104 research outputs found

    First in the Nation: Eighty Years of Graduate Dental Public Health Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1936–2016

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    Since its early teaching activity in 1936, the North Carolina Dental Public Health program has had an outstanding 80-year history that is summarized into five themes. It has served as a key resource for training the dentists in public health, which has benefited the state of North Carolina. It has provided the science base for improving oral health with new prevention technologies. The program has advanced public health practice and collaborations with state and federal agencies, and it has maintained a robust research program that developed methods for solving population-based problems. Finally, it has offered a comprehensive teaching program that supported the knowledge base for the MPH program and research methods for PhD students in epidemiology and health services research. The UNC research focus on early childhood caries reversed the increase observed in statewide surveys, and its prevention methods have been adopted nationally. Rozier also documents the first courses in dental public health which provided definitions and direction for the specialty. Oral diseases are largely preventable, but they affect more than three billion people worldwide. First in the Nation is elegantly convincing in its message—that a major health sciences campus without a comprehensive Dental Public Health academic program is intellectually devoid of part of its purpose for being

    Southeastern Librarian 70(4) Winter 2023 (Full Issue)

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    Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian Volume 70 Number 4, Centennial Commemorative Issu

    The President\u27s Column

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    Column by Crystal Gates

    Marketing systems’ analysis in intercultural tension contexts: implications for sustainable prosperity of Syrian refugees in Lebanon

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    Forcibly displaced populations are increasing and are inevitably changing market landscapes in host societies. Lebanon remains the country with the highest number of refugees per capita after Syrians had to take refuge because of the war that started in 2011. National public debates and international reports on how to fairly and effectively welcome refugees in host countries have proliferated, however research at the intersection of marketing fields and development is insufficient. Macromarketing lies in a privileged position to address the complex socioeconomic phenomena vis-à-vis the inclusion of refugees in host societies, taking into account the well-being of all actors and stakeholders, from consumers, businesses, NGOs, and governments. Within such a complex network of actors, interests, and international conundrums, social dilemmas and fears can lead to animosity towards the newly arrived community. This thesis will explore the reasons behind Lebanese consumers’ animosity towards Syrian refugee employees, as well as the disposition of macrofactors in the Lebanese marketing system to facilitate or hinder refugee inclusion

    Tennessee Blue Book 2021-2022

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    https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/govpubs-tn-blue-book/1000/thumbnail.jp

    Brassroots Democracy and the Birth of Jazz: Hearing the Counter-Plantation in Black Atlantic Sonic Culture, 1791-1928

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    This dissertation is both a comparative cultural history and a social history of early New Orleans jazz. While twentieth-century paradigms tend to examine jazz as a product of a self-contained African American culture or of African-European interaction, I argue that we would be better served understanding jazz’s syncretism within the Afro-Atlantic social movements which contested slavery, colonization, and capitalism in the Caribbean basin. From the Haitian revolution to Radical Reconstruction, new musical forms were an important tool to communicate political developments abroad as well as to generate an aestheticized political consciousness that imagined, built, and martialed the collective will to defend a new commons. Part one explores intra-Caribbean influences on the music and political organizing of Louisiana’s Black communities, particularly highlighting the impact of the Haitian Revolution. I explore the life of bandleader and freedom-rider Daniel Desdunes, and his influential sister, the Stroyville blues pioneer Mamie Desdunes, arguing that their Haitian identities and connection to counter-plantation legacies influenced the development of their practice of jazz as activism. I also trace the family of clarinetists Lorenzo and Louis Tio whose connections to revolutionary Mexico allowed them safe passage to build an agricultural commune in the mid-19th century to escape the racial oppression of antebellum New Orleans. Part two explores the prominence of brass bands within Black American social movements in the south, including during the Civil War, at dockworkers’ union parades in New Orleans, and on plantations themselves. Tracing the bands’ institutional history opens up new connections between the collectivist structures heard in early jazz and the practice of grassroots democracy and communal economics among African Americans in both rural and urban Louisiana. In tune with the counter-plantation, these forms of social organization were recreated and resurrected in the music, performing the world they struggled to see

    Underwater Vehicles

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    For the latest twenty to thirty years, a significant number of AUVs has been created for the solving of wide spectrum of scientific and applied tasks of ocean development and research. For the short time period the AUVs have shown the efficiency at performance of complex search and inspection works and opened a number of new important applications. Initially the information about AUVs had mainly review-advertising character but now more attention is paid to practical achievements, problems and systems technologies. AUVs are losing their prototype status and have become a fully operational, reliable and effective tool and modern multi-purpose AUVs represent the new class of underwater robotic objects with inherent tasks and practical applications, particular features of technology, systems structure and functional properties

    2019, UMaine News Press Releases

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    This is a catalog of press releases put out by the University of Maine Division of Marketing and Communications between January 23, 2019 and December 31, 2019
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