Browsing by Author "Anderson, Kermyt"
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At Home In The Lows: An Ethnography of Meaning-Making In Intimate Spaces
Oliver, Elisha (2018-05-11)There has been long-standing interest in the ways in which spaces are used by various cultures and communities. Through an ethnographic study of women, space, and narrative, this dissertation explores the ways in which ... -
CHINESE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ MIGRATION EXPERIENCES: A BIOCULTURAL ANALYSIS OF HEALTH, FOOD, AND MIGRATION
Dong, Yue (2019-05-10)The main purpose of this dissertation is to use both biocultural framework and life course perspective to investigate the dynamic relationship among migration induced stress, health, and culture with a focus on the processual ... -
Choice and Patterns in Midwife Use in the United States
Stewart, Kelsey (2019-05-10)This study explores the factors that influence women’s decisions about their pregnancy and birth, what kinds of value and beliefs tend to suggest a preference towards midwives, and, demographically, which women are mostly ... -
An Examination of Skill Acquisition, Adaptive Functioning, and Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention Effectiveness for Children At-risk For Autism at Early Foundations Project DATA
Thurston, Karen (2014-05-09)Autism spectrum disorder is characterized by communication and/or social deficits with restricted and repetitive behaviors. Treating autism is very costly, both financially and emotionally. Early Intensive Behavioral ... -
Exploring the Health of Consensually Non-Monogamous Individuals: A Mixed Methods Approach
Cox, Derrell W. II (2016-11)This study uses mixed (quantitative, qualitative, and ethnographic) methods and a multiple-theoretical framework, especially sexual configurations theory, to examine the health of cross-sectional samples of persons who ... -
MATE CHOICE, ILLUSIONS, AND BEHAVIORAL DIVERGENCE IN POECILIIDAE
Burt, Carolyn (2019-12-13)Chapter 1: Illusions are commonplace and distort perception in ways that make objects appear different from reality. Such phenomena may also play a role in mate evaluation because body size and ornament size are signals ... -
Perceptions of Occupational Crime: Sentencing Recommendations and the Attribution of Responsibility for Occupational Offenses
Schmidt, Marshall (2019-05-10)This dissertation examines how offender and case attributes affect criminal perceptions, responsibility attributions, and recommended sentencing outcomes for occupational and organizational crimes. I use affect control ... -
Viral Metagenomics and Anthropology in the Americas
Ozga, Andrew (2015-05-08)Viruses are the most abundant and diverse biological entities on earth. As humans, we could not exist without them. For billions of years they have been the unseen mediators of microbial and multicellular life. They are ...