This research builds the case for medicinal cannabis use in the in-patient healthcare setting. Participants include patients from Maine with qualifying diseases and qualifying visiting patients. Maine allows medical marijuana to be prescribed for: Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophi…
This study examines the current educational system at Malaysia Bible Seminary [MBS] by viewing it from a holistic curriculum perspective. The areas of intellectual discipline, spiritual formation, social development, and vocational preparation are viewed in light of their capabi…
This study, Bodies in Contexts: Holistic Ideals of Health, Healing, and Wellness in an American Orisha Community, examines how Orisha priests' notions of the human body affect their holistic understanding of health and healing as well as how they define well-being. Specifically,…
This study investigates how waqf officers in two State Religious Councils (SRCs) in Malaysia undertake their responsibilities and duties of accountability to inform and improve the management of waqf properties for the benefit of beneficiaries and the public. The thesis uses the…
This thesis details the development and evaluation of a new photofitting approach. The motivation for this work is that current photofit systems used by the police - whether manual or computerized - do not appear to work very well. Part of the problem with these approaches is th…
Over the past twenty years there has been growing recognition that young people who have sexually harmed should not simply be treated as younger versions of adult sex offenders. Changes in terminology and recommended treatment reflect the fact that these young people are still d…
A quantitative review of news articles covering the disappearance and search for Malaysia Flight 370 from China's People's Daily (PD), Malaysia's New Straits Times, and The New York Times (TNYT), extends an established cultural research epistemology by showing significant differ…
Helping students learn specific knowledge content is an important element involved in education. However, Christian universities are called not merely to fill their students' minds with facts, but to promote life transformation to better reflect the mind and character of Christ.…
Purpose: The purpose of this Doctor of Nursing (DNP) quality improvement (QI) project was to demonstrate the usefulness of implementing a bilingual educational module for patients with hypertension on improving knowledge, self-efficacy, and self-management at Kids Kare Pediatric…
Many African American Pentecostal parishioners are unable to lead fully productive lives due to overwhelming exposure to one or more human challenges leading to holistic dispossession. Pastoral leaders have a big responsibility in assisting parishioners as they seek to be reliev…
The Holocaust is a topic that has been well studied, especially the causes and driving forces behind it. This study seeks to reconcile the two recent and popular approaches to the explanations for the driving forces of the Holocaust. These approaches are the top-down and bottom-…