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Design of an Educational Tool Simulating Tooth Extraction Procedure
(2015-04-23)
Dental students need to develop clinical skills in determining the force applied during tooth extractions. A student must practice the procedure many times before attaining the appropriate skill level required for decision ...
Role of antidepressants in fetal synapse formation in Autism Spectrum Disorders
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-23)
Autism is a genetically complex neurodevelopmental disorder in which patients exhibit social deficits in both verbal and non-verbal forms of communication and display restricted and repetitive behaviors. Approximately 1 ...
Knowledge Discovery for Clinical Decision Support System in Patient Records
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-23)
Knowledge discovery from the patient's health records is a challenging task for the medical specialists. The knowledge generated from the patient's records can assist specialists to make an effective decision and recommend ...
Using Drones in Disaster Areas: Perspectives of Disaster Responders in North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland
(East Carolina University, 2018-12-10)
Drones are pilotless aircraft and are more formally known as either unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Drones, as they were referred to in this study, have the capability of being remotely ...
Understanding the Risk Perception of Commercial Fishermen
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-18)
Commercial fishing is indisputably one of the most dangerous occupations in the United States and the world. Due to the hazardous work conditions such as bad weather, the commercial fishing industry is plagued with high ...
A NOVEL ROLE FOR HDL AND D-HDL IN PULMONARY IMMUNITY
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-17)
Cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases are leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Studies report an inverse correlation between levels of serum high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and the severity of cardiovascular ...
A Framework for Evaluation of Risk Management Models for HIPAA Compliance for Electronic Personal Health Information used by Small and Medium Businesses using Cloud Technologies
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-18)
Our societal quest for collaboration and openness has always been in direct conflict with our desire to maintain our personal privacy. Those conflicting goals are more prominent than ever for healthcare, due to its rapid ...
Passive micromixers for DNA analysis using CFD modelling
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-17)
Mixing efficiency is an important issue in the design of micromixers, since effective mixing is required between Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sample and restriction enzyme for a fast digestion process. Mixing is improved ...
Identifying a cross-correlation between heart rate variability and skin conductance using pain intensity on healthy college students
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-18)
Chronic pain affects approximately 100 million Americans annually. Heart rate variability and skin conductance have been used separately as measures of pain intensity. Current methods of assessing pain intensity have some ...
Group mutual exclusion in linear time and space
(2018-01)
We present two algorithms for the Group Mutual Exclusion (GME) Problem that satisfy the properties of Mutual Exclusion, Starvation Freedom, Bounded Exit, Concurrent Entry and First Come First Served. Both our algorithms ...