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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"northeastern Pennsylvania"”.
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Until We Sink and other stories
… version of the authors hometown, Carbondale, in northeastern Pennsylvania, home of the first underground coal mines in the nation. The stories explore life in a town wrought by violence and environmental degradation.'</p>
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Shale gas development and respiratory health
… York fracking ban and intensifying fracking in Northeastern Pennsylvania, oil and gas well data and state inpatient respiratory records are combined to estimate the effect of various levels of shale gas development on respiratory admissions. A border exclusion was applied to account for air …
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Fire History of an Acidic Barrens Complex: A Methods Assessment of Fire Return Intervals
… area located in the Ridge and Valley Province of northeastern Pennsylvania. We mapped and described a total of 155 fire-scarred trees within a 50-meter resolution grid, noting the species, health status, and basal scar orientation for each tree. Additionally, we cut a full or partial cross section …
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Marine resistivity as a tool for characterizing groundwater discharge zones at Lake Lacawac, PA
… Lake Lacawac, a small, glacially formed lake in northeastern Pennsylvania. A continuous resistivity survey circumnavigating the lake was collected by towing a floating multi electrode cable parallel to shore. This was followed by a series of resistivity surveys run perpendicular to the shoreline …
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Exploring Learning of Pediatric Burn Patients through Storytelling
… to a pediatric trauma and burn center in northeastern Pennsylvania over a two year period. Twenty children aged five through ten who had second or third degree burns participated in this study. The children were read the discharge teaching book, asked to draw a picture of themself since …
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The Impact of Structured Debriefing, Following Simulation, on BSN Student Development of Clinical Reasoning and Clinical Judgment Skills
… nursing course within their junior year in a northeastern Pennsylvania Baccalaureate nursing program. Changes in clinical reasoning and clinical judgment were measured based upon scores achieve on the Health Sciences Reasoning Test© (HSRT) and the California Critical Thinking Disposition …
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God, self, humanity, Earth: Christian ecological ethics in local contexts
… (fracking) in two local communities in Northeastern Pennsylvania to describe and analyze the global and local tensions created by the social, economic, and environmental effects of these practices. The description and analysis of the case study contributes to the development of a …
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Patient Descriptions About Weight Loss Surgery Education Practices
… interview after being randomly selected from one northeastern Pennsylvania WLS practice database and meeting study inclusion criteria. The interview data were used to answer the following research questions: a) How do patients describe their overall WLS experience? b) How do patients describe the …
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Nanticoke, Pennsylvania: Impacts of the Anthracite Coal Industry: A Case Study
The story of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania from 1747 to 2006 is at the same time a look into the economic, political, and social aspects of America. From the birth of the American Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century, Nanticoke played an important role in the economic health of the country. …
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Fracked Perceptions: Changes in Perception Regarding Hydraulic Fracturing Among Residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania.
… with hydraulic fracturing within Dimock, Pennsylvania. Residents of Dimock initially welcomed fracking in 2006 due to positive corporate rhetoric promoting economic benefits such as mineral rights acquisition, land-leasing, and local business development. However, economic benefits …