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The Difference Denominations Made: Identifying The Black Church(Es) And Black Religious Choices Of The Early Republic, Kyle T. Bulthuis Jul 2019

The Difference Denominations Made: Identifying The Black Church(Es) And Black Religious Choices Of The Early Republic, Kyle T. Bulthuis

History Faculty Publications

Scholars of African-American religious history have recently debated the significance of the black church in American history. Those that have, pro and con, have often considered the black church as a singular entity, despite the fact that African Americans affiliated with a number of different religious traditions under the umbrella of the black church. This article posits that it is useful to consider denominational and theological developments within different African-American churches. Doing so acknowledges plural creations and developments of black churches, rather than a singular black church, which better accounts for the historical experience of black religion. In this piece, …

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Cultural Considerations Of Gender-Based Violence In Jordan, Tara Sloan Jungersen Jul 2019

Cultural Considerations Of Gender-Based Violence In Jordan, Tara Sloan Jungersen

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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Group Interventions When Domestic Violence Is Present, Tara Sloan Jungersen Jul 2019

Group Interventions When Domestic Violence Is Present, Tara Sloan Jungersen

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

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Natural Law And The ‘Resistance’: A Normative Approach To The Skywalker Narrative In The Last Jedi, J Gould Jul 2019

Natural Law And The ‘Resistance’: A Normative Approach To The Skywalker Narrative In The Last Jedi, J Gould

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

The motion picture The Last Jedi involves important decisions and actions taken by the protagonist of the original Star Wars trilogy, Luke Skywalker. It will be argued that Luke’s narrative in The Last Jedi can be explored through analysing new natural law thought. In particular it draws on Robert P. George’s discussion of the good (human flourishing) to consider whether the opposition provided by Luke Skywalker can been seen as a successful form of opposition to restore public morality. The contrast between Skywalker’s morality and the behaviour of the First Order will be established. It will be argued that the …

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The Legacy Of Hosting Mega-Sports Events: A Twitter Analysis Of Leisure-Time Physical Activity Communication, Gabriela Baranowski Pinto Jul 2019

The Legacy Of Hosting Mega-Sports Events: A Twitter Analysis Of Leisure-Time Physical Activity Communication, Gabriela Baranowski Pinto

Doctoral Dissertations

Routine engagement in Leisure-Time Physical Activity (LTPA) is associated with long-term health, lower mortality, and higher quality of life. Inspiring participation in LTPA is one desired benefit of public investment in mega-events such as the Olympic Games. Whether such inspiration materializes—and, if so, for how long—was examined in three studies that investigated a perception-action process at the level of the interaction between real and virtual environments. The influence of the real environment of the Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 was assessed via the virtual environment instantiated in the Twitter social network. Emerging dynamic communication about LTPA in three …

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Longitudinal Evaluation Of A Countywide Alternative To The Quality And Outcomes Framework In Uk General Practice Aimed At Improving Person Centred Coordinated Care, James Close, Ben Fosh, Hannah Wheat, Jane Horrell, William Lee, Richard Byng, Michael Bainbridge, Richard Blackwell, Louise Witts, Louise Hall, Helen Lloyd Jul 2019

Longitudinal Evaluation Of A Countywide Alternative To The Quality And Outcomes Framework In Uk General Practice Aimed At Improving Person Centred Coordinated Care, James Close, Ben Fosh, Hannah Wheat, Jane Horrell, William Lee, Richard Byng, Michael Bainbridge, Richard Blackwell, Louise Witts, Louise Hall, Helen Lloyd

Peninsula Medical School

Objectives To evaluate a county-wide deincentivisation of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) payment scheme for UK General Practice (GP). Setting In 2014, National Health Service England signalled a move towards devolution of QOF to Clinical Commissioning Groups. Fifty-five GPs in Somerset established the Somerset Practice Quality Scheme (SPQS)—a deincentivisation of QOF—with the goal of redirecting resources towards Person Centred Coordinated Care (P3C), especially for those with long-term conditions (LTCs). We evaluated the impact on processes and outcomes of care from April 2016 to March 2017. Participants and design The evaluation used data from 55 SPQS practices and 17 regional …

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Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Reproductive Health Trainings Within The Apopka Farmworker Community, Alexandria Mickler Jul 2019

Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Reproductive Health Trainings Within The Apopka Farmworker Community, Alexandria Mickler

Anthropology

Farmworkers across the United States face some of the highest rates of occupational injuries, illnesses, and accidents - including excessive pesticide exposure. Heightened exposure to pesticides has been associated with a variety of reproductive health challenges, including reduced fecundability and fertility, as well as detrimental effects to both fetal and child health - including preterm birth, low birth weight babies, and congenital and developmental abnormalities. In order to educate and empower farmworker women within the Apopka farmworker community, the Farmworker’s Association of Florida (FWAF) developed a reproductive health and pesticide safety training program. The purpose of this work was to …

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Retrying Leopold And Loeb: A Neuropsychological Perspective, David L. Shapiro Jul 2019

Retrying Leopold And Loeb: A Neuropsychological Perspective, David L. Shapiro

Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches and Lectures

They called it the crime of the century; in 1924 in Chicago two brilliant, well-educated, and wealthy young men kidnapped and murdered a 14-year-old boy and killed him "for the thrill of it". Expert testimony was presented by several well-known psychiatrists and psychologists, but even with all their clinical insights, none could reach a conclusion about the causal relation between their disturbed childhoods and a violent senseless crime. In fact, the well-known criminal defense attorney Clarence Darrow made little mention of the extensive psychiatric and psychological workups, and the judge did not deal with it in his sentencing. A review …

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The Leaked Texts At The Heart Of Puerto Rico’S Massive Protests, Yarimar Bonilla Jul 2019

The Leaked Texts At The Heart Of Puerto Rico’S Massive Protests, Yarimar Bonilla

Publications and Research

With Governor Rosselló refusing to step down, Puerto Ricans are gathering today in what could be the island’s largest-ever protest.

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Developing Equitable Global Partnerships At Emory University School Of Nursing, Emily Morgan Clark-Youngblood, Helen Frances Baker, Patricia Jean Moreland Jul 2019

Developing Equitable Global Partnerships At Emory University School Of Nursing, Emily Morgan Clark-Youngblood, Helen Frances Baker, Patricia Jean Moreland

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Building strong, mutually beneficial global exchange programs is highly valued the Emory School of Nursing. In order to develop these exchanges, student and faculty teams have reviewed current literature on nursing exchange programs in addition to being intentional with asking global partner sites about their outcome goals for the partnership.

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The Influence Of Tropical Climate On Cognitive Task Performance And Aiming Accuracy In Young International Fencers, Nicolas Robin, Aurelie Collado, Stephane Sinnapah, Elisabeth Rosnet, Olivier Hue, Guillaume R. Coudevylle Jul 2019

The Influence Of Tropical Climate On Cognitive Task Performance And Aiming Accuracy In Young International Fencers, Nicolas Robin, Aurelie Collado, Stephane Sinnapah, Elisabeth Rosnet, Olivier Hue, Guillaume R. Coudevylle

Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments

This study examined how a tropical climate (TC) influences the cognitive and aiming task performances of young international fencers. The participants performed the tasks in TC and an air-conditioned room. In each session, they completed questionnaires evaluating affective states, fatigue, and comfort and thermal sensations. They also carried out cognitive tasks (simple and choice reaction time, attention, and vigilance tasks) and a motor task testing aiming accuracy with a sword while wearing protective clothing and a mask. TC, which was observed to decrease thermal discomfort, was revealed to decrease aiming accuracy and positive affective states. There was no deleterious effect …

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Osl And Ceramic Analysis At The Humphrey Site, Ryan Mathison Jul 2019

Osl And Ceramic Analysis At The Humphrey Site, Ryan Mathison

Department of Anthropology: Theses and Student Research

The Sand Hills of Nebraska are a unique environment located in the west-central portion of Nebraska. This portion of North America has long supported human life. One group in particular that called the Sand Hills home are the Dismal River people. Dismal River is the name that archaeologists gave to a group of horticulturalists that lived in circular structures on the sand dunes, often near the rivers, in the Sand Hills. This group, while generally known through archaeology, also has a potential historic or ethnographic presence in the form of the Cuartalejo Apache visited by Ulibarri, and potentially mentioned by …

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Female Protagonist Mega-Archetypes: A Study In Medieval European Romances, Doaa Omran Jul 2019

Female Protagonist Mega-Archetypes: A Study In Medieval European Romances, Doaa Omran

English Language and Literature ETDs

Despite the claim that structuralism has sung its swan song, my research offers new insights in the field of structuralism through archetypal criticism by exploring four female hero mega-archetypes as narrative structures inspired by the Qur’an and the Bible. These scriptural narratives offer tenets, based on narratives and motifs, that, as structural units, create and identify mega-archetypes. This study posits how, rather than being extensions of existing structuralist taxonomies on the male hero monomyth, the female mega-archetypes enrich that monomythical narrative. This work details the structure of the mega-archetypes Zulaikhah (Potiphar’s wife), Sarah and Hagar, the Virgin Mary, and Queen …

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Understanding Ptsd, Aggression, And Shame Among Post-9/11 Veterans, Rebecca Jill Zakarian Jul 2019

Understanding Ptsd, Aggression, And Shame Among Post-9/11 Veterans, Rebecca Jill Zakarian

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Elevated aggression is frequently found among individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD and combat exposure alone do not explain the reliable finding of heightened aggression among trauma-exposed veterans. Shame may be an important affective feature in this relationship. The present study examined the role of shame from a social hierarchy perspective in a sample of 52 combat veterans from the post-9/11 era. Correlational analyses indicated positive relations between shame, PTSD, and aggression. Trait shame was found to mediate between PTSD severity and physical aggression, but not other forms of aggression. For veterans within the context of a hierarchical military …

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Full Issue: Journal On Empowering Teaching Excellence, Volume 3, Issue 1, Kim Hales Jul 2019

Full Issue: Journal On Empowering Teaching Excellence, Volume 3, Issue 1, Kim Hales

Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence

The full Spring 2019 issue (Volume 3, Issue 1) of the Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, Spring 2019

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Stay At Home, Soldiers: An Analysis Of British And American Women On The Homefront During World War Ii And The Effects On Their Memory Through Film, Victoria K. Tutino Jul 2019

Stay At Home, Soldiers: An Analysis Of British And American Women On The Homefront During World War Ii And The Effects On Their Memory Through Film, Victoria K. Tutino

Of Life and History

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Food And Boundaries In Jessica Hagedorn's The Gangster Of Love, Yuxin Zheng Jul 2019

Food And Boundaries In Jessica Hagedorn's The Gangster Of Love, Yuxin Zheng

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

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The Madness Of Motherhood, Amber Bird Jul 2019

The Madness Of Motherhood, Amber Bird

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

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Review Of Sucāruvādadeśika: A Festschrift Honoring Professor Theodore Riccardi Edited By Todd Lewis And Bruce Mccoy Owens., Bal Gopal Shrestha Jul 2019

Review Of Sucāruvādadeśika: A Festschrift Honoring Professor Theodore Riccardi Edited By Todd Lewis And Bruce Mccoy Owens., Bal Gopal Shrestha

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Receptacle Of The Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts And The Buddhist Book Cult In South Asia By Jinah Kim., Alexander James O’Neill Jul 2019

Review Of Receptacle Of The Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts And The Buddhist Book Cult In South Asia By Jinah Kim., Alexander James O’Neill

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Tibetan Environmentalists In China: The King Of Dzi By Liu Jianqiang, Translated By Ian Rowen, Cyrus K. Hui, And Emily Yeh., Alexander R. O’Neill Jul 2019

Review Of Tibetan Environmentalists In China: The King Of Dzi By Liu Jianqiang, Translated By Ian Rowen, Cyrus K. Hui, And Emily Yeh., Alexander R. O’Neill

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes In The Sino-Tibetan Borderlands Edited By Emily T. Yeh And Chris Coggins., Elsie Love Jul 2019

Review Of Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes In The Sino-Tibetan Borderlands Edited By Emily T. Yeh And Chris Coggins., Elsie Love

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

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Himalayan Studies And Interdisciplinarity Workshop, Priyanka Chatterjee Jul 2019

Himalayan Studies And Interdisciplinarity Workshop, Priyanka Chatterjee

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Conference Report on the Himalayan Studies and Interdisciplinarity Workshop.

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Challenging The Biomedical Notion Of ‘Active Substance’: The Botanical Plasticity Of Tibetan Medical Formulas, Herbert Schwabl, Jan M. A. Van Der Valk Jul 2019

Challenging The Biomedical Notion Of ‘Active Substance’: The Botanical Plasticity Of Tibetan Medical Formulas, Herbert Schwabl, Jan M. A. Van Der Valk

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine) has been practiced across vast regions of Central and South Asia for centuries. In this medical tradition, it is common practice to dynamically adapt the mainly herbal formulas according to the regional flora and local conditions, and to use local variants of ingredients. Consequently, one Tibetan ingredient name within a specific formula can signify a variety of therapeutically fitting botanical items, which appear quite different from the perspective of modern taxonomy. This has led many researchers to understand the botanical plasticity of Tibetan medical formulas as misidentifications. We develop an alternative approach, exploring the advantages of …

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Conceptions Of Potency, Purity, And Synergy-By-Design: Toward Developing A Sowa Rigpa Medical Theory-Based Approach To Pharmaceutical Research, Tawni L. Tidwell, James H. Nettles Jul 2019

Conceptions Of Potency, Purity, And Synergy-By-Design: Toward Developing A Sowa Rigpa Medical Theory-Based Approach To Pharmaceutical Research, Tawni L. Tidwell, James H. Nettles

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Sowa Rigpa institutions and practitioners have growing interest in examining and legitimizing Sowa Rigpa formulas vis-à-vis pharmacological research methods, seeking scientific validation of what they view as ‘potency’ and ‘purity’ for their formulas. Likewise, the pharmacology researchers have demonstrated renewed interest in herbal medical traditions in mining for new drugs to address resistance, toxicity, and optimize what they view as ‘potency’ and ‘purity.’ However, differing conceptualizations emerge when the pharmacological drug discovery process is examined to determine what is being analyzed, how it is doing so, and what assumptions underlie such methods. Whether a formula is ‘active,’ ‘toxic’ or ‘effective’ …

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Gold Ash: Contested Yet Immortal, The Exceptional Potency Of Burmese Alchemy, Céline Coderey Jul 2019

Gold Ash: Contested Yet Immortal, The Exceptional Potency Of Burmese Alchemy, Céline Coderey

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

‘Gold ash’ (shway pya), a substance Burmese alchemists produce through a complex process of the combination and burning of metals, is considered by many Burmese as the most potent medical ingredient existing in the country. In this article, I explore the factors underpinning its exceptional potency. Grounding my analysis on ethnography conducted in Myanmar since 2004, and more specifically on the case study of Master U Shein (1926-2014), the most well-known alchemist of the country, I illustrate the multiple facets of gold medicine’s potency and show how they emerged from the dialogue between the substance and the layers of meanings …

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Garuda 5 (Khyung Lnga): Ecologies Of Potency And The Poison-Medicine Spectrum Of Sowa Rigpa’S Renowned ‘Black Aconite’ Formula, Jan M. A. Van Der Valk Jul 2019

Garuda 5 (Khyung Lnga): Ecologies Of Potency And The Poison-Medicine Spectrum Of Sowa Rigpa’S Renowned ‘Black Aconite’ Formula, Jan M. A. Van Der Valk

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

This article focuses on ethnographic work conducted at the Men-Tsee-Khang (Dharamsala, India) on Garuda 5 (khyung lnga), a commonly prescribed Tibetan medical formula. This medicine’s efficacy as a painkiller and activity against infection and inflammation is largely due to a particularly powerful plant, known as ‘virulent poison’ (btsan dug) as well as ‘the great medicine’ (sman chen), and identified as a subset of Aconitum species. Its effects, however, are potentially dangerous or even deadly. How can these poisonous plants be used in medicine and, conversely, when does a medicine become a poison? How can ostensibly the same substance be both …

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The Potency Of Tradition: Turquoise, Coral, And Pearl In Sowa Rigpa, Barbara Gerke Jul 2019

The Potency Of Tradition: Turquoise, Coral, And Pearl In Sowa Rigpa, Barbara Gerke

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Turquoise, coral, rubies, diamonds, amber, and pearls are among the potent substances used in Tibet’s medical traditions, specifically in ‘precious pills’ or rinchen rilbu (rin chen ril bu). Tibetan physicians use precious stones as medicines only after processing, without which none of them are considered medically beneficial. In this paper, I analyze three precious substances—turquoise, coral, and pearl—which appear together in many precious pill formulas and are processed using the same techniques. Based on textual analysis and interviews with Tibetan physicians in India, I address the questions: What makes these substances particularly ‘potent,’ expressed in the Tibetan term nüpa (nus …

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Potency By Name? ‘Medicine Buddha Plant’ And Other Herbs In The Japanese Scroll Of Equine Medicine (Ba’I Sōshi Emaki, 1267), Katja Triplett Jul 2019

Potency By Name? ‘Medicine Buddha Plant’ And Other Herbs In The Japanese Scroll Of Equine Medicine (Ba’I Sōshi Emaki, 1267), Katja Triplett

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Buddhist ritual healing and medical therapies included care for domestic animals, such as the horse. In pre-modern Japan, equine medicine (ba’i 馬医) was not restricted to the treatment of military horses; it was also practiced in a religious context. The Scroll of Equine Medicine (Ba’i sōshi emaki 馬医草紙絵 巻, 1267) is an enigmatic picture scroll held by the Tokyo National Museum. It extends to more than six meters and contains images of ten divine figures related to the healing of horses, followed by seventeen pictures of plants, and a postscript emphasizing that the content of the scroll should be kept …

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Introduction | Approaching Potent Substances In Medicine And Ritual Across Asia, Barbara Gerke, Jan M. A. Van Der Valk Jul 2019

Introduction | Approaching Potent Substances In Medicine And Ritual Across Asia, Barbara Gerke, Jan M. A. Van Der Valk

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Introduction to themed research articles on Approaching Potent Substances in Medicine and Ritual across Asia.

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