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Refining Practice Standards Targeting Mental Health Disorders in Agricultural Settings
(2022-07-22)Agriculture, including farming, fishing, and logging, is one of North Carolina's major industries. Workers in North Carolina's agriculture setting are facing increasing stressors that can contribute to a mental health ... -
Reflect
(East Carolina University, 2015)This document is written in conjunction with a series of work titled, Reflect. Through historical research, personal narrative, interviews, and the making process, I examine the differences between loneliness and solitude, ... -
Reflection tomography of time-lapse GPR data for studying dynamic unsaturated flow phenomena
(2020-01-14)Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) reflection tomography algorithms allow non-invasive monitoring of water content changes resulting from flow in the vadose zone. The approach requires multi-offset GPR data that are ... -
Reflections of Difference
(East Carolina University, 2013)"Reflections of Difference" is an installation intended to explore and express the issues of women dealing with their body image. To create this thesis I have incorporated scientific data, personal interviews with my ... -
Reflections on Sandy: Understanding What Happened & Where Do We Go From Here?
(2013-05-22)Mr. Szatkowski described the experience of Hurricane Sandy from the point of view of forecast meteorologists working in New Jersey area hit by the storm. His office in Mount Holly began issuing warnings forty hours ... -
reFRACTion: A Performance Piece Exploring the Reflection of the Psyche’s Inner Turmoil through Movement and Poetry
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-23)Growing up, I was always creative and outgoing. I wanted to be a part of everything. Because of this, I was able to experience and cultivate multiple passions. When it was time to create my Honors Thesis, I was excited ... -
Refractory Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia With Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis Treated With IVIg, Steroids, and a Combination of Anticoagulants: A Case Report
(2019-04-02)Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) type II is caused by antibody production that bind complexes between heparin and platelet factor 4 leading to platelet consumption and thrombosis. In a small subset of cases referred ... -
Reframing disorder: gender, class, and the history of the resurfacing debate in nursing
(East Carolina University, 2011)The nursing profession has sustained a state of disorder. The debate within the disorder historically exists in relationship to multiple educational pathways for entry into RN practice. Diploma, BSN, and ADN pathways still ... -
Refugee Policy Implications of U.S. Immigration Medical Screenings: A New Era of Inadmissibility on Health-Related Grounds
(2017-09-24)Refugees frequently face extended delays in their efforts to enter the United States (U.S.) and those who are successful, in many cases, encounter overwhelming obstacles, inadequate resources, and a complex system of legal ... -
The Region Specific Influence of Estradiol on In-Vivo Lipolysis in Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue in Overweight-to-Moderately-Obese Premenopausal Women
(East Carolina University, 2012)Premenopausal women demonstrate preferential accumulation of adiposity in the gynoid region, a distribution which shifts towards the abdominal region after the menopausal transition. Although estrogen is implicated as a ... -
Regional variation of convective structure at monsoon onset across South America inferred from TRMM observations
(East Carolina University, 2010)The variation of precipitation in South America is characterized by different mechanisms that both initiate and sustain precipitation. Analysis to characterize regional differences is done utilizing datasets derived from ... -
Regiospecific acylation of cycloplatinated complexes. Scope, limitations, and mechanism.
(East Carolina University, 2016-05-02)Recently we have discovered a regioselective acylation of cyclometalated platinum complexes in which the cyclometalated platinum complex was selectively acylated by reacting with acetic anhydride in acetic acid. It was ... -
Regulation of KSHV replication by glycoprotein B: chronicles of a virus and its host
(East Carolina University, 2011)Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), the causative agent of three cancers: Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), primary effusion lymphoma (PEL), and the plasmablastic form of multicentric Castleman disease (MCD), shares many ... -
The regulation of anthranilate synthesis for the production of pqs in pseudomonas aeruginosa
(East Carolina University, 2013)The ubiquitous bacterium P. aeruginosa is an important human pathogen that causes devastating infections in immunocompromised patients and chronic infections in cystic fibrosis patients. The ability of P. aeruginosa to ... -
Regulation of Bacteriodes fragilis katB mRNA by oxidative stress and carbon limitation.
(East Carolina University, 1997-11)Regulation of the katB catalase gene in the anaerobic bacterium Bacteroides fragilis was studied. Northern blot hybridization analyses revealed that katB was transcribed as an approximately 1.6-kb monocistronic mRNA. The ... -
Regulation of cardiac fibroblast-mediated maladaptive ventricular remodeling by β-arrestins
(2019-07-03)Cardiac fibroblasts (CF) play a critical role in post-infarction remodeling which can ultimately lead to pathological fibrosis and heart failure. Recent evidence demonstrates that remote (non-infarct) territory fibrosis ... -
Regulation of GLUT4 expression in denervated skeletal muscle
(East Carolina University, 2009-03)Denervation by sciatic nerve resection causes decreased muscle glucose transporter 4 (GLUT4) expression, but little is known about the signaling events that cause this decrease. Experiments were designed to test the ...