Browsing Colleges and Schools by Author "La Pastina, Antonio C"
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Uribe Guajardo, Amelia Patricia (2023-04-07)This dissertation discusses the psychological implications of the War on Drugs (WoD) and narco culture on Mexico and its people. It looks at it through the lens of collective trauma and compassion fatigue. Moreover, it ...
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Garcia, Diego Jose (2016-08-05)Even though the People’s Republic of China has instituted national policies to provide greater higher education access to Chinese ethnic minorities and facilitate greater maintenance of ethnic minority cultures, limited ...
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Dean, Marleah Lynn (2014-07-10)The purpose of this dissertation study was to identify previvors’ sources of uncertainty and strategies for managing uncertainty and understand how previvors’ uncertainty influence what type of preventative health decisions ...
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Yadlin Segal, Aya (2017-05-08)In this dissertation, I present an ethnographic exploration of how a post-migration community—the Persian community in Israel—constructs its identity. Drawing on cultural and postcolonial theories, I discuss the ways in ...
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Carter, Misti Hill (2015-08-24)Physicians are concerned about medical malpractice. Research has shown that physicians remain concerned even when they practice in states that have enacted tort reform measures such as caps on non-economic damages. To ...
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Doshi, Marissa J (2014-12-15)This dissertation is an ethnography of the media practices of young Catholic women in Mumbai, India. Media practices are conceptualized as cultural practices via which the participants in this study claimed cultural ...