The objective of this dissertation was to increase the body of knowledge related to functional mobility and physical activity in adults with incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). By identifying key determinants which underlie ...

For many years the poet and novelist George Scarbrough was little known outside the area that literary circles have labeled Appalachia. But from northern Georgia to the reaches of Virginia and all the adjacent area between ...

This thesis explains why Afghanistan had a higher gender disparity for girls’ primary education than Pakistan from 1970 to 2015. Scholars have previously studied ongoing barriers that are still prevalent today including ...

Authors of African American literature have addressed the traumas caused by systemic racism—slavery, Jim Crow, or mass incarceration—in order to protect and uplift the next generation. This thesis contributes to the discourse ...

The purpose of study 1 was to characterize energy expenditure (EE) during academic subjects and activities during an elementary school day. Children in 2nd-4th grades (N = 33) wore the SenseWear Armband (SWA) for five ...

While weight loss surgery (WLS) is a valid option for morbidly obese individuals, willpower, as demonstrated through diet and exercise, is constructed as the only acceptable strategy for losing weight. I used a 40-question ...

Experienced by millions of Americans annually, food insecurity is the limited/uncertain access to readily obtainable and nutritionally adequate safe foods that are secured in a socially acceptable way and contribute to an ...

In October of 1955, eight women gathered in San Francisco, California to form the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB). Together, these women pioneered a new path for lesbian rights and forever altered the public perception of ...

This study is an empirical investigation into the export performance of the United States using state level data. Only a few studies have tried to disaggregate national level data. While spatial issues play an increasing ...

This work is to shine a new light on the elite women living in the British colony of Jamaica in the 1600s and 1700s. I have put this together with sources from the families living there at the time and with secondary ...