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AUTOGENIC CONTROLS ON DEBRIS-FLOW FANS WITH LIMITED ACCOMMODATION SPACE: LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS INFORMED BY A FIELD EXAMPLE
(East Carolina University, 2017-12-13)Decades of historic levels of urbanization and expansion of the built environment on to existing alluvial fans at the periphery of most cities has placed humans at risk of floods and debris-flows that are formative processes ... -
Autolysis and Autoaggregation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Colony Morphology Mutants
(East Carolina University, 2002-12)Two distinctive colony morphologies were noted in a collection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa transposon insertion mutants. One set of mutants formed wrinkled colonies of autoaggregating cells. Suppressor analysis of a subset ... -
Automated classification of massive scale image data
(East Carolina University, 2016-12-13)The diffraction image is a useful method to facilitate the representation of tiny entities such as the cell. It provides an efficient way to analyze the 3D morphological features of biological cells. However, the ... -
Automated Pavement Condition Assessment using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-27)Assessing pavement condition is extremely essential in any effort to reduce future economic losses and improve the structural reliability and resilience. Data resulting from pavement condition assessment are used as a ... -
Automated Usability Evaluations using Client Side Usability Framework (CSUF)
(East Carolina University, 2016-05-04)Usability of a website is essential in order for a company to achieve its business goals. Evaluating a website for usability and accessibility is costly and time consuming primarily because it involves usability experts ... -
Automatic quantitative analysis of morphology of apoptotic HL-60 cells
(2014-01)Morphological identification is a widespread procedure to assess the presence of apoptosis by visual inspection of the morphological characteristics or the fluorescence images. The procedure is lengthy and results are ... -
Automatic segmentation of cardiac structures for breast cancer radiotherapy
(2019-11-22)Background and purpose We developed an automatic method to segment cardiac substructures given a radiotherapy planning CT images to support epidemiological studies or clinical trials looking at cardiac disease endpoints ... -
Automatic SQL query generation
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-19)Automatic generation of questions for learning assessment has been an area of research interest for long. The advent of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as well as the goal of providing immediate contextualized feedback ... -
Automobility, Hospitality, African American Tourism, and Mapping Victor H. Green's Negro Motorist Green Book
(East Carolina University, 2013)Victor Green's travel guide stands as one illustration of tools used by African Americans to survive in the contested and disputed landscape of Jim Crow segregation. The Green Book as a symbol of the civil rights movement ... -
Autopsy Standardized Mortality Review: A Pilot Study Offering a Methodology for Improved Patient Outcomes
(2019-02-12)A standardized mortality review of hospital autopsies identified discrepancies between clinical diagnoses and autopsy findings, unexpected deaths, adequacy of diagnostic workup, presence of adverse event, and type of a ... -
Avoid the "Southern Diet"??? What Really??
(2020)As far as eating patterns go, the southern diet is often viewed as synonymous with poor food choices. But is it really? How do we know? When attempting to balance patient beliefs, habits, and cultural norms with best ... -
Axial Shear Modulus of A Fiber-Reinforced Composite with Random Fiber Cross-Sections
(1981-04-14)A study is made of the effective axial shear modulus of a fiber reinforced material with random fiber cross-sections so that the micromechanics is governed by stochastic differential equations. A coarse-graining procedure ... -
The “Goldilocks Zone� from a redox perspective—Adaptive vs. deleterious responses to oxidative stress in striated muscle
(2014-09)Consequences of oxidative stress may be beneficial or detrimental in physiological systems. An organ system's position on the “hormetic curve” is governed by the source and temporality of reactive oxygen species (ROS) ... -
Aβ peptides and the exposure of their hydrophobic residues upon copper(ii) complex formation: probing mechanisms of amyloid plaque formation in human and rat peptide complexes
(2015-04)Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease that affects 35 million people worldwide and is the 6th leading cause of death in the United States. AD is characterized by neurofibrillary tangles and ... -
B b O a N r E e S: A Multimedia Installation
(East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)Deterioration is a process that contains the potentiality to catalyze the unique unification of detached associations. Deterioration affects how a tangible or abstract object can serve an alternative purpose despite its ... -
Baby Boomer Adoption of Healthcare Apps
(East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)In 2015, approximately 500 million smart phone users were estimated to use some type of health-related app. These apps are developed intending to promote health and wellness behavior in users. However, the simple availability ... -
Baby Monitor
(East Carolina University, 2011)Baby Monitor consists of twelve essays and nine journal entries about my new experience of motherhood and the first year and half of my first child, Benjamin's life. The essays and journal entries range from a mother's ... -
Back to Basics: International Collection Development on a Shoestring
(East Carolina University, 2009)This article explores collection development for small libraries facing an extremely restricted budget, with an additional focus on international school libraries. Drawing on the author’s experience as a professional ... -
Back to the Future: Satellite Precipitation as a Tool to Reanalyze Hurricane Floyd and Forecast Probabilities of Extreme Rainfall in Eastern North Carolina
(2009-09-18)In order to answer questions about how much rain fell during Hurricane Floyd and its input into rivers, researchers looked at satellite, river gauge, and radar data. They took a radar map and put it into a GIS with watershed ... -
Back-Barrier Sediment and Hydrodynamic Processes: Insights from Rodanthe, NC
(East Carolina University, 2016-07-20)Barrier islands are found around the world, and their geomorphic evolution is related to ocean and estuarine processes. Processes including sediment mobilization and shoreline evolution on both the ocean and estuarine side ...