Browsing by Subject "Africa"
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(2010-06-11)Department: HistoryThis dissertation explores African ideas and practices related to bodies, health, illness and death in the early modern Spanish Caribbean. African healing traditions were an essential part of the imagination of bodies, ...
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(2018-12-12)Department: HistoryThe establishment of Liberia as a nation in 1847 was one of the first opportunities for black Americans to rule themselves. This dissertation studies how African American emigrants worked to become a national people and ...
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(Integrative Journal of Global Health, 2017)Objective: Despite the availability of effective antibiotic treatment, patients in Nigeria continue to perish from complications of typhoid fever, including intestinal perforations. Given the preventable nature of these ...
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(Global Health Action, 2020-12-31)Reducing child mortality is a key global health challenge. We examined reasons for greater or lesser success in meeting under-five mortality rate reductions, i.e. Millennium Development Goal #4, between 1990 and 2015 in ...
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(Vanderbilt Universityhttp://www.vanderbilt.edu/, 2009-04)Throughout the Transatlantic slave trade enslaved Africans sang. In holding pens called barracoons awaiting shipment, aboard slave ships crossing the Atlantic, and in the transatlantic colonies, singing was a common feature ...
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(2012-04-24)Department: EconomicsAggregate country level corruption is highly correlated with low levels of development, including low GDP per capita and low average education attainment. To understand the effect corruption has on the daily lives of ...
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(2020-03-03)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesEducational transfer by way of isomorphism is the inspiration for this dissertation. In the course of three papers, I study three aspects of the policy making process: adoption, adaptation, and evaluation. In the first ...
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(2015-10-14)Department: History"In this work, I have not attempted a full description of the many hellish torments and punishments those piratical sea-rovers invent and inflict on the unfortunate Christians who may by chance unhappily fall into their ...