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Identification of Damaged DNA Adducts from Exposure to Benzo[a]pyrene in the TP53 Gene
(2015)Benzo[a]pyrene is a carcinogen associated with tobacco smoke that can damage DNA after it is metabolized into highly reactive forms. Identifying the resulting DNA adducts can give greater insight into the mutations that ... -
Identifying Alternative Revenue Streams for Independent Musicians
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)In the modern music industry, there has been a number of changes to the shape of the business as a whole that are affecting smaller, independent musicians in a negative way. These artists and groups are at a disadvantage ... -
IDENTIFYING SUBJECTIVE VALUE IN WOMEN’S COLLEGE GOLF RECRUITING REGARDLESS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC CLASS
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-03)College athletics have grown into a major industry and athletic departments are pushing coaches to recruit the top talent. To recruit golfers, college coaches depend on multiple ranking systems. These systems are bias ... -
The Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Resiliency among Community Pediatricians and Pediatric Trainees and Attendings in a Pediatric Teaching Hospital
(2019)Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are “potentially traumatic events that can have negative, lasting effects on health and well-being” (Sack, 2014). The experiences, which often coincide with poverty, single-parenthood, ... -
The Impact of Financial Burden and Employment on Student Employment Turnover and Dropout Intentions
(2015)College may be stressful but paying for college can bring its own issues. Financial burden is one of the primary sources of stress for many college students. As noted by Ross, Niebling, and Heckert (1999), financial issues ... -
IMPACT OF MIDGUT BACTERIA ON AEDES ALBOPICTUS VECTOR COMPETENCE FOR LA CROSSE VIRUS
(2015-05-01)La Crosse encephalitis is a pediatric illness caused by mosquito-borne La Crosse virus (LACV) and is endemic in western North Carolina. Mosquito control is the only defense against this disease. Not all mosquitoes can ... -
Impact of Project Mentor on Mentors at East Carolina University
(East Carolina University, 2018-12-13)This study investigates the impact that Project Mentor had on the mentors who participated in the program. -
Impacts of an Organophosphate and a Pyrethroid on Insecticide Resistance in Culex Quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae)
(East Carolina University, 2019-05-02)Environmental security is a large part of public health. While an abundance of research has been done to assess insecticide resistance in adult mosquitoes, there is a general lack of information about the potential effects ... -
IMPACTS OF SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH ON ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER DIAGNOSIS RATES WITHIN STATES
(East Carolina University, 2020-05-04)This study analyzes the potential associations between social determinants of health and ADHD diagnosis. There are several well documented social factors that have been correlated with ADHD diagnosis on the national level, ... -
Implementing a high sensitivity point-of-care troponin assay is beneficial in an emergency department chest pain population
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)Point of care tests (POC) can provide accurate and more rapid results for physicians at the bedside, thus decreasing the patient’s time to treatment and increasing patient prognosis. Cardiac troponin (cTnI) is the leading ... -
Implementing the Suitability Assessment of Materials (SAM) to Improve Health Literacy at a Rural Community Health Center
(2014)Health literacy, as defined by the Institute of Medicine, is "the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic information and services needed to make appropriate decisions regarding ... -
Improving Cultural Competence via a Virtual Clinic for Service Providers in Rural Eastern North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-05)The Latino population in the United States of America is the nation’s largest ethnic minority, and is steadily increasing in size and diversity. The Southeastern region leads the US in Latino population growth (Pew Research ... -
IN FRONT OF AND BEHIND THE TABLE: A CREATIVE ENDEAVOR IN MUSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-04)I’ve wanted to be a musical theatre performer since I was a little girl. I loved to sing and dance and play pretend, and being able to study what I love is an utter blessing. I’ve learned that in order to accomplish what ... -
The Incorporation of Reading and Writing in the Middle Grades Math Classroom
(2015-03-23)Through observations during my training in teacher education, I have noticed a general student distaste, accompanied by lower achievement, in mathematics word problems. Among closer investigation, I noticed that this ... -
Increasing Awareness through my Passion for the Arts
(East Carolina University, 2019-05-03)As we meet more people in our day to day lives, we come to notice that we are more different than we are similar. However, it’s these differences that seem to bring us closer to one another. Varying cultures play a large ... -
Indigenous Ways of Explaining Health and Illness
(East Carolina University, 2017-12-11)The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to examine indigenous ways of explaining health and illness from the perspectives of Mayans in one rural village in Guatemala. A bilingual research team conducted ... -
Individual Virtual Competence Across the Generations in a Workforce
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-01)Many companies have found huge benefits in having work groups who have the flexibility to work from any location at any time by using various tools for virtual communication, also known as virtual teams. The success of a ... -
Influence of Aerobic Training in Unfit Women During Pregnancy on Infant Heart Function
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)Research has shown that women are more likely to make positive lifestyle changes, such as exercise, during pregnancy. Women, with healthy, low-risk pregnancies, free from complications, can participate in exercise throughout ... -
Influence of Dialect and Stimulus Audibility on LiSN-S Performances
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-03)The main objectives were to investigate the effect of dialect on Listening in Spatialized Noise-Sentences (LISN-S) performances and to assess the relationship between bilateral pure-tone threshold averages (PTAs) and LISN-S ... -
THE INFLUENCE OF FAMILY FUNCTIONING ON MEDICAL SELF-EFFICACY IN ADOLESCENTS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE
(2015-04-29)Objectives: Medical self-efficacy is defined as an individual’s belief in his or her ability to manage aspects of their disease and to lead to desired health outcomes (Edwards, Telfair, Cecil, and Lenoci, 2001). Prior ...