Research indicates that health disparities persist for minorities in the U.S. Sources of health disparities may stem from differences (linguistic, cultural, religious, gender, education) between health provider and patient. This qualitative study explored perceptions and experie…
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South Sudan attained self-governing status in 2010, following a Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005 that ended decades of war. The need to understand the values and motivations that gird the current legislators of South Sudan referred to by the UN as the newest nation i…
The West-Negev settlements in the State of Israel, which are settlements that surround the Gaza Strip, are experiencing the firing of rockets and mortar shells by Palestinian terror organizations, since the year 2001. A study of prolonged exposure to terror in the West-Negev set…
The extended contact hypothesis states that contact with an ingroup member, who has an outgroup friend, facilitates favorable outgroup attitudes (Wright, Aron, McLaughlin-Volpe, & Ropp, 1997). An experimental manipulation examined the hypothesis’ assumption that ingroup identity…
This investigation was intended to enhance the current knowledge of several broad health behaviors of Arab American undergraduate college students in relation to a national sample of college students with consideration of level of acculturation of Arab respondents. Measures of h…
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) activity, in particular examining respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) as a possible moderator of the relation between emotion regulation strategies and aggressive behaviors. A retrospect…
The purpose of this study was to determine whether type of blast injury effects PTSD/neurobehavioral symptomatology. Nearly 20% of Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) are estimated to experience symptoms of PTSD and/or depression, while more than 320,000…
Nigeria, like many other African countries, has seen the emergence of chronic diseases such as stroke, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes. In particular, the rapid increase in diabetes mellitus type 2 has become a national concern. The effect of social cognitive function asso…
Invariant recognition is the ability to recognize an object regardless of how it is transformed given that the transformation is allowable. A small change in image will cause a dramatic change in signals. Visual system needs to be able to perform recognition without being influe…
In this study, the researcher proposed to a) examine the relationship between hours of Internet accessibility and the psychological well-being of a group of military personnel deployed at the time of this research project to combat regions in Afghanistan, and b) examine differen…
Uruguay has some of the strictest tobacco-control laws in Latin America. Despite this, youth smoking rates in Uruguay are amongst the highest in South America. Thus, it is important to identify strategies to prevent youth smoking in Uruguay. The current qualitative research stud…
This dissertation uses Positive Deviance (PD) to understand child marriage by abduction in a community in the Sidama Zone of Ethiopia. Marriage by abduction occurs among the poorest 10% of the Sidama population and entails the kidnapping of girls between the ages of 10 and 14 fo…
Under the direction of KAREN D. ROWLAND, PH.D The aim of the study was to examine the association between emotional trauma, perceived stress reactivity and the growth of uterine fibroids in Nigerian women. The study sample consisted of 143 Nigerian women of child-bearing age, ra…
This study evaluates successful organization development (OD) and change initiatives in Anglophone West African Countries (AWA) from 1991 to 2011 using the case meta-analysis methodology. It posits that despite the longstanding problems, failures, and management challenges AWA c…
Since the onset of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, nearly half of the injuries to the U.S. military are due to high-explosive blasts. The consequence of blast exposure to the peripheral auditory system impact on peripheral hearing loss has been reported. However, it is …
Autistic individuals experience marginalization and stigmatization, and are often not connected to mainstream services or organizations fostering peer relationships (Boundy, 2008; Jaarsma & Welin, 2012; Robertson, 2010). Therefore, the accomplishments of the online Autistic comm…
Uncontrolled diabetes leads to blindness, amputation, kidney failure, and death. Despite such severe complications, treatment adherence rate for diabetes is low. This dissertation explores a mediational model of treatment adherence in type 2 diabetics. Mediation analysis goes be…
Water resource management is a major concern worldwide due to the rapid population growth and demands of economic development. Water resources are distributed unevenly and sharing water between multiple users or countries is common. Transboundary rivers create an interdependency…
Background: The mortality rates of coronary artery disease (CAD) have declined in the past three decades in the United States (US). However, the rates of decline are slower for racial and ethnic minority populations including South Asians (SAs). Increased premature incidence and…