Historically, the mining industry has taken a 'devil may care' attitude to the impacts of its operations; operating in areas without social legitimacy, causing major devastation, and then leaving when an area has been exhausted of all economically valuable resources. Cost benefit language has often been used to excuse the damage caused in one place because it is outweighed by the overall financ...

Extraction and transportation of mineral resources today presents an increasing social problem, leading to environmental damage and the violation of human rights. In addition to economic and social controversies as well as political problems (such as corruption amongst state and local authorities), it caused population displacement on a large scale. The social costs of oil production illustrate...

Stem cell depletion and compromised bone marrow resulting from radiation exposure fosters long-term deterioration of numerous physiologic systems, with the degradation of the skeletal system ultimately increasing the risk of fractures. To study the interrelationship of damaged bone marrow cell populations with trabecular microarchitecture, 8- and 16-week-old C57BL/6 male mice were sublethally i...

Title: Historical and Contemporary American Indian Injustices: The Ensuing Psychological Effects Author: Talia Nelson, Psychology CE Type: Course Capstone Thesis Approved By: Kathleen A. Brown-Pérez, Commonwealth Honors College In this research I investigate the various ways in which the process of historical colonization has devastated the indigenous population and cultures. I explore and anal...

Disordered gambling has been on the radar of researchers and clinicians for decades. It gained acceptance as a diagnostic entity approximately 30 years ago with the publication of DSM–III (American Psychiatric Association, 1980). However, from this reviewer’s perspective, the condition of disordered gambling has long been underappreciated with respect to the prevalence of the disorder or the le...

To O N E J U S T B A C K from overseas the contrast between the United States and Europe is striking, particularly when one is transported in a few hours from a continent of hungry, unhappy people living amid widespread devastation and demoralization to a country with an abundance of the good things of life. But despite the destruction all about one in Europe, i t is inspiring to realize that a...

On August 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina made landfall near the Louisiana–Mississippi border, it exposed a large number of people to extraordinary loss and suffering. The enormous swath of physical devastation wreaked across the marshes of Louisiana’s Plaquemines Parish to the urban communities of New Orleans and the coastal landscape of Mississippi and Alabama caused a notable change to the ...

In the light of recent studies showing the presence of spirochetes in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients, we have studied (post mortem) the hippocampus region in the brains of similarly affected AD patients utilizing both pathology and immunohistochemistry. Our findings demonstrate that the plaques, which are characteristically found in AD brains, reveal the presence of biofilms. T...

Arthropod pests are responsible for major crop devastation and are vectors for the transmission of new and re-emerging diseases in humans and livestock. Despite many years of effective control by conventional agrochemical insecticides, a number of factors are threatening the effectiveness and continued use of these agents. These include the development of insecticide resistance and usecancellat...

Marlene Goldman suggests in her paper "Representations of Buddhism in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost" that at first glance Ondaatje appears to promote the idea of a Sri Lankan Buddhist faith as transcending history. Ondaatje introduces the subject of Buddhism early on in the novel, emphasizing initially the devastation wrought by imperial and colonial forces. Goldman, however, argues that subsequent r...