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Understanding the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Honors College Students: A Qualitative Content Analysis
(East Carolina University, 2022-05-04)While the global COVID-19 pandemic altered all facets of life, an early focus was the field of higher education. Disruptions in normal instruction affected students and their abilities to connect and create, disrupting ... -
Understanding the Loss of Maternal Care in Avian Brood Parasites Using Preoptic Area Transcriptome Comparisons in Brood Parasitic and Non-parasitic Blackbirds
(2019-02-13)Parental care is critical for offspring survival in many species. However, parental behaviors have been lost in roughly 1% of avian species known as the obligate brood parasites. To shed light on molecular and neurobiological ... -
Understanding the Mentality of Collegiate Age Students in Rural North Carolina, In Regard to Discussing Issues Predominately Affecting Women and Gender Minorities
(East Carolina University, 2022-05-04)In my brief time working at the Women and Gender Office (WGO) here at East Carolina, I have noticed two things; I always see the same faces when I enter the office and I very rarely see any different faces when I enter the ... -
Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms that Contribute to Parkinson’s Disease: Defining the Role of Ca2+ in TG2: α-synuclein Macromolecular Complex Assembly
(East Carolina University, 2018-12-10)Transglutaminase 2 (TG2) is an allosteric enzyme ubiquitously expressed in human tissue. This versatile enzyme has both Ca2+ -dependent, transamidase and GTPase activities. TG2's Ca2+ -dependent transamidase activity is ... -
UNDERSTANDING THE PERCEIVED EFFECT OF A MASTER OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION (MSA) PROGRAM ON INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP
(East Carolina University, 2016-04-25)The role of leaders in schools has changed over the last thirty years from managers to instructional facilitators (Leithwood & Rhiel, 2003; The Wallace Foundation, 2013). The move away from an industrial assembly line ... -
Understanding the Perspectives of Latino Community Leaders About the Burden of Cancer and Death
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-23)As the population of Latinos in the United States (US) continues to expand, so too do the health disparities among Latinos. One health disparity critical for Latino populations is the underutilization of palliative care ... -
Understanding the Relationship Between Key Clinical Variables of Childhood Malnutrition and Time-To-Recovery In Guatemala
(East Carolina University, 2022-04-29)Guatemala has the highest rates of malnutrition in Latin America, and with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of Guatemalans experiencing food insecurity doubled. The purpose of the study was to understand ... -
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 ... -
UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF RAB10 IN NEURONAL RESILIENCE
(East Carolina University, 2023-12-08)Neuroresilience refers to the remarkable capacity of the brain to maintain its normal functioning and safeguard against cognitive decline even in the face of stress or trauma. The exploration of genes and pathways that ... -
Understanding the Role of Schools in Community Prevention of Childhood Obesity
(2014)Childhood obesity is considered an epidemic with the percentage of obesity among children in the United States more than tripling in the past 30 years (Institute of Medicine, 2012). Many factors in the environment contribute ... -
Understanding the Sustainability of Quality Improvement in an Academic Medical Center: A Case of the Falls Prevention Toolkit
(East Carolina University, 2022-05-06)Most nurses providing care at the bedside have a story about a patient who experienced a fall that either sped up their disease process or prolonged their hospitalization. Due to the potential severity of harm from falls, ... -
Understanding Trauma Reactions in Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Patients and Piloting a Brief Web-based Trauma Intervention Protocol Study (ICD-TIPS)
(East Carolina University, 2014)Background: Approximately 20% of patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), a medical device that prevents sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) and mortality, score above a clinical cutoff on a screening measure ... -
UNDERSTANDING TRAUMA SYMPTOMATOLOGY AND OCD: SHARED COGNITIVE ERRORS AND EMOTIONS
(East Carolina University, 2023-12-07)Although there is a well-documented link between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), there is much that remains unknown about this relationship. Comorbid PTSD and OCD are linked ... -
Understanding undergraduate students’ eHealth usage and views of the patient-provider relationship
(2022-04-14)eHealth has grown exponentially alongside technology and has become widely accessed by some populations, but little is documented about how undergraduate students use eHealth or perceive their eHealth literacy. As access ... -
Understanding Undergraduate Students’ eHealth Use and Views of the Patient-Provider Relationship
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-03)eHealth, defined by WHO as “the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for health”, is an innovative tool which broadens accessibility of health information and communication between patients and physicians. ... -
Understanding Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator Use and Activity Level in Pediatric Populations
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-20)Research suggests that most patients utilize WCDs appropriately. However, very little is known about pediatric cardiac patients prescribed a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD). In other pediatric cardiac populations, ... -
UNDERSTANDING “THE FOG OF WAR”: ARCHAEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, AND GEOSPATIAL MODELING OF NORTH CAROLINA’S TORPEDO JUNCTION
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-07)This thesis studies the German U-boat attacks on Allied merchant ships off the coast of North Carolina as part of the Battle of the Atlantic in the spring of 1942. Position fixing methods were not precise during the mid-20th ...