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 ...
This research collected firsthand accounts of faith and teaching from both
Catholic and non-Catholic faculty at Baylor University in order to prove that Baylor has
intentionally sought and hired additional Roman Catholic ...
As climate change affects global weather patterns, coastal communities experience more high-intensity storms. Social and economic conditions have created more vulnerability to these disasters in some households, exacerbating ...
The recommended consumption of fat has been changed multiple times by the
USDA’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans in the past decade due to expanding nutrition
knowledge. Not only the amount of fat, but the type of fat ...
Today, discussions about politics look more like battle than thoughtful
conversations aimed at working toward the common good. My thesis is an effort to
imagine what a more healthy political discourse might look like. ...
While the character of Milton’s republicanism has been the subject of long debate, this study focuses on Milton’s privileging of wisdom as the characteristic which makes rulers fittest to govern and subjects most deserving ...