Alaska

Found that the number of people with diabetes increased as the percentage of patients receiving foot, eye and dental exams decreased.

Discusses goals, issues and various options available when educating Native American children.

Looks at a comparative study of the acceptability and effectiveness of a tobacco cessation quitline (QL) among Alaska Native people and non-Alaska Native people.

Presents a method to identify and categorize seasonal patterns of weather conducive to specific tourism activities, using a tourism climate index based on hourly weather data.

Study presents traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) gathered from 40 subsistence hunters and fishers in an Inupiat village on the Alaska North Slope; includes observations of the physical environment and the condition/wellbeing of the animals harvested.

Discusses various telehealth programs and upcoming articles in special issue.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell The Eskimo About Bering Strait by Edward William Nelson

Comments on an education system that combines Western and Yup'ik pedagogical approaches. Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.

Book review of: Ellavut/Our Yup'ik World & Weather by Ann Fienup-Riordan and Alice Rearden.

Book review of: Elngug by Anna Jacobson.

Explores the relationship between environment, form of dance, and the role dance plays in political discourse for Alaskan Natives.

Environmental Management Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 1998.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 1992.

Questionnaire conducted on 298 college students revealed that energy drink consumption was associated with increased incidence of other risky behaviours such as use of tobacco, marijuana and risky sexual activity.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Hampshire, 1993.

Organizational Systems Thesis (Ph.D.)--Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, 2007. (This is an abridged version of the introduction, one chapter, and the conclusion of the document.)

Authors examine the existing guidelines for building research relationships in Arctic communities; they note the current guidelines are action centered and suggest that researchers also need a series of skills, attitudes and personal attributes if they are to be successful in building community relationships.

Comments on the importance of incorporating the local landscape into science courses and focusing on real-world topics to engage students.

Presents a bilingual lexicon including an ethnographical memoranda about Indigenous peoples of Alaska and Siberia.

Study attempts to provide a theoretical and empirically informed judgment about entrepreneurial activities in a small sub-Arctic Alaskan town.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983.

Community-centered project which investigates the effects of the rapidly changing Arctic environment on Iñupiaq and Yupik language speakers and the language itself.

Study found that levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and chlorinated pesticides were attributable to atmospheric transport from industrial areas in temperate climates and their subsequent accumulation in traditional foods.

Communication Thesis (M.A.)--University of Delaware, 2005.

Webcast of a presentation from the Patterns of Health and Wellbeing Symposium speaking on environmental changes due to oil and gas development. Duration: 33:53.

Looks at all suicides which occurred in Alaska between September 2003 and August 2006.

Health Care and Epidemiology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 2005.

[Anthropology] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 1960.

Satellite delivered TV programming for education aimed at children in remote areas of Alaska, Appalachia and Rocky Mountains states; focus of programs was basic oral language development and health.

Discusses political activism that was taking place in Alaska starting in the mid-1960s.

Book review of: Eskimo Architecture by Molly Lee and Gregory A. Reinhardt. Text in French.

Comments on differences in artistic ability depending on geographical location.

Book review: Eskimo Boy Today by Byron Fish.

Presents observation of coastal an Alaskan village over an eight month period from 1973 to 1974 in Tununak, on Nelson Island.

Book review of Eskimo Drawings edited by Suzi Jones. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 31.

A grave exposed by the tide at Point Barrow. Alaska, U.S.A.

Article investigates the distribution of various Eskimo languages in the Eastern Russia and Western Alaska region.

Clinical Psychology Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alaska Anchorage, 1997.

Book review of: The Eskimo of North Alaska by Norman A. Chance.

Compares family structure in the past and present; and social values, attitudes and practices.

Book review of: Eskimo Prehistory by Hans-Georg Bandi, translated by Ann E. Keep.

Book review of: Eskimo, Reindeer and Land by R. O. Stern, E. L. Arobio, L. L. Naylor and W. C. Thomas.

Four leaders: Maniilaq, Punginguhk, Uyagaq and Egaq and their influence on maintaining Inuit cultural patterns through creative accommodation to white contact.

Looks at sleeps disorders using traditional explanations.

Looks at game songs, songs-within-stories, dance songs and ceremonial dance songs.