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Increasing Provider Education to Improve HPV Vaccination Rates in Female Veterans
(2022-07-18)Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a common sexually transmitted disease that affects more than 75% of people. It has been identified for being responsible for over 10,000 cases of cervical cancers annually, in addition to other ... -
Increasing Service Utilization of An Outpatient Breastfeeding Clinic
(2023-07-10)Breastfeeding is highly recommended by the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control, and the American Association of Pediatrics (CDC, 2020; WHO, 2014; Meek & Noble, 2022). One goal of Healthy People 2030 is ... -
Increasing Skilled Nursing Facility Authorization Requests on Weekends
(2023-07-21)The goal of the evidence-based project was to increase skilled nursing facility (SNF) authorization requests on the weekends. Saturday and Sunday authorization requests were increased during the project period from 1.3% ... -
Increasing Skin Cancer Awareness in Southeastern North Carolinian Farmers
(2020-04-14)Farmers are at increased risk of occupational disease of skin cancer related to sun exposure and hesitancy to use protective methods. The purpose of this project was to increase skin cancer awareness among the farmers of ... -
INCREASING TEACHER ATTENDANCE IN A SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL DISTRICT TO GENERATE FISCAL SAVINGS
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-23)In many school districts, a lack of funding has become one of the greatest issues to overcome and the high rate of teacher absenteeism rate adds to the financial burdens. In this problem of practice study, data collected ... -
INCREASING TEACHER AVAILABLILITY : RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF POLICY, INCENTIVES, AND MANAGEMENT TOOLS TO PRODUCE DISTRICT COST-SAVINGS
(East Carolina University, 2015-04-24)The impact the lack of teacher availability has on school budgets and the burden imposed on school finances resulted in one small school district paying in excess of $500,000 per year for the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 school ... -
Increasing The Awareness of Implicit Biases
(2022-07-26)Diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace can have an impact on staff engagement, communication and patient outcomes. These are driven by multiple variations of biases, including implicit biases. Implicit biases can ... -
Increasing the Compliance of Using the CAUTI Maintenance Bundle
(2021-04-19)Healthcare-associated infections have been seen as a patient safety issue that can be prevented. Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are known to be the fourth most common healthcare-associated infection ... -
Increasing Use of Mammography Among Older, Rural African American Women: Results From a Community Trial
(East Carolina University, 2002-04)Objectives. A community trial was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of the North Carolina Breast Cancer Screening Program, a lay health advisor network intervention intended to increase screening among rural African ... -
INDIGENOUS IDENTITY, ORAL TRADITION, AND THE LAND IN THE POETRY OF OODGEROO NOONUCCAL, LUCI TAPAHONSO, AND HAUNANI-KAY TRASK
(East Carolina University, 2010)This thesis is a postcolonial, ecocritical examination of the poetry of Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Luci Tapahonso, and Haunani-Kay Trask. It considers the use of poetry as a continuation of oral tradition, the poets' individual ... -
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 Differences in Error Related Processing of Expectancy Violations
(East Carolina University, 2012)Electrophysiological investigations of brain processing of feedback reveal that the anterior cingulate cortex is important in monitoring for behavioral errors. The feedback related negativity (FRN) is an event related ... -
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 ... -
Induced ablation of skeletal muscle-specific estrogen receptor-alpha in adult female mice increased the susceptibility to develop skeletal muscle inflammation and glucose intolerance under chronic lipid overload
(East Carolina University, 2018-04-27)Skeletal muscle-specific ER[alpha] appears to play important roles in regulating skeletal muscle glucose and lipid homeostasis. The overall aim of this dissertation was to determine whether skeletal muscle-specific ER[alpha] ... -
Inducement of Fluent Speech in Persons Who Stutter Via Visual Choral Speech
(East Carolina University, 2000)A novel phenomenon of fluency enhancement via visual gestures of speech in the absence of traditional auditory feedback is reported herein. The effect on visual choral speech on stuttering frequency was investigated. Ten ...