Appalachian folkways

Diabetes and cancer screening rates among Appalachian and non-Appalachian residents of Kentucky.

BACKGROUND Having diabetes may increase the odds of late-stage breast cancer. In Kentucky, the rates of late-stage disease are higher in rural than in urban areas, particularly in rural Appalachia. The objectives of the study were to examine the relationship between diabetes and cancer screening and to determine whether Appalachia residence modifies this association. METHODS One thousand thir...

Risky Behaviors Among Ohio Appalachian Adults

This article describes the prevalence of risky behaviors known to be associated with increased cancer morbidity and mortality among Ohio Appalachian adults. These behaviors, or risk factors, include: 1) tobacco use; 2) energy imbalance (involving poor diet, obesity, and physical inactivity); and 3) sexual behaviors. We report current estimates of the prevalence of these behaviors among Ohio App...

Partitive Doubling in Icelandic and Appalachian English∗

Basal Fire Wounds on Some Southern Appalachian

Data from 317 oaks and yellow poplars wounded by a spring fire in Virginia were analyzed by means of multiple linear correlation. A method was obtained whereby the size of wound can be predicted provided the areas of discolored bark and diameters of injured trees are known. The method of prediction so far is safely applicable only to groups of trees similar to those studied. Of the species exam...

Thermoviscous Remagnetization in Some Appalachian Limestones

Experimental evidence shows that blocking temperature-relaxation time theory for single-domain magnetite can grossly underestimate laboratory thermal demagnetization temperatures of a present day viscous remanence in Devonian limestones of New York State. Thermoviscous remagnetization at moderately elevated burial temperatures during the late Paleozoic cannot therefore be readily excluded for t...