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Discovery Tool vs. PubMed: A Health Sciences Literature Comparison Analysis
(2014-09-09)The East Carolina University libraries, though administratively separate, jointly subscribe to and collaborate on enhancements for a shared instance of the Summon Discovery Service. Based on usage, enhancements to the ... -
DISCRIMINATING BETWEEN CARDIOLIPIN CONCENTRATION AND ACYL CHAIN COMPOSITION ON MEMBRANE BIOPHYSICAL ORGANIZATION
(East Carolina University, 2018-11-28)The pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) is driven, in part, from impairment in myocardial energy metabolism. There is convincing evidence that myocardial metabolic abnormalities are fundamentally driven by ... -
Discussing the Past and Envisioning the Future: A History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series
(2010-10-14)The Medical History Interest Group (MHIG) was established in the fall of 2001 by the Laupus Library History Collections in collaboration with the School of Medicine’s Medical Humanities department. The purpose was to sponsor ... -
Disease Vectors
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Diseased: An Artistic Depiction of Public Health Issues and Their Causes
(East Carolina University, 2020-05-04)Public health is a form of healthcare that aims to improve the health of communities through preventative methods. This includes law-making, public education, and control of the spread of disease. By using detailed imagery ... -
DISINTEGRIN-LIKE DOMAIN IN KSHV ENCODED gB IS A NECESSITY TO PROMOTE VIRUS LATENCY
(East Carolina University, 2011)KSHV glycoprotein B (gB) is a lytic structural protein expressed on the envelope of mature virions and on the membrane of cells supporting lytic infection. Previous studies have identified that in addition to the role of ... -
Dismantling the Center from the Margins : Patriarchy and Transnational Literature by Women
(East Carolina University, 2011)This thesis explores the idea that transnational women writers are liminal figures: marginal as women, marginal as writers, and marginal as transnational personae "betwixt and between" nations. Authorial liminality provides ... -
DISNET: a Distributed Instrument System NETwork
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DISNET: a Distributed System NETwork
(East Carolina University, 1984)This paper describes a Distributed Instrument System NETwork (DISNET) which was implemented within the Department of Chemistry at Cleveland State University. -
Disordered Gambling: Etiology, Trajectory and Clinical Considerations
(East Carolina University, 2011-04)Gambling-related research has advanced rapidly during the past 20 years. As a result of expanding interest toward pathological gambling (PG), stakeholders (e.g., clinicians, regulators, and policy makers) have a better ... -
DISPARITIES IN COPING AMONG PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-03)Significance: Caring for a child with special health care needs requires increased emotional and physical resources from parents. Many parents do not have access to vital resources essential to caring for these children ... -
Disparities in End of Life Pain: A Pilot Study in Hospice
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-01)Cancer is one of the leading causes of death. Pain is one of the most common, feared, and distressing symptoms associated with cancer. Minorities experience more severe pain than non-Hispanic whites and are more likely to ... -
Disparities in healthy food zoning, farmers' market availability, and fruit and vegetable consumption among North Carolina residents
(2015)Background: Context and purpose of the study. To examine (1) associations between county-level zoning to support farmers’ market placement and county-level farmers’ market availability, rural/urban designation, percent ... -
Disparities in healthy food zoning, farmers’ market availability, and fruit and vegetable consumption among North Carolina residents
(2015-08-25)Background Context and purpose of the study. To examine (1) associations between county-level zoning to support farmers’ market placement and county-level farmers’ market availability, rural/urban designation, percent ... -
Disposition for Adult Patients Presenting with Chest Pain
(2016-07-21)Many small community hospitals may have limited cardiology services. Subsequently, family medicine and internal medicine providers often construct the disposition of adult patients which present with chest pain. The purpose ... -
Disrupted Adiponectin-Connexin43 Signaling Underlies Exacerbated Myocardial Dysfunction in Diabetic Female Rats
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-25)The 2015 American Heart Association scientific statement has advocated for sex- specific research to understand the paradoxically higher sensitivity of women to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)-associated cardiovascular ... -
Disruption of mitochondrial fitness in human preadipocytes by fatty acids
(East Carolina University, 2013)Adipose tissue lies at the core of energy metabolism, by not only releasing and taking up fatty acids (FA) according to the individuals overall surplus or deficit of energy, but also signaling other tissues to regulate ... -
Disruption of pqs synthesis using precursor analogs
(2004-01-08)The present invention concerns methods of detecting bacterial infections as well as methods of treating such infections with compounds such as methyl anthranilate. The detection and treatment of Pseudomonas is particularly ... -
Dissecting Convolutional Neural Networks
(East Carolina University, 2019-06-12)I examined the hidden layers of a convolutional neural network for MNIST handwritten digit classification. I found that it is possible to view how backpropagation affects nodes in the activation maps of hidden layers by ...