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Faces from the Flood
(2009-09-18)Jay Barnes shared photographs and stories from his book, Faces from the Flood: Hurricane Floyd Remembered, written with Richard Moore. Barnes emphasized that storytelling is one of the most important forms of hurricane ... -
Facing Disaster: Forecasting and Assessing Floyd and its Impacts on North Carolina
(2009-09-18)Jeff Orrock reviewed the year of Hurricane Floyd, 1999. It was not a big hurricane year overall in the Atlantic, but very active for North Carolina. Hurricane Dennis was a welcome storm in that it brought 5–8 inches of ... -
Fatal Tradeoff? Toward a Better Understanding of the Costs of Not Evacuating from a Hurricane in Affected Landfall Counties
(2009-09-18)The researchers examined an economic behavior model of the evacuation decision. Hurricane fatalities decreased each decade until the 2000s, when deaths increased due to Hurricane Katrina. As more people move into coastal ... -
First Annual Hurricane Workshop Summary
(2010-05-26)During the week that coastal communities turned their attention to hurricane preparedness, the North Carolina Division of Emergency Management in partnership with the East Carolina University's Center for Natural Hazards ... -
Flood Insurance Coverage in Dare County: Before and After Floyd
(2009-09-18)Dr. Landry started with an overview of how the flood insurance program works. Flooding is a catastrophe risk since flooding events cause multiple losses that are correlated across space; and given the rarity of flooding ... -
Functional overload-induced muscle hypertrophy and glucose uptake occurs independent of glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4)
(2017-04)Functional overload induces a number of adaptations in skeletal muscle that are similar to resistance exercise training, including muscle hypertrophy and glucose uptake. While numerous studies have investigated the ... -
The Future of Our Children's Health
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Global Storybook Theatre - Tales from Far, Middle, and Near
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Hey, Audrey
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HOLOCENE GEOLOGY AND MULTI-PROXY PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SUNDA SHELF OFF THE EAST COAST OF PENINSULAR MALAYSIA
(2017-04)In May (2016), six 1.25 to 2.2 m long gravity cores were collected at water depths ranging from 68 m to 77 m along a transect crossing the incised Chao-Phraya paleo-river valley between Peninsular Malaysia and southern ... -
Home-buyer Sentiment and Hurricane Landfalls
(2009-09-18)The researchers looked at how hurricanes impact real estate markets and home-buyer sentiment. Sentiment is related to the perception of risk by investors in the securities markets, but is not quantifiable, so the researchers ... -
Hooking Pirates on the Weather
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Human Dimensions of Hurricane Floyd
(2009-09-18)The panelists for this presentation are Dr. Jimmy Tickel, Catherine Smith, and Charles Fisher. Moderated by Dr. Burrell Montz. Dr. Montz, introduced herself and the panelists. She emphasized that even as we increase ... -
The Human T-cell Leukemia Virus type I basic leucine zipper factor upregulates the expression of the antioxidant Heme Oxygenase I,
(2019-04-01)Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma (ATLL) is a resilient lymphoproliferative disease of CD4+ T-cells infected by the Human T-cell Leukemia Virus type I (HTLV-1), for which there are no effective treatments. Mounting evidence ... -
Hurricane Sandy (Panel)
(2013-05-22)Mr. Szatkowski described the experience of Hurricane Sandy from the point of view of forecast meteorologists working in New Jersey area hit by the storm. His office in Mount Holly began issuing warnings forty hours ...