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Summary Report: Hurricane Floyd Symposium
(2009-09-18)
On the morning of Thursday, September 16, 1999, Hurricane Floyd made landfall at the mouth of the Cape Fear River. Rains associated with Hurricanes Dennis, Floyd, and Irene resulted in extensive flooding over a two-month ...
Amazonian Amphibian Diversity Is Primarily Derived from Late Miocene Andean Lineages
(East Carolina University, 2009-03)
The Neotropics contains half of remaining rainforests and Earth’s largest reservoir of amphibian biodiversity. However, determinants of Neotropical biodiversity (i.e., vicariance, dispersals, extinctions, and radiations) ...
Are algal genes in nonphotosynthetic protists evidence of historical plastid endosymbioses?
(East Carolina University, 2009)
Background: How photosynthetic organelles, or plastids, were acquired by diverse eukaryotes is among the most hotly debated topics in broad scale eukaryotic evolution. The history of plastid endosymbioses commonly is ...
Adaptive evolution of genes underlying schizophrenia
(East Carolina University, 2007-11-22)
Schizophrenia poses an evolutionary-genetic paradox because it exhibits strongly negative fitness effects and high heritability, yet it persists at a prevalence of approximately 1% across all human cultures. Recent theory ...
A Study of Division Deans' in the North Carolina Community College System Self Perceived Leadership Style Based on Bolman and Deal's Four Frame Theory
(East Carolina University, 2008)
This study was designed to expand the knowledge base of academic division deans by correlating differences in leadership styles (i.e., frames) of the division deans within the North Carolina Community College System. The ...
"...And all the men knew the colors of the sea..." : historical and archaeological investigation of the SS Commodore, Ponce Inlet, Florida
(East Carolina University, 2005)
This study focuses on a single question: Are the wreck site remains held under joint title by the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse Association and Norman Serbousek those of the SS Commodore, sunk on January 1, 1897? The answer to ...
How Moist Heat Kills Spores of Bacillus subtilis
(East Carolina University, 2007-12)
Populations of Bacillus subtilis spores in which 90 to 99.9% of the spores had been killed by moist heat gave only two fractions on equilibrium density gradient centrifugation: a fraction comprised of less dense spores ...
Creating Cherokee Print: Samuel Austin Worcester’s Impact on the Syllabary
(East Carolina University, 2008)
The 1821 creation of a written syllabary for the Cherokee language by Sequoyah and its use in the
Nation’s newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix, are routinely examined within the context of the tribe’s
discourse surrounding ...
Authority Control of Names in Local Digitization Projects and the Eastern North Carolina Postcard Collection
(East Carolina University, 2009)
Authority control is a vitally important but frequently overlooked aspect of metadata creation for local digitization projects. The addition of digital projects metadata to the traditional cataloging environment creates a ...
GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF DUNE FORMATION AND ARTIFACT DEPOSITION AT BARBER CREEK (31PT259)
(2009-03)
The stratified prehistoric site at Barber Creek, located on a relict sand dune in
eastern North Carolina, has the potential to offer important insights into the previously
poorly understood chronologies and typologies ...