WWII "barn dance"-style, country music shows, the Tennessee Jamboree radio program was modeled on earlier, nationally popular programs like Nashville's ...
Bradley Hanson
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Five Decades of Research on Rape Myths and Victim Interpretation
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past 5 decades of social science research, scholars have examined false narratives and beliefs associated with rape and sexual assault (often called “rape myths”). This scoping review employs an innovative technique to sample and describe a large cohort of scholarly articles that investigate sexual assault victim interpretation and ...
Elizabeth Trudeau, Ruth Carmi
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[Review of] William H. Turner and Edward J. Cabell, eds. Blacks in Appalachia [PDF]
, 1988 The editors are a civil rights worker (Cabell) and an academician (Turner) who evidence a longstanding interest in the Appalachian region and especially in the place and history of black people there.
Johnson, David M.
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JCPP Advances, EarlyView.Abstract Background Unaccompanied migrant youths are at elevated risk for exposure to trauma and related mental health challenges, but there is minimal evidence guiding best practices. We conducted a systematic review of quantitative studies that examined mental health evaluation and treatment services for unaccompanied migrant youths resettled in the ...
Natan J. Vega Potler +3 more
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Depression Among Type 2 Diabetes Rural Appalachian Clinic Attendees [PDF]
, 2007 The prevalence and impact of type 2 diabetes in Appalachia is understudied despite the presence of high-risk socioeconomic conditions (e.g., low levels of education and income).
de Groot, Mary +7 more
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International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.Conifers growing in high‐elevation alpine environments in the mountains of Southern California, USA, are highly responsive to atmospheric river (AR) events, which typically produce heavy precipitation over 1–3 days. However, it is the frequency of the AR events, not their magnitude nor annual precipitation totals, that most affects the radial growth of
Paul A. Knapp +2 more
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The Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.Plethodon welleri exhibits strong seasonal shifts in elevational activity with abundance and occupancy being linked to terrain characteristics. Despite historical habitat assumptions, P. welleri occurs in a broad range of forest types across a larger elevation gradient. Photo Credit to Maxwell Ramey.
Rosemary Ronca +2 more
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Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
Southern Spaces, 2017 Mark Nunes considers Roger May's Looking at Appalachia, a crowdsourced photography archive of spaces, places, and people in Appalachia, drawn from the work of many photographers of the region.
Mark Nunes
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Complex systems in the history of American English [PDF]
, 2014 Kretzschmar 2009 has demonstrated that language in use, speech as opposed to linguistic systems as usually described by linguists, satisfies the conditions for complex systems as defined in sciences such as physics, evolutionary biology, and economics ...
Kretzschmar, Jr., William A.
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Assessment of Hearing Health Among Adults in Rural Health Clinics
The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.Rural health clinics are a critical healthcare system tasked with improving health in rural communities. This study recruited 403 adults from 10 rural healthcare clinics throughout rural Kentucky, mostly within Appalachia, to screen for hearing loss and evaluate the utilization of diagnostic hearing healthcare and found that 70% of participants ...
Mit A. Patel +4 more
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