THE ACTIVISM OF DANCE PERFORMANCE IN APPALACHIA: UTILIZING THE ARTS TO ADDRESS SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS AND INJUSTICE IN THE MOUNTAINS

The Activism of Dance Performance in Appalachia: Utilizing the Arts to Address Social and Environmental Crisis and Injustice in the Mountains

For well over a century, the human and more-than-human of Central Appalachia have endured oppression and exploitation, primarily due to natural resource extraction.In spring 2008, the author led a dark touri to a mountaintop removal coalmining site in Southern West Virginia for colleagues, which included Dance Professor Deborah McLaughlin.As a resu

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A versatile method to design stem-loop primer-based quantitative PCR assays for detecting small regulatory RNA molecules.

Short regulatory RNA-s have been Psoriasis identified as key regulators of gene expression in eukaryotes.They have been involved in the regulation of both physiological and pathological processes such as embryonal development, immunoregulation and cancer.One of their relevant characteristics is their high stability, which makes them excellent candi

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A New Ocean Rock Mass Rating and Its Application to Determine the Ultimate Bearing Capacity of an Offshore Wind Monopile Foundation

Offshore wind power is a new trend in renewable energy development.However, during the operation of offshore wind turbines, the rock-socketed monopile foundation is subjected to long-term cyclic loads, which will cause the seawater to erode the rock around the monopile foundation and reduce the ultimate end-bearing capacity.There is no suitable roc

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