The purpose of the proposed dissertation was to gain an understanding of rural first responders’ perceived experiences following the terrorist attack that resulted in the traumatic Flight 93 plane crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11th, 2001.
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In looking at rural-urban linkages, this thesis addresses the extent to which social research may be generalized within development policy. Studies of Yoruba migrants in south-western Nigeria demonstrate that the ties between migrants and their hometowns can have a positive impa…
The study was conducted in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. Thirty-eight third-grade elementary school children (age = 8–9 y) in rural and thirty-nine in urban areas participated voluntarily. The subjects included male and female students. Food sources of vitamin B-6, commonly consu…
Retaining underserved students through completion is a key priority in American higher education. Academic advising is regarded as an important student support service that can positively influence student persistence and reduce attrition. The purpose of this qualitative phenome…
This project addressed the problem of pastoral burnout. Pastors (n = 21) experienced a burnout training in the form of an intensive two-day conference including seven sessions, eleven resources pertaining to stress and burnout, and four follow-up sessions. Participants completed…
This thesis explores the notion of rurality as a form of constructed identity. Just as feminist and postcolonial studies identify the formation of hierarchies within gender and ethnicity, I argue that the rural is constructed as inferior in opposition to its binary counterpart, …
The rural and urban divide in the United States has attracted limited attention from historians researching the Vietnam War and its impact on American society. By analyzing the rich contents of Grit and related primary source documents including the New York Times (Times), this …
The H1N1 influenza pandemic (pH1N1) in 2009 was the first opportunity in history toadminister vaccine on a grand scale. In Alberta, Canada public health nurses (PHNs)were the primary administrators of pandemic vaccine through mass immunization clinics.This paper describes what t…
Sutter County’s Century Farmers identifies families with an ongoing legacy of land use in Sutter County. Families that have been farming for 100 years in Sutter County are vital resources in identifying regional themes, historic agricultural developments, and landscape character…
This report gives the information about the noise study of shoulder and transverse rumble strips on rural highways. There are two case studies on two different kind of rumble strips. Case study- I is on shoulder rumble strips, where noise of the vehicles are recorded when vehicl…
Objectives. (1) Determine the food procurement strategies utilized by the Fulani. (2) Identify the prinicipal and minor edible-wild plants used in the study area, with special attention to groups at risk; also determine dietary taboos associated with the dietary use of wild plan…
This research is a qualitative investigation of how baby boomers (born 1946 to 1964) who self-identify as increasing in Christian religiosity from a place of no faith or nominal faith have done so as they enter early old age (age 65 to 80) in the rural American context. The qual…
That rural spaces have both challenges to confront and strengths with which to confront them is well trod territory. Within this larger narrative I set out to analyze the story of a single place along an arc of old transnational highway that lost its high school to consolidation…
Average annual daily traffic (AADT) is important in transportation engineering and planning, and although the State of Louisiana collects AADT on a regular basis on state-maintained highways, most parishes and smaller municipalities do not have the resources to collect AADT freq…
This case study is an ethnographic study of workshops in four schools in Durgapur in rural Bangladesh with the goal to understand the perspectives regarding participation and paribesh (environment) of different groups of youth. Among the groups of youth included in this study ar…
Malaysian politics has long been dominated by tensions arising out of inter-ethnic inequality. However, economic policy in the earlier years of independence took a laissez-faire approach. Following the racial riots in 1969, there was a re-think on policy and the New Economic Pol…
In an age of standardization of learning and the learner, literacy is narrowly defined to view young people from a deficit rather than a strength perspective. Empowering learners to draw on knowledges and experiences that they have access to in their everyday lives broadens the …
A common plea in missions is the need to train pastors and church leaders for the rapidly multiplying churches in the Majority World, resulting in numerous formal and nonformal theological education training programs. In spite of these efforts, many rural churches remain without…
Anti-social behaviour (herein ASB) has become important socially, politically and culturally in the United Kingdom over the past fifteen years. Successive Governments have prioritised tackling ASB, with a plethora of legislation being introduced to tackle low-level nuisance beha…