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The bhuTUV and bhuO genes play vital roles in the ability of Brucella abortus to use heme as an iron source and are regulated in an iron-responsive manner by RirA and Irr
(East Carolina University, 2012)Brucella abortus is a Gram negative intracellular pathogen that causes the zoonotic disease brucellosis. Antibiotic treatment for brucellosis in humans is prolonged and sometimes followed by relapses. Currently, the United ... -
Bias in meta-analyses using Hedges’ d
(2018-09-25)The type of metric and weighting method used in meta-analysis can create bias and alter coverage of confidence intervals when the estimated effect size and its weight are correlated. Here, we investigate bias associated ... -
Bias Within: Examining the Role of Cultural Competence Perceptions in Mammography Adherence
(2015)Breast cancer mortality has affected African American women at a disproportionate rate. The purpose of this research was to assess how health professionals’ cultural competence contributes to African American women’s ... -
Bibliographic Reference Analysis in Archival Data Using Supervised Machine Learning and Grammatical Features
(East Carolina University, 2021-11-19)Bibliographic references are integral to scholarly discourse in humanities disciplines. While prior work has focused on reference extraction and parsing, little research has investigated the classification of footnotes ... -
Bibliography, Social History of Books & Libraries
(2012-10-01)Complete bibliography for published book -
Bichir HoxA Cluster Sequence Reveals Surprising Trends in Ray-Finned Fish Genomic Evolution
(East Carolina University, 2004-01)The study of Hox clusters and genes provides insights into the evolution of genomic regulation of development. Derived ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii, Teleostei) such as zebrafish and pufferfish possess duplicated Hox ... -
Big Data Analytics for Historical Document Processing
(2019-04-01)Historical Document Processing is the process of digitizing written material from the past for future use by historians and other scholars. It incorporates algorithms and software tools from various subfields of computer ... -
BIG DATA ANALYTICS TOOLS: A BIBLIOMETRIC LITERATURE REVIEW
(East Carolina University, 2016-04-29)Analytics as a field is rapidly growing because of businesses need to tackle increasingly large and complex datasets to gain a competitive edge in the business environment. Currently there are two distinct types of analytics ... -
The Big Deal: Should Libraries Stay or Should Libraries Go?
(2019)This article examines the history of the Big Deal more than 23 years after the beginning of large journal packages being offered to libraries. This article also examines solutions and alternatives to large journal packages ... -
Big League Social Media: Cultivating Community Online
(East Carolina University, 2018-12-07)Given the growing attention from researchers and practitioners, this case addresses a timely problem many non-profit sport organizations face: social media management. Due to a lack of technical skills and knowledge, many ... -
Biimidazole diamide anion binding agents
(2006-07-18)Biimidazole diamide compounds that are useful for binding anions such as sulfate are described, along with the use thereof for purposes such as extracting anions from a waste stream and/or detecting anions. -
Bilaterally Combined Electric and Acoustic Hearing in Mandarin-Speaking Listeners: The Population With Poor Residual Hearing
(2018-01-16)The hearing loss criterion for cochlear implant candidacy in mainland China is extremely stringent (bilateral severe to profound hearing loss), resulting in few patients with substantial residual hearing in the nonimplanted ... -
Bilirubin inhibits neointima formation and vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and migration
(2012-03-22)Bilirubin is a heme metabolite generated by the concerted action of the enzymes heme oxygenase and biliverdin reductase. Although long considered a toxic byproduct of heme catabolism, recent preclinical, and clinical studies ... -
Binaural Interference in Normal Hearing Children
(East Carolina University, 2009)This study was conducted to determine if the phenomenon of binaural interference occurs in normal hearing children. To investigate the possible presence of binaural interference, comparisons of the participants' right, ... -
Binding of Calcium and Magnesium to Human Cardiac Troponin C
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Binge-Eating Support Group for African American Women
(2022-07-22)Background: The growing epidemic of obesity continues to surge among African American women. African American accounts for the highest rates of obesity across all demographics in the United States of America. Obesity is ... -
Bioarchaeological Analysis of a Historic North Carolina Family Cemetery
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-02)The Gause Cemetery at Seaside, located in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, purportedly contains members of a wealthy and influential planter family, the Gause's, who died during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 2017, ... -
BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF A LATE BRONZE AGE SKELETAL ASSEMBLAGE FROM KATARET ES-SAMRA, JORDAN
(East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)Two tombs from approximately the Late Bronze Age IB and IC (ca. 1400-1300 B.C.E.) were discovered at Tell Kataret es-Samra, Jordan and excavated in 1978 and 1985. Until this thesis, the skeletal remains had not been fully ...