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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Mississippi Delta"”.
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Starved: Food Deserts in the Mississippi Delta
… food deserts independent from urban ones. The Mississippi Delta consistently presents the highest obesity rates within the state, yet both the third unhealthiest county (Quitman) and the healthiest (DeSoto) are located in that region. One of the reasons there is such a large discrepancy between …
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Bvlbancha: Place and power in the early Mississippi Delta
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Modeling the Lafourche Delta network in the Mississippi Delta Complex
<p>The distributary channel network morphology on deltas is important for the delta evolution study because channels are the primary conduit for carrying and distributing water, sediment, and nutrients to the coast. Numerical models of river deltas and their channels have improved remarkably over …
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The Social Ecology Of Men's Sexual Self-Efficacy In The Mississippi Delta
Mississippi often has some of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases and infections in the country. To combat this, the state uses abstinence-based sexual education in an attempt to discourage young people from having sex. I conducted 27 interviews and one focus …
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Location, location: Factors influencing greenhouse gas fluxes from the Mississippi Delta agricultural region
… study assessed gas emission variability from the Mississippi Delta agricultural landscape and explored the effects of hydrology and hydrophytic vegetation on gas emissions.</p><p>Gas collection chambers were utilized to make gas measurements from soybean and corn farmland, vegetated riparian …
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Cultural Influences on Body Size Ideals Among African American Women in the Mississippi Delta
Results: One-on-one interviews yielded 25 cognitive maps. The maps contained a total of 169 concepts with 294 connections among them. The lowest number of variables identified on a participant’s map was 4 and the highest was 11. The lowest number of connections made on a participant’s map was 4 and …
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Parent's Use And Likely Use Of Nutrition Education Resources In The Mississippi Delta Region
… by parents of elementary-aged children in the Mississippi Delta region. Methods: Surveys were completed by 214 parents (92% female, 88% African American) of children in grades K-2nd from three schools in the Mississippi Delta region. Survey items obtained nutrition education resources currently …
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Art education shaping historical narratives in the Mississippi Delta: A polyptych study of CARE
… (CARE) located in the rural town of Charleston, Mississippi positioned along the Mississippi Delta in Tallahatchie County is the subject of this dissertation’s inquiry. By placing a microhistorical focus on the cultural-historical geography contexts of CARE, this study answers the central …
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Minority Health Perceptions in the Lower Mississippi Delta: A Grounded Theory Study Using PhotoVoice Methodology
<p>The Lower Mississippi Delta (LMD) region has a large minority population with concentrations of poverty and health disparities much higher than other parts of the country. The purpose of this project was to assess the health perceptions of minority women living in the LMD using a combination of …
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Perceptions of Race and Privilege: An Examination of Intercultural Competence and Service-Learning in the Mississippi Delta
… competence. The participants were University of Mississippi students (N=20) conducting service in the Mississippi Delta. The qualitative research included pre-service focus groups and post-service in-depth interviews, and syllabi and class written reflections were analyzed. The quantitative …
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I Am See-Through: Participatory Video Making As A Method For Social Change In The Mississippi Delta
… the Tutwiler Community Education Center in the Mississippi Delta. Since at least the 1960s, documentarians have utilized participatory video methodologies as a way to tackle social issues through a ground-up approach in which community members play a vital role in the production of documentary …
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Disparities in breast cancer subtype, staging, and access to mammography services in the Lower Mississippi Delta Region
The Delta Regional Authority (Delta Region) is a federal-state partnership aiming to improve socioeconomic conditions in 252 counties and parishes in the eight state Lower Mississippi Delta Region (LMDR). The Delta Region has a higher proportion of black residents, is poorer, and is more rural than …
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Perpetual Mobilization and Environmental Injustice: Race and the Contested Development of Industrial Agriculture in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.
Many attempts to explain inequality in the Delta tautologically invoke "persistent poverty" as its root cause, obscuring the continuities between historical exploitation and industrial agriculture in the present day. In contrast, I argue that agro-industry in the Delta is productive of …
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The Role of Policy and the Built Environment on Children's In-School Physical Activity in the Mississippi Delta
… of children ages 6 through 11 years in the Mississippi delta. A mixed-methods approach was used to garner a rich understanding of how current policy and the built environment influence in-school physical activity and weight status. Eleven public schools in three districts representing two …
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A Herpetofaunal Inventory Study of two National Wildlife Refuges in the Mississippi Delta and Associated Evaluation of Trapping Efficacy
<p>The objectives of this project were to record the diversity and distribution of amphibian and reptile species present at Panther Swamp and Hillside National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) and to quantify trapping efficacy as a result of various methodologies under different habitat variables. The …
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A Formative Evaluation for a Food Choices Intervention in a Mississippi Delta Community: A Focus Group of Rural African American Adolescents
<p>A needs assessment should be conducted to plan effective interventions. This study used a qualitative research approach to examine the eating patterns, food purchasing and preparation skills and practices, barriers and facilitators of dietary change, social and contextual influences on food …
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We Gotta Work with What We Got: School and Community Factors That Contribute to Educational Resilience Among African American Students
This thesis examines how Black residents in the Mississippi Delta claim and deploy agency and resiliency in a rural community context entrenched in a legacy of oppression. Black, low-income communities are implicitly labeled non-resilient when macro-level community capitals and resiliency …
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Keeping Pace with Relative Sea Level Rise: Marsh Platform Monitoring Shows Minimal Sediment Deficit along the Louisiana Coast
… reports estimate that the marshes of the Mississippi Delta receive just 30% of the sediment necessary to sustain current land area1. An extensive monitoring campaign by the USGS and LCPRA provides direct measurements of sediment accumulation, subsidence rates, and deposit characteristics …
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Arkansas’s cotton plantocracy: the role of POWs in establishing postwar labor systems
… to one crop occurred in the cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta region of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Local planters, agriculture organizations, and state representatives in Arkansas, such as Congressman Ezekiel C. "Took" Gathings and Arkansas Governor Homer Adkins, exaggerated their …
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