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Cultural Health Capital and the Doctor-Patient Encounter: An Exploratory Analysis
(2021-08-05)Doctor-patient interactions look different than they did 30 years ago. Who has the power and influence in doctor-patient relationships? The doctor, the patient, or a shared power? In recent decades, doctor-patient interactions ... -
Cultural identification and academic achievement: Validation of the Cultural Connectedness Achievement Measure and its use in understanding motivational characteristics of oppositional, racelessness and primary cultural identification.
(2006)The present study presents evidence regarding the reliability and validity of the Cultural Connectedness Achievement Measure (CLAM). The CCAM consist of three subscales representing three cultural dimensions of African ... -
Cultural identity and personal involvement of community interpreters
(2008)The current study is based on 30 in-depth interviews with Russian professional interpreters. It addresses three broad questions: cultural identity, invisibility / involvement, and the relationship between the two. In doing ... -
The cultural impact of shorthand /
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Cultural Lag, Anomie, and Single Women in Japan
(2010)This study uses Japan as a case study and seeks to contribute to a better understanding and theorizing of the phenomenon of marriage decline in the industrial world. Guided by a theoretical framework that synthesizes the ... -
Cultural Paradigms of Contemporary Indigenous Art: As Found in the Work of Shan Goshorn, Norman Akers, Marie Watt, and Joe Feddersen
(2018-05-11)This dissertation is the product of an ongoing inquiry into the relationships that exist between artists, their Indigenous cultures, and their aesthetic pursuits as materialized in the contemporary art they produce; and, ... -
Cultural Tools and the Classroom Context: An Exploration of an Artistic Response to Literature
(Written Communication, 1994-07-01)That writing has unique powers for promoting learning has become a given among many composition teachers and researchers. Peircean semiotics suggest that writing is one of many forms of composing available for mediating ... -
Cultural Values and Persistence in Muscogee (Creek) College Students: Attrition in Post-Secondary Education
(2011)Cultural Values and Persistence in Muscogee (Creek) College Students: -
A Culturally Nuanced Test of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s ‘‘General Theory’’: Dimensionality and Generalizability in Japan and the United States
(International Criminal Justice Review, 2010-06-01)The current research addresses two specific issues that direct attention to the relatively neglected topic of the cross-cultural applicability of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s ‘‘general theory’’ that has been developed in and ... -
Culturally relevant pedagogy in practice: using critical whiteness to create critical consciousness in urban education
(2021-05)This dissertation examines the purpose of urban k-12 public schools and identifies the explicit and implicit ways in which they disrupt and limit urban students’ opportunities. Through interviews with white teachers in ... -
Culturally responsive teaching in one urban school district: a needs assessment
(2022-12-17)There exists a pattern of underperformance in minority children in urban school districts across this country. Nationally, minority students—especially African American students—score lower on standardized assessments than ... -
Culture of Honor and Female Incarceration
(2023-05)Some states in the U.S. maintain higher than usual rates of female incarceration. Prior research suggests that these incarceration rates are determined by poverty, education, or racial makeup. However, these explanations ... -
Culture of Honor and Violence Against the Self
(Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2011-12-01)Cultures of honor facilitate certain forms of interpersonal violence. The authors suggest that these cultures might also promote values and expectations that could heighten suicide risk, such as strict gender-role standards ... -
The culture trait of hierarchy and junior high school socioeconomic status in a large urban school district /
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Culture, conflict and coexistence : American-Soviet cultural relations, 1917-1958.
(1980)Beneath the strained official relationship between Washington and Moscow, American and Soviet cultural representatives have maintained a long standing cultural intercourse. Only at the depths of the cold war did contacts ... -
Culture, politics and television: A cross-cultural comparative study of Korean and United States televised presidential debates.
(2000)This dissertation treats televised presidential debates as a mirror of culture. However, the study sees the televised presidential debate as a traditionally Western or American political event. The televised presidential ... -
Culture-independent characterization of methane-oxidizing microbial communities in unexplored extreme environments
(2021-08-05)Methane is the second most abundant greenhouse gas in atmosphere. With increasing emissions and more effective in trapping heat than CO2, it contributes up to ~20% of total global warming. Methanotrophs playing a critical ... -
Curbside Recycling in the U.S.a.: Convenience and Mandatory Participation
(Waste Management & Research, 1993-01-01)This research examines the relationship between the success of a residential curbside recycling program (RCRP), measured as material recovery rate (MRR), and two program factors: (1) whether or not participation is mandated; ... -
Curcumin Prevents Palmitoylation of Integrin β4 in Breast Cancer Cells
(PLos One, 2015-05-04)Curcumin has been shown to mitigate cancer phenotypes such as invasive migration, proliferation, and survival by disrupting numerous signaling pathways. Our previous studies showed that curcumin inhibits integrin β4 (ITG ... -
Curiosity Undergraduate
(2017-04)Jerusalem is a special place. Throughout the centuries it has inspired poets to write and soldiers to fight, and in the spring of 2014, it inspired me to spend a semester studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I ...