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Executive Functioning Deficits in the Transdiagnostic Process of Multidimensional Perfectionism
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-02)
Background: Recent research has demonstrated that a variety of types of psychopathology, including depression, anxiety, eating pathology, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, are characterized by cognitive deficits in executive ...
A Study to Increase Female Minority STEM Efficacy and Engagement at the Northeast Academy for Aerospace and Advanced Technologies
(East Carolina University, 2019-05-10)
This study was designed to improve the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) efficacy and engagement of middle school minority females in a during-school and after-school all-girl peer support group. ...
Editorial Peer Review as a Content-Shaping Mechanism in Technical Communication Journal Scholarship
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-19)
Editorial peer review serves multiple functions in academic journal publishing including gatekeeping, quality control, and mentoring. As representatives of a discipline and its body of knowledge, peer reviewers evaluate ...
MINORITY STRESS, RISKY BEHAVIORS, AND SEXUAL SCRIPTING AMONG TRANSGENDER COLLEGE STUDENTS: A MIXED METHODS STUDY
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-11)
Despite more transgender and gender nonconforming students entering college, little is known about their minority stress and resilience experiences or about how minority stress and resilience factors influence their sexual ...
Novice Teachers’ Preparedness Towards Successfully Interacting with Culturally Diverse Student Populations
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-15)
Teacher effectiveness is the most influential factor to student achievement. Systems of public education in the United States have traditionally centered on White, middle class norms, as suggested by the founding arguments ...
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 ...
Examining the Outcomes of a Community-Academic Partnership
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-03)
In the fall of 2013, a community-academic partnership was established between the ECU College of Nursing and Wells Elementary School in Wilson, North Carolina. Community-academic partnerships have been shown to provide ...
Influence of Dialect and Stimulus Audibility on LiSN-S Performances
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-03)
The main objectives were to investigate the effect of dialect on Listening in Spatialized Noise-Sentences (LISN-S) performances and to assess the relationship between bilateral pure-tone threshold averages (PTAs) and LISN-S ...
Acceptability of Activity Monitor Use During and After Hospitalization in Older Adults with Heart Failure
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-03)
Background: Many activity monitors have been validated and accepted to track physical activity in adults, however research is limited in clinical populations such as older adults with heart failure. Health tends to decline ...
Exploring the Use of Integrative Therapies during Pregnancy
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-03)
Background: About 60% of women experience back pain while pregnant (Jayson, 2016). “Morning sickness” affects about 80-90% of pregnant women (Viljoen, Visser, Koen, & Musekiwa, 2014). Stress and anxiety during pregnancy ...