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TEXTILE ARTS AS A COPING MECHANISM FOR AN ADOLESCENT WHO HAS EXPERIENCED LIFE STRESSORS
(East Carolina University, 2017-12-06)
The current case study explores how textile arts can be used as a coping mechanism for an adolescent who has experienced life stressors, including a chronic illness and repeated hospitalizations. The adolescent participant ...
William S.W. Ruschenberger: A Study of an American Naval Officer in the Nineteenth Century
(East Carolina University, 2017-12-07)
This is a case study of a naval surgeon whose experience as surgeon and diplomat demonstrates the intentional expansionist efforts of the United States in the early nineteenth century, much earlier than emphasized in the ...
Keyboarding Without Tears to Improve the Keyboarding Skills of Elementary Students
(East Carolina University, 2017-12-06)
In order to meet the demands of the technology-driven world, students must demonstrate keyboarding competency as early as in kindergarten. Common Core Standards now have technology requirement starting with third grade ...
Modeling Groundwater Inundation Under Sea-Level Rise Scenarios in the Surficial Aquifer of Bogue Banks, North
(East Carolina University, 2017-12-06)
Bogue Banks in North Carolina is expected to be impacted by sea-level rise, but the impact on the subsurface groundwater system is not well understood. A three-dimensional Visual MODFLOW steady-state model and ArcGIS 10.3 ...
Barriers to Weight Loss in a Stepped-Care Approach to Behavioral Weight Loss Treatment
(East Carolina University, 2017-12-06)
Over two-thirds of the United States' adult population are overweight or obese, and these numbers continue to grow (Ogden, Carroll, Kit, & Flegal, 2014). Obesity is a disease that is a common comorbidity with other serious ...
Evaluating effectiveness of the application of the new perspective in safety, Safety-II: by Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) in a manufacturing environment
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-25)
The risk matrix has been used by safety professionals for many years as a significant tool for hazard management, risk assessment and prioritization, and to aid in offering a proactive approach to prevent negative outcomes. ...
User Behavior Analysis using Smartphones
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-26)
Users' activities produce an enormous amount of data when using popular devices such as smartphones. These data can be used to develop behavioral models in several areas including fraud detection, finance, recommendation ...
Denise Giardina's Storming Heaven: Cultural Marginalization in Appalachia
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
Using Everett Verner (E.V.) Stonequist's sociological constructs of marginalization and marginal personalities, this study focuses on the extent of marginalization as depicted in Appalachian novelist Denise Giardina's ...
The relationship between transformational leadership and psychological capital in university staff managers
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
The topic of leadership has received much scholarly attention, as researchers have investigated the contribution of different leadership styles to various elements of organizations. Transformational leadership, which is ...
Sexual Dimorphism and Trophic Trait Evolution in the Carolina Bay Fundulus Complex
(East Carolina University, 2017-01-05)
Convergent evolution in similar environments is widely held to provide some of the strongest evidence for natural selection's role in evolution, and convergent or parallel evolution of reproductive isolation, best studied ...