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Joseph McCarthy: The Face of the Red Scare
(2009)
The Red Scare during the 1950’s was one of the most traumatic periods of American history. The decade would later be known as the “Era of McCarthyism” because of a Republican Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy ...
The evolution of parental care and egg size: a comparative analysis in frogs
(East Carolina University, 2006-03-22)
The evolution of parental care and egg size has attracted considerable attention and theoretical debate. Several different hypotheses have been proposed concerning the trajectories of parental care and egg size evolution ...
Books in Tolerable Supply: College Libraries in North Carolina from 1795 to the Civil War
(East Carolina University, 2007)
Abstract: The historical role of college libraries has seldom been investigated on a regional or state level in the United States, but such studies are valuable in explaining the cultural infrastructure of education and ...
Molecular and Cellular Biology Animations: Development and Impact on Student Learning
(East Carolina University, 2005)
Educators often struggle when teaching cellular and molecular processes because typically they have only two-dimensional tools to teach something that plays out in four dimensions. Learning research has demonstrated that ...
Dietary carbohydrate intake and high sensitivity C reactive protein in at-risk women and men
(East Carolina University, 2007-11)
Background— The quality and quantity of dietary carbohydrate intake, measured as dietary glycemic load (GL), is associated with a number of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and, in healthy young women, is related ...
One Book, One New Hanover: Bringing Community Members Together for Blood Done Sign My Name
(East Carolina University, 2006)
This article looks at a "One Book, One Community" implementation in New Hanover County centered on Timothy Tyson's Blood Done Sign My Name.
CURRICULUM INTERNATIONALIZATION AND THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
(East Carolina University, 2009)
American higher education is striving to create the appropriate academic environment in order to prepare students to be interculturally competent for the realities of the twenty first century, and curriculum internationalization ...
Muscle work is biased toward energy generation over dissipation in non-level running
(East Carolina University, 2008-12-05)
This study tested the hypothesis that skeletal muscles generate more mechanical energy in gait tasks that raise the center of mass compared to the mechanical energy they dissipate in gait tasks that lower the center of ...
Sqeezed Between the E's: Electronic Resources (Print Monographs) Economic Woes
(East Carolina University, 2009)
Difficult economic times are reducing libraries’ ability to purchase print monographs, and continued pressures to provide electronic materials often force libraries to cut their book budgets even more. How are libraries ...
The NIH Mandate One Year On: How Are Libraries Responding?
(East Carolina University, 2009)
About one year ago, the landmark National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy began requiring authors who receive NIH funding to deposit final versions of their accepted manuscripts to NIH’s PubMed Central database. ...