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Item Restricted Soul FOOD: An Examination on the Physical Activity of Black Women(East Carolina University, 2023-12-15) Walker, Jalen; Das, Bhibha M; BiologyOverweight and obesity diseases lead to various critical health issues, including heart disease, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes. These diseases severely and disproportionately affect the Black female population as obesity rates are increasing at an alarming rate. Studies show that 80.6% of African-American women ages 20+ are overweight or obese and African American women have the highest rates of physical inactivity in comparison to other gender/ethnic groups. With African American women having the highest rates of overweight and obesity-related diseases and physical inactivity, it is a public health priority to develop and promote a program to develop and promote weight loss strategies for this underserved population. Intensive Lifestyle Interventions are used as a framework to combat obesity by providing increased physical activity recommendations, reduced caloric intake, and behavior therapy. These interventions have shown success in primarily White populations, but there has yet to be a feasible option provided specifically to the Black female community. Intervention guidelines such as physical activity recommendations and a reduced-calorie diet must be presented in a different manner than the traditional way. We have developed a program that not only provides an intervention that is feasible and attractive to the African-American female community but also creates a community amongst this population to continue to promote physical activity and healthier diet choices within the African-American female population. While ILIs incorporate behavioral counseling, they lack individualized tailored health coaching and the support for “how” to make the change. Focus group data collected in the Fall of 2021 provided data to develop a physical activity and nutrition program for Black women by Black women. This program was delivered virtually, due to COVID-19, to Black women to examine the impact of a tailored physical activity and nutrition program. Each week, Black women engaged in health behavior classes, social media groups, buddy programs, and either a physical activity or nutrition class. Women were provided with a Garmin physical activity tracker throughout the duration of the study and were asked to log their physical activity levels. We will examine physical activity data from the project to determine the impact the Soul FOOD intervention had on Black women’s physical activity levels.Item Restricted Comparison of degradable materials in escape panels on blue crab pots in North Carolina(East Carolina University) Winslow, Lancelot Delton.; Rulifson, Roger A.; BiologyItem Open Access The effects of pregnancy or progesterone on ethanol consumpton by high ethanol preferring rats(East Carolina University) Wolfe, Jason R.; McMillen, Brian A.; BiologyItem Restricted Peroxisomal enhancement of mitochondrial function(East Carolina University) Woodlief, Tracey L.; Cortright, Ronald N.; BiologyItem Restricted The effect of exercise training on audiogenic seizure intensity in genetically epilepsy-prone rats(East Carolina University) Wooten, Margaret H.; Peterson, Gary M.; BiologyItem Restricted Differential expression of genes under conditions dissociating airway inflammation and hyperresponsiveness in a murine model of allergic asthma(East Carolina University) Wynne, Brandi M.; VanScott, Michael R.; Kalmus, Gerhard W.; BiologyItem Restricted Changes occuring [sic] on the cell surface during KSHV reactivation(East Carolina University) Whitman, Audy G.; Akula, Shaw M.; BiologyItem Restricted Mesh size selectivity of gill nets in western Pamlico Sound, North Carolina(East Carolina University) Wilson, Christopher J.; Rulifson, Roger A.; BiologyItem Restricted Cloning and characterization of the cDNA encoding apis mellifera (honeybee) venom protease(East Carolina University) Winningham, Karen M.; Hoffman, Donald R.; Schmidt, Margit.; BiologyItem Restricted The evolution and maintenance of warning coloration and M{uml}ullerian mimicry in a Peruvian poison frog(East Carolina University) Yeager, Justin.; Summers, Kyle.; BiologyItem Restricted Characterization of the effects of chloride depletion on oxygen-evolving activity in the r305s mutant of the cp 43 protein of photosystem II(East Carolina University) Young, Andrew Benjamin.; Putnam-Evans, Cindy L.; BiologyItem Restricted Predator-prey interactions between three chemically defended aposematic gammarid amphipods and cottid fishes(East Carolina University) Zalewski, Jacob A.; Norton, Stephen F.; BiologyItem Restricted A study of regeneration of pancreatic islet beta cells in 90% pancreatectomized rats(East Carolina University) Zhao, Yonghua.; Dudek, Ronald W.; Kalmus, Gerhard W.; BiologyItem Restricted An in vitro analysis of chondrogenesis utilizing the versican deficient hdf mutant mouse(East Carolina University) Williams, Dennis Ray.; Capehart, Anthony A.; BiologyItem Restricted Plasma l-arginine is low in sickle cell anemia :evidence based on a new colorimetric method(East Carolina University) Williams, Isha D.; Waugh, William H.; Putnam-Evans, Cindy.; BiologyItem Restricted Characterization and expression of HOXB3a in Morone saxatilis(East Carolina University) Williams, Nykoll Lynn.; Scemama, Jean-Luc.; BiologyItem Restricted Structure and possible function of micropits in the integument of the slimy salamander, Plethodon chlorobryonis(East Carolina University) Williams, Prentice Scott.; Singhas, Charles A.; BiologyItem Restricted Timing and magnitude of quaternary lacustrine phases on the Bolivian Altiplano as recorded in the subsurface strata of the Rio Desaguadero Valley, Bolivia(East Carolina University) Warren, Michelle R.; Rigsby, Catherine A.; BiologyItem Restricted Selective consequences of variation in the timing of self compatibility in Leptosiphon jepsonii(East Carolina University) Weber, Jennifer J.; Goodwillie, Carol.; BiologyItem Open Access Wound repair and metal content of blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus, from the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine system(East Carolina University) Weinstein, John E.; West, Terry L.; Biology