In 1878, the U.S. Supreme Court defined, and applied, the free exercise clause of the First Amendment for the first time. The case, Reynolds v. United States, concerned the constitutionality of the Morrill Act of 1862, ...
This paper reexamines the effects of state religion on religious service attendance across countries. Using attendance data from the World Values Survey and Gallup World Poll, it pays special attention to the variables ...
The rising consumption of alcohol in Western societies and subsequent alcoholrelated
life problems that develop has been labeled a major health and social issue.
Finding an effective treatment for alcohol dependence has ...
The retention of minority populations plays a significant role in establishing institutional diversity, bringing benefits that are often exclusive to students’ ability to reinforce their cultural competence during the ...
Cell polarity, the correct positioning of membrane proteins in the apical and basolateral domains, is critical for the proper development of retinal photoreceptor cells. The regulation of cell polarity is controlled by ...
Introduction. Incidence of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer is increasing worldwide. Melanoma is the sixth most common cancer in the United States, making skin cancer a significant public health issue.
Background ...
Despite reductions in rates of tobacco use in recent years, smoking remains an important public health concern. Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of death in the United States, and regular smoking is usually established ...
Ethnographic field work conducted with Deportivo Santa Isabel, an adult male recreational soccer team in Momostenango, Guatemala. The team provides a story of local adaptations to the forces of globalization. Soccer is an ...
Although the concept of Asian Americans being “model minorities” has been referenced in relation to racial/ethnic differences in educational and socioeconomic achievement, criminologists have not explored whether the ...
Society puts a lot of pressure on its members, much of which the members of
society do not even consciously realize is being placed upon them. There is
simultaneously pressure to conform to the things society deems ...
A promising method for treating cancer involves selectively targeting the tumor vascular network. Tumor vascular is characterized as a disorganized and convoluted network of microvessels, in contrast to normal tissue ...
The purpose of this study was to determine the state of food insecurity in a poverty-stricken community in western Kenya using a hunger scale questionnaire (HSQ) to investigate the three-fold relationship between food ...
Although melanoma accounts for a very small percentage of all skin cancer cases, it is the most responsible for skin cancer related deaths. Therapeutic agents that induce apoptosis in the cancer cells have been heavily ...
Colonias residents the United States-Mexico border are medically underserved with disproportionate rates of diabetes and other obesity-related diseases. Although physical activity (PA) plays a role in preventing such ...
Time can be of the utmost importance when a medical emergency occurs. First response programs are designed to have highly trained first responders arriving before an ambulance to the scene of the emergency within a matter ...
Due to increasing environmental awareness and the rapid depletion of nonrenewable resources, natural materials have become more common as fillers in polymeric composites. Coconut shell powder (CSP) as a functional filler ...
ABSTRACT
The Thomas-Taussig-Blalock Shunt: Partners of the Heart
Erin C. Thompson
Director: James Marcum, Ph.D.
Three individuals played important roles in the development of the surgical procedure to fix the ...
In the eighteenth century, French art song was dominated by the romance, which was simple in its construction and set strophic poems that dealt with love and gallantry. After the Lieder of Franz Schubert (1797-1828) were ...
Gregory Nazianzus, one of the three Cappadocian Fathers, was an important pillar of the early Orthodox Church and continues to be a major contributor to Trinitarian theology. The foundation of this thesis is a translation ...
In contemporary research on spiritual healing, the traditional way to view healing is as occurring either because of naturalistic means (i.e., explainable by the popular scientific method and by reference to existing ...