The United States has higher rates of incarceration than any other country. Incarceration has negative effects on individuals, their families, and society. Jails face two major issues that this study focuses on: high rates of...
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Jails -- Rural, Recidivism, Inmates of institutions -- Mental health, Prisoners -- Mental health, Inmates of institutions -- Drug abuse et Prisoners -- Drug abuse
Research shows that correctional facilities face high rate of behavioral health disorders, with various mental health disorders and substance use disorders occurring in higher rates in jails and prisons than the general...
Mot-clé:
Corrections, Recidivism et Rural jails
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Prisoners -- Mental health services, Recidivism, Prisoners -- Drug use, Criminal behavior, Prediction of et Prisons -- North Carolina -- Waynesville
The developmental stage of adolescence is a difficult time for young people, particularly girls. Research shows that girls often struggle during this period with low self-esteem, a lack of confidence, depression, and poor body...
This thesis investigates the interplay between materiality, temporality, and spatial narrative in the context of contemporary installation art. Through a site-specific work titled Eternal Question, I explore how...
Mot-clé:
Anti-monumentality, Audience Participation, Installation Art, Materiality, Site-specificity et Temporality
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Installations (Art), Mixed media (Art), Trees in art, Interactive art et Materialism in art
This study examines the role folk medicine has played in the creation of Appalachia. By investigating folk medicine and folk healing in Jackson County, North Carolina, it becomes evident that different periods of history have...
Mot-clé:
Appalachia, folk healing, folklore, Jackson County, medicine et North Carolina
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Traditional medicine -- North Carolina -- Jackson County -- History -- 20th century, Appalachians (People) -- North Carolina -- Jackson County -- Ethnic identity, Jackson County (N.C.) -- History -- 20th century et Place (Philosophy)
My paintings are allegorical reflections of modernized narratives based on Biblical stories and characters. The subject matter also comes from historical religious painting, modern allegorical painting, and personal experiences...
Mot-clé:
Art, Biblical, Narrative, Painting, Religious et Self-Portrait
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Jezebel, -- Queen, consort of Ahab, King of Israel -- Art, Mary Magdalene, -- Saint -- Art, Delilah -- (Biblical figure) -- Art, Symbolism in art et Sex role in art
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria and can utilize two different pathways after infection; the lytic or lysogenic cycles. During the lytic cycle, the bacteriophage hijacks the bacterial machinery to replicate...
Primase-polymerases (prim-pols) are enzymes that exhibit primase, polymerase, and potential helicase-like activities by way of a bifunctional N-terminal prim-pol domain and a C-terminal ATPase domain. Presented is a...
Mot-clé:
ATPase, bioinformatics, DNA replication, phage, prim-pol et primase-polymerase
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Viruses -- Enzymes, Adenosine triphosphatase, Bioinformatics, DNA replication et Bacteriophages
Since the 1900s forensic scientists have generally relied upon short tandem repeats (STRs) as a DNA typing method used for positive identification or exclusion of suspects in crimes. STR typing, while well established, requires...
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DNA -- Analysis, Genetic genealogy, DNA--Testing, Sociobiology et Forensic biology
The purpose of this research project was to investigate the adsorption of heavy metals onto unmodified and modified ground peanut hulls to determine their compatibility as a biosorbent for heavy metal containing aqueous...
Mot-clé:
adsorption, bioremediation, Biosorption, Cadmium, Copper et peanut hulls
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Heavy metals -- Absorption and adsorption, Copper -- Absorption and adsorption, Cadmium -- Absorption and adsorption, Adsorption (Biology) et Peanuts -- Utilization
