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Brainstorm Newsletter
(East Carolina University, 2010-04-30)Inaugural newsletter of the Neuroscience Program. -
BRANDING THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART : PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING A PUBLIC IDENTITY
(East Carolina University, 2013)This dissertation examines the North Carolina Museum of Art's planning and implementation of a brand identity. To understand the planned identity, I studied the intentions of the Museum's leadership, of the architect who ... -
Breakfast Really Is an Important Meal
(2020-08-12)This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. Today's column is about the importance of not skipping breakfast. -
Breaking Barriers in Provider-Patient Relationships : An Analysis of Perceived Intercultural Communication Competence among Nursing Students
(East Carolina University, 2014)Communication can be particularly challenging for community college nursing students during their labor and delivery clinicals as there is an influx of Latino patients at the local medical facilities due to Migrant and ... -
Breaking Down Borderland Stereotypes: The Borderland Mindset and Double Consciousness
(East Carolina University, 1/13/16)This thesis examines three different texts, using borderland theories as a framework, to demonstrate that borderlands are not about physical locations but psychological states of mind. By studying three distinct texts, ... -
Breaking Patterns of Environmentally Influenced Disease for Health Risk Reduction: Immune Perspectives
(2010-08)Diseases rarely, if ever, occur in isolation. Instead, most represent part of a more complex web or “pattern” of conditions that are connected via underlying biological mechanisms and processes, emerge across a lifetime, ... -
Breaking the chains of colonial Christianity : origins and purposes of weaponized Chrisitianity in postcolonial literature
(East Carolina University, 2022-07-20)In this thesis, I examine how weaponized colonial Christianity was the most effective means of Black subordination, and I assert that weaponized colonial Christianity gave license to Europeans to chronologically invade ... -
BREAKING THE CHAINS OF COLONIAL CHRISTIANITY: ORIGINS AND PURPOSES OF WEAPONIZED CHRISITIANITY IN POSTCOLONIAL
(East Carolina University, 2022-07-20)In this thesis, I examine how weaponized colonial Christianity was the most effective means of Black subordination, and I assert that weaponized colonial Christianity gave license to Europeans to chronologically invade ... -
BREAKING THE GLASS CEILING THROUGH SOCIAL CAPITAL: UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS AND THE QUEST FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-20)Undocumented students attend public schools throughout the United States alongside citizen students. These undocumented students face the same requirements and expectations of all others in regard to achievement in schools, ... -
Breaking the Pain Barrier: Analysis of Physical Therapy and Painkillers in Managing Chronic Pain among ECU Students
(East Carolina University, 2023-04-26)Chronic pain among students in college is often an overlooked problem. Chronic pain can be defined as persistent pain that usually lasts longer than 3 months (2). It can be caused by numerous underlying interdependent sets ... -
Breast feeding intention and initiation among rural, low-income Native American and African American adolescent mothers in North Carolina: testing the theory of planned behavior
(East Carolina University, 2014)Abstract Infant feeding practices can greatly impact a child's life with far reaching implications based upon decisions a mother makes for her newborn. Breastfeeding is the preferred method of infant feeding because of ... -
Breast Reconstruction: Effects on Body Image Following Surgery
(2017-04-25)Women undergoing breast reconstruction are susceptible to many consequences from this process including negative implications on the female psyche related to body image. This project assessed the satisfaction women had ... -
Breastfeeding Education for Obstetric Providers in a Rural Public Health Department
(2020-05-05)Breastfeeding has many known positive benefits for both mother and baby. Prenatal breastfeeding education has been proven beneficial to expectant mothers; however, there is no known current data recommending how often and ... -
BREASTFEEDING SELF-EFFICACY IN WOMEN USING ASSISTIVE TECHNIQUES AND DEVICES TO ADDRESS MATERNAL AND INFANT FEEDING PROBLEMS
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-03)This dissertation used the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1991, 2002) and breastfeeding self-efficacy theory (Dennis, 1999) to explore relationships among breastfeeding self-efficacy and both the source and intensity ... -
Breastfeeding Support Group
(2022-07-15)Breastfeeding provides numerous health benefits to women and their infants. Even with knowledge of the protective benefits of breast milk, there continues to be early breastfeeding discontinuation. The state and national ... -
BREATH ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION AND DRIVING: THE BRAC AND CONFIDENCE OF DRIVERS AFTER DRINKING IN DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE
(East Carolina University, 2016-05-02)Consumption of an alcoholic beverage has been proven time and time to have a negative affect on one’s cognitive functioning (Phillips & Brewer, 2011). The current study attempted to explore the confidence of bar patrons’ ... -
Breathing New Life into Philosophical Inquiry through the Use of Fiction
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)To incite every day people to venture into the world of philosophical thought and intrigue, I have constructed the beginnings of a novel that will use the old allegories and ideas of the past and place them into a new ... -
Breathing Rate, Pattern, and Heart Rate During Baseline Recording and Painful Electrodermal Stimulation-Induced Anxiety
(East Carolina University, 2010)Background: One common treatment for anxiety is breathing retraining (BRT), but evidence of its efficacy and effectiveness is mixed, and the mechanisms are not well-understood. To date, no study has examined breathing ... -
Bridging the Gap Between Transitional Care and Home Health to Prevent Hospital Readmission
(2023-07-15)Transitional Care (TC) aims to improve overall patient outcomes and promote continuity of treatment by coordinating healthcare for vulnerable groups. The DNP project aimed to facilitate care transitions using the Transitional ...