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The Influence Of Social Determinants On Late Stage Breast Cancer And The Impact Of The National Breast And Cervical Cancer Program On Late Stage Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Melody L. Fortune

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation research focused on breast cancer and social determinants that have been shown to influence the outcomes of this devastating disease. Although heart disease is the leading cause of death for women, more women feel that they will die from breast cancer. Breast cancer is the most common diagnosed cancer in women exacting an emotional and economic hardship for many women. There are no known causes of breast cancer, but there are certain genetic and social factors that pre-dispose women to this disease. Also, diagnosis at later stages of disease has been shown to have adverse outcomes for many. …

Using Green Roofs To Mitigate The Effects Of Solar Energy On An Unconditioned Building In The Southern United States, Jason Lee Arnold

Theses and Dissertations

The urban heat island (UHI) effect is a phenomenon that results in cities being warmer than the surrounding rural areas, due to a large amount of impervious surfaces. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of green roofs to mitigate the effects of solar energy on a building in the southern United States. In order to test the green roofs, temperatures were monitored inside and on top of unconditioned model buildings with green and with traditional roofs. Over the course of the study, the data collected showed that green roofs provided a significant benefit for the buildings …

Measurement Of Trace Environmental Contaminants Using Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy, Susan Theresa Scherrer

Theses and Dissertations

Environmental contamination has become a significant threat to the health and well-being of mankind as well as to the environment, prompting the establishment and implementation of stringent environmental regulations. The ability to accurately detect and quantify contaminants, such as mercury (Hg), uranium (U), and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), in real-time, in situ is of significant importance to monitoring and remediation efforts. In an effort to develop a real-time, fast-response detector that is portable, highly sensitive, and cost efficient, this research explored the feasibility of utilizing cavity ringdown spectroscopy (CRDS) in conjunction with various plasma sources and vacuum cavities to accurately …

Community Health News, Georgia Southern University

Health Policy & Community Health: News & Publications (2011-2018)

• Georgia Southern University’s Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health receives grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Stenting In The Treatment Of Acute Ischemic Stroke: Literature Review, E.A. Samaniego, Guilherme Dabus, Italo Linfante

All Publications

No abstract provided.

Chimes: December 9, 2011, Calvin College

Chimes

Campus Fair Trade sale promotes justice by Amanda Elliott

Acton translates Kuyper by Ryan Devries

Choirs worship with LaGrave by Grace Ruiter

Scientists fight bacterial resistance by Jon Hielkema

Paradise Fears impressive by Jess Koster

Soccer team finishes second in the nation by Mark Zylstra

So Sang They, Jesus!, Lee Magness

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Pastoral Counseling And Missional Formation: Recovering The Healing Ministry Of The Church, David Pillar

Leaven

No abstract provided.

The Stone-Campbell Movement In Latin America And The Caribbean, Carmelo Alvarez

Leaven

No abstract provided.

The Restoration (Stone-Campbell) Movement In Africa: Its Beginning And Development, Bosela Eale

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting minutes.

December Agenda, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting agenda.

"Too Much Faith In Progress"; Alexander Campbell And The Transhumanist Movement, Jennifer Thweatt-Bates

Leaven

No abstract provided.

A Letter To Christian Ministers, Donna Nofziger Plank

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Sexual Addiction: Problems And Solutions For The Christian Community, Waymon R. Hinson, Damon Parker

Leaven

No abstract provided.

The Message Of Hosea 1-3: A Harlot's Wages, R. Mark Shipp

Leaven

No abstract provided.

Critical Commentary On Raising The Point With Director's Reply, R. Scott Frey, Jason Mendez

Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum

Raising the Point!, is an educational documentary which supports the South Bronx’s Hunts Point community’s efforts in improving the social, educational, environmental, and health injustices it encounters. Though the Hunts Point community faces many inequities, the film focuses on the issue of poor air quality.

Polishing Treadmills At Midnight: Is Refugee Integration An Elusive Goal?, Woods Nash

Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum

It is often said that justice requires us to treat like cases alike. Accordingly, the U.S. refugee resettlement program provides all refugees—no matter where they are from, no matter their pasts—with very similar funding and services. Refugees, however, are far from alike. In this essay, I invoke Borgmann’s distinction between a “thing” and a “device” and draw on stories from my work with a resettlement agency to argue that our current, employment-driven system is in need of reform. Instead of being restricted to generic programs, refugee resettlement agencies should be funded to help each family achieve social integration in ways …

The Garden Is Always Greener..., Billy Hall

Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum

This essay builds upon a case study of community gardening in Miami to explore the extent to which these gardens are contributing to, and possibly triggering, processes of gentrification within low to lower-middle income neighborhoods. Through a literature review of recent urban planning policy and development in Miami and relevant discourse on the neoliberalization of food, food politics, food justice activism, and gentrification, I situate Miami’s gardens within a complex, multi-scalar web of ideas and processes. I show how the interaction of these forces, varying dramatically with respect to place, is implicit in the motivations for each garden’s development and …

Educating For Peace And Justice In America's Nuclear Age, Ian Harris, Charles F. Howlett

Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum

The emergence of peace education as embodied in the context of peace studies, which emerged during the post-World War II ideological struggle between capitalism and Communism, the nuclear arms race pitting the United States against the former Soviet Union, the Vietnam War, and the civil rights movement in America, met with considerable criticism. There were many within and outside the academic community who argued that peace studies had very little to offer in terms of “real scholarship” and were primarily politically motivated. Some went so far as to insist that this new area of study lacked focus and discipline given …

3.479 Identity Theft And Red Flags

3.400 Finance (Business Management)

No abstract provided.

Affinity Chromatography In Environmental Analysis And Drug-Protein Interaction Studies, Efthimia Papastavros

Department of Chemistry: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This dissertation will examine the use of novel affinity sorbents to extract emerging contaminants from water. These contaminants include carbamazepine, an anti-epileptic drug which is resistant to natural degradation in the environmental and to drinking water treatment procedures. This drug has been found in fish, drinking water, estuarine and coastal waters, and river sediment and has been used as a general marker of contaminants in wastewater. Carbamazepine was one of the most commonly detected compounds in surface-water and groundwater samples in a recent reconnaissance study of untreated drinking water sources in the U.S. Besides using this drug as a representative …

3.469 Travel And Expense Policy

3.400 Finance (Business Management)

No abstract provided.

3.305 Emergency Response And Evacuation

3.300 Facilities and Safety (Business Management)

No abstract provided.

Treatment Of Chronic Mental Illness, Anu A. Matorin, Md

Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry

RESIDENT'S GUIDE TO TREATMENT OF PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC MENTAL ILLNESS

(GAP Report 136; 1993)

Formulated by the Committee on Psychiatry and the Community, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 1993, 230 pages, $30.00

A Mesmerizing Book, Daniel A. Monti, Md

Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry

HYPNOSIS IN THE RELIEF OF PAIN

Ernest R. Hilgard and Josephine R. Hilgard

Brunner/Maze!, Inc., New York 1994, paperback, $28 .95, 294 pgs.

Prediction Of Treatment Response And Diagnosis In Psychiatry, Eduardo Dunayevich, Md

Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry

The lack of diagnostic gold standards and the multiplicity of vantage points used to conceptualize mental illness renders psychiatric diagnostic and therapeutic approaches susceptible to individual and cultural biases. Developments in therapeutic approaches have often provided vantage points from which to conceptualize psychopathology. The identification of predictors of treatment response may be a useful element for clinicians to select between multiple treatment tools in an expanding therapeutic armamentarium while fostering refinements in current diagnostic systems.

The Forgotten Evaluation: Taking Competence Seriously, Seth E. Tabb, Md, Scott A. West, Md

Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry

The medical literature devotes little attention to the application of competency to the general medical patient. Commonly, the only cases recognized as necessitating a competency evaluation are overtly psychotic patients, patients requiring written informed consent, and those patients who refuse treatments strongly recommended by their physician. Clarifying terminology and redefining competency provides a practical screening method for assessing competency in all patients. When physicians neglect the evaluation of competency, patient autonomy is compromised. Not only are all physicians capable of performing a competency evaluation, they are ethically and professionally required to do so.

Transition To Psychiatric Residency: Unique Stresses; Unique Rewards, Catherine A. Belitsky, Md, Frcp(C), Sidney H. Kennedy, Md, Frcp(C)

Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry

An individual's decision to pursue a psychiatric residency following medical school training is shaped by many factors. Beginning residents are often ill prepared for the relative impact that the shift from medical doctor to psychiatric resident entails. This paper reviews the literature regarding demographic and psychological factors relating to recruitment, dynamic and practical issues confronting the beginning resident, and various coping styles adopted. These factors are considered in the context of an inpatient setting where the majority of residents begin their training. Much of the resident response is seen as adaptive and a number of strategies for coping are suggested.

Patients Who Request A Female Psychotherapist, Timothy C. Smith, Md, Melinda Fudge, Md, Salman Akhtar, Md, Steven Samuel, Phd

Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry

Upon arriving at an outpatient clinic, many patients request to see a female psychotherapist. Yet little has been written on this topic. The aim of this study was to explore the demographic and clinical characteristics of such patients. We compared patients who voiced a preference for a female therapist with controls on the demographic variables of age, sex, race, marital and financial status and the clinical characteristics of diagnosis, history of sexual abuse, sexual preference, overt presence of sexual or social difficulties, history of prior treatment, gender of the previous therapist, and treatment drop out rate. A chi square analysis …