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Educating Future Environmental Health Professionals
(2015)Future environmental health problems will require a new generation of educated and trained professionals. Efforts to enhance the environmental public health workforce have been promoted by several organizations. While ... -
Education in North Carolina's Black Belt
(East Carolina University, 2023-05-04)North Carolina is federally required to provide an appropriate education to all of its residents. Across the United States, history has seen this not be applied equally to members of all races, socio-economic levels, and ... -
Education of Nursing Students on Heat-Related Illness First Aid
(East Carolina University, 2022-12-08)Agricultural workers have disproportionately greater risk of death from heat-related illnesses (HRIs). Due to climate change, extreme temperature events around the globe are increasing in frequency, duration, and magnitude. ... -
EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING AND ITS USES TO PREDICT THE MOST PROSPEROUS LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
(East Carolina University, 2018-04-23)The use of technology and data analysis within the classroom has been a resourceful tool in order to collect, study, and compare a student's level of success. With the large amount of regularly collected data from student ... -
Educational engagement and the environment: Investigating service learning in the nonhuman sciences
(2014)Classic definitions outline service learning as engaging students in experiential education where learning goals are reached when service activities are combined with reflective assignments. In an effort to integrate ... -
EDUCATORS FOR GENDER EQUITY: PROMOTING GENDER EQUITY IN AN INTERNATIONAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
(East Carolina University, 2023-04-13)Disparities, bias, and inequities persist between girls and boys as the result of gender inequities in schools (Sadker & Sadker, 1994). In this participatory action research (PAR) project, I investigated how educators and ... -
The Effect of a Hip Strengthening Program on Mechanics during Running and Single Leg Squatting
(http://www.jospt.org/doi/pdf/10.2519/jospt.2011.3470, 2011-07)STUDY DESIGN: Block randomized controlled trial. OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether a strengthening and movement education program, targeting the hip abductors and hip external rotators, alters hip mechanics during running ... -
THE EFFECT OF A MENTOR BASED EXERCISE INTERVENTION ON BODY MASS INDEX Z-SCORES, DUAL-ENERGY X-RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY : TOTAL % BODY FAT LEVELS, DEPRESSION, AND FITNESS LEVELS IN OBESE ADOLESCENTS
(East Carolina University, 2012)Project MENTOR was a mentor-based exercise intervention for overweight children, ages 12-18 years. Undergraduate exercise physiology students (n=10) served as mentors to facilitate healthy lifestyle modifications through ... -
EFFECT OF A TELEPHONE-BASED INTERVENTION ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND COMPONENTS OF THE METABOLIC SYNDROME IN ADOLESCENTS
(East Carolina University, 2013)The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a two month telephone-based intervention in obese adolescents (BMI percentile [greater than or equal to] 95th percentile) on physical activity habits and motivation ... -
The Effect of Active Video Gaming on Physical Activity Levels of Students with Developmental Disabilities
(East Carolina University, 2014)The purpose was to examine differences in physical activity levels of children (N = 24) with developmental disabilities in traditional adapted physical education activities compared with Nintendo Wii Fit active video gaming ...