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The Cultural and Medical Conceptions of Deafness: Their Effects on the Self and Culturally Affirmative Mental Health Care
(2017-05-23)
The cultural model of deafness is one that affirms the legitimacy of the Deaf community as a whole. The medical model of deafness is one that is predicated on disability and focuses on “deaf can’t” rather than “Deaf can”. ...
Jewish American Women's Autobiography: Mary Antin to Golda Meir
(2016-08-11)
Throughout the twentieth century, the United States experienced vast changes
such as large-scale immigration, world wars, and civil rights movements. The effects of
these changes on minorities, women, and especially ...
The Modern State of Being: Mystical Spirituality in Twentieth Century American Avant-Garde Painting
(2014-04-28)
The singlemost misunderstood aspect of twentieth century art is the advent of abstraction. In the aftermath of the first half of the twentieth century, modern man felt that in order to regain his humanity, in order to ...
An Expansion on Protein PEGylation for cancer therapeutics: from Bench to Bedside
PEGylation is a biochemical modification of biomolecules using polyethylene glycol (PEG) that confers several desirable properties to the modified biomolecule. It has been shown to improve stability, solubility, increase ...
Catholic Healthcare in the United States: A Study of the Adherence to the Sterilization Religious Directives of Ascension Health in Texas
The United States Conference of Bishops created the Ethical and Religious Directives (ERDs) in order to provide clear ethical rules for American Catholics. Included was the prohibition of both female and male sterilization: ...
Building Health Champions among Youth in India for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention
(2019-05-20)
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a leading cause of death in India, creating a need to research strategies for preventing and recognizing these diseases. The purpose of this study is to develop and research an interactive ...
Radiation Exposure and Cement Volume During Fluoroscopy-Guided Percutaneous Vertebroplasty
According to new state and federal mandates, radiation exposure and patient safety are being evaluated, tracked, and recorded. Through our Department of State Health Services, Texas has enacted regulations to establish ...
An Examination of the Relationship Between Dating Violence, Suicide, and School Connectedness in United States Adolescents
(2019-05-24)
This study examined the relationship between adolescent dating violence and suicidal ideation, using school connectedness as a potential protective factor. The study used secondary data from the National Longitudinal Study ...
The Soviet Digital Frontier: A Study on the Digital Policy of Former Soviet StatesThe Soviet Digital Frontier: A Study on the Digital Policy of Former Soviet States
(2019-05-23)
With today’s rise of the Internet, former Soviet states must address practical and ethical questions surrounding digitization and the internet’s use. Unlike other countries throughout the world, former Soviet states must ...
The Role of Womanhood in St. Hildegard’s Medical Practices
(2019-05-24)
Hildegard of Bingen, a twelfth-century German abbess (1098-1179), was not only a woman of great influence and power during her time, but she was also a female figure who wrote extensively about women – particularly about ...