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Virtual Reality Sailing Simulation: Perspectives from Individuals with Physical Disabilities
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-28)Sailing is shown to have a positive outcome on an individual's quality of life including physically, socially, mentally and/or emotionally. Virtual reality sailing simulators (VRSS) are shown to have better outcomes of the ... -
Virtual world technologies provide platform for interaction between on-campus and online students: A case study
(Vancouver, BC., 2011)There has been a great deal of attention paid to efforts by educators to integrate teaching methodologies and strategies between face to face and online classrooms in an effort to maximize learning by combining delivery ... -
Vision Coach: Effects of Standing Versus Sitting on Visual Reaction Times
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)Assessment and intervention tools for occupational therapy practice must be evidence-based for appropriate use and include normative data with healthy adults. The overall goal of this research was to collect normative data ... -
The Visit, Like Sisters, Storjka
(East Carolina University, 2013)This master's thesis is comprised of three short film scripts: The Visit, Like Sisters, and Storjka. The Visit, a Depression-era dramatic short film, is filled the realities of hard living in the dust bowl of America's ... -
"Visual Culture and the 'Alice' Books" by Erin Clark Frost
(2017)This presentation asserts that John Tenniel’s illustrations were and are integral to the Alice books and that those illustrations changed text-image relationships in history. First, we note that Tenniel’s illustrations ... -
Visual journaling towards greater meaning making in the secondary art classroom
(East Carolina University, 2010)Sketchbooks have long been used in art classrooms; however, the structured assignments often leave students feeling disconnected to both the sketchbook and the art classroom. Recent shifts in educational pedagogy encourage ... -
Visual mate choice in poison frogs.
(East Carolina University, 1999-11-07)We investigated female mate choice on the basis of visual cues in two populations of Dendrobates pumilio, the strawberry poison frog, from the Bocas del Toro Archipelago in Panama, Central America. Mate choice experiments ... -
Visual Perception in School-Aged Children: A Psychometric Study of the Correlation between Computer-based and Paper-based Scores on the Motor-Free Visual Perception Test, 3rd Edition
(East Carolina University, 2010)Visual perceptual skills are often assessed using paper-and-pencil tests such as the Motor-Free Visual Perception Test, 3rd Edition (MVPT-3). A computer-based version of this assessment was independently developed. This ... -
Visual Reaction Time Differences Between Medically-at-Risk Adult Drivers and Healthy Controls
(East Carolina University, 2021-07-19)Rationale: Visual and cognitive abilities are crucial to the performance of driving and decreased visual processing speed is considered one of the strongest risk factors for poor driving capacity in older adults. Individuals ... -
VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS IN AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION (AAC): AN EYE TRACKING STUDY TO EXPLORE INFLUENCES OF ABSTRACTION, REALISM, AND FAMILIARITY ON THE GAZE PATTERNS OF A PERSON WITH ANGELMAN SYNDROME WHO USES AAC TECHNOLOGIES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH AND THE ART CLASSROOM
(East Carolina University, 2016-05-04)People who are non-verbal and have intellectual disabilities often use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technologies to have a voice, but are often left out of decisions about how their language is represented ... -
Visual Search Strategies of Elite Baseball Players During a Baseball Hitting Task
(East Carolina University, 2019-11-26)Baseball batting is a cognitively demanding interceptive timing task that requires precision and power. Due to the quick duration of an at-bat, anticipatory visual cues and predictive eye movements are needed to have an ... -
Visual-Aural Progression : One MFA Candidate's Retrospective, 2005-2011
(East Carolina University, 2011)Visual-Aural Progression chronicles my five-year journey through the MFA program in Wood Design. This writing showcases my progression as a craftsman through photos of my work and reflections on the reasons, motivations, ... -
Visualizing Images in Writing : Pedagogical and Professional Implications of Image Analysis
(East Carolina University, 2013)A recent and growing discussion among rhetoric and composition scholars has emerged surrounding the ways in which images influence the evolving nature of contemporary text. For the most part, scholars in the field agree ... -
VISUALIZING PORT HISTORY: AN HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF WASHINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA’S HISTORIC WATERFRONT
(East Carolina University, 2022-04-29)The purpose of this thesis is to combine new techniques of archaeological inquiry with established methods of data collection to gain a new understanding of the ways in which ports adapt over time. Ports and harbors have ... -
Visualizing the Fruit of the Spirit
(East Carolina University, 2022-05-09)The context of the project is a composition on the fruit of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22-23. There are nine in total: love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control ... -
Vitamin A Insufficiency in Current and Former Smokers and Lung Cancer Risk: A Case-Control Approach
(East Carolina University, 2021-07-20)Background: Adequate dietary intakes of vitamin A are protective against lung cancer, but little is known about the risk of lung cancer when intakes of the vitamin are below minimum physiological requirements. Further ... -
Vitamin B12 Regulation of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Synthesis
(East Carolina University, 2022-05-04)Low-grade, chronic inflammation is associated with a range of diet and age-related disorders, including diabetes, arthritis, and cognitive deficits. Inflammatory cells have the capacity to synthesize complex Polyunsaturated ... -
Vitamin D Protocol in a MS Clinic
(2019-07-18)Vitamin D deficiency is a global health issue affecting more than half of society. Despite the existence of laboratory screening test and effective supplementation treatment, many vitamin D deficiencies go undetected and ...